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From: li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus)
Subject: Re: An MIA returns! (-:
Organization: Data I/O Corporation
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 22:13:57 GMT

"YEAAAHHHH!!!  She's back!  She's back!!" and Liralen laughs and scritches
Tux behind the ears and gives Toothpick a hug after she gets through the
crush of all the other people.  "Cool." she says softly and goes back to
her preperations for the Danger Room.

-- 
Phyllis Rostykus    | "... and how you feel can make it real  | - _US_
aka Liralen Li      | Real as anything you've seen            |   Peter
li@Data-IO.com      | Get a life with this dreamer's dream."  |   Gabriel
From: daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom)
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 16:16:42 GMT
Subject: Re: The world, and what it'd be like...
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: alt.callahans

In alt.callahans, jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman) writes:

> 
> I used to date Oscar Wilde, or rather someone who was a fair
> impersonation of him (even looked like Wilde, and was a good
> enough approximation that many folks called him "Oscar" instead
> of "Dean").  (I was from Oscar/Dean's Lily Langry period---he's 
> (appropriately enough) happily "married" to another man, now.)
> He was always good for sparklingly cynical dinnertable
> conversation.  I loved him for his conversation, though his
> impractical artistic temperament drove me nuts.
> 
> Cultured cynicism hath its price.

Egad!  Being a devout heterosexual, I do indeed hope there is
no direct connection between cynicism and homosexuality.
I would hate to have to start all over again, and develop entirely new
habits, just when I am on the verge of figuring out women.

Barbara Tuchman suggests that Oscar brough his destruction upon
himself when he filed charges for slander against his accuser.
She suggests that the typical aristocratic penchant for discrestion
and coverup of social "sins" amonst the aristocracy may have
saved Mr. Wilde if he had not done that.  Such a shame really.
Oscar was a Gem.  And I mean that in a manly sort of way, of course.


doug
From: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Callahan's Filk
Date: 8 Jan 93 19:57:18 GMT
Reply-To: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


"Bravo!  Bravo!"  Starknight applauds furiously.  "Any chance of some more
Simon and, uh, Garfilkel tunes?"

"Mike, get the Urban Spaceman a drink...  I'm buying."
From: narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: an idle observation
Date: 9 Jan 1993 17:59:02 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
NNTP-Posting-Host: casc.math.uh.edu

In article <C0LEpD.LxD@news.cso.uiuc.edu> trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:

(Horrendous puns removed, at great risk to one's humerus)

>
>"i groaned aloud at this one....my cats think i am crazy"  kitten
>giggles and grabs an almond..."btw, my favorite coffee shop now has
>cappincino-flavored-choclate covered almonds....is this fair?  they
>are seriously addictive!"
>--
>***************************************************************************
>conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten           /\ /\  barbara ann 
>"my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?"      {=.=}
>                                              ~   trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>"love is the wild card of existance"
>                          rita mae brown
>

You should try chocolate covered coffee beans! You can just pop those things
like candy (for obvious reasons), but be careful... They have the kick of
any of your stronger "alertness aids".  (vivarin, no-doz, jolt) Eat more
than four at a time, and kiss sleep goodbye. The problem is that they
are the most addictive things on earth. And there's a white chocolate coated 
version as well! 

Good morning! (taptaptaptap...)the sound of a caffiene addict

--
*******************************************************************           
* Noah Ramon - The Bi-Bulb     * Your only limitation is your own *
* Mail to : narxtc@math.uh.edu * imagination - Beans Barton       *
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From: keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: An unexpected ring-in, whose face rings a bell
Date: 13 Jan 1993 19:53:38 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au

jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce) writes:

>   Whats the humidity like ? Those are July temps where I grew up. In
>August it would get up to about 110 F in the afternoon and down to 90 F
>at night. Humidity ranged from 20-40 percent. Jim.

Well, during the day the humidity is down around the teens-tweenies, but
when the sea-breeze comes in it can get somewhat higher.  Today we are
expecting about 32 C (about 90 F), but because a low pressure trough has
moved across the coast, the humidity is pretty amazing - you can actually
see the water in the air, but the sky's blue!  Normally the heat here is
great, because it's _dry_ (comes from living next to a desert), but today
is _really_ sticky.  Not that I mind ... my circulation's good, albeit a
bit messy ... I sweat heaps, but stay cool  :-)  Then again, I don't have
as many problems with the cold either (I just wish it would snow here
occassionally  :-)  ).

Splash!

