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From: hakari@lars.acc-admin.stolaf.edu (The Conformist Contrabass Clarinetist)
Subject: Re: Babe Ruth Candy Bar
Organization: St. Olaf College; Northfield, MN
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 16:29:53 GMT

In article <n7zrkl@lynx.unm.edu> kbos@carina.unm.edu (K. Mitchell Bose) writes:
>In article <1993Jan8.001923.15230@athena.mit.edu> cmk@athena.mit.edu (Charles M Kozierok) writes:
>>In article <1993Jan7.212029.14746@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>>Now, indeed, there was the infamous Reggie bar.
>>
>>>But what candy bar is Holtzman thinking of wrt Ruth?  Is he thoughtlessly
>>>assuming that the Baby Ruth bar is named for the baseball player, rather
>>>than the daughter of the president?  Or is this one of those strange
>>>urban legends about urban legends, and the Baby Ruth bar really *is*
>>>named for Babe Ruth?
>>>
>>>My vote is that Jerome Holtzman's just plain stupid.
>>
>>i believe you have chosen wisely.
>>i am pretty sure that the bar is indeed not named for George Herman.
>>i heard this somewhere in the media not long ago, but i forget the source.
>
>I'll agree with the "Holtzman as chowderhead" theory, but I seem to recall
>reading about a local candy bar named after the Sultan of Swat.  I guess it's 
>time to beat the old drum and see if Gramps remembers anything of the sort (esp
>when this is cross-posted to afu...)


Speaking from the card-collector point of view...years ago when the Babe was
still alive, there was a small 6-card set of cards put out in candy bars.  You 
would receive a baseball autographed by Babe Ruth if you sent in all 6 cards to
the ***Geo. H. Ruth Candy Co.***  I think the articles I read on this card
thing said something about the back of the card saying "his" (Babe Ruth's)
candy company.

--Andrea
  TWINS in '93...Beertown Boo-hoo's - NEVER!!!


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From: nigel@kathunk.phaedrav.on.ca (Nigel M Burnett)
Subject: Re: Mother Lifts Car Off Child. Uh huh.
Organization: as little as possible
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 19:01:40 GMT

Richard Joltes (joltes@husc10.harvard.edu) wrote:
: punctured in a collision).  I hung a black-and-orange "DANGER--FLAMMABLE"
: sign in the rear window and chuckled as drivers read the sign, figured out
: what I was driving, and backed off about 100 feet immediately.

Imagine my consternation when I realized I was *behind* a Pinto in a 
toll-booth line-up and can see an Audi 5000 pulling up behind me.

This really happened although I *think* some stand-up comic used the
line also.

N.
-- 
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a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.  His own
good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.   John Stuart Mill

Nigel Burnett: 78 Normandy Blvd, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M4L 3K3 416-690-1834
Send e-mail to nigel@kathunk.phaedrav.on.ca or try uunet.ca!kink!kathunk!nigel
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: Amusing street names
Organization: The Ohio State University
 <C0DLMM.M04@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 01:31:52 GMT

In article <C0DLMM.M04@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>,bjackson@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Ben Jackson) writes:
>ObBank: Fifth Third Bank of Cincinati.  I've speculated about the name's
>	origin many times.  Does anyone have the real story?  Or even a
>	plausable one?  (that COULD be why they named it 5th 3rd, so it
>	MUST be true)

Maybe it's because their celebrity spokesman, Johnny Bench,
sometimes batted 5th and sometimes 3rd.

ObBank2: Charles Keating, the famous S&L crook, was the major
financial contributor, and political backer, of the oppresive
anti-pornography laws in Cincinnati.

Jon "Been in the bar where Pete Rose made his bets." Papai
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: barth@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (barth.richards)
Subject: Re: Amusing signs
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 23:46:04 GMT


In article <C0C24A.CBt@kathunk.phaedrav.on.ca> nigel@kathunk.phaedrav.on.ca
(Nigel M Burnett) writes:

>Ian A Parkin (twod@socrates.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>: Well in good old Holland they have a round red sign with a picture of a dog 
>: pooping in the middle, with NO diagonal red stripe !! Yes thats right 
>: folks, if your dog want a poop then this is the place to drag it. 
> 
>: Only the dutch eh !
>
>No, I have a photograph of the same sign that I took in Hong Kong two
>years ago.  In fact, I have photos of wierd signs from all over the
>world.  I figured that I'd send them all into NatLamp one day but I
>lost their address.

I have (as in own, posess) a sign that reads "NO AIRING OF DOGS."  I have
also seen signs in Chicago parks that say "DOG NUISANCE PROHIBITED."  Talk
about obfuscation.

