HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jberger@novell.com (John Berger)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Oranjelo
Date: 9 Oct 92 20:18:32 GMT
Organization: Novell, Inc.

In article <1992Oct8.183259.14751@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> pwhitman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Philip N Whitman) writes:
>[posting about more names deleted...]
>-Neal Whitman

I went to grade school with Doug Barr's (Fall Guy, Designing Women) younger 
sister.  Their dog was named Candy (Barr).
From: betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Truth or legend: parrot in freezer
Date: 11 Oct 92 23:04:53 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston

My friend M___ just told me this as a true story. She claims it
happened to a friend of her friend J___ (FOAF) but it sounds like an
unban legend to me:
  A man takes his boss's parrot home for the weekend, leaving it loose
in the apartment. He comes home to discover the parrot lying
horizontal and stiff on the couch. Mortified at having killed his
boss's parrot, because his boss is also a Sr Partner in the firm, he
puts the parrot in the freezer so that he can bring it to be
autopsied. When he brings the parrot in to the vet, he gets this news:
the parrot froze to death.

So, did this really happen to a Friend of a Friend of a Friend, or is
it a legend?

thanks, Betsy
--
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From: cromar@math.rutgers.edu (Scott Cromar)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Presidential Succession History
Date: 16 Oct 92 20:30:09 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall) writes:

> Some scholars have pondered how to extend the succession way beyond
> the current VP/Congressional_leaders/Cabinet list in case of a very
> big disaster.  One proposal has been to list the Governors, in order
> of the populations of their states 

Before or after?

--Scott "and where am I in line?" Cromar
From: klaus@diku.dk (Klaus Ole Kristiansen)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Australian sense (was: Canadian pennies)
Date: 13 Oct 92 11:49:24 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:

>> Can you imagine the U.S. government passing legislation requiring
>> retailers to round prices to the nearest 5 cents?  It seems
>> like an impractical way to handle the situation.  This Australian
>> phenomenon is really surprising, and qualifies as "news of the weird".

>But this is a normal thing that happens with inflation; lots of
>countries have done it.  What's weird is that the US and Canada
>have not, preferring to continue making increasingly ridiculous
>1 cent coins as if inflation was something that only happened to
>other countries.

Denmark has done so twice in my lifetime, first to 5 |re, then
to 25. Its the sum, not the price, that gets rounded. Individual
items can still cost 7.99 

It took some years after the abolition of the 1 and 2 |re coins
before the prices themselves got divisible by 5 |re. Prices still
often end with .95, once they get to .75, the 25 |re will probably
get abolished. :-)

Klaus O K
From: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Oranjelo
Date: 9 Oct 92 12:43:36 GMT
Reply-To: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
Organization: gators 'r us
X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.03 Rev. Apr 14 1992


>JS>At my high school we had a set of female triplets whose last name
>JS>was Tracey.  And (you guessed it), they were all named "Tracy."  Their
>JS>full names were:  "Tracy Traci Tracey", "Tracy Lee Tracey" and "Tracy
>JS>Leann Tracey".  Mom must have still been on the Thalidomide when she
>JS>came up with those.
>
>Actually, my ex-roomate just had his second daughter. The mother is
>Kathy, and their first child was Katherine Rebecca (called 'Katie'). The
>new one is Rebecca Katherine (with a birthday 3 years and 2 days after
>the first child), and they call her 'Kay'.

i have twin cousins named mary kathleen("mary"), and 
kathleen mary("kathy").
-- 
-- little gator aka s. mudgett     email: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
-- friend of a gator is a friend of mine
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: "Normal" body temperature
From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
Date: 15 Oct 92 00:16:03 GMT

torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair) writes:

>Here in Nebraska, 30 C is "Summer warm" and 40 C is "Hot".  Of course, with
>our wonderful humidity and subsonic winds, it all becomes rather meaningless.

Yeah, I was posting from the East Coast, where 30 C can be brutal
because of the humidity.  For the last several summers I've managed
to spend at least part of my time further west.
 
