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From: nweaver@soda.berkeley.edu (Nicholas C. Weaver)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: UL: Monumental LSD overdose taken (was: Re: Brands of LSD)
Date: 17 Dec 1992 02:58:25 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu

In article <livpr0INN6eg@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM writes:
>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.

	No, what is really important is the partial pressure of the gas.  At
>1 atm partial pressure, Oxygen can be harmful or fatal.  It is (I believe)
.2 atm partial pressure O2 on the earth's surface.  Nitrogen, on the other
hand, at about 3 or 4 atm partial pressure, acts as a narcotic.  Both of
these are serious problems for deep sea diving.  Other problems include the
phenomenon that the gas can enter the bloodstream at high pressures, and
when you go to a lower pressure, your blood is supersaturated (usually with
Nitrogen), and it may form bubbles, causing the bends, when you move to a
lower pressure environment.
-- 
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.drugs,alt.drugs.usenet
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: UL: Monumental LSD overdose taken (was: Re: Brands of LSD)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 00:51:10 GMT

bchurch@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Robert Church) writes:
: 
: And then again, every once in a while you meet someone who's such an asshole
: that you have to hate him :-).

Depends on your mind-set, I suppose. I usually just despise such people.
For some people - hate is an unexperienced emotion.

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re:    Elevator DEATH!
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 06:54:33 GMT

<MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes in

>Can anybody out there either substantiate this or disprove it please.
>
>     Someone who lives in my apartment building told me of a particularly
>disturbing death in the recent flooding here in New York/Jersey. She told
>me that she heard of a woman who died in an elevator when it became stuck
>in the basement when the power went off due to the heavy winds. While this
>woman was waiting in the darkened elevator which was stuck in the basement,
>the flood waters filled the elevator shaft, drowning her in the process.
>    Whew, Scary way to go, eh.

Sounds like bullshit to me.   The only elevator ULs I've heard
involve 1) Eddy Murphy, women, and dogs and 2) huge numbers of
youngsters who die every year 'elevator surfing' in the projects.

BTW, are they called elevators or lifts in NZ and/or Australia?

Jon "ON THE FLOOR, LADY." Papai
From: jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Sidney Carltoon (was: The pure truth on the Coriolis Farce (sic).
Keywords: Subliminally, hell! I am a doofus.
Date: 12 Dec 92 01:21:42 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc., San Jose, CA

>>Which cartoonist should be killed?  Copy into your .sig and vote!  Creators of:
>>  Peanuts [ ]     Dennis the Menace [ ]    Garfield [ ]     Family Circus [ ]
>>  Blondie [ ]     Rex Morgan M.D. [ ]      Cathy [ ]    All the foregoing [X]  

It's a little late to kill Chic Young, the creator of Blondie.
He died back in the '70's.  The strip is put together by his
son, now.  Posthumous murder, interesting concept...

"I'm not dead yet!"


--
  Jilara   [jane@swdc.stratus.com]

"The field of pseudo-science hasn't progressed much in ten
years, except to gain access to the net." --from ca.earthquakes
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.drugs
From: leecr@microsoft.com (Lee Crocker)
Subject: Re: Usenetters are all dope fiends?
Date: 14 Dec 92 22:26:55 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <If_xP4i00iUz43g88S@andrew.cmu.edu> "Stephen M. Lacy" <sl31+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>
>I just want to say that the apparent knowledge of drugs on the network
>and the volume of people that have significant knowledge makes me
>utterly sick.  Is there something about computers that forces you all to
>take drugs, or do you just hang out with people who and that's how you
>get your knowledge.... anyways, you'll tell me that YOU don't really DO
>them, but I won't believe you.

I'll take a distasteful truth over a comfortable lie any day.

I imagine most Usenetters are more likely to be the type of person
who gets information from Medical and Chemistry books instead of from
TV and political hysteria.  You may not personally believe that I
have not used any drugs other than caffeine and alcohol (not even
tobacco), and I don't really care whether you do or not, because I,
also like most Usenetters I know, don't seek approval from strangers.

Usenet, and this group in particular, is dedicated to facts, not
popular hysteria.  The truth about drugs is bad enough--lying about
them to make them sound worse only exacerbates the problem, and the
war-like mentality of the government only creates more problems
like crime and cheaper, more dangerous drugs.  I am very vocal about
drugs because I wan the War On Rights to end.  I don't want to live
in fear of my house being broken into by someone needing money for
his next fix because Prohibition drove the prices up.  I don't want
to be shot for accidentally stumbling on someone selling coke in a
bar because he thinks I might run to the cops.  I don't want to see
friends (or even strangers) die from using cheap and deadly crack
because they can't get safe, reasonably priced cocaine.

