HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: eaeu282@orion.oac.uci.edu (Ching-I Chen)
Subject: Uh....
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 23 Jan 93 00:38:26 GMT


Someone is sitting in front of a computer terminal, amid a forest of 
SUNs, WYSE's, IBM's and Mac's.  Confused-looking college students wander
in and out of the computer lab, trying to appear in control when in fact
they are incredibly lost.  She feels lost too, not even able to remember
her own name... but she still grins goofily at the blinking orange cursor.
The cursor does not smile back.

Someone does not know what she is doing, but she is enjoying it nonetheless.
The undigestible remnants of the tuna-and-vegetable surprise she wolfed
down at lunch today are settling in her stomach.  In a matter of hours she'll
no doubt be nauseous.  But she'll enjoy it nonetheless.

Someone hopes she isn't disturbing the usual going-ons here.  If so, she
apologizes and regrets her actions deeply.  

Someone is trying to say something.  You can barely hear it through the
Shakespear's Sister tape blaring in the background.  It sounds like... is
she cussing?  No, now she's shaking her head.  "F.A.Q!" she shouts
emphatically.  Gesticulating wildly (is there any other way?) she manages
to convey that she'd like the said F.A.Q. if at all possible.

Someone is now smiling.  The weekend is about to begin, and although she
knows she's about to drown in a sea of organic syntheses, she is enjoying it
nonetheless.  


Delilah
(using this account... trying
to get another)

"It's great to be young and insane."
From: siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl Siewert)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: testing tin
Date: 24 Jan 1993 00:34:31 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu



>kitten turns her head to hide a tear....I HATE KILLFILES 

<I THINK YOU SPEAK FOR ALL OF US, BUT DON'T CRY LITTLE KITTEN.
LEMME SCRITCH YOUR BACK TILL YOU FEEL BETTER

TENTATIVELY TRYING THIS HUG THING
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: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: Danger Room Run (The Polymath)
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:58:39 GMT

>Hugs,
>Jason
>(about 4 Kg of weapons/armor at last count)
        ^^^^^^^^^^^------- only that much ? :-) :-) { No response needed. }

          "Ah, to be young again..." Linda the StarShip.

   { nor trying for upmanship... Nor a launch either... }

-- 
         Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
                      Video. Peter Gabriel: Steam
From: c9b-ap@po.berkeley.edu (HakLien Chua)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: TTFN/Last Dance
Date: 27 Jan 93 22:48:32 GMT
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: po.berkeley.edu

"Strike up the band, folks!", shouts C+.

And horns are dusted off and ready to blow, piano keys twinkle like
brightest starlight, violins hum and retune themselves, drums cough
and get ready to bounce, flutes play out a cheerful glissando, as if
a thousand canaries had suddenly enterend the tavern, and cellos and
double basses clear their throats impatiently, as the invisible 
orchestra sets itself up and Mike flicks the switch to turn the lights
down low at Callahan's.

A horn wheezes, like an old man searching for breath, and
a voice begins melodiously to sing, with blues that are so deep,
they turn the place indigo. The woman singing it smiles to Rounder,
and gives him a wink.

"Glad you could make it, Billie.", says Mike. 

"Anytime, Mike," she replies, still smiling.

"For parting is not goodbye, 'cause we'll be together again." She sings,
as friends gather on the cramped dance floor and shimmy....

"May I, Didi?", smiles C+. "Bet ya never danced with a cockroach 
before..."

C
+
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Question...
From: <KZAHLLER@MIAMIU.BITNET>
Date: Monday, 25 Jan 1993 14:04:32 EST
Organization: Miami University - Academic Computer Service

(Sorry guys, I don't seem to be able to get the blinking computer
to take quotes again . . .)

"Well, gee, <<Maraud>>," Magda says "If you wanted a hug, all
you had to do was ask!"

She hesitates a moment, showing surprising and unusual caution
and commnosense (for her).  "Ummmmm, if I hug you, I'm not
going to *disappear* or anything am I?"


Magda (comments about computer deleted in effort to keep
it clean . . . )
From: narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Rainbow report  *>
Date: 28 Jan 1993 05:20:19 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
NNTP-Posting-Host: casc.math.uh.edu

Okay, Ma'am!

Oh, and excuse me :

**CRASH!**

Thank you! It's good to see that you're kicking still (and I emphasize YOU)!
Keep it up...

Loving all!

--
*******************************************************************           
* 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: ekho@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (amanda rothman)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: meandering back to the place
Date: 29 Jan 93 04:42:01 GMT
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida

Philip J. Comins <PJCHC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:

[snip!]
>     "Not sure what else to say at the moment, though Ekho, I want you to know
> that I tried sending you a letter entittled `Advance' Reciprocations, but at
> the time your mailer was acting up and mine wouldn't send the #$@$% message.
> I'm trying to figure out how to resend it to you. I think it has something to
> do with reversing the polarity of the neutron flow ...

