HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jhitch@crash.cts.com (Jeffrey Hitchin)
Subject: Re: Re-Entry.
Date: 23 Aug 92 05:20:59 GMT

	"Ah," Grant says, sighing, "the college people are coming back!
Expect greater volume to noise ratio here, folks!

	"Well, Bear, you missed the cream cheese brownies that Cameron
and I made, but I think I can whip up another batch real quick.  I'm
not sure where Didi-Sprite is right now, but I'm sure she'll be along
any minute now.

	"Spilled more diesel than Exxon, huh?  Did you know the Valdez
was stationed here in San Diego for quite some time.  It was such a
lovely sight on our horizon for months and months. :(

	"Well, to other college returnees, namely Kateri (the only other
one I can think of, is Hawke back yet?), welcome.  Oh, and Bear, the hot
tub is still up and running!"
From: lunisea@netcom.com (Stephanie Alford)
Subject: Attention Carole Parker
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 01:15:44 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Summary: Mail keeps bouncing
Distribution: ba
Keywords: GYRO costuming

Pardon me for the waste of bandwidth, but Carole Parker, mail to you
keeps bouncing and I have the information about GYRO costuming that 
you wanted.  Email me at lunisea@netcom.com.

SEA
From: lower-tony@CS.YALE.EDU (Tony Lower)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Happy B-day Faire
Date: 14 Aug 92 20:25:36 GMT
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158


  Manx looks around at the signs. "Exotic Gypsy Fortune Telling"?
He sighs.  "But what if we're NOT exotic gypsies, but we still wanna
know our futures?" :-)
From: daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom)
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 05:52:00 GMT
Subject: David Walker
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: alt.callahans

A moon of lucid ear-wax
haunts above the hills.
Low stones glimmer green in firm relax
on eon's lovely rills.

Oh David Walker are you there?

Writing pamphlets?  
Announcing your death,
the end of your political breath?

They put up money for your head, 
and the lovely Ayn is surely dead
just like you, 
but they,
the bastards, knew
her,
and the good ole boys
would (not) (un)do
her,
they loved this spunky little
camp follower. 

So sing:

   Rise on three toes.
   Fingers four.
   Sir, can I please have some more?
   Sickle sickle sickle
   cell.
   Oooooh well.

David, you're a sentence.
David, you're a thought.
Oh Davey boy to me you're naught
but fear, nothing but retention 
of intentions not my own.
My love for life has flown
de coop and is off on wing to snoop
you out.  David help me shout this:

   Booker T., that wretched shit,
   wasn't worth a thimble of your
   brave and noble spit.

So now again we'll sing (oh yeah, every BODY):

   Four stout nails, they did in
   the homeless son of man.
   And now we do that ritual
   every time we can.
   We need the lust.
   We need the rage.
   We need the blood to bathe the stage.
   Men and women and girls and boys.
   Every heart is stilled in sympathetic joy.
   Yes, once again it was not me.
   Oh come and see.
   Come and see.

   Alive alive.
   Again again.
   Let that fellow writhe in pain.
   My righteousness will live and thrive.
   And his blood will keep the world alive
   and going for a time and times and half a time.

And David, everything shines
here in this place.
Out of time, but stuck
right the fuck 
in the middle of space.
There seems to be a sheen of sweat
upon His holy face.
He seems to strain 
to fritter and squirm
as He tries in vain
to perceive, discern,
just how many bodies,
just how many bones,
how many metric tons of blood
are bearing up His throne.

David do not get me wrong.

The echo of the image is very very
strong.

I dare anyone to prove me wrong.



doug
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: JMPIERCE%USMCP6.bitnet@VM.TCS.Tulane.EDU (JIM PIERCE)
Subject: Welcome ! re: hello again, anyone for a toast
Organization: Yale CS Mail/News Gateway
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 16:07:49 GMT


  "Toast ? Oh okay, I would like some buttered toast please !" DJ.

{ buttered bread, toasted in the oven } aside to the audience by DJ.

  "Welcome Raven to Callahan's ! " Linda and Robbie.

 "What are you two doing over there in the corner ??" DJ.

 "Helping Spacey pick out fabric for her new uniform silly ! "Linda.

 "Oh, thats right. You told me about making her a uniform, "DJ.


 "Anyway, back to the subject at hand... Welcome Raven to The Place !"
DJ.

