INTERNUTS Digest Tue, 07 Oct 1997 Volume 01 : Issue 11 Today's Topics: Medical Student UL The Usual Suspects rattling your cage ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 21:23:39 GMT From: jschmitz@qis.net (JoAnne Schmitz) To: lnuts Subject: Medical Student UL Message-ID: <345e3982.225979513@mail.qis.net> On 2 Oct 1997 17:44:12 GMT, in alt.folklore.urban sweet@spamjam.upenn.edu (Henry W. Sweet) wrote: This happened to a friend of a friend and I believe the story has the stench of an Urban Legend...perhaps circulated amongst fellow medical students. During Dan's Surgery Rotation, he was told by his resident that, because they were operating near the intestine, if he were to fart in the OR, he should immediatley own up to it, so that they would know that they did not cut into the bowel. Well, the operation was a success and there were no smells to report. The next day, Dan goes in the OR with a different team and rips out a silent but deadly one. Not knowing that the whole thing is a practical joke, he interrupts the surgery and tells the attending that he has just farted. --H.W. Sweet ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 21:23:40 GMT From: jschmitz@qis.net (JoAnne Schmitz) To: lnuts Subject: The Usual Suspects Message-ID: <34603de3.227100519@mail.qis.net> On Fri, 3 Oct 1997 16:58:43 GMT, in alt.folklore.urban tweek@netcom-NO.SPAM-com (Reverend Tweek) wrote: Robert Warinner wrote: >The Chicago Tribune examined the Generation Gap in computer literacy >and managed to vector the usual tech support ULS: > >[footpedal, coffee holder...] A couple of weeks ago, on the Phil Hendri radio show on KFI (I'm *sure* he lurks on this newsgroup) he had an *on-the-phone-guest* who was discussing his desire to sue a computer company for their abusive tech support when he called them in order to get his brand new computer up and working. His main complaint with Tech Support, was that after he had descibed all his problems to them, their reply was "Sir, package up your computer, gather all the receipts, take it back to the store, and ask for a refund and tell them that you're too damn stupid to own a = computer." The list of problems the guy had was: The "Coffee Displayer" [CD] wouldn't open up when he pressed the button. The footpedal didn't do a damn thing. Nothing happens when he turns it on. The monitor doesn't even show anything. He detailed how his call with tech support went, with the part leading up to the offensive comment from tech support being "Is the computer plugged in." His response was that he *thought* it was, but he couldn't go and check because the light he would need to light up the area around the plug wouldn't work because there was a power failure. It was rather entertaining listening to the other callers call up and tell this guy that they agreed with the tech support person... I'm sure a few of them must have been notable BOFH operators around the Internet. Oh, BTW, Phil's "on-the-phone-guests" are almost always characters of Phil's own troll^H^H^H^H^H^Hdoing... the real thrill comes from hearing some callers ask "Is this for real?" and when Phil responds that it is, they still doubt it... most notable, was the caller arguing that the "continuing coverage of the tooth fairy's ass being shot to hell" had to have been fake, even after Phil assured her that it was indeed true, and Bill Dickman's special reports from the newsroom (even though Bill was about 95% under the bottle at the time) were entirely factual reports. Yes folks, there are people out there, who don't know that gullable (Yes, Phil's done the seagull and alka-selzer story) isn't in the dictionary. BTW Phil, Loved the Bob Dornan interview. --=20 Reverend Tweek Spiritual Advisor and Religious = Liaison DataBasix mailto: tweek@databasix.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------= -- Followups to Enoch and Cramer are deposited in = alt.fan.kooks.mikael-enoch ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 21:23:41 GMT From: jschmitz@qis.net (JoAnne Schmitz) To: lnuts Subject: rattling your cage Message-ID: <34624373.228525487@mail.qis.net> On Sun, 05 Oct 1997 19:43:01 GMT, in alt.folklore.urban patrick.mccraughtch@juno.com (Pat McCraughtch) wrote: The Kansas City (Red) Star Thursday, October 2, 1997 Metro Section, page C-1 Shopper discovers bonus item Rattlesnake was hidden inside plaster pedestal she bought at hobby store By Benita Y. William, Staff Writer It was an urban legend come to life -- almost. In the legend, a woman buys a basket imported from India and finds a cobra coiled inside. In Overland Park on Tuesday night, a woman bought a plaster pedestal imported from Mexico that contained a 3-foot rattlesnake. "We're still trying to find out what happened," said Jeff Daniel, district manager of Hobby Lobby. The pedestal was purchased at the store at 119th Street and Metcalf Avenue. As an employee carried the pedestal to the woman's car, the snake stuck its head out of a hole in the bottom and shook its eight-button rattle. The employee slammed the stand agaonst the ground, hole-side down, and sat on it until police and animal control officers arrived. Daniels said the rattler probably crawled inside the stand while it was drying outside. The snake might hav been in the stand for up to a month, and in the store since Monday, when the pedestal was put on the shelf. He said workers had checked similar stands in the store and at a warehouse in Oklahoma City. Nothing else turned up. Neither the store nor police knew the name of the woman who bought the pedestal. Store manager Ron Bennett said she appeared calm and left with another plaster stand before animal control officers took the snake away. Today the rattler will be taken to the University of Kansas to determine its type. ------------------------------ End of INTERNUTS Digest V01 Issue #11 *************************************