HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: noj@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Jonathan E Miles)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Descriptions...
Date: 22 Jan 1993 16:31:17 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
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dspeck@ee.ryerson.ca (DOUGLAS SPECK) writes:
>Hmmm, come to think about it, perhaps a standardized form of description
>would be in order, with a listing of Appearance, Favourite Drink, Place
>in the Bar, Birthdate, and Origin(city, country). On the other hand, 
>perhaps people would like to go about it in their own inimitable fashions...

Itosu stands up and stretches after a long afternoon nap.  
"To hell with bandwidth..I might as well describe myself.  I must of course
turn around so that you all can see me(as if you couldn't already.)"

He turns around slowly and allows the whole pub to see his appearance.  He is a
standard sized ogre(about 7'3" and 400 lbs), and he is wearing a huge white
karate gi(uniform) with a green(intermediate) belt.  He enjoys Citrus Cooler
Gatorade(the thirst-quencher) and his birthday is July 15, 1974.  He is at 
Kansas State University(like a few others here) which is located in Manhattan,
Kansas in the United States.  He can be found sitting in a reinforced chair in
a vague corner of the bar composing poetry or sleeping.

"There....now you see me as I am on the outside, you'll have to talk to me to
see the inside(or read my poems).



Itosu the ogre

Jonathan E. Miles
noj@matt.ksu.ksu.edu
-- 
If I wrote a .sig, you'd just expect a better one, so what's the use?
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Decapitalization?
Date: 26 Jan 1993 12:36:45 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Distribution: world
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
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In article <C1F3Fo.KL2@fc.hp.com>, daq@fc.hp.com (Doug Quarnstrom) writes:
>I am curious as to where he predicted that the US and England would
>become "communist" without revelution.

I think it was somewhere in the Communist Manifesto, or something he published
at about that time.  It's been about 20 years since I ran across the item.
From: c9b-ap@po.berkeley.edu (HakLien Chua)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Toast for friends
Date: 27 Jan 93 18:20:08 GMT
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: po.berkeley.edu

C+ goes over and gives a hug to Magda Wolf. Dumbstruck, the giant
cockroach is unable to say anything, and his compound eyes glitter
with tears.

C
+
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From: ablanch@physics.su.OZ.AU (Shonias)
Subject: Re: Poetry...
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 12:54:26 GMT

For some totally unfathomable reason, all this poetry inspires
Shonias to post the only piece of....writing that anyone has ever
said they liked without being asked to... of course it is only
4 lines long...

I can't remember, I can't remember
It was just a passing llama in the night

I can't remember, I can't remember
It was the brilliance of the moose's shining light.

Apologies to anyone who thought they might have been about to see some 
quality poetry, or indeed poetry at all...

Still bewildered as to the reason for this posting (perhaps it is the influence
of the witching hour)...

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: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Subject: Re: an idle observation *>
Reply-To: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:48:39 GMT


In article <1993Jan25.023151.22162@atlantis.uucp>, aaron@atlantis.uucp writes:
|>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."

ROTFLMAOWTIME!!!  (for at least 5 minutes)

"Alfvaen, that's priceless!  Thank your brother for me (people at work were
starting to think I was normal, until I cracked up in front of my terminal -
I was laughing so hard I couldn't breathe); that one gets put into permanent
memory."

Starknight
spr@abo.dec.com
Disclaimer:  Huh?  What'd I say?
From: ekho@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (amanda rothman)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Didi's ill, again : -(
Date: 26 Jan 93 04:27:35 GMT
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida

narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon) writes:

> In article <C1F3MI.1B3@cs.mcgill.ca> braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (The Didi-Sp
> >
> >"Acchhooo!  Bertie!  I am out of tissues again!  Sigh.  But thank
> >goodness for public television.  I mean ... wasn't that a dazzling 30
> >minutes of quilt making???!"

  Amanda sends some Puffs Didi's way; they helped her through her most
recent battle with a bug without sustaining the casualty of a red nose!

> Reminds me of the times I would be waiting for the BBC lineup on PBS. We'd se
> Blake's 7, then see a lovely BBC scenery film featuring sheep and other 
> wildlife. Then we'd see Dr. Who, then another BBC film with sheep and 
> sweeping pastoral scenery. Then, Good Neighbors, and another bloody sheep 
> film! I swear, they were the cameramen who later worked on Koyanisqatsi

  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."

> But help stamp out sheep films!

  Amanda tries to stop giggling, but can't.  She gives the Bi-Bulb a
sheepish grin instead.

                     Yours in Time and Space
From: JBrandt@AAA.Uoregon.EDU (Jason)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Toast for friends
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Date: 27 Jan 1993 04:50:36 GMT
Organization: The Polyhedron Group
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: fp1-dialin-1.uoregon.edu

In article <93025.145858KZAHLLER@MIAMIU.BITNET>, <KZAHLLER@MIAMIU.BITNET>
wrote:
> "I just received some very bad news from a friend of mine."

