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Yucks Digest V2 #29 (shorts)
Yucks Digest Wed, 20 May 92 Volume 2 : Issue 29
Today's Topics:
"Colorado town is calling all Bobs"
"negative calorie" foods?
[spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene "Chief Yuckster" Spafford) : Yucks Digest V2 #27 (shorts) ]
[Submission] Rodney King Beating Jury's Top Ten Acquittal Excuses
Bambiburgers
CMU vs. Hell
Elevator Babies
Feds Take Aim at Flying Menace
Game Strikes Back!
Judge: Dissertation Lifted
Movie Sequel
Museum fare shows subtlety of medieval palates
no subject (file transmission)
One-liner
Parliament is a den of vipers
Realtime Computing Exhibition
Rep. Looks Like Eddie Murphy
Tasteless Rodney King Jokes
There is justice
Today's Top Ten - 5/4/92
Tour South-Central LA!
What else would one answer?
When you've gotta go ..
Wonder if Proxmire's heard of this one
Worm-Charming
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Date: Thu, 14 May 92 9:58:31 PDT
From: Pete Apple <petebob@sequent.com>
Subject: "Colorado town is calling all Bobs"
To: bob
(USA Today, 5/14/92, 6D)
Avon, Colo., has gone Bob wild.
When last we heard from the 1,800 inhabitants of the little town near
Vail they had voted to name a new bridge Bob. Bob-mania was born -
Bob key chains, Bob bumper stickers, Bob T-shirts. And now:
BobFest '92, "The Ultimate OK Weekend", May 23-24.
"Doesn't matter if it's raining or snowing, if you're named Bob, this
is an important pilgrimage," says a straight-faced Tom Britz, BobFest
organizer.
Among highlights: International Bob-B-Que; formal introduction of
Bob Beer ("When you're out of Bob, you're out of town"); the Bob
Gold Putting Tournament (all groups must have at least one member
named Bob); and the Bobby-Sox Party, with a live '50s rock 'n' roll
band.
Want more information? Call the Bob hot line: 303-949-5189.
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Date: Sat, 9 May 1992 11:39:59 GMT
From: tony@nexus.yorku.ca (Tony Wallis)
Subject: "negative calorie" foods?
Newsgroups: sci.med
Jeff Sullivan wonders
> Are there some foods which are "negative calorie" (i.e., they take
> more calories to digest than they produce as energy) ? ..
I believe chewing celery uses more energy than you will get back from
its digestable carbohydrate content.
However, there is an unfortunate side-effect of consuming large
quantities of celery .. you get hungry and hallucinate pancakes with
butter and syrup.
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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1992 09:58:39 +0100
From: richard@fwi.uva.nl
Subject: [spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene "Chief Yuckster" Spafford) : Yucks Digest V2 #27 (shorts) ]
To: spaf
>Date: 17 Apr 92 04:34:27 EST (Fri)
>From: dscatl!lindsay@gatech.edu (Lindsay Cleveland)
>Subject: cutie
>To: spaf
>
>Contributed by: ihnp4!harpo!decvax!wivax!linus!genradbo!grkermit!markm
>
>A scientist, an enginneer, and a hacker escape from jail. They decide to
>hide from the approaching guards in a nearby apple orchard. They each
>clamber up a different tree and hide themselves among the branches. Minutes
>later the guards arrive. The guard dogs lead them to the tree where the
>scientist is hiding. The scientist thinks fast and goes "hoot hoot". "Just
>an owl", says one guard to another. The dogs then lead them to the tree
>where the enginneer is hiding. The enginneer follows the scientist's lead
>and goes "tweet tweet". "Just a sparrow", says the guard, kicking one of
>the dogs. The dogs then lead them to the tree where the hacker is hiding.
>"You better be right this time", shouts the guard to the dogs. "Is there
>anyone up there?", yells the guard. "Moooo Mooooo".
