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From: blofgren@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brent M. Lofgren)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: What's lutfisk? + new UL (was Re: Liz Claiborne/Oprah Winfrey UL)
Date: 16 Oct 92 19:29:20 GMT
Organization: Princeton University
Originator: news@nimaster

In article <1992Oct16.164028.2021@hsr.no> geirj@hsr.no (Geir Johannessen) writes:
>In article <Bw2sy5.6xC@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, duffey@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Thomas Duffey) writes:
>> schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher) writes:
>> 
>> >Lutefisk is raw herring (or is it cod?) fillets soaked in lye
>> >and served cold, often with lefse (a sort of undercooked tortilla
>> >slathered in butter, also cold). A holiday treat among Scandinavians
>> >and their descendants in Minnesota. Oh, sure, they complain about
>> >having to eat it, but they do it anyway.
>> 
>> 	It's cod.  Italians call this disgusting dish "baccala."
>> 
>> Tom Duffey
>> 
>
>First of all, you are both wrong.
>
>Lutefisk is not Scandinavian, it's Norwegian.
>(Norway+Sweden=Scandinavia) The Swedes have nothing to do with it.
>
>Baccalao and lutefisk is not the same. Baccalao is a dinner where
>Lutefisk is one of several ingredients. Baccalao is mostly enjoyed
>in Spain, Portugal and Latin-Amerika.
>
>Even though I am Norwegian, I have never tasted neither Lutefisk
>nor Baccalao. But I strongly suspect Baccalao to be VERY GOOD if
>made in a proper manner.
>
>Geir Johannessen
>Norway

Being an American of mixed Norwegian and Swedish ancestry, I can tell
you that I have eaten lutefisk (usually at Christmas) with relatives of
both stripes.  With the Norwegians (my mother's relatives), we eat it
roasted (not cold!!) with butter on top of it and lefse on the side.
With the Swedes, it's roasted first, then flaked apart into little
pieces (no cutting necessary because of its jello-like consistency), and
put in cream sauce to pour over potatoes.  In both cases, ham is served
as an alternative for those who are not interested.

By the way, I did grow up in Minnesota, but my Swedish relatives are
mostly in Nebraska.

Brent
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From: smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
Subject: Re: "Normal" body temperature
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 01:08:13 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories

In article <7492@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>, seawasp@vm2.cis.pitt.edu (Sea Wasp) writes:
> 
> 	Quart: just a little less than one liter
> 	Gallon: 4 quarts
> 	Cup: 4 fluid ounces
> 	Pint: 2 cups
> 	Quart: 2 pints or 4 cups

Nope.  A cup is 8 fluid ounces; there are 32 oz. per quart.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: Buck Godot <bgodot@halcyon.com>
Subject: Re: "Lost In Space" was better
Originator: bbs@halcyon.com
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 01:02:40 GMT

rdale@cstp.umkc.edu writes:

> >>  What I'd like to know is why the artificial gravity never gives out.  The
> >>engines fail, the life support fails, but the gravity never fails.
> > 
> >  Perhaps gravity has highest priority, because without it, the crew wouldn'
> > able to function at %100, and thus couldn't fix the other systems.
> 
> 	It's hard to simulate the "zero gravity" or "vacuum" (how come that
> never looks right?  vaccum, vacuum) of space when you're on a planet with
> a gravity and an atmosphere.  That's why we see scenes of astronauts
> exploding (or not) when thrust out of the ship in their skivvies.
> 

 
   I always wondered what NASA kept covered up...
From: phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Hey! Check out this Frequently Asked Questions List or be FAQ'd!
Date: 13 Oct 92 05:17:34 GMT
Organization: Where the wolf has slept by the silver stream

In article <1992Oct13.012221.12291@u.washington.edu> starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky) writes:
>tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll) writes:
>
>>In article <26718@dog.ee.lbl.gov>, twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (TWChan@lbl.gov) 
>>writes:
>>>   - Poinsettia salad
>
>>Please spell this as "Pointsetta" in future editions of the FAQ.  I need some 
>>nitpicking thing to correct.
>
>Acquire a dictionary, Terry.  POINSETTIA, according to the American Heritage
>Dictionary, Second College Edition.  One of MY pet peeves is the mispronun-
>ciation (as well as misspelling) "pointsetta."
>
Furrfu.  Maybe I've been wrong all along.  Maybe it isn't possible to 
communicate in this medium without furshlugginer :-) signs all over the place
to indicate sarcasm, humor, gas, or confusion.

