+----------------------------------------------------------------------------- + --- FLAME v1.1 * Origin: Back of the Rack - Reston, VA - v.FAST - 703/264-0255 (1:109/246) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 116 ZYXEL MODEMS Ref: C3A00254 Date: 02/24/95 From: NEWS Time: 06:36pm \/To: ALL (Read 3 times) Subj: RE: NEWBIES Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) Subject: Re: Newbies hbeng010@huey.csun.edu (snopes) quotes Newsday: > Some Internet acronyms have become so established that even many >net.veterans are not aware that they started out as acronyms. A program nown >as Veronica, for instance, is a very popular search utility for finding >things on the Internet. But probably less than 1 percent of Veronica users >know that the name stands for Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-Wide Index of >Computerized Archives. Wow. The name was chosen before the acronym. What an astounding coincidence that out of such a torturous title came a coincidentally meaningful acronymic name. Alan "no time to read AFU these days but can't resist responding to an rticle by some Newsday geek who superciliously claims to have insider information about the internet" Rosenthal --- FLAME v1.1 * Origin: Back of the Rack - Reston, VA - v.FAST - 703/264-0255 (1:109/246) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 116 ZYXEL MODEMS Ref: C3A00255 Date: 02/24/95 From: NEWS Time: 06:37pm \/To: ALL (Read 4 times) Subj: RE: LYRICS ABOUT MASTURBATION? From: upton@cs.unc.edu (Brian Upton) Newsgroups: alt.society.generation-x,alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: lyrics about masturbation? Organization: The University of North Carolina In article , ewan@kirk.demon.co.uk (Ewan Kirk) writes: |> |> [whatever] |> Jeez, quit yer yappin', ya humorless a.f.u Chihuahua. -- +-------------+------------------------------------------------------------+ | Brian Upton | "Books? Books? My god! You don't understand. They were far | | Chapel Hill | too busy living first-hand for books. Books!" -J. March | +-------------+------------------------------------------------------------+ --- FLAME v1.1 * Origin: Back of the Rack - Reston, VA - v.FAST - 703/264-0255 (1:109/246) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 116 ZYXEL MODEMS Ref: C3A00256 Date: 02/24/95 From: NEWS Time: 06:37pm \/To: ALL (Read 3 times) Subj: RE: JELLO MAKES YOUR FINGERNAILS HARDER 18:37:3502/24/95 From: aston@eden.rutgers.edu (Heather Aston) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: Jello makes your fingernails harder (discuss) Organization: Rutgers University saddler@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Ray, just Ray) writes: >Open for discussion to AFU Board of Old Hats and Apprentices; >============================================================= >My wife believes that her mother's claim (who know's what FOAF this is >originated from) that Jello makes your [finger]nails stronger. I should >mention that the claim is that the oral ingestion is the key. In fact I will, >er, did. >Since I had to burn my OED to provide warmth to my family this winter, as well >as delete my on-line version to reduce weight from my laptop, I am at a lack >for resources (ever try running Mosaic at 1200bps? thot not). >Please, ye of vast resources, debunk or prove this. I don't know about Jello, but if you read the back of the Knox unflavored gelatin, it tells you that if you drink a glass of it a day, it will make you nails stronger. But you have to do it for about a month before you notice any results. >Ray "dreaming of owning a 9-incher^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hfirm^H^H^H^Hstrong one" Saddler --- FLAME v1.1 * Origin: Back of the Rack - Reston, VA - v.FAST - 703/264-0255 (1:109/246) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 116 ZYXEL MODEMS Ref: C3A00257 Date: 02/24/95 From: NEWS Time: 06:37pm \/To: ALL (Read 3 times) Subj: RE: KURT KOBAIN ACTUALLY MURDERED? From: aston@eden.rutgers.edu (Heather Aston) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: Kurt Kobain actually MURDERED? Organization: Rutgers University writes: >Forgive me if this has already been discussed but I turned on >the radio the other night and heard the tale-end of a talk show who's >guest purported Kurt's death was actually a murder. >Anyone know anything about this? I read the same thing in, I'm ashamed to say, Star magazine. When Kurt Cobain disappeared a few days before his death, Courtney Love hired a detective to find him. In the Star article, this detective was quoted as saying Kurt Cobain was murdered. I've also heard that Courtney Love was responsible; she either killed him herself or arranged to have him killed. >Marty --- FLAME v1.1 * Origin: Back of the Rack - Reston, VA - v.FAST - 703/264-0255 (1:109/246) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 116 ZYXEL MODEMS Ref: C3A00258 Date: 02/24/95 From: NEWS Time: 06:37pm \/To: ALL (Read 3 times) Subj: THOMAS A KEMPIS - UL? From: mrbally@MCS.COM (Stephen Wimbourne) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Thomas a Kempis - UL? Organization: MCSNet Subscriber Account, Chicago's First Public-Access Internet! story from a professor of medieval history: Thomas a Kempis (author of The Imitation of Christ, a masterpiece of devotional literature, and all around 14th century saintly type) fell ill in a monastery. The monks, figuring the bones and other relics would put them on the pilgrimage map, waited until he was dead abd buried him. dug him up three days later and found (potenital UL part) fingernail scratches on the coffin lid and wood splinters under mr k's fingernails. so obviuosly they jumped the gun a little bit when the buried him. now, this is the clincher and it goes so well with catholic oddities that i'm tempted to believe it -- this saintly man was never cannonized because (wait for it) the scratches and splinters show that he despaired at the moment of death!!!! opinions? stephen "no patent leather shoes for me" wimbourne -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - --- FLAME v1.1 * Origin: Back of the Rack - Reston, VA - v.FAST - 703/264-0255 (1:109/246) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 116 ZYXEL MODEMS Ref: C3A00259 Date: 02/24/95 From: NEWS Time: 06:38pm \/To: ALL (Read 3 times) Subj: RE: LIGHTNING / MORTUARY RITUAL From: towle@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Steve Towle) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban Subject: Re: Lightning / Mortuary Ritual Organization: Stanford University, CA 94305, USA In article <1995Feb23.000742.8703@unislc.slc.unisys.com>, Helge Moulding wrote: > >Hmmm. In my admittedly limited experience, there needs to be no >"functional" explanation for superstitions. Usually, they arise >with no relationship to the original rational. Actual explanations >get thunk up in later generations when the kids ask why. > >My fave e.g. is the wife who was cutting the ends off the ham before >baking. Hubby asks, why, she doesn't know, mom always did it that >way. So she asks mom, who sez gramma did it that way. And gramma >explains that the pan was too short for what the butcher delivered. > Okay, then think up a functional explanation for this one: a Chinese-American friend of mine always cuts the two ends off a zucchini, and rubs them against the remainder of the vegetable, because, according to her mother, "it prevents bitterness". 5000 years of Chinese culinary tradition can't be wrong, right? Steven "If we cut off the ends of the Bell Curve, *that* might prevent bitterness" Towle -- "God said to Abraham, 'Kill me a son!' Abe said, 'Man, you must be puttin' me on...'" Bob Dylan --- FLAME v1.1 * Origin: Back of the Rack - Reston, VA - v.FAST - 703/264-0255 (1:109/246)