  Ekho smiles innocently, "Oh, and why are you reciprocating me, _prey_
tell, noble sir.  I am merely a poor and humble computer tech.  And a
helluvan engineer.  Ahem.  Pardon me; that just slipped out."

           Yours in Time and Space
From: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk (Clive Grace)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Delilah tries her hand at this...
Date: 27 Jan 93 15:46:00 GMT
Reply-To: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk


> Maybe the allabout wasn't clear enough.  There are no bar stools, 
true.  But
> instead, there are comfortable chairs of the appropriate height, with 
arms and
> everything. 

Tanais thinks for a second and then pipes in. "But foxes *like* to sit 
on bar stools, it's awfully good for the posture... so does the one I'm 
sitting on still exist then?"

Everyone turns around at the sound of a crash to see a hat plopping 
unceremoniously onto the head of one Ro'Jiro Tanais -- sprawled on the 
floor. He makes a solemn oath to bring in a *real* stool instead of 
rely on a virtual one that exists at the whim of a FAQ.

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| .OO.    and learn how to write."                                  |
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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: testing tin
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:02:18 GMT

>"Lighten up, Doug.  Around here, the appropriate response to puns you don't
>like is to throw peanuts, not threats.  Or chocolate bombs - we got bombed
>by ThunderKat (in Dreadnaught mode) a while back, and that was fun..."
>Starknight appears miffed.  "And I couldn't even think of a pun to work into
>this reply!  At least, not one that would be germanium..."
>
>Starknight

 "Don't worry Starknight, he'll get you also..." Linda.

 "Oh, doug has been around for quit awhile here, " Robbie.

-- 
         Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
                      Video. Peter Gabriel: Steam
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: re: Dan'l hits Australia
Date: 25 Jan 1993 08:55:12 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 <9301191946.AA36780@whale.st.usm.edu>, jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce) writes:
>>Alfvaen shrugs.  "I've never tried beets on a hamburger, or eggs(fried, I
>>imagine?  Hopefully with a minimum of yolk?)...but I have tried tomatoes, and
>>can't stand them.  Maybe next time I'm eating at my in-laws, if we have
>>hamburgers, I'll ask for some beets.  Gross everybody out..."
>
>    { I hate 'gopher' I hate 'gopher' .... <mumble> It seems our news reader
>      has a problem... So, I have to use gopher... Ack ! }

Well, perhaps, but in keeping with this thread, groundhog is *GOOD* eatin'!

>    "Well, back in the olden days when a hamburger was real beef...
>
>     I paid twenty-five cents for them and they had a large meat patty,
>  a large slice of onion, a large slice of tomato, two or three pieces
>  of lettuce, and mustard.

My favorite (available from Amigo's restaurant, at the corner of Wilson and
Colorado in Pasadena) is:
	Hamburger patty;
	Jack cheese;
	Jalapenos;
	Lettuce (well, I usually order mine without lettuce);
	Onion (I usually have it grilled)
	Tomato
It comes with fries, but I usually ask for vegetables (usually brocolli,
celery, and carrots, sauteed), instead, since I've got to watch my carbohydrate
intake, and the bun is pushing the limits for a single meal.  That's basically
what they call an "Amigos' Burger, no sauce."
From: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (The Didi-Sprite)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: testing tin
Date: 25 Jan 93 16:50:51 GMT
Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada
Originator: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca

In article <C1AAG3.MG9@news.cso.uiuc.edu> trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:
>In <1993Jan22.153106.16146@e2big.mko.dec.com> pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan) writes:
>>In article <C18I95.A0E@fc.hp.com>, daq@fc.hp.com (Doug Quarnstrom) writes:
>>|>I have been around here far too long to start respecting the traditions
>>|>at this point.
>>|>
>>|>I respond as I see fit.
>
>>"Better yet, don't...  No.  I'm not going to flame anyone, especially not
>>here.  I vowed to be a better person this year, and that includes toleration,
>>even of things I can't stand... like people who jump down my throat for
>>having fun.  Take care, doug... respond as you see fit, but I won't see it."
>
>><kill all by author:daq@fc.hp.com>
>
>kitten turns her head to hide a tear....I HATE KILLFILES 

From deep amongst comforter and pillows, Didi dashes a tear from her
left eye (well, it's the one that runs the most), sighs, and remarks:
"Me, too."

