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Subject: Re: Norton, Son of Lucifer (Was Re: Peter Norton, son of Betty Crocker)
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 19:33:29 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <1991@blue.cis.pitt.edu> seawasp@vm2.cis.pitt.edu (Sea Wasp) writes:
>
>                          ...In a better world, such evils would
>have been done away with, but here we find the corruption of the *86
>series made manifest. Beware.

Has anyone noticed that you can easily convert the character 8 into a six?
When Intel bring out their 686 chip sometime in 1995 a few engineers (who 
occasionally get to see the actual chip) will notice that a little bit of 
the paint on the 8 is slightly different to the rest and is made of paint
which fades to nothing when warmed.  The chip will then say 666!!!!!!

Woooah! Scary or what!

>
>                                 Sea Wasp
>                                   /^\
>                                   ;;;

A sea wasp.  The worlds most venomous jellyfish - and an Australian to boot.

Derek "Yuk, gross, it's all squishy, what's that burning in my foo..." Tearne



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From: landauer@morocco.Eng.Sun.COM (Doug Landauer)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Amusing street names
Date: 23 Jan 1993 00:03:44 GMT
Organization: Sun
NNTP-Posting-Host: morocco

> i live about a mile away from 'easy street' in sunny t00son, arizona...

I have a friend who lives on (actually owns part of) Memory Lane.

I used to have a landlady who lived on Either Way.

These are both in the San Lorenzo Valley, north of Boulder Creek
(California).
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: References sought on coriolis effect
Date: 24 Jan 93 20:35:31 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <8911.14159@stratus.SWDC.Stratus.COM> jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman) writes:
>I asked my (British) husband about "Pole to Pole" and its
>veracity.  He looked at me peculiarly.  I told him that they
>"demonstrated" coriolis effect.  [admirable experimentation deleted]
>He laughed.  Apparently, anyone with intelligence ignores the stuff on 
>"Pole to Pole" because "they'll do anything to make a point."  

So they had their hosts (In Zambia) shot a few weeks after they left to
make a point did they?

My impression of the program was that he had basically got it right.  He 
managed to give a good impression of the conditions of travel in Africa 
and the situations one encounters.  The 'people with intelligence' who 
'ignore this stuff' are in fact showing their own ignorance and narrow 
mindedness.  

I especially liked his comments at the end of Africa that he "Had entered 
Africa an eternal optimist and left a complete fatalist".  Or something 
very similar (Somebody with the book will undoubtedly correct this quote).

OK so he filmed the Coriolis section without prejudice and it made good 
TV so it was kept in.  Now _we_ would have known that this effect is a myth
and performed our own empirical experiments to confirm this.  I don't blame
Michael Palin for not doing so though.  He wasn't there to judge - he was 
there to observe and report.  Which is very refreshing in a travelogue.

ObBitAboutFamousPeople: I must have missed running into Michael Palin by days.
All I would have needed to do was offer him some tea and act either British 
or ever so colonial and I could have been a star.  

Has anyone else on the net narrowly missed meeting someone famous?

Derek "Will tell travel stories for food" Tearne


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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: dmunroe@vcd.hp.com (Dave Munroe)
Subject: Re: software kills
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 05:33:31 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard

>clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke) writes in sci.nanotech:

>Unfortunately, the software reset did not reset the hardware, until after
>machine rebooted.  In the meanwhile the patient fried.

The incident was shown a few years ago on TV (20/20?).  What you describe
is accurate up until the point about the reset.  The operator needed to back
out of the menus, but used the arrow keys.  Unfortunately one of the
menu fields either wasn't programmed to handle arrow keys or wasn't programmed
to handle a particular arrow key.  The result was that the X-ray duration was
much, much longer than normal.

-Dave
From: andor@inode.com
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: CUTTIN' THE RUG
Date: 27 Jan 93 14:23:58 EST
Reply-To: andor@inode.com
Distribution: world
Organization: inode BBS, NYC's Best Usenet Access (212-679-9146)

 -=> Quoting J_manes@vger.nsu.edu to News <=-

 J_> rug that looks too new won't sell.  I've always heard that new rugs are
 J_> put out on the sidewalks or the street to get some wear and look more
 J_> like what  customers expect to buy.

And I've heard they leave them on the hillside and the camels walk all over
them...


... Tag line thievery ... On the next Geraldo!
--- Blue Wave/QWK v2.10
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Discovering America (was British Constitution)
From: joltes@husc10.harvard.edu (Richard Joltes)
Date: 25 Jan 93 11:37:51 EST
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

barth@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (barth.richards) writes:
 
>There is some evidence to suggest that there were "old world" interactions
>with the Native Americans long before that.  Check out the book AMERICA
>B.C. by Barry Fell.  I know that his position is pretty controversial, but
>he presents a lot (I mean a *lot*) of interesting archeological and
>linguistic evidence that suggests that all sorts of people from Europe and
>the Middle East were popping in on Pocahontas's ancestors for many hundreds
>of years before either Columbus or Erikson arrived here.