>
Obviously not a Mac hacker. Otherwise it would have been "Moof Moof"
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Date: Tue, 5 May 92 13:59:54 PDT
From: sbs@ciara.frame.com (Steven Sargent)
Subject: [Submission] Rodney King Beating Jury's Top Ten Acquittal Excuses
To: mdt@frame.com, tschramm@adobe.com, mxc@frame.com, adl@frame.com, ddm@frame.com, spaf
** Rodney King Beating Jury's Top Ten Acquittal Excuses **
10. Swayed by defense counsel's "Boys will be boys" closing argument.
9. Pressure from big-money Vegas gamblers.
8. Sometimes, ya gotta break the rules -- sorry, that's from the
*Burger King* beating jury.
7. He had replaced the cops' regular coffee with Folger's Crystals.
6. Were hoping that LA would be destroyed in the ensuing riots.
5. Parking tickets fixed for life.
4. Promised cameo appearances in "Dragnet II".
3. Thought beating tape was inadmissible after it appeared on
"America's Funniest Home Videos".
2. Case law explanations provided by nearby Reagan Library.
1. Doughnuts, doughnuts, doughnuts!
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Date: Mon, 18 May 92 07:48:54 PDT
From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
Subject: Bambiburgers
To: eniac@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>>One of the lesser known kosher animals is the giraffe.
> Lev 11:22 Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and
> the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the
> grasshopper after his kind.
>yuck-o. all other bugs are verboten.
The exact meaning of arbeh, sal`am, khargol, khagav has been lost according
to most authorities, although most rabbis and scholars consider them to be
four species of locusts (the read, yellow, spotted grey, and white). Since
11:23 forbids all other insects, out of fear of breaking this commandment,
no one, not even Bino the slaughterer, eats locusts among the kosher world.
(This kind of logic also applies to turkey, but somehow people don't get so
religious for turkeys as they do locusts.)
Except...
Except the Yemenites. They still speak Aramaic, and they have maintained a
tradition that identifies these four species. And they still eat them. I
once asked a rabbi what the rule is when invited to a Yemenite's house, and
he's serving locust stew. He said that you eat around the locust. Smiling.
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Date: 29 Apr 92 23:30:05 GMT
From: cn0m+@andrew.cmu.edu (Christopher Patrick Nelson)
Subject: CMU vs. Hell
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
From the back of a locally-brewed T-shirt:
Top Ten Subtle Differences
Between CMU and Hell
10. It doesn't rain in Hell.
9. Everyone has heard of Hell.
8. It's more fun getting into Hell.
7. You can't fail out of Hell.
6. At least you can sleep in Hell.
5. Hell is forever, CMU just seems like it.
4. People smile in Hell.
3. You only have to sell your soul to get into Hell.
2. You know there are hot women in Hell.
And the #1 subtle difference between CMU and Hell...
1. You wouldn't tell a friend to go to CMU.
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Date: 12 May 92 23:30:04 GMT
From: batzel@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (John B. Batzel)
Subject: Elevator Babies
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
[Something to this effect seen in alt.urban.legends]
Urban Legend: Pregnant women caught in elevators during power outages
always go into labor for some reason; could be stress, could be just
the quiet dark setting, could be something else. The birth rate
jumped in a city when the power went out for a day, "elevator babies"
being born all over the city.
Ever since then, whenever the power goes out in buildings, a workman
always opens the hatch on the top of the elevator and asks "Are there
any pregnant women in there?" To which the standard reply is:
"No; we've only been stuck in here half an hour."
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Date: Tue, 12 May 92 18:31:17 CDT
From: brennan@hal.com (Dave Brennan)
Subject: Feds Take Aim at Flying Menace
To: spaf
>From the Wall Street Journal
Spring is in the air, which means federal employees soon will be back
shooting birds at New York's Kennedy Airport.
To the dismay of some animal-rights groups, officials at the airport
last year hired gunmen from the U.S. Agriculture Department to shoot down
15,000 sea gulls in an effort to reduce bird-plane collisions. Now the
airport's operator, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, plans to
bring the marksmen back for spring breeding.