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From: jlacour@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Lacour)
Subject: Re: Computer theft
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 20:04:03 GMT

One of the Legion of Doom Technical Reports features a story about how LoD
members accessed Tymnet ports used in wire transfers and committed a similiar
scam.  I know this story to be false and strictly satire.

What is most interesting is that it continues to be quoted in the media as an
example off potential for damage from computer hackers (or crackers).
Another reminder that something reported in the paper, radio, or on television
does not inherently make it true.

The story is available for ftp from ftp.eff.org.  I don't recall which
directory its in or which lodtj, but there are only 4.

Regards,
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: joshm@crash.cts.com (Josh Mercer)
Subject: Re: AFU person of the year?
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
Date: 6 Jan 93 03:11:45 GMT

In <1993Jan5.000308.12970@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:


>I saw the Time magazine selection of W. Clinton as their 'person
>of the year' recently.  There must be someone out there worth
>honoring as the AFU 'Mann of the year' for 1992. Nominations
>might include.

>1. Edwin (some last name).  The Filipino man who convinced the
>world media that he was pregnant, till exposed as a hoax.

>2. The Schoo's of suburban Chicago, who must have seen Home
>Alone and thought it acceptable to leave 4 and 9 year old at
>home while on vacation.

>3. Cindy Kandolf, who was assumed by a large part of Usenet to be
>no longer biologically active.

>4. The guy who made the movie with plot including UL's.

>5. Craig Shergold, Lifetime Achievement Award.

6> Thad.
7> The Korean cult leader who had all the people sure the Rapture
was a'coming..
From: andor@inode.com
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: DOGGONE (WAS: RING IN
Date: 12 Jan 93 08:31:21 EST
Reply-To: andor@inode.com
Distribution: world
Organization: inode BBS, Usenet Access for NYC (212-679-9146)

 -=> Quoting Popec@unkaphaed.gbdata.co to News <=-
 
 Po> I remember reading this story years ago, but I forget the source.
 Po> I do recall that the Russians had supposedly trained dogs to run under
 Po> German tanks and stay there until the explosives went off. 

 The U.S. Navy did similar things with dolphins. I don't know if they
 blew any up or not, but they trained them to put explosives on ships. 




... Opinions represented above are not necessarily those of a sound mind.
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From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: Late breaking potential UL!
Organization: The Ohio State University
 <C0FxG5.1LG2@austin.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 20:18:06 GMT


jlpicard@austin.ibm.com (Craig Becker) writes:
^^^^^^^^
[well, it really doesn't matter what he wrote, the scoundrel]

	You people on alt.folklore.urban have gone too far now.
First, the mnenomics thread is xposted to r.a.st.misc, then that
scurrilous sex stuff, now this blasphemy.

-J.
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center
Date: Tuesday, 5 Jan 1993 07:09:21 EST
From: <MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Ethnicity & SS# RESULTS!

A mistake in my posting, the Thai woman had an ODD middle number, all other
Asians in this group had even numbers. Bye bye.  --- Rick Yukon.
From: bill.duetschler@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (Bill Duetschler) 
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Rush!Rush!Rush!
Date: 5 Jan 93 21:16:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: HAL 9000 BBS, W-NET HQ, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Reply-To: bill.duetschler@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (Bill Duetschler) 

9 > Any Rush fans around?????    
  
Yes.   

ObUL, Fb:  Neil Peart is dying of lung cancer.  I first heard this one in
1982 and he's still here.  I know someone who roadies for them who
says it's bunk.

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From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: enterprise vs. love boat
Organization: The Ohio State University
 <1993Jan11.225511.3867@cbnewsd.cb.att.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 00:03:48 GMT

barth@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (barth.richards) writes:
	[NOTICE OF MY DYSLEXIC TENDENCIES DELETED]
>Actually, if you think about it, there's a closer parallel than that:
>
>_Category_                              _ST:TNG_        _Love Boat_
>
>Black Bartender                         LaForge         Gynan (or however
>                                                        you spell the name
>                                                        of Whoopi Goldberg's
>                                                        character)

	Maybe I'm missing something, but, they're both on the same
show.  I would compare Guinan on ST:TNG with the black bartender on
the love boat, Grady.

ObFACT: The actor who played Gopher on the Love Boat is now a
conservative Republican from Iowa in the House of Representatives.

ObFACT2: Marion Barry was recently elected to city council in DC.

Jon "Maybe it would be better if the rebels had taken DC in 1864?" Papai
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.sport.baseball
From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
Subject: Re: Trademarkability of personal names (Was: Re: Babe Ruth Candy Bar)
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 12:55:52 GMT

niepornt@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Marc Nieporent) writes:

>And believe me, McDonalds is VERY aggressive at protecting that
>trademark.  Use McAnything as the name of your store, and you're likely
>to find a lawsuit waiting for you.

