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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Run out of town on a rail
From: derek@fivegl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 22:01:20 GMT
Reply-To: derek@fivegl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Organization: Task Management Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand

In article <3472@moscom.UUCP> de@moscom.UUCP (David Esan) writes:
>In article <9204080113.AA09513@echidna.swdc.stratus.com> jane@STRATUS.SWDC.STRATUS.COM (Jane Beckman) writes:
>
>About how nasty the rail is when you are run out of town on it.
>
>
>Consider also the great horrors of tarring someone.  A person is covered
>by hot tar.  The pain must have been intense, and removing it with the available
>lye soap also difficult.

Not to mention the ensuing cancers in those delicate little places.

ObUL: Chimney sweeps and people who tar roads had high incidences of
      cancer of the scrotum.

Derek "No tar" Tearne
-- 
Derek Tearne      derek@fivegl.co.nz | If yo
  rek      l   .nz                   | yo
New Zea
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Reggie Jackson
From: f67709317@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (Greg Franklin)
Date: 11 Apr 92 19:01:04 MST
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona
Nntp-Posting-User: f67709317

In article <1992Apr11.235550.27968@midway.uchicago.edu>, thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
> Now, I know there's a UL about Reggie Jackson's dog, 'cause Dave Barry
> used it in a column where he exhibited snoping.  But I don't know what
> it is.  Could someone elucidate?

OK, the original UL references are in JHB's "Choking Doberman."  Basically
Jackson (or Lionel Richie, depending on who you hear) was staying in a
hotel in the city.  Meanwhile, a white woman (or two or three) from the
sticks got on the elevator at the same time as Jackson and his Doberman 
(or German shepherd or Rottweiler).  The elevator door shuts.

So Jackson gives the command "Sit [Lady]!", and the woman/women obediently
sit down on the elevator floor.  Reggie explains that he was referring to
his dog, introduces himself, apologizes, and buys the woman/women a nice
dinner/breakfast.

I was guilty for spreading both versions (RJ and LR) in my youth.  So sue me.
Or puke on my shoes.  I don't care which.

> While you're at it, if someone could post the joke that Kerrey told about

We already know GHWB's mistress.  It's some bitch named Millie.
-- 
Greg Franklin                             "Death is everywhere,
f67709317@ccit.arizona.edu          there are fries on the windscreen."
From: Jay.Ashworth@f160.n3603.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Jay Ashworth)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: What Pepsi Means in Chinese (Was RE: What Coke means...)
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 92 00:35:00 EDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:3603/160 - Hacker's Haven, Clearwater FL

 > This can only make me speculate about sales of the Chevy Nova in
 > predominately Spanish speaking areas.  No va = It doesn't go
 > ... or some such.

And sure enough, it didn't.  They renamed it the Caribe.

Cheers,
-- jra

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From: morris@anasaz (Bob Morris)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: What Pepsi Means in C
Date: 10 Apr 92 16:57:46 GMT
Organization: Anasazi, Inc.  Phoenix, Az

david lloyd-jones writes:
>
>I've been instructed by the Usenet Moderators' Committee to tell you our
>usage.   When you post messages like this you are supposed to use a
>":-)" symbol.  This is called a "smiley."
>
From the afu faq:

A note to new readers:  the weasely :-) symbol is frowned upon in this
group.  Any questions, see Phil Gustafson who will gladly rearrange your
diodes for you. 

Bob "faqed again" Morris
aka morris@anasazi.com  (new address)
anasaz!morris@asuvax.eas.asu.edu (old address still works)
My opinions only, of course...
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: dsc@gemini.tmc.edu (Doug S. Caprette Bldg. 28 W191 x3892)
Subject: Re: Earthquakes
Organization: NASA GSFC CDP VLBI
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 18:46:45 GMT

In article <smfjqx@Unify.Com> ceb@dbrus.Unify.Com (Caroline E. Bryan) writes:
>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.
>
Well, the Richter scale was developed in California.   The measured value on
the scale for a given earthquake will depend in part on characteristics of
the local bedrock.  Thus, it is an appropriate scale for comparing different
earthquakes in the same region.  It is not appropriate for comparing the
'size' of earthquakes from one region to another.  In general, an earthquake
of magnitude x, is 'smaller' in California, than an earthquake of the same 
magnitude in other parts of the world. 