--
		Splash!		*To love is to LIVE!*
   (aka Mike van Keulen -- e-mail: keulen@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: New Year Pizza Party
From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Charles Olson)
Date: 11 Jan 93 08:25:34
 <1993Jan10.034802.25553@atlantis.uucp><OLSON.93Jan11002600@husc8.harvard.edu> <1ir5suINNach@menudo.uh.edu>
Organization: Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services, Cambridge, MA
In-reply-to: narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu's message of 11 Jan 93 06:59:42 GMT

In article <1ir5suINNach@menudo.uh.edu> narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon) writes:

>
>You forgot :
>
>And she could drink! I mean, she drink like a - she drank a lot...

I remember that line, and I know about where it goes, but I can't remember
exactly where.  I don't really trust my recollection of that part of the
song very much, though.

>Actually, the song is by Kip Adotta. They also did the famous "Life in the 
>Slaw Lane"... "Wet Dream" is on the Dr. Demento 20th anniversary disc set, 
>though. Imagine - that classic on CD!

Oh, that's right... I thought Ogden Edsl wasn't right, but couldn't think
of who else it might be.
--
-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
From: rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Hair color
Date: 13 Jan 93 01:50:12 GMT
Reply-To: rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove)
Organization: RICOH California Research Center

> Jason gives her a warm hug. "And by the way, there are worse hair colors
>than purple. It -could- have turned green. Now -that- would have been a
>promlem!"

>"We love you no matter what color your fur is, of course."

Gypsy pouts at Jason.  <I'll have you know that green is
a perfectly lovely color for hair.  My childhoold heroine
(Belle Bellomy from the Galaxy Primes by Doc Smith) had
green hair.  In about 1970 I bleached my hair blonde and then
dyed it green.  I had a wonderful green velvet suit that matched
it perfectly.  It was particularly a hit on St. Patrick's day.>

<And I so miss my burgundy hair from a few years ago. 
(lost to the budget vagaries of grad school, sigh)   I really
am waiting eagerly for *real* body mod capabilities so
that this week I can be one color and next week another
without turning my hair to straw.  Really good temporary
tattoos to augment the real ones, the ability to have a working
tail like Mary's, having downy fur or colorful feathers.  Oooh
all the kinds of things we like to do here in the Place.>

<*/ can I talk you into a purple hug?  I really need some
color in my life today!>

Gypsy


Rowan Fairgrove

*****************************************
Current Book: When the Bough Breaks (Lackey & Lisle)
Current Music:  Pomegranate - Dance of the Seasons
Current Movie: Hoffa
Current Holiday:  Ides of January
Current Drink: caffe latte with Tuaca
From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jason)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Bi-bulb (was Re: Dalek has entered the
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Date: 7 Jan 1993 20:24:14 GMT
Organization: the Polyhedron Group
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aaa.uoregon.edu

In article <1993Jan7.155753.28117@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov>,
rich@troll1.msfc.nasa.gov (Rich Krum) wrote:
> 
> In article 106340@bu.edu, schweppe@acs.bu.edu (Edmund Schweppe) writes:
> >kitten writes:
> >
> >>*giggle*  (you guys realize that people think i am crazy when i talk
> >>to the terminal)

Jason ponders "Hmmmmm. I always thought Kitten was small, but I see now she
is a meduim. Talkling to the not-quite-dead (the terminal) would make her a
clairvoyant as well, Hmmmm?"

> >
> >"Oh, no, kitten - people talking to terminals is normal.  People talking
> >to terminals but NOT swearing at compiler errors, abort messages, etc.
> >is unusual!"
> >
> >__________________________________________________________________________
> >Ed Schweppe o/k/a Merlinvin - schweppe@acs.bu.edu,
> 
> Naturally, Programmers and engineering types (guilty) tend to talk to
> themselves a lot.  I tend to hold conversations with myself--that no
> doubt show up in my posts/e-mail.  I like to believe that this is just
> another characteristic of the creative (read slightly crazy) mind and 
> processes associated with it.

"Well, just remember what they say, 'It's OK to talk to yourself. Just
watch out for the folks who answer back!' ."
From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jason)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: One quick question
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Date: 7 Jan 1993 20:33:41 GMT
Organization: the Polyhedron Group
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aaa.uoregon.edu

In article <1993Jan7.181831.25818@netcom.com>, randolph@netcom.com
(Randolph Fritz) wrote:
> 
> "Y-e-e-a-a-h.  Right.  alt.callahans.pictures is a pretty good idea, I
> think.  There's a long-standing net convention that large things like
> pictures & source files go in groups specifically designated for them,
> so that sites which don't have the storage for them don't have to deal
> with them.

Jason nods. "Actually, I preer the idea of an FTP site, myself. A newsgroup
only holds posts for a fixed length of time on many sites, and then it's
gone. Fine for sending a cartoon joke, but prro for a photo album of
friends. An FTP site is available so long as it is maintained by the site
owner.

