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From: cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no (Cynthia Kandolf)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Upside-down burglar
Date: 9 Jan 93 20:22:34 GMT
	<CINDY.93Jan9171446@solan10.solan.unit.no>
	<1993Jan9.165845.11369@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: /home/ludviga/cindy/.organization

>In article <CINDY.93Jan9171446@solan10.solan.unit.no>
>cindy@solan10.solan.unit.\no (Cynthia Kandolf) writes:
>>Ted Frank writes:
>>>Indeed, the E-sharp over middle-C string is a crucial component for
>>>exercising the infamous and shadowy New York Method.
>>
>>There is no such note as E-sharp.
>
>Perhaps that's why the New York Method is not all that widespread.
>
>Ted "Sheesh!" Frank

Sheesh yourself.  I assumed that part was a joke.

-Cindy Kandolf etc.
From: fred@page6.pinetree.org (Fred Ennis)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Amusing street names
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 93 16:46:20 -0500
Organization: Page 6, Ottawa, Ontario +1 613-729-9451

> >Can anyone identify a major city for me that does not have a street named
> >after Martin Luther King, Jr.?
> >
> 
> 	Toronto, Tokyo, Hong Kong,  Minsk,  and Paris  come  to mind.
> 

ah! but Toronto does have a KING St.

It is south of Queen St.

:)

--
Fred Ennis, fred@page6.pinetree.org

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From: rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Architecture (Was: Architect Suicides)
Date: 7 Jan 93 19:52:04 GMT
Organization: st. alfonso's pancake breakfast

In article <1993Jan7.182142.11816@crd.ge.com> meltsner@crd.ge.com writes:

>And there's the story of the engineering or architecture student at
>MIT that had his thesis rejected because he showed the campus's Kresge
>Auditorium's roof would crumble and collapse.  Twenty years later, it
>got darn close to doing just that because of water infiltrating under
>the lead sheathing.
>

speaking of Kresge, is there any connection between the Kresge at MIT,
which has walls, and the Kresge at the international music camp and school
of music at interlochen, michigan? this kresge auditorium looks a great 
deal like the MIT one, but without side walls. who was kresge?

bah.
(i am the asciibo)
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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: New Yorker
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 20:58:24 GMT

In article <1993Jan9.194555.7603@samba.oit.unc.edu> Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall) writes:
>Of course that was before the New Yorker decided it wanted to stop 
>publishing interesting articles and concentrate on knocking the National
>Lampoon out of the Guinness category of "Most Cartoons Published that
>Contain the Word 'Shit' in the Caption."
>
>ObUL:  A poor little English girl who lives in New York is, or should be,
>dying of cancer.  To cheer her up, please send a box of your shit to:
>Tina Brown, c/o wherever Yoko is throwing a party tonight, N.Y.C., N.Y.
>
>B. "If she thinks I'm renewing my subscription, she's shit out of luck" T.

Top two signs that the New Yorker is going downhill --

1) In a Dec 28, 1992 article about Bob Strauss they non-ironically used
   the slang verb "dis" but spelled it "dish."

2) In the same article, they non-ironically used the slang verb "dis",
   and spelled it correctly.

Ted "and in an issue commemorating wallace shawn, no less" Frank
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From: jmfuchs@unix.amherst.edu (jesse fuchs)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: CD Legends
Date: 10 Jan 93 14:56:39 GMT
Organization: Amherst College
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]

Andrew Rogers (rogers@rosencrantz.osf.org) wrote:
> In article <1993Jan1.074413.7594@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
> >I think the record for chopping a song is a tossup between the excised version
> >of Spinning Wheel and We Won't Get Fooled Again...
> 
> The single version of "Spinning Wheel" replaces the horn break with a terse,
> Steve Cropper-ish guitar solo which is *not* on the LP version, so I wouldn't
> call that a strict chop job.  But speaking of BS&T, the CD release of "Greatest
> Hits" uses the full-length versions of all the tracks, unlike the LP which
> used the single edits.  Whoever packaged the CD never bothered to change the
> timings on the J-card and booklet, though.
> 
> I think the record for chopping a song is Rare Earth's "Get Ready", edited
> from at least 20 minutes down to 2:48.  Unless you want to count "Rewind
> Medley", the B-side of Johnny Rivers' "Tracks Of My Tears", which edited
> the entire "Rewind" LP down to 3 minutes or so...
	Not bad, but check out the latest Orb album, "U.F.Orb." The chopped
down single version of "Blue Room" is only a little over 3 minutes, but the
full-length version is a mind-boggling 40. Truly impressive.
> 
> AWR
> old fart at play

--

"Where imagination is sucked out of children by a cathode ray nipple
 T.V. is the only wet nurse that would create a cripple
 On television, the drug of a nation
 Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation."
				-Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Amusing street names
Date: 5 Jan 93 11:26:45 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre

Mornington Crescent

  No Trespassing: 4/17ths of a haiku.     D.Budd@mcc.ac.uk   fax 6040
  Dave Budd, MCC, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England    (44|0)61-275-6033  
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From: wvhorn@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William VanHorne)
Subject: Re: Rush!Rush!Rush!
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 14:59:15 GMT

In article <28254@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>92636828s@csghsg5a.bitnet writes:
>  +> Any Rush fans around?????
>
>walsh@optilink.COM (Mark Walsh) writes:
>  +Yeah, and what ever happened to Styx?
>
>Yeah, and Journey, and REO Speedwagon, and Andy Gibb?