Evidently, the prez of McDonalds contacted John Sculley (prez of Apple
Computers) the day of the Macintosh announcement to get him to agree never
to call his computer `The Big Mac' or anything close to a McDonalds
trademark.  (Wow - McDonalds Lawyers against Apple Lawyers: The clash of the
titans)

-- 
Paul Tomblin (I don't make or state policy for this company)
"Does that include the toaster disk drive and printer" - Dilbert
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Net's Funniest Kitchen Disasters
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 20:55:41 GMT

dsegard@nyx.cs.du.edu (Daniel Segard) writes:
: 
:        I've heard that it is possible to coat sodium in gelitin so that it
: won't react with water -- for a while at least.  The trick I had heard was
: that you toss these into a person's gas tank and then eventually the small
: amount of water in the gas will disolve the geletin and react with the
: sodium -- causing the gas tank, the car and the occupants to blow up. 
: Works better with a gas tank that isn't filled to the brim I gather, need
: some amount of air to react with the gas.  Not a very sure fire <a hmm>

Yeah - that is what they claim. However, you need water - the sodium does
not react with gasoline. It is also very unlikely to work. I would expect
the gasoline fume concentration to be far too high - not enough oxygen
for much of a reaction to occur.

: method of killing someone, since you can't be certain of when the geletin
: is going to disolve, whether the person will be in the car at the time,
: etc.  I think the source for this is "The Poor Man's James Bond" or the
: "Anarchist's Cookbook" or something like that.

It was in one or the other. Such things only work in their imagination.
They should have tried it - they would have been disappointed. It is not
too surprising that it is such books - they are both riddled with such
stupid and inaccurate ideas.

The best thing about the books is, someone who tries some of the procedures
listed is likely to kill themselves before they can harm anyone else.

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: joeg@gagme.chi.il.us (joe grosch)
Subject: Re: Picric acid?
Organization: GAGME - Public Access UNIX of Chicago, Illinois, USA, Earth
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 04:27:16 GMT

David Lemson (lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote:
: If you ever find picric acid in a container with a metal lid, just
: plain call the bomb squad.  It combines with the metal of the lid to
: form picrates, and when you twist off the lid, kaboom... 

Hmmmm. I'm going to have to remember this one the next time I have a
meeting with my ex-wife's lawyer. :-)

*NOTICE* For the humor impaired, that was a joke.

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From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (J. Furr)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.fan.lemurs
Subject: Re: Ring in the New Year with Some FAQs
Date: 5 Jan 93 17:56:42 GMT
Followup-To: alt.fan.lemurs,alt.folklore.urban
Organization: Virginia Center for Lemur Fandom (subscribe to alt.fan.lemurs TODAY)

In article <28209@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Joel Furr) writes:
> +
> +And Nigel the Lemur is my Lemur friend.  Nigel is hurt that he was left
> +out of the FAQ.  Nigel KNOWS where Terry Chan lives.  Nigel is NOT AMUSED.
> +
> +Joel "Who was I to say no when Nigel asked to borrow my rocket launcher?" Furr
>
>Lemme get this straight.  Nigel can use a rocket launcher but he
>can't post to USENET?  My respect for lemurs just went down the
>toilet (it was on the edge of the seat before).
>
>Terry "How about gibbons?" Chan

As a non-human, Nigel can't get an internet account.  I posted publicly
asking for someone to help him out and no one did so.  But he *does* have
fully functioning trigger fingers!

Joel "And he's hell on wheels at jazz piano" Furr
jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: richha@microsoft.com (Richard Harrington)
Subject: Re: Touching Tongue Cold
Date: 05 Jan 93 02:20:29 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corp.
Distribution: usa


There was a story in the news a couple of weeks ago about
a young (3y.o. I think) Eskimo boy who got his tongue stuck
on a stair railing.  His quick thinking father urinated
on the railing to get the kid unstuck.




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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
Subject: Re: Doggone (was: Ring in the New Year with Some FAQs
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 16:11:46 GMT

bergman@panix.com (Mark Bergman) writes:
>During WWII, the OSI (the CIA's daddy) studied:
>	1. The use of bats to burn Japanese cities. The
>	  theory was that bats would naturally roost in the
>	  eaves of the (predominantly wooded) homes. 
>	  Bats could be fitted with explosives and released
>	  at dawn, finding their way to the closest roost.

Not only did they investigate it, but they took possesion of a cave with
millions of bats.  Even though the project got dropped early on, they
retained a Marine to guard the cave entrance for the duration of the war.