Whether or not an earthquake is something to get excited about, depends as
much on what is over your head at the time, as it does on the size of the 
quake.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Let's Make a Deal (was: Digits in the Driver's license number
From: worden@bouncer.nsc.com (Dennis Worden)
Date: 8 Apr 92 21:23:55 GMT
Organization: National Semiconductor Corporation
Keywords: licence

California license plates have "evolved" over the years due largely to the
"huge population" as previously mentioned.  Prior to about 1958, the plates
were 3 letter, 3 number black on yellow backround.  Around 1958 (plus or 
minus a year) the plates went to 3 letter, 3 number yellow on black
backround (basically a color inversion).  Plates were reissued, but since
in California, the plates stay with the cars, you were reissued the same
plate number.  Around 1969, all 17,576,000 combinations had been used for
that color scheme, and a new approach was implemented.  The colors were
changed to yellow letters on blue backround, and a number, 3 letters, and
3 letters.  Although not all of those 175,760,000 combinations had been
used, a new "reflector' plate was introduced with the first digit incremented
from a number 1 to a number 2.  I bought a car in 1985 that was yellow
on blue, 1 XXX 000 type number.  In 1989, I had the plate changed, and
recieved a blue on white 2 XXX 000 plate.  In the last several years, I've
seen plates with a leading "3".
	Plates stay with the car when sold, and when the car is junked, the
plates must be returned to the DMV.  Although the plates are issued on first
come first served basis, each geographic area is alloted a group of plates,
like a prefix.  Driving around your area, you will see a higher number of
similar plates than going to the other end of the state.
	I bet that is more than you every wanted to know about California
plates, or even California!!!  :-)
-- 
Dennis Worden, not representing $  When the TEAM succeeds, you succeed,
anybody, not even himself, in   $  but when the Team fails, you're FIRED.
any way shape or form.          $  Don't EMAIL me at worden@berlioz.nsc.com
From: nessie@leland.Stanford.EDU (Amy Elisabeth Frost)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Falling Bullets and tuning musical instruments
Date: 16 Apr 92 18:16:59 GMT
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA

Let me just point out that air is far, far from being a perfect
gas.  The water vapor in air has a way of condensing and re-evaporating,
absorbing or releasing energy, rendering the ideal-gas equation of
state completely invalid.
From: unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu (The Unknown Matt)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Why is calculus so feared?
Keywords: Sorry if this is a repeat posting..
Date: 7 Apr 92 08:22:16 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz; Open Access Computing


        I can't give a good example, I just think that calculus doesn't
"make sense"..  As hard as I try, it will not become obvious to me.
That doesn't mean I can't DO it, to some degree, I just don't like doing
something I don't understand.

        For example, integrating X to get X^2/2 seems "magical".. And saying
it's the "area under the curve" is just a hand-waving "explanation".. Actually
it's not an explanation at all, it's something else it _happens_ to be.

        Explaining the sum of all of the little boxes whose width gets
infinitively small gives me a headache! (just kidding)

        Unfortunately, basically everything in science in college has to
DO with calculus, making those subjects all the more difficult.

