HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: richg@hatch.socal.com (Rich Greenberg)
Subject: Re: Severed heads and consciousness
Organization: Hatch Usenet and E-mail.  Playa del Rey, CA
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 05:58:03 GMT

comjohn@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Mr. John T Jensen) writes:

> How could anybody possible know such a thing?  For the matter of that, how
> could anyone know whether there is consciousness in an unsevered head, e.g.
> mine?  Though at least in the unsevered case, there is the possibility of
> the head's telling you.  Do you think someone has got a willing grad student
> to have his head severed, having previously agreed to blink his eyes twice
> if he is conscious after the operation, once if he is not??

During the french revolution, researchers tried exactly this
experiment.  They got those about to be executed to agree
to blink for as long as they could.
I don't recall what the results were.
-- 
                
Rich Greenberg - N6LRT - 310-649-0238 - richg@hatch.socal.com
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky)
Subject: Re: Feets too big
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 20:24:38 GMT

derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:

>In article <1992Oct12.033828.1707@u.washington.edu> starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky) writes:

[no shoes=big feet story deleted]

>Think about this for a moment and you will realise that there is a much 
>simpler and more plausible scenario.  If you wear shoes which are too small
>for your feet their growth will be restricted.  If you wear shoes which are
>large for your foot size they will grow until they reach their natural size.

Okay, okay...but it makes such a scary story (at least, it was scary to me
when I was seven years old...)  I wonder why my teachers told us that.  Tmake
sure we didn't run around with our shoes off like little uncivilized heathens?

-- 
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Severed heads and consciousness
From: comjohn@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Mr. John T Jensen)
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 01:35:30 GMT
 <SteveWall-061092171204@hipmac1.pica.army.mil> <1992Oct8.142723.2189@HQ.Ileaf.COM> <39189@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand.

pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Montykins) writes:

>In article <1992Oct8.142723.2189@HQ.Ileaf.COM>, hal@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Hal Wadleigh) writes:
>>
>>  There
>>is consciousness in the severed head for anywhere from 30 seconds until 2
>>minutes.

>References? I always heard that the shock caused instant
>unconsciousness. (Followed eventually by death)

How could anybody possible know such a thing?  For the matter of that, how
could anyone know whether there is consciousness in an unsevered head, e.g.
mine?  Though at least in the unsevered case, there is the possibility of
the head's telling you.  Do you think someone has got a willing grad student
to have his head severed, having previously agreed to blink his eyes twice
if he is conscious after the operation, once if he is not??

jj

John Thayer Jensen                      64 9 373 7599 ext. 7543
Commerce Computer Services              64 9 373 7437 (FAX)
Auckland University                     jt.jensen@aukuni.ac.nz
Private Bag 92019
AUCKLAND
New Zealand
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From: tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Kirk VS Picard (was "Lost In Space" was better)
Date: 12 Oct 92 22:05:05 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <BvxMFq.Mp9@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke) writes:


> Kirk's middle name is TIBERIUS, as said in an animated episode, numerous
> books, and (most importantly) "The Undiscovered Country".  His tombstone
> was shown in the TOS pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before".  It was
> carved by his best friend, LCDR Gary Mitchell, who had been driven mad
> and given enormous power.  Mitchell showed this to Kirk before killing
> him... but obviously things didn't turn out that way.

Clearly, Gary Mitchell wasn't as good of a friend as he thought he was
if he didn't know what Jimmy "T" Kirk's middle name was.  I'm surprised
that Jim didn't disown him on the spot, or shoot him with a phaser rifle.

Terry "The Robot Never Made THAT Mistake on LOST IN SPACE" Wood
-- 
        INTERNET: tjw+@pitt.edu         BITNET: TJW@PITTVMS
"Laugh while you can, Monkey Boy!"                        - Lord "John" Warfin
"There can be only one!"                                  - The Highlander
"There should have been only one. I want my money back!"  - Terry
From: cromar@math.rutgers.edu (Scott Cromar)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Oranjelo
Date: 7 Oct 92 12:56:27 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:

> Nothing tops the Philippines for great names.  