Stop picking on Rush.  They didn't invent pompous, repetitive, boring, whiny,
prepubescent, self-rightous rock, Sting did.  Rush just perfected it.

>Terry "Does anybody know the name of some BAD groups?" Chan

The Archies.

From the alt.fan.the_archies FAQ:

> "Sugar,Sugar" was the #1 song for all of 1969.
> The Archies was not a group.  One guy did all instruments and voices.
> Jughead's middle name is "Tiberius"
> Veronica's last name is "Hooker"

Bill "1969? hell that's before most of these AFU bozos were even born" VanHorne
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Subject: Re: Celestial Seasonings
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 03:32:53 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <C0EE26.2w6@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> jkshapir@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Kivi Shapiro) writes:
>What was the deal with Celestial Seasonings tea again?  Some weird
>religious sect?

I heard that Celesial Seasonings Tea was the result of a bar bet between 
Two science fiction writers to see who could come up with the most
convincing Herbal beverage.  I think it was between Douglas Adams and 
L.Ron.Hubbard.

Douglas Adams Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster <tm> was a very good try ( I 
have drunk one and it was indeed nice) good ole' L.ron's Red Zinger seems
to be more available these days.  Probably because it's not such a mouthful.

It could have been Larry Niven though as he thought up some pretty whacky 
drinks for the Draco tavern.

Derek "Would you like Lemon Zinger or a Pan galactic gargle blaster darling?" 
Tearne


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From: mrjg8679@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael R James)
Subject: Re: The Fame Game
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 19:43:58 GMT

kasprj@operators.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak) writes:

> I don't know anyone famous. 
> 
> Does anyone else not know any famous people?

I knew Steve Gorman, drummer of the Black Crowes
back in high school.

Sorry.

> ___/  | Jim Kasprzak, computer operator @ RPI, Troy, NY, USA

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                  made us more attractive?" -- Albert Brooks, Broadcast News
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From: pw@panix.com (Paul Wallich)
Subject: Re: Computer theft
Organization: Trivializers R Us
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:05:06 GMT

In <1993Jan8.040236.1871@Bang.UUCP> bam@Bang.UUCP (Bret A. Marquis) writes:

>Brian Leibowitz (bml@netcom.com) wrote:
>: I heard this story many years ago and was wondering if it really happened.
>: 
>: A programmer at a bank changed the interest calculations on accounts
>: to round down instead of rounding to the nearest penny.  All the fractions
>: of pennies were put in a dummy account and then withdrawn.  The bank did
>: not notice for a while because the amount of interest paid was still correct
>: and the books balanced.

>San Diego Trust & Savings Bank about 10 years ago.   The programmer
>transfered most of his profits electronically to Switzerland, bought
>diamonds in the Soviet Union, then for some unexplainable reason,
>returned to San Diego where he was arrested with the diamonds.

Absolutely not! A computer consultant (LA, not SD) used his knowledge
of bank passwords and procedures to just plain wire-transfer himself
$10.2M....
>One of the local departments stores was advertising the diamonds and
>using the notoriety of their origin in their ads.

>There was also a rumor that the bank profited handsomely from the sale
>of the diamonds but I have no details about that part.

>I believe that one of the Superman movies used this trick.


>Bret Marquis
>bam@trout.nosc.mil
From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: CD Legends
Date: 4 Jan 1993 22:53:18 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

johnson@ut-emx.uucp (Karen J. Morgan) writes:
  +
  +It was **Paul** who was dead.  Not only could you hear them say it when you
  +played the record backwards, but you knew it was true because he was the only
  +one barefoot on the album cover.

Paul who?

Terry "The guy in the Bee Gees?" Chan
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From: rhuss+@EDRC.CMU.EDU (Robert Huss)
Subject: Re: Cats bursting into flame (WAS: Re: Cars Bursting into Flame)
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:54:23 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.031758.1702@samba.oit.unc.edu>, Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall) writes:
|> In article <C0G17n.Mt6.1@cs.cmu.edu> rhuss+@EDRC.CMU.EDU (Robert Huss) writes:
|> >[cat inceneration plot deleted]
|> >Bob "I will not explode" Huss
|> 
|> Did you pick up all this combustion info from great-great-grandpa Jan?
|> 
|> Bruce "smoking more and enjoying it less" Tindall
|> 

I don't have a great-great-grandpa Jan.  Can I borrow yours?