Fell presents a lot of evidence, but his sources and methods are subject to
serious debate.  He's pretty well considered in the same league as Von Daniken
and Veliokovsky (sp?) among most folks.  There's even a class here at Harvard
on "Alternative Views of the Past" that classes his work under the heading of
"fantastic archaeology."

There's some limited (but growing!) evidence that Europeans were contacting
Native Americans much earlier than Columbus.  I think most newer history books
have changed their ways, and now state that Chris "opened the way for New World
exploration" or something like that.

Lots of people seem to need to believe that really wild stuff happened in the
past.  Personally, I'd like to spend one day in the Library at Alexandria with
the ability to read any items contained therein...

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dick "I'm not an archaeologist, but I play one on the net" 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..."
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: smith+@cs.cmu.edu (Sean Smith)
Subject: Re: Coke Machines
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Summary: this IS a first hand report, dammit!
Keywords: snopes = asshole
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:02:34 GMT

In article <930119203957.10af@VAX.CSUN.EDU> VBCSC03L@VAX.CSUN.EDU (snopes) writes:
>  smith+@cs.cmu.edu (Sean Smith) . . .
>
>>The Coke machine in the School of Computer Science (fomerly the CS
>>Department) at Carnegie Mellon used to be online.   When I started grad
>>school here (fall semester, 1987), all you had to do was finger
>
>	coke@g.gp.cs.cmu.edu
>
>>and you'd get a report showing which slots had cold cokes.
>
> Yeah, and the distributors didn't have to come out to fill the machine,
> because they could just telnet over and do it.  Plus, the students didn't
> have to walk down the hall to buy a soda; they could just get one via ftp
> without leaving their seats.  Rumor has it that the machine was shut down
> after it continually posted "Babylon 5" info to rec.arts.startrek.
>
> - snopes

This snoping is unwarranted.  (Must be long-term effects from that undersea
Antarctic dome.)

What I posted was fact.

In the dim past, bored CMU students wired their Coke machine to the net,
for exactly the reasons I mentioned: so you wouldn't head all the way
down to the machine and find it was empty.  Or find it was full, but have
the machine give you a warm Coke.

(Since students took care of the machine, it would have made since to have
the machine send mail when it was nearly empty, but I don't believe
this feature existed.)

What documentation do you require?  I used this service myself.  I can
easily provide testimony from the two dozen students remaining from 
1987 who used this service, and from faculty and staff (who tend to stick
around longer).   Worldwide, I'd guess there are at least 200 people who
passed through the department in the mid-80s who can personally verify this.

Hell, I can probably even dig up the schematics of the interface if you want.  

Now fuck off.

--Sean

ObUL: Salvatore Dali wrote a script for a Marx Brothers movie, but Harpo
lost it.

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                     carnegie mellon computer science

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: gj156879@alfred.carleton.ca ( gj student 156879)
Subject: Where does Aids Come From?
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:44:39 GMT

Just wanted to thank everyone who posted and mailed me.  I was pretty
sure it was a hokey idea, and wanted to get some feedback on it.

Thanks.
From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Bambi meets Godzilla.
Date: 27 Jan 1993 00:53:21 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall) writes obliquely with 
   reference to a predilection of Phil's and ends with:
  
  +Bruce "now where can I get an effigy of G. Bujold" Tindall

AFU WEST V.  In San Francisco, you can get an effigy of anyone
you want.

Terry "But they might not call them 'effigys'" Chan
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Energy and Environment Division   | Internet:  TWChan@lbl.gov
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory      | 
Berkeley, California  USA  94720  | Yeah, right.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: mcwg9235@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Marsha Woodbury )
Subject: Re: The Ultimate Circumcision
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 11:31:35 GMT

What a lucky little boy.  He gets to be a girl.  Sometimes
fate is kind.
-- 
Marsha Woodbury   marsha-w@uiuc.edu
A simile is like a metaphor.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: sweeney@Ingres.COM (Tony Sweeney)
Subject: Re: Cuttin' the Rug
Reply-To: sweeney@Ingres.COM (Tony Sweeney)
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501
Date: 25 Jan 93 11:22:19 GMT

In article <1993Jan23.161915.17645@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>
> But because of God, not Allah in their case.
>
>Jon "Amish, Islamic, sound the same to me" Papai

Aren't these two the same guy? I mean, have you ever seen them together?

