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From: phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson)
Subject: Re: Puking on shoes - A part of the culture?
Organization: a2i network
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 21:29:56 GMT

In article <1992Nov8.224926.2999@midway.uchicago.edu> pynq@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>The climactic scene of last night's (first) episode "The Powers That Be"
>involved Mrs. Powers puking on Hilary Clinton's shoes.  I nearly laughed
>myself silly at this because of the obvious AFU tie-in.  (I had to
>explain to my SO why it was so funny - she not being an AFU fan)
>
>Firstly, thereis the obvious Churchill tie-in (or was it Disraeli?)
>
Time for a reality check here.  A year or so ago, some of us old hats
posted mangled Churchill quotes, mostly to get newbies to "correct" us.
The joke got rather out of proportion when Ted Frank got hold of it,
and added Gladstone and Disraeli to the list. 

Now, Winnie was fond of his brandy, and spent much of his life moderately
snockered.  But I have no record of his actually puking on anyone else's
shoes.  Let's have some names and dates here, or stop abusing the memory
of the portly painter.

Phil "In 'An American in Paris', Gene Kelley bumps into a painter who
looks remarkably like Churchill.  I only mention this because the movie
also stars Leslie Caron, who was perkier than all get out and sexier than
twelve Madonnas.  I suppose she's pretty old by now, though." Gustafson

>A note to new readers:  the weasely :-) symbol is frowned upon in this
>group.  Any questions, see Phil Gustafson who will gladly rearrange your
>diodes for you.

This diode thing has gone on for some time, and it's all Terry Chan's
fault.  At AFU |\/, I passed out more diodes than everybody could carry.
No more diode jokes.  This includes tunnel diodes, Gunn diodes, step
recovery diodes, and obscure devices only cjl can remember.

Phil
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From: wb8foz@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (David Lesher)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Ex-presidents
Date: 9 Nov 92 03:24:16 GMT
Reply-To: wb8foz@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu (David Lesher)
Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews abusers - Beltway Annex
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Others said
# John "What does the 'T' in Spiro T. Agnew stand for?" Berger

Easy...

Taxes.......

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From: guppy@wixer.cactus.org (Jennifer Mery)
Subject: Another near death experience at Disneyland
Organization: Real/Time Communications
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 08:04:22 GMT

In article <1dp5fhINNo5c@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bs895@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Terri M. Librande) writes:

>Thurl Ravenscroft did do the singing in Grinch.  He was also the
>voice of Tony the Tiger.  May still be.  His voice is all over 
>Disneyland--even in the new ride I took last year that almost killed me
 ^^^^^^^^^^                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>because the lunatic behind me made me sit in front and then 
>laughed when I had that really bad stroke.  He definetly worked for
>Disney.  I love his name, and it's one of those voices you don't forget.

Aha! The origin of the Disney Death Ride UL! It was a stroke and not a
heartattack!

ja"UL Buster"m
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: DMARTIN@vm.ucs.UAlberta.CA
Subject: Re: AIDS and the CIA (was Question)
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 15:53:12 GMT

------------------------- Original Article -------------------------
>From: dem@engin.umich.edu (Darryle E Merlette)

> I'd suggest viewing "The Strecker Memorandum" video. In this video
> a (white) doctor explains in scientific detail how the AIDS virus
> is genetically engineered (ie. man-made). Among other things, it is
> not possible for viruses to cross species, so that story about AIDS

Isn't rabies a.k.a. hydrophobia caused by a virus? Seems to do nicely in
quite a few species.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: Ex-presidents
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:15:53 GMT

From: jberger@novell.com (John Berger)


>However, does anyone know when we hav had this many living ex-VICE-
>presidents?  We have:  Nixon, Ford, Mondale, Bush, & Quayle.  Or is this
>statistic so uninteresting that nobody even tries to track it?

	How about Rockefeller and Agnew?  Are they yet dead?

