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From: ablanch@physics.su.OZ.AU (Shonias)
Subject: Re: Descriptions...
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 12:49:47 GMT

Anybody who cares to look in her direction will see that Shonias is a 
smallish elf dressed in greens and greys. The greys become silver on
special occasions. She comes from a small people of the Silvan race
and is queen of her people, but they need little direction so she spends
much of her time travelling. She has been known to be seen with a snowy
owl.

In RL she is Ariane Blanch (soon to be Hemming) and is a non-descript,
very loud and obnoxious physics student.

Shonias Q'Tari

--
**********************************
I could have a nervous breakdown,
But I don't believe in shrinks.
I should be drunker than a monkey,
But I don't like to drink.
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From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jason)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: wow, delilah tries a SECOND post
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Date: 27 Jan 1993 20:35:03 GMT
Organization: the Polyhedron Group
Distribution: world
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In article <2B66DF8C.6472@news.service.uci.edu>, eaeu282@orion.oac.uci.edu
(Ching-I Chen) wrote:
> She glances around the bar.  "Don't you have any complimentary
> M & M's or something?"

Jason points to a dish on the bar. "There's always dishes of peanuts in the
shell, and usually some other nibbles. I'm sure Mike can find some M&M's,
if you ask him for them."
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: bird on ice...  (LONG POST)  *>
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:12:51 GMT

Feather speaks:
>"To possibly breaking the chains of old hurtful life patterns."
> 
><CRASH!>
> 
>Feather turns to the Callahaners.
> 
>We have a two-fold problem here...  it's immediate surface effects
>and the long-time roots.  

    "You are not the only one with this problem. I too have lived in poverty
because i find it depressing just thinking about applying for a new job.
It would be just another journey of explaining my allergies when I sit down
to lunch... 'Why don't you eat the hamburgers ?' 'Well, are your allergies
catching ?' etc. etc. It has sometimes taken months for a set of fellow
employees to accept that I don't eat like they do, nor am I a threat to
their eating styles... I am often frivolous on here, its not always easy
being emotional Feather, not always easy at all. For years I also didn't 
'show emotion' but my face always showed them { blushing, turn pale, etc. } 
so for a time one place I lived they called me 'old stone face' even though
I was no such thing { in high school }. This morning I worked on my resume, 
and I'm going out this week and next and try and find a full-time job. My
friends here, through their joy, have helped me through the tough times.
Even when I didn't say I was having a tough time of it..." DJ.

    Special Thanks to SEA, Didi, and Speaker.

-- 
         Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
                      Video. Peter Gabriel: Steam 
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: daq@fc.hp.com (Doug Quarnstrom)
Subject: Re: Not another one?!
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:55:43 GMT
Organization: SPUGE
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.8 PL6]

: ----<--<@
: 
: Suddenly there is life amongst the covers on Didi's couch:  "What?
: What did I miss?  Who had a baby!?!

Pretty much everyone as far as I can tell.

doug
From: steve@crc.ricoh.COM (Stephen R. Savitzky)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Goodbye, Justice Marshall
Date: 26 Jan 93 22:36:53 GMT
Organization: RICOH California Research Center

In article <carrot.04qg@bear.stonemarche.org> carrot@bear.stonemarche.org (Little red-headed girl) writes:

	   "Blessings upon you, Justice Marshall, wherever you may be."

   <CRASH!>

<* C R A S H *>  The Mandelbear lobs a nearly-full glass of gin into
the fireplace.
--
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From: ekho@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (amanda rothman)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Group hugs
Date: 24 Jan 93 01:09:16 GMT
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida

trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:

> amanda:
> 
> 
> >  You know, kitten, that group hugs have also been called "Gerble piles"...
> >You wouldn't mind hugging a pile of gerbils, would you? :)
> 
> kitten:
> 
> assorted gerbils?  or all the same variety?  can we throw in a couple
> of hamsters and a mouse or two?
> 
> sounds like fun.

  "Sure!  Lets add some squirrels, sprites, ogres, avians, squi- uh, mice
(but you already have), purple slashsplats, assorted humanoids and even a
feline or five!"  Grabbing Ekho and anyone else within range, Amanda shouts,
"GERBIL PILE!!!"