Tony "or at least closely related" Sweeney.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: moscoso@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Innocuous Punch)
Subject: Re: Pizza Brain
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 10:11:45 GMT

meg@syrinx.umd.edu (******** Meg *******) writes:

[...boy takes home bits of brain in plastic bag from science class...]
>Then his mom came home and made pizza, using that "wonderful little bag of
>sausage" on it. Unfortunately, she found out that it was cow brain *before*
>serving it.. 

Well, we asked, begged, pleaded with our science teacher, but no beans.  We
couldn't bring lab stuff home with us.

  Also, unless this was a fresh brain (which i doubt), the preservative
  materials would overwhelm the beholder:  Pungent, to say the least.

So I'd tread cautiously over this legend.  Doubt his mother would go any
further than *opening* the bag...

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: bill.dehaan@rose.com (bill dehaan)
Subject: Bugger It
Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:54:41 GMT
X-Gated-By: Usenet <==> RoseMail Gateway (v1.70)


Date Entered: 01-27-93 19:48
In message <930125220657.12ab@VAX.CSUN.EDU>, VBCSC03L@VAX.CSUN.EDU
(snopes) writes:

snopes>How do you make a collect call to an adjacent phone booth?  Wouldn't that
snopes>pretty much be a local call?

Actually, you _can_ do this, although it takes a pretty warped mind to
bother. I of course came upon this accidentally as part of my legitimate
work. Ahem.

What you do is call the operator, and have her call BC (this is from
Toronto). You then get the BC operator to call Japan. Tell the operator
in Japan to connect to Mongolia, then work your way through Frankfurt,
Oslo, London, and whatever other cities you feel like having your voice
pass through. Eventually, you end up calling the phone that's all of
five feet away from you, via a round the world telephone call. However,
it is listed as a local call because Bell (Bell Canada, at least) only
checks the origin and destination point, not the route travelled.

FWIW, we were doing some arcane testing with a modem and wanted to call
Japan. We then decided to make it a round trip test. It worked
flawlessly. :-)

Anyway, since each operator in the chain is only connecting you to the
next operator, none of the actually knows the final destination except
the last one. Mind you, we did this in 1985, things may have changed
since then.

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From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Tuition Refund
Date: 22 Jan 93 16:49:46 GMT
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

al.sorhaindo@execnet.com (al sorhaindo) says:
  
  +>For example, if your your class was scheduled to meet twice a week
  +>for 15 weeks you would get back 1/30 of your tuition for each time
  +>the instructor was absent.
  +
VBCSC03L@VAX.CSUN.EDU (snopes) writes:
  + And, if the instructor committed suicide, you got a full refund *and*
  + an "A" in the course.

I thought you'd a full refund and an "A" if the instructor committed
suicide in what would have been the first 15 minutes of a class.

Terry "Dean's List" Chan
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Energy and Environment Division   | Internet:  TWChan@lbl.gov
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory      | 
Berkeley, California  USA  94720  | Yeah, right.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: Cuttin' the Rug
Organization: The Ohio State University
 <1993Jan25.112219.10647@pony.Ingres.COM>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:06:04 GMT

sweeney@Ingres.COM (Tony Sweeney) writes:
>In article <1993Jan23.161915.17645@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>>
>> But because of God, not Allah in their case.
>>
>>Jon "Amish, Islamic, sound the same to me" Papai
>
>Aren't these two the same guy? I mean, have you ever seen them together?

I am neither Amish or Islamic.  But I have been seen with Amish,
if that counts.  Many of you probably wonder why the Amish shun
technology.  I found an interesting extract from the comp.risks
archive the other day, reproduced below.

ObFact: Amish speak German.  When they talk about non-Amish, they
call them 'English.'

-J.
.................
Begin extract:

RISKS-FORUM Digest     Saturday, 14 Sep 1985      Volume 1 : Issue 13
Date: 14 Sep 1985 01:06-EST
From: Nicholas.Spies@CMU-CS-H.ARPA
Subject: Risks history/philosophy
To: risks@sri-csl

[interesting, but not relevent stuff deleted]

The only population that I have had direct contact with who have faced this
primal issue of the risks of technology are the Amish-Mennonites of Ontario;
I made a film about their 150th Anniversary in Canada. (I have also edited
films about the Amish in Lancaster Co., PA.) The trigger for the Amish was
rubber-tired wheels on carriages around the 1870's because this allowed the
young of courting age to "go to town" more easily, with a perceived
disruption of Amish life not far behind. To this "improvement" they said
"No". Subsequently, the Amish have taken great care to keep the increasing
technological developments surrounding them at bay, but not by pure
rejection. In short, they have evaluated the risks of adopting technologies.

