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From: Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Poinsettias poisonous?
Date: 24 Dec 92 13:19:42 GMT
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service

"The Independent," a weekly newspaper (SSN 0737-8254) in Durham, N.C.,
reports in its Dec. 23 issue that Poinsettias are not poisonous,
according to toxicologist Mary Beth St.Clair of N.C. State University.
She says the white fluid in them might irritate the mouth and make
you choke, but is not toxic.  She cited research she had read and
conversations with the Poison Control Center at Duke University.
 
Not an urban legend, but an instance of the closely-related "popular
misconception."  

Bruce "Mmm! Turkey with poinsettia stuffing and flan for dessert" Tindall

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From: russ@bbxrbk (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Federal Reserve Notes (Re: I Live to FAQ!)
Date: 23 Dec 92 04:25:09 GMT
Organization: russ at home in Albuquerque New Mexico

In article <BzoM3C.us@unx.sas.com> sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall) writes:
>ObFAQfodder:  A couple of years ago, a book was published explaining
>the significance of all kinds of numbers, such as the digits in your
>Social Security number, all the various numbers on U.S. paper money,
>why telephone area codes are the way they are, etc.  Can't remember
>the title.  It was featured by various book clubs.  Anybody know it?

_Reading the Numbers_ by Mary Blocksma.  The subtitle is "A Survival
Guide to the Measurements, Numbers and Sizes Encountered in Everyday
Life".

-- Russ "I live to post" Kepler
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From: styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.science
Subject: Re: Dead Pigeons (was: Electric Field Question)
Date: 29 Dec 92 16:54:26 GMT
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: Norwegian Telecom Research

In article <26DEC199214302058@utkvx3.utk.edu>, ljones@utkvx3.utk.edu (Me? Graduated? Nope. Not yet.) writes:
|> In article <IfAp=Oq00WBKA1dLBE@andrew.cmu.edu>, "Stephen M. Lacy" <sl31+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes...
|> >Excerpts from netnews.alt.folklore.science: 17-Dec-92 Dead Pigeons (was:
|> >Electric.. by Drew Lawson@acuson.com 
|> >> That is because NYC (no, I'm not using MSWord) also has millions of
|> >> flies, cats, rats, crows and other things which will gladly eat a dead
|> >> or slow pigeon.
|> > 
|> >Ok, so where are the pigeon bones?  Surely, they don't eat the bones
|> >too.  Where are all the dead rats, cats, crows, etc (I know, flies
|> >virtually turn into dust when they die) 
|>
|>      Good question. Lewis Thomas considered this very question
|> in his essay "Death in the Open", in _Lives_of_a_Cell_. Thomas
|> concludes that death is occuring all around us, but that most animals
|> instinctively hide prior to dying, so that witnessing death
|> or corpses is jarring. In Lewis's words, seeing a dead bird is more
|> unusual than seeing ath reading.
|>      The essay is worht reading.

No, that's an UL, or at least mr. Thomas is generalizing too much. I've
seen enough dead wild animals to know this is false. It's correct that
an animal will try not to be an easy catch for it's natural enemies when
it's feeling weak. But that doesn't imply it's dying. However, it'll be
no surprise to learn that animals dying a "natural" death do feel a bit
weak.

---
YuNoHoo   "may all your mooses be chocolate"
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: andyh@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Holyer)
Subject: Re: Trademarks (was Re: ...film at 11...)
Organization: University of Sussex
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 13:57:12 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.194932.1349@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>
>The reason Bayer lost their trademark, was that aspirin came to be a
>generic term for over-the-counter painkillers, so they could not limit
>the usage to a particular brand of analgesic.
>

However, just to make it up to them, they retain the registered trademark on
"Heroin". Like to see them get it through court, tho' :-)

-Andy "What me, officer?" Holyer
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                                         |be resumed when I find another one.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.food.cooking
From: tad@ssc.com (Tad Cook)
Subject: Re: Don't tell them the recipe's from the Mrs. Field's cookbook
Organization: very little
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:08:02 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.151140.23535@crd.ge.com> meltsner@crd.ge.com writes:
>
>[Please note cross-posting.]
>
>Last weekend, I made the double chocolate cookies from the new Mrs.
>Field's cookie cookbook and they turned out great.  Two people at a
>party asked me for the source of the recipe and when I told them "Mrs.
>Field's," both mentioned that a friend told them about a $250
>recipe....  One *swore* the story really happened to her friend.  All
>storytellers were told to read Brunvand's books.  I wonder whether
>I'll be invited back next year.
(stuff deleted)
>
>Now, if I could just find a copy of the Waldorf's red velvet cake
>recipe for less than $250....
>
A few years ago when the Mrs Fields story was going around (and
before Brunvand had published the book with the story in it) I
was in a Mrs Fields shop in Seattle and saw a sign that made
reference to the story, and how it was not true.  I went home and
looked up the reference on the Red Velvet Cake story in Brunvand's
book, photocopied it, and sent it to Debbie Fields with a note
saying that the two stories sounded awfully close.  Then I closed
with some smart remark about how her cookies were now "legendary."

