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assistant: From: sean@thomson.ucdavis.edu (Sean Willard)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Amazonian fish
Organization: University of California, Davis
Reply-To: sean@galileo.desy.de
Bob Hiebert wrote:
: Neither the current nor proposed FAQ entry addresses the gorey (and ULish)
: cure.  I propose a corollary FAQ entry:
:
: Fb.  Amputation is the only cure.
:
: I propose "Fb" because, well....er, 'cause I believe it to be false.
Modern
: microsurgery has advanced to the point that I gotta believe (MMmm...oops)
: that  you could remove the little critter without removing the big critter.
How soon they forget.  As Mike Hagen posted all of 4 days ago,
| Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
| From: mhagen@harp.aix.calpoly.edu (Michael John Hagen (Mike Hagen))
| Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 23:52:49 GMT
|
...
| Since the fish has spines that it can extend out, removal is next to
| impossible without surgery.
|
| However, there is a nicer method of removal (you may uncross your legs
| now).  The Xaqua plant, as well as the buitach apple, will kill the
| fish and also actually dissolve it.  Amputation, therefore, is not
| necessary.
|
| Recommended reading:
|
| Herman, John B, 'Candiru: Urinophilic catfish -- It's gift to
| urology', _Urology_ 1(3):265-267 (1973).
|
| Gudger, EW,  'Bookshelf browsing on the Alleged Penetration of the Human
| Urethra by an Amazonian Catfish Called Candiru,' _Americal Journal of
| Surgery_ 8(1): 170-188, 443-457 (1930).
|
| Vinton, KW, Stickler, WH, 'The Carnero, a fish parasite of man and
| possibly animals,' _Americal Journal of Surgery_ 54:511- (1941).
Pity Mike chose to mangle "its" in that one citation, though.
Sean "C-A-N-D-I-R-U - find out what it means to you" Willard
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They wrote:
>2) Bible never sez sex per se is wrong.
>
>4) As far as "sex is dirty" in religious teaching, it's a mixed bag.

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assistant: From: ekelly@acpub.duke.edu (Emily Kelly)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Jesus died a virgin?
Organization: Duke University, Durham, N.C.
In article <3ie19r$ji@panix.com>, Bill Fisher <shrdlu@panix.com> wrote:
According to what I know of traditional Catholic/Marian dogma (which is
ostly
only what I've culled from my dad the ex-monk who is one of the most secular
people I have known for as long as I've known him):
The only time in human history where sex did not include sin was the
immaculate
conception (when Mary's parents conceived her).  Therefore she was born
without
original sin and was a worthy vessel to carry Our Lord.
Yes, original sin started with Adam and Eve and the Tree of Knowledge, but my
understanding is that part of the knowledge they gained was carnal lust.  So
that even when two married people know each other in the Biblical sense (and
consider the wording of that, if you please) for the purpose of procreation,
there is always an element of human failing and impure desire.  In essence,
every time two people have sex, they recreate original sin, not because the
sexual act (engaged in by two married consenting adults of the opposite sex
for the purpose of procreation) is itself wicked, but because of our own
human weakness.
Or at least that's how I've always heard it.  But most of my dad's religious
training dates back before Vatican II, so I don't know what the story is
nowadays.
Emily "No, Daddy wasn't still a monk when he met Mama" Kelly
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~~~~~~~~~~~~
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ekelly@acpub.duke.edu
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They wrote:
>
> P.S.  Not a flame, just an informative message.

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Us presidents & fraternities
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
In article <3ifv0v$837@hearst.cac.psu.edu>, domb12@eetsg13.bd.psu.edu
(Dennis Dombkowski) wrote:
... that sounds like a MOTTO for this newsgroup if I've ever heard one!!!
Dana "but, then, you knew that didn't you" Netz
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They wrote:
>hfg@solarz.colorado.edu writes:
>
>    No. This fine misusage of "voracity" harkens back the classic words
>    of an AFU newbie who, claiming that one of the standard legends
>    (possibly, the Toothbrush Incident) did indeed happen to a friend
>    of a relative (FOAR), wrote the immortal words:
>
>        As for the voracity of this story, this is my grandmother
>        we're talking about.

