HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: schweppe@acs.bu.edu (Edmund Schweppe)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Didi's ill, again :-(
Date: 24 Jan 93 21:51:32 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

Kitten writes:

>"you can rub my back, sir, anytime..." kitten pulls out a bottle of
>scented oil and pulls off her shirt.  "i will even give you my feet if
>you promise not to tickle."

Merlinvin pulls something out from underneath his cloak and starts
unfolding what turns out to be a full-size massage table, complete with a
padded top and a terrycloth cover.  Sniffing kitten's scented oil, he
rummages around for a moment and pulls out a second bottle with a matching
scent; one bottle goes at each end of the table, elminating long and
awkward reaches when a new application of oil becomes necessary. Merlinvin
then doffs his cloak and drapes it over a convenient chair; with the
preparations complete, he helps kitten up onto the table.

"You may rest assured, dear kitten, that I will not *deliberately* tickle
you; and any accidental tickles won't happen more than once."

With that, Merlinvin begins slow, deliberate, deep strokes up and down
kitten's back... perhaps an hour later, Merlinvin helps a completely
relaxed kitten off the table, a glowing smile on her face.

"Next time, perhaps a full body massage?" asks Merlinvin.

__________________________________________________________________________
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    (or for faster replies)   eschweppe%drcoa1.decnet@drcvax.af.mil
All standard disclaimers (also datclaimers and deotherclaimers) apply.
From: narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: A Musing Dreaver
Date: 26 Jan 1993 05:57:01 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
Distribution: world
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In article <1k1kuoINNj8e@digex.digex.com> snarf@access.digex.com (Sean Eustis) writes:
>Dreamweaver gets a glass of water from the bar and drinks to clear his
>throat a bit, then steps to the chalkline.
>
>	"I was finally able to reconstruct from memory a poem, well
>technically its prose, but anyway I wrote it down again and I figured some
>of you might like to hear it. Its kinda sappy, but considering that most
>of the other stuff I've written was in high school I didn't want to spoil
>the mood with a bunch of angst. Here goes.
>
[poem given to little bandwidth ogres]
>
>	"Well, there you go. Comments are welcome, and no, it doesn't have
>a tittle."
>

Well, I liked it! Lovely descriptions, all of which make ME want to go on
to Galveston real soon now... 

(sayeth the one who needs to go sailing again one day...)



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From: siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl Siewert)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: testing tin
Date: 23 Jan 1993 14:57:17 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu


Kate lives.

<YES, AND I FOR ONE AM GLAD.
>: >: >This is a reasonable assertion on your part, but I would not bet 
>: >too much on it if I were you.
>: >: <TWENTY BUCKS TOO MUCH?>
>It depends on your income.  My philosophy is fairly odd, however,
>and is plenty frightening to any who realize the consequences.
>But that is another topic.
<PHILOSOPHY IS GOD'S WAY OF WARNING US WE'RE NOT DEAD, YET.

>: <NO EGO PROBLEMS HERE>
>In fact, no.  My ego is entirely fit for my purpose, and is, in any case,
>largely a matter of elaborate affectation.  Were you to meet me, you
>would likely think me a rather humble, self-effacing bastard.
<OH, ARTURO PRINCE OF IRONY.  HUMBLE AS IN LOW TO THE GROUND OR AS 
IN PIE? JUST ASKING.>
>: 
>: >I imagine so.  It would be even more difficult were you to attempt
>: >it with your tongue planted firmly in the cheek of someone other
>: >than yourself.
>: <CAN I CHOOSE?  IS MAGDA OUT THERE?>
>This is entirely your affair, and I do mean affair.
<BA DUM BUMP>

>Far be it from me to reduce your rhetoric to the mere
>reciting of the rote lessons of reailty.
>I will grant you more credit than that.

<AND DON'T THINK I DON'T APPRECIATE IT
YA KNOW DOUG, THIS COULD BE THE BEGINNING OF A BEAUTIFUL FRIENDSHIP.

slash walks into the fog as the plane carrying Kate Hepburn takes off 
for the coast.

