HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: dheisler@CERIS.Purdue.EDU (Dave Heisler)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: apples to teachers - idea why
Date: 18 Aug 92 18:25:10 GMT
Organization: Center for Environmental and Regulatory Information Systems, Purdue University


     i think i got an answer.

      let's see, the christian bible tells about eve
       eating an apple from the tree of knowledge.

       hence the general asciciation of apple and
       gaining of knowledge. sort of symbolic
       of thing.

d.
From: cromar@math.rutgers.edu (Scott Cromar)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Imponderables (Yawn)
Date: 18 Aug 92 16:46:57 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

dw@unislc.uucp (Dan Wright) writes:

>   -- Why is yawning contagious?

Here are some guesses:  If yawning is an effort to increase oxygen intake,
it may be that the air in the room in question is oxygen-depleted,
affecting everyone at about the same time.  Or, it may be a common
reaction to something that both people are observing.

--Scott
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From: stame@emunix.emich.edu (Stewart Tame)
Subject: Re: Faces of death
Organization: Eastern Michigan University
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 14:39:50 GMT

In article <4731@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood) writes:
>In article <1992Aug13.232829.157@henson.cc.wwu.edu>, n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio) writes:
>
>> I would imagine him to still look like the same old Bud, with a head, 
>> but with powder burns on it and a roughly pencil-diameter entry hole 
>> and maybe a thumb diameter exit hole both added to his orfice collection.
>
>Actually, when Bud killed himself, it looked nothing like one would expect.
>He pulled the trigger and down he went.  End of story.  You've seen more
>violent deaths in the movies.

Right.  They wouldn't have had a torrent of blood come gushing from his
nose and mouth in a movie either.  Just a slow, thin trickle as the
soundtrack swelled . . . You have to marvel at whoever the camera
operater was, the way they just kept steady and filming.  I can almost
hear the program director, "Okay, Camera One, now stay with the body as
it falls.  Zoom in for a tighter shot on the face.  Great!"

	-- Stewart "wants to go into television as a career" Tame

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From: travis@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Travis Lee Winfrey)
Subject: Re: Eskimo words for snow
Reply-To: travis@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Travis Lee Winfrey)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 06:02:35 GMT

In article <1992Aug11.084431.1203@guvax.georgetown.edu> dtalmage@guvax.georgetown.edu writes:
>In article <1992Aug10.165624.27469@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, spm2d@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Steven Miale) writes:
>> I've finally gotten my hands on a list of alleged eskimo words
>> for snow. .. <33 entried deleted>
>> 
>> So should we change the FAQ?
>
>It's not yet time to change the FAQ.  Here's why.  If you pronounce 
>all of the Eskimo snow "words", you'll probably hear them fall into 
>two classes.  One bears some similarity to 'qanik' (snow in the air),  
>the other to 'aput' (snow on the ground).  Linguists say that the 
>words in the two classes are related morphologically to one of those 
>two roots.  This is the heart of the argument that debunks the Eskimo 
>N Words For Snow myth.

I'm not sure I follow your reasoning.  The words may be related
morphologically, but that doesn't make them them somehow identical
words.  If two Inuit words x and y connote different things about
snow, particularly if those things can only be expressed with short
phrases in English, then that seems sufficient to call them different
words.  Obviously, I'm not including morphological changes that give
them a different grammatical role, but I don't see that in the "soft
snow"/"overhanging lip of snow" meanings that were given.

I've seen a list of 33 Inuit words, and you tell me they're really
only two?  What does that mean?  Does this list -- Red, Reddish, Blue,
Bluish -- contain four different words or just two?  How about Hysteria
and Hysterectomy?  

>You can read more about this if you want to.  Try "The great Eskimo
>vocabulary hoax" by Geoffrey K. Pullum in _Natural Language and
>Linguistic Theory 7_ (1989) 275-281.

Yes, I read the excerpt posted later in this thread.  What was posted
sounded like the preface to more interesting and substantial
arguments.  It certainly didn't seem to carry the same weight as a
list of thirty (seemingly) different words.  

t

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From: catstyle@deja-vu.aiss.uiuc.edu (CatStyle )
Subject: Re: Elvis Lives!!!
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 02:29:33 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.160553.2587@news.cs.brandeis.edu> st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
>pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson) writes
>>
>What archive site? and Where?