Bob "gonna find out my g-g-granparent's names tonight" Huss

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From: ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman)
Subject: Re: google??
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:56:43 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.172213.2886@hemlock.cray.com>  
davew@willow03.cray.com (Dave Wagner) writes:
> 
> I remember hearing once that a 'google' is 10^100 or something like  
that.  Is
> this for real?  If so, says who?  If not, has anyone else heard this?   
Does
> it have any mathematical use?

It's spelled "googol", and it is indeed 10^100. The number was invented  
and named by the young daughter of a mathematician who was writing a book  
to explain mathematics to the public. If I remember correctly, it was  
"Mathematics for the Million" by Kasner and Newman, and it was Kasner's  
daughter who named the number. Kasner then invented the "googolplex",  
whose value is 10^googol. There is no particular mathematical use for  
these numbers.

--
Dave Seaman
ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu
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From: styri@balder.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
Subject: Re: Trademarkability of personal names (Was: Re: Babe Ruth Candy Bar)
Organization: Norwegian Telecom Research
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 23:32:30 GMT

pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers) writes:
: In article <1993Jan8.213043.7416@photon.com> jbn@photon.com (Joe Naiman) writes:
: Does this make any sense?  I'm pretty sure that people's names are not
: trademarks.  I could make a Richard Nixon candy bar, and I doubt I would
: have to pay royalties to any of the Richard Nixons in the US or anywhere
: else.

But would a candy bar named Richard Nixon be competitive in the US
market?

: This, of course, leads to the funny legal positions of, e.g., somebody
: named "Joe MacDonald" opening a restaurant named ...

There were MacDonald hamburger restaurants in Scotland long before
Burger King entered the competition. However, your fellow Joe would
be in big trouble if he started to write his family name with that
funny 'M' associated with the burgers.

---
YuNoHoo "McD serves the only decent root beer in the UK"
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From: wvhorn@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William VanHorne)
Subject: Re: Architecture (Was: Architect Suicides)
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:49:40 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.081423.10247@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> zarthac@bradley.edu (Matthew Simmons) writes:
>J Lee Jaap (jaapjl@tab00.larc.nasa.gov) wrote:
>: In article <1993Jan7.195204.14496@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins) writes:
>:    who was kresge?
>: Creator of K-mart?  (Perhaps a different Kresge.)
>: --
>
>Well, I remember that once in B'ham MI (many many moons ago) there was
>a drugstore called Kresge's....
>

Sigh.  Children, children, "Kresge's" stores were around for years.  They were
smallish, five-and-dime type stores (like Woolworth's, their main competitor).
When their business went to hell in the 1960s, mostly due to "five-and-dime"
merchandise costing "$20-and-$30", they shifted into the mega-discount-store
market, closed the "Kresge's" and opened "K-mart"s.

Since you asked, yes, I am a veritable font of trivia.

---Bill "I know about Norwegian Elkhounds too!" VanHorne
From: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Late breaking potential UL!
Date: 6 Jan 93 01:36:31 GMT
Reply-To: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation

In article <1993Jan5.152514.20500@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, 
PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
> "No, Bill Clinton is not the AntiChrist" said Time spokesman
> Robert Pondiscio.  Readers have deluged his office office with
> calls and faxes.

And postcards, we hope.

Terry Carroll - tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com - 408/992-2152
The opinions presented above are not necessarily those of a sound mind.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: Something in the FAQ list...
Organization: The Ohio State University
 <1993Jan6.191619.21017@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 01:37:29 GMT

flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
>>>t to the proper Mhz, or some strobe lights (like one I saw in radio
>>>shack a while ago) can be adjusted with a knob to do this.  If
>
>>MHz is a peculiar choice of unit in this case.  MHz is broadcast
>>band frequency.  These lights are visible, somewhere around 4 to
>>7 x 10^14 Hz.
>
>Not the frequency of the light, the frequency of flashing.  I expect that the
>flashing rate of a fire engine's siren is somewhere around one millionth MHz.

I know it's not nettiquette to pick on non-native English
speakers (Canadiens speak Eskimo don't you?), but, sirens are
things that make big noise, at a few thousand hertz. And,
besides, I think the flashing of the lights probably isn't a
million a sec, or it would look like continuous light.  For
instance, a TV, in USA, refreshes 1/2 the screen 59.94 times per
sec., and the flicker isn't noticeable, at least to me.

ObUL: Eskimo has 43 words   (nah...)