Sarah, please take another look at tjc50's posting.

Phil "Then take a last look at your diodes" Gustafson

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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: 18,000 words for "Edsel"
Date: 8 Oct 92 21:45:28 GMT
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University

In article <1992Oct8.152704.683@osf.org> rogers@rosencrantz.osf.org (Andrew Rogers) writes:
>
>I never heard the grille referred to as an "Ocarina" before, and I *play*
>ocarina (well, I know the solo from "Wild Thing").  I've heard it referred
                                      ^^^^ ^^^^^

As in "OK, Teddy on the ocarina let's go!", "Tempo, Teddy", etc.?

cj "Democrats really swing" l
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc
From: hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke)
Subject: Re: Kirk VS Picard (was "Lost In Space" was better)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 04:52:21 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.232238.11517@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>
>Wasn't Spock referenced as a Martian in one of the pilots? 

One of the early proposals had Spock as a Martian with red skin, who ate
through an organ on his abdomen, but of course this never happened.  By
the time THE CAGE was filmed, it was already decided that he was a
Vulcan.
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From: jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl)
Subject: Re: End of Millenium Hysteria (was Re: Oct. 28: The Rapture)
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 20:44:09 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM Rochester

In article <Bw2y91.MAr@hpuerca.atl.hp.com>, mhr@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Mike Reaser) writes:
|> In <1992Oct13.204230.11241@rchland.ibm.com> jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl) writes:
|> 
|> >    Didn't this exact same thing happen 1000 years ago?
|> 
|> >    I remember reading historical accounts of upheaval
|> >that occurred at the end of the 1st millenium.  I have
|> >even heard opinions that the Mayan civilization collapsed
|> >out of similar anxiety.  
|> 
|> WOW!  The Mayan's went hysterical over the Christian calendar 500 years
|> before direct contact with Christian Europeans!
|> 
|> How did this happen?  Chariots of the Gods?

No.  The Mayans had their own calendar and their civilization
supposedly fell apart at a major point on it(end of a century).
I said that they collapsed out of similar anxiety, but I didn't 
say when.

 
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From: torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair)
Subject: Re: Mixed up translations
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 20:54:05 GMT

bogart@sabre.larc.nasa.gov  writes:
> On a recent trip to amsterdam, I went on a tour boat around
> the harbor.  The tour guide was doing her speil in Dutch, 

	She was playing on the boat?  (Speil is a German word) 

> German, French and English.  When we passed the new railroad
> station (which was constructed on 30 thousand redwood pilings)
> she substituted the plural adjictive form of the German 'rot'

	rot (German) = red (English

> and informed us that if was built on "30 thousand rotten wood
> piles".
> 
> Ed "amsterdam is great, rotten wood and all" Bogart

	Torsten (the name's Nordic, my mother's German) at Omaha
 
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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Kirk VS Picard (was "Lost In Space" was better)
Date: 8 Oct 92 21:53:04 GMT
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University

In article <1992Oct8.071257.659@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu 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:
>>> Kirk is completely wreckless and if you don't believe me
>>> ask anyone on the ship who wore a read shirt...you can't because Kirk
>>> got them all killed! 
>>
>>Picard, a RED SHIRT, is just lucky he wasn't an ACTING ENSIGN in Kirk's day.
>>
>>Terry "Shut-up, acting ensign Picard!" Wood
>
>Acting?  What acting?
>
>Ted "Was James T. Kirk's middle name 'Terry'?" Frank

no, Tiberius.  Also Shatner has been in the Outer Limits, Twilight Zone,
and a few others.  Did you really like Stewart in Dune?  (I preferred Sting.)

cjl
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: dw@unislc.uucp (Dan Wright)
Subject: Re: Q: Eating live monkey brains
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 22:00:53 GMT

Mick O'Donnell wrote:
: 
:   ... societies who eat [monkey] brains, straight from the owner's skull
: 
:  [Were] the monkeys still alive at the time?

Rather than decapitation, see, and if the mob decides you must be killed
anyway, it would be an interesting experience to have them remove your CPU
one module at a time.

Your last slow words might be:

" a  b i c y c l e   b u i l t   f o r   t w o "

  -- Dan Wright
From: "tom betz" <tom.betz@execnet.com>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: "lost in space" was clear
Date: 9 Oct 92 21:54:33 EST
Reply-To: "tom betz" <tom.betz@execnet.com>
Distribution: alt
Organization: Executive Networks Information

Quoth Rdale regarding "LOST IN SPACE" WAS CLEAR on 10-08-92:

R >	Red Skelton walked across campus one day.  Nice guy.  Black
R >Sabbath, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Heart, and Black Oak Arkansas don't count,
R >I guess.