        I'd just like to point out that while I'm certainly not the
smartest person in the world (nor dumbest), I was always in the highest
math classes through high school, and took calculus as a senior in high
school. (Retook it in college since I thought I would understand it more..
nope)

        I guess calculus is just my major "roadblock".  I am interested in
chaos and other mathematical subjects that are "higher" than calculus, but
I'm not taking rigorous classes on those subjects...
-- 
/unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu                                    Apple IIGS Forever!\
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From: rmp@crashnburn.Eng.Sun.COM (Richard Pottorff)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Ask Marilyn?  Not if you want the right answer!
Date: 17 Apr 92 18:51:18 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: crashnburn

In article <1992Apr8.001715.4594@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
: >faster than sound in many cases, and I guarantee you that no falling
: >object will break the sound barrier on it's own.  ...
: 
: The "earthquake bombs" dropped by 617 Squadron (RAF) during World War II
: reputedly broke the sound barrier on the way down.  These were extremely
: streamlined 10-ton bombs of hardened steel, designed to penetrate the
: ground and detonate under the target.  They were dropped from as far up
: as the British could get them.  The Germans lost a lot of U-Boat pens and
: other hardened facilities this way.

Reputed is the correct term. We know more about the dynamics of near
supersonic speads now. A freely falling object will not exceed the
speed of sound. They could not even get a prop driven airplane to break
the sound barrier - even in a full dive and at full throttle.

Bill

I ask:

Bill, are you absolutely sure?  Ask the widows of P-38 Lightning pilots
who died when their planes went supersonic while in a dive.  Their controls
froze and they piled into the Earth in a big way.  The fix for this was
to add speed flaps, which could be lowered individually, or in pairs.

Besides being used to slow the planes out of supersonic dives, the flaps
were used by the pilots to gain more maneuverability while in dogfights.
(Many test pilots died before they realized what was happening, and many 
more died before they figured out a fix).

Its been a while since I read the book. The planes may not quite have
reached supersonic velocity in power dives; however the air flowing over the
control surfaces certainly did.  I do wish I remembered the title of the
book.

Ramblin'
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:11714 misc.kids:12510
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,misc.kids
Subject: Re: Walla walla bing bang (was Re: Worm song?)
Date: 7 Apr 92 22:08:44 GMT
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University

In article <1992Apr6.181425.26546@noao.edu> forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
>From article by jch@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (jeffrey.c.halle):
>> From article <92094.085253ICLNM@ASUACAD.BITNET>, by ICLNM@ASUACAD.BITNET:
>> (re: The Witch Doctor)
>>> David Seville, yes; the Chipmunks, no.  This was a minor hit in the late
>> 
>> The Chipmunks did record it.  Whether it was a single or only on their albums
>> I don't know.  It was later done (but probably not released outside the
>> New York area, fortunately for the rest of the world) by Marc Gastineau,
>> the former NJJets linebacker.
>> 
>> BTW, Seville's real name is Ross Bagdisarian, or something like that.
>
>Really?   I had heard that the original "David Seville" was dead, so that
>the modern day Chipmunks are made by his son.   (But I've never known what
>either of their real names were before.)
>
>An interesting point:  All the original Chipmunks _were_ David Seville.
>I found this out one day when I played one of their 33 rpm records on the
>now long obsolete 16 rpm.
>
>Suzanne.

All recent Chipmunk's works are proclaimed as copyright Ross Bagdasarian
Enterprises.

As posted earlier, the Chipmunks concept came later than the Witch Doctor
song, which is credited to David Seville, not to the Chipmunks, featuring
David Seville, which is the way they credit the later stuff like the
Hula Hoop Christmas song.

My favorits is the Freddy Mercury song "Good Girls Don't, but I Do" song
by Alvin :-).

(I can just see it now: the Bohemian Rhapsody by Theodore, Simon, and Alvin
(OK!))

cjl (Beelzebub's got a devil set aside for me, for me, for meeeeeee!)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com ()
Subject: Re: Today's conspiracy theory
Reply-To: moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com ()
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 18:21:21 GMT


In article <58hhbg7l@csv.warwick.ac.uk>, csuah@warwick.ac.uk (~WISP at CU~) writes:
|>In article <1992Apr8.203803.27333@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> dsc@gemini.tmc.edu (Doug S. Caprette Bldg. 28 W191 x3892) writes:
||>>Let's not forget the role that nicotine abuse plays here.  Although up to
|>>half the lung cancer from smoking is attributed to radiation exposure.
|>
|>By who? This sounds suspiciously like a tobacco-lobby smokescreen to me.

