http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1241850.html?menu=news.quirkies

Trip of a lifetime, they told him.

Chris "He'd give his left foot to return." Hansen
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From:	Tony P.
Subject:	Re: Today's Medical URL
Date:	Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:27:36 -0500

In article ,
chrishansenhome@notrash.btinternet.com.invalid says...
> http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1241850.html?menu=news.quirkies
>
> Trip of a lifetime, they told him.
>
> Chris "He'd give his left foot to return." Hansen
>

Now that's what I'd call efficient. That they actually went into his
wallet, took the money and then replaced it with a receipt consigns this
to urban legend.

From:	Christian Hansen
Subject:	Re: Today's Medical URL
Date:	Thu, 20 Jan 2005 06:46:52 +0000 (UTC)

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:27:36 -0500, Tony P.
wrote:

>In article ,
>chrishansenhome@notrash.btinternet.com.invalid says...
>> http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1241850.html?menu=news.quirkies
>>
>> Trip of a lifetime, they told him.
>>
>> Chris "He'd give his left foot to return." Hansen
>>
>Now that's what I'd call efficient. That they actually went into his
>wallet, took the money and then replaced it with a receipt consigns this
>to urban legend.

There are quite a few cites in Google, but I don't have time to look at them
all now--most are probably reposts of the news story but I'm hoping for
perhaps some cite that is actually about him other than this story (some
reference to his professorship, for example). Will do more research this
evening.

I realise it's a lovely story that may be an urban legend, but...

Chris "...some things that sound like urban legends may actually be true."
Hansen
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From:	Robert Cumming
Subject:	Re: Today's Medical URL
Date:	20 Jan 2005 20:57:03 +0100

In article ,
Christian Hansen wrote:
[]
> Chris "...some things that sound like urban legends may actually be true."
> Hansen

That little blonde girl who was found in Thailand has been identified
and returned to Germany, anyway.

Robert

From:	Christian Hansen
Subject:	Re: Today's Medical URL
Date:	Thu, 20 Jan 2005 21:00:27 +0000 (UTC)

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 06:46:52 +0000 (UTC), Christian Hansen
wrote:

>On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:27:36 -0500, Tony P.
> wrote:
>
>>In article ,
>>chrishansenhome@notrash.btinternet.com.invalid says...
>>> http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1241850.html?menu=news.quirkies
>>>
>>> Trip of a lifetime, they told him.
>>>
>>> Chris "He'd give his left foot to return." Hansen
>>>
>>Now that's what I'd call efficient. That they actually went into his
>>wallet, took the money and then replaced it with a receipt consigns this
>>to urban legend.
>
>There are quite a few cites in Google, but I don't have time to look at them
>all now--most are probably reposts of the news story but I'm hoping for
>perhaps some cite that is actually about him other than this story (some
>reference to his professorship, for example). Will do more research this
>evening.
>
>I realise it's a lovely story that may be an urban legend, but...
>
>Chris "...some things that sound like urban legends may actually be true."
>Hansen

Does seem to be an academic by that name in Germany.

Jurisch Ronald, Kampmann George and left Janette: Over the analysis of
observations in the balance calculation - exterior and internal restrictions

is one of his publications, at

http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/gi/research/schriftenreihe/quo_vadis/pdf/jurisch.pdf

Seems to be something to do with geography. There are a couple more cites of
various publications.

Another cite:

Teilredundanzen und ihre natürlichen Verallgemeinerungen
von Ronald Jurisch und Georg Kampmann

Zusammenfassung
Unser Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit einer konzeptionellen Einbettung der
bekannten Teilredundanzen der linearen Ausgleichungsrechnung in das Werkzeug
der Plücker-Koordinaten. Verblüffende Wechselwirkungen sowohl im Hinblick auf
die statistische Testtheorie wie auch im Hinblick auf die Interpretation
geometrischer Besonderheiten von Beobachtungs-(Design-) Konstellationen werden
damit sichtbar.

