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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.fan.lemurs
Subject: Re: Ring in the New Year with Some FAQs
From: system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 10:37:45 NZST
Organization: The Code Works Limited, PO Box 10 155, Auckland, New Zealand

jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Joel Furr) writes:

> In article <CINDY.93Jan4211212@solan10.solan.unit.no> cindy@solan10.solan.uni
> >>OFFICIAL AFU MASCOT
> >>  - My pet King snake, Elvis
> >>  - Peter's pet dalmatian dog, Pixel
> >>  - snopes' pet cat, Snopes
> >>  - little gator's non-biological gator, harvee (sorry, no use of
> >>    the "s" word here)
> >>  - Cindy's pet troll, Steinar
> >
> >No, no, no, no..... Steinar is my pet Norwegian.  Stein is my pet
> >troll.
> >
> >I had no idea this was so complicated.

>[nothing worth repeating DELETED].

I hear that Steinar is pushing up the daisies.

ObUl: PA, London
A cat was given a clean bill of health after accidentally being put through a
90 minute automatic washing machine cycle. Priskin, an 18-month-old white cat,
amazed vets after surviving the rigorous wash, rinse and spin programme
virtually unscathed. His owner, Carol Bishop, of Oxfordshire, went to unload
her newly washed whites and found the cat at the back of her machine. The
main damage was bruising to his ears and a torn claw. He was in deep shock and
was kept at the vets' surgery for three days.

Perhaps she though he was socks?

Wayne "or was that Stein" McDougall


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From: walsh@optilink.COM (Mark Walsh)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mother Lifts Car Off Child. Uh huh.
Date: 7 Jan 93 19:48:34 GMT
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA

From article <8808.27597@stratus.SWDC.Stratus.COM>, by jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman):

> There is, however, a Pinto running around the local area that
> has personal plates reading "MOLOTOV".

I love it!  A while back, I saw a (late seventies) Chevy pickup
truck driving around with plates reading, "KABOOM," but I think
that it was in reference to the giga-watt stereo system on board,
and not their propensity to drop their load in side collisions.

How come nobody has mentioned these trucks in this thread?
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From: wb8foz@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (David Lesher)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Net's Funniest Kitche
Date: 10 Jan 1993 01:39:27 GMT
Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews abusers - Beltway Annex
Reply-To: wb8foz@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu (David Lesher)
NNTP-Posting-Host: skybridge.scl.cwru.edu

Speaking of messes,
The Army is busy trying to remove the remains of a WWI Chem warfare lab
& dumpsite in the NW part of the District, near American University.
Seems there was a few things left over, and a backhoe found one earlier
this week.

The $1E6 homeowners are all upset. Fiddle-Faddle. The army did not
start to make all the GOOD stuff until much later, although I suppose
it's possible that they'll find another one of those aliens like the
one in stoarge at Wright-Pat while they're at it....
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: afcondon@maths.tcd.ie (Andrew Condon)
Subject: Re: What new innovation, software or products do you want to see?
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 14:08:31 GMT

PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>Babak sehari writes:
>> automatically posted to all unix wide bbs'

>Sounds like he left his terminal unattended.

Well, if so the perp. was thorough cos flaming the guy yields this
auto-reply (quoted without permission of course):


> Date:      Tue, 05 Jan 93 10:29:36 CST
> From:      sehari@iastate.edu
> 
> Subject: New software or products you like to see.
> 
> Thank you for taking the time and responding to my post.  Due to the fact
> that there was a good number of replys, it might take some time for me to read
> your mail. Main while, I program the computer to let you know that your
> idea is importent to me and has been received by my computer. If you send
> several copies, you would probebly receive a letter like this for each Mail
> you sent me.
> 
> Once again, thank you.
> 
>                   With highest regards,
>                         Babak   Sehari.

--
Andrew
From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (J. Furr)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: SNAFU list
Date: 10 Jan 93 23:28:16 GMT
Distribution: na,mg
Organization: Virginia Center for Lemur Fandom, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA (subscribe to alt.fan.lemurs TODAY)

In article <9JAN199321014312@violet.ccit.arizona.edu> leb@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (BASEL, LESLIE) writes:
>In article <1993Jan7.170022.2575@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes...
>>figmo	fuck it, got my orders
>>fujimo	fuck you jack i'm moving on
>> 
>>Jon "JFC ==Jesus F. Christ, or is it J. Terry Christ?" Papai
>cm,if  cover me, I'm fucked
>fu,ic  fuck you, I'm covered
>
>Rodger "Hey, I just saw Joel's 'Furr Cafeteria' here in Tucson" Coghlan

Bastards.  Still not sending me the royalty checks either.