-- 
Matt McIrvin, posting nonsense again
From: warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: "Lost In Space" was better
Date: 3 Oct 92 22:22:47 GMT
Reply-To: warren@nysernet.org
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs

In <1992Oct2.112757.29624@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:

>cj "What about the Klingonese Happy Fun Ball?" l

It taunts you.
-- 
/|/-\/-\       In real life, the Vice President chastises Murphey Brown
 |__/__/_/     for her morals.  Bill Clinton plays the sax on "Arsenio
 |warren@      Hall."  Though "Batman Returns" is fiction, it's not too
/ nysernet.org much stranger than truth - Caryn James, The New York Times
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From: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth L. Blumberg)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: counting on fingers (was Re: Possible UL alert(was Re: Videotaping rapes))
Date: 12 Oct 92 15:56:12 GMT
Reply-To: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth L. Blumberg)
Organization: Columbia University

In article <1992Oct02.221742.28831@sco.COM> ruthc@sco.COM (this space intentionally left blank) writes:
>I caught a woman in the office today counting on her hands in a rather
>unique way - she's from India, and what she was doing involved touching
>her thumb to the top, middle or bottom joints of each of her fingers
>for 1 through 12, then 13, 14 and 15 were counted with her index finger
>touching top, middle and base of her thumb.

I believe that's part of a complete system of arithmetic called "chisembop."
I used to see ads for chisembop textbooks on Saturday morning TV as a small
person.  Apparently there are quick algorithms for adding, subtracting,
multiplying, and even div/mod using your fingers.

Plus, since that sounds like base 16, you'd be able to desk-check
malfunctioning 8-bit ALU's in a flash.

>-r
>-- 
>  Wow!  Talk about hitting the bird in the hand on the head with
>  a bush!  Nail!  TWO birds!  Ut!                       - allanh

Seth L. Blumberg          | "Once again, fear and superstition triumphed over
slb22@cunixb.columbia.edu |    science and technology."
On CI$: 76460,1666        |        -- Anton Braun Quist, quoting Ed Whitaker
   > No one I know shares my opinions, least of all Columbia University. <
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: jdnicoll@watyew.uwaterloo.ca (James Davis Nicoll)
Subject: Re: Headless cheerleaders and other bits & pieces
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 15:17:57 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.151529.29903@PA.dec.com> snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes) writes:
>
>In article <1992Oct7.140033.1627@HQ.Ileaf.COM>, 
>  hal@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Hal Wadleigh) writes...
>
>>BTW, it's a real bitch to walk along the edge of a road at night with a 
>>flashlight looking for the missing pieces.
>
>But perhaps not as bad as discovering them by accident?

	Oddly enough, my mother did just that on one occasion. The
route from her grandparent's home  (where  she lived, my grandfather
being dead until  1977) to her grade school was along the railway  track
that passes through  Mulgrave. One  night, someone failed  to  not
be in the way of  the train and the next morning, my mother, her
siblings and her cousins were amused to  see little  bits of flesh
all along the way to school.

ObUL: A  German submarine once got stuck in the ice in the  Strait
of Canso and was captured by  foot-soldiers walking across  the ice.

							James Nicoll
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Yeast
From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
Date: 14 Oct 92 01:35:29 GMT

dignan@husc10.harvard.edu (Thomas Dignan) writes:

> 	Can one use yeast from a vaginal yeast infection to raise bread 
>or to ferment beer? It was recently suggested to me that there is a 
>distinct marketing possiblity behind products made this way.

Tom, ever since the wildebeest incident, I thought you'd learned not to
leave yourself logged in.

-- 
Matt McIrvin, posting nonsense again 
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc
From: cap36406@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Carlos A. Pero)
Subject: Re: Kirk VS Picard (was "Lost In Space" was better)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 22:58:40 GMT

heim@vms.macc.wisc.edu (JOHN HEIM	) writes:

>In article <1992Oct8.215304.27614@news.columbia.edu>, lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes...