No one argues that drugs are bad.  We argue that prohibition is worse,
and that the media is lying to us about both.  Take all this nonsense
about Khat that Brokaw and others are spewing.  It's basically like
African chewing tobacco (only not as addictive as tobacco), and they're
making it sound like Khat-crazed commandos are gunning people down in
the streets.  It's a lie, plain and simple, and lies deserve to be
debunked, no matter how "distasteful" the truth is.
-- 
Lee Daniel Crocker    | Free minds; free bodies; free trade.
leecr@microsoft.com   | Libertarian Party  1-800-682-1776
From: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Scearce)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: absentee ballots
Date: 17 Dec 92 02:24:58 GMT
Reply-To: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems
NNTP-Posting-Host: sector7g

In article 1gl2ovINNbbo@agate.berkeley.edu, friedman@ocf.berkeley.edu (Eric J. Friedman) writes:
> I've often heard people say that absentee ballots (specifically for the
> last election) are only counted if the vote is close enough.

Isn't this a sort of "tree falling in the woods" question?  Like, what
difference does it make?  If counting your vote makes no difference in
the result, then it makes no difference in the result if they don't
count your vote.

Brian "That's logic" Scearce
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From: "tom betz" <tom.betz@execnet.com>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: "in bed" - the origin of.
Date: 19 Dec 92 11:18:07 EST
Reply-To: "tom betz" <tom.betz@execnet.com>
Distribution: alt
Organization: Executive Networks Information

Quoth Eric Kimminau regarding "IN BED" - THE ORIGIN OF. on 12-18-92:

EK>In article <1992Dec11.075404.2356#adobe.com>, cjackson@adobe.com (Curt
EK>|> In article <1g7jacINN15l@pms706.pms.ford.com> ekimmina@pms001.pms.f
EK>|> }Can anyone else think of where they heard this first
EK>|> } used? Im trying to find out for sure if I am the true
EK>|> } originator "in bed"...
EK>|>
EK>|> You *must* be joking. I heard that one at least 20 years ago,
EK>|> although we always used "between the sheets" instead -- slight
EK>|> variant.
EK>|> --
EK>
EK>What part of the country are you from and can you remember where you f

In Queens, NY, "between the sheets" has >long< been appended to 
fortune-cookie fortunes.

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From: harris.minter@ehbbs.gwinnett.com (Harris Minter) 
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Date: 14 Dec 92 05:53:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Ed Hopper's BBS - Berkeley Lake, GA - 404-446-9462
Reply-To: harris.minter@ehbbs.gwinnett.com (Harris Minter) 

>BTW, is it true that the number of stars in the "P" on Playboy magazine
>covers represented the number of times HEF sacked the centerfold?  I heard
>this a long, long time ago in my teen years.

Naw, it represented which region of the US the magazine was printed
for.  Some advertising was regional.  Somewhere in my collection of
Playboys is two different copies of the same issue, but with different
numbers of stars.
                                                                                           
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Another University Exam One
From: system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 17:01:49 NZST
Organization: The Code Works Limited, PO Box 10 155, Auckland, New Zealand

csa09@seq1.keele.ac.uk (Paul Singleton) writes:

> A variation (from a dictated school test):
> 
> 	"Can you prove vee equals eff lambda?"
> 
> Correct answers: "yes" or "no" (both got full marks, since we were assumed
> to be honest).  Attempted proofs got zilch.

Ha! None of my teachers ever wore my attempts at fully following the
instructions "You should have enough common sense to KNOW what we meant" 
they all say.

Social studies was the worst:

"In your opinion, what was the cause of the Second World War?"

"Why do you think Adolph Hitler wore a moustache?"

etc.

My attempts to put out that ANY honest answer to these questions would be
correct was greeted unfavourably. I was told "What it says is `What do you
think is the examiner's opinion of the cause of the Second World War '".

Why couldn't it say that? It'd be much more honest.

Mind you, perhaps it stood me in good stead at university. I found that
making a conscious effort of thinking DOWN to the level of the examiners
(eg in economics especially) increased my grades from a C to an A.



-- 
  Wayne McDougall, BCNU
  This .sig unintentionally left blank.

Hello! I'm a .SIG Virus. Copy me and spread the fun.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Poisoned Cocaine Legend?
From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 19:05:36 GMT
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)

In article <1992Dec16.020521.9290@Princeton.EDU> datepper@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Aaron Tepper) writes:
>Actually, the way I heard it, my mother would always warn me
>against street dealers who sell drugs--"They put _rat_poison_
>in those things!"
>
>Turns out strychnine is used as rat poison--a fatal dose makes
>the victim extremely sensitive. The sound of a door slamming,
>for example, will cause repeated convulsions that can be fatal.
>In small doses, though, I believe strychnine is used
>to enhance the effect of cocaine.
>
>Elaborations and corrections and... oh heck, flames too... welcome.


