HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Scearce)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Man pays for college with pinball
Date: 12 Jan 1993 21:47:13 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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In article 25873@tc.cornell.edu, kutcha@eos.acm.rpi.edu (Phillip Rzewski) writes:
> I'm just as skeptical on this one as anyone else,

Throw him in the skeptic tank!

> but I get the feeling that the "for entertainment purposes only" is to
> say "you're not allowed to gamble on it". So 5 guys in a bar couldn't
> put down $20 on whether or not a guy could score a million. Whatever.

Isn't there a blanket prohibition on gambling anyway?  If you were
going to stamp "for entertainment purposes only" on anything, I'd put
it on (non-Nevada) dice and cards, not pinball machines.

Brian "This coin legal tender and FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY" Scearce
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From: ilaine@panix.com (Liz Stokes)
Subject: Re: CD Legends
Organization: Panix Public Access Internet & Unix, NYC
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 14:08:17 GMT

In article <1993Jan2.211455.11114@panix.com> dannyb@panix.com (Daniel Burstein) writes:

>any suggestions on how to play a cd in reverse?

	sure, play the cd on a line-in to a sound card and digitize the
whole thing. Then use a sound editor to reverse it. Takes a hefty hard-drive
and a pretty decent editor but wth - the safty of the world might be at
stake!
		-Liz



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From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: Unusual strength, IS: Mother Lifts Car Off Child. Uh huh.
Organization: The Ohio State University
 <C0IIFA.2LB@cs.psu.edu>
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 04:11:37 GMT

In article  <C0IIFA.2LB@cs.psu.edu>,antunes@astro.psu.edu (Sandy Antunes) writes:
>Terry "insert witty quote here" Chan writes:
>>gives the story some credibility.  Your leg bones can hold
>>2 tons?  What about the rest of you (e.g., joints, tendons,
>>ligaments, bladder, etc.)?
>
>I'm not sure about joints and such, but I'm pretty sure my bladder
>can't hold 2 tons.  Let's see, 2 tons of water (or, beer) is around
>1,000 liters... yep, I'm positive my bladder can't hold that.
>cheers,
>sandy "lightweight" antunes

2 metric tons would be 2000 liters.  2 American tons would be 2000 quarts.
At least for water.  But how many pony-kegs is that?

ObUL: The size of pony kegs varies regionally.

Jon "My blood can hold up 95 mm of mercury" Papai
From: brian@sgml.com (Brian E. Travis)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: The flywheel on the jeep goes round and round
Distribution: world
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 05:03:50 GMT
Organization: SGML Associates, Inc.
Reply-To: brian@sgmlinc.com

When I was in high school, a friend told me a story about a 
friend's (FOAF) jeep. It seems the FOAF was tooling around the 
desert in his jeep (or generic equivalent). The vehicle had a 
three-speed column-mounted shifter. First gear was up and 
forward, second was down and forward, third was up and back, and 
reverse was below that.

The event in question allegedly happened when the friend was 
cruising along in third gear. He put his foot on the clutch to 
coast and then hit a bump. This caused the gear shifter to fall 
silently down into reverse.

Ignorant about the change in gears, the driver released the 
clutch at this high speed, and the jeep made a terrible noise, 
followed by the flywheel making its way through the transmission 
and hood and going "three hundred feet" into the air.

Having no experience with column-mounted shifters, I imagine it 
would have to have some mondo synchromesh to achieve such an 
effect.

Brian "I drive an automatic" Travis
From: bspencer@cs.mcgill.ca (Brian SPENCER)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Amusing street names
Date: 5 Jan 93 20:58:43 GMT
Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada

In article <1993Jan5.191741.26982@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> pwhitman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Philip N Whitman) writes:
>Can anyone identify a major city for me that does not have a street named
>after Martin Luther King, Jr.?
>
>-Neal


I assume you mean in the United States. For what it's worth, Montreal
does not.
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From: smb@research.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
Subject: Re: Phone Calls at 2/3 the Speed of Light
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:31:14 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Keywords: phone, telephone, speed

In article <C0qour.7B9@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>, dam@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (David Morning) writes:
> jlpicard@austin.ibm.com (Craig Becker) writes:
> I'd imagine the delays in in a digital exchange would probably be around 10
> to 20nSecs fixed. Cable delays would be a function of their length. A 10km
> length of cable with a prpogation factor of 0.66C would have a delay time
> of....oh hell!!

