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From: knauer@pegasus.cs.uiuc.edu (Rob Knauerhase)
Subject: Re: Why the sky is blue (was: Daytime Stars) 
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 08:30:29 GMT

In <Bz8FMw.Ewy@world.std.com> moroney@world.std.com (Michael Moroney) writes:
>mccoy@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Don McCoy) writes:
>>for all I know, James is joking too.  But, if you want the real scoop,
>>here 'tis:
>>	Sunlight is a mix of light of all different colors.  When it
>>enters the atmosphere, it gets scattered.  Red photons scatter more
>>than blue ones (red ones have less energy).  As a result, we see more
>This is exactly backwards.  Blue light is scattered _more_ than red, not
>less.

Since we're apparently voting on this (the fact that it's a FACT
notwithstanding) I cast my vote for the physically correct explanation of
Micahel Moroney and a couple others before him.

I suppose freshman physics (or even high-school physics?) is no longer
required in most parts of the country?

(Didn't Olivia Newton-John once sing a song about physics?)

Rob
--
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 money is left in the hands of TAXPAYERS, God only knows what they do with it.
 Bake it into pies, probably.  Anything to avoid creating jobs." -- Dave Barry
From: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Scearce)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: UL: Monumental LSD overdose taken (was: Re: Brands of LSD)
Date: 17 Dec 1992 02:35:12 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Distribution: world
Reply-To: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: sector7g

In article 25011@nezsdc.icl.co.nz, derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:
> The statement in question was 'Air is not poisonous'. 

> This can be disproved simply by the showing that one (and only one) of 
> the constituents of air is poisonous.  A more exhaustive proof was not 
> necessary.

Oxygen *is* poisonous, but (fortunately) nitrogen is the antidote.

Brian "An exhaustive proof would have mentioned carbon dioxide" Scearce
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Subject: Re: Another University Exam One
From: system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 14:47:31 NZST
Organization: The Code Works Limited, PO Box 10 155, Auckland, New Zealand

joltes@husc10.harvard.edu (Richard Joltes) writes:

> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
> 
> [regarding the "ignore all questions before this one" exam...]
> 
> Yes.  I and several co-workers were given one as part of a "quality training"
> seminar when I worked for a former employer.  The last question said "now, go
> back to the top of the page, write your name and the date, then stop.  Do not
> answer any of the other questions on this page."

I had this in Standard 4 (ummm, 10 years old). But I think it is illogical
to have...

Instructions

Read all questions before answering. Blah Blah

1. What is 2+2?
2. blah blah
....
19. blah blah
20. Don't answer any of the questions. Just write your name at the top,


So why should you follow an instruction which is merely an invalid
question. Why should it have priority over other questions. It is just
silly.

Now if it was an instruction at the bottom of the paper then I wouldn't
grizzle.

OBUl: Snow flakes can be up to 17 inches in diameter.
/s



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From: moroney@world.std.com (Michael Moroney)
Subject: Re: 'Springfield' is NOT a city in all states!
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 03:40:54 GMT

bobm@Ingres.COM (Bob McQueer) writes:

>But you could claim that any given atlas is not definitive.  There generally
>are "towns" that are not listed in the atlas.  Fr'instance, the state of
>Pennsylvania insisted that the rural crossroads my parents house sits near
>is "Shelmadine Springs" - a road sign proclaims it as such, I suppose making
>it official.  Very likely not listed in your atlas.  And the handful of
>people living there insist that the name of the place is "Bethel", since
>the main feature at the crossroads is the "Bethel Methodist Church".

"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.

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.

-Mike
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From: bjacobs@chopin.udel.edu (William J Jacobs)
Subject: Re: Amusing signs
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:21:50 GMT

>>They made a special effort to mail it in a town called Intercourse - 
>>somewhere in the USA.
>
>Outside of Lancaster, PA, actually.  Also in the same general area is a town
>known as "Blue Ball".  (most maps I have seen show both of them).
>
I've got a friend from a town near those two named "Bird in Hand".  Story 
around there is that you have to go through "Intercourse" to get to 
"Paradise" (another town in the area).