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assistant: From: mcirvin@scws5.harvard.edu (Matt McIrvin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.fan.cecil-adams,sci.physics
Subject: Re: Lightning / Mortuary Ritual
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
In article <D4InuI.H5J@cadence.com>, Vince Gibboni <vince@cadence.com> wrote:
I think it was actually some version of the Cookie Recipe tale.  I
recall the word "GRANDMOTHER" being in all caps, in fine preemptively-
indignant style.  The ensuing flurry of speculation about Grandma's
voracity changed the face of Usenet forever.
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They wrote:
> I've heard interviews with the doctors who examined him at Parkland and
> one who was working primarily on the throat wound wanted to continue
> trying to revive JFK until the doctor who'd been concentrating mainly on
> the head wound showed this to the other doctor.

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assistant: From: hbeng010@huey.csun.edu (snopes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy.abe-lincoln
Subject: Re: Kennedy Conspiracy Theory
Organization: San Fernando Valley Folklore Society
G. M. Lupo (hamlet@netcom.com) wrote:
  I'm talking about the minor head wound JFK received from Oswald's bullet,
  not the fatal injuries inflicted between then and the limousine's arrival
  at Parkland Memorial Hospital.
 - snopes
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+
|   "There's really no animal that chews gum besides humans," says dental
|
|   scientist Carl Kleber.  "You can get a monkey to chew it for a couple of
|
|   minutes, but then they just take it out and stick it in their hair."
|
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They wrote:
>hbeng010@huey.csun.edu (snopes) writes:
>:   We did NOT give Hitler his ideas for "eugenics and master race
>:   it wasn't our fault that Himmler and Hess happened to be born in
>:   Considering that we got Einstein and Heisenberg, though, I'd say it
>:   out to be a pretty good trade.
>Actually, it appears that you got Heisenberg, but there is still some
>uncertainty about the matter..........:))
>Bob.

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From: coady@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Michael Coady)
Subject: Re: Canada
Organization: Universite de Montreal
In article <1995Feb24.213934.3104@mprgate.mpr.ca> bwilson@mprgate.mpr.ca (Bob
Wilson) writes:
rograms";
merica.
turned
        Ah, but trollers like Snopes aren't governed by principles.
Mike
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Michael J. Coady
COADY@ERE.UMONTREAL.CA
The opinions expressed above are solely those of the author and do not,
in any way, shape or form, represent the Universite de Montreal.
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They wrote:
>czetie@uk.oracle.com wrote:
>>  Have you ever noticed that *everybody* knows where
>>  they were on THAT day? Now what I want to know is,
>>  how come everybody has an alibi? Global conspiracy
>>  or what?
>  Just last night, I read an article in the latest issue of _American
>Heritage_ magazine which postulated that had Lincoln received proper
>medical care (by 1865 standards), he stood a good chance of surviving his
>injuries.  Now, if Lincoln could have survived a minor bullet wound to the
>head with rudimentary 1865 medical care (and managed to live through the
>despite receiving poor care), how is it that Kennedy supposedly died of a
>similar wound nearly a century later (in under an hour or so)?  Were there
>no competent doctors in Dallas that November day, just as there were none in
>Washington, D.C. in April, 1865?

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assistant: From: schillin@spock.usc.edu (John Schilling)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy.abe-lincoln
Subject: Re: Kennedy Conspiracy Theory
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
hbeng010@huey.csun.edu (snopes) writes:
night
Because the wounds were in no way similar.  The only thing they had in
common is that they involved bullets striking the head.
Lincoln was shot with a .41 caliber Remington (?) deringer, firing an
extremely low-velocity round.  About 600 feet per second, as I recall,
and thus unlikely to actually penetrate the skull and casue catastrophic
brain damage.  Skull fracture and intracranial bleeding *are* likely,
but are fatal only if not properly treated.
The 6.5mm Carcano rifle used against Kennedy was a much more powerful
weapon.  2000+ fps muzzle velocity, and about an order of magnitude
more kinetic energy.  Enough to literally blow a good fraction of JFK's
head off.
Not all head wounds are created equal.
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assistant: From: atticus@mindspring.com (Andy Walton)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Jesus died a virgin?
Organization: Waltonschauung Labs
While there's nothing explicitly sexual about the Garden of Eden story,
the tree is called the "tree of knowledge;" the verb "to know" is often
used in the Bible in the...er....Biblical sense. And it was only after
eating from that tree that A&E were ashamed of their nakedness--hence,
eating from that tree awakened some part, if not all, of their sexuality.
Andy "There IS NO original sin. They've all been done before." Walton
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They wrote:
>
>I don't know why I haven't asked this before now. I'm sure everyone has been
>told this. That you have to be careful about how much food you put in the
>goldfishes bowl because they don't know when to stop eating and will eat
>they explode. I've never had goldfish, so I've never seen this, but it
>unlikely. Is it true?

