HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Man Shot In Head Survives!
From: joltes@husc10.harvard.edu (Richard Joltes)
Date: 31 Jul 92 11:29:30 EDT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

Joe Chew writes:

>You can get along without a surprising amount of certain parts of your 
>brain, as long as major blood vessels don't get holed in the process. 
>This can be observed intuitively by thinking about brain tumors, lobo-
>tomies, and so forth. Depending on the damage and the therapy 
>afterwards and the phase of the moon, the victim might even resume some 
>approximation of his or her previous lifestyle.
>
>Joe "Kids, don't try this at home" Chew

There's one case, often cited in Psychology texts, of a fellow who was a
"tamper" on a railroad in the 1800s.  A "tamper" performed the function of
tamping down the explosives in a hole to make sure they were in the right
location, etc.  He used a long iron bar for this job.  At one point, this
fellow was tamping a hole when the charge went off.  The result of this was
that the iron bar was driven lengthwise through his head (entering just below
the left cheekbone and exiting from somewhere near the top center).  He 
survived, but underwent "significant personality changes" as a result.

I wonder why...considering that "significant" numbers of synapses were either
eliminated or rearranged by the rod...

So yes, this is possible.  Not something I'd want to try out personally,
though...

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dick "self-lobotomy" Joltes				joltes@husc.harvard.edu
Hardware & Networking Manager, Computer Services 	joltes@husc.bitnet 
Harvard University Science Center

"Mind you, not as bad as the night Archie Pettigrew ate some
sheep's testicles for a bet...God, that bloody sheep kicked him..."
From: cla04@seq1.keele.ac.uk (A.T. Fear)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: "Eat the rich"
Date: 22 Jul 92 10:54:31 GMT
Organization: University of Keele, England

>> I have this T-shirt.  It's solid black, and on the front there is a skull and
>> crossbones (done in flat white).  Except where the bones should be, there is 
>> a knife and fork instead.  Underneath is the phrase "Eat the rich".

>> My question (if you haven't guessed yet) is where did this originate?  

Those of us who dabble in extremely obscure heavy metal bands remember a
single with this title put out by a Geordie band call Tysondog (named
after the lead singer's girlfriend's dog) IMHO it was rubbish. Where are
they now???

Andy Fear, cla04@uk.ac.Keele
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
Subject: Re: Mis-applied physics in advertising
Reply-To: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
Organization: ACUSON, Mountain View, CA
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 19:18:35 GMT

In article <1992Jul20.215204.13458@unislc.uucp> dw@unislc.uucp (Dan Wright) writes:
>: This place that charged for ice the first bucket also had a very cheap
>: attitute about checkout time: 9:00 AM was checkout time *local* time zone.
>: The problem is that this hotel is just over the border from Arizona, where
>: most of the attraction is.  Thus, checkout time for the time zone our
>: bodies were on was 8:00 AM!
>
>Now just a minute.  Hold yer horses.  Utah and Arizona are both Mountain
>time, so 9:00am Utah equals 9:00am Arizona.  I agree 9:00am is unreasonably
>early, but the hotel cannot help it if your bodies just flew in from
>Central time.

Arizona is one of the handfull of states which do not observe daylight
savings time.  During the winter, Arizona and Utah are on the same
time.  In the summer, Arizona is on the same time as California.

MST == PDT == MDT - 1 hour

(BTW, central is _later_ than mountain.)

-- 
Drew Lawson                      If you're not part of the solution,
lawson@acuson.com                you're part of the precipitate
From: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator)
Subject: Re: Sanity
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Date: 27 Jul 92 13:26:48 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: gators 'r us
X-Version: Rodney's UUCP modules 02/11/90 V1.18

somebody writes:
		
> >>Related UL: a woman was put in a mental hospital in the USA for 30 years (or
> >>            so) because she behaved a little weird and only spoke using
> >>            strange sounding syllabuses.
and what school was she taking the courses at?
--
-- little gator aka s. mudgett     email: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
-- friend of a gator is a friend of mine
From: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Man Shot In Head Survives!
Date: 31 Jul 92 02:53:52 GMT
Reply-To: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Organization: Columbia University

In article <138C02v11cep01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll) writes:
>
>In a Harlan Ellison story whose name currently is escaping me 
>("Lonelyache"?), the main character placed the muzzle against his eye.  
>Sounds both theatrical and optimal to me.

