HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: wvhorn@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William VanHorne)
Subject: Re: Is that a boom mike in Madonna's butt?
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 14:00:54 GMT

My all-time favorite movie goof is missing from the list (harumph).

In the unforgettable classic "The Blue Max", there is a scene where our
anti-hero (George Peppard) has been shot down, and is picked-up by a 
truck.  He climbs into the back of said truck to find his rival/friend 
"Willy" (forget the actor's name) waiting for him with champagne and 
glasses.  

The scene shifts to the outside where we see the truck do a U-turn in
the middle of a dirt road, bouncing so violently over the ruts that
the rear wheels leave the ground twice.

Cut to inside of truck, where the two pilots are calmly lounging on their
sides and Willy is pouring champagne into the glasses.  No sign of anyone
flying up to the roof, or even of the champagne sloshing out of the glasses.

The scene (like most of the movie) is unintentionally hilarious.

---Bill VanHorne

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Please try to use the word paradigm in every post.
Thank you.
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From: arielle@NeoSoft.com (Stephanie da Silva)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: nail in Coca-Cola
Date: 8 Oct 92 12:56:30 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900

In article <7OCT199216324783@jane.uh.edu> vpaf5@jane.uh.edu (Kal) writes:
> >
> _My_ navel jelly contains sulfuric, and not phosphoric, acid.


My navel contains lint, not jelly.

Perhaps you're thinking of KY jelly?


Stephanie "who put this pubic hair in my navel jelly?" da Silva
From: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Presidential Succession History (was: Presidential UL's)
Date: 12 Oct 92 07:46:49 GMT
Reply-To: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation

In article <1992Oct11.223247.17948@nezsdc.icl.co.nz>, hugh@nezsdc.icl.co.nz 
(Hugh Grierson) writes:
> In article <46u402KL25Vo01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com 
> (Terry Carroll) writes:
> >No, just the "or something".  :-)
> 
> Two dreaded-smileys in the space of 5 minutes reading; the latest from a
> Terry, no less.  What _is_ the world coming to?
> 
> Hugh "Death of A.F.U predicted.  Film at 11" Grierson

Hey, the smiley was for the misc.legal people.  You guys in a.f.u weren't 
supposed to read it.

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: starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky)
Subject: Re: Hey! Check out this Frequently Asked Questions List or be FAQ'd!
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 18:05:15 GMT

phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson) writes:

>>Acquire a dictionary, Terry.  POINSETTIA, according to the American Heritage
>>Dictionary, Second College Edition.  One of MY pet peeves is the mispronun-
>>ciation (as well as misspelling) "pointsetta."
>>
>Furrfu.  Maybe I've been wrong all along.  Maybe it isn't possible to 
>communicate in this medium without furshlugginer :-) signs all over the place
>to indicate sarcasm, humor, gas, or confusion.

>Sarah, please take another look at tjc50's posting.

Hmm.  Maybe 14.4k baud is too fast for me.  Looked serious to ME.
We'll see what HE says.

-- 
************************************************************************
*            Sarah Skovronsky     starfish@u.washington.edu            *
* "Sample my FIST, you community theater reject!"  --TV's Frank, MST3K *
**********fnord!********furrfu!********hi-keeba!********meep!***********
From: uni@acs.bu.edu (Shaen Bernhardt)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Nihilistic Arch.  (Was Re: aluminum siding)
Date: 14 Oct 92 00:37:16 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

In article <1687FBD9F.DSTEPHEN@cmsa.gmr.com> DSTEPHEN@cmsa.gmr.com babbles:


>Detroit's gold mine of abandoned buildings has also spawned a cottage industry
>of people stealing bricks from old buildings to sell to reclaimed brick
>companies (often leaving a dangerously unstable wreck behind), as well as
>people who chisel gargoyle-type stone ornaments and cornices from old apartment
>buildings to sell to antique and architectural detail stores.


