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From: uribe@jarthur.claremont.edu (Soprano)
Subject: Re: New Year Pizza Party
Organization: Claremont Shelter for Maladjusted Singers
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 04:30:01 GMT


Soprano finally lifts her nose out of the vocal score she's had it buried in
and notes the rather startling changes that have occurred in the decor of
the Place without her noticing.  

"Undersea, huh?"  

Reaching under her table, she withdraws a nondescript mesh duffel bag and
disappears into the folks room.  A few minutes later, she reappears, dressed
in a royal blue and black dive skin and carrying mask, snorkel and fins.

"What else could a diver wear to an undersea party?  Well, I suppose I
*could* have put on all of my scuba gear -- but it's tough to party when
you're wearing about 60 pounds of tank and regulator and lead weights, not
to mention being encased in 1/4-inch of neoprene! ;-)"

She goes over to the bar, produces a dollar bill and gets a rum-spiked
eggnog from Mike, then wanders to the chalk line.

"There's just under four hours left of 1992 here in SoCal.  It's been quite a
year for me -- a lot of pain, and a lot of joy, and a lot of times when I
wasn't sure just which of the two I was feeling.  Friendships have evolved,
and so has my marriage.  Thanks to my husband, I've been able to take time
to evaluate many aspects of my life, to explore options that I didn't know
that I had.  It has been interesting and in many ways disconcerting -- but
at least I haven't been stagnating!"

She raises her mug in salute to all the patrons of the Place before she
drains it.  "I wish you all the happiest of new years -- and for myself, may
the process of growth and change that I started in 1992 continue unbroken."

>>>> crash <<<<

She then joins the line at the VPM, and when her turn comes, gets a white
clam pizza (olive oil, garlic, parmesan cheese and clams) which she offers
to share with anyone who's interested.

					Soprano

"You're more than beginning -- you're learning to fly;
 You feel like you're falling, but it passes in time...."
			"From Me to You", Janis Ian
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| Soprano (Lydia M. Uribe)                      uribe@jarthur.claremont.edu |
| Claremont, CA                                  uribe@hmcvax.claremont.edu |
|           Cats, quilts and diving -- what more could anyone ask?          |
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From: dbriggs@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Daniel Briggs)
Subject: Re: Newbies on the March
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 16:32:36 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.090447.8483@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
  mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar) writes:
>"One of the worst offenders for units, though, is astronomy. Through
>sheer bloody-mindedness and inertia, I am forced to have to cope with
>anachronisms like Angstroms (where the SI nanometre is a perfectly
>sensible substitute) and to measure the size of astronomical objects
>in centimetres!"

"Now hang on here.  I grant you that Angstroms are an anachronism, but I
don't have much problem with distances in cm.  Measuring an au scale object
in either cm or m is pretty awkward, so if there is no good reason to
prefer one of the other on that account.  cm have the advantage that
densities scale into reasonable quantities in cgs.  A density of 1 is
typical in cgs as compared to 10^6 in MKS.  Or 10-3 and 10^3 instead of
10^3 and 10^9.  (Yeah, I'm not talking about stellar atmospheres, here.)
And I do prefer Gaussian units for EM problems.  No \epsilon_0 for me, if I
can help it!  And I'll admit that I prefer Joules and Newtons to ergs and
dynes, so I often drop back to MKS for mechanics problems.  *shrug*  As we
all know, specialized units make specialized problems much easier by
brushing different obscure physical constants under the rug.  A little time
spent getting facile with several different systems will pay off later.
Me, I'd nominate Angstroms, parsecs, and magnitudes as being on the hit
list of units that we don't really need, but any competent astronomer will
have to be facile with them anyway due to the huge volume of literature
written in these units.  (Incidentally, I know some multi-wavelength
astronomers who measure all fluxes, including visual magnitudes, in
Janskies.)

"We're not perfect, but I don't think it's as bad as you think, DM."

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From: jpalmer@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (John D Palmer)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Scientific creationism
Date: 22 Dec 92 22:54:04 GMT
 <1992Dec22.222559.23102@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: The Ohio State University


    Scientific Creationism is a movement founded on the assumption that, even 
if there is evolution, God could still have created the universe as the bible 
states.

    The bible has parables; therre are fools who claim that god created the 
world in 144 hours as we measure them today, but there are good, solid pieces 
of evidence that specifically allow for biblical creation (one of the first and
most important is the time frame and another is the lack of fossil chains)

     While you can and should ridicule the idea that God MUST have done this, 
after all, the bible seems to have said so, be careful ridiculing someone for 
the word 'creationism'.  All the word indicates is a belief that God, in fact, 
did have a hand in creation.
-- 
"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
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From: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe)
Subject: Re: Stick
Reply-To: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 23:34:00 +0000


"Hey, Chuck - the folks room is over there!" Mary MerryTail waves 
from the hot-tub and points with her tail (longet than either of my 
arms!).
"Come back and have a drink afterwards, if you like! You could do me 
a favour and pull the kitchen tap off my shoulder as well. And 
MonTmplar - we know who to blame if half the folks room is missing!"

