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From: sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart)
Subject: art criticism
Organization: Terry (hon.)
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 22:11:48 GMT

I'm not sure this belongs here, but it probably doesn't belong
anywhere else, either, and it's the right sort of thing for this
newsgroup.  Besides, it's a lot more interesting than the next 50
call-letter deprived radio/tv stations.

I know who I heard it from, but I didn't get a reference.

"The only thing the art critics could agree on about Van Gogh was his
use of orange.  Then it turned out he used cheap paint, it was yellow
and it rusted."

Seth "color-blind" Breidbart		sethb@fid.morgan.com
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Falling bullets on Marilyn's Parade
Organization: Hewlett-Parkard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 19:53:26 GMT

: |> Pick A and be shown C - switch and get a car.
: |> Pick C and be shown A - switch and get a car.
: |> Pick B and be shown C - switch and get a goat.
: |> Pick B and be shown A - switch and get a goat.
: |> 
: |> Work it out for yourself.
: |> 
: |> Bill
: 
: Congrats.  you just proved that it ISN'T worth switching.  Look at the 4
: possibilities that arise.  2 favor switching and 2 don't.  Why should you switch
: if it doesn't increase your chances of winning?  (I hope that is what you were
: trying to show.)
: 
: Bill Euerle

I was not trying to show anything. I am leaving that to others.

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.science
Subject: Re: Cable TV cheater spotters (was Re: FCC Call letters)
Date: 8 Apr 92 02:16:43 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Parkard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA

s082@brems.ii.uib.no (Ketil Malde) writes:
: In article <22499@dog.ee.lbl.gov>, jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (JOSEPH T CHEW) writes:
:    [..]
:  ; There would probably be all kinds of interesting illegal-search
:  ; questions that could be raised if someone wanted to get prickly
:  ; about active investigation by a cable company.  They probably count 
:  ; more on technological ignorance, combined with people's fear of
:  ; embarrassment at being exposed as a penny-ante thief.  However,
:  ; even in a TV-addicted society where it can probably be assumed
:  ; that most people watch cable whether they pay for it or not, the 
:  ; burden of proof is still on the accuser.  Or so I hope.
: 
: I've noticed that people say it is relatively simple to tap the
: radiation off someones computer screen, and see what they're seeing
: on your TV across the street.  Couldn't the same be done within a van?

People may say it, but it isn't true.

: And while we're at it, I always had this dream of jamming the police
: 'radars' to show, say 300km/h while you're driving along at 30 :-)
: Could this be done?

Yes.

: (I assume the radars work by emmitting sound, and measuring the frequency
: it is returned with, so you'd probably need a source of high volume, high
: frequency sound...would this work?)

No, they emit a microwave signal. Forget sound, all it would get you is a
ticket for excessive noise.

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: whos@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Ben Feen)
Subject: Re: Non-Alcoholic Drinks Folklore
Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Chicago, IL
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 12:56:29 GMT

In article <1992Apr13.004723.10334@fivegl.co.nz> derek@fivegl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:
>In article <1992Apr9.064956.22223@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> amorgan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Crunchy Frog) writes:
>>In article <1992Apr8.130510.12238@cs.bham.ac.uk> 
>>  idf@mr-macgregor.cs.bham.ac.uk (Ian Fitchet) writes:
>>
>If you squeeze the bottle until there is no air left and screw the top
>on the CO2 will have nowhere to go and will therefore remain in 
>solution. With a little air left in there will be a smaller volume of 
>air for the CO2 to come out of solution into enter so a greater percentage
>of CO2 will remain in the drink. Maybe the friend has a point after all.

When dealing with chemicals in a darkroom, the general method is to squeeze the
bottle and cap it to allow the least amount of oxygen to stay in the bottle,
and limits the amount of oxidation your chemicals undergo in storage.  Thus,
they stay 'fresher'.  However:  for carbonated drinks, I've seen (and used)
small pumps with a bottle cap on the end.  You seal the cap onto the 2-liter,
and then pump it up.  The pressurization keeps the CO2 in solution.  However:
if you squeeze the bottle and seal it, you have 16 pounds of atmospheric press-
ure pushing all around, and much less inside.  There is no 'suction';  Suction
is caused by a difference in high and low, and if the bottle is sealed, it 
doesn't exist.  Therefore, the CO2 isn't 'pulled' out of solution.

However;  keep in mind that I've only had one year of Chem lab, and all my 
knowledge on the subject is in experience, so I may easily be misinterpreting.
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From: weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Falling bullets on Marilyn's Parade
Date: 8 Apr 92 18:41:25 GMT
Reply-To: weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
Organization: The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology
In-reply-to: wjeuerle@athena.mit.edu (William J Euerle)

In article <1992Apr8.142915.9975@athena.mit.edu>, wjeuerle@athena (William J Euerle) writes:
>|> Pick A and be shown C - switch and get a car.
>|> Pick C and be shown A - switch and get a car.
>|> Pick B and be shown C - switch and get a goat.
>|> Pick B and be shown A - switch and get a goat.

>Congrats.  you just proved that it ISN'T worth switching.  Look at
>the 4 possibilities that arise.  2 favor switching and 2 don't.  Why
>should you switch if it doesn't increase your chances of winning?  (I
>hope that is what you were trying to show.)

There is a famous fallacy that all cases are equiprobable.  You have
fallen for it.  Picking A,B,C are equiprobable and cover all the cases,
so each has a 1/3 probability.  Subdividing B can't change this.  Do
you really believe that contestants have a 50% chance of guessing B
out of A,B,C?  You could make a fortune with that talent.
-- 
-Matthew P Wiener (weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: vince@cadence.com (Vince Gibboni)
Subject: Re: Just another fish story?
Organization: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 19:07:43 GMT

larry@abby.chem.ucla.edu writes:
> I browsed through the FAQ list that was posted recently to confirm that 
> the legend about cat food being labeled as tuna was marked false.  I also
> just finished watching Johnny Carson who had David Horowitz on
> as a guest.  David handed Johnny a can of something labeled tuna
> and asked him to lift the lid and smell it.  Johnny was repelled by
> the smell as it was revealed that the can contained cat food.  
> Horowitz said that this can was taken from a batch that was on the
> shelves long enough to be sold to quite a few people.  The kicker was
> that some of the people who purchased this mislabeled cat food came
> back and wanted more of this new, different tasting tuna.
>

    Recently a tuna fish company (with some really obscure name like World 
    Tuna or something) got in trouble with the FDA for (accidentally) selling 
    catfood as tuna; I heard this from several sources (including, I think,
    CNN), and there were names and dates, so it seemed believable. There is,
    however, an important detail which only one source mentioned: tuna 
    which is more than a certain number of days old may be sold as catfood
    but not as tuna. So they weren't _really_ selling catfood as tuna they
    were selling old tuna (which can be sold as catfood) as tuna.
    

--
                                                        vince@gda.cadence.com
    And in the battle on the streets 
    You fight computers and receipts
        - Pete Townshend
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson)
Subject: Re: Fluorescent Pens
Organization: Famed Parquet Floor
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 23:23:04 GMT

flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:

>...As well, I have held in
>my very own hand an old device for cleaning records whose label advertised (as
>if it was a good thing) that there were radioactive materials inside.  However,
>>this could have been a lie.

Probably not.  Alpha particles are useful for kicking static electricity
away, which is what you want to do when you clean records.  An OCR/paper
shuffling machine (the ADES-1, if you need to know.  Bet they don't use that
name any more.) I once worked on had an alpha source to help prevent the
forms from jamming.

The gadget had lots of scary warnings, but to do yourself much harm you'd
have to eat the thing.

[AFU ]|[ progress report:  Terry Chan has reserved the tastefully-lit 
Cerenkov Room at LBL for our Shergold-day bash.  Or we just might find
another bar.]

Phil

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Falling Bullets
Organization: Hewlett-Parkard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 00:00:17 GMT

glp7584@tamuts.tamu.edu (Gordon Lee Powell Jr) writes:
: 
: Reading this paragraph would indicate that you believe that the speed of 
: sound is somehow related to the density of the air.  It is not.
: The speed of sound in air is only dependant on the temperature of the 
: air.  If you wanted to get technical, though, you could also take into
: account that the force of gravity is less at high altitude.