Bill Jacobs


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From: dwarner@milo.ub.com (Dave Warner)
Subject: Re: Send more than one dollar to this address
Summary: Money schemes: my case history.
Keywords: money
Organization: Ungermann-Bass
Distribution: Here.......there. 
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 17:37:46 GMT

In article <Bz50y0.9Bt@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> william@sage.cc.purdue.edu (jon) writes:

>In article <1992Dec11.084341.11480@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth) writes:

>   Another thing I leared was how to mail regular letters for 2 cents!  I tried
>it, and it works. I'll post it if anyone's interested.

Yeah, I might be interested in seeing this.  Put it up if you get time.

dave



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From: warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein)
Subject: Re: UL: Monumental LSD overdose taken (was: Re: Brands of LSD)
Reply-To: warren@nysernet.org
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 10:42:16 GMT

In <1992Dec14.022439.27164@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:

>Ted "what does the 'S' in LSD stand for?" Frank

Suirebit
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From: honig@ruffles.ics.uci.edu (David A. Honig)
Subject: Re: UL: Monumental LSD overdose taken (was: Re: Brands of LSD)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.drugs
Reply-To: honig@ics.uci.edu (David A. Honig)
Organization: UC Disneyland, in the Kingdom of Bren
Date: 15 Dec 92 01:03:36 GMT

Lions and tigers and bears, Oh My.

 petersen@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Julie Petersen) writes:
>BIG BLACK COMMUNIST FAGGOT HIPPOS ??? !!!
>
>Oh my.

Indeed.



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From: qasama@banach.WPI.EDU (John Grossi)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Inventor Profs
Date: 17 Dec 1992 20:50:44 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: banach.wpi.edu

In article <1992Dec16.204516.11113@nmt.edu> ewagoner@nmt.edu (A Hoopy Frood Who Always Knows Where His Towel Is) writes:
>In article <00965274.8ED1DA80@vms.csd.mu.edu> 2ck1racicr@vms.csd.mu.edu writes:
>>
>>Well up here in Marquette, we have a chem prof who gets paid the biggest
>>salary I've ever seen. A big Fat Dollar.
>>	He has a pile of money. He invented the sticky crap om
>>scoth tape and latex paint.
>>
>Here, we've got the guy who invented nylon. A reclusive chem prof.
>Local Folklore says he's given every penny of the scads of money he
>makes to the Mormon church.
>
>We've also got the guy who invented the Niccotine patch. Our dean of
>students until this year. His checks just started rolling in (split
>50-50 with the school). WOW!
>
 Here we had Robert Goddard. He blew the roof of one of the buildings in
the early twenties, so they fired him and he went to across town rival
Clark.

*shrug*

-John
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From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel Furr)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Why the sky is blue (was: Daytime Stars)
Date: 14 Dec 92 15:56:49 GMT
Organization: Escape from Blacksburg, VA

Bz8FMw.Ewy@world.std.com>
Organization: Escape from Blacksburg, VA

Tell me what makes the stars to shine
Tell me what makes the sky so blue
Tell me what makes the ivy twine
And I will say why I love you

Nuclear fusion makes the stars to shine
Rayleigh scattering makes the sky so blue
Tropisms make the ivy twine
Testicular hormones is why I love you

Joel "I'm quoting both of those from somewhere, but I forget where" Furr
From: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Scearce)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Why Not?
Date: 14 Dec 92 19:14:06 GMT
Reply-To: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems
NNTP-Posting-Host: sector7g

A question on one of my college exams was "Write a question suitable
for this exam, and an answer for it."  So I wrote:

  Write a question suitable for this exam, and an answer for it.
  Write a question suitable for this exam, and an answer for it.

I wish I could say I made this up, but I actually got it from a book
(possibly "What Is The Name Of This Book?") by Ray Smullyan.

The astute reader will note that my answer is inadequate; but I didn't
think that the markers would notice.  They didn't.

Brian "Cheap way to generate next year's exam" Scearce
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From: dbraun@cad636.intel.com
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: chelsea clinton (was re:
Date: 19 Dec 92 02:54:06 GMT
Distribution: us
Organization: Intel Design Technology

In article <1992Dec17.165611.24446@midway.uchicago.edu>, pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers) writes:
|> 
|> 
|> Bob Talbert was a columnist for the Detroit Free Press and he used to
|> have a running thing about how freeway signs often sounded like the
|> names of soap opera stars.  Chelsea Manchester is a good example of this.


