HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mink boners
Date: 16 Oct 92 10:49:02 GMT
Reply-To: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
Organization: gators 'r us
X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.03 Rev. Apr 14 1992

In <1992Oct13.221835.1507@unislc.uucp>, Dan Wright writes:


>  He claimed male minks are the only animals
>which actually have bones in their boners.


wrong. lots of mammals do, including dogs and raccoons.  in high school
biology, the teacher told us that in colonial times, raccoon penis bones
(the scientifical name for such a bone is "baculum") were used to clean
pipes(the kind of pipes they smoked tobacco in.)

so there.

little"i'm female so i don't have one" gator
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From: sgs@grebyn.com (Stephen G. Smith)
Subject: Re: Computer Troubles
Organization: Agincourt Computing
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 06:16:12 GMT

In article <4BLosB1w164w@glnserv.UUCP> kati@glnserv.UUCP (Lady Dragon) writes:
>More people who have trouble understanding computers:

>2. A friend of mine working as a customer support person for a software
>company requested that a customer send her a copy of the troublesome disk.
>Sure enough, a Xerox copy came in the mail a couple of days later.

>* * email address: nuchat!xcluud!glnserv!kati * Houston, Texas, USA, Earth * *

My favorite version of the story has the tech fixing the customer's
problem using the Xerox copy.  Turns out that the customer had gotten a
bad version of the software, and the version number was printed on the
disk ....

In another matter, there is a *whole newsgroup* devoted to discussing
this kind of thing.  It is alt.folklore.computers.  A while back, they
had a thread with a truly mind-boggling number of Stupid User Tricks.
Perhaps somebody over there has an FTP site.

How about if we get back to discussing exploding cheerleaders on this
group?


-- 
Steve Smith                     Agincourt Computing
sgs@grebyn.com                  (301) 681 7395
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."
From: robcruic@intacc.uucp (Robert Cruickshank)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Superglue origin an UL?
Date: 11 Oct 92 04:55:27 GMT
Organization: Inter/Access' Matrix BBS


The version I read was that it was developed during the Vietnam war for quick
field first-aid. I also read (in the same article) that the NFL uses a medical
version to glue damaged football players back together. the CFL  wants to use
it, but it is not aproved yet in Canada, so our guys just have to bleed like
men for now. I told a co-worker about this, and a few days later, he cuts
himself, and guess waht? He decided to try it out! According to him, it hurt a
lot. He seemed somewhat betrayed, and I had to explain that I said it was
*fast* not *painless*. And I offered to try putting in some stiches for a pain
comparison, but he declined...
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From: tpehrson@javelin.sim.es.com (tim clinkenpeel)
Subject: who has heard the exloding cactus story?
Reply-To: tpehrson@javelin.sim.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 18:43:09 GMT

i am doing a little feature on a local 'talk show' and i need a reference
(however obscure) for the exploding cactus UL.  if you've heard it (told as
fact, not as UL) please mail me and include the following:

1. date you heard it (approximate) & where you lived at the time
2. who you heard it from (name)
3. relation of #2 to person who supposedly was victim of incident
   3A. any information about alledged victim (i.e. where, when, who)
4. recounting as the tale as best you can remember it being originally told

you will be credited for your submission in the forum where the material is
presented.  not that that will amount to any notable amount of glory.

-- 
	       there is no religion when a man has  good curry
				       -
      tim clinkenpeel: aberrant analytical skeptical agnostic idealist.
		     -- i exclusively represent myself --
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: foregone@stein.u.washington.edu (Ah so Grasshopper!)
Subject: Re: Bumper Sticker
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 00:12:02 GMT

In article <98650@bu.edu> tesco@bumetb.bu.edu (Dances With Babes) writes:
>I've read on the net that there exists a bumper sticker that says:
>
>Picard/Riker in '92 : Make it so!
>
>Does anyone know where i can buy it in the Boston area??  Or mail order?
>
>thanks....
>
>

Well, one of the versions (I've seen 3) can be purchased at:

Bluebeard's
4241 University Way NE
Seattle WA 98105
206-633-1769

This store is going out of business, but the owner also has her own
publishing company, so you can call the phone number and ask about the
stickers...when I got mine it was 1 for $2.99 and 2 for $5.00

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.religion.kibology
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Citecheck Hell)
Subject: Re: Dictionaries
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 02:43:42 GMT

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.