There are three substances which are most often used to cut cocaine.

1. Dextrose
2. Procaine - normally used for baby teething problems
3. Manitol - a laxative normally given to babies

At one time, methedrine may have been used as a cocaine cut, but now it is
more expensive than cocaine.  There is little reason to cut cocaine anymore
as there is an oversupply.

-- 

Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	unixland!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP
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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.computers,alt.config,news.groups
Subject: Re: Mark Brader Posts!  (Was: Re: Amusing Signs)
Date: 19 Dec 92 00:58:26 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam

In article <BzG610.D1L@polaris.async.vt.edu> jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel K. Furr) writes:
 >I found that post in alt.folklore.urban and said "My, I thought Brader started
 >the whole 'hijack a.f.c.' thing because he couldn't get alt. groups at all,
 >yet here he is.'  I then crossposted it to a.f.c, news.groups, and alt.config
 >and neglected to point this out.  I guess I jumped to the conclusion that
 >people would follow my train of thought.  Anyway, Brader apparently has little
 >trouble posting to alt., so any sympathy I had for him (not much) has now gone
 >to nil.

Apparently people are not reading the articles in the group they love so much.
Mark Brader never has stated that he could not read alt groups.  And if your
memory is long enough you would remember that he on occasion does post to
alt groups.  It was Jay Maynard who complained about the inability to read
alt groups.  These two people are not identical.
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.drugs
From: mookie@admiral.uucp (Michael Wynne)
Subject: Re: UL: Monumental LSD overdose taken (was: Re: Brands of LSD)
Reply-To: mookie@admiral.uucp (Michael Wynne)
Organization: The Grid/Waffle BBS, 203-661-2873, -1279, -0450, -2967
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 03:40:45 GMT

"Stephen M. Lacy" <sl31+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
> I just want to say that the apparent knowledge of drugs on the network
> and the volume of people that have significant knowledge makes me
> utterly sick.  Is there something about computers that forces you all to
 
Now what is so 'utterly sick' about sharing our collective knowledge?
I really don't want to incite a full-scale flame war (even though its
imminent) but I don't understand your disgust..
 
One other thing, how do computers enter into this? Is using a powerful 
tool of communication morally wrong, or do you just percieve us as 
hunched over computer dweebs?
 
> take drugs, or do you just hang out with people who and that's how you
> get your knowledge.... anyways, you'll tell me that YOU don't really DO
> them, but I won't believe you.
> 
> This whole discussion of LSD has gone too far and is upsetting me more
> with every post.
> 
> Steve
> 
 You certainly are entitled to your opinions, likewise we are entitled to 
discuss hemp legalization or fears about LSD..
> 
> "I can't understand what makes a man hate another man, help me
> understand." -Depeche Mode
> 
Depche Mode? I think I understand now..
-mook

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From: phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Conductivity of water
Date: 16 Dec 92 18:00:30 GMT
Organization: Famed Parquet Floor

In article <10DEC199221565567@csa3.lbl.gov> jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera) writes:
>
>What I want to know is the rationale behind the big, big voltages
>somebody mentioned earlier in this thread -- something like 13 kV
>to run an electric train.  Plainly there are motors beyond my
>experience; I was thinking more along the lines of "medium hundreds
>of volts, many amps" on motor and third rail/trolley, with perhaps
>higher voltages on the transmission line.
>
Your thoughts are about right: traction motors usually run on 600-1000
volts DC.  For example, Boston uses 600V for subways and trollies, San
Jose uses 750V, and BART 1KV.  One poster mentioned 1500V on a third rail:
this is quite credible.

As another poster mentioned, it's inefficient to push DC long distances,
so long-distance electric railways use tens of KV of AC _on the catenary
wire_.  This is transformed and rectified down to DC within the locomotive.
In fact, the electric locomotives serving New York use high-voltage AC
outside the city, but lower their pantographs and drop third-rail shoes
to run on DC in the tunnels where there is no clearance for the high-voltage
overhead.

13KV on a third rail would be a good way to produce dramatic corona effects
during rainstorms, but not much else: take a look at the insulators on
high-voltage lines, and imagine how high a third rail would have to be
to maintain the same clearance.  Also bear in mind that traction motors
are mounted directly on the trucks.  You don't want 13KV down there.
[To forestall corrections, the actual voltage used is around 25KV.  I
use 13KV as a quote from the original posting.]