There is a UMyth that affluent families in Europe would often leave for vacation
and trucks with offical looking markings would pull up after a few days and
do "sandblasting work" on the buildings.  Neighbors would assume there was
some remodeling going on.  When the family returned however, hugely expensive
or priceless masonry archways would have vanished.

uni

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Kirk VS Picard (was "Lost In Space" was better)
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 06:45:21 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.185412.15339@leland.Stanford.EDU> firestar@leland.Stanford.EDU (Lipton Ann Meredith) writes:
>
>> Actually, I believe the T stood for Taffeta; ie - James Taffeta Kirk.

No, it's T for Tattoo.  After ST6 if they don't make another movie, our
old friend who popularized rich corinthian leather-clad Cordobas, and
made us suffer the Wrath of Khan will again play Rorke and Kirk will tell
him when "de plane" is arriving over the island.

cj "Was Fantasy Island better than Star Trek?" l
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Citecheck Hell)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Garbled anecdotes (was: late talkers)
Date: 9 Oct 92 14:48:15 GMT
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <1992Oct9.113143.748@meiko.com> davol@plasmameiko.co.uk (David Wilson) writes:
>cromar@math.rutgers.edu (Scott Cromar) writes:
>>davol@twinheadmeiko.co.uk (David Wilson) writes:
>>> stern6@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Stern) writes:
>>[Actually, I wrote it.  Why should Mike get credit for it?]
>>> > ObUL:  Churchill's first words were "In the morning I'll be sober, and
>>> > you'll still be overdone."
>
>>: The way I heard this one was: 
>>: "Madam, you are ugly. But in the morning I'll be sober."
>
>>Whaddya think?  I think I caught this one cold.
>
>Excuse me. Can someone tell me what's going on here ?

This is my nomination for the new a.f.u. motto.

Ted "is Winston Churchill in the FAQ?" Frank
-- 
ted frank | thf2@midway.uchicago.edu 
also at quibeaux@uchicago.edu | standard disclaimers
the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
ajax crypto-analyzer -- warning! remove all chicken bones first
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: ahill@boi.hp.com (Andy Hill)
Subject: Re: Garbled anecdotes (was: late talkers)
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 20:54:11 GMT
Reply-To: ahill@boi.hp.com
Organization: LaserJets by Bill & Dave
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

cromar@math.rutgers.edu (Scott Cromar) writes:
> Whaddya think?  I think I caught this one cold.
> 
Throw it back.  Trolling for newbies is OK, but catching them with
barbed misquotes is against the afu game regulations.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Kirk VS Picard (was "Lost In Space" was ABSOLUTELY better)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 22:47:38 GMT

tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood) writes:
: 
: Kirks parents must have been morons.  What type of a parent would name
: their kid Tie-beer-eous.  Must have been drunks too.
: 
: Kirk would have been lucky to be named "Terry".
: 
: Terry "My parents knew a cool name when they heard it" Wood

Actually, I think they meant "Terror", but just misspelled it.

Bill
From: jmowen@mona.Gwinnett.COM (John M. Owen)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Junk e-mail
Date: 7 Oct 92 13:06:32 GMT
Organization: Flat On My Back in Bed With Mona, Duluth, GA, USA

chuck_adams@qmail.ssc.gov (Chuck Adams) writes:

> In article <1992Oct4.231759.20047@nezsdc.icl.co.nz> derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz
> (Derek Tearne) writes:
> >This morning,  joy of joys,  I got my first ever piece of junk e-mail.
> >
> >We have previously had discussions of how to counter junk snail mail,
> >junk faxes, junk telemarketing (I can't wait the next one phones me!).
> >
> >So what is the electronic equivalent of a brick in the mail?
> >If it was a local call I would just mail them /usr/dict/words but it is 
> >not.

I think everyone who receives one of these should render an immediate
personal response. Just express yourself. If they UUCP for email
that should do the trick.... 

-- jmowen@mona.Gwinnett.COM (John M. Owen) 
-- My .sig is bigger than yours - but I keep it offline.
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:25760 alt.religion.kibology:4208
From: f67700241@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (Greg Franklin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.religion.kibology
Subject: Re: Presidential Succession History (was: Presidential UL's)
Keywords: kibo
Date: 15 Oct 92 08:06:37 GMT
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona
Nntp-Posting-User: f67700241

In article <1992Oct15.124724.1@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz>, hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz (Anthony 'SCHWAibo' Hobbs) writes:
> In article <g+2z48p@rpi.edu>, kasprj@jec321.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak) writes:  
>> Who's Kibo's successor?
> 
> Myself and the other ibo's will form a triumvirate.