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assistant: From: The Happy Phantom <JSM158@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: Exploding goldfish?
In article <3ildf3$p1b@er6.rutgers.edu>, aston@eden.rutgers.edu (Heather
Aston)
says:
until
ounds
I don't know about exploding, but goldfish don't know when they've eaten too
much, and will gorge themselves if allowed. It does make them very sick and
can kill them, as evidenced by the experience of my own poor goldfish
after I left for college last semester and left them in the care of my
father.
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They wrote:
>>Dan "I read Macolm Cowley, probably the best American writer on his own
>>contemporaries, on the 'lost generation' and I highly recommend reading his
>>work on them" Case
>
>Not to mention his book about the Auckland Metro.

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assistant: From: derek@nezsdc.fujitsu.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The Lost Generation
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand, Auckland
In article <3ifhn1$m80@panix.com>, Lee Rudolph <lrudolph@panix.com> wrote:
Particularly poignant are the lines...
And on the Auckland underground,
the lost generation ride,
if they ever find the exit,
it will be a miracle,
Derek "That American poetry never does scan" Tearne
--
Derek Tearne.   --   derek@fujitsu.co.nz   --    Fujitsu New Zealand   --
The last wild Black Rhino in Zimbabwe is dead.  The dehorning program failed.
The family of Rhino I saw in Zimbabwe are therefore all dead, even the baby.
I have a photograph of a dead family of Rhino  --- Extinction is forever
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They wrote:
>      2/20,I heard on  Art  Bell's "Dreamland" radio program that a rock
> musician
> in the U.K.claims to have a film of an autopsy on an alien that is from
> the all-
> eged  extraterrestrial crash in N.M.in 1947.Report was that it was
> being
>  done in a barn with a cloth draped over the "body".Is this a new UL?
>
> -
>   Pupkin LKSY37A@prodigy.com

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assistant: From: chilton@wishep.physics.wisc.edu (Jeffrey E. Chilton)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Roswell,N.M.-1947
Organization: Zik Zak Corp. Blipverts Division
In article <3i99bh$nlo@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com>, LKSY37A@prodigy.com
(Peter Whitney) wrote:
For heaven's sake!  Read the January/February issue of
_Skeptical_Inquirer_.  They have a fine story about the "Roswell
Incident."  It was just a balloon carrying radar equipment for the
anti-missile Project Mogul.
Jeff
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They wrote:
>
>In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.950223190522.9171C-100000@bingsun1>, darth vader
>>American schools on all levels are some of the best in the world!
>
>  Maybe the third world, buddy.  Take a look at the stats.
>

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assistant: From: novean@vt.edu (novean)
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lt.folklore.urban,soc.culture.canada,rec.sport.hockey,rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: CANADA IS A PATHETIC PIECE OF SHIT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
In article <1995Feb24.171256.9950@blaze.trentu.ca>, jmcrury@ivory.trentu.ca
(CRAZY CANUCK) says:
<bd25258@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu> writes:
Thats pretty funny considering as of 1992, a pair of Canadian Universities
were still teaching graduate level programs in Alchemy.  Gee, you'd think
they'd get the clue that the rest of us got during the Middle Ages.
Perhaps some people north of the border have been messing with
heavy metals a bit too long.
Michael
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They wrote:
> John Varela (jav@cpcug.org) reports:
>
> : Click and Clack stated their belief one day that the safest place from
> : is a donut shop, because there are always cops in there.  Sure enough, a
> : listener sent them a clipping reporting that a holdup was attempted in
> : shop and of course there was a cop present who shot all three of the
> : plus a bystander.

