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From: snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: "Lost In Space" was definitely, absolutely SUPERIOR
Date: 5 Oct 92 07:41:19 GMT
Organization: Will work for food, but not for DEC.


In article <1992Oct1.235034.1@cstp.umkc.edu>, rdale@cstp.umkc.edu writes...

>In "Who Mourns For Adonais?" Kirk was talking to the standard-issue
>cute babe.  He said, "We might never get help this far out."  Only
>problem is, they were on a planet circling a star which is relatively
>close to Earth.  Pollux 6, I believe it was.  A mere stroll in
>galactic terms.

You're assuming help would be coming from Earth, which might not be the case.
They might, in fact, have been very far away from whatever agency would be in a
position to help them.  If I were mugged in Washington, D.C., I doubt my 
proximity to the nation's capital would be of any value.  The nearest policeman
is what I want to see.

 - snopes

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek
From: thf2@quads.uchicago.edu (Citecheck Hell)
Subject: Re: Kirk VS Picard (was "Lost In Space" was better)
Keywords: CRAIG IS NOT DEAD
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 21:41:48 GMT

In article <6639@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> tjw+@pitt.edu writes:
>
>If Jean-Luc Picard got into a fight with Jim Kirk who would win?

Does Kirk have to share his toupee with Picard?

>Let's say that Kirk had to use the Jupiter II and Picard only had the
>Battle Star Galictica, then who would win?

Ditka.  Even if he only had a TIE fighter. 

>What Star Trek be like if Jim Kirk had Will Robinson on HIS show?

Much better, because then it would be more like Lost in Space.

Ted "how come aliens who have never seen earth speak better english than
     scotty or chekhov?" Frank
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billmcc@seanews.akita.com (Bill McCormick)
Subject: Re: Oranjelo and the severed dog's head
Organization: SEANEWS - Seattle Public Access News & Mail
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 16:55:26 GMT

In article <1992Sep30.175346.1@ducvax.auburn.edu> bwaid@ducvax.auburn.edu writes:
>My (ex) wife and two of her friends say they heard that if a dog bit 
>someone and was believed to be rabid that its head (the dog's for the
>parsing impaired) had to be cut off and sent to a lab for testing. They recall
>this from their childhood and all grew up in different places so they are
>sure it was true. I'm not buying it. This wasn't on the FAQ list either.

This is true.

Typically the dog can be put in quarantine for 10 days or so and if no
symptoms of rabies develop, it can be assumed that the dog was not
shedding the virus at the time of the bite.

However if the dog is killed, or there is a reason to believe the dog
is actually rabid, then the head is examined for signs of rabies.

I've actually sent a dog's head in to be examined.  I was bitten by a
rescue (from the pound) dog which had no provocation.  Since I had to
put the dog down because of his instability I didn't subject him to
10 days in isolation.  Instead I had him put down immediately and sent
the head in for examination.

Bill
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From: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Brunvand Info Requested
Date: 29 Sep 92 17:37:03 GMT
Reply-To: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation

At what university does Jon Harold Brunvand teach?  What's his department and 
title?

advTHANKSance.

Terry Carroll - tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com - 408/992-2152
The opinions presented above are not necessarily those of a sound mind.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The Network from Hell
From: rdale@cstp.umkc.edu
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 05:09:30 GMT
Organization: UM - Kansas City, Computer Science

>    An El monte woman became upset when her cable box indicated that she was
> watching station 666, the numbers signifying the devil in the Bible.

	Makes me wonder (ooooo oooooo, ohhhhh, ahhhhh ohhhhh).
	I've never seen a cable box or TV with 3 digits in the
	channel selector window, heh heh.
From: snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Creation of the World
Date: 28 Sep 92 15:46:06 GMT
Organization: Just put everything on the floor; I can find it.


> but it's one where they've confirmed that
>the earth was created on Tuesday, June 14th, 2:45am, 4004BC

Were you there?  Can you prove it *didn't* happen then?  If they've *confirmed*
it, there's little point in debating it -- they must be right.

 - snopes

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: cel@nsscmail.att.com (clayton EDward LEIHY iii)
Subject: Re: Room numbering (was: Floor numbering)
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: NCR Systems Support Center - New Jersey
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 18:45:21 GMT

[All this talk of floor numbering, stairs going somewhere else,
doors opening onto more corridors -- you really do need a map]

Reminds me of when I was a UNIX(Tm) newbie some years ago, and the only
GAME on the system was a text game called ADVENTURE.