In fact, there's a delay budget that goes into the engineering of the
phone network.  Studies have been done about when the delayed echo of
one's voice becomes noticeable and objectionable, and the system is
designed to keep the delays below that level.  (Sorry, but I don't
remembe the exact numbers.)
From: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Epileptics and computer games
Date: 9 Jan 93 20:35:29 GMT
Reply-To: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
Organization: COMANDOS Project, Glesga Yoonie

styri@nta.no wrote:
> Some time ago there was a thread where epilectic sezures caused by
> tv monitors was discussed (among a zillion other things). Scanning
> the usual pile of papers in search of useful information I found a
> story about Nintendo games. The story comes from Britain, and some
> minister of consumer affairs, Lady Denton, has requested a report.
> Daily Mail seems to have published a story about several incidents
> in the UK.
> I remember somebody posted an article claiming that this was a
> rare event. What's the background for the above story? Are there
> any US reports on this? If not, is that due to the US using 60 Hz
> and Europe using 50Hz? Is this just another stupid newspaper UL.

This effect has been known for a long time: apparently there are a couple
of new games that have quite a bit of flashing at the relevant frequencies
(the local paper described someone ending up in hospital after the opening
screens of Sonic Hedgehog got to him).

It shouldn't be very sensitive to mains line frequency, for two reasons:
(1) the relevant frequencies are anything in the 10-14Hz range and a 20%
change might affect different people but will still get some, and (2) since
Americans don't have nervous systems that run 20% faster than Europeans,
the timing of events in the game will be set the same no matter what the
power might be doing.

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From: obrien@netcom.com (No parking EXCEPT FOR BOB)
Subject: Re: Ring in the New Year with Some FAQs
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 10:24:35 GMT

cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no (Cynthia Kandolf) writes:
>
>I had no idea this was so complicated.
>
>-Cindy Kandolf (still not dead)
> Trondheim, Norway


YES, folks, in a similar fashion to the wonderful tradition established by
Generalissimo Francisco Franco with the help of SNL's Weekend Update,
our very own Cynthia Kandalf is still valiantly holding on to not being dead.


	Bob "official AFU smiley substitute" O'Bob

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From: sjsmith@cs.umd.edu (Stephen Joseph Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Jesus' name (was Re: Late breaking potential UL!)
Date: 9 Jan 93 04:01:30 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Maryland at College Park

flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
>Temporarily assuming something which is most likely false, namely that you are
>asking in seriousness, Jesus' name was simply "Jesus", or if you prefer "Jesus
>of Nazareth".  "Christ" means saviour or something to that effect, it is not a
>name.

Jesus.

Jesus' name was "Yeshua."

"Christos" means "anointed" in Greek.

- Stephen "Now, watch me post about Numbers 6:22-27 in alt.quotations" Smith
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From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers)
Subject: Re: Definitive "Baby Ruth" answer
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 02:23:07 GMT

In article <1993Jan08.205858.5017@microsoft.com> leecr@microsoft.com (Lee Crocker) writes:
>According to a spokesman for Nestle foods, the maker of Baby Ruth
>candy bars, they were named after Grover Cleveland's daughter
>Ruth, not the ball player.  They were first marketed in 1893.
>
>Nestle foods can be reached at 818-549-6000 for those who care
>to verify this.

Is that "Babe Ruth" or "Baby Ruth"???  Maybe the former was a baseball
player, while the later was a First Daughter...

(Rest of article in which the name of the candy bar is always spelled
with a 'Y' - deleted)

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From: jamys@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (David Godley)
Subject: Re: Krungthep vs Bangkok was Extreme place names and Amusing...
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 04:47:31 GMT

In <1993Jan6.083132.25529@sq.sq.com> msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:

>The 1992 Guinness also gives the full official name of Bangkok as
>"Krungthep Mahanakhon Bovorn Ratanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokpop
>Noparatratchathani Burirom Udomratchanivet mahasathan Amornpiman
>Avatarnsathit Sakkathattiyavisnukarmprasit (167 letters), which in its
>most scholarly transliteration emerges with 175 letters".  Presumably
>they mean to imply that this official name is not "now in use".

No.  The proper and official name of the Capital of Thailand is Krungthep....
It is still in use.  Bangkok is a separate entity.  Bangkok was the name
of a town located near the site of of the current Capital.

A brief explaination....