"We don't want to kill birds," says Richard Dolbeer, an Agriculture
Department researcher. "We just want to make a safe environment for the
planes."
Thought such accidents are rare, birds sucked into engines can cause the
engines to fail. At Kennedy bird strikes caused 40 aborted takeoffs from
1979 to 1990. In one case last year, a 747 airliner blew 10 tires
scrapping a takeoff after a run-in with a flock of sea gulls.
Though Kennedy's case may be extreme, bird strikes are a growing
headache around the country. Their number rose to more than 1,700 in 1990
from 1,400 in 1988, the Federal Aviation Administration says. "The problem
is increasing and getting serious," says Mr. Dolbeer of the Agriculture
Department, which is conducting a study of the issue.
Federal officials blame the problem in part on a bird population boom at
many wildlife refuges. Moreover, landfills near airports are growing,
providing ideal feeding grounds for birds.
In response, airports are trying a variety of measures. Some set off
fireworks or use loudspeakers to scare off the birds; others have "bird
patrols" that try to shoo birds away from runways by driving around and
using noise makers.
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Date: Sat, 25 Apr 92 09:41:05 -0400
From: paul%dblegl.atl.ga.us@mathcs.emory.edu (Paul D. Manno)
Subject: Game Strikes Back!
To: spaf
>From the news services...
Missouri - A man showing off a turkey he thought he had killed was
shot in the leg last week when the wounded bird thrashed around in
his car trunk and triggered his shotgun. "The turkeys are fighting
back." said Sheriff Ron Skiles. And well they might: It turns out
Larry Lands, who was in satisfactory condition in the hospital in
Potosi, and his son, Larry Jr., 16, were hunting a week before the
start of turkey season and will probably be fined, the sheriff said.
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Date: Sat, 25 Apr 92 10:02:25 PDT
From: one of our correspondents
Subject: Judge: Dissertation Lifted
To: yucks-request
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP)
An administrative law judge says it makes no difference that a
University of Tennessee professor gave a doctoral student permission
to copy his work.
It was still plagiarism.
"Granting permission to use original material may satisfy a legal
requirement but will not satisfy the intellectual," Judge Malcolm
McInnis said in his ruling.
"You cannot change the identity of the creator by permission."
The doctoral student, Dennis Faulkner, filed an appeal Thursday
with UT-Knoxville Chancellor John Quinn seeking reversal of McInnis'
order or a new hearing.
Last year, the university moved to rescind graduate engineering
degrees its Space Institute awarded to Faulkner and Peggy Potter.
Faulkner, 35, is a civilian employee of the U.S. Army Missile and
Space Intelligence Center in Huntsville, Ala., and Potter, 44, works
for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
The university said Faulkner's doctoral dissertation and work
Potter submitted for her master's degree were taken virtually word
for word from unpublished research that their professor, Walter
Frost, co-authored and supplied.
Officials alleged that they steered research contracts to Frost's
private company in exchange for his help with their degrees.
Both appealed the revocations. McInnis ruled in Faulkner's case
April 16. Potter's appeal is pending.
University attorney Alice Woody said the university feels McInnis'
ruling is proper but won't rescind Faulkner's degree until his
appeals are completed.
Faulkner could take his appeal to state court.
Frost, a distinguished professor who retired under a cloud of
suspicion a year ago, has said he did nothing wrong.
He said Faulkner and Potter had his permission to use his research
for their work, so it wasn't plagiarism.
But McInnis noted in his opinion that a dean and 37 faculty
members said it was plagiarism.
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Date: Wed, 29 Apr 92 11:17:06 CDT
From: brennan@hal.com (Dave Brennan)
Subject: Movie Sequel
To: spaf
Seen in Entertainment Weekly:
They're already working on the sequel to "White Men Can't Jump."
It's called "Black Men Can't Bobsled."
