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From: ALI00BAW@UNCCVM.UNCC.EDU
Subject: Re: Japanese AFU's about the US
Organization: UNC Charlotte
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:13:19 GMT

In article <1993Jan23.193127.1@violet.ccit.arizona.edu>
f67709907@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (Greg Franklin) writes:
 
>
>In alt.folklore.urban article <SCHNIZER.93Jan23172009@hakobe.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>, schnizer@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Schnizer Ansgar) writes:
>>  Japanese know a lot of stories about the US. A good one
>> I heard yesterday from a Japanese girl who went
>> to NY last summer was about a drunken driver in Harlem
>> who stopped for a red traffic light late at night. He stopped
>> apparently in the middle of a 5 lane street and because it
>> took very long and the light still hadn't changed to green,
>> he fell asleep.
>>  He woke up when the sun was already shining into his car
>> and when he wanted to drive on (the engine was still running)
>> his car didn't move. He got out of the car and found that
>> all 4 wheels had be stolen!
>>
>>  Ansgar "why nobody stops for a red light in NY" Schnizer
>
>Yep, this is a good one.  Of course, the Japanese appetite
>for this type of story is fed by the real-life misfortunes
>(like the Yoshi Hattori shooting) that happen to Japanese in
>the U.S. and that the Japanese media cover in great detail.
>
>(P.S. if you are reading this in scj, this is not a restart
>of THAT thread.  :-(  It's merely an invitation to post some
>common Japanese urban legends, if you have them.)
>--
>Greg "Mockingbird" Franklin     "Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate
>f67709907@ccit.arizona.edu      things." -- Dan's advice to Pres. Clinton
>
>   Delightful Things
>     A love unknown to others.
>     To have solved a riddle.
>     A real bargain at a shop.
>     A letter from one's sweetheart.
>     When something one has ordered turns out well.
>        -- from _Inumakura_ (The Dog Pillow)
 
 
This is not exactly an urban legend, but it does relate.  A few years ago
I was on the staff of a small college in southern Georgia.  The administration
brought in a young woman from Osaka to teach Conversational Japanese; the woman
who shared her apartment assured me that this young Japanese woman was CON-
VINCED that drug gangs or some other sort of baddie would be breaking in to
rob/kidnap/rape/murder her, and she kept a katana (shortsword) hanging on her
bedpost!  The roomate told me she was always VERY careful to make noise when
she walked and to announce herself when she came in lest she get a karate chop
across the throat or get skewered by the katana.
 
 
 
Another Rust-Belt Yankee Exile in Charlotte!
 
Any opinions expressed are mine, not those of the Atkins Library.
 
Bruce Alan Wilson ali00baw@unccvm.uncc.edu
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From: dennis@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Thomas A. Dennis)
Subject: Re: Jesus' name (was Re: Late breaking potential UL!)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:37:20 GMT

In <1993Jan22.060139.16738@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> 
PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:

>blowfish@centauri.unm.edu (rON.) asserts:
>>
>>I am Mel Gibson.
>>At least I was last tuesday.
>>r.

>Most schitzophrenics claim to be Napolean, or at least that's the
>way it's always portrayed in Hollywood.  This fellow thinking he's
>Mel Gibson might be the antipodean version of the same belief.
>Anybody got the scoop on who is the most popular delusional
>figure these days, or any days.

"BoB", of course.

But I'm not "BoB".  I'm his PIPE.

Smoke me, if you've got the guts... or kill me.

--
>---<

Tom Dennis                  | "Every normal man must be tempted at times to 
dennis@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu  |    spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and
(217)384-2504               |      begin slitting throats." -- H.L. Mencken
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From: mkjensen@IASTATE.EDU
Subject: More about yeast and fungi 
Keywords: You asked for it...
Reply-To: mkjensen@IASTATE.EDU
Organization: Iowa State University
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:09:46 GMT

I recently posted a terse reply correcting someone who thought
that fungi were plants, and got asked to clarify my answer.  OK,
here it is...

The current classification system for living things has five
kingdoms  (you remember basic biology don't you?  Kingdom, phylum, ...)