What if he had a glass eye, and it was bulletproof?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Left - Right
From: CDRESSER@eagle.wesleyan.edu (CLAYTON J. DRESSER)
Date: 29 Jul 92 23:33:45 EDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Wesleyan University
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20In-Reply-To: ceb@dbrus.Unify.Com's message of Wed, 22 Jul 92 20:50:44 GMTLines: 12

In <sw8f43o@Unify.Com> ceb@dbrus.Unify.Com writes:

> In article <1992Jul21.153809.26507@public.sub.org> peterk@public.sub.org (Peter Kittel) writes:
> >>   Actually, most of the doors I've seen rotate both ways.  It's just
> >>   that we're accustomed to walking in on the right, so the doors
> >>   rarely get rotated the other direction.

Indeed they do, I've tested it.
In fact, I've never seen a revolving door with handles on one side, either both
or none...

Clay
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio)
Subject: Re: Man Shot In Head Survives!
Organization: Western Washington University
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 19:36:26 GMT

fielden@spot.Colorado.EDU (j.a. fielden) writes:

>TORONTO (UPI) Donald Wright said Wednesday that restarting a power drill
>to pull three inches of steel out of his skull had nothing to do with
>courage - he just wanted to stay alive. 


"What Cops Know" is a great book containing nothing but snippets of 
free-form U.L.s related by Chicago Police during recorded bs sessions.
(1991)

One guy said they pulled over to help a bloody man who waved them down.
He had a knife sticking _straight out_ of the top of his head, and he 
had to keep his head tilted out the window on the ride to the hospital.
He said he felt fine, considering, and he was laughing and joking about
it with them on the way.
	They brought him in and asked how he was doing, and the ER said
he died the instant they pulled the knife out of his head.

The officer relating the story commented "I would personaly prefer to
leave it in.  I don't know.  Get a good barber or something."

Jim "don't touch that sabre in my head" Del Vecchio
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,connect.audit
Subject: Re: Boating on the left side (was Re: Driving on the right side)
From: dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz (dogbowl)
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 14:33:06 NZT
Organization: The Dawghaus BBS

george@ibmpcug.co.uk (Michael Veltman) writes:

> In article <LT91NB1w164w@dogbox.acme.gen.nz> dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz (dogb
> >When flying, you tend to only have your left hand on the controls anyway.
> >( Actually once you're in the air and pointing in the right direction all 
> >that's needed is one finger on the controls).
> 
> A simple question:  Just what does that finger do?
> 

You mean when it's not picking your nose?

little planes tend to slowly go out of line. it just takes finger 
pressure to keep it flying straight and level. 
It's quite amusing to read a map, hear the wind noise increase, look up 
and find yourself in a full blown spiral dive. Easily gotten out of 
though...

AB

dogbowl at The Dawghaus BBS  ( +64 6 357-9245 )


Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
Subject: Re: Moxie, submarines (was: Re: Prince Albert in a can?!?)
Reply-To: lawson@aldia.UUCP (Drew Lawson)
Organization: ACUSON, Mountain View, CA
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 17:57:29 GMT

In article <35891@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Montykins) writes:

>   (Uh, but maybe I was, um, spreading a UL! Yeah, that's what I was
>doing. I remember saying to myself, "Self, what if you spread a
>plausible UL that reflected badly on McDonald's")

Well, you could start up the earthworm story again.

-- 
Drew Lawson                      If you're not part of the solution,
lawson@acuson.com                you're part of the precipitate
From: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: NetNews/CD - USENET News Available
Keywords: locksmith door
Date: 27 Jul 92 09:07:46 GMT
Reply-To: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation

In article <1992Jul24.062955.19936@u.washington.edu>, 
grimjack@milton.u.washington.edu (Leslie Basel) writes:
> >foks could just turn the disks over by hand.