That explains why, when the speed of sound is listed, it usually is 
followed by the phrase "at sea level". Right?

: Density is what concerns us here.  Nothing more, and nothing less.

As far as terminal velocities go, yes and no. It is much easier to move
air subsonically.

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: sss@netcom.com (Small Systems Solutions)
Subject: Re: Business cards
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 92 21:27:27 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

In article <1992Apr04.074531.33802@watson.ibm.com> 
	 margoli@watson.IBM.com writes:
>
>First of all, it was postcards, not business cards; second of all, Craig has
>been dead for years.  This keeps popping up, though.  See alt.folklore.urban
>(which is where I've redirected followups to).

Apparently *you're* just as determined to spread unsubstantiated rumor
as the idiot who posted the request for business cards.  Craig is alive
and well and has been in remission for years.

-- 
Small Systems Solutions                   1563 Solano Avenue, Suite 123
sss@netcom.com                                  Berkeley, CA 94707-2116

The above-expressed opinions aren't necessarily
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Robert Williams Dobson)
Subject: Microwaved Poodles
Organization: University of Virginia
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 20:44:10 GMT

So, maybe I am asking a FAQ, in which case I apologize, but this is one
of my favorite urban legends. The story goes that some misguided old lady
wants to dry her poodle after bathing it. So she pops it in the microwave.
The poor dog explodes, and the woman has a heart attack.
So, is this legend still circulating, or was it a product of consumer
unease about microwaves in the late 70s (when I heard this legend)? Any
other interesting variations on this?
Kids, dont try this one at home

Rob
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: North is UP was Re: AM/PM boundaries
From: hugh@fivegl.co.nz (Hugh Grierson)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 01:05:05 GMT
Reply-To: hugh@fivegl.co.nz (Hugh Grierson)
 <1992Mar30.034933.17042@fivegl.co.nz> <16468@ulysses.att.com> <1992Apr7.201302.10456@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Organization: Task Management Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand

In article <1992Apr7.201302.10456@hubcap.clemson.edu> hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu (System Janitor) writes:
>smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin) writes:
>
> * You can get maps with *South* up in New Zealand. Makes sense really!
>Yep. A few years ago, when a freind of mine was going back home to China for
>a visit, she asked me if there was anything from China I wanted. I asked
>her to bring me a world map. Of course, it had China in the center, instead
>of the US like all my maps.

Apart from the South-up maps, which are sold more as a gimmick here,
there are two mainstream versions of the standard Mercator (sp?) 
projection world maps.  Those which split the world in two down the
Pacific ocean, and those which split the Atlantic.  Of course the former
are more common in the US and Europe, while the latter are popular in
NZ and, I suppose, Australia & Asia.

The main disadvantage to the Atlantic-centered maps, particularly the
stylised versions you find on airport walls and such, is that NZ is
often missing completely.   Not that y'all would care...

>It was great, until my cat peed on it during a
>move :-(.

Hugh "cats just know" Grierson

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.beer
From: peteru@hydra.maths.unsw.OZ.AU ()
Subject: Re: other fun mistranslations..
Organization: school of Mathematics UNSW
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 08:20:04 GMT

In article <1992Apr11.024539.15285@ra.msstate.edu> skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip 'AdaX' Sauls) writes:
>In article <1992Apr10.115358.6962@public.sub.org> peterk@public.sub.org (Peter Kittel) writes:
>>Ok, here two examples from Germany:
>
[...]

>Cool!  Another Amiga advocate reading alt.beer!  Weird as it sounds, I
>just posted a request for favorite beers in comp.sys.amiga.advocacy.
>

Yes, yes, yes. Us Amiga users are everywhere, and don't let them tell you 
otherwise. 

Now, talking about beers, are we? Well, my favourite beer of all times
ever, ever, ever is one called Svijany. Its brewed in a small village
in Czechoslovakia and it is an absolute dream. My next favourite is Coopers,
which is available here in Sydney and not in many other place. It is being
exported, but you will have to look for it hard. My third favourite beer is
Power's; brewed in Queensland but exported just about everywhere. The brewery
is only a couple of years old, but boy, do they know how to make beer and sell
it too!