> "it's not easy being a cast iron bitch--it takes years of practice.
> most people don't appreciate that.

  A muffled snicker eminates from Ekho's general vicinity...

                      Yours in Time and Space
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jpalmer@onetouch.COM (John Palmer)
Subject: Re: Culinary Peculiarities
Organization: MCS/OneTouch, Inc.
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 17:51:36 GMT


    A sound is heard form John's corner where his 42-48 personalities were
putting together a most interesting play. . . it seems to involve a
rap/breakdancing group stuck in the middle of a martial arts movie.  

     The sound is that of a cleaver quickly chopping through numerous
vegetables.

     Then the voice belonging to mouth belonging to the head which is on top of
the body whose hand is holding the cleaver is heard.

    "VAT?  Vat dey say about FUD?" 


traum@silver.lcs.mit.edu (Jonathan Traum) writes:

>>	"`Cordial'?  The only definition of that I know as a noun is
>>`liqueur', which I _assume_ isn't served in Australian primary
>>schools.  :-)  Care to dispel my benighted ignorance?"

>No, it's not exactly Kool-Aid. When I was in Israel, I ran into a lot
>of ozzies. I was very confused at lunch when one of them asked me to
>pass the cordial. 

    "Yah, is thick, sveet syrup, alocolic or knot."

>It confused me, since I didn't see any liquer on the table.
>It seems that what the Australians call cordial is a concentrated,
>syrupy colorful liquid. Imagine Hawaian Punch, with about two thirds of the 
>water removed. Add water, and you get what any American who went to
>summer camp as a kid calls "bug juice".

>Incidentally, one of these same ozzies got *very* upset with me when I asked
>her to pass the jelly. "It's JAM!!" she scolded, not very cordially (;-).
>Now here in the US, jam and jelly are identical. But in the British

    "Nah, no, nyet. . . (dats roosian for uh-uh.) Jam is FROOT, jelly is JOOSE!
(Juice?  Don't try to ful me wit dat; I can spell.)  Jam ees made of FLESH of
froot, jelly only joose of froot."


    "I hup youse unnerstand zis now."

     "Sayonara."

(Dat's spanish for bye-bye.  Actually, is spanish fer japanese fer bye-bye.)
-- 
John Palmer					jpalmer@onetouch.COM
Columbus, OH					...!uunet!onetouch!jpalmer
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: <HI THERE>
From: <KZAHLLER@MIAMIU.BITNET>
Date: Thursday, 21 Jan 1993 23:21:23 EST
Organization: Miami University - Academic Computer Service

After the new human gentleman sits down and their ears
stop ringing, the others gather round to say hi there
back at him.

"Green things and salivations, <<Slash Maraud>>!"
Magda draws her eyes back from the(now vanished) pile
of assorted and interesting implements of mayhem, which
she has been eyeing in semi-lustful appraisal.  "I just
got here yesterday, but welcome all the same!"
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: parakeet@wixer.cactus.org (Jim Eikner)
Subject: Re: Culinary Peculiarities
Organization: Real/Time Communications
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 22:24:42 GMT



Just remember that the Aztecs and Mayans discovered chocolate and used it,
unsweetened, in many different forms. Mexican mole' is an unsweetened
chocolate sauce usually served over chicken enchiladas or empenadas...


                                                     --- Parakeet ---


-- 

"...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in
 the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows
 and the storied wall."                                      --- RLS ---
From: carrot@bear.stonemarche.org (Little red-headed girl)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re:  Culinary Peculiarities
Date: 27 Jan 93 10:54:46 GMT

In article <1k56qeINNm9o@menudo.uh.edu> narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon) writes:
>Chip writes :
>> "I had something similar at a Vietnamese restaurant in St Paul, MN
>> last August-- it was an appetizer listed as "spicy cream cheese
>> wontons", and spicy they were, with a nuclear mustard sauce for good
>> measure. Quite amazingly yummy."
>
>OOOOHHH! Sounds incredible... I need to try this one! Seems like it might
>rank up there with good old fashioned Hot and Sour Soup!
>
	"It sounds like Crab Rangoon, my husband's favorite," Rachel
says. "I just picked up the recipe from one of the rec.food.* groups,
and I'll repost it here if people flood my mailbox..."