Ted "how long have you had this problem?  i don't know -- my calendar
     has no '4's" Frank
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the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: jamesp@agora.rain.com (James Price)
Subject: Re: Canadian pennies
Organization: Open Communications Forum
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 05:32:37 GMT

In article <1b0jocINN127@huon.itd.adelaide.edu.au> phil@adam.adelaide.edu.au writes:
>
>
>Now our minimum unit of portable currency is 5c (by this I mean that you can
>still write a cheque for $10.01 but you cannot give someone $10.01 in cash).
>Legislation has been passed requiring vendors to round final prices to the
>nearest 5c multiple.
>
>Regards,
>Phil.
>
>   _-_|\    Phil Kernick                        "Sleep all day,
>  /     \   University of Adelaide               Party all night,
>  \_.-*_/   E-Mail: phil@adam.adelaide.edu.au    It's fun to be a
>       v    Phone:  +61 8 228 5914               Vampire!"


   Quite naturally, being goodhearted chaps, they feel inclined to
   round down rather than up....  NOT!

   James
From: de@moscom.com (David Esan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Is that a boom mike in Madonna's butt?
Date: 15 Oct 92 15:54:22 GMT
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford NY

In article <1992Oct14.084005.9471@pixar.com> good@pixar.com (The one who dies with the most toys wins) writes:
>would stop Nazis?  The biggest, of course, is that there was no trail of
>refugees traveling to Casablanca during the war, much less "on foot across
>the rim of Africa".  All that stuff was made up for the film.  The city of
>Casablanca was relatively obscure until the arrival of its cinematic namesake.

My father fled the Nazis when they invaded the country of his residence, 
Belgium.  After a flight across France ahead of the German advance, he
arrived at the Spanish border.  His passport would not allow him to enter
Spain (many passports were issued thusly in the 1930's , to prevent people 
from joining the Spanish Civil War).  He then took a steamer to Casablanca, to
get out of France.  In Casablanca, he was one of a group of refugees that
went about trying to find exit visas, and entry visas (you couldn't get
out, until you had permission to get in somewhere else.)  He sailed to the
US with a group of refugees on a small Greek freighter.

I don't think my Dad was made up for the film. :-).

ObUL: The film Casablanca has never been shown in Casablanca.


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From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Canadian pennies
Date: 12 Oct 92 06:10:51 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <1992Oct9.195406.27430@unislc.uucp> dw@unislc.uucp (Dan Wright) writes:
>bill nelson wrote:
>: (Phil Kernick) writes:
>: : Australia.  Recently the government stopped issuing 1c and 2c pieces 
>: : because it was costing them more to produce them than their face value.

This is the same situation here.

>: Why don't people just start cutting the coins into wedges, like they used to
>: do with coins here?  Cut the coin into fifths and you have "bits" worth a
>: penny each.  
 
>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 Austrialian phenomenon is really surprising,
>and qualifies as "news of the weird".  The government here would begin
>minting pennies out of less expensive stuff (steel, even wood?)  or, as
>bill nelson pointed out, might issue 5 cent pieces designed to be cut into
>fifths; having channels or perforations.

And you describe rounding to the nearest 5 cents as 'impractical' Furffu!!!!
It isn't that hard to cope with.  No more difficult than having an extra 
amount added onto your bill as state tax.  You seem to be able to cope with 
that OK.

The point is that the one and two cent coins really couldn't be made any 
cheaper.  To re equip to use plastic or 'wood' would outweigh any savings
made.

Perhaps the US government would explore this avenue rather than take away
those important little coins...

After all your paper money comes in 'any colour you like as long as it's green' 

Derek "Bring back the farthing" Tearne


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Some of the more aware dinosaurs were worried about the environmental
consequences of an accident with the new Iridium enriched fusion reactor.  
"If it goes off only the cockroaches and mammals will survive..." they said.
From: moore@gibbs.oit.unc.edu (Hall Moore)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Names (don't do this to your kids)
Date: 13 Oct 92 16:50:37 GMT
Organization: University of North Carolina

In article <1b538kINNiue@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> davids@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (David Schwantner) writes:
>In article <1992Oct9.204634.11263@afit.af.mil> mgaudrea@afit.af.mil (Michele L.D. Gaudreault) writes:
> >This also reminds of the guy in California who thought it would be cute
> >to have a personalized car license plate that said "NONE".  A few weeks
> >later he got something like 700 parking tickets in the mail!!  The
> >computer finally had a license that matched all those tickets issued to
> >the car with license plate number "none"!
> >
>
>Sounds like UL bait to me!

Sounds like a definite UL to me too.  I have heard the story in two
versions (BIG UL warning there).

#1 Guy gets hundreds of tickets for vehicle without a liscence plate:
officer writing ticket writes 'none', etc.