-Jon "But who cares anyway?" Papai
From: uni@acs.bu.edu (Shaen Bernhardt)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Courgettes (was Re: doggy style)
Date: 5 Nov 92 04:37:53 GMT
Distribution: world,local
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

In article <1992Nov4.232801.28573@u.washington.edu> starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky) writes:
>uni@acs.bu.edu (Shaen Bernhardt) writes:


>
>This list, by the way, was taken almost verbatim from one of Cecil Adams'
>columns.  This one was included in _More of The Straight Dope_.


I'm not surprised actually... I never figured out where it came from... 
just remembered I had it when the topic came up... 
Sorry for not citing you Cecil :)

uni

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From: amcbride@axion.bt.co.uk (Alan McBride)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: ... is this a UL??? (1)
Date: 10 Nov 92 15:59:02 GMT
Reply-To: AMcBride@axion.bt.co.uk
Organization: British Telecom Research Laboratories



A guy has severe diarrhoea but must unfortunately 
travel for several hours by air.  He somehow hits
on the idea of inserting a tampon up his anus to
preclude embarrassing moments while queing or
waiting around in the airport.  This works with
a reasonable degree of success until he makes
his way through customs at his destination;  he
must have looked uncomfortable as he was taken
into a back room for a full cavity search.  He 
tried to warn the officials but their english was
not great.  A customs officer sees a curious 
string emerging from his arse and tugs on it.
He apparently did not quite jump back in time.

 


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From: linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Trelford Pinkerton)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,sci.med
Subject: Calvin/Hobbes diagnosed as clinical schizophrenic
Date: 13 Nov 92 03:59:32 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban,sci.med
Organization: The Bishop Sandwich Band
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[note: readers outside the USA probably won't understand this, but I have
not limited the distribution because you should know what you're missing. ]

Many newspaper readers will be shocked to have learned today that
popular child comic star Calvin is manifesting the classic behavior
of a schizophrenic.

Regular readers will be familiar with Calvin's usual antics as he play-acts
with his toy stuffed tiger.   Today, for the first time, Calvin's stuffed
tiger carried out not a joint activity, but an activity of which Calvin 
was not aware.

Significantly, the action was the sending of an anonymous insulting letter
addressed to Calvin.  As his alter-ego, the tiger, Hobbes, has often acted
as the voice of reason.  Today we learn that even Calvin's reasonable part
is capable of aggressive behavior.   To find Calvin rejecting this, by
denying knowledge of it, is a classic symptom of clinical schizophrenia.

From here we may expect this case to progress to Calvin shining a bright
light through a translucent film medium, or as psychiatrists term it,
"projection".

Trelford Pinkerton MD            (actually CA, but I've always liked Bethesda).
--
   Inventor of the Lambada-Calculus.
From: jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Still Sinking.../Architectural Goofs
Date: 10 Nov 92 00:50:20 GMT
Organization: IBM Rochester
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM

In article <2764@israel.nysernet.org>, warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein) writes:
|> Unfortunately, the architect of AFU forgot to take into account the
|> number of repetitive postings.  It is slowly sinking under the weight.
|> 
|> Warren "and they built it backwards, too" Burstein
|> -- 
|> /|/-\/-\       In real life, the Vice President chastises Murphey Brown
|>  |__/__/_/     for her morals.  Bill Clinton plays the sax on "Arsenio
|>  |warren@      Hall."  Though "Batman Returns" is fiction, it's not too
|> / nysernet.org much stranger than truth - Caryn James, The New York Times

The University of North Dakota has a very hefty
physics professor that is slowly sinking into the
ground because God forgot to take into account the
weight of those donuts!