Whatever happened to Black Oak Arkansas?

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From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Good Luck
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 17:04:24 GMT

fburdette@worldbank.org (Franklin P. Burdette) writes:

: To Saint Jude:
: 
... letter deleted ...

Hey Frank.  I hope you do not believe the crap in that letter.

You also should have posted a warning that it was a chain letter
and to not send it on to others. You also should have stated  
specifically that it was not to be sent through the regular postal
service - as that is against federal law. (people from outside the
US may ignore this)

The letter, in its many variations, has been around for at least
25 years. I remember receiving a copy back in the early 1960s. My
sister actually send on copies of the letter she received at about
the same time.

It would be best, if the letter were to be trashed and never referred
to again. Unfortunately, like C.S., it keeps popping up on occasion as
another gullible generation of victims develops.

Bill "And I don't have enough firecrackers for all them gulls" Nelson
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: psychic naughty bits
From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
Date: 14 Oct 92 01:39:19 GMT

jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) writes:

>boyd@acsu.buffalo.edu (Daniel F Boyd) wrote:
>[sending up something I missed]

>> 20.  Have you ever heard someone claim that they used a penis
>>      to foretell an event?

No, but this is strongly reminiscent of Tyrone Slothrop in Thomas
Pynchon's _Gravity's Rainbow_, who foretold V2 hits in such a manner.

-- 
Matt McIrvin, posting nonsense again 
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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 (Lost in Space was BETTER)
Date: 8 Oct 92 02:47:56 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <1992Oct5.022656.10081@bsu-ucs.uucp>, 00rbspelman@bsu-ucs.uucp writes:

> 	Sure, you haven't SEEN Picard in hand-to-hand very often, but there
> was a hint of how crazy he was in the past, when he was recounting his 
> near-death experience with Wesley while they were on a shuttlecraft.

Picard is a wimp!  The very best he ever did was get stabbed through the
heart in a drunken bar-room fight.  Jim Kirk, on the other hand, fought
nearly every week.  He called far fewer meetings and ALWAYS got the girl.

I rest my case!

Terry "We come in peace (shoot to kill! SHOOT TO KILL! MEN!!!)" Wood
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: csmith@blackplague.gmu.edu (Blackplague)
Subject: Re: 666 Cable TV(angle/angel)
Reply-To: csmith@blackplague.gmu.edu (Blackplague)
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA 
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 03:40:45 GMT

Ok, ok.  SORRY!!!!!!  I never claimed I could spell. 

Blackplague
From: warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Error in FAQ: Gerbils
Date: 15 Oct 92 13:29:41 GMT
Reply-To: warren@nysernet.org
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs

terry>  Want to double-check that Terry?
snopes> Which Terry are we supposed to double-check?
bill>   Yeah! Why should we have to anyway? Isn't checking them once
bill>   good enough? Don't you trust us?

I'm sorry, but your Terry inspection sticker is out of date.  Please
get out of the newsgroup slowly and put your hands on top of your
terminal.

ObRelevanceToSubjectLine: but don't bend over, whatever you do.
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From: sfshaw@leibniz.uwaterloo.ca (Steve (Flipper) Shaw)
Subject: Re: 666 Cable TV
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 19:09:08 GMT

In article <csmith-081092103520@cyrano.gmu.edu>, csmith@blackplague.gmu.edu (Blackplague) replies to a query regarding number of faeries able to dance
on the head of a pin:
> 
> Sigh, couple of problems here folks.
> 1) A faerie is much to large to stand (let alone dance) on the head of a
> pin.
> 
> 2) The original theological question deals with angles and the number of
> which may dance on the head of a pin.
> 
> 3) With the above in mind, we have several questions.
>    a) Do angles dance?  Occording to some christian sects, dancing is a
> sin, and 	so angles, with the possible exception of the Fallen One, would
> not dance and the question is moot.
>    b) If angles do dance, then does an angle have a corperal body? 
>    c) If yes, then just how large is an angle?
>    d) If no, then can it be reasoned that an angle is infinitely small?
> 
> 
> Mathematicly, if the last is true, just how infinitely small is the angle? 
> Is the angle so infinitely small that an infinite number of angles can
> dance on the head of a pin?  Or must an infinite number of angles take up
> an infinite amount of space?
>
 
And we must consider whether only right angles are going to be dancing, or
if we're going to be inviting left angles. I'm not even sure that angles
dance, but I had a geometry teacher that could make them sing.
 
