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Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs,alt.answers,news.answers Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!enterpoop.mit.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!uunet!vtserf.cc.vt.edu!polaris.async.vt.edu!jfurr From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel Furr) Subject: alt.fan.lemurs: Frinkquently Asked Questions (Part 6 of 6, Real Lemur Facts) Message-ID: <C7yJt8.H3u@polaris.async.vt.edu> Followup-To: alt.fan.lemurs Summary: This posting contains a list of Frequently Asked Questions (and the best answers we got) about Lemurs. It should be read by anyone who wishes to post to the alt.fan.lemurs newsgroup. Sender: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel Furr) Organization: Lemurcave Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1993 19:36:43 GMT Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.edu Lines: 343 Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu alt.fan.lemurs:1669 alt.answers:369 news.answers:8970 Archive-name: lemur-faq/part6 Alt-fan-lemurs-archive-name: lemur-faq/part6 Last-modified: 1993/04/5 Version: 2.0 Official USENET Alt.Fan.Lemurs Frinkquently Asked Questions Part 6 of 6 -- Real Lemur Facts ------------------------------ The Questions (1) Who is Ali Lemer? (2) Who is Rick Frink? (3) Is "Frink" in any dictionary? (4) Who's really to blame for the lemur craze that's sweeping the planet? (5) Where can I find .GIFs of lemurs? (6) Are there any drinks inspired by lemurs? (7) Is Terry Chan in the alt.fan.lemurs FAQ? (8) What's significant about Tob Wood? (9) What _is_ Big K Grape Soda? (10) What was AFU/AFL Southeast? (11) Who are the alt.fan.lemurs Very Important People? ------------------------------ The Answers (1) Who is Ali Lemer? Take it from the horse's mouth: >From: phoenix@startide.ctr.columbia.edu (Ali Lemer) >Subject: Uh...you're not going to believe this, but... >Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research >Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1993 21:50:16 GMT > >Wow...I think I finally found my netnews niche. Perhaps I could be the >a.f.l.'s official mascot, for... > >...my last name is, LEMER (pronounced LEE-mer, as in our favourite >primate). > >Yes, believe it or not, folks. People always say to me, "Lemer? As in the >monkey?" and I always have to say, "Yeah. <sigh> But with an 'e'." > >In fact, a kid in 10th grade called me, "Ali the Ring-Tailed Lemer from >Madagascar" once... > >Well, there you have it, at any rate. > >-- Ali Lemer. --------------- (2) Who is Rick Frink? >Rick Frink (513) 865-1645 >Mead Data Central Telecomm/Campus Networks >P.O. Box 933 rfrink@meaddata.com >Dayton, Ohio 45401 ...!uunet!meaddata!rfrink No one's told him yet of the unfortunate similarity of his name to the sound commonly used by the average lemur for a wide variety of purposes, some of them even printable in a family newsgroup. ---------------- (3) Is "Frink" in any dictionary? Yes, sort of. As of release 2.9.12 of Eric S. Raymond's "Jargon File" (version 2.9.10 of which was printed in the United States under the title "The New Hacker's Encyclopedia"), "frink" is listed as a sort of "undefinable meta-verb," similar to the undefinable meta-noun, "gorets" (See alt.gorets for more informa- tion). Raymond apparently liked the phrase "Only the lemurs know the meaning for sure, and they aren't telling." The Jargon File is ftp'able from a few sites. Send mail to esr@thyrsus.com for more information. --------------- (4) Who's really to blame for the lemur craze that's sweeping the planet? To be honest, the blame falls on the shoulders of four Virginia Tech denizens: Ron Jarrell, jarrell@vtserf.cc.vt.edu; Todd Perry, todd@polaris.async.vt.edu; Joel Furr, jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu; and Vance Kochenderfer, vkochend@nyx.cs.du.edu These four people, and a few innocent bystanders, engaged in a conversation on vtcosy.cns.vt.edu that inspired Joel Furr to create first a lemurs "conference" and then go on to infect USENET with lemur chat. It's all Ron and Todd and Vance's fault, as you'll see from the excepts below: >Ed Chamberlayne (responding to someone's insult about Ed being >in everyone's crosshairs): Well...I'm in the crosshairs. Goody. >Lamer. Yes. Lamer. Probe a thesaurus?? Get real geekmeister. >I certainly don't need to consult reference books when compos- >ing a message. I