> >
> >Anyway, the cost of making new CD's is now less than the cost of making
> >new records.  I haven't seen many CD's in the $1.99 cutout bins, though.
> >
> >phil
> >
> >
> My question is: would they reverse the drive to play the other side? 

Only in the southern hemisphere.

Terry Carroll - tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com - 408/992-2152
The opinions presented above are not necessarily those of a sound mind.
From: frey@alfheim.actrix.gen.nz (Bruce Clement)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: help please, when did Isaac Asimov die?
Distribution: world
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 13:56:27 GMT
Organization: Private System

jheath@CERIS.Purdue.EDU writes in article <1992Jul22.132513.29828@CERIS.Purdue.EDU>:

> But do atheists _go_ anywhere when they die?

For that matter, do agnostics finally find out?

--
Bruce Clement    (frey@alfheim.welly.gen.nz   Waffle 1.64, 
                  frey@alfheim.actrix.gen.nz  SNEWS/2,  UUPC 1.11q)
From: phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Sanity
Date: 24 Jul 92 02:18:57 GMT
Organization: Famed Parquet Floor

In article <1992Jul21.175314.14659@news.cs.brandeis.edu> st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
>I have heard of how a couple of Psych Grad students decided to see how long
>it would take a mental hospital to determine that they were not insane, once
>they were committed. To this end, they fake the symptoms of schizophrenia (sp)
>and are commited. Once in, they act perfectly normal. The institution does
>not deem them sane. They finally get out 6 monthes later, after several
>friends come forward to tell the hospital that it was an experiment.
>
>my question is, is this true?

Basically, yes, although my reference is long ago and far away. I read
an article in _Evergreen Review_ or some such rag (yes, I'm old, and
have eccentric tastes) about such an experiment conducted twenty-odd
years ago.  The subjects did not fake schizophrenea: they were planted
with the knowledge of two or three higher-ups at the hospital.  They
acted like people gathering information: they took notes on what they
saw.  The attendants wrote "Patient engages in note-taking behaviour"
on their charts. (This is a literal quotation)  The patients asked a
standard, rational question: "When will I be allowed yard priveleges."
and never got a rational response.

The experiment ended before anybody at the hospital realized that they
were not crazy.

Phil "Of course, things are Much Better Now" Gustafson



-- 
|play: phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG; {ames|pyramid|vsi1}!zorch!phil                |
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From: rgm@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Rob Menke)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: SHOCKING STORIES
Date: 29 Jul 92 09:18:17 GMT
	<1992Jul21.085916.19343@yang.earlham.edu>
	<1992Jul23.161511.10643@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
	<1992Jul24.152007.250153@locus.com>
	<1992Jul27.211509.29749@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Organization: TEAM CS -- Making Tomorrow's Mistakes Today!
NNTP-Posting-Host: cory.berkeley.edu
In-reply-to: adams@chuck.dallas.sgi.com's message of 27 Jul 92 21:15:09 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.211509.29749@odin.corp.sgi.com>
adams@chuck.dallas.sgi.com (Chuck Adams) writes:

