HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: aaron@atlantis.uucp
Subject: Cook-kies...
Reply-To: aaron%atlantis@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
Organization: Atlantis Communications, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 04:29:25 GMT

"My wife and I made sugar cookies today.  My mother used to make them, and
then didn't for a number of years, but it was a Christmas tradition.  Now,
hopefully we can make it into a Christmas tradition again...

"Notable events...I broke a wooden spoon in vigorous stirring of the sugar and
margarine in the first stage of the mixing.  I didn't know you could >do< that.
Now I know.  And we spilled chocolate sprinkles all over the stove at one
point.  We had fun trying to get the cookies from the table to the cookie
sheet--or more precisely, getting them off the table at all.

"As a wedding gift, we got a roller-cookie-cutter, which makes cookies that are
a bit smaller than we are used to, but oh, the convenience!  We alternated that
with our 'standard' cookie-cutters, which consist of a teddy-bear and a Santa.
(We should really get some more--I like outre cookie-cutters.)

"They're cooked perfectly--not burned or anything.  Yum.  Tomorrow we shall ice
some of them, which I've never seen done before, but Nicole has...

"We wrapped most of our presents tonight, too, except for the one that seems
to have gone missing.  After a short and frantic search, we've concluded that
we must have left them in the story by mistake.  Ah, well--we'll just have to
buy them again.  They weren't >that< expensive, just a couple of cute tree
decorations..."

-- 
---Alfvaen(Still looking for "October's Baby")
"I never gave it a thought, I never thought I should think
 I would go along with anyone and anything"  --Rupert Hine
Current Album--Return of The Jedi Soundtrack
From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Thyra)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: NE Storms (was RE: Chess)
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Date: 16 Dec 1992 00:59:12 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon, Architecture
Distribution: world
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In article <1992Dec15.153206.28106@ra.msstate.edu>,
jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce) wrote:
> 
> (Jason) writes:
> >been meaning to ask. Sounds in the news like New York is trying become New
> >Atlantis. How bad is it there, really?"
> 
>    "Well, someone on the news staff from a tv station in New Orleans,
>  Louisiana went up there, and said this morning that it was like a hurricane,
> but without the actual hurricane. The southern end of Manhatten Island
> had water standing in the streets, subways were flooded. A relative in Maine
> said that Sunday he was getting alternating snow and rain and it was
> -5F, without a windchill being figured in, " DJ.

"URF! Good luck weathering that mess."

Jason
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From: mss2@quads.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer)
Subject: Re: Newbies on the March
Reply-To: mss2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 02:29:09 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.155204.4429@atlantis.uucp> aaron%atlantis@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca writes:

>"I use the ANSI format for places where I want the dates to sort(although I
>put dashes between the numbers to avoid confusion), but otherwise I use
>mm/dd/yy.  It just seems more logical to me that dd/mm/yy...but I suppose that
>devotees of the other form say the same thing.  De gustibus non est
>disputandum."

	"Hmm... I use mm/dd/yy, but dd/mm/yy seems more _logical_.
The latter is in ascending order based on the size of the time unit:
first days, then months, then years.  Clock time, of course, goes the
other way, in descending order-- hh:mm:ss-- but at least it doesn't
switch things around.  (Imagine if ten after twelve were 10:12:00 or
12:00:10!)  Not that I'm going to change-- habit is strong, and I
don't require that everything in my life be made rational (if I did, I
wouldn't be a citizen of the last non-metric country in the world :-) )
but it still seems to me that the day-firsters have the advantage
there."

Michael
-- 
Michael S. Schiffer, LHN, FCS	"Indeed I tremble for my country
mss2@midway.uchicago.edu	 when I reflect that God is just."
mike.schiffer@um.cc.umich.edu	 -- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on
mschiffer@aal.itd.umich.edu	    Virginia (1784)
From: mcspikgfm@dct.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: A rope drops from the rafters
Summary: Puckernuts
Date: 9 Dec 92 20:51:31 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