Mary MerryTail 
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| Ommmmmm, said the lift                    |maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk |
| Organisation: Me? You're joking, right?   |maryb@cix.compulink.uucp  |
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From: narxtc@navier.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Allo, and Good Beast!
Date: 26 Dec 1992 08:48:51 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
NNTP-Posting-Host: navier.math.uh.edu

From out of nowhere (well actually from some unspecified place in the ceiling
joists), a lanky figure in black falls with a delicate THUD!

"Ahyaoo, ... Could someone check and see whether I happen to be missing any
limbs?" 

As he picks himself up, and dusts himself off, a sense of electricity
flows from him, mainly because of the big orange heavy duty cable leading into 
his backpack. Leading out of the pack are two lamps with pistol grips and a box
like strobe slung over his neck and hanging on his chest. On his head is a 
baseball cap with an odd symbol (two footprints on a yellow background.)

"Hello, I am the Bi-Bulb. I herald the coming of the way neato Beans Barton 
entourage, or some such stough like that. Is there a place that I may plug 
into?" After doing so, he checks his lights and assures himself that they work
okay. He then sets the lights down, disengages the pack and makes an odd motion with his hand (kind of like an octopus, really.) As a communal blink occurs, he has changed attire. He is now in a black trenchcoat with black slacks, shirt
and vest. He also has a black fedora with a "QUANTUM DUCK - Physics Phun!"
button on it. He seems to be playig with a yo-yo, if not competently, at least
with excessuve casualness, that you don't think is particularly genuine. He 
seems to be frenetically trying to be casual, and finally gives up. "Mike, I'll have a usual - orange juice and coke. In a pint mug, please." Turning, he says,
"Well, I look forward to getting to know you all, and also entertaining you. I 
hope that you get to meet Barton soon, and the rest of the Bi-Peds will also
be here. I hope I can find a dancing partner for some of these ditties
(Dagbertto's Tuber Root Fantasy is always nice.) Wait a moment, how did I just
speak in parentheses?" He then downs the drink, and pitches it into the hearth,
where it lands with a resounding *CRASH*...


--
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* 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: noj@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Jonathan E Miles)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: *Now* I can celebrate.
Date: 27 Dec 1992 22:37:12 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

youngj4@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Jeffrey 'Taldin' Young) writes:


>Taldin sweeps into the room, dressed in jeans, T-shirt, flannel shirt
>worn open over it, and blue fuzzy slippers,  Slaps a stack of ones on
>the bar. "Next round's on me, Mike.. IBC Cream Soda.   This is the one I've
>been saving..."  

At this, Itosu hurries to the bar and buys an entire coolerful of Gatorade, and
in true NFL fashion douses Taldin with the contents.

"I believe you are correct, the round IS on you.  BTW, the KC Chiefs are in the
playoffs!!!"

He then returns to the bar and buys a glass of Gatorade for himself and heads 
for the chalkline.  

"To American football, may the best teams(Washington and KC, IMHO) win!!"

<<<<<CRASH>>>>>


Itosu the Ogre


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From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Wench
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 16:58:06 GMT

kitten giggles and groans at all the bad puns....

--
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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

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From: aaron@atlantis.uucp
Subject: How We Rung In The New Year
Organization: Atlantis Communications, Edmonton, AB, Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 05:51:29 GMT

"Well, I took Mary Merrytail's advice and stopped worrying about what would be
the 'right' way to celebrate the New Year and just did it.

"Nicole and I did a really neat jigsaw puzzle she got me for Christmas--an
artwork called 'Critters' by Ray L. McGinnis, with another artwork on the
back of the puzzle.  Only 529 pieces, so it only took us a couple of hours, but
it was worth it.

"Then we went out and rented a few movies.  Then we watched them.

"The first one was 'Harvey', with Jimmy Stewart.  This is my first Jimmy
Stewart movie--yes, I've never seen 'It's A Wonderful Life'--and I enjoyed it
immensely.  I highly recommend it as an incredibly heartwarming movie for any
sentimental occasion.

"The second was 'The Empire Strikes Back'.  We recently realized it had been a
while since we'd seen the Star Wars movies, so we rented 'Star Wars' a couple
of months ago and now got the sequel.  This one didn't age as well, somehow...

"We took a dinner break in between the above two, by the way...but after TESB
was finished, we checked the movie channel and discovered that 'The Naked Gun
2 1/2' was just starting, so we watched that one again.  Then we watched 'The
Maltese Falcon', another first for both of us.  Somewhere around the time that
Mr. Cairo and Miss O'Shaughnessy were both in Spade's apartment, midnight
struck and we celebrated with a kiss.  Then we watched the rest of the movie.
I can see what all the fuss was about...