Probably deja-vu.aiss.uiuc.edu, /misc/fun/urban.legends
It's in the FAQ, which probably explains your question.

CatStyle
jrh@uiuc.edu
From: bob@kc2wz.bubble.org (Bob Billson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: SHOCKING STORIES
Date: 14 Aug 92 01:06:38 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Color Computer 3: Tandy's 'game' machine

arielle@taronga.com (Stephanie da Silva) says:

[test deleted]

]I read an article in an issue of Scientific American a few years
]back about an innovative physics teacher (don't remember his name,
]sorry) who took this demonstration to more of an extreme.  He would
]dip his entire hand in some sort of hot melted metal substance.  Very
]quickly, of course, and after he had thoroughly soaked his hand
]in water first.

That was Jarel (sp?) Walker, a physicist who gives some rather interesting
demonstrations.  The particular demo you mention was on a show on PBS.  He
plunged his hand into molten lead after wetting the hand first.  He did admit
on camera that parts of his hand which did not get wet, such as under his
fingernails, did hurt quite a bit.  The rest of his hand was fine.
He also did some walking on hot coals during the same show.

On another show he demonstrated how distributing forces makes it possible to
support four people standing on a board laying on his chest while was laying 
on bed of spikes.
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From: schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder)
Subject: Re: Political ULs(Seeing Dan)
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 19:39:38 GMT

In article <1992Aug15.140309.11282@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> cldavies@nyx.cs.du.edu (cindy davies) writes:
>In article <1992Aug14.171851.13559@bnlux1.bnl.gov> schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder) writes:
>>
>>convincing.   Has anyone on the net actually _seen_ Dan Quayle with
>>their own eyes?  I always thought he was invented to give the late night
>>comedians good monologue material.

>During the '88 campaign he/it came to our campus (South Dakota School of Mines
>and Technology)  He was either a lifelike droid, or (and this is my theory)
>a semi-deprogramed hari krishna.  Someone (Dad?) had put him in a suit and
>spifed him up a bit, but he still didn't make much sense.  He spoke for
>about 35 minutes without mentioning education (or anything else that
>would prove he knew where he was or why he was there)  heck he didn't even
>mention Mt. Rushmore.


"I wanted to be a golf pro, but my family pushed me into politics."

					-J. Danforth Quayle



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From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
Subject: Re: Driving tests
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 00:29:23 GMT

dooley@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Kevin Dooley) writes:
>That sounds nearly identical to the Tennessee test that I had to take.
>The funny thing was that I had just recently taken a test in downtown
>Toronto which involved making a left turn crossing a six lane major 
>intersection (no light) then a series of rapid lane changes (I would
[harrowing test description deleted]

When I took my driving test in Brampton Ontario, about 17 years ago (god, am I
_that_ old?), it was similar.  However, when my wife moved here from
Britian, they told her that _all_ tests had to happen at the "Rhodes
Center", which is an artificial driving environment _with_nobody_else_
on_it_!  So she did a five minute test, in which she never had to deal with
other drivers, traffic or anything.

>So, of course this wasn't GOOD enough to be able to drive in Tennessee
>and they made me take their test just to make sure...  people in Canada
>don't even have paved roads do they?
When my wife moved to Canada, she had to do the whole test, even though she
was a _driving_instructor_ in England!  It's pretty standard not to accept
the tests of other countries, I guess.

-- 
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From: snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes)
Subject: Re: that'd be in the butt, bob
Organization: Just put everything on the floor; I can find it.
Date: 16 AUG 92 21:53:35    


In article <66knb95p@csv.warwick.ac.uk>, 
  csuah@warwick.ac.uk (~WISP at CU~) writes...

>Hear, hear. Isn't it the case that witnesses never tell the same story
>about any incident (unless they've colluded before questioning), and in the
>case of suspects, the police take perfectly matching stories to be evidence of
>guilt, on the grounds that the story is obviously manufactured? Mwmory is a
>funny thing...

 Another flawed analogy.  Nobody's expecting everyone's story to match
perfectly in every last detail.  This situation is akin to one witness
describing a suspect as being caucasian, and another witness describing him as
a black.  When two witnesses contradict each other on a such a major detail,
both stories are suspect.