>>In article <7035@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood) writes:
>>>In article <1992Oct5.171003.20704@sfu.ca>, pinette@fraser.sfu.ca (Gandolf the 2
>>3rd) writes:

[stuff deleted]


>>Ted "Was James T. Kirk's middle name 'Terry'?" Frank

>Can't be.  His middle initial is 'R' as seen in the pilot episode 
>'Encounter at Farpoint' where his name is carved in a tombstone.  
>The R is for Roy.  James Roy Kirk.  In a later episode, Nomad gets 
>him mixed up with Jackson Roykirk, his inventor.  (That's Nomad's 
>inventor, not Kirk's.)

For my information, could you tell me where in "Encounter at Farpoint" this
tombstone scene is? I don't recall it. I work in a video store, so I will
get it and check. It seems to me that his middle name is Tiberius. The
most profound example I can think of is in ST6:TUC where Kirk is
under trial and the Klingon says his full name, "James Tiberius Kirk."

Anyone else agree?

-- 
______________________________________________________
 \   Carlos A. Pero  -  University of Illinois at U-C  \
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   \_____________________________________________________\
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From: hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz (Anthony 'SCHWAibo' Hobbs)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.religion.kibology
Subject: Re: Presidential Succession History (was: Presidential UL's)
Date: 15 Oct 92 12:47:24 NZST
Organization: ACCGEK, New Zealand
NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

In article <g+2z48p@rpi.edu>, kasprj@jec321.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak) writes:
  
> Who's Kibo's successor?

Myself and the other ibo's will form a triumvirate.

> What about BIFF? 

Ah, Gary Stollman's had that post sewn up for years.

		- SCHWA. (the angels gave it him!)
-- 
"I have everything I need to know - 'Bob' told me so!"

Anthony Hobbs		SCHWAibo		    hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Chief Lord High Priest, ACCGEK - Hail Frozen Yoghurt - Snuggles Loves You
DISCLAIMER: I am not Romanian and was not head of the Securitate for 15 years.
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From: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.religion.kibology
Subject: Re: Dictionaries
Date: 12 Oct 92 22:03:07 GMT
Reply-To: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation

In article <1992Oct11.024342.9224@midway.uchicago.edu>, 
thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Citecheck Hell) writes:
> In article <670Q02cS25oL01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com 
> (Terry Carroll) writes:
> >In article <1992Oct7.073648.1873@u.washington.edu>, 
> >tzs@stein.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) writes:
> >> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
> >> >I heard that "gullible" wasn't in the dictionary.
> >> 
> >> It's in Black's Telelegal Word Service, accessed by
> >> calling 1-800-ESQUIRE.
> >
> >I got a long period of no answer (10-12 rings!) followed by a clicking 
(no, 
> >not a modem of fax tone).  Are you sure this is still the right number?
> 
> I couldn't dial the number at all because my phone has no "Q"s.

Look, Ted, I'm planning to be a lawyer.  I'm practicing my bullshit 
capabilities!

 :-|  <-- technically, not a smiley for a.f.u purposes

Terry Carroll - tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com - 408/992-2152
The opinions presented above are not necessarily those of a sound mind.
From: joltes@husc10.harvard.edu (Richard Joltes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: nail in Coca-Cola
Date: 7 Oct 92 15:47:40 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

rchao@well.sf.ca.us (Robert Chao) writes:
 
>What beverages are most likely to dissolve things or do weird things to
>eggs? Can't you use lemon juice to clean off old pennies?
>I mean, aren't citrus juices acidic, a lot?

Well, you can have great fun with an egg and a container of vinegar.  Immerse
the egg completely in the vinegar, cover the container, and wait a week or so.
The eggshell's calcium (I think) is removed, and you end up with a rubber egg
that you can use to annoy your friends.

Coke (possibly moreso Pepsi--can't recall if one's more acidic) will, as
mentioned previously, do wonderful things to metallic objects.  It also works
well as the electrolyte in a weak wet-cell battery (better than a lemon, but
not as good as sulfuric acid).

Various "household" acids (lemon juice, vinegar, etc) may work in cleaning
tarnish, depending on thickness and the metal involved.

A fun experiment if you have real silver (vaguely recalled--maybe someone
else can correct this):  line a porcelain-coated metal pan with aluminum
foil, fill with water, add salt, and heat to a rolling boil.  Immerse a piece
of tarnished silver so that it touches the aluminum (the piece will get hot,
so use gloves) and the tarnish will be chemically "reduced" (opposite of
"oxidized").  You'll get a rotten egg smell since the tarnish is silver
sulfide, but you're not scrubbing off a layer of silver everytime you polish
the stuff, so your silverplate will last longer.

