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From: briang@bari.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Gordon)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Another University Exam One
Date: 18 Dec 1992 22:40:39 GMT
Organization: Sun
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Well, once upon a time, when I had about 90 minutes from the scheduled end of
an exam I was giving and leaving town, I, personally, _did_ give a T/F test in
a survey course where all 100 answers were "T" ...  The grade distribution
looked about the same as any other similarly long T/F I had given, so I presume
very few if any of the students notice3d the "pattern".

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Subject: Re: Cats-eyes and some other stuff
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 00:16:44 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <1992Dec11.181153.2771@cbfsb.cb.att.com> rcnixon@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (russell.nixon) writes:
>
>Russ "Cloroform taught me not to wear jewlery in the lab!" Nixon
>  Whose opinions are his own.

I think it may have had an adverse effect on your spelling too.

Derek "Try Ether next time - it's much easier to spell" Tearne



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From: jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
Subject: Re: Sex, the Final Frontier?
Organization: INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:49:12 GMT

In article <lj05n6INNago@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> trelford@trelford.Eng.Sun.COM (Trelford Pinkerton) writes:

>Why does Whoopi Goldberg always appear in a funny hat?

Her costume designer is a cousin of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's clothier.


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From: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Legal language
Date: 12 Dec 1992 17:38 PST
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
Distribution: world
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In article <1992Dec11.105718.18650@ms.uky.edu>, fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis) writes...
>Ad absurdum per aspera writes:
>>> Why is the legal profession not supposed to have its own jargon?  
>>> I don't get it.
>>
>>Because doctors, linguists, computer people, and truck drivers don't
>>have a long history of using complicated and deeply encoded language
>>to swindle their fellow man.  Most lawyers don't do this, but lawyers
>>who are inclined in this direction are uniquely qualified for it.
>>
>>As itinerant legal scholar Woody Guthrie put it, "Some will rob you 
>>with a six-gun/And some with a fountain pen."
>>
>People are so impatient, so to speak. Prior to the 20th century,
>I imagine iatrogenic deaths outnumbered all other deaths except for 
>dehydration from diarrhea in infants. Doctors have a long history
>of flim-flam and bunkum. ("All he gives is a humbug pill/Dose of
>dope/And a great big bill" by Alfred Reed?) There was a recent
>article in the local paper about doctors in Eastern Kentucky
>simply passing out pain pills and valiums etc. like magic fairy
>dust. "Is everybody happy?" 

> Medicine still exorcises hants and spirits

Which, of course, has been and continues to be one of the principal
benefits that lawyers provide to their clients, especially in the
corporate environment.  However, when a hypochondriac or a worrywart
pays a doctor for a little ghostbusting, there is relatively little
societal ripple effect.  By contrast, laying one's insecurities to
rest in the in-box of the corporate counsel makes the party of the
second part do the same.  This causes (proof obvious; why not?) 
positive feedback in the control loop that establishes the number 
and importance of lawyers.

The law's highest and best purpose is to lubricate the machinery of
society.  Its lowest and worst purpose is to get away with larceny.
Its most common purpose, probably -- certainly its main effect -- 
is to enlarge and disseminate itself at the expense of those whom
it is purported to serve.

In this respect it closely resembles bureaucracy.  The resemblance
extends to a certain fundamental paradox.  The individual lawyers
and bureaucrats I've known have usually been intelligent, hardworking,
sincere individuals.  Put a hundred of either in the same organization
and they collectively become a cancer.

Joe "We CAN'T kill all the lawyers -- there isn't enough ammo" Chew
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: bwebster@pages.com (Bruce F. Webster)
Subject: Re: They used to think...
Reply-To: bwebster@pages.com
Organization: Banzai Research Institute
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 01:20:36 GMT

In article <8694.21037@stratus.SWDC.Stratus.COM> jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com  
(Jane Beckman) writes:
> I just thought of a new "retroactive UL" over the weekend.  I
> was discussing archeology with someone.  And they said...
> 
> "You know, they say early man didn't understand about sex.
> You know, babies just came.  They didn't make the connection
> that sex had anything to do with it, because babies came so
> much later.  Sex was one thing, and having babies was another.
> That's why there was a mother goddess, but no father goddess.
> They didn't realize babies had fathers, too."
> 

Hmm. Wish I had some references at hand, and I'll probably get this wrong,  
but...I believe this concept comes largely from some research Margaret Mead  
(the famous anthropologist) did several decades back among some Pacific island  
tribes. She published her findings, and they were seized upon as yet another  
piece of evidence of cultural evolution (not to be at all confused with  
physical evolution). 

Many years later, other anthropologists were doing follow-up research among the  
same tribes and brought up the same question. The response was, in effect,  
"Well, of course we know all about this. We just wanted to see if that woman  
[i.e., Mead] would buy what we told her." 