Paul "What did you do in the war, Daddy" Tomblin
-- 
Paul Tomblin (I don't make or state policy for this company)
"Does that include the toaster disk drive and printer" - Dilbert
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lmh@world.std.com (Larry M Headlund)
Subject: Re: Amusing street names
Summary: Yes, Viginia 
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:56:01 GMT

In article <RODNEY.93Jan6184546@cabot.balltown.cma.com> rodney@cabot.balltown.cma.com (Rodney Peck) writes:
>
>In article <4841@moscom.com> de@moscom.com (David Esan) writes:
>   (Philip N Whitman) writes:
>   >Can anyone identify a major city for me that does not have a street named
>   >after Martin Luther King, Jr.?
>
>
>Is there one in Boston?  I can't remember one.  I know there's one in Austin
>and that rhymes with Boston, so maybe that counts.

	The is indeed a MLK Boulevard in Boston.

ObUL:  The monolingual foreigner who only knows how to say "fried eggs" joke
	is told in all languages.
Larry "costing the net hundreds, if not thousands" Headlund

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From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Net Gender - was AFU person of the year?
Date: 12 Jan 1993 07:04:58 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:
 
 +Ah, so YuNoHoo is a self proclaimed 'odd net.goddess'.  One wonders exactly 
 +how 'odd'.  After all they can do marvelous things with surgery these days.

Man oh man, the plot gets thicker and thicker.  The drama never 
stops in the ALT SEWER.

Terry "So, who gets stabbed with the scissors?" Chan
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Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory      | 
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: davew@willow03.cray.com (Dave Wagner)
Subject: Re: 
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Originator: davew@willow03
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 11 Jan 93 11:22:27 CST



> >Allegedly a black had already been picked for the (non-American)
> >commercial, but MJ vetoed it to have a white play the role.
> 	according to the New York Post (a thoroughly reliable newspaper)
> They were originally going to use clips of Michael himself as a child, but
> he nixed that because it would make it obvious to everyone that he had 
> had plastic surgery and skin bleaching.
>
Not like now where only about 95% of the population knows he's had
plastic surgery and skin bleaching.  sigh.
-- 
Dave Wagner                               "Tongue-tied and twisted,
davew@cray.com , uunet!cray!davew          just an earth-bound misfit, I"
(612) 683-5393                                  -- Pink Floyd
From: rhuss+@EDRC.CMU.EDU (Robert Huss)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Microwave Fun
Date: 7 Jan 93 23:01:41 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University

In article <C0Hyu7.1J5G@austin.ibm.com>, bwilson@efim.austin.ibm.com () writes:
|> 
|> No, no - he had shut off the breaker to the microwave before he put all the
|> stuff in it.  When the bad guys flipped the breaker, THEN the microwave 
|> switched on.  When the chief bad guy heard the timer ring, he knew something
|> bad was going to happen.  The dumb guy opening the microwave had nothing to
|> do with it... it would have popped anyway.
|> 
|> Steel wool in a microwave is a bad idea to begin with.  But I don't think
|> it was alcohol he used - I thought he mixed a couple of chemicals so they
|> would react and create some sort of gas, so that the sparks from the steel
|> wool would set it off.
|> 
|> Just what I remember - I only saw it once...
|> 
|> --

	Oh, so what we need, is a really old microwave with a power dial
rather than a digital control panel eh?  But I guess the effect would work
with a time-delay microwave, if you know when the bad guys are expected..

Bob "looking for a new apartment to test this out in" Huss
From: seawasp@vm2.cis.pitt.edu (Sea Wasp)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mother Lifts Car Off Child. Uh huh.
Date: 10 Jan 93 22:54:11 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Originator: seawasp@unixd3.cis.pitt.edu

In article <1i2oerINNggc@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> mag6@po.CWRU.Edu (Martin A. Gulaian) writes:
>on my innocent light blue Tercel. It was _remarkably_ easy to pick up
>the back corner of the car and lift the wheel an inch off the ground.
>Then I stood there wondering, now what? How do I get the hypothetical
>child out from under the car (if it can't get out under its own power)?

	The way I saw it described/portrayed, Mother grabs car, hoists into
air WITH ONE HAND, then drags kid out with the other.

	I dunno about a car, but I do know one person who was not normally
particularly strong who was enraged to a point where he assaulted four 
people at once. At one point he was holding one person up in the air with
one hand...


                                 Sea Wasp
                                   /^\
                                   ;;;
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: rogers@rosencrantz.osf.org (Andrew Rogers)
Subject: Re:    Machine Gun TV CAMERAS
Organization: HICAM/OSD
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 03:56:03 GMT

In article <93005.071413MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET> <MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
>...What's the deal with Green Label Jack Daniels? I
>say its aged less than the regular stuff and my friend says it's aged more.
>All I know is that you can only get the heavenly nectar in the South. Why?

I don't know the difference either, but I've seen JD Green in state liquor
stores in Pownal, VT and Portsmouth, NH.  Of course, both towns are in the
southern part of their respective states...

AWR