You left Cardinal Sin off of your list. 

--Scott "I wonder if he was promoted as quickly as Major Major was" Cromar
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From: pjh@eng.cam.ac.uk (Philippa Hogben)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.science
Subject: Re: "Normal" body temperature
Date: 12 Oct 92 15:05:41 GMT
Reply-To: pjh@eng.cam.ac.uk
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.

In article 7492@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP, seawasp@vm2.cis.pitt.edu (Sea Wasp) writes:

>	However, the more common non-metric units still in use:
>	Ounce(solid): about 28 grams
>	Pound: 16 ounces, or about .45 kg
>	Ton: 2,000 lbs

Actually a British or "short" ton is 2240lb (you don't want us to use a _sensible_
number for conversion, do you?)

>
>	Quart: just a little less than one liter

A quart should surely be a little _more_ than a litre. "A litre of water is a pint
and three quarters." Having said that, I have just realised that the previous poster
is talking about USA quarts and I am talking Imperial. (see below)

>	Gallon: 4 quarts
>	Cup: 4 fluid ounces
>	Pint: 2 cups

An Imperial pint is 20 fl. oz so it must be 2.5 "cups"

>	Quart: 2 pints or 4 cups
>
>					Sea Wasp

Philippa

---
Philippa Hogben   pjh@eng.cam.ac.uk  (Reverse if mailing from Janet)
Any mistakes are mine, all mnie.

I am not a .sig virus. I am a free bug.
From: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The End Of The World
Date: 14 Oct 1992 16:28 PST
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
Distribution: alt
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.254.198
Keywords: baptist, apocalypse
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

I once read a vaguely UL-ish tale about some ancient writings
(Assyrian, Sumerian, somesuch) which supposedly translated to:
"Children do not respect their parents, every man wants to
write a book, and I am sure the end of the world is at hand."

As for the Baptists (insofar as one can generalize about Baptists,
a denomination that gives a lot of leeway to the individual church),
I wasn't aware that they gave tremendous credence to modern-day,
highly specific predictions of the date of the rapture/apocalypse/
whatnot.  

Anybody who takes the Bible seriously, much less literally, has to 
decide what to make of Revelations, of course.  But both numerologists
and watchers-for-signs can, with sufficient imagination, find what
they need anywhere.  Examples include the folks who alarmed themselves
at the number of nations in the European Community, nee Common Market,
and those who counted the letters in Ronald Wilson Reagan's name and
decided he was Big Engine No. 666 coming right down their track. It's
hard to think of a mainstream religion that takes this sort of thing
to heart.

Joe "Today will be the first day of what's left of your life" Chew
From: dab@ism.isc.com (Dave Butterfield)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Conscious Severed Heads (was: Is the electric chair . . .)
Date: 12 Oct 92 23:03:29 GMT
Organization: x
NNTP-Posting-Host: change

tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll) writes:
>> There
>> is consciousness in the severed head for anywhere from 30 seconds until 2
>> minutes. 

A properly-applied judo "choke" (which works by cutting off
the blood supply to the brain) results in unconsciousness in
a few (less than ten) seconds.
-- 
                     Vote for *anybody* but Quayle!
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
Subject: Re: ally bad car puns
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 23:48:28 GMT

rogers@rosencrantz.osf.org (Andrew Rogers) writes:

>And a co-worker of mine many years ago named her German-built Ford
>subcompact "Uncle Fiesta".

I had a bright orange 1972 VW Super Beetle with no muffler (what other kind
of beetle was there?).  After somebody hit it and claimed they didn't see it,
I named it "Stealth Beetle".

Sorry - nothing to do with folklore, I just thought it was fun...

ObUL: Elvis is trying to set a record for the most sightings of a dead
person.  If you see him, please send a get well card to Craig Shergold.