A good one is at the north end of the New Jersey Turnpike:

 Leonia
 Teaneck

This sounds like the name of a little old lady, though.


"There is no human problem which could not be solved if
 people would simply do as I advise." -- Gore Vidal


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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Manhattan Bridge
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 07:21:38 GMT

In article <3037@israel.nysernet.org> warren@nysernet.org writes:
>In <1992Dec9.032449.204@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>
>>a large simian creature once known to inhabit the Empire State Building.
>
>in?

in King Kong, or the Universal Studios ride based on it.  Fay Wray, Merian C.
Cooper, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, 1933.

cjl
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Date: 11 Dec 92 20:13:51 GMT
Organization: Funny Farm, USA

j_manes@vger.nsu.edu writes:
: >> Does anyone know any interesting mnemonics for remembering things
: >> (as opposed to the other kinds of mnemonics)?
: 
: 
: It's hard to believe no one has mentioned Roy G. Biv yet---to help
: remember the order of colors in a rainbow.

Or - Vi B. Gyor.

Bill
From: briang@bari.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Gordon)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Date: 16 Dec 1992 23:52:20 GMT
Organization: Sun
NNTP-Posting-Host: bari
Keywords: KIBO = Knowledge In Bozosity Out

In article <1g6vs5INN4au@moe.ksu.ksu.edu> diverson@phys.ksu.edu (David Iverson) writes:
>Bad Beer Rots Our Young Guts But Vodka Goes Well
>
>Black Brown Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Violet Grey White
>0      1     2    3       4     5    6    7       8   9
>
>For decoding the color bands on resistors.
>

Nowhere near as much fun as "Bad boys rape our young girls, but Violet gives
willingly".
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From: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: A FAQ for the Holidays
Date: 20 Dec 1992 21:31 PST
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.254.198
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

>>T. Bill Gates has $750K Porsche 959 he can't use; no type compliance,no license!
>(not an addition, a question: why can't he?)

Stalemate in a p.ing match between everybody's favorite billionerd
and Customs/Department of Transportation.  As I misunderstand it,
everything was hunky-dory until he got to the part about the crash
test.  Porsche, which is said to be less than enthralled with the
"gray market" anyway, doesn't seem interested in supplying a test 
article for a type they never officially exported to the US, and 
Billy has no desire to see if $50,000 worth of Bondo would make his 
sports car as good as new after some bureaucrat wadded it up by 
remote control.  

IMHO, the man *gots* to learn how to enjoy being big-rich.  A good 
way to start would be going ahead with the test, drinking a champagne
toast to the impact, and decorating one's study with a picture of the
Crash Test Dummies sprawled amid the wreckage.  But his indignation
exceeds his panache, so the 959 sits in a warehouse in Oakland, along 
with a similar car bought at the same time by one of his buddies (name 
escapes me) from the early days of Microsoft.

This would be heartrending if some Army officer who didn't have a
pit to hiss in had spent his life savings on an unregisterable
exotic.  But for somebody who can buy a Porsche as casually as you
or I would buy a Jolt Cola, it's just amusing in a Kafkaesque sort 
of way, so computer journalists ask him about it once in awhile.

ObUL:  the question could be answered authoritatively if only
billg@microsoft.com grepped netnews.  (The back-page gossip column
in one of the computer rags published this putative address a 
couple of years ago.)

Joe "Next time, have it rebadged as a 911 before shipment" Chew
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From: quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Quetzal)
Subject: Re: Sex, the Final Frontier?
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 04:11:15 GMT

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

>Doesn't anyone ever give in to the urge to scramble Data's diodes
>by running a powerful magnet over the back of his head?

Everybody knows that you can't scramble diodes by using a magnet . . .
sheesh . . .

Tim Pickett.

ps I'd like to know about Guinan's hat too.
From: jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: WAY stupid things to do with guns (was self-i
Date: 16 Dec 92 00:13:42 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc., San Jose, CA

>>During the Civil War, many soldiers lost fingers trying to touch cannon
>>balls as they flew past...
>
>Cool! Did you hear this from Shelby Foote?