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|	carrot		   |	carrot@bear.stonemarche.org               |
+--------------------------+----------------------------------------------+ 
|   "Feel what might be. See what I see. Again and again and again and    |
| again say you don't. You say you don't, but you will.                   |
|   "How can you be so near and not see?" -"If You Intend"-10,000 Maniacs |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Didi's ill, again : -(
Date: 26 Jan 1993 12:20:19 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Distribution: world
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <C1F3MI.1B3@cs.mcgill.ca>, braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (The Didi-Sprite) writes:

Hurray!  Binkley's back on line again!  And Kitten told me earlier today that
Didi was again cut off from the net :-(.
From: eaeu282@orion.oac.uci.edu (Ching-I Chen)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: wow, delilah tries a SECOND post
Date: 27 Jan 93 19:11:27 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine


>> 	Delilah opens her eyes, mumbles something about her hands smelling
>> like acetone.
>> 	"Wow, what a nap," she says.  "I dreamt I was living in Cicely, 
>> Alaska, and had a cold, so I had to go see Dr. Fleischman..."  She rambles
>> on about nothing in particular, something those who know her well are used
>> to by now.
>> 	"Neato.  What be going on around here?" she asks.
>
>Jason looks over at Delilah from where he is sitting in the hot tub. Next
>to him is a sleepy-eyed feline/human woman. "Oh good, you're awake again.
>Welcome to Callahans, Delilah. I liked your first post. Especially the part
>about the 'Dan Quayle' drink. I just bought a round for everyone in the
>house. What's your pleasure?"

	Delilah blinks a few times, pondering the question.  "Are we
speaking aesthetically or recreationally?  For pleasure, you see, is a
relative term... I'll have to contemplate that one before I can even come
with an answer of any kind."  She wipes a speck of dust off her Clinton-Gore
button.  "By the way, how exactly does this string of posts work?  Do you
add to one or the other..."  Realizing her question is of course, confusing,
she rolls her eyes and shakes her head.  "Dumb question, I know, I know," she
mumbles.  "As usual, I'm lost.  Pay no attention to me."
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Subject: Re: Culinary Peculiarity (was Re: Dan'l hits Australia)
Reply-To: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:01:01 GMT


In article <C16Mt4.7wC@hfglobe.intel.com>, hilp@hfglobe.intel.com (Robin Rosenbaum) writes:
(Burger discussion deleted...)
|>"As for beets, DM, I don't know if the sweet-pickled beets we have are
|>the same as the canned beets you get.  But if you ever visit Lincoln
|>City on the Oregon coast here in the USA, order a hamburger at Li'l
|>Sambo's.  They serve sliced beets instead of pickles on the side."
|>She considers.  "...which my son won't touch; I never have any trouble
|>beeting him to them."

"Well, some children don't carrot all for vegetables... silly little sprouts..."

|>Robin Hilp
|>rosenrob@ccm.hf.intel.com or hilp@hfglobe.intel.com

Starknight
spr@abo.dec.com
Disclaimer:  Huh?  What'd I say?
From: carrot@bear.stonemarche.org (Little red-headed girl)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re:  Didi's ill, again : -(
Distribution: world
Date: 25 Jan 93 19:32:58 EST

In article <1993Jan25.094400.26460@gdr.bath.ac.uk> eesshlgb@gdr.bath.ac.uk (S H L G Bisson) writes:
>Ignatz looks over, turns to Steve Glover, grins, and starts to speak.
>
>"Steve and I were considering at one point (probably at a con somewhere),
>a rather potent cold cure...
[description of a drink made from honey & lemon flavored vodkas]

	Rachel looks up and laughs. "I knew I was forgetting to tell
Didi _something_... Hey Mike, this dollar is for a shot of Berenjager
(powerful honey liqueur). And this one is for hot peppermint tea with
lemon and a shot of Berenjager for her. And no, Didi, this is NOT on
me. You WILL drink it... and if you're comfortable enough, you'll
probably fall asleep soon afterwards."
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|	carrot		   |	carrot@bear.stonemarche.org               |
+--------------------------+----------------------------------------------+ 
|   "Feel what might be. See what I see. Again and again and again and    |
| again say you don't. You say you don't, but you will.                   |
|   "How can you be so near and not see?" -"If You Intend"-10,000 Maniacs |
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From: siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl Siewert)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Dan'l hits Australia
Date: 26 Jan 1993 11:42:50 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals) writes:
>Don't settle just for dark rye.  Do it right and use pumpernickel!