Bet you didn't know that "Kibo" stands for "hope" in Japanese.  That
makes him irreplaceable in my book.

ObUL: Haig thought he was in charge of the U.S. government when he made
his famous 1981 declaration.  In fact, Haig was merely trying to assert
control over a pack of unruly reporters.

ObUL #2: Churchill died on the very day Gene Roddenberry conceived the
idea of "Star Trek."
--
Greg "Mockingbird" Franklin      Interviewer: "Sir, how do you spell relief?"
f67700241@ccit.arizona.edu               Dan: "R-O-L-A-I-D-S-E."

"[George Bush is] the most ruthless white man in the history of the planet."
	-- Richard Ben Cramer, author of _What It Takes_
"The President scores much better than Bill Clinton."
	-- Dan, comparing Bush's record of marital infidelity to Clinton's
From: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mixed up translations
Date: 8 Oct 92 21:10:35 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Originator: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com


In article <1992Oct4.142533.15471@midway.uchicago.edu>, pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson) writes:
>Actually, in Columbia, the ll is a pretty hard 'j' sound.

I didn't know there were enough Spanish-speaking people in the 
capital of South Carolina that you could generalize about their
pronunciation.

Oh, you mean the Spanish Language department of that college on the
upper west side of New York?

Bruce "I met Llorlle LLetson once" Tindall

--
From: rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Geraldo Rivera
Date: 8 Oct 92 23:24:56 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

In article <1992Oct7.134726.1879@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <H.WCaZWkWkf5o@harvee.billerica.ma.us> scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us writes:
>>In <1992Oct2.234154.8633@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>, Rachel J. Perkins writes:
>>
>>>well, *gulp*, geraldo rivera went to my university (univ. of arizona)...
>>>since i used to work in the admissions data entry dept, i tried to look
>>>up his records. i had a little trouble, 'cause it turns out he was only
>>>"jerry rivers" at the time. 
>>i heard somewhere that the "jerry rivers" story was a ul.
>
>"Geraldo Rivera" is Jewish.  You make the call whether it's his real name.

hey, i saw the file with my own eyes. no FOAF bullshit here. he even 
submitted a photo with his application, although it's not required, some
students do that. big nose, and all.

bah.

--
		-just give me what for,
	rachel perkins =  rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu
      "Chastity..the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions...."
					-Aldous Huxley
From: crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Oranjelo
Date: 9 Oct 92 20:55:39 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <jberger.23.0@novell.com> jberger@novell.com (John Berger) writes:

>I went to grade school with Doug Barr's (Fall Guy, Designing Women) younger 
>sister.  Their dog was named Candy (Barr).

Oh, are we going to do stupid pet names now?  The only ones I can think of
offhand (though I know you all must have oodles of them out there) are
the dogs, cats, etc. that belong to the Dorrance family -- the Campbell's
Soup folks.  They name all their pets after Campbell's products.  The
cat's name is Godiva, the dog is Noodle-O's or some such thing ...


-- 
The trick of reason is to get the imagination to seize the actual world --
if only from time to time.     -- Annie Dillard, "An American Childhood"
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From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (TWChan@lbl.gov)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Post the FAQ (was Dead pet UL?)
Date: 8 Oct 1992 20:34:54 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (TWChan@lbl.gov)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

(Dan Wright) writes a suggestion for easing the burdens on newcomers:

  +In my humble opinion you should post the FAQ, even if it hasn't changed
  +since last time.  Now's when it's needed most.  And you might use a
  +glaringly obvious subject line such as "Here's the FAQ! <-----READ".

Okay.  It was posted last week, but I'll do so again.  A "glaringly
obvious subject line"?  Lemme see what I can do.  Maybe after I post
it, we could go trolling some more and see what happens.
  
  +A disadvantage might be our having to endure threads re-hashing the FAQ's
  +more intriguing points, but it'll still be worth it.  a.f.u's FAQ is one
  +hell of a document, thanks much to yourself, and to the legendary,
  +somewhat enigmatic, consistently articulate, and delightfully lecherous
  +old hat, Peter van der Linden.