----<--<@

The Didi-Sprite
Montreal * Canada

braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
didi@geloser.login.qc.ca
From: siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl Siewert)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: One quick question
Date: 23 Jan 1993 16:10:00 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

mcspikgfm@dct.ac.uk writes:

>	No...Not recenly.....avidly watched it when It originally did the
>rounds and it was absolutely great then......I was always waiting for orac to
>pick up BBC Radio 1 or something. Your right....the cardboard butout ships are
                                                               ^^^^^^

Rie leans over to the puzzled Slash and whispers.

"Don't worry about it.  I've been told the poster was attacked at a very young 
age by a Siamese bat."

<A SIAMESE CAT??>

"No, a bat.  They're much nastier."

<REMINDS ME OF A ABBIDENT I HAD AS A SBOOLBOY.  I BRASHED MY MOTHER'S BAR
INTO THE SBOOL BAFETERIA.  ORRIBLE, SIMPLY ORRIBLE.>

"You did that?  What a silly bunt."

<WE ALSO DO WEDDINGS, BAR MITZVAHS, AND BONFIRMATIONS>


 		           SLASH MARAUD, 
 		BLOSE PERSONAL FRIEND AND BONFIDANT OF
-- 
/               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: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jason)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Uh....
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Date: 25 Jan 1993 05:47:03 GMT
Organization: the Polyhedron Group
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aaa.uoregon.edu

In article <2B609382.17762@news.service.uci.edu>, eaeu282@orion.oac.uci.edu
(Ching-I Chen) wrote:
> Someone is trying to say something.  You can barely hear it through the
> Shakespear's Sister tape blaring in the background.  It sounds like... is
> she cussing?  No, now she's shaking her head.  "F.A.Q!" she shouts
> emphatically.  Gesticulating wildly (is there any other way?) she manages
> to convey that she'd like the said F.A.Q. if at all possible.
> 
> Someone is now smiling.  The weekend is about to begin, and although she
> knows she's about to drown in a sea of organic syntheses, she is enjoying it
> nonetheless.  
> 
> 
> Delilah
> (using this account... trying
> to get another)
> 
> "It's great to be young and insane."

Jason looks up from his cyberdeck. "Welcome Delilah! I have both the long
and short form FAQ's on file at my office. I can e-mail them to you Monday,
if no one else sends you a copy. Care for a drink?"

Hugs,
Jason
From: siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl Siewert)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Clueless newbie ventures in...
Date: 22 Jan 1993 16:18:21 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

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

>What could you do with one? 

>By the way, I am hugga non gratta.

>doug

Rie breaks out of the group, bounds across the room and flings his arms around 
doug.  Despite his struggles, Rie manages to hold onto him for the requisite
15 second hugtime limit.  Then he lets go and sprints to the nearest exit.

"See ya, guys.  I'll be lurking for a bit."

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)
Subject: Burger chains
Reply-To: tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Thomas J Lee)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:13:42 GMT

Doug Quarnstrom writes:

DQ>This entire discussion leads me to wonder which hamburger establishment
DQ>will be most appropriate after viewing the movie _Alive_.

	"I can see it now," says the Lamplighter ... "Presenting the new
McAlive Burger!  Buy one now and get your free cup with scenes from the
movie.  Turns colors when buried in an avalanche."

The Lamplighter (Tom Lee)                "This is not a man who is leaving
tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu               with his head between his legs."
Current Kick: Mayan calendar                                    -- Dan Quayle
Current Listen: G. Gershwin, "Rhapsody in Blue / Concerto in F"
From: jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Dan'l hits Australia
Date: 21 Jan 93 23:44:03 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc., San Jose, CA

>    "Well, back in the olden days when a hamburger was real beef...
>
>     I paid twenty-five cents for them and they had a large meat patty,
>  a large slice of onion, a large slice of tomato, two or three pieces
>  of lettuce, and mustard. It took two hands to hold. 
>  If you had asked for ketchup, that would have been no big deal, but no
>  mayonaise, nope, you would definately been told you were weird for wanting
>  that on your hamburger." DJ.
>
>      That was in Texas, about 1957. About 1965, the first Burger Chef
> franchise came to a nearby town. Many a person did the old gag reflex
> when they encountered both ketchup and mustard on their 15 cent hamburgers.