#2 Guy _never_ gets any tickets:  officer writes up ticket with 'none',
computer interprets 'none' as no liscence plate, can't be traced

just my $0.02
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From: foltz@as.arizona.edu (Craig B. Foltz)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: who has heard the exloding cactus stor
Date: 14 Oct 92 16:09:18 GMT
Reply-To: foltz@as.arizona.edu
Organization: MMT Observatory, Univ.of Arizona

My recollection is that I read it in the Arizona Daily Star (Tucson), shortly after
I moved to Arizona in 1983.  I'm plumbing the depths of my long-term memory, but
I think it happened somewhere in the wasteland south of Phoenix.  The drunken
bum had been felling saguaros (the classic cactus of our collective conscience -- 
you know, multiple arms, etc.) with his 12-gauge.  The saguaro grows to be a
very large cactus (30 feet or more tall for a large individual) and can tip the
scales at thousands of pounds.  Anyway, he blew away the major structural members 
of one of these big babies and it fell on him, killing him instantly.  

We all cheered.  We love saguaros.  They're our state tree...

I cannot confirm this since I'm too far from a library, but someone might want to check the Daily Star or the Arizona Republic (Phoenix) c. 1982-84.

---
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Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721        Fax   (602) 670-5740
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: seanna@bnr.ca (Seanna Watson)
Subject: Re: Oranjelo
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 23:23:57 GMT

In article <1992Oct9.172945.17394@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> kristyp@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kristy Patterson) writes:
>In article <1992Oct8.183259.14751@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> pwhitman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Philip N Whitman) writes:
>>In article <1992Oct8.182108.14613@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> pwhitman@magnus.ac
>>s.ohio-state.edu (Philip N Whitman) writes:
>>...seven children, named (in order of visitation)
>>Alan, Brian, Caren (I think), Dian, Evan, Fabian and Gordon.  
>
>Gee, sounds like his parents watched "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers"
>one too many times.  Never saw the movie, but in the T.V. series the
>seven brothers had names in this pattern.  (Your story happens to have
>seven, too...)
>
That reminds me of a story I made up for my son Trevyn.  It was about
a cat that had kittens named: Trevyn, Evan, Bevan, Devon, Nevin, Kevin
and Seven.  
-- 
Seanna Watson   Bell-Northern Research, 
(seanna@bnr.ca) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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No, they're not BNR's, they're mine.           | day when you must first
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: nail in Coca-Cola
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 17:56:33 GMT

markm@bigfoot.sps.mot.com (Mark Monninger) writes:
: In article <Bvq0oA.8En@well.sf.ca.us> rchao@well.sf.ca.us (Robert Chao)  
: writes:
: > 
: > I have heard a UL in several places that someone left a nail in some
: > Coke overnight and it disintegrated, since the Coke is so acidic (or
: > whatever). Does anyone know the source of this UL? (Unless, of course,
: > it's true.)
: > -- 
: Well, I've heard it will remove rust. Also heard that it will remove the  
: paint from your car if you spill some on it (the car, that is).

Well, it neither removes rust or paint from my pickup. I have had several
demonstrations of that.

Bill
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:25411 soc.women:17593
From: starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,soc.women
Subject: Re: Women in groups
Date: 12 Oct 92 03:27:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Oct12.032733.398
Organization: University of Washington

andrewb@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Andrew Bevin) writes:

>I have heard that if woman live in group's that their menstrual cycles
>start to sync with each other.

>Anyone care to expand or refute this.

Yes, it definitely happens.  (I'm even a woman, so I *should* know something
about the subject).  Cecil Adams, as usual, does a nice job of covering this
topic in his book More of the Straight Dope.

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From: palmermg@infonode.ingr.com (Michael G. Palmer)
Subject: Re: 7-Up
Keywords: Kibo was not involved in this coloboration
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 20:17:11 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.155949.25120@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <1992Oct14.121008.18303@echo.philips.nl> dolf@echo.philips.nl (Dolf Grunbauer) writes:
>>I heard that the name of "7-Up" is 7-Up due to the fact that it
>>was the 7th attempt to get this product on the market.
>>
>>Is this true or an Urban Legend ?
>>If true, what were the reasons of the 6 failures ?
>
>Ah, deja vu...
>
>Before this thread goes too far, let me warn against the use of any joke
>involving Preparations A through G.
>
>Ted "at least the steak sauce got it right the first time" Frank

What!?!  Your not going to to count those first 56 misses?

Michael "Eh? Only one ingredient?" Palmer
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: datri@egsner.cirr.com (Anthony Datri)
Subject: Re: Geraldo Rivera
Organization: Central Iowa (Model) Railroad, Dallas, Tx.
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 22:03:09 GMT

>>>well, *gulp*, geraldo rivera went to my university (univ. of arizona)...

I'm told that Sally Jesse Raphael went to mine -- CMU.

My reaction was "Oh boy."
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lopresti@henson.cc.wwu.edu (lopresti robert)
Subject: Far SIde
Organization: Western Washington University
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 05:58:15 GMT


Did everybody see The Far SIde cartoon today (Thurs Oct 8)?  Gary
Larson plays with a well-known UL.