guess you do, huh?? >Ron Jarrell (responding to Ed): I still think a Lamer is a type >of monkey. >Joel Furr (responding to Ron): No, that's a lemur. The differ- >ence is that Lemurs are not eligible for membership in Toastmas- >ters International, being incapable of human speech. >C. Carson (commenting to Joel): Not too mention the Mongo size >Eyes... >Joel Furr (blathering on): Lemurs are actually primates, as you >know. The clever little fellas inhabit the island of Madagascar >and some species are so shy that only one or two individuals of >each species have ever been seen. >Ron Jarrell (in an entirely different conversation): Well, as >of the nightly report last night we had processed 27,885 usenet >messages, up from a normal high of anywhere from 9-11,000.... >Joel Furr (reviving the thread): How many of them were about >lemurs? >Daniel Pawtowski (interjecting): Probably fewer than there were >about cows. >Ron Jarrell (responding to Joel): I haven't had the chance yet >to run the artificial intelligent lemur detection routines on >it.. Even the 5810's RISC chip can only do about 100 lemurs a >second, so I didn't want to bog it down with 27,000 lemurs. >Todd Perry (commenting to Ron): Where did you get that figure? >Be careful with the Lemur benchmark. Several manufacturers have >rigged their compilers to detect Lemur benchmark code and opti- >mize it to death, so you get a much higher lemurs/sec rating >than you would in real life... >Joel Furr (also commenting to Ron): Well, that would only take >270 seconds... four and a half minutes, and think of all the >lemurs you could detect in that time. >Vance Kochenderfer (coming in from out of the blue): Anyone >want to go out and do some lemur-tipping? >Ron Jarrell (ignoring Joel and Vance and commenting to Todd): Oh >really? I might have been getting psuedo-lemurs? I'll see if I >can find the real lemur count.. >Joel Furr (summing up): Inquiring lemurs want to know. And it raged on from there. --------------- (5) Where can I find .GIFs of Lemurs? The anonymous FTP site at wuarchive.wustl.edu has some. --------------- (6) Are there any drinks inspired by lemurs? Yes. Here are three. Try them at your own risk. From: Spike the Destroyer <STDNCHGA%LMUACAD.BITNET@VM.USC.EDU> Subject: Screaming Lemur Recipe >Take one standard sized $8.99 bottle of reasonably cheap gin. We >use Popov. Purchase a package of Hawaiian Punch drink mix. The >traditional flavor of choice is "Sharkleberry Punch", but a >reasonable alternative is Rock Island Red or some other silly >name. Just as long as the hue of the drink is resembles the >intesine of a lemur. (light to medium pink) Mix the two together, >and ice heavily. > >That's it! If you proportion it correctly, it should be very >sweet with only a slight hint of gin aftertaste. You may dillute >with sugar or water if you really need to. From: Joel Furr (jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu) Subject: Reeling Lemur Recipe >Ingredients: >3/4 glass of Big K Grape Soda >1/4 glass of "Aristocrat" vodka >Ice > >One or two of these will have the most well-balanced and upright >lemur staggering and reeling around the apartment. From: schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher) Subject: Recipe for "Sleepy Lemur" >1 oz. Kahlua >1 oz. creme de Cacao >1 oz. vodka >Balance skim milk and chipped ice > >Serve in a large truncated conical glass, or in a plastic rocket >ship with a straw. --------------- (7) Is Terry Chan in the alt.fan.lemurs FAQ? Yes. His address is twcaps@dante.lbl.gov. Send him all the fan mail you want. --------------- (8) What's significant about Tob Wood? Tob Wood, aka tob@cwis.unomaha.edu, was toasted with a special birthday toast at AFU/AFL Southeast, held at Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina, on March 27, 1993. Basically, Tob couldn't attend, since he's all the way out in Omaha, Nebraska, but since his birthday fell on the 27th, he asked that we take brief note of it in passing during the event. A group of people, some of whom had even posted to alt.fan.lemurs at some point in their lifetime, took time out from their discussions of zeppelins and alternate histories to have a toast of Big K Grape Soda to Tob. --------------- (9) What _is_ Big K Grape Soda? Big K Grape Soda is a brand of soda sold by Kroger supermarkets. Kroger is a fairly wide-spread chain with offices in Cincinnati, Ohio and stores located in many U.S. states. Kroger