> "Then again, disk storage has gotten pretty cheap.  Maybe the
> convention is out of date and modest amounts of compressed graphics
> would be ok.  Might be time to discuss it on one of the sysops
> groups.  Also a good time to find out who can display color.  Hmmm."

Well, two out of the three systems I regularly use can display 8-bit color.
And if I really want to, I can print 8-bit color at 300 DPI, on up to 11" x
17" paper. 

Jason
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Interlibrary Loan
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:47:15 GMT



>henry@netcom.com (Henry Polard) writes:

>>One of the wonders of Librarydom is interlibrary loan. It can take
>>a while, but I can get just about any book this way.

splash!

>"Depends on your library ... for some reason my library (which has managed
>to find some _really_ obscure journal papers for me) can't get hold of a
>paper from a Japanese journal (not available in Oz)."  Splash shrugs,
>"Unfortunately I don't know anybody in Japan who could get me a copy ...
>and the (American) author of the paper where it was cited lost his copy. 
>I've been looking for 4 years so far, but I'm sure I'll find a copy
>eventually.  Kitten ... do you have any experience with ILLs?"


"well....i found the pages caithelin needed to finish her
thesis and faxed them to her  .... got the request on sunday night and
she got the articles ....before 5 on monday.  do you have the english
(or japanese) title of the journal...volume and page numbers...and a
fax machine...i'll see what i can do."

kitten stretches...shifting books is hard work.
--
***************************************************************************
conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten           /\ /\  barbara ann 
"my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?"      {=.=}
                                              ~   trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu 
"love is the wild card of existance"
                          rita mae brown

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: A Voyager Returns, with a Difference
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 03:13:22 GMT


>"It's good to be back.  A new name for a new year, and different circumstances:
>Call me Scribe."
>He reaches into his pocket, and extracts an intricately folded multicolored
>sash, which he ties around his waist.  It enlivens his apparel, which
>under the trenchcoat was relentlessly black.
>"It's been an...unusual winter solstice.  One of the more salient events is
>notable by its absence; Didi, I have to tell you I did not participate in
>the ritual that was organized for you.  It had been brought to my attention
>that I'd been playing with certain...awkward...energies, and I didn't want
>to risk anything backfiring. 
>"That seizure...it'd be hideously arrogant to claim I had anything to do
>with it, but I feel guilty nonetheless."
>"But enough paganism for one evening; I can see the Speaker's whiskers
>curling in distaste at all this irrationality."
>"It _is_ good to be back.  Hello again to all of you."
>Kitten, I could use a good strong warm one about now.


kitten obliges...and hugs the scribe warmly...."welcome back."
--
***************************************************************************
conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten           /\ /\  barbara ann 
"my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?"      {=.=}
                                              ~   trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu 
"love is the wild card of existance"
                          rita mae brown
From: pechever@sal-sun44.usc.edu (The Heckler)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: A Voyager Returns, with a Difference
Date: 11 Jan 1993 16:35:11 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: sal-sun44.usc.edu

In article <C0MBMB.8Dt@news.cso.uiuc.edu> trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:

>kitten obliges...and hugs the scribe warmly...."welcome back."

"Thanks K. Mike, some milk for the bar's favorite furry feline, please?
No offense, Thyra."  A grin flashes in the shapeshifter's direction.

Scribe yawns tiredly, and relaxes in the warmth of a comfortable room,
good drink, and friendly companionship.

			The Scribe
			Gypsy at Heart.
-- 
Your fingers weave quick minarets      |"They robbed from the rich...and gave
Speak in secret alphabets	       |to the CRIMINALLY INSANE!" -- R&S
I light another cigarette	       |Legalize the weed NOW! CANORML
Learn to forget...                     |email: pechever@usc.edu (changing soon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe)
Subject: Hippo birdies again
Reply-To: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:14:00 +0000

MerryTail is siting in the corner looking a bit ill and begraggled 
but she suddenly raises her head
"Speaker to Minerals? Unbe? Is it that time of the year already? I 
don't want to pass on my germs but would you like a birthday hug?
Happy Birthday everyone!"
+-------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
| Organisation: Me? You're joking, right?   |maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk |
|                                           |                          |
|I know I type "teh" for "the" My fingers have their own accent ;-)    |
|                           OK, I just can't type ;-))                 |
+-------------------------------------------+--------------------------+

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: rich@troll1.msfc.nasa.gov (Rich Krum)
Subject: Re: boo
Reply-To: rich@troll1.msfc.nasa.gov
Organization: Boeing Computer Support Services
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 16:32:38 GMT

Boy, this sure Torx me off!