   someone came in and turned on the transmitter (in the MegaWatt power range).
   this technician was in front for some time period, unfortunately too long
   and as a result he later died from being internally heated from the
   radiation, not unlike being in a microwave oven.
	      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Is it just me, or does this sound remarkably like a tale about a young
girl going to a lot of tanning booths in one day?  Maybe this story
got "civvified" into the modern form...
--
She studied the microfilm carefully for	|
about 15 minutes.  Then she spoke.	|  Robert Menke
"There's something written on here,"	|    rgm@cory.berkeley.edu
she said, "but it's really teensy."	|    ...ucbvax!cory!rgm
			--Dave Barry	|
From: imcc@cs.strath.ac.uk (Iain McCord)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Red Heads
Date: 30 Jul 92 14:58:44 GMT
Organization: Comp. Sci. Dept., Strathclyde Univ., Scotland.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:
: 
: Have you ever noticed that the Hero/Heroine in fairy stories/soap operas
: are always blond.  This was originally because the ones writing the stories
: where the conquering vikings and therefore the bad guys were always cast as
: the Ancient Celts.  Celts tend to have dark or red hair.  Red hair is 
: relatively uncommon so,  seeing as the Celts are often cast as witches then
: red headed celts are even more likely to be looked on as such.
  You seem to have forgoten the description of Thor, who was the god of the
common man.  He was red headed and had one hell of a temper.  Then there's
Eric the Red.  In Irish myth there's Cuhulain , also a red head, and also a
beserk.
: Derek "I was foretold I wouldn't have to write poetry in this newsgroup." Tearne
-- 

		~~~~~/\~~~~~
Iain McCord	~~~~/()\~~~~	Thu Jul 30 15:58:39 WET DST 1992
		~~~~~~~~~~~~
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: grendel@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Purveyor of Arcane Knowledge)
Subject: Re: Dinner at Dahmer's (was: Re: Ed Nilges and Snuff Films?)P
Organization: The International House of Secretions
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 20:35:11 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.000045.11709@nsscmail.att.com> cel@nsscmail.att.com (clayton EDward LEIHY iii) writes:
*I just heard a story (UL?) that Messr. Dahmer's last residence is
*up for sale by his estate.
*
*I understand they are having some difficulty in selling it, and it is
*partly related to the previous tenant, but more directly to the
*asking price:
*    I heard they're asking an arm and a leg for the place.

Ba-dump-BUMP!

Dahmer's residence is up for sale by his estate?  I wasn't aware he died....
Anyways, this would be quite a trick, since Dahmer was living in an
apartment when he was caught.  Perhaps you could change it to his grandmother's
home; he was living with her for a while and performed at least one murder
there.  I think the house is/was up for sale...not sure about any related
problems, however.


Mark "Dahmer's fridge" Lippert
From: sysmatt@aix3090b.uky.edu (James M. Simpson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: queen
Date: 27 Jul 92 09:33:40 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

The queen-horse-fart joke is an old one, although I've usually heard it
told with Ronald Reagan as supporting character instead of a 3rd world 
leader.
From: csuah@warwick.ac.uk (~WISP at CU~)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Price is Right T & A?
Date: 21 Jul 92 10:25:19 GMT
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK

In article <1992Jul21.012835.3986@bang.uucp> bam%bang@trout.nosc.mil writes:
>: In article <1992Jul19.130735.2966@desire.wright.edu> thayes@desire.wright.edu writes:
>: >
>: >I am told that other game shows have had there share of problems.
>: >For example, one excited contestant on "Price is Right" managed to
>: >extricate one of breasts accidently from beneath her tube top while
>: >she was "comin' on down!".  Or so I'm told...?
>: >
>
>I've seen this tape.  Unedited.  She pops out of her top while running
>right at the camera.  She rather nonchalantly 'straightens' her
>clothes.  The crew and audience are laughing hysterically.  The host
>eventually figures out what happens but is almost the last to know.
>
>I do not know whether it actually made it on the air.  The tape I
>saw was shown to me by a Hollywood insider..

It certainly made the air in the UK, as a clip in one of the first (or maybe
THE first) "It'll Be Allright on the Night" shows.

Later,

The Wisp.
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: derf@ravel.udel.edu (the Greatful Fred)
Subject: cumbers in commercials
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 13:46:29 GMT

	How many people took paricular notice of the car commercials
	all deciding to change the commercials?  Starting a little over a 
	year ago,the no longer tell you how many cylinders a car has, but rather
	the number of valves.  Since there are two valves per cylinder, this 
	gives you no new information, but it is a larger number, so sounds
	better.


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Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:19721 comp.dcom.modems:11116
From: scott@nv10.uswnvg.com (Scott Eckelman)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Modem tax back
Date: 24 Jul 92 19:06:09 GMT
Reply-To: scott@uswnvg.com.UUCP (Scott Eckelman)
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: US West NewVector, Bellevue, WA

OK, I can hardly pass myself off as a disinterested bystander (US West = 
regional phone company), but it seems that most people don't understand
the economics of the telephone network.