All this may itself be urban folklore....   ..bruce..
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.drugs
From: jimbo@mhs.oz.au (James Davidson)
Subject: Re: UL: Monumental LSD overdose taken (was: Re: Brands of LSD)
Organization: Message Handling Systems
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 05:32:34 GMT

In article <If_xP4i00iUz43g88S@andrew.cmu.edu> "Stephen M. Lacy" <sl31+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>
<stuff deleted>
>
>This whole discussion of LSD has gone too far and is upsetting me more
>with every post.
>
>Steve
>
>
>"I can't understand what makes a man hate another man, help me
>understand." -Depeche Mode
>


You remind me of those people who complain about TV programs the don't
like.  Don't they know about the off switch.  If you don't like the
discussion just junk the group.

Jimbo.

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: obrien@netcom.com (Robert O'Brien)
Subject: Re: "In Bed" - The origin of...
Keywords: in bed
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Distribution: world,local
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 09:42:13 GMT

The question was:
when & where did ___ first hear of the silly practice of
adding "in bed" (or "between the sheets") to whatever phrase
comes out of your fortune cookie?


Another data point:  Sacramento, before 30 August 1982, which was when I
moved to Fort Worth.  Maybe I brought it with me and helped it migrate to
Dallas, where you picked it up?

Quite likely my first exposure to it was on the day we celebrated the
Chinese New Year that was during (Gregorian?) 1982.  It has become a
tradition with my Sacramento friends to take over a Chinese restaurant, or
at least a party room, and have a really nice group dinner on the day
of the Chinese new year.  This particular group has been doing "...in bed"
on those occasions since 1988 for sure, and probably several years before.
_everybody_ is coerced into reading their fortune to the group in this
fashion at the risk of great personal ridicule.   :-) :-)

	Bob
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Tales about guns (was: WAY stupid things to do with...)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 06:18:18 GMT

n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio) writes:

: >weapons built with  full/semi *and* lock/cycle  selectability,
: >I believe one was a variant of the AR-15, possibly what you heard of.
: 
: 	It could be possilbe to design a revolver to muffle the noise
: somewhat, but it would have to be, like you describe above, a specialty
: revolver with specialty amunition to overcome the barrel-cylider gap
: noise problem.    On "lard copy" they had some idiot come on and said
: that he saw Jimmy Hoffa get murdered, and the guys used silenced
: .38 special revolvers.   Yeah sure: they were silent because they
: used no ammo, they just beat him to death with the revolvers.
: 
: 
: Jim "John Wayne's revolvers held 50 rounds each"
: Del Vecchio
From: rhamilt@husc10.harvard.edu (Rowan Hamilton)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Date: 20 Dec 92 10:56:33 GMT

system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall) writes:

>....
>Oh YEAH? The planes do intersect, and there is supposed to be a collision
>or near miss in about 4 billion years. Working backwards they should also
>have collided about 2 billion years ago (c. 1/2 the estimated age of the
>solar system). Some people speculate that Pluto is an asteroid that was
>captured by Neptune at this time.                     ^^^^^^^^
                                                          |
                                                     (?comet?)
	Yeah, you must mean comet.

>The theory that Pluto was an escaped moon of Pluto (which escaped at that
>same time) was discredited.                  ^^^^^
                                                |
                                     No recursive comment.


-- 
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
Subject: Re: Another University Exam One
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: Bohemians and Globetrotters, Unlimited
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 13:52:28 GMT

In article <yenamand.724301810@micro>, yenamand@micro.cs.umn.edu (Murthy Yenamandra) writes:
|> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
|> 
|> >styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo) writes:
|> >: In article <Bz4Cx3.BIx@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, schertz@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
|> >: (Sara Schertz) writes:
|> >: > [story 'bout trick exam/quizz/test deleted] The very last
|> >: > line said "do questions 1 and 2 and ignore the rest." The whole class
|> >: > (myself
|> >: > included) fell for it hook line and sinker.
|> >: > Afterward, the teacher said she had a similar test in college, and only one
|> >: > student did it right.
|> >: Ok, but they might have been on to something. The last line was to be ignored
|> >: too. College students sometimes make a big fuzz over these tiny details.
|> >Looks like a paradox to me.
|> >If you read and obey the final question, then you ignore the final question.
|> >But, if you ignore the final question, then you cannot obey it.
|> 
|> Not necessarily a paradox. "Do questions 1 and 2 and ignore the rest"
|> implies that one should ignore the rest of the questions, not the rest
|> of the entire exam. So, since the last "line" isn't a question, it
|> needn't (and should not) be ignored.
|> 
|> >Bill "Philosophies R US" Nelson
|> 
|> Murthy "Nit-pickers R Us" Yenamandra

Probably why I've been told to put all _instructions_ before any _questions_
on the exams that I've had the pleasure to prepare.