She wrote back a nice letter, and enclosed her business card,
and on the back was written "Give this guy a pound of cookies."
In the letter she mentioned that I could trade it for cookies
at any Mrs Fields outlet.

The young ladies at Mrs Fields on University Way were very
impressed!  The cookies were great.




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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: FIZZIES (was: Re: Cheese popcorn)
From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 02:27:58 GMT
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)

In article <1992Dec23.192744.10356@nsscmail.att.com> cel@nsscmail.att.com (clayton EDward LEIHY iii) writes:
>In article <1992Dec22.214131.22221@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>In article <1992Dec22.095001.556@news.cs.indiana.edu> dbreece@cherry.ucs.indiana.edu (Dave Breece) writes:
>>>In article <1h7970INNe2c@bigboote.WPI.EDU> driel@wpi.WPI.EDU (Deborah
>>>M Riel) writes: 
>>>>>Have you ever tried to buy the cheese stuff they use to make cheese
>>>>>popcorn?  [stuff deleted]
>
>>>>I wanted to make my own cheese popcorn once [stuff deleted]
>
>>>I don't know if they make this anymore, but a few years back, Kraft
>>>was making grated cheddar cheese [more stuff deleted]
>
>>The Kraft Mac & Cheese mix is essentially the same [ditto]
>
>>Ted "also misses Grape Tang" Frank
>
>1) Does anybody know where/why?...
>2) Are there any ULs (no apostrophe) about?...
>3) Also misses...
>
>Fizzies!!

Fizzies contained cyclamates.

-- 

Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	merk!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.religion.kibology
From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (JKF)
Subject: Re: Proper pronounciation of 'Kibo'
Followup-To: alt.religion.kibology
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	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
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Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 04:11:13 GMT

In article <BzuIvK.3vC@NeoSoft.com> arielle@NeoSoft.com (Stephanie da Silva) writes:
>I heard this old folk song the other day; made me think that perhaps it was
>based on the legend of Kibo.  Perhaps you've heard it.  Goes something
>like this:
>
>Kiboya my Lord
>Kiboya
>Kiboya my Lord
>Kiboya
>Kiboya my Lord
>Kiboya
>Oh, Lord, Kiboya.
>
>Anyone know what it means?

Why, yes.  It means "Time to take this thread to alt.religion.kibology."

Joel "Interpreting idiocy since 1967" Furr
jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein)
Subject: Re: Mrs. Field's cookies (this is really new!)
Reply-To: warren@nysernet.org
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 19:13:31 GMT

In <1992Dec22.180518.15245@midway.uchicago.edu> pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers) writes:

>One wonders what one has to do to become worthy of Hollywood Squares...

So *that*'s what snopes has been up to lately!
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/ nysernet.org much stranger than truth - Caryn James, The New York Times
From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Amusing signs
Date: 23 Dec 1992 07:59:02 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:

  +I was told we wouldn't have to wear helmets in this group.
  +
  +cj "black tie" l

But where do you wear it, Charles?

Terry "Safe poster" Chan
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
Subject: Federal Reserve Numbers (was: I Live to FAQ!)
Reply-To: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
Organization: ACUSON, Mountain View, CA
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:58:37 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.194453.27356@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> barth@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (barth.richards) writes:
>
>established.  An incomplete list of the banks (going by what I presently
>have in my wallet) follows:
>
>          Boston, MA             1     A
>                                 2     B
           Philadelphia, PA       3     C
>          Cleveland, OH          4     D
>                                 5     E
>                                 6     F
>          Chicago, IL            7     G
>                                 8     H
>                                 9     I
>                                10     J
           Dallas, TX            11     K
>          San Francisco, CA     12     L
>
-- 
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lawson@acuson.com                you're part of the precipitate
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.science
From: ljones@utkvx3.utk.edu (Me? Graduated? Nope. Not yet.)
Subject: Re: Dead Pigeons (was: Electric Field Question)
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 19:30:00 GMT