Ed "you are in a long, low narrow room; there are stairs going up
ahead of you and on your left; there are stairs going down behind
you; there is a small trap door in the floor" Leihy

P.S.  When I lived in Germany approx 25 years ago, all the hotels I
stayed in were numbered Ground (ground level), 1 (first floor above ground 
level, 2 (second floor above ground level), etc. etc. etc.  When my wife
came over to join me, she couldn't get over that she had to go upstairs
to be on the first floor.
From: ross-c@scs.leeds.ac.uk (R Clement)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Fine Art {was: A Goofy Question was Re: Flavored Condoms (was: Re: Stupid cop tricks)}
Date: 6 Oct 92 16:59:31 GMT
Organization: The University of Leeds, School of Computer Studies
Originator: ross-c@csparc2

joslin_paul@ae.ge.com (Paul Joslin) Writes:
>Okay, you asked for it:
>
>Today's pressing question is "What kind of animal is Goofy, anyway?"  If he
>is a dog, how come he wears pants and Pluto doesn't?  Is it because Goofy
>can talk, and Pluto can't?

And I thought you didn't have a class system over in America.....

Cheers,

Ross-c

OBUL: Is it true that the original Bogeyman was Napolean Bonapart? I was told
this by my mother when I was young, so it MUST be true.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com
Subject: Re: the weight of the water
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 20:21:11 GMT

In article <1686CF5BE.MJFORRES@SUVM.SYR.EDU>, MJFORRES@SUVM.SYR.EDU (maurice) writes...
>Heard a new variation on an old theme recently.  The story is that when
>the new Science and Technology Center was built here at Syracuse, "they"
>forgot to install drains under the emergency showers in the chemistry
>labs.  The problem was discovered when someone observed water seeping
>out around the bricks on the outside of the building.  Naturally, I have
>made no effort to check on the validity of the story.

It may be deliberate.  I was talking to someone who worked on the emergency
response team for an Evil Major Industrial Company. They had a fire in one of
their labs which set off 1 or 2 sprinkler heads.  The lab *did* have drains in
the floor for such things for emergency showers and other things but they were
deliberately blocked off in case some nasty chemical got spilled, pollution
requirements are such that they must make sure it can't get to the sewer
system. They 'solved' the problem by blocking off the drains. 

The result was such that instead of the damage being limited to whatever
caught on fire and other things in that lab, the water spread outside the lab
to adjacent areas and also damaged office areas on the floor below.

-Mike
From: swaim@owlnet.rice.edu (Michael Parks Swaim)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: the weight of the water
Date: 27 Sep 92 05:13:05 GMT
Organization: Rice University

In article <Yly-jdB@engin.umich.edu> ldoering@engin.umich.edu (Laurence Doering) writes:
>Actually, I've never seen an emergency shower with a drain.  My father's
>lab at Hopkins has a shower but no drain, and the setup is the same in all
>the other labs in his building.  Same with the chem lab where I went to
>high school.

  The shower in the Chem lab in my High School had a drain. 

Mike "Whoosh" Swaim

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Subject: Re: Of Egg Yolks and Astrology
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 02:04:57 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <26567@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>warren@nysernet.org writes:
>
>  +In <26499@dog.ee.lbl.gov> twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>  +
>  +>Terry "Have you heard the one about which came first?" Chan
>  +
>  +I heard it works better if you freeze it.
>
> Hmmm....but things shrink in the cold, EVERYBODY knows that!
>
> Terry "I think" Chan

Not things which are mostly made up of water - these expand when they freeze.

Derek "Cold hands, Warm ... " Tearne



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consequences of an accident with the new Iridium enriched fusion reactor.  
"If it goes off only the cockroaches and mammals will survive..." they said.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: larryh@cabezon.uucp (Larry Huntley)
Subject: Illustrious Alumni (Was: "Lost In Space" )
Organization: Logic Modeling Inc of Beaverton Oregon
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 00:43:08 GMT

In article <1992Oct1.005727.27318@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>
>That's okay, Gates McFadden went to Brandeis, my alma mater.
>
>Does anyone else know someone famous who went to their college, or know
>someone who does?
>
    Baseball player Ted Williams went to my high school (Herbert Hoover
    HS in San Diego, CA)

    - Larry "never met him" Huntley

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         (larryh@lmc.com)         | She made champagne out of 7-Up and
     Logic Modeling Corporation   |       cheap wine.  A chemist! 
          Beaverton,  OR          |  - "Earth To Doris" [Was (Not Was)]
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson)
Subject: Re: Automatic Radar Speeding Tickets (was Radar Cars)
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 20:45:13 GMT

In article <lc1e3qINNbjj@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM writes:
>In article 6110@cuug.ab.ca, thompson@cuug.ab.ca (Bruce Thompson 272-1800) writes:
>> [The] Motor Vehicle Act states that the _vehicle_owner_ is considered
>> liable for the actions of the vehicle regardless of who's driving.
>
>So steal a police car.