When Westerners first arrived in Thailand the Capital of the Kingdom was
Ayutthaya on the Chao Phraya River.  Bangkok was a port town further
downstream.  Westerners would get off their boats at Bankok and then
travel inland to Ayutthaya.  200 odd years ago the capital moved to
Thonburi, and then shortly afterwards it was moved across the Chao Phraya
to its current location.  This city now encompasses what was once the town
of Bangkok.  Infact, the name is preserved as two "suburbs" of the new
Capital:  Bangkok Noi and Bangkok Yai.  The proper name of the Capital the
full thing as given above.  Every Thai child learns and memorises it.  In
the Royal speeches it is still used in full.  However everywhere else it
is shortened to either Krungthep or Krungthep Mahanakhon and is sometimes
abbreviated to (the equivalent of) K.T.M

Bangkok is _not_ and it never has been the capital of Thailand.

A sort of analogous thing would be to call New York New Amsterdam because
that was its original name.  A number of other non English colonial names
were changed by the British and later the Americans


-- 

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From: ashall@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Andrew S Hall)
Subject: Animals Bombs?
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:43:27 GMT


Is there a good book or article that details the various facts
and legends about using animals to deliver explosives?

I have heard about Skinner's pigeons and all sorts of stories
about porposises. In fact, my friend and I got kicked out of
8th grade science class for laughing out loud when the teacher
told the class about hooking bombs to porposises.

Andrew Hall

"Here Flipper!  Here Flipper!  .....   KABOOM!!!!!!"
From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Bugger it
Date: 12 Jan 93 10:22:26 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre

In article <1993Jan11.144515.23044@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu> reid@tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Robert Reid) writes:
>linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Peter van der Linden) writes:

>>Thirdly I was at graduate school with a man who was cheating the telephone
>>system by making collect calls to different public phone boxes in England.

>I must have missed something. How does calling public phone boxes in
>England collect get you anywhere?

Privately owned phones are still not universal here.  It used to be 
commonplace for people to arrange to be called in public boxes.  If you can 
also arrange to get the call collect (reversed charge, in UK terminology), 
then the phone box gets the bill.......but reversed charge calls must go
via the operator, and I think they now have a device or a list which tells 
them which numbers belong to public boxes.

        Never believe an experiment until it is confirmed by theory 
    Dave Budd, MCC, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England    (44|0)61-275-6033
From: wadswort@babss.UUCP (John H. Wadsworth)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Man pays for college with pinball
Date: 11 Jan 93 17:24:33 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Distribution: world
Organization: Bell Atlantic Business Systems Service Branford, Ct.

In article <1993Jan11.044036.9736@mtu.edu> cmwolf@mtu.edu (christopher m. wolf) writes:
>>In article <1993Jan11.032506.28776@Princeton.EDU> datepper@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Aaron Tepper) writes:
>>>It's worse than that. You know those "for entertainment purposes only"
>>>blurbs on the cabinets of pinball machines? What that means is, if
>>>you've been playing for hours and get 10 credits, and the place of
>>>business then closes, the operator doesn't have to (or can't--I'm
>>>a tad fuzzy on the proper modal here) pay you for the credits you've
>>>earned.                                 
>
>As a note, there once were games that paid off in quarters instead of
>free credits.

I believe it was nickels or pennies but the idea is the same. You have
to go back into the origins of pin ball games to see how this works.
Originally these machines were considered evil wasters of money better
spent. To sweeten the pot they then added the feature of returning some
of your money. Now your talking about a form of gambling! Gambling is/was
outlawed in some towns so the pay off had to be eliminated. We can't
be having good honest folks being exposed to such temptations. They might
spend their savings on the lottery, ummm I mean pinball. :-)

These same ideas , which seem so antiquated, are still with us today.
Not so long ago local bars were on a kick to get video poker machines
set up in their place. These machines dispenced tickets that the bar
would refund for a beer. They were shutdown for gambling.
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: A FAQ for the Holidays
Date: 4 Jan 93 04:24:19 GMT
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University

In article <1993Jan3.220516.24864@news.unomaha.edu> torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair) writes:
>
>BTW, how do you know that I am not a lemur?

Maybe you are an AI program launched by lemurs.

cj "do lemurs prefer le menu?" l
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From: roger@uvmark.uucp (Roger MacNicol)
Subject: Re: Amusing street names
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 93 15:41:51 GMT
Organization: VMARK Software, Inc.