In article <1992Dec9.013937.21581@crc.ricoh.com>, rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove) writes:
>> "Can I join you for a drink? And can my friend Jason join us? We both
>>happen to be Elfquest fans as well. Jason has a complete collection of
>>Elfquest. The original black & white versions, the color collections, and a
>>bunch of other stuff. If it's OK with you, I'll ask him to come over and I
>>will introduce the two of you."
> 
>>She looks over at Mike, and requests a Brandy Alexander, with extra cream.
>>"And when Melandra finishes her current drink, the next one she wants is my
>>treat."
> 
> Gypsy smiles, glad Thyra reminded her. <When I heard *puckernuts*
> I knew you were a fan, but RL got in the way of saying hi!  May I
> join you all.  I would be happy to buy you a drink or maybe Mike has
> some dreamberries we could share.>
> 
	I would be delighted. Have you tried any dreamberries before? I think i
have some somewhere but it may take some time finding them. Perhaps Mike may
have some but I would doubt it. Yet with all the strange things going on here,
i suppose that would surprise me least. I will share with you all what little I
have. Perhaps I can venture back and get some??

	Would you like a drink in the meantime if the fabled Mike does not have
the berries. I must repay someone who is kind enough to offer and I have had so
many kind offers here that I feel I start here as I mean to go on.
	
	Fan....yes...I have a corner on the Puckernuts and dreamberries market
this side of the great divide. I would be delighted if you would be seated with
the company.

							Mel.
From: alaric@sti.com (Alaric Tekiahyn)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Chess match
Date: 15 Dec 92 02:16:24 GMT
Organization: Software Transformation, Inc.
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In article <u906451.724300925@bruny>, u906451@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (Damien Saunders) writes:
] Before exams I was playing a game of chess against a friend of mine Delroy, or
] Del for short. The game was said to be the battle of the incompedants by both
] of us the game was won by a checkmate by me with a Queen and King verus a King.

Alaric chuckles, then stops; then looks puzzled; then frowns.  He thinks
for a moment.

"I'm a little curious as to exactly how you managed that," he pronounces
at last.
"I can see precisely one way to accomplish it, with three subtle variations
 depending upon which of three squares your King occupies.  I'm curious as
 to whether you managed to come up with a second method."


-- 
      "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom."  --  Thomas Jefferson
    ......................................................................
    Phil Stracchino : phils@sti.com : alaric@sti.com : The Renaissance Man
      PGP 2.0 - Freeware public-key data encryption.  Get it and use it!
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From: arsmith@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Alan Smith)
Subject: Re: Hats
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:21:09 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

In article <1992Dec17.081407.11568@midway.uchicago.edu> mss2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>	"In the interest of wasting more time rather than studying for
>my next exam (currently in a bit under eleven hours)

Yeah, I did that for my organic exam.  (No, lack of study does *not* help you
identify bicyclic compounds)

>I've suddenly
>been struck with idle curiosity.  For no particular reason, I'm
>wondering who here chooses to wear hats in these post-Kennedy years,
>and what kind? 

Big Al looks up to see a green baseball cap with a large "C" on it appear
on his head.  "Ask me what the C means, sometime." He states.

>	"As for myself, both in VR and RL I usually wear a black
>fedora which I picked up earlier this year. 
>	"Oh, the reason I'm not wearing the hat inside the bar is that
>I figured if I'm going to revive the custom of wearing it, I might as
>well go whole hog and adopt the traditional customs regarding male hat
>wearers.  Unfortunately, I haven't entirely figured them out yet-- if
>anyone has a good rule for it I'd be interested. 

Rules For Hats:
1) do not wear anything with jewels in it unless someone is singing "here she
comes, miss america" and/or "God save the Queen."

2) Do not wear a fedora unless you are trying to figure out who killed your
partner.  (:*))

3) Do not wear bowlers bowling.

4) Do not light a fire underneath a stovepipe.

5) baseball caps are okay, so long as you turn the hat around and keep the
sun off the back of your neck.

6) Pillbox hats make bad medicine containers, and even worse defensive
positions.

7) Do not wear a beret unless you are covered with paint and/or jumping out of
a helicopter with your M-16 slung over your shoulder.

8) Do not wear a top hat in areas with low clearence and/or you might want
to be concerned with your sail area.

9) Eating hats is okay, provided a) you promised this some time in the past
and b) you use a LOT of spices.

10)  Beanie-propeller hats are only appropriate AFTER you have been cleared for
takeoff.

Hope this helps.