That reminds me.  Anyone ever heard the story of pumpernickel??  It seems that 
Napoleon was taking his army through a country village.  When they stopped for
the night, the French had their own supplies, including nice white bread.  The
local bread was dark and coarse, so the soldiers used it to feed their horses.
Napoleon's mount was a stallion named Nicholas, Nicole (we would probably say
Nick) for short, so the soldiers started calling the bread "pain pour Nicole"
or "bread for Nick."  Since French has always been popular on menus, the locals
(Germans, I assume) stole the name.  It eventually became bastardized to pum-
pernickel.

Honest to god truth.
Rie.


-- 
/               James Riekar, barhopping yoyist, at your service              \
Impersonated at Fort Hays State by Karl G. Siewert, pretending to be at K-State
\                      address=siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu                       /
 \           Never underestimate the power of the truly eccentric.           /
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis L. Rostykus)
Subject: Re: Culinary Peculiarities
Organization: Data I/O Corporation
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:11:42 GMT

In article <JBrandt-270193125341@aaa.uoregon.edu> JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jason) writes:
>In article <1993Jan27.095124.18870@ucc.su.OZ.AU>, ablanch@physics.su.OZ.AU
>(Shonias) wrote:
>> 
>> In article <1k43nhINNeen@menudo.uh.edu> narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon) writes:
>> >either food or clothes : THERE IS NO BLUE FOOD.
>> 
>> Blueberries? They're pretty blue, but I have to admit, it's all I can think
>> of.
>"Nope, Shonias, To quote George Carlin, 'Blueberries are purple. Who's got
>the blue food?'. Seriously, aside from strange varieties of Jello and
>Kool-Aid, I don't think there -is- and food item that's really blue."

Uhm... blue cheese certainly is rather blue.  O.K. white marbled with blue,
but there are plenty of folks that would argue that it isn't really FOOD.  

Grin.
-- 
Phyllis Rostykus     | "... and how you feel can make it real 
aka Liralen Li       |      Real as anything you've seen... "
li@Data-IO.com       |	                         Peter Gabriel _US_ 
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: amanda@wam.umd.edu (Me again)
Subject: Re: Tanais's Dream ...
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 06:20:48 GMT

Eep.  Wow...

Amanda wishes she had dreams like this...
From: JBrandt@AAA.Uoregon.EDU (Jason)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Breakthrough!
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Date: 27 Jan 1993 04:44:10 GMT
Organization: The Polyhedron Group
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: fp1-dialin-1.uoregon.edu

Thyra and Pegasus are -both- looking over Jason's shoulder as he repeatedly
tries to reconfigure the communications software on his cyberdeck. At times
Thyra points to something on the holographic display and whispers a
suggestion, or Pegasus gestures to the display with a wingtip and voices
her opinion.

Suddenly there is a hush among them, then Jason's voice. "OK, wait a minit.
Here goes. . . . " Thyra and Jason cross their fingers, and Pegasus crosses
her wings.

Suddenly the display very rapidly fills with over a hundred overlapping
windows.
"YES!!!" shouts Jason. "Yippeeee! We did it!" Pegasus cries out in a whinny
of delight. "At last!" cries Thyra. The three of them start dancing around
the table Jason's cyberdeck is on, capering and laughing like they had just
located the Holy Grail.

Mike comes over to see what all the commotion is about. Thyra leaves Jason
and Pegasus to their mad dance, and explains.

"Well, in September and October, Pegasus had managed to get their home
system to establish a -complete- tie-in with the campus network via modem.
-Everything- worked almost as well as if they were on campus, including
access to the newsgroups (and here) via Newswatcher, which is a Macintosh
newsreader that's light years ahead of VNEWS on the VAX. But she hadn't
written down just what it was that she did to get it to work. After two
months, when they were both thoroughly -hooked- on having unrestricted news
access, it suddenly stopped working. Since then, Pegasus especially, and
Jason too, have been trying to get the link re-established. Between now and
then, we've all been getting by with 'Timbuktu', a software setup that
allowed us to remotely control Jason's office Mac. But that was really
slow, and Pegasus couldn't do it when Jason was at work."