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| Systems Programmer     |  my brain IBM"                           |
| IBM - Rochester, MN    |              -- STYX,  "Mr. Roboto"      |
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Opinions expressed are mine, not IBM's.
From: cromar@math.rutgers.edu (Scott Cromar)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: U of Chicago Radioactive (was Still Sinking.../Architectural Goofs)
Date: 8 Nov 92 04:04:25 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

ssriv@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Sanjay Srivastava) writes:
> 	I also seem to remember hearing a story that when they were
> testing this atomic pile, they had two grad students standing above it, on
> the gound level, holding control rods in case anything went wrong.  

Yeah.  My father was one of them.

--Scott "and he STILL glows in the dark" Cromar

or  

--Scott "I think my tentacles come from my father's side of the
family" Cromar

or 

--Scott "three middle names--one for each eye" Cromar
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: cmh004@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Dave)
Subject: Re: An astonishing Guy.
Organization: Lanchester Polytechnic
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 10:53:06 GMT

In article <Bx9BE4.2z0@ecf.toronto.edu> ambidge@ecf.toronto.edu (Chris Ambidge) writes:
>In article <1992Nov4.235124.16224@radian.uucp> kathrynw%radian@natinst.com (Kathryn Whitworth) writes:
>When I was younger, and into pyrotechnics, and growing up in England, (50s)
>the Done Thing in  the  late days of October / early November was to make
>a straw man (or, more likely, old clothes of your dad's, stuffed with
>newspapers), and wheel him  around the streets of town, begging  "Penny 
>for the Guy, sir [or Mrs, as the case might  be].  The money thus raised
>was used to  buy fireworks, which were set off as part of the festivities
>on the night of November  5.
>"Guy" was consigned to the bonfire and burned as part of the same celebrations

We still do have people who do that. BTW if you were asking for a penny in
the 1950's then inflation has really moved like 240,000% increase. For
yesterday a young kid asked me 'a tenner for the guy'. I told him where he
could clear off to. Incidently I would like to have seen his guy put onto a 
bonfire - it was walking around and chatting to his friends!!
-- 
Dave                                                       cmh004@cck.cov.ac.uk
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Call this place what you like - Coventry University, Coventry Polytechnic or
Lanchester Polytechnic it is all the same and is called school.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,soc.culture.african.american,sci.skeptic
From: nadja@jetsun.weitek.COM (Nadja Adolf)
Subject: Re: 1950's Darryle, damnit.
Organization: WEITEK Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 02:44:30 GMT

In article <XrB=1k@engin.umich.edu> dem@engin.umich.edu (Darryle E Merlette) writes:
>In article <1992Nov10.134053@IASTATE.EDU>
>danwell@IASTATE.EDU (Daniel A Ashlock) gives irrefutable proof
>
>The London Times, May 11, 1987 ("Smallpox vaccine triggered Aids virus in
>Africa and Haiti") tells how the World Health Organization injected
>100 million Africans (plus 14,000 Haitians working in Zaire) with AIDS
>infested smallpox vaccines. When the Haitians returned to Haiti, it spread 
>there. That's why when AIDS was first publicized, being Haitian mysteriously
>made you "high risk". 

The virus was grown in monkey tissues, against all guidelines for
raising virii. The protocols for raising virii require that the 
tissues used be as remote as possible from those of the population
that will be immunized with it. This is to avoid contamination from
organisms in the tissues that might infect the target population.

If it wasn't done deliberately, it was one of the stupidest acts 
ever performed.

BTW, in the 1950s the government started using radiation on reservations
to exterminate my people. Hanford polluted the Yakima, and the nuclear
tests in Utah polluted several reservations in Utah and Nevada. It would
probably have never been publicized, but the heavily white towns of
Yakima and St. George also received fall out and its effects.

In addition, the Hanford plant dumped isotopes in the Columbia River,
directly targeting the tribal peoples who depend on salmon and other
fish for a major part of their diet.