<MARAUD OUT>
-- 
/               James Riekar, barhopping yoyist, at your service              \
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From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Culinary Peculiarities
Date: 27 Jan 1993 02:28:03 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Distribution: world
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
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In article <1993Jan26.195345.20499@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>, traum@silver.lcs.mit.edu (Jonathan Traum) writes:
>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
>Commonwealth, jelly is what we call jello (which is actually a brand
>name for a gelatin dessert). 

Er, no.  Jam and jelly are *NOT* identical here in the U.S.  There are three
related items:
	Jelly: 		Made from the juice of the fruit, boiled down into a
			thick consistency;
	Preserves:	Made from the whole fruit, with substantial amuounts of
			the fruit still intact;
	Jam:		Much like preserves, but without the lumps.
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Dan'l hits Australia
Date: 25 Jan 1993 09:04:06 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Distribution: world
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
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In article <memo.886015@cix.compulink.co.uk>, maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe) writes:
=one one slice of bread, you put mustard, on the other mayonaise. On 
=both you put some salad., cheese isn't in the recipe but I have used 
=it here. Lots of roast beef, and on top of that chocolate - the rarer 
=the roast beef, teh darker teh choclate you use. more roast beef. 
=then you add hard crackers - Ritz, Tuc, whatever......
=
=I've never put both the chocolate and the crackers in myself, but one 
=day....

You sure you're not part Mexican?  One of their more popular dishes is
chocolate chicken  (well, they *CALL* it Chicken Mol, but it's really
chocolate chicken).
From: siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl Siewert)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: <HI THERE>
Date: 24 Jan 1993 18:42:00 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jason) writes:


>Jason takes a sip of a transparent red drink, and continues. "Among other
>thinhs, I'm an author of Cyberpunk stories. The 'Silk and Steel' serial on
>alt.cyberpunk.chatsubo is my work. I haven't had time to check out the
>Taiwan-On yet, but I'll probably drop by there after a while to check it
>out. Can I buy you a drink?"

<YEP.  MAKE IT A GLENLIVET AND VAN DE CAMPS PORK AND BEANS.  I PICKED
UP MY HAND IN... SOMETHING LIKE 2995, I THINK.  CRAZY ZORF'S USED
CYBERSTUFF.  HE GOT THEM HOT FROM SOME GUY IN CUBA.>

"You mean a flow of arms from the communists?"

<NO RIE>

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From: siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl Siewert)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: C and Bicycles
Date: 25 Jan 1993 20:04:13 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

mikew%SDLUNIX@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Whitaker) writes:

>MonTemplar said something about...
>>EX-TER-MI-NATE

	peanutpeanutpeanutpeanut  ######  peanutpeanutpeanutpeanut
	peanutpeanutpeanutpeanut #      # peanutpeanutpeanutpeanut
	peanutpeanutpeanutpeanut #  X   # peanutpeanutpeanutpeanut
	peanutpeanutpeanutpeanut  ######  peanutpeanutpeanutpeanut
	peanutpeanutpeanutpeanut # term # peanutpeanutpeanutpeanut
	peanutpeanutpeanutpeanut #      # peanutpeanutpeanutpeanut
	peanutpeanutpeanutpeanut  ######  peanutpeanutpeanutpeanut

>Uhoh. Peanuts.

You're darn tootin'!!!

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.           /
From: tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Thomas J Lee)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Grounded Magic(k?)
Date: 27 Jan 93 14:48:01 GMT
Reply-To: tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Thomas J Lee)
Organization: Columbia University

The place (reality):

	Remember how, last spring, I discovered that I was having trouble
writing down my ideas for stories, poems, and such?  It seemed like the
moment I sat down in front of a computer, or picked up pencil and paper, my
brain ceased to be productive.

The Place (Callahan's):

	After making sure Delilah is well and truly safe, the Lamplighter
finds a nearby seat and sits there, by way of standing (sitting?) guard.  He
notices a metallic jingling sound, as if there were a wind chime in his coat
pocket, with wind to go with it.

