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Date: Tue,  1 Sep 1992 09:58:23 -0400 
From: Mark Beirne Lively <ml5a+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Never Never Land pt1

     The west wall of the bar starts to bulge out, with a slight redish
glow.  It then collapases back in place.  The bulge again grows and pushes
out the wall with a brighter glow, and then subsides.  Every eye in the place
is fixed on the wall as it bulges and suddenly gives way in a shower of blue
light!  When the dust clears, a tiny winged creature comes soaring through the
hole.  It zooms though the place and crashes into a colmn next to the bar.
Everyone clusters around the panting little creature, whom Bear has picked
up in his hand.

     " Little sprite are you Okay? " Bear asks gently as he hands her a thimble
of water.

     " No!  and do I look like a Sprite?!?! I am not.  I am a pixie for crying
out loud.  Foolish mortals can't even tell the difference.  Look at my wings
and do sprites glow? "

     " Yes they do glow and so do bobs!  How else would you see them on a
CRT?"  Bear responds.

     The sprite proceeds to bop him on the nose, and indignately say " Yes,
but they don't glow as nicely as ME!"
    "Well, dear little sprite, I'm afraid that you're not up to your full
glowtential today!" Bear says softly, trying not to hurt her feelings.

     " What?! " she gasps " Oh, no, It's happening to quickly.  Never never
land is in trouble.  Its dying.  We need people who beleive in it to go there
and make it a happy place again."  The pixie uses her last strenths to stand
and make her plea.

     "Well, lets go then ." Cathy chimes in.

     The party is soon organized and everyone is given a dose of pixie dust.

     " Now if any of you need a happy thought, I may add that Pixie is buying
when we back!"  Bear shouts as he lifts off and flys through the skylight.
The pixie follows looking very annoyed at being volunteered.  She is feeling
much better though after a little pick-me-up from Mike.

SECOND STAR TO THE RIGHT AND STRAIGHT AHEAD UNTIL MORNING!!!............

By Mark Lively(ML5A@andrew.cmu.edu) and
Cathy Ridings(U3E67@WVNVM.bitnet)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: hollombe@polymath.tti.com (The Polymath)
Subject: Re: Good Morning, Friends!
Organization: The Cat Factory
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:21:53 GMT


The Polymath peruses the survey form and frowns.

"Sorry.  As a software professional and reader of comp.risks I have a deep
distrust of anything that smacks of a personal information database.  If
someone needs to know any of this stuff about me they can ask.  If I agree
with their need to know, I'll probably answer.  I'm not going to enter
myself into yet another database maintained by persons unknown for reasons
unknown and with non-existant security at that."

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: lunisea@netcom.com (Stephanie Alford)
Subject: Re: an extra birthday
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 92 05:08:57 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

In article <CEO.92Sep2214743@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu> ceo@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Chip Olson) writes:
>In article <1992Aug27.141530.19615@morrow.stanford.edu> GE.LJB@forsythe.stanford.edu (Louis J Bookbinder) writes:
>
>>Balrog                  guest@carusso.ime.gov.sg (temp)         Sept  6, 1970
>> -                      grapefruit juice      ^^
>                                               
>Where's this? .sg doesn't match any country I can think of offhand.
>--
Our dear Balrog is in Singapore as a summer intern at a computer company.

SEA

Organization: Sophomore, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 13:40:29 -0400 
From: Mark Beirne Lively <ml5a+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Roll on summer!
	<Btsw0s.7xI@news.cso.uiuc.edu>

	Bear Manages to posture himself into what appears to be dignified but
the best he can manage is a rather pompous mockery of it.  "To the end
of Summer in the northern hemisphere:)"  He sayhs as he chuicks a glass
into the fireplace.  "I agree with kitten everyone should have the
weather they like.  Me I love rain.  Big downpours and lightings racing
fingers across a black sky and the rolll of thunder as it echos off the
hills.  I love snow Big puffy white flakes that stick to your face and
hair.  And thundersnows.  Those are something to behold.  Big huge
flakes of snow comming down all over the place with and thunder all over
but you can't see the lightning cause the snow blocks it.  THats my type
of weather.  Cold damp and wonderful.  I've had too many dc summers
where you feel likle you are 230 meters under the sea instead of above
it.  Humidity that you can cutr a knife with and an opressive sun
thorugh a filthy grey haze."

