HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 22:45:37 -0400 
From: John Charles Fiala <jf2z+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: I'm back!

John grins, re-awakening at his table in the place.  Ordering a cherry
coke for himself, and some milk for his cats. "Meeerow"  {about time},
he smiles, and speaks for a bit.

"Well, I'm back, although I admit I didn't announce my leaving.  I've
missed about everything since the 12th due to a trip to NY to visit
my grandmother.  She lives in Sleepy Hollow, NY, and my family threw
a surprise 80th birthday party for her.  'Most all of her friends were
there, and she had the time of her life!  Managed to get a lot of neat
stuff, too.  BIiig party.  Mom had it catered, and there was soo much
food left over, even I got to take some home.  (potato and sausage
in saurkraut.  I come from check stock on that side of the family, and
it's great food!)"

"Getting home was a pain, though.  Although *going* there, I was able
to persuade my brother to drive to pittsburgh from baltimore and then
us both driving to NY.. on the way back, I had to take Greyhound.

"UGH!"

John makes a face.

"Horrible, horrible trip.  I mean, I usually expect a trip on greyhound
to take a few extra hours generally, but they made an 8 hour trip stretch
out to 16 hours!!!  It was rediculous!  I hope I get a job soon, so I
don't have to depend on such a stupid bus system.  It got me home, but
not in a happy state."

John sighs, and watches life swirl by.

"I'm still looking for a job... things are looking up, though.  I've
had a job interview every day this week that I've been home, and sooner
or later one of them will bear fruit, I hope.  Today's interview was
for a position gaurding a garage.  Sounds kinda boring, but it pays
$300/wk, not counting overtime, and includes health benefits, and free
classes at the college."

"I've punted the last few days... I don't have time to read them.
Happy birthday to whomever."

and he goes back to his table, and cuddles Em'ly.

"Mrrrrrrrr"

{oh, be quiet.  More milk}
-john
"Yes, [AIDS] is probably a message from God.  It's God trying
to show us how mean a healthy man can be to a sick man."
jf2z+@andrew.cmu.edu    -- Joe Bob Briggs
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: sjane@bmers248.bnr.ca (sjs)
Subject: Re: Quote Happens [Time]
Organization: Irrelevant, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 12:48:07 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.035716.11128@midway.uchicago.edu> mbr2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
 
sjs is curious enough to read through the label and is struck by a
tangential thought (POW!).  She hunts through her pockets for a pen
and scribbles below:

>  Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time 
>  we have rushed through life trying to save.            -Will Rogers

Why are labour-saving devices not significantly labour saving?  (In 
other words, why aren't labour-saving devices?).

sjs
--
It's not irrelevant; it's a hippopotamus.   sjane@BNR.CA
From: dgil@ipsaint.ipsa.reuter.com (Gillett, David)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Quote Happens [Time]
Date: 18 Aug 92 10:29:43 GMT
Reply-To: dgil@ipsaint.ipsa.reuter.com (Gillett, David)
Organization: Reuters APL Software Division


-----------Message forwarded from IPSA Mailbox-------------
no. 6494438 filed 18.18.37  tue 18 aug 1992
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to   locun
subj Re: Quote Happens [Time]
ref  6494032

sjs:
  Why aren't labour-saving devices?

moi:
    My favourite passage in Thoreau is when a friend tells him how wonderful
  the new railroad is, because you can get to the next town faster.  Thoreau
  challenges him to a race:  he'll start walking, and his firend can start
  earning the price of a ticket.

    When Thoreau was writing, it was still almost practical for a family farm
  to support itself, almost totally independent of society, of barter or trade.
  But his friend clearly demonstrates that an illusion of dependence *within*
  the web of society and economy had already emerged.
    This is where I disagree with the most rabid net.libertarians.  Their
  concept of independence and individual liberty is based on outright denial
  of the web of society and economy.  It may still be *possible* to live in
  America outside of this web, but I wouldn't call it *practical*, and I sure
  wouldn't agree that anyone with net.access *is* living outside the web!