The place:

	I get these wonderful ideas while I'm in the shower, or washing
dishes, or walking from one place to another -- in other words, in places
where I can't write things down.  But the actions I do in these places are
"grounding" ones, so perhaps the reason I get ideas then is precisely because
my mind isn't in the clouds, but down here with the rest of me.

The Place:

	The Lamplighter reaches into his pocket and takes out his key ring,
which is indeed jingling merrily on, all by itself.  He has very little time
to see the dancing pewter unicorn-and-flower design upon it before the
unicorn leaps right out of the relief, into the virtual reality.  (Delilah,
asleep, is not disturbed; don't worry!)

	The pewter unicorn looks at the Lamplighter with its century eyes,
and says, "Find me," in a voice that echoes from within a jeweled cavern,
deep underground, or perhaps one that soars among cloudy mountain peaks.

The place:

	Perhaps, instead of in the clouds, my mind should be here on the
ground when I sit in front of the computer, or pick up pencil and paper.
Perhaps I should strive not to fly, but to walk.  Perhaps the magic is on the
ground, like legends of unicorns.

The Place:

	The Lamplighter blinks his widened eyes, but now the only unicorn to
be seen is the one molded in pewter on his key ring, which he puts back into
its accustomed pocket, Helix Key and all.

	On the floor where the unicorn stood is a tiny pewter rose, which the
Lamplighter picks up for Aurora.

The Lamplighter (Tom Lee)                      "I try to be rational
tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu                     I try to be wise
Current Listen: Nanci Griffith, "One Fair       But it all gets blown to pieces
Current Kick: Mayan calendar    Summer Evening" When I look in her eyes"
              (happy 13 Muluc 12 Muan)             -- Billy Joel, "Temptation"
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Descriptions...
Date: 25 Jan 1993 10:05:53 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 <1993Jan22.190927.1314@ee.ryerson.ca>, dspeck@ee.ryerson.ca (DOUGLAS SPECK) writes:
>
>T-Bear stands up on a chair next to the bar, and shouts, "May I have
>your attention, PLEASE!..........Thank you. Now, ladies, gents and
>others ;), I have had an idea. Because I am relatively new here, I
>haven't got a good vision of what all the regulars look like, much
>less an idea of what all the newcomers look like. If everyone would
>post a decent( but fairly short) description of their appearance, 
>I believe it would help everyone to `see' the Place better... I`ll
>start. I am a Chinese Giant Panda, about six feet (180 cm) tall when 
>standing upright. My fur is the black and white pattern that you would 
>expect, I eat lots of bamboo shoots as my usual meal, and my favourite
>drink is A&W Root Beer. My birthday is July 19, 1967, and my specialty
>is the T-Bear Hug(tm). My usual place in the Bar is a nice warm spot 
>near the fireplace, out of line of fire of the incoming glasses. I hail
>from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. There, see? It's easy. :)"

OK, Speaker-to-Minerals (whose name comes from the fact that he performs a
similar function for scientists in dealing with computers as that performed for
Speaker-to-Animals did for the Kzinti in dealing with other sentient races) is
a bit strange to describe.  You see, when he first entered the place, he was a
5'11" human weighing about 210 pounds, with glasses, brown hair (balding) and a
full beard and mustache (he could easily have been mistaken for Hank Williams,
Jr.).  On his right wrist he wore a watch, and on his left, a bracelet engraved
with a snake coiling about a stick.  He was, in other words, indistinguishable
from his alter-ego, Carl J Lydick.  In the 15 months he's been in the place,
however, he seems to've been transmogrified into a Kzintosh of the same height
and weight (in other words, short, but otherwise normally-proportioned for a
Kzintosh).  Carl, meanwhile, has lost even more hair (and what he's got is
going grey, especially in the sideburns;  If this keeps up, I'll trade in my
brown frames for black, get rid of the beard and mustache, and start doing
Isaac Asimov impersonations :-).  The weight's remained about the same.
From: keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: testing tin
Date: 22 Jan 1993 22:56:19 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au

daq@fc.hp.com (Doug Quarnstrom) writes:

>The next person that puns in response to this post is a dead man,
>unless, of course, it is a woman, in which case the appropraite
>gender substitution can be made.