 "I think theres an echo in here !" the other DJ.

"Echo ?" Linda.

 "Yes, one of me is here in he Place and the other is at the Faire," DJ.

"Faire ? Where !? Weren't we invited ?!? "Linda and Robbie.

"Of course, its over there !" DJ.

"Where !" Linda.

"Down to there !" DJ.

"What ?!" Robbie.

"Hair ! Give me long beautiful hair, down to there if you dare !" DJ.

{ Oh no, he's slipped back into the 60s } Robbie.

{ Lake time ! } Linda.

<tosss>

"Wahoooooooo    ooooo    ooooooo " DJ.

"Spplaaash !" DJ.

<sputter> DJ.

"Well, anyway. Welcome Raven !" Linda, DJ, and Robbie.


 "Good grief, now where is a dry towel... " DJ.


* <JMPIERCE@USMCP6.BITNET> Jim "NickD." Pierce; Bach. Sci. in Appl. Cmp Sci
* USM Academic Computing on the Gulf Park Campus. Disclaimer: Standard.
* "I'ts still Rock 'N' Roll to me !" Billy Joel.
From: krisj@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Kristina Johansson)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: hello
Summary: i'm new here
Date: 13 Aug 92 07:59:42 GMT
Organization: Customised Software Solutions Centres, AOTC


   Howdy, a voice nervously comes out of the corner.  I have been lurking,
   perhaps spying's a better word? :), in this corner and thought i should
   see what happens when i make myself known.  I really don't know that
   much about computers so if i flub up, please be tolerant.
   The facts about me are that outside of Callahans I'm called Kristina
   Johansson - i have the blue eyes, but not the blond hair to go with the
   name- a B.A. in Anthropology - and am a Canadian who has been
   transplanted in Australia - and will be working with access for three
   months  enough about me.
   Are there rules here, and how does one manage to materialise in a body?
   Thank you for listening.
   Would it be possible to have a lemonade - the real kind made from
   lemons? - which leads to the question - can etheral beings drink?

   krisj@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au
   here goes nothing...
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey)
Subject: Re: A True Story
Reply-To: aaron@space.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 16:42:04 GMT

lgold@callahans.Cadence.COM (Lynn Gold) writes:
: 
: >Alfvaen says, "Well, today is a special occasion...only a week after the last
: >one, true--and no, Didi, it's not a birthday.  Well, for 1/365.2422 of the
: >population it is...(haven't I said this once already?)...but for me, it's
: >something a bit different.
: 
: >"It's an anniversary.  In fact, it's the anniversary of my marriage--the first
: >one, hopefully of many.
: 
: Many marriages?  What would Nicole say? :-)

Alfvaen bangs his head several times against a nearby tree(where did the tree
come from?)and then says, "Thank you, Lynn.  I always love to find out when my
statements can be misinterpreted so badly.  I do that to my wife all the time.
I meant, of course, the first of many ANNIVERSARIES.  So don't anybody else say
it, on pain of severe penalty..."

: Seriously, CONGRATULATIONS!
: 
: Yesterday was my one-year anniversary of meeting my boyfriend.  I also
: found out yesterday that my brother's girlfriend is pregnant and that
: they'll be getting married Real Soon Now.

"I always thought that pregnancy was a silly reason to get married.  Unless you
were going to get married anyway, and decided that now that you were pregnant,
that would be a good time for it...  But to get married involuntarily due to
pregnancy is an archaic custom that will hopefully go out with arranged
marriages(whenever >those< go out)..."

: Just as I was looking forward to several years with no trips back east....

"Are you kidding?  What's a year without a wedding?  They're great fun!  I'm
glad Nicole has such a large family...there's bound to be one somewhere every
summer...mostly we don't have to travel far, I admit."

--
---Alfvaen(a.k.a. Aaron V. Humphrey, Page of Newts)
Canadian Network For Space Research, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
"There's too many clues in this room."  Gordon Lightfoot
Current Album--Bill Cosby:For Adults Only
Current Read--Henry David Thoreau:Walden and Other Writings
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: embeach@pdaxs.techbook.com (Electronic Dreams)
Subject: In the safety of the Lurker's Lair 
Organization: Portland Public Access sponsored by TECHbooks Bookstore
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 01:59:32 GMT

>>At this point, E. makes a fast dash to safety to the Lurkers 
>>Lair (up in the rafters) to avoid a hail of peanuts... 
 