Lecherous eh?  Well, well, where have you been, Dan?


Terry "AFU West - Coming in a couple of weeks to Mt. View!" Chan
--
Energy and Environment Division   | Internet:  TWChan@lbl.gov
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory      | 
Berkeley, California  USA  94720  | Carpe Per Diem
From: PCT601%SIRIUS.UKC.AC.UK@ib.rl.ac.uk (Robryche)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Words and things
Date: 12 Oct 1992 06:49:37 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Subject: (actual film ref) (was Re: Rape movie? ...etc)
 <1992Oct8.174603.17117@mcc.com> <Oct.8.18.34.33.1992.9255@math.rutgers.edu>
>
>"How many times have YOU used the word 'fro' in YOUR lifetime, and
> why the hell does every spell-check dictionary in existence  have
> this nasty little monster in there???"

I wandered to and FRO asking people about this. But I couldnt find anybody that
had heard of it.

OBirrelevancy

There was an old bear at the zoo
Who always had something to do
When it bored him to go
On a walk to and fro
He reversed it and walked fro and to.

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****    /  _'     /     /       /   /  **
***    __ |      /     /       __  /  ***
**    /   /     /     /       /   /  ****
*  __/ __/ ______/ ______/ __/ __/  *****
From: de@moscom.com (David Esan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Q: Eating live monkey brains
Date: 16 Oct 92 18:03:14 GMT
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford NY

In article <22648@venera.isi.edu> mick@venera.isi.edu (Mick O'Donnell) writes:
> I'm trying to track down factual (??) reports about this urban myth
>about societies who eat munkey brains, straight from the owner's skull
>(alla Temple of Doom). Anyone know if any kulture actually did this
>stuff?  Which culture?
> Where the monkeys still alive at the time?

WARNING:  Don't read this just before lunch if you have a weak stomach.

I have heard two first hand reports from people who serve in SouthEast Asia
in the late 1960's.  They both told the same story:  

A live monkey is placed in a vise-like contraption in the center of the table.
The vise holds the head in place.  The top of the head is removed, and the
diner then ate from the living brain with chopsticks.

I have not seen it.  I have not seen documentation on it.  I believe these
people saw it.  They served all over SE Asia, and spent time in the backwoods
of VietNam and Thailand.  As Jack Palance used to say: Believe it or not.


-- 
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From: afcondon@maths.tcd.ie (Andrew Condon)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: More Stupid Lawyer Tricks
Date: 10 Oct 92 09:15:51 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

cromar@math.rutgers.edu (Scott Cromar) writes:
[cop-chase deletia]
>over when he observed him weaving in traffic at a high rate of speed
						   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You mean weaving in traffic while maintaining a high acceleration?
--
Andrew 

"what kinda speed must they have finished up at?"
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Kirk VS Picard (was "Lost In Space" was better)
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 07:12:28 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.215934.1512@i88.isc.com> jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist) writes:

>
>Or at least, according to "Allan Brady's Unauthorized Star Trek Compendium",
>by R. Petrie.

Isn't that the book that indicates which ST episodes have appearances by
Lolok of Twylo?

cj "I hate walnuts" l
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc
From: moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com
Subject: Re: Kirk VS Picard (was "Lost In Space" was better)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 20:55:46 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.113908.1@cubldr.colorado.edu>, matthews_k@cubldr.colorado.edu writes...
>In article <BvxH5t.13@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, cap36406@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Carlos A. Pero) writes:
>> heim@vms.macc.wisc.edu (JOHN HEIM	) writes:
>>>Can't be.  His middle initial is 'R' as seen in the pilot episode 
>>>'Encounter at Farpoint' where his name is carved in a tombstone.  
>>>The R is for Roy.  James Roy Kirk.  In a later episode, Nomad gets 
>>>him mixed up with Jackson Roykirk, his inventor.  (That's Nomad's 
>>>inventor, not Kirk's.)

I don't remember a name ever being associated with the tombstone in
"Where No Man Has Gone Before".  I never caught any reason in Nomad for
the Roy in Roykirk being assoctiated with Kirk.  That was filmed in the second
season, I'm sure the producers had settled on T. as his middle initial,
at least.