I'm afraid I have too much gallium to resist that threat ... you'll just
have to cobalt me one.  Just let me get a drink - I want to steel myself
for the onslaught.  I just hope my mettle is up to the task, perhaps more
so than my mercurial wit.  <Gulp!>

Splash!

--
		Splash!		*To love is to LIVE!*
   (aka Mike van Keulen -- e-mail: keulen@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk (Alan Ralph)
Subject: Re: Another one for the Callahans recipe book....
Reply-To: mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk
Distribution: world
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Organization: Chez MonTemplar, Redunser
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:06:04 +0000

In article <01GTXEMG8GOI000OZS@UG.EDS.COM> MIKEW@SHAPEL.UG.EDS.COM (Mike Whitaker) writes:
>Danger Mouse announces the Callahans recipe book.
>
>The Bard smiles. "Right now, I could get to hate the word 'diet'. Oh well -
>never mind. Yes please, Danger Mouse - I'd love a copy - .uu.Z is fine." He
>pauses for a moment in thought. "And here's a contribution for book 2.
>WARNING - you can put on weight READING this!"
>
[CENSORED!]

"Urgh! I managed to save your article for future perusal, once I've had a lie
down - just glancing at it gave me a sugar rush! Phew!"

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From: narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: One quick question
Date: 25 Jan 93 18:04:36 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
NNTP-Posting-Host: casc.math.uh.edu

Starknight writes :
> "LUXURY! When I was child, we didn't 'ave Usenet to play wordgames
> on... There were seventeen of us trading puns in shoebox in middle of
> road..."

"humph! We didn't even have puns! We had to trade plain nouns and verbs, with
NO ADJECTIVES! And under a pebble, all thirty of us!"


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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Descriptions...
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 02:21:41 GMT

kitten decides to oblige t-bear....

in RL and in a.c i am a short, blonde (when my hair isn't purple),
blue eyed, freckled, bespeckled library tech.

i tend to bounce and giggle and hug in both places...

when i first came into callahans i wore ragged denim shorts and a
t-shirt... 

in RL i live in champaign, illinois...married, 3 step-children, 2 cats
and my BH (better half or butt head) is a tech in the chemistry
dept...he manages undergrad labs.

my favorite drink varies...right now i am especially fond of michael
shea's amber ale.

date of birth 3/6/55 (almost 38)



--
***************************************************************************
conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten           /\ /\  barbara ann 
"my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?"      {=.=}
                                              ~   trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu 
"it's not easy being a cast iron bitch--it takes years of practice.
most people don't appreciate that.
From: eesshlgb@gdr.bath.ac.uk (S H L G Bisson)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Didi's ill, again : -(
Date: 27 Jan 93 10:22:11 GMT
Organization: School of Electrical Engineering, University of Bath, UK

In the referenced article, ekho@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (amanda rothman) writes:
>
>  Giggling, Amanda adds, "And don't forget the infamous rock quarry that was
>the site of explorations on Blakes 7, Dr Who, Star Trek,...  I'd love to
>visit that place some day."

Ignatz wanders over with a UK road atlas.

"Which one? They're all fairly near here, in fact I've been climbing at
one of them! Llangatoch, just above Abergavenny, on the (literal) edge of
the Brecon Beacons.

"Then there's Dan yr Ogof caves, home of the Silurians, several clay pits
in Dorset and Cornwall, and a couple of quarries in South Wales and in the
Forest of Dean near Gloucester."

Ignatz grins.

"So, if you're ever in the area..."