                                      Mentor the Sage
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: esti@quads.uchicago.edu (Paul A. Estin)
Subject: Degrees for Teaching? (was Re: Hurray!)
Reply-To: esti@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: U. Michigan Cognitive Psychology
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 17:38:05 GMT

In article <tjlee.713199086@vincent1.iastate.edu> tjlee@iastate.edu (Tom Lee) writes:

>	"Sometimes I think about teaching in public schools, and an MS
>gets you somewhere there," says the Lamplighter.  "Higher pay, for one
>thing."

Anyone know if an M.A. has the same effect?  Actually, more generally,
although I'm sure it varies from state to state, what *are* the
requirements to become, say, a public high school teacher in subject
X?  I'm curious.

-----
"No, those aren't crustaceans, those are teabags." - Bill Hazelrig

Paul Andrew Estin, net.Snark, r.a.c Welcome Poster, HoloMuck Chancellor,
  Fellow of the Clementine Society, UCSFC First Consul/ Keeper of the Slinky
HOME/ estin@csmil.umich.edu  214 Beakes St. Ann Arbor, MI 48104 313-769-4826
WORK: estin@um.cc.umich.edu  330 Packard Rd. 48104 313-763-5710
FUN ACCOUNT: esti@midway.uchicago.edu       phone numbers all changing soon!
From: randolph@cognito.EBay.Sun.COM (Randolph Fritz)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: anchovies and a filk
Date: 21 Aug 92 21:34:00 GMT
	<1992Aug20.161144.1467@bnr.ca>
Organization: St. Dismas Infirmary for the Incurably Informed
NNTP-Posting-Host: cognito.ebay.sun.com
In-reply-to: bucknerb@bnr.ca's message of Thu, 20 Aug 1992 16:11:44 GMT

Please tell us about the @ party!

__Randolph Fritz  sun!cognito.ebay!randolph || randolph@ebay.sun.com
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz)
Subject: Phantom address
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 01:49:20 GMT

Abner smiles at everyone.

"I had wondered at the sparcity of b-day greetings, until I was talking with
Stargazer and she mentioned sending me b-day greetings ... and I had never
received them.  The b-day list wasn't updated, right?  So I suspect that some
people may have sent the email to my old address ..."
 
"My thanks to Rowan, Albert, TJ, and Caithelin for their greetings, sent to
my new address where I could read them ..."  =8)

"So, to anyone who sent me birthday email at my old address: thanks; I'd thank
you individually, but I never got to read it, so I don't know who you were ...
(As a side note: even though I graduated and left the program, they apparently
renewed my old account after I sent them a note not to.  I shouldn't be
surprised.  My friend Steph graduated over a year ago, and her account has now 
been renewed twice!)"

"On a more important note: Happy Birthday TJ!"
"Here, have some virtual Gingerbread ..."
"and a Hug!"
*HUG*
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz)
Subject: Re: hello
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 23:32:59 GMT

>   Howdy, a voice nervously comes out of the corner.  I have been lurking,
>   perhaps spying's a better word? :), in this corner and thought i should
>   see what happens when i make myself known.  

Abner looks over at the spot where the voice is coming from.  "I spy a spy!
What secrets are you looking for, oh spy?"  He grins.

>   Are there rules here, and how does one manage to materialise in a body?
>   Thank you for listening.

"Rules?  Well, generally most of the rules here fall under the category of
common sense and politeness.            
Rule 1: No flaming (don't insult people, and if an argument gets nasty, take
        it to email); generally this isn't a problem.
Rule 2: Don't mess up other people's persona.  Obviously, one of us could post
        say, "Kristina takes a drink, chokes, and needs to be taken to the
        hospital."  It would probably annoy you if we did.  So we don't.
Rule 3: No prying.  If a person doesn't want to talk about something, don't 
        try to force them.  (A lot of us simply go to email, and talk more
        privately, so a hint or two by email generally isn't prying.)
Rule 4: Have fun.  (This is not mandatory, but it is strongly recommended!)

>   Would it be possible to have a lemonade - the real kind made from
>   lemons? - which leads to the question - can etheral beings drink?

Well, you can order anything you want; unfortunately, the ethereal being gets
to drink it, not you.  *sigh*  I'd offer you a lemonade except for two things:
by now, any number of other people have probably offered you that lemonade,
and besides, I like my lemonade sour.