For instance, gasoline engines are permitted for stationary use (and also on
horse-drawn wagons) for harvesting, threshing, bailing and for powering milk
refrigerators.  There's no contradiction in using a valuable power source so
long as it isn't applied to providing the means for increased contact with
the outside world. Electricity is used if generated within the farm; and
public telephones may be used as well; as long as wires (i.e. connections)
to the outside world are avoided there is no reason to avoid using the
technology. The oddity of the Amish is based on common sense when their
objectives are known.

Although the Amish reaction to technology may strike many as merely "quaint"
they do show that it is possible to stop short the "inevitable" growth of
technology. (The Amish are renowned for their success in farming, which is
not the case for many others that have embraced modern technological ways.)
....
[end extract]
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: nolan@twg.com (Stirling Moss?)
Subject: saab story (was Headlight Dimmer Switch)
Reply-To: nolan@twg.com
Organization: Monte Carlo Automotive Inversions
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:38:57 GMT


In article <C16ps0.DHw@rahul.net>, phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson) writes:
[interesting stuff about Saabs deleted, including stuff about going downhill]
Thanks for the brain tickle, Phil. I remember stories about folks like
Lungstrom and Maakinen being faster on their roofs than on their wheels in the
Monte's Alpine segments. I wish I had a film...

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.food.cooking,rec.food.restaurants
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: The Big Pot of Grease (was: Re: Furr's Cafeterias (Was: Re: Who Kresg
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:58:20 GMT

parr@acs.ucalgary.ca (Charles Parr) writes:
: 
: I find it difficult to believe that any inimical bugs would
: thrive in a *simmering* liquid.

Actually, you have to get the temperature somewhat above the
boiling point of water to kill the botulism bacterium. That is
the reason some foods have to be pressure canned - the required  
temperature is around 250 degress F.

: Let us try to avoid being *too* silly, hmmmm?

It probably would not thrive, but the bacterium would survive.

Bill
From: hleaves@gems.vcu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Elevator DEATH!
Date: 27 Jan 93 22:44:51 -0400
Organization: Medical College of Virginia

In article <C10oxo.J0n@ecf.toronto.edu>, pelton@ecf.toronto.edu (PELTON MATTHEW ALAN) writes:
> In article <C0zC5A.BKv@panix.com> dannyb@panix.com (Daniel Burstein) writes:
> 
>>
>>elevator functions, we HAVE had quite a few elevators fall at a rapid
>>enough rate of descent to lead to some pretty serious injuries.  Actually,
>>it's not the fall that causes the injuries, but rather the "stop."  In
> 
>   Like jumping off the Empire State Building.  It's not the fall that
> gets you, it's hitting the ground.
> 
> 

Its scientific name is "Rapid Deceleration Syndrome" or RDS for short. :)

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From: leb@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (BASEL, LESLIE)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Babe Ruth Candy
Date: 24 Jan 93 05:23:00 GMT
 <llos0gINNadl@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <1993Jan22.005410.18656@microsoft.com>
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1993Jan22.005410.18656@microsoft.com>, leecr@microsoft.com (Lee Crocker) writes...
>>No Lee, you're wrong.    
>>It *is* a fact that Curtis Candy *claims* to have named their candy after
>>         Ruth Cleveland.
>>
>>It is not a fact that the candy *is* named after Ruth Cleveland and 
>>         not Babe Ruth.
>>
>>The distinction is one which permits us to exercise independent judgement,
>>and it is seen everyday in law courts across the world.   The fact of
>>someone claiming a particular motive is not sufficient to establish
>>the motive as fact.
> 
>But your claim of their motive has even less standing, because you
>weren't there.  Post a court transcript or stop bugging us with your
>speculations.
>-- 
>Lee Daniel Crocker    | Free minds; free bodies; free trade.
>leecr@microsoft.com   | Libertarian Party  1-800-682-1776

Furrfu, buy a BABY Ruth candy bar (NOT Babe Ruth) -- the closest thing 
to a Babe candy is Sugar BABES (from the Sugar Daddy candy bar (stick))
sigh
Rodger "at least read the label before you argue about it" 
Coghlan
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.cascade
From: djb6@ellis.uchicago.edu (Dennis Brennan)
Subject: Re: Amusing street names
Reply-To: djb6@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:39:43 GMT

In article <1993Jan23.061221.14769@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
>>In article <1993Jan22.235659.11944@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>>>oberle@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Larry Oberle) writes:
>>>>Besides that, Cleveland is THE birthplace of Superman.
>>>Besides that, Cleveland is THE birthplace of Czechoslovakia.
>>Besides that, Cleveland is THE birthplace of the Stearns & Foster Mattress
>>Company.
>Besides that, Cleveland is THE father of Baby Ruth.
Besides that, Cleveland is THE father of the repeal of the Sherman
              Silver Purchase Act (1893) 

Dennis "Grover C., that is," Brennan



-- 
Dennis Brennan
djb6@midway.uchicago.edu