Ps Hasn't it been a bit to quiet around here.  I thought Didi was going
to be back soon?

Society for Noseless Smilies :)
Bear aka the Lord High Rulebender aka (ml5a@andrew.cmu.edu)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: rip@sequent.com (Paul T Taylor)
Subject: Re: In the safety of the Lurker's Lair
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems Inc.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 23:42:56 GMT

In article <keulen.714578200@possum> keulen@possum.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Michael van Keulen) writes:
>embeach@pdaxs.techbook.com (Electronic Dreams) writes:
>

**bunch deleted**

>A soggy brown lump drops with a (whatever I wrote previously) to the floor in
>front of the bar.

That almost sounds disgusting!

>The mysterious lump struggles upright, resembling a humanoid
>entity of somewhat dubious consistency.  A few shakes and generous quantities
>of (recycled) paper towels later and a somewhat dishevelled male caucasian
>emerges from the goo.
>
>"Umm ... thanks Rip!  I haven't had any chocolate for a while (I musta been
>ill).

Hey!  No problem!  I got a bunch more goodies in my little BoT(tm).
Hope that makes ya feel better...

>                                    so, thanks Rip and Elana for entering me
>into your fray (as well as the chocolate!).

Well, bad news.  Elana's node has been broken... :-(
                                                  `

>The name is appropriate for other reasons too (since we're also
>introducing/ reintroducing the patrons) ... I'm a marine biology postgraduate.
>My PhD has been underway since 1988, and the end may be as soon as next year!
>=:-O (raised eyebrows of surprise and elation!)

Cool!

>My research area is seagrass
>ecology with a plant emphasis, and a particular interest in water motion and
>other physical factors.  I'm studying in the Biological Sciences Division of
>Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia (where it's presently a marine
>biologist's least favourite season :-(  .)

So, just what has been the effect of warming temps on the seagrass in
the local area?

rip
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: rip@sequent.com (Paul T Taylor)
Subject: Re: In the safety of the Lurker's Lair
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems Inc.
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 23:55:20 GMT

In article <keulen.714896504@possum> keulen@possum.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Michael van Keulen) writes:
>rip@sequent.com (Paul T Taylor) writes:
>
>>Well, bad news.  Elana's node has been broken... :-(
>>                                                  `
>
>So ... who broke her node, hmmmm?  Kids fighting again ... sigh! :*(

Oh, could be...  I haven't heard from her in a few days...

>>So, just what has been the effect of warming temps on the seagrass in
>>the local area?
>
>>rip
>
>None that I can tell as yet ... theoretically (my theories :-)  ), warming
>shouldn't make much of a difference physiologically, although some difference
>in distribution is possible.  Sea level rises may have more of an impact, in
>that many marine plants are depth limited, so that additional water overhead
>will mean less light, and hence a change in their distribution again.  I would
>guess that intertidal marine plants would more seriously affected by this than
>subtidal ones.  Just my $0.02, off the top of my head  <:-)

Yeah, I thought that the dispersment might have to change if the
water level rose.  I guess my biggest concern is the warming of the
cold currents that carry all the goodies around and feed
everything...  I mean it used to be that an El Ninio was a rare
occurrence, now it seems to happen all the time, and those are just
to surface currents.....


rip
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From: u906451@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (Agamemnon)
Subject: Requiring immediate attention
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 16:18:54 GMT


Hi, it's Bernard Booth here, just wondering if anybody is around to chat 
(reverse call if you pay for it), because it's 2:20am here, and I have
insomnia, but since it's lunch time in most of the US, there might be someone
not quite as mad as myself with whom to chat.

Pref: Female, but since this is not a direct medium, anyone will do.

Bernard Booth (ignore .sig)

--
Damien Saunders     (Gunnar Njalsson)
E-mail: u906451@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au
'He's got droid rot, He's waving a bannana about and calling it a
female aardvark' - Rimmer. From 'Camille': Red Dwarf series 4
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From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: A square grand
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 01:02:55 GMT

alfvaen poses a question...