Rob
From: krikket@meltdown.chi.il.us (D. 'krikket' Krick)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mink boners
Date: 15 Oct 92 18:07:17 GMT
Organization: The Meltdown - A Team Star BBS

In article <1992Oct13.221835.1507@unislc.uucp>, dw@unislc.uucp (Dan Wright)
writes:
>Daniel F Boyd wrote (among other things):
>: 12.  Do you know of any stories about animals and penises
>:      (around the penis, in the penis, affected by the
>:      penis, etc.)?
>
>I once knew an ornery old land surveyor who wore a little pendant
>around his neck which looked like a thin claw.  He told everyone it
>was a mink's dick bone.  He claimed male minks are the only animals
>which actually have bones in their boners.  The story was, a lady mink
>farmer had given it to him in payment for his having set the property
>corners on her mink farm.  He wore the bone as a token of masculinity.

Hate to dissapoint you, but minks aren't the only animals with bones in their
boners...  If you don't beleive me, check out alt.sex.bestiality, for more
info...

===========
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walk around / And when I lift them the climb the stairs / And when I
shave them ain't got hairs."  -- I've Got Two Legs (Monty Python)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: streeter@cs.unca.edu (Tom Streeter)
Subject: Re: Oranjelo
Organization: University of North Carolina at Asheville
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 22:52:53 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.160808.7074@zip.eecs.umich.edu> stame@emunix.emich.edu (Stewart Tame) writes:
>
>I think that one's actually true.  Lear named her, "Crystal Shanda."
>Seems a little too cute to be true but I heard it from an unimpeachable
>source.
>


You heard this from Richard Nixon?


--Tom "I am not......well.....I guess I am......but pardoned..."
Streeter

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Asheville, NC 28804                         |   mine alone.
From: klg@panda.mc.duke.edu (Kim Greer -- rjj)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mixed up translations
Date: 9 Oct 92 11:19:50 GMT
Organization: Duke University, Nuclear Medicine

>>Anybody famous ever shoot off a rocket?

 Slim Pickens in Doctor Strangelove.

-- 
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Duke University Medical Center		 klg@orion.mc.duke.edu
Div. Nuclear Medicine  POB 3949		 voice: 919-681-5894
Durham, NC 27710  		         fax: 919-681-5636
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: seanna@bnr.ca (Seanna Watson)
Subject: Re: Male Pregnancies
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 02:07:19 GMT

In article <1bd7erINNajq@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> rxh6@po.CWRU.Edu (Randall Holt) writes:
>
>In a previous article; pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Montykins) says,
>>In article <1992Oct12.015811.27682@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, peterm@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Peter Mardahl) writes:
>>>
>>>The story goes that some guy thought it would be neat to bear
>>>a child.  Some <unknown> hospital obligingly surgically implanted
>>>a fertilized egg somewhere in his abdomen, and later delivered
>>>the fetus by "Caesarian". 
> 
>>Oh, just for laughs, I'll give this one a try. No womb. No umbilical
>>cord. No way to get nourishment to the child. No place for the li'l
>>tyke to _be_. Just gonna sit there blocking off the small intestine?
> 
> 
>Ok Monty. Let's think about the biology. For starters, the womb (maternal
>placenta) and the umbilical cord (fetal placenta) are not really attached to
>each other, but are in close contact by way of membranes through which 
>nutrients and gases are exchanged. So, if you can reproduce a maternal 
>placenta, you can have a baby anywhere (including the shoebox in the middle
>of the road). The fetus produces everything else it needs in it's own little 
>world, except for delivery of food and removal of waste.
> 
I have read (in books about obstetrics/gynecology) about women who have
carried to term "abdominal pregnancies" where the egg was fertilized
outside the uterus, and the placenta implanted in the abdominal wall.
The baby was of course delivered by caesarian.  In one case that was
cited, however, the mother died of a hemorrhage shortly after the birth.
The problem apparently is that the placenta causes whatever site it 
implants to become richly supplied with blood vessels.  This is ok for
the uterus, which contracts after birth to a fraction of its previous
size, effectively constricting the blood vessels that had been supplying
the placenta.  There is no such mechanism for other possible implantation
sites, so it would be very dangerous for a man to "host" an abdominal
pregnancy.

--                           
Seanna Watson   Bell-Northern Research, 
(seanna@bnr.ca) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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No, they're not BNR's, they're mine.           | day when you must first
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From: gregn@coombs.anu.edu.au (Gregory Newton)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Radar Cars (was: stupid cop tricks & t)
Date: 16 Oct 92 11:46:32 GMT
Organization: Australian National University
NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.76.2

I don't know if anyone has allready posted this ( if so my apologies ),

	Here in Australia there is fairly extensive use of radar camras to catch
speeders and some associated genuine stories. Like a woman in Victoria who got
an infringment for doing 400+ kph in an 80 zone and a telephone pole in NSW that
was clocked doing 79kph

	- Greg N ('Cloud')