>Sorry, peanuts ain't big enough for this!!  [Rip reaches into his 
>BagO'Tricks(tm) and pulls out a ChocoBazooka.  Taking careful aim at 
>ED, he lets loose an HE(high explosive)FudgeRippleRound covering 
>ED and everyone in the vicinity in a gooey, yet tasty, mixture of 
>fudge and caramel...] 
 
ALMOST!!!  Maniac laughter explodes from the Lurker's Lair.  Elana 
bends down from the rafters, grinning at Rip and completely untouched.
A bit of chocolate drips from the underside of a rafter.  With flair,
she reaches down with one finger to grab a taste, and tries it. 
 
"Hmmmm, not bad.  Hey, Rip!  You mind loading that thing with a mint
chocolate brownie next time?  And maybe some pizza?  Oh, yeah, and 
a glass of Hefeweizen... no make that a PINT!  Yeah, that's the ticket!"
Make them all separate, I don't like mixing my brownies in with my beer."
 
Elana grins a joking, non-serious grin at Rip.  She's having fun.
 
"Gee.  You don't think I am asking for too much, do you?"

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: mbr2@quads.uchicago.edu (Curious Of All Natures)
Subject: Quote Happens...
Reply-To: mbr2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Universtiy of Chicago
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 04:34:47 GMT

During one pass of your gaze's perpetual search across the bar for
interesting discussion, it happens to alight upon a scrap of paper
abandoned on the flat surface nearest you.  The body language of
no-one nearby claims ownership of it; it appears to have been there
longer than you have.  Reaching over with mild interest, you unfold it
and read a vastly intriguing exerpt from _Creatures of Light and
Darkness_, by Roger Zelazny.  It's uninspiring, not like a rock is
uninspiring, but like a rock is unbuoyant.


Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what
I say, I ask, if it matters, that you be forgiven for anything you may
have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness. Conversely, if
not forgiveness but something else may be required to insure any
possible benefit for which you may be eligible after the destruction
of your body, I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or
withheld, as the case may be, in such a manner as to insure your
receiving said benefit. I ask this in my capacity as your elected
intermediary between yourself and that which may not be yourself, but
which may have an interest in the matter of your receiving as much as
it is possible for you to receive of this thing, and which may in some
way be influenced by this ceremony.  Amen.  
                                                               -Madrak


If you were now to glance over at Curious Of All Natures, you would
find him staring off into space across an empty dish of ginger beer.
He's swishing his tail, trying to figure out how the universe will
arrange itself so as to introduce him...

-Matt Ryan, more mellow than melons,
mb-ryan@uchicago.edu                Curious Of All Natures
==================================  ====================================
If I'm dreaming, never let me wake. You'll never see the end of the road
If I'm awake, never let me sleep.   When you're traveling with me.
               -old chinese fellow                        -Crowded House
==================================  ====================================

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz)
Subject: Re: Cities and Metro Areas
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 07:27:00 GMT

>Snark pops his head in the door and notices a slight dearth of
>patrons, and an even greater dearth of conversation.  Must be August.
>
>"Wow, it's been slow around here!

Can't argue with that!

>Detroit Metro became, mostly by default, what Los
>Angeles is by design-- a suburban wasteland city-- with the some of
>the same sorts of problems.  For example, a car is a requirement
>because of insufficient (and, by the nature of the city layout,
>inefficient) public transportation.

>Got that?  Anyone else have anything to say about the structure of the
>cities and metro areas in which they live?

Well, you mentioned Los Angelas ...  As far as I can tell, Pasadena has the
same sort of relations with L.A. that Anne Arbor has with Detroit.  We're
associated with the larger city, but no-one seems to go there (voluntarily).

It's nice to be able to do without a car; I managed to find an apartment in
walking distance of Caltech, so I won't be getting a car (whew!).  Maybe I
can accomplish a goal of mine: not needing to drive for so long that I forget
how.  =8)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Subject: RE: Who are these people?
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 15:54:36 GMT

In article <92230.101605U3E67@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>, U3E67@wvnvm.wvnet.edu (Cathy Ridings) writes:
>I sometimes go by Kaitlin in Callahans, only because I love that name, I really
>haven't described Kaitlin any further.....  She would have no special powers
>except an extra large heart, which she wants to save the world with -- no more
>hungary or homeless people.  She would be dressed in long flowing all black
 -------
>clothes - very elegant.  And she would waiting for her prince to take her away
>to Jamaica ( Don't ya know mon?)