>"All right, here's a new game for you all.  What would you do if you had a
>million dollars?  After taxes--you won the lottery, you inherited it from a
>long-lost uncle, whatever.  You have a million dollars--heck, two million or
>ten million.  More money than you could possibly get rid of without buying most
>of a city or Van Gogh's "Sunflowers".  So, what do you do?

kitten...who has been a bit overwhelmed by RL (tm) lately...decides to
tackle this one...

"i might quit my job....maybe not. i LIKE my job.  if i did quit, i
would be a full time volunteer...20-40 hours a week at WEFT and a
woman's place and maybe a couple of other places...

i would pay all of my daughter and son-in-law's college tuition and
put money aside for my two son's educations as well...

i'd move...big place with an indoor pool, sauna, weight room...and
somebody else to clean it.

give money to WEFT (my radio station)...maybe set up scholarships for
deserving kids other than my own.

have the world's greatest music collection and a huge room just for books...

upgrade to something besides a dec vt-52....:)

personally i don't think money can buy happiness....but it can help."

kitten curls back up in her chair and sips her drink...contemplating a
million dollars.
--
***************************************************************************
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
From: jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Re-Entry.
Date: 27 Aug 92 01:39:36 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc., San Jose, CA

In article <CEO.92Aug23230514@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu> ceo@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Chip Olson) writes:
>
>Isn't this backwards?  I thought it was DC that contracted your hand onto
>whateer live object you were careless enough to lay hold of, and AC that 
>threw you across the room.
>
Jilara, who has some experience with this, makes an
observation.  "Electric fences tend to be hooked up to DC, and
I can tell you that they definitely try to toss you for a
loop.  One of the fits of macho from my childhood involved
grabbing a local electric fence and seeing who could hold on
the longest.  (I always won, by the way.)  I think what is
actually the more pertinent point with electricity is voltage
vs. current, though."

--
  Jilara   [jane@swdc.stratus.com]

I was wearing black when everyone else was wearing
psychodelics.  You people are copying *me*.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: ceo@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Chip Olson)
Subject: Re: Boston and Salem for Halloween
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 03:16:08 GMT

In article <9208241043.AA14292@getafix.oasis.icl.co.uk> jim@oasis.icl.co.uk (Jim Cheetham x3121) writes:

>"Now I know I'm probably remiss for not keeping track, but how many
> of you people inhabit the Boston region of the states? Myself and a
> fellow Guernseyman are planning to visit there at the end of October
> for a couple of weeks, and pointers/RealSpaces are welcome!

"Not many of us, actually, as far as I know" replies Castellan, "but I'm
certainly up for a RealSpace, at least.  Don't think I can offer any hos-
pitality, though, as I live with my folks.  Pity you're not coming earlier
in October to catch the leaves at their peak.

"May want to repeat your offer later on when more of the students are back."

--
-Chip Olson. | ceo@silver.lcs.mit.edu | ceo@gnu.ai.mit.edu 
"PROUD SPONSORS OF THOSE WHO CARRY THE TORCH"  -banner on US Post Office
across from burned-out block of stores in south-central LA.
From: daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom)
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 05:05:32 GMT
Subject: Re: Re: Good Morning, Friends!
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: alt.callahans

In alt.callahans, allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH) writes:

> Favourite TV shows: since there's no such thing as a good TV show, I have none
> Parting words: none, I just appear and disappear
> 

Bullshit.  Northern Exposure is a very intellectually satisfying tv show.
Any tv show that has a literarily uncertain Franz Kafka show up
with a vague idea about some story involving an insect in its season
finale gets my vote as a fun and worthwhile tv show.

doug

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: u906451@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (Agamemnon)
Subject: Salutations
Keywords: greetings, salutations
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 05:44:35 GMT

Hi all, this is just a brief message as introduction and to clarify a few
potential confusions that may occur because of the sudden influx of all these
Agamemnons that seem to have invaded this fine establishment, so I shall ]
explain before difficulties become apparent.

I am Bernard Booth, known as Brother Vasily by most SCAdians, and I don't
exist, I am merely vindication of the theory of solopsism, so remember, I am
only as good or bad as you imagine that you perceve (sp?) me to be.