Scene from two summers ago:
Abner is sipping lemonade when roommate Wayne gets home from work.
Wayne: "What's that?"
Abner: "Lemonade."
Wayne: "Can I have some."
Abner: "Sure.  But it's very sour ..."
Wayne: "That's OK, I like it sour."  Pours himself a glass, takes a sip,
        nearly spills the glass as he makes a face.
Wayne: "Mmmrrmmmmph!  How much sugar is in this lemonade!?!"
Abner: "Sugar?"

*grin*  Welcome to the place!
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon)
Subject: PIZZA of the Gods (WAS: anchovies and a filk)
Organization: Open Age, Inc.
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:52:33 GMT

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

>"Mushrooms, anchovies, and pineapple?  Move on over!  Let's get
>some of this pizza!  Let's see, maybe some canadian bacon
>would be good, too..."  Jilara waves over to Alaric.  "It's
>pizza time!"
>--
>  Jilara   [jane@swdc.stratus.com]

My personal best pizza was one I had while on vacation from College.  We went to
a mall and there was a very nice resturant.  We did a "make your own pizza"
which had the normal cheese, sauce, and crust, plus marinated steak, shrimp,
pineapple, and black olives.  It was fantastic!

-- 
The Golden Gryphon 				gryphon@openage.COM
Solve a man's problem and he has 1 less.        No incumbents in 92.
Teach a man to think, and all his problems are less.
Openage - The Premier SCO UNIX integrator in the Washington D.C. area
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: brumby@nella11.cc.monash.edu.au (S.N. Mcnamara)
Subject: Re: anchovies and a filk
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 11:41:49 GMT

   The brumby finally digs his way out of the mass of distractions that
have kept him from the 'real' world on the net. :-) Only to find that his
news feed is half dead. There are replies to things never seen, and week
old posts showing up for the first time.

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

>kitten says, "now i can take pepperoni or leave it alone...but y'all
>are forgetting...meat or no meat, veggies or just plain cheese...pizza
>is a true gift from the gods....whether it is eaten hot and
>accompanied by cold beer...or cold, for breakfast...and
>besides...pizza sauce is an aphrodesiac...(i think it's the oregano..."

   "Cold pizza for breakfast? That's what microwaves were invented for!
Just toss the pizza in on your way to the front door, wait a minute and run
down the street to catch your train with hot pizza burning it's way down
you throat!"
   "I didn't realise that pizza sauce was an aphrodisiac though. Hmmm.
Maybe I should stop telling Robyn to cut back on pizza."

   The brumby gives a low whicker.


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

      The grass is always greener on the other side of the network.
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 10:16:05 EDT
From: Cathy Ridings <U3E67@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: RE: Who are these people?

Hi!  Everyone else is doing this, so what the heck?!!?!?

Cathy Ridings
Age:  25
Height: 5'3"  105lbs.
Blue eyes, and long brown hair
Birthday December 13
Place of residence - Morgantown, WV

I sometimes go by Kaitlin in Callahans, only because I love that name, I really
haven't described Kaitlin any further.....  She would have no special powers
except an extra large heart, which she wants to save the world with -- no more
hungary or homeless people.  She would be dressed in long flowing all black
clothes - very elegant.  And she would waiting for her prince to take her away
to Jamaica ( Don't ya know mon?)

In Real Life I work at a computer center in the business office, and I am
trying to finish college - not easy with a three year old to support by myself.

I love the Ocean and a fast car!  In my office I have a huge picture of the
ocean, a picture cut out of a magazine of a XJ-S Jaguar " High Performance and
Luxury Are Not Mutually Exclusive"and several pictures of my little girl -- did
I mention she was a child prodigy? ( as far as I'm concerned that is :) :) :)
I also love the fine arts.
Music wise I like all types of music, but lately I've gotten into alot of
Prince - favorite song of his is " I am a star", it makes me believe in myself.