Kaitlin!  For shame!  Genocide????????
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: hollombe@polymath.tti.com (The Polymath)
Subject: Re: set pun
Organization: The Cat Factory
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 23:29:43 GMT

In article <DasBPB1w165w@pdaxs.techbook.com> embeach@pdaxs.techbook.com (Electronic Dreams) writes:

}"I and he were sitting amongst our usual circle of friends, discussing a 
}beachside electronic music fest that we are planning for the end of this 
}month.  There was some concern amoung the musicians about the salty air 
}and how it could possibly corrode their equipment in a short amount of 
}time.  Someone suggested encasing the synthesizers in plastic to protect 
}them.  My friend Zim piped up at that moment and said "In that case, you 
}would be practicing safe sets!"
}
}"I hereby welcome any suggestions for revenge, please!"

"I've no suggestions for revenge, but I can reassure your musicians.  I
lived a block from the beach for 8 years in a building full of
professional musicians.  Their collection included a Steinway grand, many
synthesizers, assorted guitars, viols, brass and drums.  I didn't notice
any of the instruments wearing condoms (certainly not the Steinway) and
all survived/are surviving just fine.  My assorted guitars, banjo, flutes
and reed organ also came through unscathed."

The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, M.A., CDP, aka: hollombe@polymath.tti.com)
Head Robot Wrangler at Citicorp                   Turn the rascals out!
3100 Ocean Park Blvd.   (310) 450-9111, x2483     No incumbents in '92!
Santa Monica, CA  90405
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: lower-tony@CS.YALE.EDU (Tony Lower)
Subject: Re: WANTED Asbestos
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 17:56:48 GMT

  Manx steps up to the line, AGAIN.  He takes a glass of ginger ale
from Mike and drains it.  "To the network of support", he says softly,
and 86's the glass.

  "First, I want to thank everyone who sent me supporting-type messages
after my last asbestos post.  I AM feeling better, but there's a story
behind that.  I got everyone's posts, and they made me feel good, but
also guilty... I felt as if I was imposing by asking for support.
However, I just got an EMail from the OTHER guy who was being nice and
polite on that other newsgroup... thanking me for my support of him.
I guess it comes down to this:  when someone needs support, they should
go look for it, and when they can provide it, they can.  Since most
people can provide much more support than they consume, we would all
be just fine... if we could convince the rest of the world."
From: hollombe@polymath.tti.com (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Invisible Callahans
Date: 17 Aug 92 22:04:27 GMT
Organization: The Cat Factory

In article <1992Aug14.061459.9155@ucc.su.OZ.AU> mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar) writes:
}[Polymath:]
}>}>a. neck cramp, equip
}>crick kit: cricket.
}>
}>You're fighting a foreign dialect here.  "To kit out" is not part of
}>American usage.
}
}Danger Mouse points out, "But you knew what I meant, and you're in the
}USA. :-)  But seriously..." he wipes the grin off his face.

"Ah, but I'm Australian by marriage.  (-:  My sister married an
Aussie she met in Jerusalem.  It's a long story ..."

The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, M.A., CDP, aka: hollombe@polymath.tti.com)
Head Robot Wrangler at Citicorp                   Turn the rascals out!
3100 Ocean Park Blvd.   (310) 450-9111, x2483     No incumbents in '92!
Santa Monica, CA  90405
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz)
Subject: Re: Candlesticks (was Re: who are these folks?)
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Distribution: alt
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 06:09:04 GMT

>   Manx looks around.  "Ouch..."  He picks up a bowl of peanuts, eats all
>the peanuts, and throws the bowl at Castellan.  Meanwhile, Aloysious is
>at work on a very special project.  She is carefully weaving a strait-
>jacket for Castellan, but to make it personal, she is using her own
>bodily fur to do it.  As her shuttle flies back and forth with uncanny
>precision (especially since she has no thumbs and a brain the size of
>a small orange), Manx is forced to remark, "A fireplace is the perfect
>place for Aloysious to put her Hair-looms..."