However, to the facts. I am (as I said) Bernard Booth, my address is 
c/- u906451@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au - which is, as you will have noted, the same
as Damien Saunders, but as I don't exist (see above), this is just for 
convinience. I smoke, drink, indulge in inumerable licencious activities (aren't
you feeling guilty about your imagination yet?), and generally have a good time.
I also spend too long on my computer - usually playing Civilisation - and have
a taste in music that is somewhere between baroque and bizzare, having a
complete collection of 10cc albums, and a selection of tapes within arm's reach
of my computer that I don't actually look at, just play Russian roulette with
them. My interests are practically limitless, and am currently collecting
old Australian Playboy magazines (just for the in-depth editorials).

There's lots of other stuff, but that applies to most people, so I won't bother
with most of it, suffice it to say that much of it will come to light in
future conversation.

Bernard Booth (Potweed)

"Lee Harvey Oswald, where are you now that your country needs you?"

--
Damien Saunders     (Gunnar Njalsson)
E-mail: u906451@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au
'He's got droid rot, He's waving a bannana about and calling it a
female aardvark' - Rimmer. From 'Camille': Red Dwarf series 4
From: jevans@ius.indiana.edu (JEVANS)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: The Doctor returns
Date: 25 Aug 92 19:07:42 GMT


              From the western playing fields, the Doctor notices a
          startling sight. Everyone is disappearing from the B-day
          faire! "This bears investigating!" he exclaims as he runs
          for the TARDIS.
          *********************************************************
              Seconds later, the TARDIS materializes outside of The
          Place. The Doctor bursts out of the TARDIS and heads inside.
          Once inside, he notices some of the folks from the faire
          there. Realizing what's happened, he breaths a sigh of
          relief. He heads over to the VPM and fiddles with it a bit.
          Turning to the assembled throng, The Doctor announces "I
          have just altered the VPM so that it will now furnish any
          food you may wish to eat." Having said so, he proves the
          efficacy of the modifications by ordering up a mess of
          Buffalo Wings (w/celery and blue cheese dressing, natch).
          Stopping by the bar to collect a God's Blessing from Mike,
          he deposits his fodd and drink at Table 82 and punches up
          the CD "Doctor Who:Variations On A Theme" on the jukebox.
          He then approaches Nick Chopper with these words;
              "Nick, there's not a lot I can say that wouldn't sound
          banal. Just know that I'm here if you need someone to talk
          to. BTW, my RW self's birthday is March 16th, 1966 and his
          favorite drink(s) are God's Blessing, Romulan Ale and
          Labatt's Blue beer." He turns and heads for Table 82 to
          enjoy his meal.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz)
Subject: Re: A square grand
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 00:52:22 GMT

Alfvaen writes:
>"All right, here's a new game for you all.  What would you do if you had a
>million dollars?  After taxes--you won the lottery, you inherited it from a
>long-lost uncle, whatever.  You have a million dollars--heck, two million or
>ten million.  More money than you could possibly get rid of without buying most
>of a city or Van Gogh's "Sunflowers".  So, what do you do?

>"Anybody else have greedy thoughts?"

Well, first I'd spread the money over a large number of bank accounts at
various banks, in chunks smaller than the federal insured limit.  Most of it
would be in C.D.'s, except the portions I planned to spend.

Second, give $50000 to my mom, as a partial payment on all the sacrifices she
made to feed me over the years.

Second, I'd buy nice presents (the sorts of things I've always *wanted* to
buy) for my close friends.

Third, I'd offer to pay the tuition of my friends still in college.

I'd replace the ugly carpet in my new apartment with something as close to
tie-dye that I could find.

I'd buy myself a macintosh and a modem.  (Yes, a macintosh ...)

I'd expand my rock collection to include some semiprecious (and even precious)
stones.                

I'd eat salmon steaks at least twice a week!  Yum!

I'd start going regularly to SF conventions, and buying artwork.

I'd call my friends for long chats all the time, long distance.

Gee, I wouldn't have to hold back in used book stores any more, would I?