Joel "I'll get them yet" Furr
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: reid@tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Robert Reid)
Subject: Re: enterprise vs. love boat
Organization: Applied Research Labs, University of Texas at Austin
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:07:34 GMT

PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:

>I got to thinking the other day about the amazing similarities
>between Star Trek: The Next Generation and the Love Boat.
>This has to be more than just coincidence.

>_Category_				_ST:TNG_	_Love Boat_

>Ship					Enterprise	Princess CL.

>Bald Captain				Picard		Steubing

>Black guy				Bartender	LaForge

>Goofy significant character		Gopher		Data

>Slut					Julie		Troi

>Doctor					(name?)		Crusher

>Annoying child on ship			Captains	Doctors
>					daughter	son

>Horny frequent celebrity guest		Charo		Lwaxana


>ObSimilarity:  The new troll character in _Hagar the Horrible_
>looks amazingly like the Don Martin characters in _Mad_.

>-J.


While I realize that the above errors in assigning characters to
series is easily made, I think it would be hilarious if some such
crew swap was made.

	Robert
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: jkshapir@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Kivi Shapiro)
Subject: Celestial Seasonings
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 20:25:16 GMT

What was the deal with Celestial Seasonings tea again?  Some weird
religious sect?

Sorry to cost everyone hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars.

ObUL:  Cows synthesize calcium inside their bodies, since there isn't
       enough of it in their diet to account for the amount in the milk.
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From: phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: A chip on the shoulder
Date: 12 Jan 93 00:53:17 GMT
Organization: Famed Parquet Floor

In article <ll40l0INN1am@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Peter van der Linden) writes:
>Any guesses on the origin of the phrase "a chip 
>on the shoulder"  -- meaning to be embittered about
>something?
>
I've never seen it in real life, but in the movies and comics, a chip
on the shoulder was an invitation to a fight.  The bully put a chip
(A bit of wood, not a franch fry.  Grease, you know.) on his shoulder
and dared the victim to knock it off.  Doing so was considered "throwing
the first blow" and gave the bully an excuse to pound the victim out.

A person with a chip on his shoulder is looking for an argument or
a fisticuffs.  He is not necessarily embittered.

Of course, you probably know this already, and are setting
me up for a sucker punch of your own.  Isn't poor dead Cindy still on
your conscience?

Phil "200 Mhz Alpha on my shoulder" Gustafson
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: kasprj@operators.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak)
Subject: Re: Amusing street names
Reply-To: kasprj@rpi.edu
Organization: The Big Wedge 
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 14:05:58 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.220201.11929@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
|> kasprj@isaac.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak) writes:
|> > Some street names that can be found in just about every city in New York:
|> >
|> > Cuomo
|>   ^^^^^
|> 	Yeah. Sure.
 
 Just checking to see who was awake.
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: jlpicard@austin.ibm.com (Craig Becker)
Subject: Re: Late breaking potential UL!
Originator: jlpicard@woofer.austin.ibm.com
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:21:41 GMT
Reply-To: jlpicard@austin.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Object Technology Products


pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin) writes:
> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
> >Jon "If Christ and Anti-Christ collide, energy released=mC^2" Papai
> 
> Just what _is_ the mass of your average Saviour (or Anti-Saviour as the case
> may be), eh?

What _I_ wanna know is, what happens if you eat Pasta and AntiPasto at
the same meal? 

Craig
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From: johnson@ut-emx.uucp (Karen J. Morgan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: CD Legends
Date: 6 Jan 93 19:02:31 GMT
Organization: U. Texas Center for Space Research

In article <28207@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
^johnson@ut-emx.uucp (Karen J. Morgan) writes:
^  +
^  +It was **Paul** who was dead.  Not only could you hear them say it when you
^  +played the record backwards, but you knew it was true because he was the only
^  +one barefoot on the album cover.
^
^Paul who?
^
^Terry "The guy in the Bee Gees?" Chan

No, the one in Wing.

Karen

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis)
Subject: Re: Amusing Street Name Consequnces
Keywords: The broad flat parking lot
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 20:47:18 GMT
Organization: Austerlitz, Gershovitz, and Carmichael

Jonathan Papai writes:
>Jeff Davis writes:
>>In actually very nice Columbus, Ohio -- current home of the longest
>>running crush in the Mid West -- two crossing downtown streets bear
>>the names Broad St. and High St. The building at their junction is
>>aptly named the Broad High Building.
>-
>	We actually call it the Capitol (sp).  Or do you mean
>that other building?  What crush?
>
a) What other building? 
b) Never you mind.
-- 
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From: linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Peter van der Linden)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Proposal: alt.answers
Date: 10 Jan 1993 01:27:31 GMT
Organization: Sun
NNTP-Posting-Host: positive

J.I.Kamens (jik-dick to some) sez:
> More accurately, the maintainer of the alt.folklore.urban FAQ
> submitted it to news.answers, I rejected it because it did not conform
> to the guidelines, he resubmitted it with an archive name of
> "jik-dick," and then he started insulting me in alt.folklore.urban

I am the "maintainer of the alt.folklore.urban FAQ" mentioned above, and I'd
just like to say that you wouldn't keep getting in these scrapes Jonathan
if you just learned how to interact with people a little bit better.