-- 
Paul Tomblin, pt@geovision.gvc.com or {uunet,revcan}!geovision!pt
(This is not an official opinion of GeoVision Systems Inc.)
I used to homebrew computers, now I homebrew beer.  Is this progress?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Citecheck Hell)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Geraldo Rivera
Date: 7 Oct 92 13:47:26 GMT
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <H.WCaZWkWkf5o@harvee.billerica.ma.us> scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us writes:
>In <1992Oct2.234154.8633@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>, Rachel J. Perkins writes:
>
>>well, *gulp*, geraldo rivera went to my university (univ. of arizona)...
>>since i used to work in the admissions data entry dept, i tried to look
>>up his records. i had a little trouble, 'cause it turns out he was only
>>"jerry rivers" at the time. 
>i heard somewhere that the "jerry rivers" story was a ul.

"Geraldo Rivera" is Jewish.  You make the call whether it's his real name.
-- 
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also at quibeaux@uchicago.edu | standard disclaimers
the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein)
Subject: Re: Newbie Experiment
Reply-To: warren@nysernet.org
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
Date: 15 Oct 92 18:16:32 GMT

In <7176@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> seawasp@vm2.cis.pitt.edu (Sea Wasp) writes:

    In conclusion, FAQs are basically just large postings that give the
    posters the FEELING that they are doing something useful, but more
    often they're not accomplishing much at all. (An FAQ is a great
    scapegoat maker, though. If you post an FAQ, you can then say smugly
    to some newbie, "THAT'S in the FAQ. What are you, a moron or something?"

I suggest that we put this at the bottom of the FAQ.

Warren "I heard they once did an experiment to make postings like this
invisible" Burstein
-- 
/|/-\/-\       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
From: juyoung@kiwi.ucs.indiana.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Q: Eating live monkey brains
Date: 16 Oct 92 19:47:32 GMT
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington

In article <4698@moscom.com> de@moscom.com (David Esan) writes:
>In article <22648@venera.isi.edu> mick@venera.isi.edu (Mick O'Donnell) writes:
>> I'm trying to track down factual (??) reports about this urban myth
>>about societies who eat munkey brains, straight from the owner's skull
>>(alla Temple of Doom). Anyone know if any kulture actually did this
>>stuff?  Which culture?
>> Where the monkeys still alive at the time?
>
>WARNING:  Don't read this just before lunch if you have a weak stomach.
>
>I have heard two first hand reports from people who serve in SouthEast Asia
>in the late 1960's.  They both told the same story:  
>
>A live monkey is placed in a vise-like contraption in the center of the table.
>The vise holds the head in place.  The top of the head is removed, and the
>diner then ate from the living brain with chopsticks.
>
>I have not seen it.  I have not seen documentation on it.  I believe these
>people saw it.  They served all over SE Asia, and spent time in the backwoods
>of VietNam and Thailand.  As Jack Palance used to say: Believe it or not.
>
>
>-- 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -->     David Esan      de@moscom.com  
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Should be true.  I heard the same thing too.  But it should happen at least a
centry ago in China.  I think now the law prohibits such practice, at least in
Hong Kong.  Don't know abou Vietnamese and Thai, but Chinese did do that.  
Maybe in Ching Dynasty (1644 ? - 1911).
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:25856 soc.women:17800
From: mikkelson%rwtms2.decnet@consrt.rockwell.com (snopes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,soc.women
Subject: Re: Women in groups
Date: 14 Oct 92 18:21:41 GMT
Organization: Will pay money for food.


In article <1992Oct11.005059.6801@ulysses.att.com>, 
  smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin) writes...

>  men who wore masks smeared with vaginal secretions

 Um, where could one obtain such masks?  I need them for, uh, Halloween.
 Yeah, that's the ticket.