Those five kingdoms are:  Animalia, Plantae, Monera, Protoctista 
(formerly just Protista) and... (fanfare please)  Fungi...

As I said before, I don't know when the person in question learned their
basic biology, but this is the system that has been in use for as long
as I've been a biologist/botanist.

Yeast is definitely a fungus, belonging to kingdom fungi, division
ascomycota.

Perhaps the following quote from Campbell's book 'BIOLOGY' will
clear things up a bit.  (FYI, this is a commonly used text in
undergraduate biology courses, with ISBN 0-8053-1840-2, if you want
to check up on me...)

"[Fungi] are a form of life so distinctive that in the five kingdom
system of taxonome they have been accorded their own kingdom...  Fungi
are eukaryotes and nearly all are multicellular.  Unicellular fungi, such
as yeasts, are believed to have evolved secondarily from multicellular
forms.   First studied by botanists, fungi were grouped with plants
in the two kingdom system.  Now it is clear that fungi are not primitive
or degenerate plants lacking chlorophyll but unique organisms that
generally differ from other eukaryotes in style of nutrition, structural
organization and reproduction."

I hope this clears everything up...

Martha

mkjensen@iastate.edu


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From: obrien@netcom.com (No parking EXCEPT FOR BOB)
Subject: Re: Foucalt pendulums (and the UN)
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 10:42:06 GMT

In article <105908@netnews.upenn.edu> mrice@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Matt Rice) writes:
>
>If I remember correctly, the one in the Smithsonian used to knock over
>pegs or something...
>

As recently as last June, when I chatted with the fellow setting up the
pegs for the next round...

	Bob O'Bob
From: moakler@romulus.rutgers.edu (bam!)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Bungee Lynching in NJ!
Keywords: Has anyone else heard this one?
Date: 27 Jan 93 00:10:54 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


	I am 99.9% sure that this is an urban legend, but I was just
wondering whether anyone else has heard it besides me.
	Basically, a co-worker related this story to me that he had
heard from friends living in the Vernon Valley, NJ area.  One day last
summer at Action Park (a theme park in  the Vernon Valley area
featuring mostly man-powered rides such as water slides), some
staffers were fooling around bungee jumping after closing time.
Instead of jumping safely (though bungeeing safely is a big oxymoron
as far as I'm concerned), they were running off the platform and doing
leaps and flips.  One of them got the cord tangled around his neck as
he flipped and became the world's first bungee hanging victim.
Naturally, the park management hush-hushed the whole affair, so the
cause of death never really got out.
	Did anyone else ever hear this one?

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From: walsh@optilink.COM (Mark Walsh)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Your suggestions for favorite sayings for T-shirts?)
Date: 22 Jan 93 19:06:07 GMT
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA

From article <1993Jan20.193710.17267@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>, by rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins):
>>In article <73927@cup.portal.com> sunday@cup.portal.com (Sunday and Associates) writes:

#>>	We are requesting your suggestions for a favorite one-liner, joke,
#>>aphorism etc. that could appear on a T-shirt? Remember that shirts have
#>>fronts and backs making a two line joke possible.

#>>	Your suggestions?

> how about : KEEP THIS CRAP OUT OF *.*.*!!!

I love it!

I saw a T-Shirt that read, "If I wanted to hear from an
asshole I'd fart."

I got passed on the freeway by a ragged looking guy whose
leather jacket had the emblem of his motorcycle club on the
back.  It read, "Hymen Busters."

And at a VW meet, I saw a guy with a T-Shirt that showed
a hand with the middle finger extended and read,
"F*ck the f*ckin f*ckers!"  (asterisks mine).  What class!
-- 
Mark Walsh (walsh@optilink) -- UUCP: uunet!optilink!walsh
AOL: BigCookie -- Amateur Radio: KM6XU@WX3K -- USCF: L10861
"What, me worry?" - William M. Gaines, 1922-1992
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
Subject: Re: Computer theft
Reply-To: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
Organization: ACUSON, Mountain View, CA
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 22:25:13 GMT

In article <starman.045c@crash.amigans.gen.nz> starman@crash.amigans.gen.nz writes:

>Robin (never seen a Terry but still looking) Halligan

They're all around you.  You just aren't attuned yet.