I have tried to give you this advice before, but the lesson clearly hasn't
sunk in.

You (Jonathan) deserve a lot of credit for the good work you do keeping 
usenet running, but you foolishly dissipate this goodwill by rubbing
many people up the wrong way.

I had been on usenet for about 10 years before I started seeing postings
from you when you were  a lowly MIT undergrad -- asking stupid questions and making
stupid mistakes.  You went on to learn much technically, but your people
skills remain atrophied.  You are the poorer for this, not us.  

Submitted in humility (right!)

       Peter
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:32804 alt.folklore.college:3358
From: meltsner@crd.ge.com (Kenneth J. Meltsner)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Architect Suicides
Date: 7 Jan 93 18:21:42 GMT
Reply-To: meltsner@crd.ge.com
Organization: GE Research and Development Center



In article <1993Jan7.031241.1450@samba.oit.unc.edu>,
Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall) writes:
|>According to the people who guide visitors around Fallingwater, the
|>famous Frank Lloyd Wright house near Pittsburgh, some academic-type
|>engineers wrote a report before the house was constructed proving that
|>the design would not work, and that the house would fall down; Wright
|>called bullshit on them and sealed up their report in the cornerstone
|>of the house (which is , of course, still standing).

And there's the story of the engineering or architecture student at
MIT that had his thesis rejected because he showed the campus's Kresge
Auditorium's roof would crumble and collapse.  Twenty years later, it
got darn close to doing just that because of water infiltrating under
the lead sheathing.

Checking the index of theses wouldn't help because it was rejected, so
it stays a legend.

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.sport.baseball
From: cmk@athena.mit.edu (Charles M Kozierok)
Subject: Re: Trademarkability of personal names (Was: Re: Babe Ruth Candy Bar)
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 05:46:25 GMT

In article <1993Jan10.190058.24035@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <1993Jan10.154046.19010@midway.uchicago.edu> pynq@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>In article <1993Jan8.213043.7416@photon.com> jbn@photon.com (Joe Naiman) writes:
>>>Allegedly the Baby Ruth bar was named for President Cleveland's daughter,
>>>but since Cleveland was out of office for decades, it's popular belief
>>>that the Curtis Candy Company wanted to avoid paying the Yankee slugger
>>>royalties and claimed that it was named after the President's daughter.
>>
>>Does this make any sense?  I'm pretty sure that people's names are not
>>trademarks.  I could make a Richard Nixon candy bar, and I doubt I would
>>have to pay royalties to any of the Richard Nixons in the US or anywhere
>>else.
>
>False.  True, names aren't trademarks as such, but they're still protected
>property rights.  Richard Nixon could sue for invasion of privacy.

i believe that this (or a related) law doctrine is the reason why you
rarely see players' real names in computer sports games. the players'
associations own the rights to the use of the names. so you can't
just write a baseball game and put as oakland's firstbaseman "M. McGwire".

i *did* however once see a football game where all the players' numbers 
were accurate, so i guess that is fair game. seriously, i wonder if
that would be a problem for some of the big names who have distinctive
numbers. a "#99 bar" might sell pretty well, especially north of the
border... what do you legal eagles think?

--
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.sport.baseball
From: styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
Subject: Re: Babe Ruth Candy Bar
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: Bohemians and Globetrotters, Unlimited
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 14:22:26 GMT

At least I'm pretty sure the candy bar isn't named after Babe Ruth the band.

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.sport.baseball
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: Trademarkability of personal names (Was: Re: Babe Ruth Candy Bar)
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 19:00:58 GMT

In article <1993Jan10.154046.19010@midway.uchicago.edu> pynq@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <1993Jan8.213043.7416@photon.com> jbn@photon.com (Joe Naiman) writes:
>>Allegedly the Baby Ruth bar was named for President Cleveland's daughter,
>>but since Cleveland was out of office for decades, it's popular belief
>>that the Curtis Candy Company wanted to avoid paying the Yankee slugger
>>royalties and claimed that it was named after the President's daughter.
>
>Does this make any sense?  I'm pretty sure that people's names are not
>trademarks.  I could make a Richard Nixon candy bar, and I doubt I would
>have to pay royalties to any of the Richard Nixons in the US or anywhere
>else.