(However, the thread did include tests with "stand in a corner and say boo-hoo
 three times" things. Hardly a questions...)

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From: lvogt@digi.lonestar.org (Lee Vogt)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: dead man's hand
Date: 12 Dec 92 04:12:57 GMT
Organization: DSC Communications Corp, Plano, TX

>>
>>  +Playing poker the other day, I got two pair, aces and eights.  One of the
>>  +other players called it a dead man's hand
>>

Hmmmm, I've always heard that the dead man's hand was a full house, aces
over eights (ie, three aces and two eights).

ObUL(1): The term "dead man's hand" came about because these were the cards
         held by Wild Bill Hickock when he was gunned down while playing poker.

ObUL(2): Hickock would NEVER sit in a saloon with his back to the door.  The
         one time he broke this rule was his last - his killer came in the
         saloon door and shoot him in the back while he was playing poker
         (see above).

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From: rrd@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Ray Depew)
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:05:39 GMT
Subject: Re: Re: Mnemonics & Now - Burning Mines
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban

In alt.folklore.urban, bwilson@austin.ibm.com (Brad Wilson) writes:

> Someone asked about the mineral scale of hardness - I learned it as:
> The Girls Can Flirt And Other Queer Things Can Do
> 
...
> a???????
Apatite.  (not misspelled.)
> orthaclaze (spelled wrong, and probably wrong)
Don't remember, but it could be right.  (And you only missed one letter.)  
Orthoclase feldspar is definitely softer than quartz.
> quartz
> topaz
> c???????
Corundum.  Rubies, sapphires, emeralds.  NOT Carborundum -- that's a registered
trademark.
> diamond


Regards
Ray Depew
Integrated Circuits Business Division
Hewlett Packard Co, Fort Collins, Colorado
rrd@hpfiqa.fc.hp.com
(Got my Geology MB when I wasn't working on Astronomy.)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: bwatson@nyx.cs.du.edu (bruce watson)
Subject: Re: pencils up your nose
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Keywords: urban legend, suicide
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 19:53:46 GMT

In article <Bz3qGn.ID5@news.cso.uiuc.edu> tz10956@meibm17.cen.uiuc.edu (Thomas Zych) writes:
>I saw this in the alt.suicide.holiday "methods" list, and thought someone here
>      frontal lobes, which are basically optional. This is the

YOURS may be optional. :-)



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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 07:44:02 GMT

obrien@netcom.com (Robert O'Brien) writes:
: I followed several days' worth of this thread, and no one mentioned the
: one I've always used - 
: 	port, left, and red
: each have fewer letters in them than
: 	starboard, right, and green
: 
: Anybody else hear this one?  Maybe I invented it myself!

Nope - never heard of it before - at least, not lately on this thread.

Bill "Salty Dog" Nelson

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: obrien@netcom.com (Robert O'Brien)
Subject: Re: 'Springfield' is NOT a city in all states!
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 13:08:24 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.054444.29911@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>moroney@world.std.com (Michael Moroney) writes:
>
>>"Town" is a legal definition in most states, the states are divided into
>>counties, and the counties are divided into towns, cities, villages,
>>townships and/or boroughs, depending on what they're called in a particular
>>state.  Some rural counties are not fully subdivided, being largely
>>unincorporated areas.  There are also "place names" with no legal
>>definition (other than being the 'official' name of that crossroads) such
>>as what "Shelmadine Springs" probably is, "Grooms Corners" as the name of a
>>crossroads, etc.
>
>	However, in Ohio, 'town' has no official meaning.
>Counties are divided into townships.  Incorporated places of less
>than 5,000 people are villages.  If larger, they can choose to
>become cities.  Cities enjoy some degree more self rule as
>compared to villages.  Townships include all non-city areas,
>including villages.
>
>conjecture mode on:
>	I think the concept of counties being divided into towns
>is an eastern phenomena.  I guess most areas in the old Northwest
>territories and points west use a system similar to Ohio, with
>townships instead of towns.
>
>>
>>I have read somewhere that "Springfield" is the most common name of a
>>city/town (NOT counting crossroads etc., but a real town with a physical
>>extent) there being a city/town named Springfield in about 33 states.
>>
>>ObUL: In Maine some towns have no names, just numbers.
>>



I used to work for the California Division of Oil & Gas, and we had
_numeric_ information on every well in the state, classified under
a system of {section, township, range} in order of decreasing size.
Thus, when referring to that system, one could say that *all* townships
in CA are numbered.  I've no idea if any are also named, but being
arbitrary geometric divisions, I doubt it.