 

-- 
The Earth Pig Bourne....

nadja@node.com (prefered email address)
nadja@weitek.com
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no (Cynthia Kandolf)
Subject: Re: Microwave Death
Organization: /home/ludviga/cindy/.organization
Date: 11 Nov 92 20:22:31

<yet another "I read it in the paper" story deleted.>

Even assuming this guy could somehow outsmart all the safety
precautions, there is a major hole in this story - just as there is
a major hole in the tanning-booth story it resembles even ignoring the
fact that tanning booths don't emit microwaves.

Microwaves do NOT cook things "from the inside out".  If you don't
believe me, put something that melts easily, like a small block of ice
or a bowl of ice cream, in a microwave.  Zap it for short periods of
time, checking the melting pattern as you go along.  The stuff nearest
the outside will go first, because there is nothing shielding them
from the microwaves.  Microwaves cook from the outside in. 

This fellow would have gotten quite painful burns on his skin before
his "intestines" were cooked.  The story may not be "true urban
folklore" but it's definitely not a true story.

-Cindy Kandolf
 cindy@solan.unit.no
 Trondheim, Norway
From: tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Kryptonite bike locks (was DOGGY STYLE)
Date: 5 Nov 92 15:55:25 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

First I see "Kryptonite Bike Locks".  Is Superman stealing bikes again?

Then I see "Something (was DOGGY STYLE)" and I think, why do I always come in
LATE to these discussions!

Terry "Anybody know what the story about PRODIGY is?" Wood
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From: warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein)
Subject: Re: Legal Wives Tales
Reply-To: warren@nysernet.org
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 08:52:15 GMT

The correct way for a doctor to fend off cocktail-party questions (at
least at some parties) is to say that they'd be glad to do an
examination right now if the questioner will undress.
-- 
/|/-\/-\       In real life, the Vice President chastises Murphey Brown
 |__/__/_/     for her morals.  Bill Clinton plays the sax on "Arsenio
 |warren@      Hall."  Though "Batman Returns" is fiction, it's not too
/ nysernet.org much stranger than truth - Caryn James, The New York Times
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: gfritz@bell.ecn.purdue.edu (Geoffrey M Fritz)
Subject: Re: Legal Tender
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 02:01:23 GMT

In article <1992Nov8.005443.25001@athena.cs.uga.edu> jordan@castor (USENET's Chuck) writes:
>>davew@willow03.cray.com (Dave Wagner) writes:
>>
>>>What do those words "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and
>>>private" really mean?  (i.e from a '...we don't accept bills larger than x'
>>>point of view).
>
>I also wondered about this when my friend's apartment owner (AOOAF) refused
>cash to pay her rent, saying that it was their policy to only take checks.
>My friend, un-confrontational as she tends to be, went ahead and wrote a
>check for it, but I got really angry.  After all, if the note is legal for
>all debts, you can't refuse it, correct?
>
>I wish someone would enlighten me.  Do other countries' currency have
>similar (pointless) statements on them?  Has anyone on the net been 
>denied money from somebody famous?

I remember discussing this in great detail in my high school civics class.
I'm assuming that what I was taught is true.

Any money printed by the U.S. government that has the "This note is legal
tender... etc." CANNOT be refused as a payment for debt.  If you owe your
landlord $300 for rent, they must accept cash -- even if it were all in
pennies.  They could require you to count all $300 worth of the pennies, but
they'd still have to accept it as payment.

Don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise.  Cash is the only thing that can't
be refused.  No matter what.

If anyone has a problem with my answer, take it up with the department of
educatiuon in North Carolina -- not me.

-- Geoff
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein)
Subject: Re: Kryptonite Locks - Nitrogen/Freon chilling
Reply-To: warren@nysernet.org
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 09:39:23 GMT

In <1992Nov4.102900.12067@fs7.ece.cmu.edu> snyder@henry.ece.cmu.edu (John Snyder) writes:
>Was the cold stuff perhaps used to chill *plastic* or *composite* ...