 - snopes

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From: rhuss+@cs.cmu.edu (Robert Huss)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: famous people
Date: 7 Oct 92 20:24:42 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon


	George Thouroughgood (sp?) tried to pick up my
sister and a friend of hers.  They turned him down
rather harshly...  For some reason he seemed surprised.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader)
Subject: British measure (was: "Normal" body temperature)
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 06:03:16 GMT


> 	Ounce(solid): about 28 grams
> 	Pound: 16 ounces, or about .45 kg
> 	Ton: 2,000 lbs

Harrumph!  The above is correct for the US and Canada.  In the UK
(and other English-speaking countries if there are any non-metric
users left), it should continue:

	Stone: 14 pounds
	Hundredweight: 8 stone
	Ton: 20 hundredweights, or just over 1 tonne


> 	Quart: just a little less than one liter
> 	Gallon: 4 quarts
> 	Cup: 4 fluid ounces
> 	Pint: 2 cups
> 	Quart: 2 pints or 4 cups

As noted, that isn't even right for the US; a cup is 8 fluid ounces.
For Canada *and* the UK (and elsewhere if any), it becomes:

	Quart: about 1.14 liter
	Gallon: 4 quarts
	Cup: 8 fluid ounces
	Pint: 2.5 cups
	Quart: 2 pints or 5 cups

There is also the gill ("jill"), which may still see some use in the
UK at least and is 1/4 of a pint.  The UK and US fluid ounces are
almost, but quite, equal to each other and to the volume of one
ounce (weight) of water.
-- 
Mark Brader		   "Thus the metric system did not really catch on in
SoftQuad Inc., Toronto	    the States, unless you count the increasing popu-
utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com    larity of the 9 mm bullet."		-- Dave Barry

This article is in the public domain.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Citecheck Hell)
Subject: Re: Liz Claiborne/Oprah Winfrey UL
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 02:12:56 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.101728.12466@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> wisp@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Wisp) writes:
>In article <1992Oct5.160230.23648@PA.dec.com> snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes) writes:
>>I saw it.  She was on the show with Zsa-Zsa Gabor, and she told Ms. Gabor they
>>don't make clothes for old people, either.  It was reported in all the
>>newspapers.
>
>Come on, snopes, you can do better than that. Details, details... Like when
>was it on? Can you get the producers to confirm it? Can you get the videotape?
>Then, maybe, we'll start to believe you...
>
>The Wisp. [who's been waiting *soooooooo* long...   ;-) ]

It's bad enough that you go for the newbie bait, but then you use a smiley,
too.  Feh.

Ted "waiting for Phil to rearrange some diodes" Frank
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: amconn01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu
Subject: Re: Oct. 28: The Rapture (pamphlet found in Chicago)
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 17:26:49 GMT
Organization: University of Louisville

]In article <1992Oct13.011753.22412@midway.uchicago.edu>, djb6@ellis.uchicago.edu (Dennis Brennan) writes:
> A pamphlet found on the Midway Plaisance (a street near the U. of Chicago),
> having been thrown out the window of a van painted with Scriptural slogans:
> 
> RAPTURE- OCTOBER 28, 1992
> WHAT TO DO IN CASE YOU MISS THE RAPTURE
>


For those of you in rapture for the address, a suspiciously moonie-like person
gave me a similar pamphlet on campus. The pamphlet asks, "Are you ready to be
raptured?" To be raptured, contact:

Mission for the Coming Days
P.O. Box 356
E. Rutherford, NJ 07073-0356


One of the pamphlet's highlights is a picture of a gentleman with a '666' UPC
on his forehead. Guess it speeds up processing.

Michael "bend over and be raptured" Connor

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: tel@adimail.uucp (Terry Monks)
Subject: Re: Women in groups
Organization: Automata Design, Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 13:38:35 GMT

DSTEPHEN@cmsa.gmr.com wrote:
: 
: Look up "smegma" in your local dictionary.  It refers to a lot of unpleasant
: material that collects in the antipodean parts of the body.
: 
Why are your feet opposite your penis? 

Terry "Or shouldn't I ask?" Monks

-- 
Terry Monks        Automata Design Inc    (703) 742-9400

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: Bruce.Tindall@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Subject: 50 words for "Chevy Nova"
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 13:48:11 GMT

On October 7, the National Public Radio news program "All Things Considered"
broadcast a story that combines our "Chevy Nova" and "50 Eskimo Words for
Snow" threads.  Some relevant paraphrases of their interview with Ira
Bachrach, president of "Name Lab" of San Francisco;

Bachrach said the trademarks of automobiles are now the "largest well-
discriminated set of nouns" in the English language.  (He didn't say anything
about the Eskimo languages.)  He said the average person can name about 22
different colors, but can name and describe or give attributes of 50 to 60
models of car.  Fifty years ago, he said, the largest such sets were the lists
of names of animals and vegetables.