False.  True, names aren't trademarks as such, but they're still protected
property rights.  Richard Nixon could sue for invasion of privacy.  In 
fact, the right to the prevent misappropriation of a name or likeness 
can go awfully far.  See, for example, (I am not making this up), Carson 
v Here's Johnny Portable Toilets, Inc., 698 F2d 831 (6th Cir 1983).
[As a side note, does anyone know what allows the production of Richard
Nixon masks?]  

There are also statutory provisions where the state common law may not
protect a name or likeness.  See, for example New York Civil Rights Law
sections 50-51.

See also the Second Restatement of the the Law of Torts, section 652C.
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: ALI00BAW@UNCCVM.UNCC.EDU
Subject: Re: Upside-down burglar
Organization: UNC Charlotte
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:04:56 GMT

I dated a trumpet player.  Boy, could she kiss!  (Strong, flexible lips.)
In article <1993Jan11.204549.3758@netcom.com>
jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer) writes:
 
>
>In article <1993Jan11.142349.16346@adimail.uucp> tel@adimail.uucp (Terry Monks) writes:
>>Cynthia Kandolf (cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no) wrote:
>>:
>>: There is no such note as E-sharp.  One half-step above E is F.
>>: Sometimes you will see an E-sharp written on a piece of music, but
>>: it's to be played as an F.  There is no key called E-sharp on a piano.
>>:
>>I believe this is wrong. If you name the notes in the triad for C sharp
>>you will say C sharp, E sharp and G sharp. There is no F in the key of
>>C sharp. The keys on a piano are immaterial, as you know, there is no
>>E sharp key on a trombone either.
>
>Right - any brass player worth their mouthpiece will know that a E-sharp
>is a different note than an F, and that an A-sharp is different than a
>B-flat. On the piano, of course, those dweebs can't tell the difference
>which is why trumpet players are worth so much more than piano players.
>Remember that next time you have a choice between dating a mere pianist
>and the more god-like trumpet player (or if you can't find one, the
>very acceptable trombone player).
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.fan.lemurs,alt.fan.warlord,alt.religion.kibology
From: kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry)
Subject: Re: Ring in the New Year with Some FAQs
Followup-To: alt.religion.kibology,alt.fan.warlord
Organization: Two rooms filled with typography, in downtown Boston
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:48:28 GMT

In article <1993Jan10.205515.7606@nezsdc.icl.co.nz> derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:
>ObUL1: There are _no_ snakes in New Zealand - not even in Zoos.

What about Rupert Murdoch?

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>	  file before posting to protect yourself from .sig retro-virii

I'd like to know if I may get an extra-extra-large.  

						-- K.

						Mine's bigger than yours.
						Peeks 50c.

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
Subject: Re: The shifty-eyed shifty-shaped Odo
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 12:09:09 GMT

twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:

>cep@taligent.com (Christophe Pettus) writes:
[re odo]
>  +He changed into both the bag and the money.

>What would have happened if part of him was spent?

I dunno - part of me has been spent with no long term consequences.

Paul "Maybe we'll find out when we see the holographic brothel" Tomblin

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
Subject: Re: Late breaking potential UL!
Reply-To: lawson@aldia.UUCP (Drew Lawson)
Organization: ACUSON, Mountain View, CA
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:45:37 GMT

In article <28216@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>RE  Bill Clinton
>
>bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM writes:
>
>  +He managed to become Time's Man of the Year in the year before he
>  +assumed office -- the guy's obviously got the jump us somehow, Terry.
>
>He's got the jump on a lot more than that....
>
>Terry "Did that come out right?" Chan

Let's be fair.  Don't let the media Flower your judgement.

Drew "I still don't inhale" Lawson
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.sport.baseball
From: pfleury@ddsw1.mcs.com (Patrick J. Fleury)
Subject: Re: Babe Ruth Candy Bar
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 03:00:56 GMT
Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Chicago, IL

In article <1993Jan8.143823.13898@zip.eecs.umich.edu> stame@emunix.emich.edu (Stewart Tame) writes:
>In article <C0IMup.3vL@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> cscdc@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Dan Carpenter) writes:
>>
>>Well, Jerome Holtzman won this *one*.  The Babe Ruth candy bar *is*
>>named after Babe Ruth.
>>
>>Sorry to burst your bubble.
I just looked up the etymology of Baby Ruth in "The People's Alamnac" by
David Wallechinsky and Irving Wallace.  On page 355 they say:

	"BABY RUTH The candy bar was named after the oldest daughter
	of President Grover Clevelan and not after baseball's Babe
	Ruth"

_The People's Almanac_ was published by Doubleday in 1975.o  There are
three volumes.  The one I have is volume 1.  (It's a neat book though.
It's right up there with _The Straight Dope_.

--Pat F.
pfleury@ddsw1.mcs.com


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