Gee, if her shuttle didn't fly back and forth with uncanny precision, she
wouldn't be able to land at an airport, now would she?  Isn't that plane
to see?

As to that remark about her air-looms, if you say anything along those lines
again, I will be forced to come up an'tique your nose, so there!  (I'm afraid
these jokes may be oldies; I hope this doesn't tarnish my reputation!)
From: wlrjbl@usho23.hou281.chevron.com (R.J.Blake)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: who are these folks?
Date: 14 Aug 92 15:20:41 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Chevron

dalton spence writes:
 >>
 >> If some of you could PLEASE post a brief message under this thread
 >> introducing yourselves, I (and I'm sure other newcomers too) would
 >> be VERY grateful.

 Very well ... for as long as it lasts ( i.e. until Aug. 31 ) here you
are my friend:

   I am Rob Blake, 5'6.5" tall, 135 lbs. and trying to put it back
   on again, dark blonde hair, greyish blue eyes, glasses, mustache
   but no beard. For the last 15 years I have worked for Chevron as
   an application programmer specializing in data modeling as well
   as logical and physical database design. The last day of this
   month is the last day at Chevron due to 'downsizing' and so this
   account and I shall be fading into obscurity and become just one
   more nightmare to be (hopefully) wondered about. I am in the pro-
   cess of finding another job ... anywhere.

   Persona - Galdrin ap Morgan, Mageking, Master of Northspire, and
   recently (8 mos. ago) released from his self imposed exile upon
   discovering the warm and loving individuals inhabiting Callahans.
   These individual include, but are not limited to, Nick Chopper,
   Kitten, SEA, Shonias, DM, Rowan, Dreamy Jim, Kateri, Sue, La, and
   first and foremost, The Infamous Didi-Sprite. All are very special
   people with much love and support to offer anyone in time of trial
   and need. I care for them all deeply as do all who know them. Pay
   particularly close attention to the advice of The -Sprite, SEA,
   Nick C., Shonias, and Kitten. There is a world of compassion and
   understanding shared among these five individuals and you would do
   well to listen to their wisdom with an open heart.

   Galdrin is constantly accompanied by Merkarl (a snow white eagle),
   Deathangel (a jet black horse with silver mane and tail) and a one
   men-at-arms who comprise the Grey Company. Merekarl and the Company
   keep an eye out for me when things get rough, and for music, Maeglin
   (a bowed psaltry) is always nearby. As a side note, Maeglin is what
   she is in RL as well. Somewhere beyond the meadow and beyond Merekarl's
   ability to locate, Galdrin is sitting by a crystalline pool, composing
   himself for his departure as he knows the horned-man has arrived to take
   him away ...

 Lord Galdrin ap Morgan

      --`-<-,<@

  Master of Northspire
-- 
Don't tell me it's not worth trying for. You can't tell me it's not worth dying
for. You know it's true, everything I do, I do it for you. Don't tell me it's
not worth fighting for. I can't help it, there's nothing I want more. I would
fight for you, I'd lie for you, walk the wire for you. Yes, I'd die for you.
From: nev@Turing.ORG (Niles E. VanDenburg)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: who are these folks?
Date: 12 Aug 92 17:42:37 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.

"dalton spence" <dalton.spence@canrem.com> writes:

>If some of you could PLEASE
>post a brief message under this thread introducing yourselves, I
>(and I'm sure other newcomers too) would be VERY grateful.  

Well here's my shot at this:  Both here and in RL I'm Niles with no
special abilities - just a mild knack for real time programming.
Physically I'm located in Central Virginia USA about 2 hours drive
south of Washington DC south on US Rt. 29.  Age places me in the
old-coot range and I'm coming up on my 20th year with the same company
for what little that is worth.  In general looks catigory I'm about as
bald as one can get naturally with green/brown eyes (brown in inner
ring), height/weight 1.88/120, eyes approx. 20/350, presently clean
shaven but in former years prone to having a long red handlebar
mustache.  My current interests are in the area of field botany and
raising a couple of kids (boy age 4 and girl almost 8) with a wife
who seems to be drifting farther and farther away from me.  Depression
is a long standing problem of mine and is one of the reasons that I
joined the a.c froup - Callahan's helps me feel good about other
people.  

Niles


-- 
Niles VanDenburg
nev@turing.org
niles_v@cho000.cho.ge.com
niles_v@cho000.dnet.ge.com