In article <IfAp=Oq00WBKA1dLBE@andrew.cmu.edu>, "Stephen M. Lacy" <sl31+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes...
>Excerpts from netnews.alt.folklore.science: 17-Dec-92 Dead Pigeons (was:
>Electric.. by Drew Lawson@acuson.com 
>> That is because NYC (no, I'm not using MSWord) also has millions of
>> flies, cats, rats, crows and other things which will gladly eat a dead
>> or slow pigeon.
> 
>Ok, so where are the pigeon bones?  Surely, they don't eat the bones
>too.  Where are all the dead rats, cats, crows, etc (I know, flies
>virtually turn into dust when they die) 
> 
>Steve
> 
> 
>"At some point, someone decided we all had to wear clothes...now who
>says we still can't have fun?" -Paraphrase from a Fruit of the Loom
>commercial.
     Good question. Lewis Thomas considered this very question
in his essay "Death in the Open", in _Lives_of_a_Cell_. Thomas
concludes that death is occuring all around us, but that most animals
instinctively hide prior to dying, so that witnessing death
or corpses is jarring. In Lewis's words, seeing a dead bird is more
unusual than seeing ath reading.
     The essay is worht reading.

************************************************************************
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From: arielle@NeoSoft.com (Stephanie da Silva)
Subject: Re: Proper pronounciation of 'Kibo'
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 02:57:19 GMT

I heard this old folk song the other day; made me think that perhaps it was
based on the legend of Kibo.  Perhaps you've heard it.  Goes something
like this:

Kiboya my Lord
Kiboya
Kiboya my Lord
Kiboya
Kiboya my Lord
Kiboya
Oh, Lord, Kiboya.

Anyone know what it means?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein)
Subject: Re: Another University Exam One
Reply-To: warren@nysernet.org
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 09:14:43 GMT

In <-4S=+Y-@engin.umich.edu> thumper@engin.umich.edu (Bob Topping) writes:
>    Are you sure it wasn't to test whether or not you read a.f.u?

I never got the instructions to AFU, just a list of things that we
wouldn't have to do in it.
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: mph@plasma.apana.org.au (Martin Peter Howell)
Subject: Re: Thawing food in cold water
Organization: APANA site, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 14:35:00 GMT

mjenkins@alfred.carleton.ca (Michael Jenkinson) writes:

>My wife says food thaws quicker when immersed in cold water, as
>opposed to thawing it just sitting in the air.
>I think my wife's been sitting in too much cold water recently. (OK,
>she says that's mean..she's reading this over my shoulder. Sorry
>dear.)
>What say ye? Does food thaw quicker in cold water or just in the air?

Water will act aas a much better conductor for the heat in the water
to transfer to the food.  Even if the water was a lot colder than
the surrounding air, it would probably still thaw quicker.

-Martin.
mph@plasma.apana.org.au
From: joltes@husc10.harvard.edu (Richard Joltes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Archie Pittigrew's Testicles
Date: 30 Dec 92 16:02:21 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

hillman@triton.unm.edu (Dan Hillman) writes:
>[I wrote]
>>
>>>|> "Mind you, not as bad as the night Archie Pettigrew ate some
>>>|> sheep's testicles for a bet...God, that bloody sheep kicked him..."

[regarding dear old Archie Pettigrew, man of legend and quick wit]

>The quote is from the sketch "Murder at Moorstones Manor" by Michael Palin
>and Terry Jones. The book in my hands says "Scripts of a television
>comedy performed on the BBC in 1976 and 1977" under the Library o' Congress
>description and "Adventure...Terror...Mystery...Frogs..." on the back.
>
>Palin, M., & Jones, T. (1978). *Ripping yarns*. New York: Pantheon Books.
>ISBN 0-394-73678-8

Several others have pointed me to this series, but I haven't been able to find
a copy of the original "Ripping Yarns" at my local video parlour yet.

I'm wondering whether Mssrs Jones and Palin (in good UL tradition) stole the
line from somewhere else, but I guess we'll give them the benefit of the doubt
for now and credit them with the line.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dick "attribution below" 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 "Murder at Moorstones Manor", circa 1976	
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: cel@nsscmail.att.com (clayton EDward LEIHY iii)
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: NCR Systems Support Center - New Jersey
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:23:56 GMT

In article <7oa1VB4w165w@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz> system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall) writes:
>schamber@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Sylvain Chamberland) writes:

>> In article <6u8mVB1w165w@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz> system@codewks.nacjack.gen.n
>> >Only problem is that this is wrong. Pluto is closer to the sun that Neptune.

>> You're kidding!!!!!

>I'm ALWAYS serious. [Ten points if you can name the source of this 
>quote].

I don't know about any quote,

BUT---

I can see that Pluto is closer to the Sun than Neptune right here...