Of course, that'd be the real horror story of all of this: If someone
stole your car, and you ended up liable for the ticket(s) he/she/it runs up.

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: "Lost In Space" was definitely, absolutely SUPERIOR
From: rdale@cstp.umkc.edu
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 05:50:34 GMT
Organization: UM - Kansas City, Computer Science


Hey, you think Star Trek had a bad time line?

In "Who Mourns For Adonais?" Kirk was talking to the standard-issue
cute babe.  He said, "We might never get help this far out."  Only
problem is, they were on a planet circling a star which is relatively
close to Earth.  Pollux 6, I believe it was.  A mere stroll in
galactic terms.

In the episode where they meet up with the boyish/imp/trickster played
by William Campbell (who also played Klingon Koloth in "Tribbles") --
dang, I forget the title, but the character's name was Squire Trelaine
-- he had been looking through his little viewer.  Wasn't it something
like 900 years past?  Maybe it was 700.  Anyway, judging from the
late 1700's to 1800's, that would put it anywhere from 2400-2600 AD.
We know ST:TNG doesn't take place that late.

Anyway, in "Lost In Space" you can't see floor seams, and the walls
don't shake when someone falls into them.  That tiny ship *does* have
apparently four or five decks -- upper, lower, storage, power core.
Plus a hidden deck where "new" equipment is stored to give them a
more modern look -- new lasers, laser rifles, a space pod, golf and
badminton equipment, etc.
From: saxe@cassatt.cs.unc.edu (Eddie Saxe)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Party at Kitty and Stud's
Date: 6 Oct 92 20:18:21 GMT
Organization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

In article <1992Oct5.211716.10382@nezsdc.icl.co.nz> derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:
>Isn't that the origin of the phrase POSH, standing for Puke On Shoes Here.
>Refering to the habit of really rich people, like Winston, who did this 
>regularly after meals as a sign of appreciation,  in much the same way that 
>Arab peoples belch.

Isn't that known as Bushing?

ObUL:  The hospital gown was developed by the Marquis de Sade.

Eddie "100% fact-free post here, folks" Saxe
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis)
Subject: Re: "Lost In Space" was better
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 17:57:12 GMT
Organization: Austerlitz, Gershovitz, and Carmichael

But "Pigs in Space" was best.
-- 
Jeff Davis <davis@keats.ca.uky.edu>
From: banks@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Elvis bit-parts in snuff movie! (Well, sort of)
Date: 28 Sep 92 09:12:07 GMT
Organization: ISCA

Extract from The Observer (UK Sunday newspaper):

Magazines indulge new craving for 'weirdiana'

DARK SIDE OF THE LOONIES

[stuff deleted about new magazines on sex, death etc. Discussion moves on
to videos, especially people seeking 'video nasties']

Bal Croce, a rather suave rockabilly character who runs the Psychotronic Video
Store in Camden Town, London, confirms this. 'You get some pretty sad people
coming in asking for "anything off the banned list", but I just tell them where
to go [this threw me for a moment, but I *think* I know what he means].  In
three and a half years, I've never once been offered a snuff movie, for
instance, because they don't exist.  I was offered Robert Maxwell's autopsy
video, but I'm not interested in illegal stuff.  Elvis's autopsy is meant to
be doing the rounds, under the name _The Burger King Video_, but that might
be a bit of an urban myth.

[stuff deleted, then David Flint, a new magazine publishers continues:]

'Now you get these raids of supposed snuff movies - no one has yet found
one anywhere in the world.  In the last raid they were turning up bootleg
copies of _Blue Velvet_ and _Wild at Heart_.  There was even a Kate Bush
video in there.  When I get letters asking where you can get snuff movies
I just put them in the bin.'

The strong desire of police and public to believe in the existence of
snuff movies perhaps indicates how close to the surface these feelings
of impending annihilation are coming.  If there isn't a snuff movie yet,
the interest is surely enough to create a demand.  Last December, 
according to _Fortean Times_, a woman in New York had to be restrained
from videoing her husband's near-fatal heart attack so she could
send it to a TV show.