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Date: Fri, 8 May 92 23:02:14 PDT
From: one of our correspondents
Subject: Museum fare shows subtlety of medieval palates
To: yucks-request
by Lysiane Baumel
TOULOUSE, France, May 9 (AFP) - The menu includes eggs in parboiled sauce,
eel brochettes barbecued with honey and vinegar, roast of venison with
camomile sauce, peacock "en majeste" and, to top it all off, an orange
omelette for dessert.
The specialties, half a millenium old and healthier than modern fare,
according to chef Andre Daguin, can be tasted at an exhibit that runs at the
Augustins museum in this southwestern town until June 29, entitled "Table
Pleasures and Manners in the 14th and 15th Centuries."
"A most conclusive experience," museum curator Monique Rey said with
relish.
To reconstruct the cuisine of the time, Daguin, from the nearby Gers
region, plunged into medieval cook books, most notably "le Menagier de Paris,"
a treatise on home economics and mores, and the "Viandier de Taillevent,"
named after King Charles V's famous cook.
The dishes Daguin concocted, Rey said, have "nothing to do with the
'abominable stews' and 'horrible leftover hashes' described by 19th century
historians."
"On the contrary," she said, "they are delicious, delicately perfumed with
a subtle mixture of spices and seasonings."
Daguin's experiments with medieval recipes, Rey said, has shattered
beliefs that the dishes of the time were overspiced to conceal the smell and
taste of spoiled meats.
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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 92 16:34:49 EDT
From: goldsman@cc.gatech.edu (Mike Goldsman)
Subject: no subject (file transmission)
To: yucks
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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1992 09:03:18 CDT
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Date: 1 May 92 08:30:04 GMT
From: ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
Subject: One-liner
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
q: What is the difference between hardware and software?
a: Hardware gets faster, cheaper, smaller.
Software gets slower, costlier and bigger.
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Date: Mon, 11 May 92 11:59:17 PDT
From: Don Bennett (408)922-2768 <dpb@viking.frame.com>
Subject: Parliament is a den of vipers
To: spaf
>From Deutsche Presse Agentur -
DHAKA, Bangladesh - Women who can charm snakes are
on standby as the Bangladeshi Parliament begins its
summer session.
Eight deadly cobras have been caught in the
sprawling building since last week, when frightened
deputies fled the building following a snake alarm.
Police and firefighters failed to entice the
reptiles from their lairs, and the snake charmers
were called in.
Abul Hussain, who caught three of the cobras, said
more could be lurking in the building.
"It is difficult to say how many snakes are still
holed up in the building, but it seems several
families of cobras moved in during the winter for
hibernation when Parliament was not in session,"
Hussain said.
Some deputies are taking no chances and have hired
their own snake charmers, officials said.
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Date: 23 Apr 92 23:41:00 GMT
From: cdi@orion.oac.uci.edu (Concept Development)
Subject: Realtime Computing Exhibition
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.announce
Costa Mesa, Ca. Concept Development, Inc. announced today
the next in a continuing series of trade shows focused on
real-time computing.
The Real-time Computer Show expands to Washington and
Oregon!
Fifty leading manufacturers will exhibit their abilities
which include products and services uniquely associated with
real-time applications. The RTC show is sponsored by the
manufacturers to bring the most advanced technologies to
you.
[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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Date: Fri, 15 May 92 17:59:48 PDT
From: one of our correspondents
Subject: Rep. Looks Like Eddie Murphy
To: yucks-request
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP)
Rep. Dwight Evans just wants to get a new state budget passed
before the June 30 deadline. But the questions he gets these days
have nothing to do with spending or taxes.
Evans, a Philadelphia Democrat, says reporters keep asking if
he'll stand in for Eddie Murphy in a movie the actor is filming in
Harrisburg. Evans said he's often told he looks like Murphy.
"What can I say?" Evans asked with a laugh, "I want him to play me
one day as chairman of the Appropriations Committee."