"Finally, this evening I watched Pump Up The Volume, the last of the movies we
rented yesterday.  I took this one mostly on a whim, and it was an okay watch.
It would've been better if I was an angst-ridden teenager, but it still wasn't
that bad, even though my wife left about twenty minutes into it.  Oh, well.

"While I'm on the subject of movies, I highly recommend 'A Few Good Men'.  I've
never given Tom Cruise much credit for acting ability, but he does a damn fine
job in this one.  Nicholson is also excellent as usual.  James Marshall(from
Twin Peaks)does a creditable job as a Marine who isn't all that bright, mainly
because he's not trying to act above his intellectual level...and not trying to
be James Dean anymore either."

-- 
---Alfvaen(Still looking for "October's Baby")
"Just like the falling rainbow, just like the stars in the sky                   Life should never feel small."  ---Black
Current Album--Black:Wonderful Life
Current Read--Tesseracts4
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From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Martyr wakes up...!
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:48:23 GMT

dr. martyr says:

>"Hello everyone.  It's just me again.  I'm back in the land of the
>(virtual) living once more.  After submitting my thesis back in
>October, I was hoping that I would once again have time to make a
>regular posting or two to this place.  But, you know how it is.  The
>office gets busy in the run-up to the end of the year.  There's
>reports and documents to be produced.  New equipment arrives and has
>to be installed and set-up.  Life, in all its busy glory, steals some
>of your own glory from you..."

>"Anyway, why the (un?-)timely reappearance I hear you ask.  Well, I
>wanted to wish everyone a Happy Christmas and a Peaceful and Joyous
>New Year."

[nasty car crash deleted]

>"Yes, well, the more important event of last week - and the one which
>more-or-less makes up for the troubles on Tuesday - was that I
>successfully defended my PhD thesis on Thursday afternoon and I am now
>(to all practical intents and purposes) Dr. Martyr (so to speak)!!"

"hugs for dr. martyr....and bravo!"  kitten is always happy to have
something else to celebrate...

a toast...TO THE CAPTURING OF THE ILLUSIVE PHD.!!!!"




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Borrowed from Claire/and or Granma (Granma sent me the file)....

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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

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From: jpalmer@onetouch.COM (John Palmer)
Subject: Re: Quantum (and untutored Zen) and Beliefs (was Re: Absolutes)
Organization: MCS/OneTouch, Inc.
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 18:29:15 GMT

lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals) writes:

>>The existance or inexistance of God is one of those questions.  By some
>>attitudes it *must* be true or it *must* be false, it cannot be both.  By
>>my argument, since it cannot be proven, then both those who believe it is
>>true are as valid as those who believe it is false.  In essense, each
>>belief is as true as the other.

>I don't agree with your substitution of "true" for "valid."  I've just flipped
>a coin, and haven't checked to see which way it somes up.  Now, were I to
>believe it came up heads, and you were to believe it came up tails (rather than
>both of us doing the reasonable thing and simply admitting that we don't know),
>both beliefs would be invalid, in that there's no basis for either of them.  In
>that sense, they'd both be equally valid.  However, one of them would be true,
>while  the other would not.

     This is true, but it ignores the fact that a person who considers such a
question will feel compelled to act as if the coin is heads or tails.

    Is it 'wrong' to act as if the coin lands heads, barring evidence to the
contrary?  Is it wrong to act as if the coin lands tails, barring evidence to
the contrary?  

One thing I have found, however, is that the simple belief  that there is or is
not a God is not provable, and further, that belief,and that belief alone, does
not force a gain or loss of knowledge.

    (A person may have a secondary belief that DOES enforce a gain or a loss of
knowledge . . . but it is NOT the belief that there exists a god that causes
this, it is the additional baggage they are bringing along with it.)

    What it DOES allow for, however, is another secondary set of beliefs that
may or may not be desirable. . .

    As I said in the thread started by unbeliever, there are some things you
can not arrive at solely through logic; in fact, I believe that there are
some things that are, of necessity, independent of logic. . . or at least
require some form of leap from logic.  It is by such a leap that a person must
determine whether or not there is a god. . .

    And, if there is a good, wise, and powerful god, there must be a way for
any given person to find the way to make that leap.

                                                          John


-- 
John Palmer					jpalmer@onetouch.COM
Columbus, OH					...!uunet!onetouch!jpalmer
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From: feath@agora.rain.com (Feather)
Subject: Re: Impressive knitting
Organization: Open Communications Forum
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 05:59:54 GMT

In article <memo.835631@cix.compulink.co.uk> cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>In-Reply-To: <1992Dec31.180459.18615@ucc.su.OZ.AU> mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar)
>
>No...No... I knit "Bisexuals" of  quality and distinction!