Fun with chemicals...now, if you want *real* fun, mix bleach and ammonia and
sniff the fumes that come off it.  Many a housewife has nearly been killed by
the resultant fumes (chlorine gas).  The bad thing was, once my mother tried
to use bleach to clean dog urine from a concrete floor in our cellar...
there are apparently ammonia or compounds thereof in urine, and she nearly
gassed herself doing this...lucky the door was open.

Kids, don't try this at home...

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dick "reformed mad scientist" 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: moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: McDonalds Urban Legends
Date: 14 Oct 92 22:32:20 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

In article <1992Oct14.191133.29947@msc.cornell.edu>, rob@msc.cornell.edu (Rob Vaughn) writes...
>The first rumor claimed that McDonalds stopped using the hollow, straw-like
>coffee stirrers because addicts were using them to snort cocaine (in lieu
>of a fresh,rolled $100 bill, I guess.)  The replacement, which is a long
>paddle-like stick, isn't much better - the rumor claims it can be used like 
>a small spoon similar to the kind favored by some snorters.

The old coffee stirrer was a miniature _spoon_, that was discontinued because
it (supposedly) made such a great coke spoon.

-Mike
From: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Great new newspaper: Jour de Paris
Date: 8 Oct 92 21:40:54 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Originator: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com


The radio program "Marketplace" yesterday had a story about the new
French tabloid newspaper "Jour de Paris".  Examples of the newspaper's
headlines:  "Mitterand is Dead!"  (It seems he died just before the
Gulf war.  The government hushed it up so as not to damage the war
coalition.  In public appearances le Prez is played by his brother,
Jim Mitterand, who had been living in South Dakota.)  Also, "Mitterand
Reincarnated as a Chicken!"  (The chicken is on some island in the
South Pacific.)  

The editor is a former legitimate journalist and broadcaster who
seems to be doing this just for his own fun, as he is apparently
not making any profit.

Do we have any a.f.u readers in Paris who could keep us posted on the
latest from France's greatest newspaper?

Bruce "It must be true, they published a photo of the chicken" Tindall

-- 
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: arielle@NeoSoft.com (Stephanie da Silva)
Subject: Re: Male Pregnancies
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 17:12:53 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.015811.27682@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> peterm@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Peter Mardahl) writes:
> 
> I've heard stories circulating that men can be artifically impregnated.
> Some hospital obligingly surgically implanted  a fertilized egg somewhere 
> in his abdomen, and later delivered the fetus by "Caesarian". 
> The whole story seems rather dubious to me because the man's immune
> system should immediately kill the "invader".


There was an article in OMNI magazine all about this a few years back.
According to the article, the technology exists today to make it possible.
The fetus basically would float loose in the abdomen after the placenta
has attached to some area rich in blood vessels.  The guy would have to
take female hormones natch, to sustain pregnancy and the fetus would have
to be delivered by c-section.  However, it seems to be quite the high-risk
activity to undertake but a lot of men appear to find it to be an intriguing
idea.  Go dig up the article for more info.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.music.beatles
From: dmac@julia.math.ucla.edu (saki)
Subject: Re: Collected Musical Factoids
Summary: "Come And Get It"
Organization: UCLA Mathematics Department
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 20:14:00 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.203624.25312@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>In article <1992Oct8.145851.28760@PA.dec.com> snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes) writes:
>>
>>No, I don't think so.  George Harrison didn't record with them until the
>>"Straight Up" album, a few years after "Come and Get It".
>
>I think he did, but was uncredited, just as Billy Preston is uncredited on 
>Let It Be and Eric Clapton is on While My Guitar Gently Weeps.  