-Steve 'got all the angels covered' Shaw
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com
Subject: Re: Canadian pennies
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 23:50:34 GMT

In article <+cxz+pm@rpi.edu>, kasprj@isaac.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak) writes...
>In article <1992Oct6.210435.12846@sq.sq.com>, msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:
>|> Higher coins are still 100% nickel, except for the loonie ($1 coin) which
>|> is 100% nickel with a plating of "aureate bronze".  I have never seen the
>|> metallic composition of the (gold-colored) plating, by the way, even in
>|> places where I would expect it to be given.

> This is odd. If Canadian nickels, dimes and quarters are made of nickel 
>or copper-nickel, why can I pick them up with a magnet?

Because nickel is magnetic, just like iron, cobalt and several alloys.

I used to have a little fun with Canadian coins when I was a kid "Look, a
counterfeit Canadian quarter.  See it sticks to a magnet, it must be steel!"

If modern Canadian nickels have the same copper-nickel alloy as US nickels they
won't stick to a magnet, not enough nickel in them.

-Mike
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: "Gang Bang" series
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 21:41:06 GMT

steveb@meaddata.com (Steve Brooke) writes:
: 
: Here's the Boston Globe article published without permission.  The article is
: dated May 17, 1992.
: 
:               Home-video sex sells; unwilling stars cry foul
:                        By Judith Gaines, Globe Staff
: 
: 
Thank you, Steve. At last we have some documentation. Note, however, that
the circumstances are completely different from the UL - as well as what
was reported by our intrepid anti-sex Dworkin.

I still find it hard to believe that any distributor would sell those
video tapes without signed releases. I agree that they could be coerced,
but that makes them invalid.

Is the case Steve cited the one Dworkin was referring to, or was that another?

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
Subject: Re: Mixed up translations
Organization: INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 15:18:11 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.184802.21486@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair) writes:

>: > A note to new readers:  the weasely :-) symbol is frowned upon 
>: 						    ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>: 	Actually, I use ":)" which is easier to type, and looks more like a 
>: smiley face.  Are all such "faces" banned from this newsgroup?  Fine with me.
>: It just means that people will have to learn to read the author's intent. 
>
>Note that it did not say "banned" - it said "frowned upon". Hopefully, you 
>can tell by the context whether a person is serious or just being ridiculous.

Well, dammit, Bones, if you meant "  :') is :-(   ", why didn't you
just say so?

Jonathan "let's see you shoulder-roll your way out of that one" Quist
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: maynard@leah.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley)
Subject: Re: Philadelphia Experiment
Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 08:17:57 GMT

In article <1992Oct9.211214.27957@u.washington.edu>,
starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky) writes:
>seawasp@vm2.cis.pitt.edu (Sea Wasp) writes:
>
>>	ObUL (Usenet Legend): FAQs help reduce the number of repetitious
>>postings on newsgroups.
>
>>	FACT: Most sites expire articles pretty fast -- all the ones I've
>>seen have expiration in no more than a week, many in 2-3 days.
>
>>	Most FAQs tend to be posted once per month (at least on the 
>>groups I'm on.
>

ObUL: Once, someone on USENET actually changed the subject of a posting to
what the content of the posting actually reflected. Statistics on how often
this happens in real life show us this UL probably has no basis in fact.

Maynard Handley
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes)
Subject: Organ Theft
Organization: Will work for food, but not for DEC.
Date:  7 OCT 92 07:40:29    


The _Los Angeles Times_, like all the other major papers, carried an article in
August about the sale of organs in third world countries.  Buried in the text
was this one paragraph:

"Since the operations started in the mid-1980s, Bombay also has been plagued by
a series of kidnappings in which the victims have regained consciousness on a
back street with a large incision across their abdomen -- a sign that a kidney
has been removed while they were drugged."

I think an inquiry about the Times' sources is in order.

- snopes

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From: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: gators 'r us
Subject: Re: Oranjelo
	<1992Oct9.172945.17394@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
Reply-To: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.03 Rev. Apr 14 1992
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 12:16:42 -0500

In <1992Oct9.172945.17394@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>, Kristy Patterson writes:
>
>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...)
>
>All I remember about the series other than this is that River Phoenix
>was G.
>
>-Kristy "but what if they had 27 children?" Patterson
start again with aa, bb, cc.  the 27th could be aaron.
s
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