> "There are other tragedies and heart-breaks I'm dealing with now,
> but they weren't such a shock to me.  Anyway, this toast is for
> all of them.  Friends, to the survivors!  To those who must stay
> behind when friends and family ride westward, to those who are
> left behind when others leave them, to those who are taken from
> those they love against their will."
> 
> And Magda-Wolf tosses back most of the brandy and hurls the empty
> glass into the fireplace where the left-over alcohol causes a
> brilliant flash.

Jason raises his glass as well. "Amen to that. There's a philosophy I've
shared here before, for what comfort it can give. Life is a road we all
travel, and death but a gateway through which we all must in time pass.
Friends and loved ones may hurry on ahead of us, hidden from our sight by
the bends in life's road. Yet we shall meet them again, when it is our turn
to cross that threshold. To those that have gone before us, and those yet
to make the journey."

<<CRASH>>
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: daq@fc.hp.com (Doug Quarnstrom)
Subject: Re: Clueless newbie ventures in...
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:31:42 GMT
Organization: SPUGE
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.8 PL6]

Karl Siewert (siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu) wrote:
: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe) writes:
: >and somebody will doubtless have sent you the FAQ by now
: 
: Actually, no.  I haven't asked yet, but I would appreciate it.
: 
: >I'm MerryTail - have we hugged yet?"
: 
: No, but I could do with one.

What could you do with one? 

By the way, I am hugga non gratta.

doug
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Subject: Re: bird on ice... (LONG POST) *>
Reply-To: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:22:35 GMT


In article <93023.132513KZAHLLER@MIAMIU.BITNET>, <KZAHLLER@MIAMIU.BITNET> writes:
[Incredibly empathetic and beautiful post deleted - sorry, folx.]
|>"I'm not sure what else to tell you or your RL counterpart, Feather.
|>It hurts to see someone else going through the same thing I went
|>through and which, to some degree, I'm still going through.  I
|>think the keys to my survival, at least, were not isolating myself
|>from others and my very special circle of friends I could count on
|>to care about me and let me know I wasn't alone and who gave me
|>the time, support, and shoulders to cry/bitch on I needed while
|>I was healing.
|>
|>"Be well, new friend."
|>
|>Magda stands for a moment, unsure of herself, in front of Feather.
|>She fears she may be felt presumptuos (or even--Heaven forbid--
|>utterly boring and a total buttinsky), and that she may have
|>made the small gray bird unhappy.  She blushes with the
|>realization that she just spent entirely too much of everyone's
|>time running her mouth off and starts to go back to her corner
|>sit down and shut up again.

"Oh, no, you don't!  Kitten, everyone, I think these two deserve a great
big happy supportive group hug!"  Starknight, suiting action to words,
Magda-Wolf and Feather to begin the Hug...

Starknight
spr@abo.dec.com
Disclaimer:  Huh?  What'd I say?
From: jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Culinary Peculiarities
Date: 27 Jan 93 02:16:06 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc., San Jose, CA

>WONDERING IF ANYONE IS GETTING SICK OF HEARING FROM ME,
>MARAUD OUT>

Jilara takes her fingers out of her ears.  "Well, we were
considering asking you to turn down the volume a little.
There's no need to shout.

"Of course, it is possible you have a disease I've seen in
other parts of the net, where the common symptom is that all
lowercase letters disappear from one's keyboard..."

--
  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: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: An early toast
Date: 27 Jan 1993 14:20:10 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Distribution: world
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
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In article <1993Jan27.062620.24369@midway.uchicago.edu>, mss2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer) writes:
>	"People die opening frontiers.  This isn't to minimize the
>tragedy, but no enterprise will ever be risk free.  At least they died
>attempting something worthwhile, and for that we will remember them
>and honor while we live.

StM opines, "Given that, though, the *REAL* tragedy of the Challenger explosion
is that they shut down the space program for several years, instead of simply
instituting a policy that you don't launch when the temperature's too low,
while they were in the process of developing the new boosters.  That and the
fact that this wasn't the first problem of exactly this nature that NASA had
had.  You see, back in the '60s, they sent up a satellite, whose antenna was to
be deployed with, essentially bungee cord.  Well, the launch was successful,
but the antenna didn't deploy.  The NASA engineers who investigated the problem
learned that low temperatures reduced the effectiveness of the deployment
mechanism (or, in the vernacular `bungee doesn't bungee when it's cold').  Yet
the institutional memory of NASA is so feeble that, having essentially lost one
spacecraft because of this in the mid-60s, they didn't incorporate this `lesson
learned' into the launch specs for the shuttle."
From: snarf@access.digex.com (Sean Eustis)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Cyberpunk (was Re: One quick question)
Date: 26 Jan 1993 18:24:38 -0500
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com

Ignatz writes:
[Cyberpunk discussion deleted for bandwidth :-(  ]
>"Cyberpunk is dead... long live Cyberpunk!"
>With that final toast, the Acme Railgun Toaster fires once more, and at 6kps
>a glass vapourises in the back of the fireplace. Ignatz blows the smoke from
>tha barrel, and looks down at a small pile of soap boxes.
>"Uh oh. How do I get down...."
	"Here, let me help you.", and Dreamweaver adds his own glass to
Ignatz's with a flourish.