The "Name Lab" company, he said, is responsible for the name of the Honda
"Acura."  But the one we're interested in is the Chevrolet "Geo," which he
said they invented after noticing that the Toyota Corolla sold well in North
America but "the same car," under the name Chevy Nova, didn't. So they named
the  car "Geo," which, as Bachrach said, is a morpheme meaning "world," to
imply that it's a Japanese car even though it's called a Chevrolet.

Bachrach said that in 1955, Ford sent drawings of a proposed new car to poet
Marianne Moore and asked her for ideas for a name.  She replied that the 
sketches, when held upside down, showed an object that seemed to have "the
buoyancy of tropical fish," and recommended that the car be called the "Ford
Silver Sword."  Unfortunately, the brilliant Ford execs chose to call it the
Edsel instead.  Moore suggested several other names as alternatives that
later,
by coincidence, became the names of (mostly non-Ford) cars:  Civic,
Diamante, 
Chapparal, among others.

ObUL:  General Motors was going to introduce a car called the Urea, but
discovered that the word had already been kidnapped by Disney as the name
of the one-hundred-and-first Dalmatian.  Moreover, "urea" is the Mohican
word for "uric acid."

ObUL 2:  The Norwegians have 50 words for "diode," depending on the size
of the fist of the rearranger.


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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: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 03:07:22 GMT

In article <H.weVVc7AKjHs@harvee.billerica.ma.us> scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us writes:
>In <Bvwvtx.Gt5@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca>, James Davis Nicoll writes:
>>	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)
>and how was he *after* 1977?  
>

	Alive, of course, until the late 1980s. He doesn't seem to be
inclined to return again; I think cremation did the trick this time...

							James Nicoll
From: arielle@NeoSoft.com (Stephanie da Silva)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Severed heads, was Re: Is the electric chair an Edison publicity stunt?
Date: 9 Oct 92 14:35:46 GMT
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900

In article <39189@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Montykins) writes:
> In article <1992Oct8.142723.2189@HQ.Ileaf.COM>, hal@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Hal Wadleigh) writes:
> >
> >  There is consciousness in the severed head for anywhere from 30 
> >  seconds until 2 minutes.
> 
> References? I always heard that the shock caused instant unconsciousness. 


No refs, but I"ve heard the same thing.  
The story I heard was back in France when it was common to guillotine people
all the time, one of the things they'd do was pick up the severed head and
show the body to it (the head).  And quite often, the face would register
some sort of reaction to seeing its body.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: glitto@iastate.edu (Scott M Klabacha)
Subject: Names that can and can't be used (Was Re:  Oranjelo)
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 03:32:00 GMT

In article <BvtMx9.2CK@unx.sas.com> sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall) writes:
>
>In article <91856@netnews.upenn.edu>, crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
>>Nothing tops the Philippines for great names.  A few people I met when I
>>lived there:
>>Boy
>>Girl
>[etc.]
>
>The American Kennel Club won't let you register a dog whose name
>contains the word "Dog".  [followed by "Dog" story]

When I was taking French I (or maybe it was II) in high school, our teacher
told us a story she'd heard on the radio about two French parents who had
tried to name their daughter "Cerise" ("cherry" in French), but who weren't
allowed to use that name on the birth certificate (by the government, or
whoever's in charge of such matters).

I heard it, so its gotta be true...

   gLITTOfERN
glitto@iastate.edu

PS  Just saw someone's first George Foreman posting a few minutes ago, which
    beat mine by at least a day. Oh well. rn shifted from the "Oranjelo" 
    thread to the one about severed dogs' heads that mentions "Oranjelo" in
    the subject line...so I couldn't find any more postings about names...