has, as most supermarkets do, an essentially generic house brand of most everything. In the case of soda, the house brand is called "Big K." It usually sells for about 49 or 59 cents per 2 liter jug and isn't all that bad. Lemurs like it because of that great generic taste. --------------- (10) What was AFU/AFL Southeast? AFU/AFL Southeast was a get-together held on March 27, 1993 in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, including people from alt.fan.lemurs and alt.folklore.urban. Since it was the first such event held in the southeastern USA, the turnout was not massive, but attendance is expected to rise in future years. Attending on behalf of alt.fan.lemurs were Joel Furr and Vance Kochenderfer; attending on behalf of alt.folklore.urban were Bruce Tindall, Jim Cambias, and Diane Kelly. Also attending was Dena Barbee (a member of the great non-USENET world population) and three goats, one cat, and infinite numbers of lemurs. The featured attraction was a tour of the Duke University Primate Center, located in Durham. In addition to the tour, the partici- pants had lunch at a dim sum restaurant, beer at a brewpub, and a relaxing evening of urban legend trading in Bruce Tindall's palatial mansion in Carpenter, North Carolina. --------------- (37) Who are the alt.fan.lemurs Very Important People? The following individuals are honored herein for their contribu- tions to alt.fan.lemurs. If we left anyone out, please let us know! Aaron Johnson afj9838@rigel.tamu.edu Aileen Cho ac@cheshire.oxy.edu Ali Lemer phoenix@startide.ctr.columbia.edu Allan Murphy etlanmy@aachen5.ericsson.se Ann Lindstrom ann@plx.com Ben Ostrowsky sylvar@maple.circa.ufl.edu Bill Marcum bmarcum@world.std.com Bill Sellers wis@liverpool.ac.uk Chops etlanar@yogi.ericsson.se Chris Thompson ak051@yfn.ysu.edu Dale Bass crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU Dale Jarvis/Jay Stock dgjarvis@trentu.ca/jstock@trentu.ca Daniel Pawtowski daniel@polaris.async.vt.edu Dave Budd zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk Dave Archer dmarcher@acsu.buffalo.edu Dave Sisson daves@vtucs.cc.vt.edu David Boulton boulton@netcom.com David Bianco bianco@cs.odu.edu Diana Senechal SENDIAA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu Elizabeth Abrams diamond@acpub.duke.edu Greg Bole bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu Greg Morrow morrow@fnal.fnal.gov Heather Akin hakin@willamette.edu Henry Gibbons hsgibbon@unix.amherst.edu Herb Huston huston@access.digex.com Holly Larson hl26+@andrew.cmu.edu Jack Campin jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk Jason Corley corleyj@gas.uug.arizona.edu Jennifer Bennett felicity@infopls.chi.il.us Jim Griffith griffith@scam.berkeley.edu Joel Baxter jbaxter@leland.stanford.edu Joel Furr jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu Jonathan Mark jonm@microsoft.com Josh Smith irilyth@fenris.claremont.edu Keith Morgan kamorgan@athena.mit.edu Kibo kibo@world.std.com Kim Ballard ballardk@mace.cc.purdue.edu Larry Huntley larryh@westwind.lmc.com Leslie Tyrell latyr@iastate.edu Michael Moncur mgm@world.std.com Mike Hoffman meh@math33.sma.usna.navy.mil Mike Kohlhaa mkohlhaa@silver.ucs.indiana.edu Nancy VonStein nvonstein@memstvx1.memst.edu Nigel Lemur nlemur@world.std.com Pat Barron Pat_Barron@transarc.com Paul Clegg cleggp@marcus.its.rpi.edu Rachel Perkins rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu Rachel Kadel rachel@phsbbs.princeton.nj.us Rev. John C521832@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu Richard Schumacher schumach@convex.com Robert O'Brien obrien@netcom.com Ron Jarrell jarrell@vtserf.cc.vt.edu Ryan Franklin franklir@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu S. Mudgett aka little gator scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us Sean Barrett sean@gomez.jpl.nasa.gov Siobhan Harper siobhan@microsoft.com Stephe Lewis Foskett lancer@wpi.wpi.edu Stephen Foskett lancer@wpi.WPI.EDU Sue Miller miller_su@swam1.enet.dec.com Susanna Richardson glink@silver.ucs.indiana.edu Terry Chan twcaps@lbl.gov Tob Wood tob@cwis.unomaha.edu Todd Perry todd@polaris.async.vt.edu Torsten Adair torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu Vance Kochenderfer vkochend@nyx.cs.du.edu ----------- Subscribe to alt.fan.lemurs today! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Revised April 5, 1993 by Joel Furr, jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu 