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assistant: From: atticus@mindspring.com (Andy Walton)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: FBI at a bank robbery UL or Not?
Organization: Waltonschauung Labs
In article <3ikst1$4tu@tadpole.fc.hp.com>, rrd@fc.hp.com (Ray Depew) wrote:
robbery
a donut
robbers
There is a radio station in ATlanta that has a game called "Cop In, Cop
Out" on their morning show. The caller (i.e. contestant) says "Cop In" or
"Cop Out." The DJ then calls a local donut shop, and asks the person who
answers the phone whether or not there is a police officer at the
establishment. From the games I've heard, "Cop In" is the way to bet.
In case you wondered, Dunkin' Donuts and Krispy Kreme give free coffee to
cops, guaranteeing a police presence. Hence the incident above. How
zarking stupid do you have to be to hold up a donut shop?
Andy "Crueller and unusualler punishment" Walton
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: In The News
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
In article <3ifqbd$m3c@dewey.csun.edu>, hbeng010@huey.csun.edu (snopes)
wrote:
<classic list snipped for brevity>
... from the "Visitors Guide to Los Alamos National Laboratory":
"PARKING:  Automobile parking is unrestricted except where restrictions are
posted."
Dana "from the Department of Redundancy Department" Netz
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They wrote:
>From: hbeng010@huey.csun.edu (snopes)
>Subject: Re: Kennedy Conspiracy Theory
>Date: 24 Feb 1995 19:53:00 GMT
>czetie@uk.oracle.com wrote:
>>  Have you ever noticed that *everybody* knows where
>>  they were on THAT day? Now what I want to know is,
>>  how come everybody has an alibi? Global conspiracy
>>  or what?
>  Just last night, I read an article in the latest issue of _American
>Heritage_ magazine which postulated that had Lincoln received proper
>medical care (by 1865 standards), he stood a good chance of surviving his
>injuries.  Now, if Lincoln could have survived a minor bullet wound to the
>head with rudimentary 1865 medical care (and managed to live through the
>despite receiving poor care), how is it that Kennedy supposedly died of a
>similar wound nearly a century later (in under an hour or so)?  Were there
>no competent doctors in Dallas that November day, just as there were none in
>Washington, D.C. in April, 1865?
>  The more you examine the evidence, the more it just doesn't add up.
> - snopes

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy.abe-lincoln
Subject: Re: Kennedy Conspiracy Theory
Organization: Primenet
In article <3ildes$30r@dewey.csun.edu> hbeng010@huey.csun.edu (snopes)
rites:
night
What is your hang-up with this, Hon?
It was a BULLET that struck his HEAD and CAME OUT THE OTHER SIDE with a good
portion of his BRAIN following close behind. Why didn't my aunt survive her
mastectomy? Because fate is a pain in the ass.
Karma
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assistant: From: nfmartin@scws8.harvard.edu (Nyani-Iisha Martin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,soc.culture.canada,soc.culture.german
Subject: Re: Canada
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Hans Paaimans (paai@kub.nl) wrote:
: In article <3iiqal$nhj@dewey.csun.edu> hbeng010@huey.csun.edu (snopes)
writes:
: >CRAZY CANUCK (jmcrury@ivory.trentu.ca) wrote:
: >
: >> How do you feel living in a country from which Hitler drew his ideas for
: >> his own eugenics and master race programs?
: >
: >  We did NOT give Hitler his ideas for "eugenics and master race
ograms";
: Uh... the american indians? Wholesale genocide of the indigenous
: people? Packing the survivors together on small barren pieces of
: land and chasing them off again the moment you thought that land
: could be used for something different?
Quite horrible, as anyone will admity, but not to the point; there were
concentration camps used in the Boer War by the British, so that idea
could have come from another place than us, and Germany had had a thriving
Eugenics discussion since the turn of the century.
Nearly every group that's more developed than another group has pounced
on the less-developed groups. None of our ancestors have clean hands.
Ny
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"I thought, There goes my Lord, whom I was born
to follow. I have found a King.....And, I said to
myself,.....I will have him, if I die for it."