Jon "Runs when sirens are heard" Papai
From: fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Celestial Seasonings
Date: 6 Jan 93 17:31:19 GMT
Organization: Right Bleedin' Church of Libertine Obfuscatology

In <1993Jan6.012055.15914@pony.Ingres.COM> bobm@Ingres.COM (Bob McQueer) writes:

>> What was the deal with Celestial Seasonings tea again?  Some weird
>> religious sect?

>What I want to know is what they have against putting strings on their
>teabags ...

>Tired of steeping my fingers as well as my Red Zinger.

Ever hear of a spoon?


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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: "Back in the African-American"
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 23:44:45 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.154741.3068@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> ashall@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Andrew S Hall) writes:
>       I don't know about an entire book, but the use of African-American
>instead of black in innappropriate circumstances is not a UL.
>I saw a newspaper retraction that apologized for saying that the city's
>finances were now in the African-American.

Mm-hm.  And so have people in Toronto, Amherst, and San Jose.  Guess it's
a common mistake.  Funny how the use only happens wrt a city's finances,
and never a business's finances, or the color of the uniform of the LA
Raiders, or the former Supreme Court Justice, or in reference to astronomy.

Ted "increasingly skeptical and waiting for documentation" Frank
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From: arielle@NeoSoft.com (Stephanie da Silva)
Subject: Re: Cars Bursting into Flame
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 07:34:28 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.020706.7350@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
> In article <C0B39q.GC@cs.psu.edu> antunes@astro.psu.edu (Sandy Antunes) writes:
> >I guarantee that cars can burst into flame, and not just on TV.
> >Mine did (VW Bug) while I was driving it through Pennsylvania...
> 
> I think that's why the AAA recommended that drivers avoid
> Pennsylvania.

I'll second that.
A long time ago, when I was just a lass, our brand new car broke down
on the Pennsylvania Turnpike (fuel pump failed).


Stephanie "I got a flat tire on the highway of life" da Silva
From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Pets Bursting into Flame
Date: 6 Jan 1993 07:11:13 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

popec@unkaphaed.gbdata.com (William C. Barwell) writes:
  +
  +Spontaneous Car Combustion?
  +
  +You have heard of Spontaneous Human combustion. But why are there no 
  +reports of spontaneous pet combustion.  You know.  You come home, the cat 
  +is missing and there is a big scorch mark in the middle of the sofa.
  +just asking.

That's because cats don't smoke cigarettes.  They chew tobacco.


Terry "Pet lover" Chan
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From: cel@nsscmail.att.com (clayton EDward LEIHY iii)
Subject: Re: Etymological matters (was Re: African-American-top)
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: NCR Systems Support Center - New Jersey
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:34:57 GMT

Actually, the "was" part of the subject line reminded me of something
I have been wondering about:

If I can trace at least once of my ancestor as being Egyptian,
can I call myself an Afro-American??  (for the geography-impaired,
Egypt is in the north(eastern) part of the African continent.
From: linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Peter van der Linden)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: JHB sighting
Date: 11 Jan 1993 23:24:44 GMT
Organization: Sun
NNTP-Posting-Host: positive

I have long suspected that Prof Brunvand reads AFU,
but scrupulously avoids posting just in case someone should
one day post some folklore.

Prof Brunvand wants to avoid contaminating his source, by
inadvertently leading the discussion.   I say he doesn't have
to worry -- there'll never be any interesting folklore posted
here.   Never has, never will.

Prof Brunvand's son is also a professor at Utah, and he reads
AFU, even posts (rarely -- last seen 14 months ago).  Lurkers!

P "it's all bullshit, and I can prove it" vdL
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Subject: Re: Flammable Cars (Was: Re: Mother Lifts Car Off Chi
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 23:47:33 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <1993Jan5.140838.19026@husc3.harvard.edu> joltes@husc10.harvard.edu (Richard Joltes) writes:
[The bit about Richard staggaring across the road in night attire to help
 Lady confusined by flashing lights deleted]
>She said the "hazard warning indicator" was flashing.  I staggered
>across the street, reached into the car, and shut off the "hazard flashers"
>(U.S. cars have a button that causes all parking lights to flash--used in
>case of accidents and disabled vehicles)[...]

I think you have got the usage wrong there Richard.  Everyone knows that 
they are Park Anywhere Lights <TM>.  How often have you seen anyone 
using these lights to indicate an accident or other road hazard - once, 
maybe twice.  How often have you seen them used to indicate that the owner
has just popped into the shop for a newspaper or a can of fizzy beverage.

No wonder she was confused.  I propose that we officially label these 
lights PAL's from now on to avoid confusion.

Some police cars have even better versions of these in several colours -
usually involving blue, red or both alternatively.  These are known as
Break Any Law With Impunity Lights <TM> or BALWIL's. 

ObUL: Cars only burst into flames in accidents where road flares are 
      involved.

Derek "Be prepared - always carry a fire extinguisher and a condom" Tearne


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