In article <C0EI4G.1zx@math.uwaterloo.ca> alopez-o@neumann.uwaterloo.ca (Alex Lopez-Ortiz) writes:
>In article <1993Jan5.211559.24075@julian.uwo.ca>, jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll) writes:
>> In article <1993Jan5.191741.26982@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> pwhitman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Philip N Whitman) writes:
>> >Can anyone identify a major city for me that does not have a street named
>> >after Martin Luther King, Jr.?
>> >
>> >-Neal
>> 
>> 	Toronto, Tokyo, Hong Kong,  Minsk,  and Paris  come  to mind.
>
>But the original posting was refering to major cities of the WORLD,
>and every american knows that the world has 51 states, speaks english,
>and eats hamburgers.
>
>The rest of the planet is made up of non-countries, inhabited by some
>weird people who do not even speak english.
>
>References: "Top ten movies of all times", rec.arts.movies. 
>
>Alex

Whoa there, since when have americans(TM) been able to speak english(TM)?




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From: Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Subject: Largest named number (bigger than googolplex)
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 00:53:14 GMT

Earlier today someone asked whether the googolplex (10 to the power googol)
was the largest named number (i.e., I assume, the largest number with an
idiosyncratic name).  No.  According to the aforementioned _Mathematics
and the Imagination_ by Kasner and Newman [peace be upon them], Skewes's
Number, which (according to K&N) "gives information about the distribution
of primes," and is 10**(10**(10**34)), whereas the googolplex is only
10**(10**(10**2)).

Bruce "111777" Tindall
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From: cthomas@athena.mit.edu (Michael T Ford)
Subject: Re: great Great Dome hacks (was Re: Kresge auditoria)
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 06:46:14 GMT

>
>And while we're discussing MIT architecture, is there a FAQ for the various 
>objects placed on the classical dome?  I've heard about the VW bug that was
>left running, and about the telephone booth.  When the security guards went 
>onto the dome to remove the booth, the pranksters called the booth!
>Torsten at Omaha

One of the more famous was when students stole the fiberglass cow from
the Hilltop Steak House and put it in the dome.  When the cow was returned,
the owners of the restaurant placed a mortar board on its head and a 
diploma in its mouth.
This was on 31 October 1979 and was done by the ATO fraternity.

And on 31 October and 6 November 1972, students from the MacGregor
Dormitory covered the dome with plastic and paint to represent
"Kilroy".

On 31 October 1977, ATO adorned both of the MIT domes with giant wood 
screws for the annual "Institute Screw" award.

In September of 1986, THA added a house to the top of the dome to alleviate
crowding in the dorms.  The house was 16 foot square and 12 feet high
with windows and a door painted on.  Due to intervention by the campus
police, the roof was never put on.

In the summer of 1987, THA put a 6 foot snowman an the small dome.

On 31 October 1962, ATO added cloth and paint to the dome and then surrounded
it with red and yellow gels on the floods to create "The Great Pumpkin".

In August of 1979 Burton One (part of a dorm) had studied the dimensions
of the great dome.  The students turned the dome into a giant breast
just before the annual freshman picnic and placed up the sign that 
said, "MAMMA MAXIMA SCIENTIAE."

In April of 1961, the frshman class celebrated MIT's centennial with
a nine foot tall cardboard candle on the great dome and a sign
that said, "Happy Birthday."



This is all I could find.  They were taken from _The_Journal_of_the_
_Institute_for_Hacks_Tomfoolery_&_Pranks_at_MIT_, copyright 1990.


Mike
cthomas@athena.mit.edu
From: alopez-o@neumann.uwaterloo.ca (Alex Lopez-Ortiz)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Amusing street names
Date: 5 Jan 93 21:53:03 GMT
Organization: University of Waterloo

In article <1993Jan5.211559.24075@julian.uwo.ca>, jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll) writes:
> In article <1993Jan5.191741.26982@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> pwhitman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Philip N Whitman) writes:
> >Can anyone identify a major city for me that does not have a street named
> >after Martin Luther King, Jr.?
> >
> >-Neal
> 
> 	Toronto, Tokyo, Hong Kong,  Minsk,  and Paris  come  to mind.

But the original posting was refering to major cities of the WORLD,
and every american knows that the world has 51 states, speaks english,
and eats hamburgers.

The rest of the planet is made up of non-countries, inhabited by some
weird people who do not even speak english.


Alex


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Waterloo, Ontario                                                   Canada
From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Unusual strength, IS:Mother Lifts Car Off Child. Uh huh.
Date: 12 Jan 1993 07:02:29 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:
  
  +And of course there is the film of the long jumper breaking his leg on 
  +starting the jump.  Looks a bit odd in mid air apparently with bone sticking 
  +out and all.  I wonder what was going through his mind at the time with all 
  +that sand ahead!

Uh, let me guess:

  - Will I'll set a record anyway?

  - Will I make CBS's Wide World of Sports trailer?

  - Will mine look better than Joe Theisman's on ESPN?


Terry "Am I getting closer?" Chan
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