Now, this technology has been around since at least the 1930's, when it
culminated in the magnificent GG-1 locomotive.  This is long before
silicon rectifiers were invented.  Selenium rectifiers were around,
but are highly inefficient.  I would hazard a guess that they used
bunches of mercury-vapor tubes.  Anyone doubting their current capacity
need only observe the Bevatron at LBL.  They power the thing by spinning
a humongous flywheel up on line power, and suddenly dumping all that
energy into the accelerator with a flash of blue light and a monstrous
moan.

Phil "And those diodes are well enough arranged already, thanks" Gustafson
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From: twcaps@dante.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: RESULT: comp.society.folklore unmoderation fails 729: 151
Date: 16 Dec 1992 05:48:06 GMT
Organization: The Make-a-Wish Foundation
Reply-To: Marsden Hospital
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.13.76

There is a young English lad who is 7 years old and
terminally ill with cancer.  He has a wish to be
included in the Guiness Book of World Records.
His goal is to participate in the largest number of 
USENET CFVs ever.  Please help him by informing him
of as many CFVs as you can at:

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: moroney@world.std.com (Michael Moroney)
Subject: Re: Why the sky is blue (was: Daytime Stars) 
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 04:40:07 GMT

mccoy@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Don McCoy) writes:

>Alright, that's enough.  First of all, Dave was joking (right?).  Hey,
>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
>of the blue ones by the time the sunlight reaches the earth's surface.
>(Of course this is true for all different colors of light, it's just
>that red and blue more or less define the two extremes in visible light).
>I hope this clears this up.  Hmmm... wonder why the ocean is blue?

This is exactly backwards.  Blue light is scattered _more_ than red, not
less.

What happens is, some light from the sun gets scattered by the atmosphere.
Since all the atmosphere scatters this light and it gets scattered in random
directions, the whole daytime sky appears to be giving off light.  Since more
blue light is scattered the color of this light is blue.  Conversely, when
looking at the sun (don't!), it appears yellow because much of the blue
light is scattered away, leaving the reds, yellows and some greens.  (In
space the sun is almost white, slightly yellow but nowhere near as yellow
as we see it)  At sunrise/sunset, the sunlight has to pass through even more
atmosphere, scattering more of the blue, green and even yellow so it appears
red.

-Mike
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: matthews@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Matt Sullivan)
Subject: Re: Amusing signs
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 23:06:26 GMT

In article <n0h2+cf@rpi.edu> kasprj@rpi.edu writes:
>In article <1992Dec13.141319.7511@midway.uchicago.edu>, 
pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers) writes:

>|> 
>|> Yes, this is funny ('least I have always felt so), but Rush Limbaugh
>|> claims that in Lowell, CT, they (the town council) have actually taken
>|> it upon themselves to remove these signs because they are potentially
>|> offensive (read, "not PC").  This story sounds pretty ULish to me.
> 
> Sounds even more ULish to me; I grew up in Connecticut, and there is 
>no town of Lowell in that state.

True. Only 10 States have a Lowell in them. None are CT. Mass does,
however, have a Lowell. Anybody from U.Mass Lowell on here? Care to
verify/deny these signs?


                  Matt Sullivan  Northeastern University
                    MatthewS@Lynx.Crc.Northeastern.Edu       
 
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: richg@hatch.socal.com (Rich Greenberg)
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Organization: Hatch Usenet and E-mail.  Playa del Rey, CA
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 05:03:32 GMT

>In <92344.084523PBONG@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> <PBONG@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> writes:
>
>Apparently, and remember this comes from a landlubber who heard it when
>he was half his current age, the Port side is *called* port because
>that's the side of the ship that was up against the dock when the ship
>is *in* port.  So I'm told . . .

Your getting close, so I might as well cost the net hundreds if not
thousands of dollars and post the version which I have heard.....

In the old, old days of sailing (circa the Vikings), the rudder had not
yet been invented.  Ships were steered by a "steering board" which was
(at first) just a wide plank put over the side near the stern.  By
convention, the plank was put on the right side, which became known as
the "steering board side".  Because bringing the right side to a dock
would damage the steering board, it became conventional to bring the
left side to the dock, and put the gangplank or "landing board" to
the dock.  In this manner the left side became the "landing board side"
which was shortend to "labboard", then "port side" and then to "port".
The "steering board side" was shortend to "starboard".

True?  I dunno.  This IS a.f.u.  But it makes a good story.  :-))
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From: pdsmith@bbn.com (Peter D. Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: 'Springfield' is NOT a city in all states!
Date: 15 Dec 1992 23:24:59 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com


How many of you have heard the rumor that there's a "Springfield" in
all the states of America?

NOT TRUE!  In fact there are *no* towns that are found in all states!
This is easy to determine; just get an atlas and start comparing ...
(I recommend comparing 'Nevada' and 'Alaska' first; they have hardly
any towns to begin with).


				Peter D. Smith
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban