HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: turner@reed.edu (a 29 hand)
Subject: Re: Liralin's Present...
Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 23:01:26 GMT

In article <1992Oct9.185627.28216@data-io.com> li@Data-IO.COM (Liralen Li) writes:
>In article <1992Oct7.025220.29179@tamsun.tamu.edu> rlm7337@tamsun.tamu.edu (Incarnadine) writes:
>>[Inky produces a small grey box, about a foot on each side.  It is tied
>>with a fat grey ribbon.  Inside, Liralen finds a beautiful crystal fish bowl,
>>which has an engraving around the rim, only visible when held to the light.
>>If one attempts to chime the bowl, it responds with a haunting resonasence     
>>which is very pleasing to the ear]

Caithelin oos and ahs over the fish bowl.  It's very very nice.  

>She holds it up to the light to take a better look at the engraving, and
>then tings is lightly and smiles.  "Thank you, Inky." she says.  And fills
>the bowl with water for any of the more water oriented denizens of the
>Place to do with as they like...

She listens thoughtlfully to Liralen, then gets a skeptical mischevious
gleam in her eyes.  "But Liralen...I don't think Fezzik will fit in it....
I mean he's definitely one of the more water oriented denizens of the
place. But still... And I think it's way too nice of a bowl to be used for
dogs to drink out of..."  *giggle*

She reaches into one pocket..."hmmm nope that's not what I'm looking for."
And then into another one that kind of sloshes..."Ah, there we go..."  She
pulls out a brightly colored red blue green fish and drops him into the
bowl.  Those who know something about aquarium fish will recognize him as a
Beta (sp?) and those who don't know about aquarium fish, might recognize him
from fairs and carnivals where he's a frequent prize, often in colored
water.  They're also called Siamese Fighting Fish.  And they prefer solitary
smaller enclosures.  Caithelin grins and giggles for a minute.  "One of my
schemes that I still haven't gotten around to doing....several Christmases
ago I was given a gum ball machine on a metal stand.  For the past 6 months
or so I've been thinking about sealing up the bowl of it so it was
watertight and getting a beta to put in it....  I think the cats would be
entertained, but I'd be worried about them knocking it over.  And besides I
have enough of a menagerie!  *grin*"

	Caithelin
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: visiting LA at the end of February (was Re: In honor of...)
Date: 13 Oct 1992 12:57:02 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <1992Oct13.012944.22834@midway.uchicago.edu>, esti@quads.uchicago.edu (Paul A. Estin) writes:
=Snark fades into view, wearing mirrored shades...
=
="Hmmm... seems to me I know too many people in California, some of
=them from this newsgroup, *not* to go visiting them!  There seems to
=be a Bay contingent and an LA contingent.  I've been puzzling over
=what to do for spring break (a misnomer... it comes February 20-28
=here), and decided that I'll most likely check out the warmest of the
=Left Coast climes at that time.

StM looks (what else?) confused.  "You mean you're going to visit Grant down in
San Diego?" he asks.  He turns serious for a moment and cautions, "Los Angeles
in late February can get pretty chilly (well, not compared to Chicago [or is it
Michigan?  Your sig and your return address don't match], of course).   Be
prepared for temperatures in the 40s, or, better still, ask about the weather
just before setting out."
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: eep, a birthday
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 00:13:59 GMT

In article <9210071942.AA00394@sparc2.Prime.COM> mdm@SPARC2.PRIME.COM (Michael D. McAfee) writes:
>		Enjoy.
>
>	Michael, the Chaotic
>	disclaimer:  blame my employers for my posts?  how gauche

                                                   ???  ---^^^^^ 
       "Uhm, Michael, does this mean your employers are left handed ???
      I'm left handed and sort of wondered..." Dreamy Jim. :-) :-)

-- 
 Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science
 jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
  "Is it the weekend yet ?" me :-)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar)
Subject: Re: Oriental or Asian... (was Re: Words)
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 00:54:16 GMT

> [Bill's excellent words:]
>Y'know, maybe it's just me... but if everyone read with a little less
>aptitude toward taking things in the worst possible way, and maybe a
>little more toward offering the benefit of the doubt to any and every
>person who might write something on the Net, maybe we wouldn't have to
>worry about glossaries and explanations and defenses of how words are
>used and the like.

Danger Mouse agrees. "Exactly. If I see 'Oriental' as opposed to 'Asian'
anywhere, I'm willing to allow the benefit of the doubt. Especially in
an international forum such as this, where connotations are bound to vary
across cultures.

"An amusing case in point: when Alfvaen asked for a common Australian
expression meaning 'tired' or 'bushed', I sent him mail telling him what
the most common Australian colloquialism for that is. He replied that
Nicole could never use that in a novel, because of its vulgar connotations,
yet everyone here uses it without a second thought.

"But that points out another aspect of this issue. That is, not everybody
out there is as willing to see both sides of the coin as we are. And when
dealing with the populace in general, it is probably better to hedge
yourself and play slightly on the safer side. Unfortunate, but true."

>I'm not trying to target
>anyone here with this post (except maybe DM...  and I'm pretty sure
>he'll take my mentioning his wonderful descriptions of the seasons
>"down under" as the well-earned compliment I intend it as ;)...  

DM smiles. "Indeed."

>	-Bill (Politician-In-Training.  Vote Yang in '2020!)

"You'd have my vote! Um... if I were eligible to vote in whatever election
you'll be contesting!"

- Danger Mouse.
From: BLL102@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Dragon's Inn
Date: 15 Oct 92 16:28:16 GMT
Organization: Penn State University

Could somebody please tell me if alt.dragon's-inn is still around?  My
system tells me there isn't anything with a name even remotely like this
anymore.  I originally found out about it from a guy that reads this
newsgroup, so I was hoping somebody would be familiar with it.  Thanks.

-Belinda LeFor
bll102@psuvm.psu.edu
Dept. of Anthropology
Penn State University
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: korz@cs.columbia.edu (Frederick Korz)
Subject: Re: One more re-incarnation...
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 16:23:47 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.202433.25148@nntp.uoregon.edu> JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jay Brandt (Jason)) writes:
>
[ munch! ]
>
>Jason & Thyra
>-----------------------------------------------
>A tag line passed on from our friend Phoenix:
>Radioactive Hallibut will make Fission
>Chips!

Hmm.  Perhaps a visual aspect there too - split across two lions?

	frood
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: fsjac3@ix.acf-lab.alaska.edu (Jennifer A Cabbage)
Subject: greetings
Organization: University of Alaska Computer Network
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 19:31:55 GMT

Patch returns the hugs gratefully.
"Greetings and salutations and halucinations to you all !"
Wandering over to an unoccupied section of the wall, she reaches into her  
synergistic backpack and begins pulling out bean-bag chairs. NOT the  
vinyl-covered kind, either.  :)
From: jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Invisible Callahans
Summary: where did everyone go?
Date: 7 Oct 92 21:03:02 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc., San Jose, CA

It's October 1st, not a very notable date, the beginning of a
month that ends with Halloween.  Jilara has been noticing a
time-lag in what seems to be happening in The Place and
herself, and every now and then, it seems like something gets
lost, someone replies to something she never heard, things
like that.  She's come to accept it as part of the reality
where The Place exists.

Suddenly, everything seems to freeze.  She frowns worriedly at
such things as Nick Chopper, frozen in his tracks more
certainly than if he had suddenly rusted solid.  Then, with a
sudden lurch, folks start blinking out.  One by one, they just
wink out of existance.  Callahans lingers longest, then
suddenly disappears as well, leaving behind a space of
blankness before her eyes.  

It can only mean one thing, she realizes with a primal scream
of frustration welling up inside her.  The news feed has gone
down once again!  Aaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrggggghhhhhh!  echos
hollowly in the bustling of Callahans, then is gone...
--
  Jilara   [jane@swdc.stratus.com]

"Don't be so open-minded your brains fall out."  --Einstein,
by way of Barry Shein on the net
From: clhoerth@david.wheaton.EDU (Cathe L Hoerth)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: this is all so subjective
Date: 8 Oct 92 21:34:23 GMT


	The other night I had a little party at my apartment, and during
the course of the evening we did a little dramatic reading (okay, okay,
we read "Piglet Does a Grand Thing" from The House at Pooh Corner, with
everybody taking parts.  I was Pooh.  Have I digressed enough?).  While
I was attempting to deliver my lines with the force and insight which
they required, one of my friends (Eeyore) picked up the inner leather of
one of his shoes, which had fallen out, and used a convenient pair of
scissors to cut out a little heart, which he then put on my shoulder.
At first I merely thought it was a warning not to wear my heart on my
sleeve, as I sometimes do.  The next day, however, I suddenly realized
(and was deeply touched) that not only had the dear man given me his
heart, but a piece of his sole as well.
	On the topic of colorful language, the other day I came up with
"Asking me for advice about a relationship is like asking a vegetarian
how to fix a steak."  No offense to the vegetarians in the Place, of
course.

					Ocelot
...we think that give us the right to talk real slow, like everythin' we
say mean somethin' special, like if we talk slow enough, poetry fall
from us, like our nose runnin' poetry....
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus)
Subject: Re: Light In The Tunnel
Organization: Data I/O Corporation
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 19:40:19 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.162558.19916@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> aaron@space.ualberta.ca writes:
>"More info as I get it.  In the meantime--"  Mike hands him a Wildberry Vodka
>Cooler.  "To a possible end to the job search!  And to getting my hopes up!"
>
><<Crash!>>

<<crash!!>> and Liralen tosses a glass after his, remembering what it was
like when she was unemployed for four months and got through her first set
of interviews....

"Congratulations."
---
Liralen Li
li@inigo.Data-IO.com
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: baillie@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Stephen Baillie)
Subject: Re: Speaker for the Dead
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 04:53:54 GMT

daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom) writes:

>In alt.callahans, jpalmer@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (John D Palmer) writes:

>>   But while there is a time for counseling, for looking for long term help, 
>> there is also the short, painfully lonely feeling that sometimes strikes, the 
>> feeling that no one knows, no one cares, and no one WOULD care if they DID 
>> know.  That is, there are times when you need a friend.  That is one of the 
>> times that knowing someone here can mean something.

>Yes, I do not disagree, but a local friend would be even better, and
>there ARE sublte dangers to virtual communication that can lay traps
>for the emotionally vulnerable and people who are unskilled in interaction.

>When I was having tough times, there were people here who helped me
>a fair amount, but it was always a very touchy thing, with hints
>of co-dependence and such.  I think people who do not have their
>act together should glance at the seeming romance of this forum with
>suspicion.

>> 
>>   I don't  think I am disagreeing with you, really, but I did kinda want to 
>> soften the idea you were spreading; yeah, friendship is not a substitute for 
>> someone who KNOWS what to do, but friendship isn't nothing, either, you know?

>I did not say that it was.

>But I DO say that the environment of callahans is just as capable
>of increasing a nascent tendency to suicide as it is of decreasing it.
>Callahans offers the seeming acceptance of friendship without the   <--
>corresponding physical presence and the affirmation it gives.  I think \
>can be a big problem and can lead to certain kinds of obsessive         |
>behaviors that may exacerbate emotional problems.                       |
                                                                         |
>If you are simply sad or depressed, by all means, come here.            |
>But if you have more serious problems it MAY be just as well to         |
>avoid this environment like the plague.                                 |
                                                                        /
There is, as usual, much in what Doug says.  Especially this bit:-------

Callahans seemed to me like a place that offered friendship and
understanding, something I was looking rather hard for.  It took
me quite a while to discover that despite this impression, there
was definitely something lacking.

So I quietly wandered off.

-- The Polycarbon Hobbit.

-- 
"If we shadows have offended, Think but this and all is mended:
 That you have but slumbered here, While these visions did appear.
 And this weak and idle theme, no more yielding but a dream."
baillie@munta.cs.mu.oz.au (Stephen Baillie)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: baillie@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Stephen Baillie)
Subject: Re: Redheads
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 04:39:42 GMT

>>>  And what is wrong with redheads?!?
>>
>>Only the very distinct shortage of them.
>>
>>Don't send help, Just send women !
>>(uh, for non-casual romantic involvement of course...)
>>
>>Kane.

>	Rachel chuckles. "It's amazing how many redhead aficionados I met
>_after_ I became engaged (now married)," she says. "I'll give you a hug
>anyway- that way you can look at my red hair up close." Her hair gleams
>red-orange-gold in the firelight.

Hmm...  Redhead == women??  Does this mean I'm not a redhead any more?

One hobbit looks puzzled and somewhat worried.

The Polycarbon Hobbit.

>+--------------------------+----------------------------------------------+ 
>|   "To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, |
>| thou canst not then be false to any man..."  --William Shakespeare      |
>+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Who?

-- 
"If we shadows have offended, Think but this and all is mended:
 That you have but slumbered here, While these visions did appear.
 And this weak and idle theme, no more yielding but a dream."
baillie@munta.cs.mu.oz.au (Stephen Baillie)
From: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (The Didi-Sprite)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: A test
Keywords: test,ignore
Date: 8 Oct 92 15:41:54 GMT
Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada
Originator: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca

In article <Bvs80B.GBq@news.cso.uiuc.edu> trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:

>kitten bounces up to wolf..."you made it...and we are certainly happy
>to see you...."and hugs the large and furry critter...

-
Through the French Doors blows the Didi-Sprite.

"Ooof ... it is a real Autumn Day out there!  Breezy!"  She does
her best to re-arrange her skirts and hair, then continues:  "It seems
that Kitten is up to her usual bouncy tricks!  There sure is a lot of
hugging going on in here!  Hey!  I want in on this!" 

So saying, the -Sprite skips over to Wolf, strokes his silky coat and gives
him the biggest hug she can muster; then, on she goes to Rider:  "Wow!
It's good to see you again!  Yippee!"  <<Hug!>>  Next, Wildcard gets
the -Spriteful treatment.

"Alright ... have I missed anyone?  If I have ... just get on over here
I have got a ...



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just for you!"

----<--<@

The Didi-Sprite
Montreal * Canada

braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
From: S.S.B.Glover@bradford.ac.uk (SSB GLOVER)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Redheads
Date: 13 Oct 92 17:57:02 GMT
Organization: University of Bradford, UK
Originator: 92909131@ccw309

In article <1beosuINN552@gap.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
>In article <1992Oct13.144120.24569@ra.msstate.edu>, jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce) writes:
>>   Now, Now, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Don't you know ? :-)
>
>Are they?

Are we playing yet?
Organization: Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Date: Wed,  7 Oct 1992 21:48:19 -0400 
From: "Steven M. Stadnicki" <ss7m+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: In honor of actually reading a few messages in this group again...    

I'm actually going to try and be vaguely active again, if I can manage.  The
problem with this group isn't the S/N ratio, or rather it is, but in the other
way; there's far too much content in here.  So, an appropriate Callahanian
thing to do: a backrub to anyone who can remember the first time I came in
here.  *smile*

On another note:  Are there still occasionally RL Callahanian gatherings?
Particularly, are there any on the left coast, LA area?  I'm out here, and it
looks like it may be on a permanent basis, and it'd be nice to meet a few
folks I already more-or-less know...

                                   Steven Stadnicki
                                   ss7m@andrew.cmu.edu
                                   "Wishes come true, not free"
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Intro
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 02:40:54 GMT



>Gracious, I guess I should introduce myself, shouldn't I?
>Current Name: T. Elizabeth Harvey
>Alter Ego: Elizabeth, Lizzy (any variation thereof), Mom (by a certain 
>           wizard on a certain muck).

[   ]

>Now that I've totally laid bare my heart and soul to you people, I think 
>I'm just going to slink away in shame & horror ... toodles ... *smile*

kitten hugs elizabeth and smiles...."i am so glad to see you...and i
really respect anybody who can CUSS in latin!!!!!"

she turns to the bar..."mike, give this lady the drink of her
choice...and i am buying."
--
***************************************************************************
conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten           /\ /\  barbara ann 
"my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?"      {=.=}
                                              ~   trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu 
"perhaps _any_ universe becomes real in proportion 
to the number of people who believe in it and spend time there." s. robinson

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Why 9! = 362,880
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 02:12:00 GMT



>Jason decides to explain the mathematical joke on Kitten's recent post. 

>"Kitten, when a mathemetician writes a number followed by an excalamation
>point, that is the notation for the -factorial- of that number. It is
>usually a function found on scientific calculators, where it is represented
>as x! on the keys. Don't feel bad about not getting the joke. It's been so
>long since I had any reason to use factorial notation, that I had to look
>it up in an encyclopedia to get the definition. I knew what it was called,
>but couldn't remember how it was derived. I used to just get it from my
>calculator when I needed it. The factorial of a number is defined as the
>product of all positive integers less than or equal to that number.
>Therefore, 9! is equal to 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 x 6 x 7 x 8 x 9, or 362,880. I
>understand it is used in solving polynomial equations and the like. Any
>math majors out there care to clarify the matter further?"

"thank you jason....can i throw a peanut at you too....just for good
measure?"
--
***************************************************************************
conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten           /\ /\  barbara ann 
"my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?"      {=.=}
                                              ~   trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu 
"perhaps _any_ universe becomes real in proportion 
to the number of people who believe in it and spend time there." s. robinson

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: rich@theophilus.msfc.nasa.gov (Rich Krum)
Subject: Re: Words
Reply-To: rich@theophilus.msfc.nasa.gov
Organization: Boeing Computer Support Services
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 21:22:19 GMT

Of course, the troll bounces up to insert more confusion.

My wife (Dragon Lady) has a more interesting problem.

If one attempts to determine where she is from by appearance:
     The Koreans think she's Korean
     The Japanese think she's Japanese
     Several groups of Vietnamese think she's Vietnamese
     Philipinas have claimed she's from the Phillipines
     And the Cambodians have also called her Cambodian
They ALL get upset when she doesn't understand what they are asking her.

The problem is that she looks, well, just Oriental, but not specifically
inside or outside the various group's definitions.  She is, as a point of
fact, Cantonese Chinese, born in Hong Kong as a British Subject, and is a
naturalized American citizen.  She gets talked to in the widest variety
of languages and dialects that you can imagine--She speaks only Cantonese 
and English (British and/or American).

There are times that I am remined of the "face shaped face" line from
the detective novels.

And of course, our sons are accused of looking like me--what a cheap shot!

--rich AKA the boss troll

PS. Did anyone figure out when TV was invented?  Hint: I'm a classic Baby Boomer.
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