<<<Crash (ka-ping)>>>



-- 
   	The Dreamweaver				Sean Eustis
			(snarf@access.digex.com)
       "...if only you could see what I've seen with your eyes."
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: spok+@cs.cmu.edu (John Ockerbloom)
Subject: Re: Song list
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:11:24 GMT

In <C14v08.5yI@world.std.com> wgarmil@world.std.com (Wayne S Garmil) writes:
>Well, I guess I should have known this would happen.  People
>are asking me if a certain song is on the Filk tape.  Below is the song list
>for the tape I'm sending out.  If there's any song that you feel should be
>added to the tape, I think it should be discussed.  John Ockerbloom is the
>orginal creator of the Filk tape, but I'll gladly take over the job of adding
>songs and emailing out the tapes if John can't do it any longer.

John looks up.  "I've still got the master for _Callahans Coffeehouse 1991_,
the tape I edited and sent out last year.  At the moment, I'm not sending out
any more copies (not having easy access to a dubbing deck right now), but
might be able to make a few more copies if needed."

"But, as I mentioned on the credits sheet, any Callahanian can make a copy
 of the tape, so long as it's for 'private noncommercial use' (which largely
 means you don't try to make money off it), and you include a copy of the
 credits sheet.  This is basically to protect the rights of the people who
 wrote and performed songs on the tape.  If you'd like to use selected songs
 in other contexts, check it out with the songwriter first.  Their email
 addresses are on the credits sheet, though Steve Savitzky's has since
 changed to steve@crc.ricoh.com.

"CC-1991 is basically a closed project now (something I inadvertently assured
 by not releasing it until 1992).  But if you want to include it in a
 larger Callahans project, such as by putting new songs on the flip side
 of the tape, that's fine with me (so long as you abide by the copying
 policies on the credits sheet).  Or if anyone feels like going whole hog and
 soliciting contributions for another year's edition, that would be wonderful.
 (I had fun doing the last one, but I think I'll step aside in favor of
 someone with better equipment and faster turnaround time.)"

John Ockerbloom
-- 
==========================================================================
ockerbloom@cs.cmu.edu                4209 Murray Ave., Pittsburgh PA 15217
From: snarf@access.digex.com (Sean Eustis)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Tanais' new fiddle teacher
Date: 22 Jan 1993 05:11:20 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com


Tanais fiddles, Gypsy dances, and Kateri plays a tune...
>This one's my
>favorite, O'Carolan's Farewell to Music, that he wrote just before he
>died...any other musicians in the Place are welcome to join in...."

>The music swells and settles, as she finishes the first go-round, and
>begins to repeat, varying tempo and notes as appropriate to the
>mood...

Dreamweaver waits until near the end of the first round before taking a
tinwhistle out of a jacket pocket. He joins in on the tune adding some
trills and shrills until the right time when the tempo can be changed just
enough and he turns the tune into 'Hold My Hand' for a little while before
going back to improvising here and there...

			...and the music continues...



-- 
   	The Dreamweaver				Sean Eustis
			(snarf@access.digex.com)
 		  "...to sleep, perchance to dream..."
From: siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl Siewert)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Culinary Peculiarities
Date: 27 Jan 1993 16:46:53 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman) writes:

>>WONDERING IF ANYONE IS GETTING SICK OF HEARING FROM ME,
>>MARAUD OUT>

>Jilara takes her fingers out of her ears.  "Well, we were
>considering asking you to turn down the volume a little.
>There's no need to shout.

>"Of course, it is possible you have a disease I've seen in
>other parts of the net, where the common symptom is that all
>lowercase letters disappear from one's keyboard..."

<NOPE.  IT'S JUST THAT I'M TRYING TO AVOID CONFUSION AS TO WHO
WRITES WHAT R.E. RIE AND MYSELF

LOVE AND BURGERS,
MARAUD OUT>
-- 
/               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: dspeck@ee.ryerson.ca (DOUGLAS SPECK)
Subject: Descriptions...
Organization: Ryerson Polytechnical Institute
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:09:27 GMT


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. :)"

T-Bear hops down from the chair, and goes over to the forming group hug,
rather hoping that he hasn't made a fool of himself due to the fact that
there is already a compilation of this type out there, which he should
have inquired about...