Neptune =  page  681
Pluto   =  page 1009
Sun     =  page 1289

(The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language - New College
Edition)

Ed "I guess I'm the source of this quote" Leihy
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: The El (Was: Re: Conductivity of water <plus a story from Uncle Dave>)
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 05:08:01 GMT

In article <13716@optilink.COM> manley@optilink.COM (Terry Manley) writes:

>
>dave "we took a short cut past Midway Airport on my ride from the
>Loupe to O'Hare, if you don't know I'll tell you why they call it
>Midway" manley@optilink.com

Sure it wasn't from Guadeloupe to Guadulohare?

cj "here we go loop-de-loupe" l
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: bml@netcom.com (Brian Leibowitz)
Subject: Re: Federal Reserve Notes (Re: I Live to FAQ!)
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 03:09:20 GMT

I can fill in all but one letter

-:           Boston, MA             1     A
-:      >    New York, NY           2     B
:            Philadelphia, PA       3     C
-:           Cleveland, OH          4     D
:            Richmond, VA           5     E
-:      >    Atlanta, GA            6     F
-:           Chicago, IL            7     G
-:      >    St. Louis, MO          8     H
:            Minneapolis, MN        9     I
:                                  10     J
:            Dallas                11     K
-:           San Francisco, CA     12     L


Does anyone have a bill with a J?  J should exist because there
are 12 federal reserve banks and each issues bills.
(I tried to find them all a few years back and for months I never
saw a J bill-my guess is that it may be Honolulu and not many of
the bills make it to the contiguous 49 states.)
I cannot find a list of the Federal Reserve Banks (all the references
I have just state that there are 12)


Some other letters and numbers on the note include printing plate numbers
for both the obverse and reverse.

Before it gets asked, here are the presidents and backs of the notes

1     Washington       ONE between obverse and reverse of great seal of the US
2     Jefferson        Monticello (discontinued 1966)
2     Jefferson        Signing of the declaration of independence (1976)
5     Lincoln          Lincoln Memorial
10    Hamilton         US treasury building
20    Jackson          White House
50    Grant            US Capitol
100   Franklin         Independence Hall
500   McKinley         Ornate FIVE HUNDRED (discontinued 1969)
1000  Cleveland        Ornate ONE THOUSAN (discontinued 1969)
5000  Madison          Ornate FIVE THOUSAND (discontinued 1969)
10K   Chase            Ornate TEN THOUSAND (discontinued 1969)
100K  Wilson           ornate ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND (only used for transactions
               between the Federal Reserve System and the Treasury Department)




Brian

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From: gritton@maryland.et.byu.edu (Jamie Gritton)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.config
Subject: Re: alt.dev.null.mnemonics?
Date: 26 Dec 92 22:13:33 GMT
	<1992Dec26.142013.8643@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
Reply-To: gritton@byu.edu
Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA

jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (JKF) writes:

> Learn how to use the r key instead of the f key, Tim.

One who could use to follow his own advice?
--
James Gritton - gritton@byu.edu - I disclaim
From: loshin@godot.think.com (David Loshin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: asteroids beyond Jupiter
Date: 23 Dec 92 15:45:03
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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In-reply-to: bjacobs@chopin.udel.edu's message of Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:27:10 GMT

In article <BzoupA.MA8@news.udel.edu> bjacobs@chopin.udel.edu (William J Jacobs) writes:

   Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Path: think.com!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!news.udel.edu!chopin.udel.edu!bjacobs
   From: bjacobs@chopin.udel.edu (William J Jacobs)
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   O.K., I've gone back through the tree and read all of the notes about Pluto
   and Neptune and such.  Here's current thought on Pluto:

   Pluto never was an asteroid, wrong chemical composition to have ever been 
   much closer to the Sun than it is now.
   ...

Everyone knows that Pluto is the Dog Star.

   Bill Jacobs 
   Who is finally good for something around here

-David
From: Mike.Oniffrey@launchpad.unc.edu (Mike Oniffrey)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Trademark legends
Date: 28 Dec 92 03:50:56 GMT
Organization: UNC EBBS

For wotz itz worth:

The Bayer pharmeceutical company was based in the southern German state of
Bayern, which is the German term for Bavaria. 


Mike "I'll have another "Hefe-Weizen" Oniffrey - Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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From: Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Ethnicity & Soc.Secur.No.
Date: 1 Jan 93 00:18:48 GMT
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service

In article <30DEC92.18482778@isdres.er.usgs.gov> rhadden@isdres.er.usgs.gov writes:
>My middle number is -90-, and I am a died in the wool WASP- White, Anglo Saxon
>Protestant male.

Dyed in the wool.

Furrfu.  Or, in this case, woolwo.

Bruce "washed in the blood of the lamb" Tindall


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