Big Al.  "Tower, Big Al requesting clearance for takeoff..."
From: mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: New Year Pizza Party (Was: Re: On shoes and ships and sealing wax,
Date: 21 Dec 92 03:47:14 GMT
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia

> [yue-shun about the New Year's Pizza Party:]
>Stop babbling, DM!  Just do it!!  I did it last year.  It's now your turn!!

Danger Mouse thanks yue-shun for the support.
"Okay, you've convinced me! I'll do it."

- Danger Mouse.
From: mjmh@crsa.bu.edu (Michael J M Holmes)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: prejudice
Date: 18 Dec 92 16:19:55 GMT
Organization: Boston University Center for Remote Sensing

In article <1gpg8kINNc9n@gap.caltech.edu> ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz) writes:

>Abner nods.  "Just heard one a few days ago.  I think it's funny, but
>there's definitely a few sharp edges to the joke ...

>WARNING:  If you are easily offended, stop listening now!

>'Did you hear that the gays in San Fransisco are organizing themselves
>to defend each other from attack?  They're going to call themselves the
>Pink Panthers!'"

/* scratches his head, mussing up the violet hair.

"Uhm, Abner?  Is that really a joke?  Just a week or so ago
I saw a report on the local (Boston-area) news about a real
group of gays and lesbians who were an anti-gay-bashing group
modeled on the Guardian Angels, and they really did call
themselves the Pink Panthers.  At least, I think that's 
what the report said."

"Can anybody else confirm/refute this??"



-- 
========================================================================
Mike Holmes       mjmh@crsa.bu.edu           "Happiness Will Prevail!"
Boston University Department of Geography (a truly GREAT place to work!)
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From: rich@theophilus.msfc.nasa.gov (Rich Krum)
Subject: Re: Hats
Reply-To: rich@theophilus.msfc.nasa.gov
Organization: Boeing Computer Support Services
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 16:29:10 GMT

In article 122420166@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM, daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom) writes:
>In alt.callahans, rich@theophilus.msfc.nasa.gov (Rich Krum) writes:
>
>> 
>> In my surprisingly extensive collection are a variety of ballcap
>> type hats, "crusher" hats for camping, at least several varieties
>> of "cowboy" or "western" style hats, and a few specials--like one for
>      ^^^^^^
>> the desert, ala "French Foreign Legion".
>
>Cringe.
>
>> 
>> A recent Boy Scout Campout found the entire group, Troll, Wave, and Frog
>> wearing mesh "pith Helmets" in the same color.
>> 
>> I think we do it just to be perverse.  I do know that nowadays, tipping
>> your hat to a 'lady' still gets a reaction (usually puzzlement).
>
>Anachronistic behavior is typically viewed as vaguely boorish.
>.....not that this should stop you, of course.  If you move to
>the west coast, you may even be able to bring it back into fashion.
>
>doug


Hey, The Troll and assembled family multitude just managed to ESCAPE from
the west coast of the US.  Perversity is, of course, a prime characteristic
of the Troll group--it's part of our native charm!  Kinda attitude that says
"I don't care if 'everybody's doing it', I do it my way".  The Troll tends
to be an anachronistic type, with a nuclear family, well-behaved, high
achieving kids, and a near-total lack of interest in professional sport
programmes on the telly.  Of course, we are perceived as a bit out of step,
wierd, and/or perverse--and enjoy the attention!

The west coast, IMHO, is over-advertised, over blown, and over-populated.
I find that the area has lost its manners, also--a sure sign of impending 
loss of civilized status.  Based on the latest silliness (read riots/etc.)
in Los Angeles and other areas, I suspect that the fall of civilization on
that coast is at hand.  Too many of the denizens of that area are only out
for what they can gain or grab.  The caring attitudes I see in this group
(Callahans) are what keep me lurking here.

The Troll looks down, and notes the rather tall pile of soapboxes between
him and the underside of the table.  