Well thats about it folks,

Take Care

Love,

Cathy
From: esti@quads.uchicago.edu (Paul A. Estin)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Degrees for Teaching?
Date: 13 Aug 92 19:15:39 GMT
Reply-To: esti@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: U. Michigan Cognitive Psychology

In article <1992Aug13.095737.12118@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> jwwalden@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (P'relan) writes:

>Here in Ohio...well no, I guess I can't say that anymore so let's
>start over again.  There in Ohio, an M.A. will often get you a better
>paying position and get you a position in a better school district.
>Now to become a permanent high school teacher (I don't know what
>substitutes are required to have), you need a state teaching
>certification which involves a state teacher's test and I believe some
>education classes are required though I'm not sure how many and that
>surely varies from state to state.  I do know some grad students who
>after getting their B.Sc.'s went on to get a M.Sc. in physics and an
>M.A. in teaching at the same time and they generally got very good
>positions (being in a science area usually helps though I haven't seen
>more than a semester course in psy- chology anywhere).  I hope that
>helps to give you at least a general idea of what's required, Snark...

That about fits with what I thought.  Thanks.

>> "No, those aren't crustaceans, those are teabags." - Bill Hazelrig

>Who was Meta saying that to???

It was at dinner last Saturday night at Meta's; he was saying it to a
certain friend and alt.callahans lurker.  Hello, lurker-who-will-remain-
anonymous-until-she-decides-to-introduce-herself, wouldn't this be a fine
time to introduce yourself? :)

-----
The dividing line between art and pornography is not so easy to draw
as you might suspect, even if the model's name IS Buffy.
	-Doug Quardstrom

Paul Andrew Estin, net.Snark, r.a.c Welcome Poster, HoloMuck Chancellor,
  Fellow of the Clementine Society, UCSFC First Consul/ Keeper of the Slinky
HOME/ estin@csmil.umich.edu  214 Beakes St. Ann Arbor, MI 48104 313-769-4826
WORK: estin@um.cc.umich.edu  330 Packard Rd. 48104 313-763-5710
FUN ACCOUNT: esti@midway.uchicago.edu       phone numbers all changing soon!
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz)
Subject: Re: Invisible Idiot
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 17:18:40 GMT

>   Category 4 (Lois McMaster Bujold novels) (HEY! I said it was obscure!)
>  ------------
>
>	a.  maps ; not on ; French year, make a mistake
>		Charts off an-err (SHARDS OF HONOR)
>	b.  Mike Callahans location, flat sea dweller, dead security
>			officer from Star Trek, TNG
>		Bar-ray-Yar (BARRAYAR)
>	c.  Sadness, prefix of repetition, metals ; direction of
>			decreasing atmospheric pressure, pay by the
>			hour, Greek underworld
>		Woe-re-ores Up-rent-Dis  (WARRIORS APPRENTICE)
>	d.  Golf warning ; happy, focus on target
>		Fore gay-aim  (VOR GAME)
>	e.  soup, latin bear ; old hotel ; damages
>		Broth-ursus ; inn ; harms (BROTHERS IN ARMS)
        f.  autumn, verb suffix; priceless
                Fall-ing Free
From: randolph@cognito.EBay.Sun.COM (Randolph Fritz)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Quote Happens [Time]
Date: 18 Aug 92 13:22:59
Organization: St. Dismas Infirmary for the Incurably Informed
	<1992Aug18.124807.20897@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
NNTP-Posting-Host: cognito.ebay.sun.com
In-reply-to: sjane@bmers248.bnr.ca's message of Tue, 18 Aug 92 12:48:07 GMT

"Our culture has a very strong bias in favor of filling time to the
utmost.  Do we mechanize labor at home?  Why, then, we can work more
outside the home."

__Randolph Fritz  sun!cognito.ebay!randolph || randolph@ebay.sun.com




Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: rip@sequent.com (Paul T Taylor)
Subject: Re: Limericks
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems Inc.
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 03:13:26 GMT

In article <m8eTPB1w165w@pdaxs.techbook.com>
embeach@pdaxs.techbook.com (Electronic Dreams) writes:

>Uh, oh!!!!
>An urge to rhyme has suddenly just come over Elana...
>
>"There once was an alien named Beezer
>Whose brain you couldn't find with a tweezer
>He once made a pass
>At a gelatinous mass
>That he found in the back of a freezer"
>
>At this point, E. makes a fast dash to safety to the Lurkers
>Lair (up in the rafters) to avoid a hail of peanuts...
>

Sorry, peanuts ain't big enough for this!!  [Rip reaches into his
BagO'Tricks(tm) and pulls out a ChocoBazooka.  Taking careful aim at
ED, he lets loose an HE(high explosive)FudgeRippleRound covering
ED and everyone in the vicinity in a gooey, yet tasty, mixture of
fudge and caramel...]