 - snopes

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From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Viruses: was(Re: aids started by cia?)
Date: 20 Aug 92 15:42:18 GMT
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In article <19!n27n@lynx.unm.edu> jfreter@triton.unm.edu (The Myth) writes:

>This brings up a question that I've never found an answer to:
>Has a virial infection ever been *CURED*?  We have immunization programs
>for several different viriuses, but I don't think that there is an antibiotic
>that kills off the viruses.  Are there any people out there that know about
>medicine who read this group?

Well, I'm certainly no doctor -- although I play one in my room -- but I
recall from college biology that antibiotics don't work against viruses.
Antiviral vaccines are generally made from viruses that have been weakened
or killed.



Geoff


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From: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Driving tests
Keywords: n
Date: 17 Aug 92 19:57:11 GMT
Reply-To: lawson@aldia.UUCP (Drew Lawson)
Organization: ACUSON, Mountain View, CA

In article <d9hf41r@Unify.Com> perry@Unify.Com (Perry Clarke) writes:
>egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy) wrote:

>>(The cutoff score was around a 70, so I'm not sure what you have to do
>>to fail)
>
>I had wondered that too.

Vehicular homicide will do it in most states.

-- 
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lawson@acuson.com                you're part of the precipitate
From: phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: apples to teachers - idea why
Date: 19 Aug 92 05:45:25 GMT
Organization: Famed Parquet Floor

In article <1992Aug18.182510.19689@CERIS.Purdue.EDU> dheisler@CERIS.Purdue.EDU (Dave Heisler) writes:
>
>     i think i got an answer.
>
>      let's see, the christian bible tells about eve
>       eating an apple from the tree of knowledge.
>
>       hence the general asciciation of apple and
>       gaining of knowledge. sort of symbolic
>       of thing.
>
Of course, the Bible story, which the Jews and Moslems have too, saw
the knowledge of good and evil as a bad thing.

Are you ascicating innocent children with the nasty serpent that brought us
disease, death, and Republicans?

Phil "What we could have gotten for an arm and a leg, instead of that
measly rib.." Gustafson

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From: schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder)
Subject: Re: Zest (Re: Pure Soap)
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 19:52:14 GMT

In article <1992Aug11.072327.12443@wixer.cactus.org> guppy@wixer.cactus.org (Jennifer Mery) writes:
>
>Is Zest lower in calories than Lifebouy?


No, but it sure tastes like it.



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From: david@infopro.com (Dragon [David Fiedler])
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Faces of death
Date: 16 Aug 92 20:15:24 GMT
Organization: InfoPro Systems: Writers, Consultants, and Dragons

geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:

>Meanwhile everybody was freaking out, and the governor was standing up, 
>yelling for everyone to please leave and to try to "maintain some kind
>of decorum."  Meanwhile, there sat Bud right behind him, in plain view.

>Oops, gotta go.  It's getting late, and I still have to stop at the
>store and pick up the pasta and marinara sauce.

You people are sick.

Where do you get a copy of this tape, anyway?

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From: MJFORRES@SUVM.SYR.EDU (maurice)
Subject: Re: UL's in Literature List
Organization: Syracuse University
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 13:45:03 EDT

In article <Bszx6A.AsK@world.std.com>
lmh@world.std.com (Larry M Headlund) writes:
 
>LITERATURE:
>_The Onion Dome_ by Joesph Wambaugh:
>        Plot revolves around snuff film.
 
One of Lawrence Block's "Matt Scudder" novels involves a snuff film.
Another has auto-erotic asphyxiation.
 
maurice
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From: chris@state.COM.AU (Chris Keane)
Subject: Re: Question:condom brand??
Organization: Group Treasury, State Bank of NSW
Date: 16 Aug 92 22:11:00 GMT

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

>And I've always doubted that there really is a cellotape with the brand name
>durex. In fact I believe that Jasper actually changes the joke around, 
>depending on whether the audience is English or Australian.         

Sorry, but there is a sticky-tape brand called durex in Australia.
At least there used to be. I haven't seen it around for a while.
Meanwhile, rather than the generic term for prophylactic devices
being "durex" it is "condom" here.

Never, never have sex without wearing a euphemism.




>I don't think he even tells the joke with New Zealand audiences.