Available information suggests that George Harrison did not play on
"Come And Get It". On 24 July 1969 Paul was at Abbey Road Studio with
John Lennon (who was in the control booth but didn't play during Paul's
session). Paul recorded a demo for The Iveys, as they were then known,
called "Come And Get It", Paul doing all the instrumentation and vocal
overdubs without benefit of other Fabs. He gave the demo to the group,
and oversaw production of their version of the song, on Saturday 2 August
1969. While the Beatles had been in studio the day before and again on
Monday working on Abbey Road, there's no indication that any Fabs other
than Paul were with the Iveys/Badfinger when they recorded their version
of "Come And Get It", which they copied---guitar lead and all---almost
note for note from Paul's demo of the song.

Check Mark Lewisohn's "The Beatles Complete Recording Sessions" (1988)
and "The Complete Beatles Chronicle (1992) for further information.

>What ever happened to Tony Sheridan?

He lives near Palo Alto, works for Sun, speaks with an English accent and
tells everyone his name is Elvis.

Or have I mixed him up with the *real* Elvis?

--
"The Lana Sisters, clad in pink, added a welcome feminine flavour.
'Much better than those Beatles' I heard one gentleman remark."
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
Subject: Re: Is that a boom mike in Madonna's butt?
Organization: INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 17:44:29 GMT


In article <1992Oct11.035655.15381@math.ucla.edu> sherman@deimos.math.ucla.edu (William Sherman) writes:
>In article <ldcos7INNes7@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Trelford Pinkerton) writes:

>># The Blues Brothers
>>-When the neo-Nazi (played by Henry Gibson) goes off the end of the freeway
>>in his Pinto, suddenly the view changes and the car is falling from nearly
>>1000 feet, rather than from about 50 feet. (This may have been done on
>>purpose to emphasize the comedy, but it's a little jarring to see how
>>high the Pinto can jump.)
>
>What we have here is an instance of a cinematic technique known as
>comedy.  Don't worry about it.

If you want to get picky, though (it appears you do), as the Pinto finally
fell to (into) the street, the window shades in the apartment building
behind the action raise and lower.  Of course, this only happens in about
20 or 30 frames, so who really gives a Flying Fortress?

>># Gone With the Wind
>>-When the horse-drawn carriages are driving up to Twelve Oaks, 
>>they cast no shadows on the ground.
>
>That's because they were bought used from Peter Pan.

Actually, the carriages cast shadows - the problem is that the large
row trees the coach passes through cast no shadows on the coach, just
on the ground.  This wasn't, in fact, an error; it was a deliberate
attempt to hold down the costs of the film, which was already
grossly over-budget.


Oh, you missed the bit in Batman, in the scene where a detective
alternates between 2 days growth and clean shaven....
-- 
Jonathan E. Quist                              INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation
jeq@i88.isc.com  '71 CL450-K4 "Gleep", DoD #094        Naperville, IL
        There are many things a person should experience in a lifetime.
       Among them are an infant's first cry, and an infant's first laugh.
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Citecheck Hell)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Oranjelo
Date: 8 Oct 92 14:05:03 GMT
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <1992Oct07.191340.23954@brtph560.bnr.ca> jward@brtph696.BNR.CA (Jennifer Ward P830) writes:
>There are brothers raised in South Carolina named Pete
>(oldest) and Repete. 

What was the youngest brother's name again?
-- 
ted frank | thf2@midway.uchicago.edu 
also at quibeaux@uchicago.edu | standard disclaimers
the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
ajax crypto-analyzer -- warning! remove all chicken bones first
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: McDonalds Urban Legends
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 19:44:04 GMT

jlysagh@hubcap.clemson.edu (james joseph lysaght) writes:
: 
: the blood.  It seems pretty standard that if you work for a restaraunt
: you wont want to eat there anymore.  I have heard the same kind of
: stories about McD's, Burger King, Dairy Queen, and more.  My wife worked
: for Shoneys and she said they did not wash the dishes.  When they got
: busy during the lunch or dinner hour they would not waste time washing
: the dishes, the waitresses would just rinse them off real quick and
: re-use them.  Of course, everyone behaves properly when the health
: department is in, they don't want to loose their jobs!

Bah. Calling any of those places a restaurant is an insult to all the
marginally decent eateries of the world. 

Bill "Would it be asking too much for you to put a little potato in
the salt of my 'french fries'?" Nelson
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