Feather can't resist:
"Aren't you guys getting a bit knit-picky?"

>
From: schweppe@acs.bu.edu (Edmund Schweppe)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: The world, and what it'd be like...
Date: 2 Jan 93 07:41:21 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

Jammer writes:

>>"My new friends, I give you Callahans.
>>A place where I can loose track of where I am,
>>A place where while I don't live here, Warrior roams free,
>>A place where Wee Wenches are brave enough to bop my nose,
>>A place where it's not neccessary to be afraid,

>>And at last, a place where it's possible for Sgt Scott Coffee
>>to return from patrol."

kitten replies:

>"to miracles.....i always expect them and they always happen...."
><crash>

Merlinvin echoes kitten's toast.  "To miracles!"

"And to those others, eternally on patrol.

 We shall never forget, nor shall ever neglect, but forever respect!"

<crash!>

__________________________________________________________________________
Ed Schweppe o/k/a Merlinvin - schweppe@acs.bu.edu,
    (or for faster replies)   eschweppe%drcoa1.decnet@drcvax.af.mil
All standard disclaimers (also datclaimers and deotherclaimers) apply.
From: snarf@access.digex.com (Sean Eustis)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Toasting Coffee
Date: 30 Dec 1992 21:59:27 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Distribution: world
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Tears have been forming in Dreamweaver's eyes and rolling down his cheeks
as he listens to Jammer's story of Sgt. Coffee and the toasts of others to
those who have not returned. Letting the tears dry, he goes to the bar,

	"I'll have one of those expressos, Mike."
Going to the chalkline, Dreamweaver savors the mocha (he's one of those
you'd call an enthusaist for coffee, if not a maniac) and speaks,

	"Jammer, anything I could add to anybody's toast on the matter
would feel innapropriate. I'm either too young or lucky to have served in
any actual military, but I try to honor them by learning as much about
them as I can. The emblem on my shoulder is part of that. I'll be looking
forward to next year, or whenever you're ready, when we can all learn more
about Shooting Star 6."

	"To Scott...", Dreamweaver whispers, and so does the cup...

(crash)

Then Dreamweaver heads out into the snow to join in on the fun.




-- 
In VR -- The Dreamweaver		In RL -- Sean Eustis
						snarf@access.digex.com
"God never closed a door without
 first opening another."
From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Thyra)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Dalek has entered the building
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Date: 30 Dec 1992 00:56:26 GMT
Organization: the Polyhedron Group
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aaa.uoregon.edu

In article <BzxoFF.JBq@agora.rain.com>, feath@agora.rain.com (Feather)
wrote:
> >> "MY VISION IS IMPAIRED" cries the Dalek "I CAN NOT SEE."  He starts
> >> rotating and randonly moving around the move, bumping into various people.
> >> (Excuse me).  Finally, the Dalek crashes into the pool, and sinks to
> >> the bottem. This serves to clear the Dalek's eyepiece and cheers him
> >> up incredibly.  However, he will need some assistance getting out of
> >> the water.  (Luckily Dalek casings are waterproof.)
> >> 
> >> The Dalek
> >
> >  Putting the Dalek between herself and Ekho who is still stalking her 
> >(again), Amanda considers the situation.  "Well," she comments in between 
> >dodges, "we have a large number of people in here with great strength 
> >and/or telekenetics.  Let's get a team effort going!"  Amanda jumps to 
> >the side, but to no avail.  Ekho gives her a light shove, sending her 
> >into the pool to keep the Dalek company.
> >
> Feather takes off from her former resting point on Taldin's head and lands
> on a high place directly above the hot tub. 
> 
> "Did someone say 'telekinetic'?"  Feather grins.  "Hey, THYRA!  How does one
> levitate an object submerged in water without levitating the water itself?
> Teach me, and we can do it together, somehow.  What do you say?"

"Prrrrrrhmmmmm." Thyra looks at the very small bird who wants to levitate a
rather large, wet Dalek. "I thought Linda The Starship hauled Dalek out
already with a tractor beam. Oh well, I guess he fell in again." She pads
over and leaps up onto the rim of the tub. At the moment, Thyra is still in
the form of a largish, tawny housecat, wearing a black velvet collar. She
looks at the Dalek, looks at little Feather, and washes her ear with a paw.
"Well, the easiest thing is to apply the TK to Dalek's 'head'. The top of
him is sticking up out of the water, after all. The other option is to
extend the TK forces -through- the water, but concentrate on attaching them
to the surface and interior of his casing. Sort of like reaching into a
barrel of black-eyed peas and grabbing an orange that's beneath the
surface. You work by touch, get a good grip, and haul it out." She smiles
at her avian friend, and the sapphire on her collar glows a soft blue.
"Give it a try. I'll help if you need it."

Purrs,
Thyra
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