Telephone switches, to which your phone and modem are connected, are
_expensive_, both to buy and maintain.  In any switch, indeed in almost
any component of the network, there is not enough hardware to provide
simultaneous service to all subscribers.

The amount of equipment installed at an exchange is determined by
applying statistical analysis to historic calling patterns of the
various customer types which are connected.   Business lines are 
expected to make more frequent and longer calls than residences;
residences generally make more calls in the evening than businesses, etc.
Using queuing theory, the network engineers plug in the factors of
call duration, frequency  of calls, and number of customers, and come
up with the amount of equipment required to serve the anticipated
load with a reasonable expectation that the customer won't have
to wait for or be denied service.  Tariffs are filed, and rates
are set based on the cost to provide service and allowable profit.
Many tariffs are flat-rate service:  you pay $20 per month and
you can make all of the (local) calls you want.  

Modems change the usage picture a lot.  When I use a modem, it's almost
always for far longer than if I were using the phone to call a friend.
If you have lots of customers using modems where they used to 
use only the phone, the phone company has to purchase more of that
expensive equipment to insure that _all_ customers continue to receive
their expected levels of service.  So, more expensive equipment,
higher tariffs for service.  But why should a customer who only
uses the phone 10 minutes a day subsidize other customers who are
using their modem 2 hours a night?

A modem tax is one way to make up the difference instead of increasing
the rates for the non-modem customers.  The answer, in my opinion, is
to do away with flat-rate pricing, and go to a strictly usage-based one.
If you use 10 minutes of service, you pay 50 cents; if you use 2 hours,
you pay $6.00 (at 5 cents per minute.)  

Oh well, lunch hour's over, back to work.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: jvmg9796@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Doc)
Subject: Re: Mis-applied physics in advertising
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 21:26:04 GMT

hallam@zeus02.desy.de (Phillip M. Hallam-Baker) writes:

>Speed of light is 3E10, 10 MHz is 1E7 So in each clock period light goes 3E3 m

BZZZZZT! Wrong!  c=3E8 m/s, not 3E10.  Therefore the result is 30m, not 3E3!
From: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator)
Subject: Re: Red Heads
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Date: 27 Jul 92 13:28:54 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: gators 'r us
X-Version: Rodney's UUCP modules 02/11/90 V1.18


In article <712191792.13425@zooid.guild.org> brian@zooid.guild.org
(Brian Misiaszek) writes:

>   I know that in medieval Holland to see someone with red hair was a sign of
> bad luck.  Levi in his "Satanic Bible" says that red-heads make the best
> witches.  Common perception has it that people with red-hair are
> tempermental and passionate.  But what other stories and mythology surrounds
> people with red hair?
medieval legend was that judas had red hair.

little "i wonder if julie would mind" gator
--
-- little gator aka s. mudgett     email: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
-- friend of a gator is a friend of mine
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: generic drugs
From: dayrton@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Date: 30 Jul 92 19:41:47 EDT
Organization: Wesleyan University

In article <1992Jul29.82629.5605@ms.uky.edu>, fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis) writes:


> A doctor friend of mine told me that codeine is a Very Poor pain reliever.
> They put the Tylenol in Tylenol-3 to provide some pain relief. The codeine
> is in there, I imagine, as a tiny bit of psychological hand holding. That
> and to provide you with all of the nausea and constipation that a free,
> tax-paying, registered voter could want.

The thing about codeine and lots of other narcotic analgesics is that they don't
really make the pain go away, they just make you feel lots better about being
in pain....


Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: ccuppern@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Cyndi Cuppernell)
Subject: Re: Orange Julius (Re: Moxie, submarines)
Organization: UIUC Department of Psychology
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 05:56:31 GMT

hellmann@cs.scarolina.edu (Douglas R Hellmann) writes:

>I have a friend that worked at an OJ, and he told me that the
>ingredients were just OJ, Ice, and powdered SUGAR.

>Doug Hellmann

I have a recipe for Orange Julius that uses:

2 cups orange juice
1/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract 

Put in blender on high.  Add ice cubes slowly until the blender is
full.

The vanilla makes the big difference.-- 
                 
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