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      /     \             All opinions are mine,      Disclaimer?
     /  rip  \            all mine, and if you     I hardly know her.
     |xxx-xxx|            don't agree, then,
  ___|_______|___         BLRPHLPHLPHLPHLTT!!!!!
      \~ ~~ ~\
       \~~ ~~~\           rip@sequent.com
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Help!  My karma ran over my dogma, and it can't get up!!
From: ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Happy B-day Faire
Date: 18 Aug 92 00:42:08 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

>Gypsy Woman puts the finishing touches on the 
>feast she has been preparing: poached salmon with
>apples and hazelnuts for wisdom, a spicey vegetable
>curry to stimulate the senses, smooth sorbets made
>from fresh ingredients to clear the palate for more 
>delights, satays and udons, breads and pastas, sauces
>and savories, fresh produce of every variety and world,
>towers of chocolates and pastries to tempt even the 
>most jaded appetite.

Abner looks over the wonderful food.  He then whispers to Gypsy
Woman, "I love salmon.  So if you don't let people know you poached
it, I won't!"  He grins, and starts trying bits of fish and other
foods.  The way to Abner's brain is through his stomach!

Thanks, Rowan!
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: rmarsh@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Stumpy goes to Sydney
Date: 13 Aug 92 22:47:59 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

  Stumpy staggers into the bar after an absence of a week or two (or
three). "Mike, a root beer if you would be so kind." Taking the proferred
glass he turns to address the best bunch of people anyone could have the
luck to find.
  "I have news. Lot's of good news. I've had a great, if tiring, couple of
weeks. It all started last Saturday when I won $30 on the Lotto (not much,
but I won). A couple of days later my mum got a payment slip from the ACC
(government run no-fault insurance scheme) saying they'd just put over
$3000 dollars into her account. We've been getting campensation from the
ACC since 1978 when my father (a public servant) was killed in a crash with
a fire-engine (also a public servant, who should have known better than to
swing across the road like that). She checked the account, the money was
there. She called ACC to make sure they weren't going to want it back
tomorrow and find out why it's arrived. It seems they've just found out
that they've been under-paying us by $50/wk since 1983, for a grand total
of around $18,000, of which my share is $4,000.
  "That's the best news of course, but there's more. My second cousin is in
the National Youth Choir of Great Britain, and they're currently on a world
tour. Sorry I didn't find out about it earlier, or I'd have let you know
they were in San Francisco a couple of weeks back. Over the weekend they
were in Auckland so I met a cousin I haven't met before, and some of the
other people in the choir. My sister knew a few of them from when she was
in England last year. They only had a couple of days in Auckland and I miss
some of them already.
  "Next week they're in Australia, Canberra on Wednesday, Sydney on Thursday
(Chatswood hall), and on to Coffs Harbour and Brisbane after that. I don't
reckon to like choral music particularly but they are *very* good. Just how
good they are was brought home to me by the drop in quality when the
Auckland choral society joined them.
  "These pieces of news put together spell one very good reason for me to be
doing my darnedest to get myself to Sydney. Certain patrons of a certain bar
make another.
  "So, anyone want meet me at the airport on Wednesday? Assuming my
luck holds and my passport comes through in time of course. Besides,
there's some choir souvenirs I didn't get. Mail me for the flight etc.,
I'll find someone to get the reply to you."
  Stumpy raises his by now near empty glass to toast, "To a Sydney 
Realspace!" And a glass, which suddenly looks rather a lot like a 737 
flies into the fireplace.

-- 
Robert 'Stumpy' Marsh | 95 Fairfield Rd | I can't reply to E-Mail, but 
rmarsh@waikato.ac.nz  | Hamilton        | don't let that stop you sending.
+64 7 855 4406        | New Zealand     |