[Observer 27 September 1992; reporter: Joseph Gallivan]

Ok, so who's got a copy of Elvis's autopsy (or Robert Maxwell's
for that matter)?

Marcus Banks,
Oxford
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Alligators in sewers
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 05:36:13 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <lchvfgINN33n@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM writes:
>In article 26521@dog.ee.lbl.gov, twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>> In either [New York City or Paris], people are incomprehensible, rude,
>> and you get ripped off.
>
>The difference is, in Paris you get snubbed, and in NYC you get snuffed.

And if someone happens to be there to film it...

Derek "Something made me do that" 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: de@moscom.com (David Esan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mixed up translations
Date: 1 Oct 92 18:53:51 GMT
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford NY

In article <1992Sep30.201015.27323@bradley.bradley.edu> death@buhub.bradley.edu (Dustin Slater) writes:
>I admittedly haven't been following this string to closely, so i am
>wonderin if you have mentioned the Nova (car). It didn't sell well in
>Mexico because in spanish no va means (literally) "no go". not a great name
>for a car.

And number 3.


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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: Disco "Snuff" Recording?
Reply-To: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.03 Rev. Apr 14 1992
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 05:13:52 -0500

In <1992Sep24.003215.21623@PA.dec.com>, snopes writes:

>
>No, I think you must have this confused with the woman who played Honey West
>on TV.  Rumor has it she died during the filming of an episode in which she
>was covered with honey, effectively clogging all her pores.  Or maybe it was
>Buddy Ebsen . . .
you should write more clearly.  was buddy ebsen playing honey west on tv, 
covering the actress, or clogging her pores?
-- 
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From: pwhitman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Philip N Whitman)
Subject: gary larson committed
Keywords: the far side
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 02:05:52 GMT

Forgive me if this has already made it to AFU, but I've been away all summer
and don't have time right now to skim the 1000 or so articles waiting for me.
I heard this potential (almost certain, I'd say) UL from a coworker in
Kemmerer, Wyoming.  This man was generally a font of bullshit ("Daddy long
legses are the most poisonous spiders known to man.  What?  Sure, they're
spiders!"), and one evening he informed me that Gary Larson had been committed
to an insane asylum.
     "Oh, bullshit."
     "It's true!  A friend of mine knows someone who knows him!"
     "I don't believe that for a minute, Lonnie."
     "Hell, I believe it.  I mean, some of those things he draws are just
really twisted."
     "Lonnie, you know what the first thing I'm going to do when I get
back to a computer is?  I'm going to post to the urban legends line and
tell them all about this one.  I think you're full of shit, and just be-
cause it sounds plausible don't mean shit.  Lots of ULs do."
     "Well, I don't care if you believe me or not.  I know it's true."

What's the word?  Has anyone else heard the fate of poor G. Larson?
I mean, it _could_ be true....

-Neal Whitman
From: rosso@roscoe.csd.sgi.com (Ross Oliver)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: UL Chippendales and crabs
Date: 1 Oct 92 01:59:43 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

In article <1992Sep29.104819.3104@rtf.bt.co.uk>, mclo@rtf.bt.co.uk (John McLoughlin) writes:
|> I heard this one from a FOAFOAWAW ( A Friend Of A  Friend Of A Woman At Work !)
|> about a woman who went to her doctor with a lump under her eyelid.
|> The doctor questioned the woman as to what she'd been doing recently and she 
|> mentioned that she'd been to see the Chippendales. As part of their act, 
|> one of the 'dancers' took of his posing pouch and rubbed it in her face. When
|> he heard this the doctor nodded and lifted up the woman's eyelid to look at 
|> the lump, at which point a crab ( genital louse ) dropped / crawled out !


As disgusting as this sounds, it can happen.  My sister worked for an
optometrist for a while, and he treated a patient for this condition.
So all you 69'ers be careful out there!


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From: miriam@seismo.gps.caltech.edu (Miriam Jackson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Hot (superheated) tea?
Date: 30 Sep 1992 21:20:09 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: earth.gps.caltech.edu

>In article <8417.24040@stratus.SWDC.Stratus.COM> jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman) writes:
>
>>                      You can cook yourself alive in 120
>>degree water, if you sit in it long enough.
>
This reminds me of an old (18th or 19th century) recipe I saw for duck
or some other kind of fowl.  It was a way to cook the duck so that it was
still alive right up until the time you started carving it, and involved
putting a fire around the bird, basting it with water and giving it
lots to drink.  Hmmmm...pass the granola.

(With not too much effort I could find out the name of the book it was in;
as for whether anyone ever followed the recipe..........)


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