Hmmm, come to think about it, perhaps a standardized form of description
would be in order, with a listing of Appearance, Favourite Drink, Place
in the Bar, Birthdate, and Origin(city, country). On the other hand, 
perhaps people would like to go about it in their own inimitable fashions...
What do folks think? Feedback, please!

Rumbles 'n snorts,
T-Bear.


-- 
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+    dspeck@ee.ryerson.ca - aka  T-Bear                                 +
+                                  see - I even have a furry .sig file! +
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
From: me_s420@king.ac.uk (Chris Welch)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: An early toast
Date: 23 Jan 1993 12:29:58 GMT
Organization: Kingston University
NNTP-Posting-Host: ceres.kingston.ac.uk
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

: :  "Chaffee, Grissom, White, Jarvis, McAuliffe, McNair, Onizuka, Resnik, Scobee,
: :   Smith. Gone, but not forgotten."

: I'll join you in that, adding only the four(?) russians whose names I can
: never remember.

"And also one other american and one other russian who are sometimes 
 overlooked but who, nevertheless, IMHO deserve being remembered. So, for
 sake of completeness we have..."

January 27, 1967    Chaffee, Roger         Killed in flash fire during training
                    Grissom, Virgil        in Apollo 1.
                    White, Edward

January 28, 1986    Jarvis, Gregory        Killed in explosion of Challenger on
                    McAuliffe, Christa     STS 51-L.
                    McNair, Ronald     
                    Onizuka, Ellison
                    Resnik, Judith
                    Scobee, Francis
                    Smith, Michael
                          
March 23, 1961      Bondarenko, Valentin    Died in pressure chamber fire.

April 24, 1967      Komarov, Vladimir       Died during Soyuz 1 re-entry when
                                            parachute failed to deploy properly.
                                            First person to die on a space
                                            mission.

June 30, 1971       Dobrovolsky, Georgy     Died during Soyuz-11 re-entry when 
                    Patsayev, Viktor        pressure equalisation valve opened.
                    Volkov, Vladislav

November 15, 1967   Adams, Michael          X-15 test pilot killed during 191st
                                            flight. Only X-15 fatality.


--
           |                      Chris Welch - The Urban Spaceman     
_______   | |   _______                me_s420@uk.ac.kingston
| ooo |  /| |\  | ooo |      
| ooo | |/ ^ \| | ooo |  "Second star on the right, straight on till morning.
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From: brumby@nella07.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen McNamara)
Subject: Re: Descriptions...
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 01:15:59 GMT

   The brumby seems to have been driven almost into lurkerdom by RL
pressures right now. He is still reading however.

   "I don't really recall when the last time I gave a full description of
myself actually. Oh well, it's probably about time anyway."

   The brumby is a silver-grey feral horse with a very slight bluish tinge
from wandering around the silicon pathways of the net. He isn't a
particularly large horse, though he acts as though he is, and while he
looks quite nice he isn't as handsome as he likes to think. The personality
behind the brumby is a sort of mixture of my own and that of two horses
that I know. One is a trotter stallion (who provides most of the conceited
side of the persona, he is convinced that he is Epona's gift to equine
kind) and the other is a mischevious, little bay gelding who just likes to
tell mares that he is a stallion. I've been told that Ambrose (the gelding)
and I have a lot in common. Knowing him as I did (before he got moved away)
I'm not sure if that was supposed to be a compliment or not!

   In RL I am 6'1", 25 years old, with far too much very fine, curly
ash-blond hair. For now it's pulled back into a pony-tail as something of
an experiment. I've got a narrow face with what I've been told are fairly
distintive grey eyes that everyone is hoping my daughter will inherit. I
usually wear a brown felt hat of the sort used in 'The Man from Snowy River'
movie (or so it says inside) and a blue coat with little badges of horses.
The current ones are a rearing black stallion, a paint, and a taffy. There
is also a small slice of a mandlebrot set, which gets questions asked.
Everyone knows what a horse is but 'What's that funny coloured pattern on
your badge?'
   Other than that, I am married (To Robyn, aka 'The Cosmic Froggy') with a
six week old daughter named Jenny. (Which anyone who's been here more than
five weeks knows about. :-) I've recently finished a B.Sc. in Computer
Science, am trying to struggle through a Graduate Diploma in Digital
Communications and should be looking for work, but I seem to have all my
time taken up trying to look after Robyn and Jenny right now.

   All this is far too long, I ramble when I am sleepy. Ahhh well.


-- 
     The Silver Brumby of          brumby@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
      the Silicon Plains            brumby@zikzak.apana.org.au

      The grass is always greener on the other side of the network.