The lawmaker won't stand in for the actor, but he will try his
hand at acting as one of 40 Pennsylvania lawmakers chosen as extras
for a congressional party scene in "The Distinguished Gentleman."
The film is about a con man played by Murphy who gets elected to
Congress, then gets religion.
Hollywood Pictures, a division of Walt Disney, selected Harrisburg
because it resembles Washington but is more accessible, said
publicist Steve Newman.
The legislative luminaries were told to report at 7 a.m. sharp
Saturday and to be prepared to do a lot of sitting around.
"Politicians are all born actors and this is just another page,"
said Rep. Peter Daley.
Rep. Gerard Kosinski jokingly referred all calls to his agent.
"I've been on stage for 10 years," he said with a laugh. "What
better drama preparatory course is there than 10 years in the
Legislature?"
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Date: Wed, 13 May 92 12:51:10 EDT
From: darin@kaman.com (Darin S. Lory)
Subject: Tasteless Rodney King Jokes
To: yucks
1. Did you here that the LA cops involved in the Rodney King beating
have been brought up on new charges?
Yeah, batting out of order
2. How do you say Rodney King in Spanish?
Pinyata (I probably spelled it wrong)
3. Have you heard of the new Rodney deck O' cards?
it has one King of spades and 51 clubs.
4. What do New York Cops do differently than LA cops?
NY Cops go bar-hopping and LA cops go clubbing.
5. LA's new slogan: 'Come to LA and be treated like a King'
Nothing about this email is politically correct.
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Date: 29 Apr 92 08:30:04 GMT
From: sdobson@red10.acpub.duke.edu (Shuford Dobson)
Subject: There is justice
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
This is a true story.
On October 13, 1944, the Durham (North Carolina) _Sun_ reported
that a citizen was brought up in traffic court for parking his car
on a restricted street right in front of a sign that read "No Stoping".
The defendant plead "not guilty". "Your Honor, I have not violated
the law. The sign prohibited stoping, and I have not stoped. Webster's
dictionary tells me that stoping means extracting ore from a stope, or,
loosely, underground. Your Honor, I am a law-abiding citizen, and I
didn't extract any ore from the area of the sign."
Judge Wilson responded, "This is Friday the 13th and anything can
happen. Case dismissed."
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Date: Monday, May 04, 1992 08:38AM
From: Dan Morrow
Subject: Today's Top Ten - 5/4/92
To: Dan Morrow
TOP TEN WAYS TO SPEND THE EXTRA HOUR OF DAYLIGHT SAVINGS
10. Twenty three-minute eggs.
9. Write 'Police Academy' sequels 7 through 15.
8. A wagonload of microwave waffles.
7. Tell your family you love them. (#7 has been brought to you
by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.)
6. Try on every pair of pants in your closet as you yell out
the window, "They fit!"
5. Whittle.
4. Memorize lyrics to "American Pie".
3. Call Time/LIFE. Hit on Judy the Operator.
2. Train your monkey to ride one of those little tricycles.
1. Shampoo, rinse, repeat. Shampoo, rinse, repeat. Shampoo,
rinse, repeat.
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Date: Wed, 13 May 92 16:19:56 PDT
From: donna@ast.COM (Donna Konell)
Subject: Tour South-Central LA!
To: spaf
A special offer just for net yucksters!!
// Sunset Shuttle Services //
is pleased to announce its latest tour package....
* SOUTH-CENTRAL LA *
* A D V E N T U R E T O U R *
This unique tour package includes....
* Fully narrated tour in luxury van with bullet proof windows
* Duty-free shopping (actually cost-free) at a variety of shops
* Hot dogs and marshmallows for a luncheon cookout at one of many
outdoor blazes in the downtown area
* Challenging foot races against local outdoor sporting enthusiasts
* Optional bullet proof vest rentals available for small fee
Release forms must be signed in advance. Sunset Shuttle Services
will NOT be responsible for death or injury, even if every bone
in your body is broken and nobody seems willing to prosecute the
suspects because they are local hero champions of outdoor sports.