--Troll
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From: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (The Didi-Sprite)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Look, ma!  Portholes!
Date: 5 Jan 93 15:18:29 GMT
Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada
Originator: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca

In article <OLSON.93Jan4230551@husc8.harvard.edu> olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson@somewhere.out.there) writes:
>"Mike, another one of whatever Didi's drinking, on... er, at my cost."  Mike
>shrugs and pours out another lemonade, and adds it to the 20 or so that have
>already been ordered for her by various patrons.  Castellan picks up his glass
>of Samuel Smith's 1992-1993 Winter Welcome Ale and steps to the chalkline.
>
>"Didi, I think I speak for all of us when I say: Welcome back, and here's to
>a full and speedy recovery!" <CRASH!>
>
>With that, he goes over to the spriteful one and envelops her in a warm hug.
>"Good to see you back... we were worried (as if you hadn't guessed)."
>
"Yum!  Castellan hugs are warm and fuzzy, even under water!"  Grins 
the Water-Srpite!


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"Don't stop yet!  I have a ways to go before I am all hugged-out!"

----<--<@

The Didi-Sprite
Paris  *  Europe

braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
didi@geloser.login.qc.ca
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jpalmer@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (John D Palmer)
Subject: Re: Hullo...
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:08:33 GMT

>
>    Ah, you got the reference... Yes, but they still could have made pickup.
>  The thing is, RAH mentions _I Will Fear No Evil_ in one of his later
>  stories, and says he didn't like it via one of the characters. I got the
>  impression from what he had the character say that he wasn't pleased
>  with the story. <shrug> I have no concrete info...

    Hmmm.  The only reference I ever see to it is in "Time Enough For Love",
and all that Lazarus says is that 'he died, naturally; alien tissue rejection.'



-- 
"Love is cool; I mean, like, really cool.  Like, the coolest thing in
the universe, where, like, people open up inside and show the world how
they feel, and they ain't afraid someone's gonna laugh because they, like,
love themselves already!"  --Personality 42, a generic 60's philosopher 
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus)
Subject: Re: A returning
Organization: Data I/O Corporation
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:54:15 GMT

In article <9301112327.AA02707@cipric> kksys!cipric!jmh%uum1.UUCP@CS.YALE.EDU (Janet Huss) writes:
>"Oh, I want to catch up on sixteen thousand other conversations, too, but 
>not all at one time, I guess.  I'm just glad to be back, and I'm looking 
>forward to renewing old friendships and making some new ones!"
>
>With that, she sits quietly at the table, sipping the Irish coffee to warm 
>up.

Liralen stops by the table and smiles a greeting.  "Glad to see you back."
she says.  
-- 
Phyllis Rostykus     | "... and how you feel can make it real 
aka Liralen Li       |      Real as anything you've seen... "
li@inigo.Data-IO.com |	                         Peter Gabriel _US_
From: steve@crc.ricoh.COM (Stephen R. Savitzky)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Back again for a while
Date: 8 Jan 93 18:46:09 GMT
Organization: RICOH California Research Center

"We look forward to seeing you," says the Mandelbear.  "Give Grand
Central Starport a call when you arrive (or send E-mail slightly
before), and we can work out the details.  (Of course, San Jose is 50
miles from San Francisco, but we can come up with some kind of
transportation if you need it."
--
\ --Steve Savitzky--  \    343 Leigh Ave   \ REAL HACKERS USE AN AXE!
 \ steve@crc.ricoh.COM \ San Jose, CA 95128 \     Free Cyberia!
  \ w: 415-496-5710     \   h:408-294-6492   \ 
   \_________________________________________________________________________
From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jason)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: A Tall Tale for Twelfth Night
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Date: 7 Jan 1993 21:14:57 GMT
Organization: the Polyhedron Group
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aaa.uoregon.edu

In article <C0G2t3.Kwv.2@cs.cmu.edu>, spok+@cs.cmu.edu (John Ockerbloom)
wrote:
> "... it took place on another
>  Twelfth Night some years ago, right here in Callahans...."

[  ]

> "Mike simply jerked his thumb toward Doc's table.  'Chess nuts boasting
>  by the open fire,' he said, in a low voice.

Jason snickers at the pun.

 
> "Doc shook his head and pointed to the other two.  'They never let poor
>  Rudolf join in any lame beer games,' he explained.

"I've heard that line somewhere, but it's still a good one." chuckle's
Jason

> "Quite a tale," the lurker remarks.  "There wouldn't be a moral to this
>  story of yours now, would there?"
> 
> "Not really," says John.  "But it's still worth telling tonight, I think.
>  After all, how many nights do three wiseguys from the east come in
>  and leave you with mirth, gold, and Franklin cents?"

Jason by this point is ROFL. But he recovers enough to grab a double
fistfull of Peanuts and throw them at John. "That was Great! I agree,
Spider couldn't have done better himself." then he cracks up again, as he
recalls the details, the horrid puns, and the excellent storytelling.
"Really great . . ." <Chuckle>

Jason