Strange.  I just realized, a million dollars would enhance my life, but not
really change it.
I mean, all the above is a matter of degree, not kind.
Well, that's about it.  Maybe I'd get a car; a nice used Chevy Cavalier or
something.      =8)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: keulen@possum.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Michael van Keulen)
Subject: Re: In the safety of the Lurker's Lair
Organization: Murdoch University
Date: 29 Aug 92 10:48:04 GMT

ablanch@physics.su.OZ.AU (Shonias) writes:

>Shonias decides that a half credit, 2nd year course in marine science makes
>her an expert on the subject (no don't panic, I am grinning furiously while
>typing!) and adds her $0.01 (I did say it was only half credit...)
>"Isn't the chemical composition of the water fairly seriously dependent
>on the temperature? How much affect does that have on the plants? (Guess
>which bit of the course I did better in... Physical Oceanography or
>Biology?  :) It certainly changes the colour of the water a lot..."

>Shonias Q'Tari

Well, yeah, water chemistry _is_ dependent on temperature, but for the purposes
of being a marine plant I don't think the changes in temperature resulting from
the "Greenhouse Effect" would be sufficient to change the chemistry seriously.
Mind you changes in such environments can be so subtle that a relatively small
change which appears to do nothing now may have major impacts in the future -
we just don't know enough ... so much sea (or any other environment for that
matter), so little time!

By the way, I lived in NZ for 10 years, on the muddy island ... never did get
around to the skiing on the other island (don't forget the third island!).  I
hear there's a lot of skiing to be had in NZ at the moment!

Splash!
From: daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom)
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:40:03 GMT
Subject: Re: My list
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: alt.callahans

In alt.callahans, daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom) writes:
> Most Favourite Activities:  Drawing.  Writing poetry.  Reading.  
>                     Sex.  Eating.  Sining.  Listening to music.
>                     You know, standard hedonistic fare.

I meant to write SINGING not sinning, alhough the irony in this 
is fun.


doug
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: mss2@quads.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer)
Subject: Re: A square grand
Reply-To: mss2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 19:50:48 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.065140.28833@cco.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
>In article <1992Aug26.005222.20266@cco.caltech.edu>, ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz) writes:
>>Well, first I'd spread the money over a large number of bank accounts at
>>various banks, in chunks smaller than the federal insured limit.
>
>A wise precaution, for in case they ever start really enforcing the FDIC and
>FSLIC policies as currently written.

	"Well, yes, as far as it goes.  But really, if you have ten
million odd dollars, there are better ways of investing it than
savings accounts.  Sure, you already have more than you know what to
do with, but _someone's_ going to make a profit off of it, and better
you decide what to do with those profits than the bank, given the
option, whether it be buying toys or donating to charity.  Get a good
investment counselor, go for diverse, conservative investments-- if
inflation ever heats up again (and it will, probably before the end of
the decade, given some of the things Clinton's been hinting at) you'll
want something that will at least keep ahead of that.

	"Also, being the naturally pessimistic sort, I'd put some
money into some things which won't make money under good conditions,
but will probably retain value under hyperinflationary ones-- gold,
commodities with reasonably stable supplies, land, stable foreign
currencies, etc.  Hyperinflation tends to come on relatively quickly,
and it's difficult to deal with it once it's started, because
inflation hedges become overvalued.  (Just to make sure that no one
conflates these two paragraphs, I'm not suggesting that Clinton is
likely to spark a hyperinflation.  However, he may increase the money
supply in an attempt to spark growth and reduce the effective size of
the deficit, and that may lead to significantly higher inflation than
we've experienced in the last decade or so.  For that matter, the Bush
administration isn't incapable of this either-- both Reagan and Bush
tried to mess with the Federal Reserve Board more than they should
have, certainly.  But that just  makes it more likely that we'll see
significant inflation before the 90's are out.)"

Michael
-- 
Michael S. Schiffer, LHN, FCS	"Workers of the world, forgive me.
mss2@midway.uchicago.edu	 You had more to lose than I thought."
mike.schiffer@um.cc.umich.edu	 -- Karl Marx (1990) as imagined by
mss2@usite-next.uchicago.edu     Jim Koncz (konc@midway.uchicago.edu)
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