The theories I've heard are:  1) Tobacco has been fertilized with a high-radium
content fertilizer, and tobacco tends to absorb radium from the soil, meaning
lots of radium in cigarettes
2) When radon in the air decays it leaves a daughter atom that will latch onto
the first dust or smoke particle it encounters.  If this is a smoke particle
in a cigarette, it gets a direct ticket into the lungs.  This daughter atom
is also radioactive and does damage directly to the lungs.

-Mike


Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke)
Subject: Re: TV 'buzz' when graphics are on screen (was:Re: FCC Call letters)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 03:59:40 GMT

In article <32556@darkstar.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (99E99) writes:
>	WHY do TVs, even new TVs, put out an audible (irritating!) buzz 
>when graphics are shown on screen?  I mean like "typed text", and pictures
>and such.

I don't know why this happens.  It seems to be related to the brightness of
the screen.  With one old TV, I could close my eyes and almost always 
correctly predict the black/white ratio based on the frequency and volume 
of the sound... weird.

-- 
  "It begins here--an army--to bring sense to a world plagued by worse than
   thieves and murderers. This will be a good life... good enough."
             Bruce Wayne, "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns"
hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu                             Gene Roddenberry 1921-1991
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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.mcdonalds
Subject: Re: McMouse!
Date: 11 Apr 92 17:27:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: midway.1992Apr11.172717.18776
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <STEINAR.92Apr11140304@faust.solan.unit.no> steinar@faust.solan.unit.no (Cindy Kandolf) writes:
>And then there's the time i slipped and fell in the refrigerator and had
>ketchup all over me, but i think that's enough fun for one day.

Was it a causal relationship or were they independent events?
-- 
Ted Frank          + "He wanted to be the car rather than the thimble or the
1307 E 60 St, #109 +  hat."  -- District attorney explaining Marc Cienkowski's
U o' C Law Skool   +  murder with bow and arrow of Michael Klucznik in
Chi, IL 60637      +  Doylestown Borough, PA over a game of Monopoly.
From: moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Digits in the Driver's license number
Date: 9 Apr 92 01:22:43 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

In article <1992Apr8.133713.12713@siesoft.co.uk>, imw@siesoft.co.uk (Ian Wild) writes...
>You mean you have to give a Social Security number before you're allowed to
>commit a crime over there?  Good grief!

You do for the crime of filing a false income tax form....

-Mike
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: FURRJK@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu (Joel Furr)
Subject: Mairzey Doats
Organization: The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 05:34:30 GMT

Wups, we appear to have had a misquote there of the Mairzey Doats song.
Spelled correctly, it is "Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little
lambs eat ivy.  A kid'll eat ivy too, wouldn't you?  Lemurs prefer twinkies."

Or: "Mairzey doats and doezy doats and liddelamsey divey.  A kidlleat ivy
too, wouldntchu?  Lemurzpre fertwink eez."
From: weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The Philadelphia Experiment (?)
Keywords: Duke, Michigan, basketball, marijuana, linoleum
Date: 8 Apr 92 18:05:55 GMT
Reply-To: weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
Organization: The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology
In-reply-to: djb6@ellis.uchicago.edu (dennis joseph brennan)

In article <1992Apr8.171236.21201@midway.uchicago.edu>, djb6@ellis (dennis joseph brennan) writes:
>The US Navy performs an experiment in the Philadelphia navyyard to
>either turn a battleship invisible or to teleport it to Norfolk, I'm
>not sure which.  The ship was manned at the time.  The experiment
>failed and to this day there are insane sailors wandering around
>Philadelphia turning invisible and psychotic at random.