"Well, we just got it working again! Evidently there was something wrong at
the campus server's end, 'cause we had confirmed time and time again that
our end was set up right. And we -hadn't- made changes at this end this
time. Pegasus simply tried the software again, to see if -maybe- anything
had changed. Anyway, it means we now have a heck of a lot faster access to
all of the newsgroups now."

Pegasus looks over and says "For a while. We'll see if it lasts this time."

Jason shouts "Anyway, it works now! Mike, set up a round of free drinks, on
our bill!" He tosses the smiling Irishman a credstick. "That should cover
-at least- one free drink for every being in the Place tonight!"

Pegasus, Thyra and Jason resume their capering and laughter.

Wheee!
Jason & Thyra & Pegasus, oh my!
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: aaron@atlantis.uucp
Subject: Re: an idle observation *>
Organization: Atlantis Communications, Edmonton, AB, Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 02:31:51 GMT

Alfvaen grins.  "I was talking about this kinky/perverted thing with my
brother last night, and tossing ideas back and forth.  The one that he came
up with that I really liked was--

"Kinky takes a walk on the wild side.  Perverted take a mad dash around the
entire shape."

-- 
---Alfvaen(Still looking for "October's Baby")
"Clocks don't bring tomorrow--knives don't bring good news."                       ---Bruce Cockburn
Current Album--China Crisis:Flaunt The Imperfection
Current Read--Sean Russell:The Initiate Brother
From: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Culinary Peculiarity (was Re: Dan'l hits Australia)
Date: 21 Jan 93 15:37:05 GMT
Reply-To: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <1jo34fINNhve@newsman.csu.murdoch.edu.au>, keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!) writes:
|>pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan) writes:
|>
|>>"What's wrong with pineapple on pizza?  Or on a hamburger, for that matter?"
|>>Starknight looks confused.  "I can think of several places here in Albuquerque
|>>where I could get that done, and it's delicious!  What's really bad is the
|>>California custom of putting avocado slices on your burger, unless you ask
|>>them not to!  I mean, sprouts are bad enough, but avocado... *shudder*"  The
|>>veteran Space Ranger appears to be a delicate shade of green...
|>
|>That's not avocado green by any chance, Starknight?

"That was what I was implying..."

|>Actually, I really
|>can't imagine avocado on a burger - kinda like putting asparagus on one;
|>not entirely appropriate  :-)

"I agree entirely.  The only way I like avacado is diced with tomatoes, a bit
of onion and a touch of lemon juice and cilantro (yes, that *is* guacamole
I'm talking about...)  Other than that, forget it!"

Starknight
spr@abo.dec.com
Disclaimer:  Huh?  What'd I say?
From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: a Punday delurking
Date: 21 Jan 93 03:56:44 GMT
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.
In-reply-to: hilp@hfglobe.intel.com's message of Wed, 20 Jan 1993 00:04:13 GMT

In article <C14LJ3.D9L@hfglobe.intel.com> hilp@hfglobe.intel.com (Robin Rosenbaum) writes:

>"Hi," she says, "I'm Ruby Tuesday."  She puts a bill on the bar and 
>accepts a tomato juice with a slice of lemon.
>"We thought there was enough silver to last a while, and hoped the devil 
>would be satisfied with that.  But I heard today that it's gold Wendy 
>Ann's owing, so I have my ghoul ashes, carp, stalking cat, and kittens 
>on hand."  Ruby settles back in the armchair to finish her drink.

There is silence for a long moment as Ruby finishes her drink, then a col-
lective cry of "AAAARRRRGGHHHH!!!!!!" emanates from Callahan's Bar as the
entire company run screaming into the night holding their noses. 

As they re-enter, one fellow walks over to Ruby.  "Congratulations, that was
utterly atrocious, indeed worthy of Doc Webster himself.  I'm Castellan,
and as those who know me would attest, I have a bit of an affinity for awful
puns... but I'm afraid that masterpiece has me utterly beat."

--
-Chip Olson. | olson@husc.harvard.edu | ceo@{gnu.ai,silver.lcs}.mit.edu
"If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down?
Maybe we would if they screamed all the time for no good reason." -J. Handey
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