Summary
Introducing Pluecker-Coordinates for the analysis of partial redundancies
within linear regression adjustment reveals amazing relationships between
statistical parameters and geometrical features of observations geometry.

There is even an email address in another cite, so I suppose if I were rabidly
interested, I might email the good doktor and ask him. However, I'm certain
that I would not be the first and if the story is true, it would only be
adding insult to injury.

Chris "Besides, most urban legends do not have real names attached to them; I
could still be convinced it's one, though." Hansen
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From:	Chris Ambidge
Subject:	Re: Today's Medical URL
Date:	Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:39:50 GMT

[chris at the heffalump pointed us to]
>http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1241850.html?menu=news.quirkies
>
>Trip of a lifetime, they told him.
>
>Chris "He'd give his left foot to return." Hansen

for some reason, I'm reminded of a Far Side cartoon -- there
is an elephant, standing on its hind legs in a telephone booth,
talking on the phone. It's on crutches too, because one of the
hind legs is amputated about the knee, with bandages around the
stump. The elephant is saying into the phone, in anger and
incredulity, "You're kidding - a WASTEbasket?!"

ailuropoda melanoleuca torontonensis
rather squicked by the ananova story, actually

From:	Tony P.
Subject:	Re: Today's Medical URL
Date:	Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:28:36 -0500

In article , ambidge@ecf.toronto.edu says...
> [chris at the heffalump pointed us to]
> >http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1241850.html?menu=news.quirkies
> >
> >Trip of a lifetime, they told him.
> >
> >Chris "He'd give his left foot to return." Hansen
>
> for some reason, I'm reminded of a Far Side cartoon -- there
> is an elephant, standing on its hind legs in a telephone booth,
> talking on the phone. It's on crutches too, because one of the
> hind legs is amputated about the knee, with bandages around the
> stump. The elephant is saying into the phone, in anger and
> incredulity, "You're kidding - a WASTEbasket?!"
>
> ailuropoda melanoleuca torontonensis
> rather squicked by the ananova story, actually
>

Ah yes, I recall that one. Gary Larson had one hellishly twisted sense
of humor. Loved his cartoons.

BTW, The Pre-History of the Far Side is a must have.

From:	Mike McKinley
Subject:	Re: Today's Medical URL
Date:	Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:45:59 -0600

Christian Hansen wrote:
> http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1241850.html?menu=news.quirkies
> Trip of a lifetime, they told him.
> Chris "He'd give his left foot to return." Hansen

This is odd. When I was in Costa Rica once, I, as a not so anonymous
member of AA, went to a gringo AA meeting. There was a young kid there,
about 21, who had been in a drunken car wreck and nearly lost his arm.
He was there on a month-long Spanish immersion program. He swore up and
down about the competence of the doctors and about how they had managed
to save his arm. Naturally, his sudden conversion to AA was due to his
drunken misbehavior, a very typical, though seldom adequate motivation
for any long-term recovery.
This tale sounds, to me, like the waking up in a bathtub of ice minus a
kidney in Brazil after being drugged by a hot seductress urban legend
type of story.

From:	Dennis Lewis
Subject:	Re: Today's Medical URL
Date:	Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:39:38 GMT

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:45:59 -0600, Mike McKinley wrote:
>
> This tale sounds, to me, like the waking up in a bathtub of ice minus a
>kidney in Brazil after being drugged by a hot seductress urban legend
>type of story.

Well, Ananova is only able to cite Mr. Murdoch's British tabloid The
Sun for a report on "the hornometer," which allegedly was developed at
a hospital in Israel.

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1250953.html

From:	Robert S. Coren
Subject:	Re: Today's Medical URL
Date:	19 Jan 2005 18:18:33 -0500

In article ,
Mike McKinley wrote:
>Christian Hansen wrote:
>> http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1241850.html?menu=news.quirkies
>> Trip of a lifetime, they told him.
>> Chris "He'd give his left foot to return." Hansen

> This tale sounds, to me, like the waking up in a bathtub of ice minus a
>kidney in Brazil after being drugged by a hot seductress urban legend
>type of story.

My thought exactly.
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