>This was not, repeat NOT  in EaF.  The tombstone was shown in the first
>aired episode of TOS, Where No Man Has Gone Before.  It was an error on
>the part of someone.  Since that single episode, Kirk's middle initial
>has always been "T" and it stands for Tiberius.  There has been much
>debate as to whether the error was on the part of Gary Mitchell (the
>character who created the tombstone) or on the part of the production
>staff.  I suspect that at the time no one really knew what his middle
>name was going to be, so they faked it.

I believe "Where No Man Has Gone Before" was the first episode filmed not
the first shown.  They may simply not have created the full image of who
Kirk and the rest of the cast were exactly, including full names at the time.
Don't forget in one of the early episodes Spock is rather excitable as he calls
out data from one of the scanners on the bridge.  This is a holdover from The
Cage pilot, where Vulcans are a _very_ emotional race, and before they finally
decided that Vulcans were supposed to be without emotions.

-Mike
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.science
From: nkjrm@taxus.uib.no (Rolf Manne)
Subject: Re: Language and wrongness (was Re: Metrication and "normal usage")
Organization: University of Bergen
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 09:05:06 GMT

In article <1bfj5gINN2o7@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> dkmiller@unixg.ubc.ca (Derek K. Miller) writes:

>Other examples include the words "ombudsperson," which is theoretically
>invalid because the original word is not sex-specific, but derived (I
>have heard) from a Swedish verb meaning "to fight the government." Another
>is the word "gender" when used with respect to people (eg. "gender
>equity") when it originally had only to do wth linguistics.

>      :=:=> Derek K. Miller                 dkmiller@unixg.ubc.ca
>

Sorry, the Swedish word "ombud" means representative. The current 
international use of "ombudsman" goes back to the Swedish constitution of 
1809 where two men were appointed by the parliament to 
oversee the workings of the administration and the military. 

The title "ombudsman" is also used by certain trade union officers who
do not necessarily have a function in line with the international usage
of the word.

The word "man" in the Swedish language expresses sex in the
same way as in English. There is, however, no one-to-one correspondence
between the languages at this point.

Rolf Manne
Department of Chemistry, University of Bergen, Norway

e-mail Rolf.Manne@uib.no
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: 666 Cable TV
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Distribution: alt
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 17:13:29 GMT

kevind@pogo.wv.tek.com (Kevin Draz) writes:
: In article <1992Oct4.063724.1688@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
: 
: [Stuff about detetecting the number of phones/cable boxes deleted]
: 
: >They used to be able to tell, when all the devices hooked to the phone
: >were supplied by Ma Bell and had about the same ringer equivalent.
: >Now, devices take varying amount of ring power - from negligible to
: >about 1 RIN. There is no way the phone companies can tell how many
: >devices are connected.
: 
: But it is *possible* to determine the number of cable splits/extension lines
: on a system.  You send a HF "ping" signal into the line [from outside the
: building, i.e. at the "pole"], and time & count the number of reflections
: [electronic echoes] you get back.  A cable which has passive splitters
: applied to it will result in multiple, distinct, echoes.

Certainly. It can be done from the pole - if you disconnect the line to
the house first.  Any TDR will handle that.  However, that is not what
the UL stated - it said that they could tell from the CO. That is no
longer possible, using the ring current.  

: I have heard, a long time ago, during college discussions of a most
: folklorish [is this a word?] nature, that this is the technique employed to
: detect pirates.  I couldn't speak for the "varacity" [sic] of this
: information, but is would certainly be technically feasible. 

What do you mean by "pirates?"

: For the true gurus out there, yes, you *might*, with careful design, set up
: a wiring system with carefully measured lengths, terminations, etc., and
: mask this technique.  It would certainly be beyond most nontechnical
: people's skills to do so, however.

I am not sure why a person would want to do so. Judge Green has said that
they cannot limit the devices connected to the line - only the maximum
ringing current that they can consume.

It really wouldn't be hard to do - most equipment does not have resolutions
under a few inches. My TDR will resolve to the nearest foot.

Bill