I can verify this.  Some of these people--not just sailors--are my
neighbors.
-- 
-Matthew P Wiener (weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: Why did the chicken cross the road?
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 16:25:01 GMT

In article <92105.134525ICLNM@ASUACAD.BITNET> <ICLNM@ASUACAD.BITNET> writes:
>Domestic turkeys.  They have been bred for one quality only - food.  In the
>process we have created an incredibly stupid, helpless creature.  Wild turkeys
>are another story.  They are legendary for their intelligence and resourceful-
>ness.  BenFranklin wanted the turkey to be our national bird.  Wouldn't that
>change Thanksgiving!

I heard that if you stick PopRocks in the stuffing of an eagle, you'll know
when it's done.
-- 
Ted Frank          + "He wanted to be the car rather than the thimble or the
1307 E 60 St, #109 +  hat."  -- District attorney explaining Marc Cienkowski's
U o' C Law Skool   +  murder with bow and arrow of Michael Klucznik in
Chi, IL 60637      +  Doylestown Borough, PA over a game of Monopoly.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The SHAFT of ROTTING DEATH!!! in 3-D!
From: joltes@husc4.harvard.edu (Richard Joltes)
Date: 10 Apr 92 15:53:15 EDT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

ag301@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tricia Schmidt) writes:
 
>On Oak Island - I heard this from our Library Director while
>in college.
>
>Some very, very foolish treasure hunters then drilled through
>one of the platforms, to a chamber below it.  Of course, at 
>this time it was flooded.  From the samples, they found 
>scraps of paper.  Unfortunately, their actions flooded the
>room.  This some possibly invaluable documents have not
>er - now been lost forever.  

I think I put this in one of my responses.  This information was presented on
"In Search Of" but I haven't found anything hardcopy on it yet.  It would 
make sense, since the people who've punched all the holes in Oak Island have
been treasure hounds ("pot hunters" as archaeologists sometimes call them) and
don't care for the context or documentation that might surround the find.

If you have any other sources, please let me know.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dick "keep digging" Joltes				joltes@husc.harvard.edu
Hardware & Networking Manager, Computer Services 	joltes@husc.bitnet 
Harvard University Science Center

"Mind you, not as bad as the night Archie Pettigrew ate some
sheep's testicles for a bet...God, that bloody sheep kicked him..."
From: morris@anasaz (Bob Morris)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Hoover Dam (was The wacky, flakey State)
Date: 14 Apr 92 15:29:50 GMT
Organization: Anasazi, Inc.  Phoenix, Az

William E. Smith writes:
>
>    I seem to recall an UL about some of the construction workers, who died
>while building the dam, being entombed in the massive structure.

On the tour of Hoover Dam (remember it's half in Arizona), the tour guide
told us about this UL and explained how it could not be true.  Although
the thing is massive, when it was built, the concrete was poured in layers
about 4 inches deep (10 cm).  If you were fell into 4 inches of concrete,
you might get your knees wet, but that's about it.  There were a few people
killed during the construction, mostly from heat exhaustion, but not a large
number.

Because Hoover Dam was built in the 1930's from a large volume of concrete,
and because the WPA built a lot of sidewalks around the USA, also from
concrete, there is another UL that Hoover Dam was a WPA project.  Also not
true.  Hoover Dam was planned and funded before the WPA was started.

Darn.  Two good ULs, both false.

Bob "I meant dam" Morris
aka morris@anasazi.com  (new address)
anasaz!morris@asuvax.eas.asu.edu (old address still works)
My opinions only, of course...

If my name were William Smith, I'd use my middle initial, too.  Bummer.
From: tzf@cs.arizona.edu (Theron Friedman)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: French found Atom Glass in Algeria!
Keywords: abombs, french test, nuke algeria, green glass
Date: 7 Apr 92 00:28:38 GMT
Reply-To: tzf@cs.arizona.edu (Theron Friedman)
Organization: U of Arizona, CS Dept, Tucson

I dunno nuthin' about the French in Algeria, but ... when I was interested
in strange phenomena, a friend sent me an article about a similar site
in (I think) Mexico: no known nuclear tests there, but a glass surface
that looked fused. Sorry I can't give details; the article is maybe
locked away in storage in Michigan.

terry "glassy eyed" friedman