"I think I'll just lurk in the rafters for a while--just to be perverse--"

--Troll 
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From: ekho@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (amanda rothman)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: My kingdom for a decent mailer...
Date: 17 Dec 92 05:34:39 GMT
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida


  Amanda's eyes sparkle at Gecko-boy, "My sympathies about the troubles 
with your system.  I know how you feel as our system is just attempting 
to get back on its feet after some minor cosmetic surgery."  A quick 
dodge behind the force wall with Ekho, and Amanda mutters soto-voice, 
"One of my friends with no comprehension for personal danger keeps 
running the names 'Ekho" and what he calls a 'Gekho lizard' together."  
Sniggering, Amanda dodges Ekho's grab for her and runs away, laughing as 
Ekho stalks her around the room with a questionable smile on her face.  
"Come here, Amanda.  There's something I wish to show you..."  The 
peanuts start to fly!

          Yours in Time and Space
From: mjmh@crsa.bu.edu (Michael J M Holmes)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Introduction
Date: 11 Dec 92 15:48:32 GMT
Organization: Boston University Center for Remote Sensing

/*, resident C Honorary Comment, Open Purple Texan... uhm, no,
resident Purple C Open-Comment and Honorary Texan (whew!), welcomes
the newcomer, Starknight.

"I just want to get a clarification, however.  Something in me
keeps wanting to pronounce your name Stark - night, when I assume
that it is Star - knight.  And I seem to be a recent expert on
confusing VR names... "

;)

"But welcome to the Place!"




-- 
========================================================================
Mike Holmes       mjmh@crsa.bu.edu           "Happiness Will Prevail!"
Boston University Department of Geography (a truly GREAT place to work!)
========================================================================
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Cyber (was Introduction was Eh?)
Date: 17 Dec 1992 03:56:02 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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steve@crc.ricoh.COM (Stephen R. Savitzky) writes:
>"I consider it unlikely," says the Mandelbear.  "A hypersphere is a
>*very* strange object -- cross-sections of it tend to look like
>toruses.  Even I (in my RL incarnation, anyway) can't figure the
>darned thing out.  Hyper*cubes* I can handle."

Consider:  A hypersphere is represented (unless I've misremembered what is
meant by the term "hypersphere") by the equation:
	x^2 + y^2 + z^2 + w^2 <= R^2
Since its (hyper)speherically symmetric, we can investigate all possible cross
sections simply by considering what happens if we fix the value of w at
something between the 0 and the radius of the hypersphere.  This gives us the
equation:
	x^2 + y^2 + z^2 <= R^2 - w^2
which is a sphere of radius sqrt(R^2 - w^2).  Maybe I'm missing something, but
I don't see any way to get a torus as a cross section.  Or maybe by "cross
section" you meant the intersection of a hypersphere with a plane, rather than
the intersection of a hypersphere with a three-space?
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From: keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Arrival of a Stranger
Date: 17 Dec 1992 23:07:07 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au

jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce) writes:

>   "No problem. Not all of us are Human here. There are { lets see if i can
> remember [ inside joke... ] } elves, a balrog, a dalek, a doctor, some
> toons, a starship, several robots and mechanicals, a few humans, two
> sprites, bear, part of a mandelbrot, a Kzin, deckers, dragons, dragon
> riders, Archteryx, other birds, lets see whom else, kitten, SEA, a Golden
> Gryphon, Gypsy Lady Rowen, a Boss Troll, i know i'm leaving some beings
> out... But thats all i can remember !!" DJ. :-)

And ... a wave, a doormat, an ogre, a couple of mice (or are they
'toons?), a couple of biologists (well, I'm one; there was another, from
Alaska (are you still there, Patch?) - or do we just count as humans?),
quite a number of dogs, a shape-shifter or two, a Mary-with-a-tail (I
think she used to be a human), some water vapour (no, that _wasn't_ a
typo), a purple c open-comment, a horse, a thunderkat (used to be a
thunderchild), a reverend ... and heaps more, who I can't remember.  Ah
well; WELCOME!

Splash!


--
		Splash!		*To love is to LIVE!*
   (aka Mike van Keulen -- e-mail: keulen@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: u906451@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (Damien Saunders)
Subject: Re: Utopiae (Was: Amanda wants to be a Kesh)
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 03:25:39 GMT

Mark Beirne Lively <ml5a+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

>Excerpts from netnews.alt.callahans: 13-Dec-92 Utopiae (Was: Amanda
>wants .. Alan Smith@lamar.ColoSta (1000)

>> "SO," Those who had fallen asleep suddenly snap awake, their note-taking 
>> instincts coming back, "Call For Discussion: Favorite Mythological areas and
>> cultures.  Where, Who, What.  Give virtues.  For extra credit, create your
>> OWN area."