Lots of original accounts told, not of fingers lost, but folks
who tried to stop skipping/rolling cannon balls with their
feet, and losing a foot or leg.  Apparently, they *looked*
harmless, kind of like a soccer ball, but packed a helluva
punch, even at fairly slow speeds.  Lot of mass in a cannon
ball.

Weekend Civil War Artillery Corporal,


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From: jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: New(?) UL, ban religious broadcasts
Date: 16 Dec 92 00:08:45 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc., San Jose, CA

>This morning on CBS radio's "Osgood File", Charlie described a new
>(to me) UL that may be an offshoot of the "modem tax" UL.
>
>According to this UL, Madeline Murray O'Hare, the (in)famous
>athiest is gathering signatures and has "many" thousands of
>signatures already on a petition to ban religious broadcasts

Ever hear of something being so old, it's new again?  It must
have come back with the trolls.  Because the troll dolls were
out for the first time (mid '60's) when I first heard this
one.  I wonder how many folks, nowadays, even know who
Madeline Murray O'Hare is...
--
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From: thumper@engin.umich.edu (Bob Topping)
Subject: Re: Amusing signs
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 01:14:57 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Distribution: To the poor and needy.  
Keywords: Words which provide clues as to what the article is about.  


Near Alpena, Michigan, on can find signs which say:  "Do not pass when
oncoming traffic is present".

A little bit towards the western-middle part of the state, near Battle
Creek (home of Kellogg's), is a sign which directs on to the Climax Rd.
exit.  I've only see it on I-94; I've always wondered if its also an exit
from nearby I-69.

  -Bob "I think only pure thoughts, really!" Topping



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From: manley@optilink.COM (Terry Manley)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Er: V Yvir gb SND!
Date: 19 Dec 92 00:22:03 GMT
Organization: Fbavp Pynevgl naq Rguavp Pyrnafref Pbec. BOVX, AW

In article <27957@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>jkshapir@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Kivi Shapiro) wrote:

>  +Wow!  But I still prefer "sheesh."

>Hmm...maybe it's time for a vote...

>  +And what does "furrfu" mean?  Nobody's told me yet.

>You're so close, that something is rotting.

V'q gryy uvz, ohg gura V'q unir gb xvyy uvz.

Greel "Svar, V trg zl anzr YRTNYYL punatrd gb Greel naq gura Ze. Puna
qrpvqrf gb chg zr va gur SND nf QNIR, abg GREEL ZNAYRL. Furrfu gb lbh,
Greel!!!! Yhpxl sbe zr zl nggbearl pna trg vg punatrq onpx sbe
gjb-svsgl." Znayrl
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From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Another University Exam One
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 07:57:09 GMT

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.

Bill "Philosophies R US" Nelson
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From: tad@ssc.com (Tad Cook)
Subject: Re: Send one dollar to this address
Organization: very little
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 16:25:29 GMT

In article <Bz20u0.9sC@medar.com> jseymour@medar.com (James Seymour) writes:
>In article <1992Dec3.170100.23512@ulysses.att.com> smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin) writes:
>>And there was the case, a year or two ago, when some kiddie program
>>told the audience to hold their telephones up to the screen while
>>touch-tone dialing sequence was broadcast.  I think it was to a 900
>>number...  (N.B.  900 numbers are caller pays, recipient collects
>>whatever the deal with the phone company says -- often quite a lot.)
>
>With little success I would think (if any).  Telco central office
>tone decoders are fairly picky about those tones (level and various
>types of distortion being the most questionable in this instance).
>

The specs for tone dials are fairly tight, but the CO tone receivers
are fairly broad.  This is so that they can work with as many phones
as possible.

The story about the phone held up to the TV speaker actually happened
during a broadcast around xmas time a few years ago on KTZZ (ch 22)
in Seattle.  A local 1-976 "information provider" ran a commercial
with Santa, who told kids that they could just hold the phone up to
the TV to get it to dial.  This produced a big stink in the local
press and an apology from the station.  The thing I could not
figure out was how many calls could the system handle like this
at the same time?

Regarding telco tone receivers ability to pick up tones from other
sources than dials, about 10 years ago in Seattle KING FM was
running an ad that urged us to dial a number for some local business,
and they had the sounds of tone dialing in the ad.  One time I
held my phone up to the radio during the ad, and I was immediately
connected to the business that was the subject of the ad!



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