Drew "Terry" Lawson
-- 
Drew Lawson                      If you're not part of the solution,
lawson@acuson.com                you're part of the precipitate
From: douga@yang.earlham.edu (Doug Atkinson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Pennsylvania Ave
Date: 21 Jan 93 21:17:46 GMT
Organization: The Lion of Serrea

In article <C172zo.57v@panix.com>, bergman@panix.com (Mark Bergman) writes:
> During some of the fine, in-depth, network coverage of the
> inauguration, the question of how Pennsylvania Ave was named
> came up. One anchor, basing his answer on the fact that he's
> a D.C. resident, stated that it was named to appease
> Pennsylvania residents when the capital was moved from
> Philadelphia to Washington.
> 
> Who want to be the first to challenge (or defend) this? The
> line starts on the left.
> 
> ----
	Me, me!  While this would ordinarily be too pathetic to dignify with a 
response, I'm in a show-no-mercy mood.  Besides, if these things are 
destroyed quickly, they spread like mildew.
	The short form: Streets in DC are named after letters, numbers, or 
states, because the city was actually designed instead of just growing.  
			--Doug

ObUL: Pennsylvania Ave. is named after the _number_ pennsylvania, which is 
ten times a googol.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
Subject: Re: The horse's butt -- err -- mouth
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: Bohemians and Globetrotters, Unlimited
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 16:47:15 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.121119.1@vaxr.llnl.gov>, mccauley@vaxr.llnl.gov
(Bill McCauley) writes:
>
> On a tangential, if related note, a similar offer exists from Sylvester 
> Stallone.  Seems that in his early years, Stallone appeared in porno 
> movies.  These were the cheapie, 8mm variety, from what I've heard.  
> Apparently, when Stallone became noted for appearing with his clothes on, 
> he started spending money buying up rights and copies of the films.  Since 
> they don't much of anything on film these days, few if any copies likely 
> remain outside private collections.

Oh yeah? You only need one copy to make another copy. Above story is bull
anyway. I noticed that some sattelite channel announced a soft-porn movie
with Stallone not long ago. Don't know if it really was aired.

The method just won't work. You may not manage to buy all copies, and if
you can get all rights to the movie you'll have a problem when the copyright
expires.

---
YuNoHoo  "need a license to own a tv in this country"
From: phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The horse's butt -- err -- mouth
Date: 22 Jan 93 02:19:51 GMT
Organization: Famed Parquet Floor

In article <1993Jan21.121119.1@vaxr.llnl.gov> mccauley@vaxr.llnl.gov writes:
>
>On a tangential, if related note, a similar offer exists from Sylvester 
>Stallone.  Seems that in his early years, Stallone appeared in porno 
>movies.  These were the cheapie, 8mm variety, from what I've heard.  
>Apparently, when Stallone became noted for appearing with his clothes on, 
>he started spending money buying up rights and copies of the films.  Since 
>they don't much of anything on film these days, few if any copies likely 
>remain outside private collections.
>
Sigh.  I had hoped that we were moving on to new ground.  Sly's "Party
at Kitty and Studs" or "Whiz at Ren n' Stimpy's" or something like that
has been afu fodder since my chin was as smooth Brian Scearce's.

Anyhow, if you find the tape, bring it to AFU V and don't worry about
the price of food and/or beer.  Better bring a (nonstandard) tape
deck too, just in case you try to sneak in a postphallic "Little
Mermaid".

It seems that Ted Frank won't be able to make AFU V, but Bill Nelson
and Joe Chew will.  The gatherings always seem to include the upper crust
of alt.peeves.  Infamous angel STella has shown up more than once, and
we have trouble hiding the events from Nolan Hinshaw.  New blood is
always welcome.  And, Ted, I hope we luck out and get to see you.

Phil "Don't take any wooden Stallones" Gustafson
-- 
|play: phil@rahul.net
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Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:34460 rec.food.cooking:25753 rec.food.restaurants:2610
From: jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.food.cooking,rec.food.restaurants
Subject: Re: Kid impaled on grill, etc.
Date: 22 Jan 93 01:50:22 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc., San Jose, CA

>couple of years ago (it would be in philidelpha) that a woman ran over 
>another person (i believe it was a vagrant) and drove blocks and blocks 
>before a cop stopped her, she had been dragging this person along beneath 
>her car. the cop stopped her and she told him that she thought there was a 
>trash bag caught under her car and that she had been driving over curbs and 
>stuff to try and dislodge it.
>
>anybody else remember this?