----Ignatz Mouse/Simon H Le G Bisson----net.jerriais----Reunite Pangaea!------
From: jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: I/O, I/O, it's off to pun we go (was Re: Dan'l hits Australia)
Date: 22 Jan 93 22:55:52 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc., San Jose, CA

>This entire discussion leads me to wonder which hamburger establishment will
>be most appropriate after viewing the movie _Alive_.
>
I can think of a few.  But I keep thinking of the "Donner
Trail Dinner House" in Verde, Nevada.  (This place really
exists, honest!)  I keep wanting to eat there, just to be
perverse...

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

"Every now and then, a big rock falls out of the sky, and everyone has 
a *very bad* day."  --from the PBS "Dinosaurs" special.
From: siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl Siewert)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: <anybody>
Date: 22 Jan 1993 13:44:08 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu
Summary: I'm feeling neglected
Keywords: boo hoo hoo

slash pulls out a deck of round playing cards and deals his buddy Rie
a hand of dragon poker.  This being a time-slip for him, slash has absolutley
no idea what the rules are and cheats mercilessly. 

<TO MAGDA AND SHONIAS:
     I LOVE YOU.  IT'S GOOD TO HAVE NEW FRIENDS, AND TO THE REST OF Y'ALL
I'M JUST GONNA SIT HERE AND BE A BASTARD TILL SUMBUDDY SEZ HI.>

slash slips his jacket off his shoulders.  as it passes behind his back,
it disappears.  he reaches back beneath his left arm, and slides an 
Ibanez 3000 electric bass over his shoulder.  he begins playing the 
Oscar meyer weiner song in 7/6 blues, and sipping his Phoenix.

  
Call me Blue Ishmael.
Thar she blows!
-- 
/               James Riekar, barhopping yoyist, at your service              \
Impersonated at Fort Hays State by Karl G. Siewert, pretending to be at K-State
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From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Thyra)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: a Punday delurking
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Date: 26 Jan 1993 07:02:43 GMT
Organization: the Polyhedron Group
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aaa.uoregon.edu

In article <108228@bu.edu>, schweppe@acs.bu.edu (Edmund Schweppe) wrote:
> The peanuts splatter Merlinvin full in the face.  Merlinvin tries to look
> miffed and irritated, but doesn't fool anyone, especially Thyra, for a
> moment.  "Only *half* a dish of peanuts?  Mrrrph.  That crappy pun must
> have mis-thyred..."

Thyra giggles. "Oh, I was just savng the rest for the inevitable reply you
would make. Heads up!" The rest of the dish of peanuts sails at Merlinvin,
in two steady streams, one from each side. <bap-bap-bap-bap,
bap-bap-bap-bap>

> "Actually, Thyra, I've got a question for you.  I've often wondered
> whether or not that state of utter bodily relaxation which follows a good
> massage would be lost after a shape-shift.  Does the shift itself cause
> muscular tension?  Or, if you were to shift from one tense form to
> another, receive a massage, and shift back, would you then be tense?"

She smiles. "Actually, I find holding the same shape for a really long time
makes me more tense. When I shape shift, -everything- relaxes."
 
> "Having never massaged a shapeshifter before, I am slightly curious..."

Thyra grins. "Only -slightly- curious? Well, I like good massage as well as
the next girl. Care to give me one? I'd love a full-body massage right
about now, followed by a good soak in the hot tub."

Hugs and purrs,
Thyra
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Dan'l hits Australia
Date: 25 Jan 1993 08:56:54 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 <STEVE.93Jan19155354@styx.crc.ricoh.COM>, steve@crc.ricoh.COM (Stephen R. Savitzky) writes:
>"Gypsy's mention of messy guacamole burgers calls to mind one of my
>favorites," says the Mandelbear--"Chile burgers.  A hamburger topped
>with chile, grated cheese, and chopped raw onions.  Usually served
>open face, with both halves of the bun drowned in chile, and eaten
>with a fork."

I'm afraid you've got it wrong, Steve.  You've just describe a "chili size."
And note the spelling of "chili."  A chili burger is usually served just like
any other hamburger, and you don't get a fork to help you deal with it.
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