Jilara looks thoughtful.  "It must have been one of those
regional things.  The hamburgers we used to get from the
Cambria coffee shop, to take to the beach, had mayonaise, but
NEVER mustard.  And yes, they would put on ketchup if you
asked, but usually, you got mayo.  Likewise hotdogs, which
were sliced lengthwise, grilled, and slapped on toasted bread
spread with mustard and mayo, with lettuce.  It was a real
novelty, the first time I got a hot dog at the beach, and it
came whole, in a funny shaped bun, with mustard and relish and
pickles.  (I think this was about 1962.)  Then there was the
Bob's Big Boy in Van Nuys, in the '50's.  Visits from my aunt and uncle
meant either Chinese food or Big Boy burgers.  The assembly
of a Big Boy burger was as follows: bottom bun, meat, tomato
(and onion, unless you requested not, like my mother),
middle bun with mayo on the bottom side, meat, lettuce, and
red relish.  I LOVED Big Boy burgers.  I have *never* forgiven
Bob's for changing these burgers in the '60's.  They got the
bright idea that *thousand island dressing* was what you got
if you combined red relish and mayo.  So they slathered both
layers in thousand island dressing.  ICK!!  I never ate
another Big Boy burger.  However, they were starting to get
greasy and full of filler by then, anyway...

"College was great, because this one greasy-spoon joint in San
Luis Obispo called "Scrubby and Lloyde's" specialized in
"Truckerburgers."  These things had big, juicy hamburger
patties that weighed 8 oz each, required both hands to eat,
and were served up with fresh lettuce and huge tomato and
onion slices, and were spread with mayo.  You always ended up
slathered with juice up to your elbows, but it was worth it!"
--
  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: kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Didi's ill, again : -(
Date: 27 Jan 93 05:10:43 GMT
Organization: Brandon S. Allbery's Personal System

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."

Separate quarries.  The BBC is about as likely to have done location filming
for "low-rent" SF series in the U.S. as Paramount/Desilu/whoever was likely
to do location filming in the U.K....

++Brandon

--
He's BAAAACK! Brandon S. Allbery                       kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org
Help stamp out OSF/Motif in our lifetime!
From: siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl Siewert)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Culinary Peculiarities
Date: 21 Jan 93 21:40:10 GMT
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

uribe@jarthur.claremont.edu (Soprano) writes:

>In article <OLSON.93Jan20230437@husc8.harvard.edu> olson@husc8.harvard.edu
>(Chip Olson) writes:

>>"Well, back in my UMass days, the dining commons' sometimes served a thing
>>called a `Flat Bread Sandwich'.  Now this was actually greasy grilled cheese
>>and turkey (or some vaguely poultry-ish substance) on French toast, and 
>>weighed about five pounds apiece, but I kept thinking `take two pieces of 
>>bread, put a piece of bread in the middle, drive a truck over it...'"

>"This description reminded me of something that was served daily in the
>cafeteria of my high school -- two slices of what had to be white Wonder
>Bread with a scoop of instant mashed potatoes on top, and covered by a large
>ladleful of anonymous brown gravy....  Any wonder that I'd blocked that
>memory? ;-)"

At my grade school (Topeka Lutheran, if you must know) they served something
called a ham boat.  This was a thick slice of fried bologna topped with plain
mashed potatoes, no gravy.  Later, they began serving something called a pizza
boat, common fare in school cafeterias, which is simply pizza on french bread, 
but the image that came to our minds...

Rie
-- 

                  James Riekar, barhopping yoyist, at your service     
                        address=siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu              
               Never underestimate the power of the truly eccentric.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe)
Subject: Re: Oi!
Reply-To: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:33:00 +0000


Maraud wants to know what a disquisition is..
Merrytail the word maiden appears, clutching dictionary in tail...
"A disquisition is a formal written or oral examination of a 
subject... like an inquisition, but you go right the way through what 
you're investigating (from the latin dis, from the greek dia) so it's 
from dis-quaerare - to seek your way right through something. 
If you wish to promulgate the results of such a disquisition, that 
might well be a dissertation.
Any more words?"
MerryTail grins hopefully
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From: siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl Siewert)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Question...
Date: 22 Jan 1993 16:45:28 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu
Keywords: hey you guys


Rie looks very annoyed as slash once again jumps in front of him.
<I HAVE A QUESTION, OR RATHER A SERIES OF NONSEQUITURS

1) DOUG, PLEASE DON'T KILL ME
2) I WANT A WOLF HUG, TOO!
3) HOW MANY POSTS IS TOO MANY?
4) CAN I HAVE A KLEENEX
5) WILL SOMEBODY TALK TO ME?
6) WHAT IS A NONSEQUITUR?
7) When is this guy gonna get his own account?!?!?!  Rie.


SLASH  and  Rie Inc.  New stuff so's the old stuff don't break.

-- 
/               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: cs_b173@ceres.kingston.ac.uk (Hotchkiss F G)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: testing tin
Date: 22 Jan 1993 17:10:59 -0000
Organization: Kingston University, Kingston-upon-Thames
NNTP-Posting-Host: ceres.kingston.ac.uk

In article <C16635.Eo5@fc.hp.com> daq@fc.hp.com (Doug Quarnstrom) writes:
>trying something


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