	Bob "can't sleep, why not post?" O'Brien
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: thealien@nevada.edu (Minstrel Alien)
Subject: Re: Crazy as a $2 bill
Organization: The Danger Zone
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 09:20:52 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.075455.29264@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>thealien@nevada.edu (Minstrel Alien) writes:
>
>: 	Okay, here's what *I* have heard.
>: 
>: 		Our dollar is value-wise descended from spanish pieces of eight
>: 
>: 	The two dollar note would then be from pieces of 13, which were
>: thought unlucky(13, ya know)
>: 
>: That's just what I've heard.
>
>Hm. Are you fishing, or just poor at math?   8 + 8 = 13?
>
>Bill

	Actually, I read that in a magazine...Quite a long time ago.
It IS one theory on why they are unpopular.
That, and nobody spends them, everyone collects them...

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Another University Exam One
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 23:52:25 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <1992Dec15.234426.10483@nezsdc.icl.co.nz> hugh@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Hugh Grierson) writes:
>In article <Bz9o92.8y@cs.dal.ca> craig@ug.cs.dal.ca (Ryan Craig) writes:
>>This sort of test is an urban legend, but I did have a teacher, who
>>undoubtedly had heard this UL, who once gave me a test like this, just to
>>see if we actually followed the directions on the test, I guess.
>
>A truly fascinating twist.
>
>Let me ask: Is there anyone on the net who hasn't had a test like this,
>or who knows someone who hasn't?
>
>Hugh "yawn" Grierson

Well actually, I haven't.

Derek "Yawn again" Tearne


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From: bdsm@poincare.WPI.EDU (Billy Don McConnell)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Final Exams
Date: 11 Dec 1992 22:07:10 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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|> stein@erg.sri.com (Bruce Stein) writes:
|> 
|> >When I was in college (a million years ago), I remember a friend telling 
|> >me of a philosophy class he had where the final was a single question.  
|> >The prof removed a toy block from the desk and set it down.  The proceeded 
|> >to inform the class that all they had to do was "prove the block existed".
|> 
|> >One student thought for a moment and wrote briefly and left.  Everyone 
|> >thought he had no idea and didn't want to waste the time.  According to my 
|> >friend the only person to get an "A" was the one who left early.  His 
|> >answer: "what block?".
|> 
|> >I am sure this one was also an urban legend probably passed along by the 
|> >philosophy professor.
|> 
|> >	Bruce


I'm new to this newsgroup, so pardon me if you've heard this one. It's of a 
slightly different flavour than these Philosophy Final stories. I heard this
from a professor who said it happened while he was an undergrad (although, of 
course, he didn't actually _take_ the class)...

The final exam in the Planetary Geology class:  Derive Mars.  Be specific.

Don
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc
From: crdunlea@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Christopher R. Dunlea)
Subject: Re: More mnemonics
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 13:48:38 EST

In article <govender.724327570@shannon> govender@shannon.ee.wits.ac.za (Govender) writes:
>In <1992Dec14.001559.21479@microsoft.com> leecr@microsoft.com (Lee Crocker) writes:
>
>
>the black guys i've worked with always preferred:
>
>"black boys rape our young girls but violet gives willingly"
>
>it also accurately differentiates between the two "b"s in the beginning!
>
>morgan govender
>govender@shannon.ee.wits.ac.za
>university of the witwatersrand
>johannesburg, south africa
>

You know, considering all the press South Africa gets here, you
might have been wiser to leave out your sig.

Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:31171 alt.drugs:19717 alt.drugs.usenet:20
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.drugs,alt.drugs.usenet
Subject: Re: UL: Monumental LSD overdose taken (was: Re: Brands of LSD)
Date: 15 Dec 92 01:19:43 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA

jah@mits.mdata.fi (Jani A. Heinonen) writes:
: 
: >"I can't understand what makes a man hate another man, help me
: >understand." -Depeche Mode
: 
:    Inflated ego. Separatism. Racism. Poor self-esteem. Inability to perceive
: the beauty of life in itself.

Unwillingness to think for onself. Fear of the unknown. Blind acceptance
of dogma. Unwillingness to venture into new areas.

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: philo@orion.IntelliCorp.COM (Philip R. Obermarck)
Subject: Re: ring-pulls/ cats-eyes/ zips/ etc...
Date: 11 Dec 92 19:15:39 GMT
Reply-To: pobermarck@intellicorp.com
Organization: IntelliCorp Inc.

v462etnn@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (David L Anderson) writes:
|> 
|> Well, according to a documentary I saw on some quasi-educational
|> channel, the flute playin/singin guy from Jethro Tull (Ian???)
|> owns a salmon company.  So, you too can get Jethro Tull salmon.
|> 
|> Sorry, don't remember what the name of it was.

|> David Anderson

Yes, its true. Ian Anderson owns and runs (when he's not touring) a
salmon farm called Straithard(sp?) Salmon, up in Scotland.  


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