A sex joke without sheep? I doubt any New Zealander would find it
humorous at all.


regards...                                                 
Chris Keane.                  State Bank NSW            ph. +61 2 259 4459
Unix Systems Administrator   (Group Treasury)     chris@rufus.state.COM.AU
Famous Gravitational Joke: It must have been density that brought us together

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From: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall)
Subject: Re: Imponderables
Originator: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 18:39:29 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.


In article <1992Aug19.171419.4704@sq.sq.com>, msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:
>                                                                96 was,
>as Fahrenheit put it, "blood heat".  (Note that although most of us have
>learned a particular value for body temperature, and it's probably higher
>than 96 F, the exact value depends on where you measure it; there probably
>are some ways to get that reading.)

That'd be in the underarm, Gabe?

-- 
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From: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
Subject: Re: That'd be In the Air, Phil
Reply-To: lawson@aldia.UUCP (Drew Lawson)
Organization: ACUSON, Mountain View, CA
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 18:57:47 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.192741.1966@news.media.mit.edu> tsmaster@media.mit.edu (David LeCompte) writes:
>
>If I were Phil and any of the above 4 stories were true, I'd probably
>deny it on national TV, too.
>

I feel another afu motto coming on . . .
  "He denied it, so it must be true."
  (works for alt.conspiracy, too)

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lawson@acuson.com                you're part of the precipitate
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From: jfreter@triton.unm.edu (The Myth)
Subject: Re: I Love Lucy Forever?
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 00:16:11 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <jon.714263125@lindy.Stanford.EDU> jon@lindy.Stanford.EDU (Jon Corelis) writes:
>
UL about "I Love Lucy" deleted:

>   I've never heard of a source for this statement, and the more I think
>of it, the more dubious it seems.  For one thing, even if it were true,
>how could anyone know it was true?
>
>   So is this an urban legend, or is there some basis for it in fact?


Well, we can check this easily.  One person from each city in each country
in the world should mail a copy of _TV Guide_ (or equivalent) to Craig 
Shergold.  This way he can get a world record and verfiy whether this U.L.
is true or not.  Maybe we could also find out about "in the Bob, butt" phrase
that is being kicked around as well.

Jerry

P.S.  Well, it is a Thought!  and that's good progress for me...

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From: tabn3@isuvax.iastate.edu (Daniel I. Matt)
Subject: Re: Faces of death
Reply-To: tabn3@isuvax.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 07:54:42 GMT

In article <5998@pdxgate.UUCP>, jprice@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (James Price) writes:
>In article <1992Aug10.031648.995@PA.dec.com> snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes) writes:
>>
>>In article <Bsq0pM.EtB@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, 
>>  jvmg9796@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (doc) writes...
>>
>>>Well, FoD shows several murders/executions, so "snuff films" most
>>>certainly do exist then.  In FoD II at the very end, a 3rd world govt
>>>was overthrown and its officer tied to poles and executed en masse by a
>>>firing squad.  No one will convince me that the scene was faked either.
>>
>> Even if the scene were real, it's unlikely that the officer was executed
>> solely for the purpose of filming his death, so it's not a snuff film.  I
>> suspect they had political reasons for shooting him, not merely cinematic
>> ones.

   This might have been mentioned already here, but in HENRY: PORTRAIT OF
A SERIAL KILLER, Henry and a friend killed this fat, obnoxious guy who was
selling blackmarket video equipment and stole a camcorder from him.  Then they
went with the camcorder and broke into some rich family's house.  Henry's friend
used the camcorder to record Henry while he was murdering the family one by
one.  Later on, back at Henry's apartment, he and his friend were having fun
watching the video and making comments about it ("Boy, she sure put up a fight,
didn't she Henry?").  Now would or would not what they taped qualify as a snuff 
film?

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From: snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes)
Subject: Re: Faces of death
Organization: Just put everything on the floor; I can find it.
Date: 17 AUG 92 21:37:41    


In article <c28nbpbc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>, 
  csuah@warwick.ac.uk (~WISP at CU~) writes...

>> Yes, and never mind the cited articles written by career linguists who have
>> spent years and years studying eskimo languages, that explain just how and
>> why this claim is balderdash.  If the evidence doesn't fit your theory, just
>> ignore it.  You can "prove" anything that way.

>You should know...

 Ha ha.  Somebody would actually have to provide evidence before I could 
 ignore it.  Perhaps you'd like to break tradition and cite a reference
 or do some research or something. 

 - snopes

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