>My fantasy land.  hmm, perhaps sort of an old west sort of thing or the
>space westerns, or what it is all based on the tales of Knights errant. 
>The virtues protection of the weak, rehabilition or destruction of the
>opressors, honesty, loyalty, and helpfulness towards those in need.  All
>I want is transporation, a good friend (preferably female) and a sunset
>to ride into.

I prefer the Norse sagas there is so many varied things covered my them.
Damien.
--
`Of COURSE I was glad to get rid of him, he's flipped. He's got mad droid
disease! He kept waving a banana in front of me and calling it a female 
aardvark'  --Red Dwarf, "Camille" 
Damien Saunders (Gunnar Njalsson [SCA]) Email: u906451@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au
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From: arsmith@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Alan Smith)
Subject: Re: seduction
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 20:34:36 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

In article <1giio1INN5os@newsman.csu.murdoch.edu.au> keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!) writes:
>olson@husc9.Harvard.EDU (Charles Olson) writes:
>>"Worst music for sex is: the 1812 Overture, the William Tell Overture, Ravel's
                                                  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Big Al hums a little to himself and quietly says "Hiyo Silver, Away!"  Then
cracks up and falls off his chair.

>>Bolero (which always shows up on `romantic music' compilations... ick), and
> ^^^^^^
>>Frank Zappa's "G-Spot Tornado", 
>
>What's wrong with Bolero?  Works fine for me; only problem is you can't
>hear it at the beginning, and it's not long enough ;-)
>I agree that it depends very much on the tastes of your partner - doesn't
>everything?  It certainly should!

"I fail to see how what your partner tastes like should affect your music
preferences."
>
Big Al.  "That's my painting."  "Sure doesn't look like you." (Bonus points to  
those who correctly spot this quote.)

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From: mss2@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer)
Subject: Re: second thoughts about a friendship
Reply-To: mss2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 10:09:23 GMT

In article <1gpgmrINNcg0@gap.caltech.edu> ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz) writes:
>
>Liralen says ...
>>I now am very careful to make it clear that
>>I'm no Patron Saint.  I'm human.  I have flaws, I have pain, I have
>>idiocies, I have a hell of a temper and I can't solve anyone's problems
>>for them.  I can listen, I can offer a hug or two, but I'm no messiah and
>>no one to fix people's lives."  

>Abner smiles.  "Liralen Li, the Patron Saint of Recognizing One's Own Flaws."

	Michael does a bad British accent: "Only a Patron Saint would
deny that she was a Patron Saint.  She _is_ a Patron Saint!"  :-)

Michael
-- 
Michael S. Schiffer, LHN, FCS	"Indeed I tremble for my country
mss2@midway.uchicago.edu	 when I reflect that God is just."
mike.schiffer@um.cc.umich.edu	 -- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on
mschiffer@aal.itd.umich.edu	    Virginia (1784)
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From: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (The Didi-Sprite)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: So much for dramatic exits.
Date: 15 Dec 92 05:08:11 GMT
Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada
Originator: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca

In article <1992Dec11.041557.21233@atlantis.uucp> aaron@atlantis.uucp writes:
>There is a bit of an embarrassed cough and Alfvaen shimmers back into
>existence, a look of relief on his face.  "Well, that wasn't very long, was
>it?

[    ]

>"Hey!  I'm back!  My anticipated bout of with newsfeed deprivation is cut
>quite short!  Whee!!!!!"  Alfvaen goes into a jig of glee and celebration, and
>only stops when he snags a glass from Mike, chugs it and holds it high.  "To
>Usenet and UUCP!"  The glass crashes into the fireplace and explodes in blue
>flame.  Denizens of the Place wrinkle their noses at the smell of ozone...

"Alfvaen!"  Shrieks the Didi-Sprite with joy, "You're back! 
Wooopppppeeee!"  And, racing across the room she throws her arms around
the elf's neck and gives him a big, huge, welcoming hug!

----<--<@

The Didi-Sprite
Montreal * Canada

braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
didi@geloser.login.qc.ca
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