Yes, but I heard it on the news about six months ago, and it
was supposedly somewhere in the East Bay, if I recall.  (As in
San Francisco Bay, for you non-Californians.)  Hmm, I thought
it sounded suspicious at the time, but now I'm even more sure
of its suspicious origins.  Seems like those dead vagrants get
wedged under there pretty firmly.

On the other hand, there was something on the news about some
woman who was struck by a car a couple weeks ago, and grabbed
onto the undercarriage and hung on, and travelled several
blocks.  The driver didn't even know she was there.  There was
an interview with her, with names and everything.
--
  Jilara   [jane@swdc.stratus.com]

"Every now and then, a big rock falls out of the sky, and everyone has 
a *very bad* day."  --from the PBS "Dinosaurs" special.
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From: jj@allegra.att.com (James Johnston)
Subject: Re: Terrifying Twinkies (was Re: The Big Pot of Grease)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:52:38 GMT

In article <C1J1tE.Go0@rahul.net> phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson) writes:
>In article <30880@castle.ed.ac.uk> caross@castle.ed.ac.uk (Christopher Ross) writes:
>>
>>This stuff about Twinkies is all endlessly fascinating, but as someone
>>who's never been to the US may I ask "Please, what's a Twinkie?". 
A very good question:

(warning, NOT an urban legend, I've seen this with my own
two eyes for a fact)

Back when I was young enough to be somewhat energetic,
I spent a lot of time caving (potholing, spelunking, ...)
in West Virginia and along the Blue Ridge in Virginia.

In one of those caves (Sinnet/Thorn Mountain, to be specific)
I was eating a snack in the "big room". The "big room" in Sinnet/Thorn Mountain
cave is quite a large room indeed, but the relevant point is that it
has a breakdown floor, where in some places one can see down 25 feet,
even though one couldn't reach that point unless one was 2" thick.

I could drag this out, but I won't.  I dropped a twinkie
(well, they have lots of calories) down one of these
holes, in oh, about 1973 or so.  It went down about 8-10 feet
in an inaccessable place.  It was also rolled in guano, so I figured
I'd leave it (especially since I couldn't possibly reach it
to take it out of the cave anyhow, sigh).

Long about 1979, I was back in the same place (the rock I was sitting
on at the time was next to the register-rock). I looked down.
Well, the "cake" was gone, reduced to a fine dust by the
omnipresent decay microorganisms in the cave.  The 'filling',
though, shudder, the FILLING was slightly yellowed, but
still there, still apparantly intact.  I tossed a few pebbles
down and determined that it was STILL SOFT!

So, whatever a twinkie has for filling, a set of incredibly
effective decay bugs can't eat. You figure.
From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Glitch at the Dog Track
Date: 22 Jan 93 12:02:21 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre

In article <JTCHEW-200193163754@b50-afrd5.lbl.gov> JTCHEW@lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera) writes:

>No, not glitch in the Potrzebie Lexicon of Euphemism sense, but rather in
>the computer sense.  Check out COMP.RISKS Digest, Vol. 14, Issue 28,
>"Racetrack goes to the dogs as computer fails."  (There will surely be
>followups in future issues.)  It contains a third-hand tale, attributed to
>the BBC, about a dog track where a computer glitch allowed spectators to
>place bets after a race was over and the results were available...

>...and supposedly 139 people bet on losers anyway!

>Joe "That dog won't hunt" Chew

In my paper it was 153 bet on losers, 36 people bet on the tricast (1st 3 in 
correct order) which paid thousands to a paltry stake.  Happened in New 
zealand apparently.  at Waikato.