See you on the Adventure Tour!!!
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Date: Wed, 29 Apr 92 16:17:10 EDT
From: rsk@gynko.circ.upenn.edu (Richard Kulawiec)
Subject: What else would one answer?
To: bob
> From: zaidel@muzungu.cis.upenn.edu (Martin J. Zaidel)
> Newsgroups: upenn.forsale
> Subject: "You Just Don't Understand"
>
> Are you a man or woman? Do you ever wonder why you have trouble
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> communicating with members of the opposite sex? If you're
> interested in finding out why, join our Center City reading group
> as we tackle:
>
> "You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation"
> by Deborah Tannen, Ph.D.
> Contact Martin Zaidel for details: zaidel@cis.upenn.edu, 898-0365.
[Us Vegans just nod and wink.... --spaf]
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Date: 11 May 92 08:30:04 GMT
From: bean@putter.wpd.sgi.com (Bean Anderson)
Subject: When you've gotta go ..
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
An airline pilot told me this ...
He was flying some non-english speaking business men
on a private plane when one of them indicated that
he needed to pee. The pilot explaned that the
bathroom was behind the curtain and where there
was a funnel to pee into. When done, one should pull
the handle to flush.
A few minutes later the same fellow was back up front
with his pants down around his knees, his tie blown
over his shoulder, and a white stripe going up the
front of his body. And in his hand was ... the fire
extinquisher.
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Date: Sun, 17 May 92 22:38:02 -0400
From: Patrick Tufts <zippy@filbert.cs.brandeis.edu>
Subject: Wonder if Proxmire's heard of this one
To: eniac@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
I humbly submit this article as most likely to receive a Golden Fleece
award based solely on its title:
Brooks, Ouh-Young, Batter, Kilpatrick. Project GROPE -- Haptic
Displays for Scientific Visualization. Computer Graphics, Vol
24 #4 (SIGGRAPH '90 proceedings)
Project GROPE...sounds like one of those Grade Z Flicks from the 50s
(of course) where
NubileYoungAmericanWomenFromKansasWhoGetTakenOnSaucerRides and
AliensExamineTheirBodiesAllowingTheAudienceToSeeTheirUndergarments.
Hmm - aren't those XWindow procedure names?
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Date: Sat, 9 May 92 08:22:16 -0400
From: paul%dblegl.atl.ga.us@mathcs.emory.edu (Paul D. Manno)
Subject: Worm-Charming
To: spaf
Reprinted w/o permission from the Earthweek column by Steve Newman
Fans of the bizarre British sport of worm-charming gathered in
Devonshire to see who could coax the greatest number of the wiggly
creatures out of the ground. Some serenaded them with a violin,
others tried prodding with an umbrella, scattering champagne and
even playing a tape of a patriotic song. But the winners of the
Ninth International Worm-Charming Championship at Blackawton caught
their worms with a mixture of stout and home-brewed beer. All
teams using liquid as part of their worm-charming efforts this year
were forced to drink samples under a new rule introduced after
three teams were disqualified last year because of using dangerous
substances. During the competition, 444 worms were charmed to the
surface.
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Date: Tue, 12 May 92 18:53:19 CDT
From: brennan@hal.com (Dave Brennan)
To: spaf
>From The Wall Street Journal
It isn't easy being archaeologically correct in Jersey City, NJ.
Recently, a local electric-utility crew uncovered what appear to be the
buried remnants of a late 18th-century wooden ship. A valuable find?
Possibly; but at first it was just thrown into a dumpster. When word got
out, city authorities proved slow to react.
By the time the mayor's office decided to find out what all the fuss was
about, workers had partially filled the pit and put the artifacts in a
nearby dumpster. "People were just taking things away," concedes Richard
McAllister, an aide to the mayor. "But I had them secure the site."
However, a few days later the crew uncovered what could be another ship,
Mr. Gilmore says he found them "cutting the bow with a chain saw."
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