No, it's cold cream, which dissolves the components.
-- 
/|/-\/-\       In real life, the Vice President chastises Murphey Brown
 |__/__/_/     for her morals.  Bill Clinton plays the sax on "Arsenio
 |warren@      Hall."  Though "Batman Returns" is fiction, it's not too
/ nysernet.org much stranger than truth - Caryn James, The New York Times
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From: dem@engin.umich.edu (Darryle E Merlette)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,soc.culture.african.american,sci.skeptic
Subject: Now this is personal (was Miss Manners returns. (was 1950's Darryle))
Summary: Are you sure your last name isn't Quayle?
Keywords: dictionary
Date: 13 Nov 92 23:38:21 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor


   Dan is an irresponsible idiot and deserves to be told so.  Its the only
way he can tell he made a giant mistake.  He's shown himself to be unable to
accept any points of view that differ from his own. Furthermore, he is
incapable of self "critisism" because he's so in love with his own
imaginary intellect that he thinks he's perfect. And he can't spell.

   I wouldn't dream of making claims about Dan's maturity.  His idiocy
renders maturity questions moot.
 
WARNING: the following paragraphs contain _no_ worthwhile information, like
the majority of Dan's postings.

(Rant and rave mode on)  I've met Dan before in many incarnations.  He's
someone who wants so badly, for whatever reason, to put others down in a
public forum. Rather than discuss issues intelligently and cite specific
references that support his viewpoint, he'd rather resort to immature
name-calling. Added to his collossal ignorance, you get someone willing to 
"atribute" differences of opinion to other people's intellectual
shortcomings. And he can't spell.  He won't even try to assess probabilities 
or check facts that don't support his myopic views.  This sort of individual 
is at least as much an enemy of democracy and reason as a genuine subversive 
"revolutionry" totalitarianist.  He will exercise his democratic freedom of 
assembly, "speach", and the ballot box with maximal irresponsibility by trying
to force feed his opinions to others. If he has any intellect, surely he will 
waste it.

   I am extrapollating a great deal from the small amount of net.contact I've
had with Dan, but that's the game he plays.  Notice the way he quoted
"1950's" repeatedly to prove his point instead of giving a concrete
citation that one could look up to decide for themself.  Disgusting
pseudo-intellectual bullyism.  AND he was too narrow-minded to 
even consider that the facts could support multiple opinions.

   Dan doesn't know shit about me. But the fact that he can produce
long-winded attacks on my character based on less than a half dozen
postings speaks volumes about him.

	Darryle

PS: My advance apologies to everyone but Dan who reads this. I usually
never do this sort of thing (its very immature), but sometimes you
gotta go way down to be on some people's level.
BTW Dan, don't bother replying to this message like I know you will
-- your name is now a permanent resident of my kill file.
From: wb8foz@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (David Lesher)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Plagiarism--Profs stealing grad student's work
Date: 8 Nov 1992 14:07:02 GMT
Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews abusers - Beltway Annex
Reply-To: wb8foz@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu (David Lesher)
NNTP-Posting-Host: skybridge.scl.cwru.edu

Sometimes it backfires...

There was very newsworth case recently involving a Senior
BureauCritter's work being called academic fraud.

But, reading between the lines, it sounds as if he just ripped off the
work from a grad-grunt, and the gg didn't really do enough
grunting....

Somehow I think the SBC had the same name as a city with a
baseball team, but I could be wrong.....

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From: pmartz@dsd.es.com (Paul Martz)
Subject: Re: Question about "T." in James T. Kirk !!!!!! (As seen on TV)
Keywords: We don' nee' no stinkeen' keywords!
Reply-To: pmartz@dsd.es.com (Paul Martz)
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, UT
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 20:38:18 GMT

In article <BxIEtG.AEs@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, miles@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Derick) writes:
>In article <1992Nov10.051247.26359@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>In article <BxGwLn.HEo@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> bwbrock@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Benjamin Warre Brock) writes:
>>>Tiberius
>>Terry
>Timmy
Testicular