            All creatures will make merry   (on pain of death)
    Dave Budd, MCC, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England    (44|0)61-275-6033  
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,in.bizarre,alt.conspiracy
From: bwatson@nyx.cs.du.edu (bruce watson)
Subject: Re: Hepatitis and Taco Bell Scare.
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Keywords: hepatitis beans shit Taco Bell savage humor
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 21:08:42 GMT

In article <C12tFz.Hn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> mphall@nickel.ucs.indiana.edu (Michael Hall) writes:
>	Here in Bloomington, Indiana we have been experiencing a small
>epidemic of hepatitis.

Interesting, we're having one in Denver, too. But it started at a
caterer's not Taco Bell. I wonder how many other cities are involved.


Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: pelton@ecf.toronto.edu (PELTON MATTHEW ALAN)
Subject: Re: Pizza Brain
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 21:50:47 GMT

In article <C1Axo0.F7E@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> moscoso@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Innocuous Punch) writes:
>meg@syrinx.umd.edu (******** Meg *******) writes:
>
>[...boy takes home bits of brain in plastic bag from science class...]
>>Then his mom came home and made pizza, using that "wonderful little bag of
>>sausage" on it. Unfortunately, she found out that it was cow brain *before*
>>serving it.. 
>
>Well, we asked, begged, pleaded with our science teacher, but no beans.  We
>couldn't bring lab stuff home with us.
>
>  Also, unless this was a fresh brain (which i doubt), the preservative
>  materials would overwhelm the beholder:  Pungent, to say the least.
>
>So I'd tread cautiously over this legend.  Doubt his mother would go any
>further than *opening* the bag...
>
>--
>-ivan		DISCLAIMER:  My opinions on cow-brains do not represent
>			     those of my employer, CCSO...

  Yah, but any fool can sneak stuff out of a lab.
  Like every other basic biology class, mine dissected fetal pigs.  I cut
off the head (we had nothing in it to study) and took it with me.  Since I
bagged my lunches those days, it was convincing when I took the pig head out
as part of my lunch.  But I didn't even think of eating it...  

  P.S.  It didn't smell that bad.  Formaldehyde has been replaced by much less
repulsuve preservatives...


Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: doggie doodoo
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:36:30 GMT

scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator) writes:
>sorry you asked?

Yes. Yes. A googol times Yes.

-J.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: Vegetarians and B vitamins
Organization: The Ohio State University
 <1993Jan22.010558.13699@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 02:05:26 GMT

cms2839@ultb.isc.rit.edu (a.stranger) writes:
>In article <727618402.5800@minster.york.ac.uk> stuart@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
>>Jonathan Papai (PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu) wrote:
>>: ObCarnivore: Vegetarians have to eat B vitamin supplements.
>>Marmite (vegemite?) is an excellent source of B vitamins... and since
>>its made from yeast extract is also vegetarian.
>
>	o  only vegans ( not all vegetarians ) need to watch this .
>	o  it's only vitamin B12 , not all B vitamins
>	o  plain old brewer's yeast is a natural , vegan supplement .

We used to use alot of brewer's yeast.  Fed it to the cows and
let them make B12.

ObJoke: Man in restaurant eating steak.  Vegetarian eating
greens says "a cow had to die for that meal."  Carnivore replies
"Yeah. He starved to death because you were eating his food."

Jon "Omnivore" Papai

ObFoodUL:  Olympia, WASH.- Meat from fast-food chain linked to
outbreak of illnesses.
An outbreak of severe diarrhea and abdominal pain among more than 50
children and adults in Western Washington has been traced to a
fast-food restaurant chain, state authorities say.
About 75 percent of the people stricken ate at Jack in the Box
restaurants.
Jack in the Box suspended sales of its ground beef products at its 60
restaurants in western Washington until the arrival of a new shipment.

(AFU Seattle correspondents, please keep us informed.)

ObDiarrhea: Diarrhea is inheritable, it runs in your genes (sic).
From: de@moscom.com (David Esan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Upside-down burglar
Date: 22 Jan 93 17:10:31 GMT
Organization: Moscom Corporation, Pittsford NY

In article <1993Jan19.060207.15179@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>
>Does this have anything to do with the movie Annie Hall?  Woody is seen 
>talking to Shelly Duvall.  She says something to the effect of "sorry for
>taking so long" and he responds with "I'll never play the trumpet again"?

Talking?  That's a new name for it.

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