>>Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions...
>>Commodore Frankfurt, Germany  \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk
>
>Skip Sauls                     //    Graduate Student & Instructor
>skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu    \X/     CS Department, University of Mississippi 


					Peter.


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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: arielle@taronga.com (Stephanie da Silva)
Subject: Re: idiomatically speaking... (Was: Re: other fun mistranslations)
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 20:27:52 GMT

In article <da9e02bm0fFM01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>, tjc50@ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll) writes:
> In article <0hejayz@Unify.Com> ceb@dbrus.Unify.Com (Caroline E. Bryan) writes:
> >In article <1992Apr8.203628.1508@aus.intel.com> robin@aus.intel.com (robin rosenbaum) writes:
> >>     "If my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a locomotive!"
> >	"if wishes were horses, beggars would ride".
> "If pigs could fly, we'd all carry umbrellas."

"If frogs had wings, they wouldn't bump their butts so much."

-- 
Stephanie da Silva                        Taronga Park * Houston, Texas
arielle@taronga.com                           568-0480   568-1032   
    "Did I ever tell you the story about the young girl, the golf club
                and the firing squad?" -- Drake Mallard
From: manley@optilink.UUCP (Dave Manley)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Steer Manure (was Re: Rocky Mountain Oysters (Was Re: Scallops: Seafood or Spinefood?))
Date: 14 Apr 92 00:23:49 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: DirtyStinkingCowboys/Optilink Access Products

In article <2678@monarch.array.com> kenm@array.com (Ken Murphy) writes:
>rmp@crashnburn.Eng.Sun.COM (Richard Pottorff) writes:
>: In article <9203211752.29@rmkhome.UUCP> rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
>: Mountains, but are actually the former testicles of former steers. Any truth

>_former_ bulls || present _steers_

>bulls = steers with testicles.

I just finished planting my vegetable garden (after I ripped up out
all the poison oak, oats and ivy, I planted, while humming the Worm
Song, for the life of me I don't know why, asparagus).  I had to go
down to my local garden center (which didn't have a garden or any
discernable center) and get some 'Steer Manure'.  What I want to know
is, how do I know, I mean really know, that it is *steer* manure?
What if they tried to sell me some of that inferior *Cow* manure stuff
or plant killing *Bull* manure?  It might even be gerbil manure and
who knows what that would do to my asparagus.  (A friend of my
neighbor's landlord (who survived the 60's but walks like a lemur)
told me evolutionarly speaking cows and gerbils are closely related
and that contrary to popular opinion gerbils taste like beef not
chicken.)

Is there somebody at the USDA (or other govt agency) that is an expert
on bull sh*t regulation?  As a consumer, I want to be sure I'm getting
what I pay for. 

BTW, I'm not used to directly paying for bull sh*t - I usually enjoy
all I can stand reading my favorite PARADE columnist M.v.Savant.
Although at 75 cents a cu. ft. it is cheaper than the Sunday paper and
much more useful. 

ObUL: Cows all graze in the same direction because they have magnets
      in their stomachs.

---
Dave "In California (the flakey (you can't let the milk soak in) state, NOT!) 
      we eat sea urchin 'oysters' - a spiney seafood (tastes like tadpoles)" Manley
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.science
From: cs331109@umbc5.umbc.edu (cs331109)
Subject: Re: Cable TV cheater spotters (was Re: FCC Call letters)
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus, Academic Computing Services
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 16:14:16 GMT

Talking about Radar jammers.. they do exist.  I saw one in either Hands On 
Electronics or Radio Electronics a few years ago that would help you
'calibrate' your radar.  You could select speeds of 35, 45, or 55 for it
to transmit.. and offered mounting tips for cars.  But, of course, the 
article was for educational purposes only.  (Like the one they had with 
the stun gun..)

Paul........

Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:12051 alt.mcdonalds:431
From: tcws@convex1.tcs.tulane.edu (Bill Sirinek)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.mcdonalds
Subject: Re: McMouse!
Date: 10 Apr 92 21:29:24 GMT
Organization: Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-19222]: convex1.tcs.tulane.edu

In article <1992Apr10.090920.13693@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> gjw@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Mr Garry J. Wardrope) writes:
>There was a story around here about a school girl who got a Kentucky Fried rat.
>Story was it had fallen into the batter drum drowned and promptly been fried
>as a piece oc chicken.  When she bought it she went to the pictures (movies)
>and sat in the dark munching away.  She did notice it wasn't too good and
>rather jucier than usual but it wasn't till the lights came up she realised
>what it was.  So she was rushed off to hospital to have her stomoch (sp)
>pumped.
My friend was also the victim of a Kentucky Fried Rat. He wasnt silly enough
to EAT it... I mean really, looking at it woulda made me lose my appetite
for a LONG time....

An another note at the same time we were hearing stories about mice in beer
and soda cans, our family found a STRAW inside a 16oz bottle of Pepsi...

It still irks me to this day that my father didnt do anything about it, I mean
really... I coulda used a couple hundred grand.. hehehehehehehe

>
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lester@naomi.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Les Bartel)
Subject: Bullets  Was: Ask Marilyn? Not if you want the right answer!
Reply-To: lester@naomi.b23b.ingr.com
Organization: Dazix, An Intergraph Company
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 18:57:42 GMT

In article <1992Apr2.164321.10620@husc3.harvard.edu>, joltes@husc4.harvard.edu (Richard Joltes) writes:
|> terminal velocity.  Since the bullet stopped briefly, there's no reason to
|> believe that it will still be travelling point-on:  most likely it will tumble
|> and encounter increased air resistance.  The caliber (and therefore weight) of

Just because the bullet stops traveling (in a the vertical direction) 
doesn't mean that it has stopped spinning (caused by the rifleing [the
spiral grooves in the barrel]).  Wouldn't this spin continue, and prevent
the tumbling?  Wouldn't the bullet fall back to earth "point" up?  I
think so, but don't have the physics to back it up.

 - Les
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: ceb@dbrus.Unify.Com (Caroline E. Bryan)
Subject: Re: Earthquakes
Organization: /usr/lib/news/organization
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 17:13:57 GMT

In article <3450@moscom.UUCP> de@moscom.UUCP (David Esan) writes:
>...
>Rochester, NY (where I live) has had several earthquakes during my lifetime.
>Maybe 4.x is not much by CA standards, but I do remember my bed moving away
>from the wall.

4.n is nothing to sneer at in CA, either.  A friend of mine was sleeping on
the beach in Sta. Monica one night, when an off-shore 4.n earthquake occurred.
The earthquake set up a wave pattern in his waterbed that literally threw him
out of bed.


Carrie "safer to sleep in a doorway" Bryan	ceb@dbrus.unify.com	x6244
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Cricket chirp rate versus temperature
From: rossiter_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Date: 15 Apr 92 13:11:55 GMT
 <1992Apr13.195214.12254@fwhnm02.fwrdc.rtsg.mot.com> <1992Apr14.021311.1981@mercury.cair.du.edu>
Organization: Wellington City Council, Wellington, NZ

In article <1992Apr14.021311.1981@mercury.cair.du.edu>, tkoppel@cassandra.cair.du.edu (Moi) writes:
> In article <1992Apr13.195214.12254@fwhnm02.fwrdc.rtsg.mot.com>, rlatham@fwhnm02.fwrdc.rtsg.mot.com (Max Headroom) claims:
> -->
> -->It was something like counting the number of 
> -->chirps for a number of seconds, and adding
> -->it to some other number, to obtain the temperature.
> -->
> -->Has anyone heard of this, and if so, what was
> -->the 'equation' used?
> 
> [some deleted]
> the number 40 is added to the number of chirps in a 15-second
> interval, the sum is a fair approximation of the number of degrees
> 
> [more deleted] 
> Having said that, I 'm listenign out the window, and in the last 15
> seconds I heard about 32 chirps...

Hmmmmmmm, April, in Denver ...... exactly how many crickets were you listening 
to?   <====== please ignore dangling participle ;-)

Pat