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Subject: Re: Decapitalization?
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In article <memo.886115@cix.compulink.co.uk> maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>In-Reply-To: <STEVE.93Jan19153955@styx.crc.ricoh.COM> steve@crc.ricoh.COM (Stephen R. Savitzky)
>
>> TITLE: Re: Decapitalization?
>
>> "The Folx room *is* the restroom," says the Mandelbear.  "There's only
>> one, and it has a sign on it that says 'Folx'.  The plumbing in the
>> restroom of a bar whose patrons include beings of many different
>> sexes, species, and even dimensionalities is best left to the
>> imagination."
>
>yeah, says MerryTail with feeling - but weren't you here at New Year 
>when MonTemplar pulled half of it out and kept giving me a tap on teh 
>shoulder......

"Hey, all I did was mention one tap.... it was YOU who threw in the washbasin,
oh MerryTail dearest."

With that MonTemplar grabs MerryTail in a Power-Hug, then proceeds to tickle
her mercilessly, BWA-HAHAHA!!!!

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From: narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: testing tin
Date: 22 Jan 1993 17:00:47 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
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Doug writes :
> That is it, you miserable wretches. I have dispatched a battalion of
> bloodstorm troopers to deal with this irreverence. They will not be
> as kind as I am reputed to be. Oh, they will announce their arrival
> in the interstices between virtuality and reality. Expect to hear
> them first in your dreams. When you begin seeing them out of the
> corner of your eye, you will know that they are close and that your
> time to pun is short.

 Well, first things first. I'm not a miserable wretch - I'm a HAPPY wretch!
And those bloodstorm troopers sound kinda messy... Maybe some ammoniatroopers 
or something like that... (or would they be too basic?) 

Honk Honk!

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From: daq@fc.hp.com (Doug Quarnstrom)
Subject: Re: testing tin
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 04:41:27 GMT
Organization: SPUGE
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Clive Grace (cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk) wrote:
: In-Reply-To: <C18I95.A0E@fc.hp.com> daq@fc.hp.com (Doug Quarnstrom)
: 
: > I have been around here far too long to start respecting the traditions
: > at this point.
: > 
: > I respond as I see fit.
: 
: Tanais digests this latest statement a wrinkle appears on his brow 
: and as soon as it appears it is gone.
: 
: [daq@fc.hp.com] and [*ing tin*] appears in his killfile for one week 
: exactly, not because he doesn't like the person, but because he 
: doesn't want to spend money downloading what he feels will turn into 
: a flame war.
: 
: He hope's he's wrong.

Ah, it is ironic that those who are so concerned about violence
always seem to be the quickest to kill.  

You were wrong.

Would that I could withhold my posts from you at this end.
It disturbs my sleep knowing I make some people so uncomfortable.

doug
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From: aaron@atlantis.uucp
Subject: Re: The Scribe plays a song for Decker
Organization: Atlantis Communications, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 05:52:35 GMT

Alfvaen sits with arms folded.  "Okay, now do 'A Day In The Life'.

"Or 'Fox In Socks'."  The latter with a grin to DM.

-- 
---Alfvaen(Still looking for "October's Baby")
"I tell everyone a different story...that way nothing's ever boring."              ---Jane Siberry
Current Album--Elvis Costello & The Attractions:Punch The Clock
Current Read--Dave Duncan:The Reaver Road
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From: keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: The newbie arrives...
Date: 22 Jan 1993 06:42:25 GMT
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Splash looks up as the newcomer arrives, and strolls over to the bar where Laz
and Thyra are having a drink.  Laz looks up cautiously as a "normal"
looking human male wearing shorts and a t-shirt approaches, sweating
slightly.  "Gidday, I'm Splash ... the bar's resident marine biologist,
from Western Australia.  As you can tell, it's slightly warm there at the
moment - mid-summer, yahoo!  Anyway, enough of personal biases about
weather (a pet topic of mine) ... can I shout you your next drink?"


--
		Splash!		*To love is to LIVE!*
   (aka Mike van Keulen -- e-mail: keulen@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au)
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From: jammer@eskimo.com (Lyle Harwood)
Subject: Meat
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 07:37:43 GMT


Jammer listens to Warrior, then grins.

"Warrior says that he hates it when I have an Old Lady.

They always insist on COOKING our meat."
From: narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Didi's ill, again : -(
Date: 27 Jan 93 05:18:10 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
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To Merlinvin :

BLAP! (peanut package, third class (surface mail))
or :
BLAPBLAPBLAPBLAPBLAP! (peanut package, UPS red label (next day air))
or :
Post # 25456
BLAPBLAPBLAPBLAPBLAP! (peanut package, TARDIS Express (when it absolutely,
positively, has to be there before the Daleks attack the earth with a hideous
space virus!))

"This lesson in postal speed brought to you by the Council to make those 
at the Post Office not seem like a buncha dolts..." :-) 

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From: ablanch@physics.su.OZ.AU (Shonias)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Culinary Peculiarities
Date: 27 Jan 93 09:51:24 GMT
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia

In article <1k43nhINNeen@menudo.uh.edu> narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon) writes:
>I wish I could remember who the person was who color-coordinated their food
>with their clothes. They gave a helpful hint, to remember when picking
>either food or clothes : THERE IS NO BLUE FOOD.

Blueberries? They're pretty blue, but I have to admit, it's all I can think
of.

Shonias Q'Tari

--
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All through your life
Everyday and every night
You should know that I'll be watching you.
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From: ekho@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (amanda rothman)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Announcement!
Date: 26 Jan 93 04:17:06 GMT
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida

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

> I just use the time-honored tradition of having a HUGE bag of dice, and 
> tump them out at the start of play. they make great miniatures (which 10sider
> am I?), and are great for emphasis... You took this many 
> (CLATTERCLATTERCLATTERCLATTER) points of damage. EEEEK! 

  Amanda laughs, "Ug!  I remember one time when my GM calmly took out a bag,
upturned it, dumping around 300 pennies on the table and announced, "Each
penny is the equivalent of 25 wildebeasts."  Argh!  That was scary!  He
seemed to be enjoying himself though."  She chuckles in fond rememberance.

                       Yours in Time and Space
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From: mss2@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer)
Subject: Re: Culinary Peculiarities
Reply-To: mss2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:31:47 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.233020.13383@ucc.su.OZ.AU> ablanch@physics.su.OZ.AU (Shonias) writes:

>Hmmm, at my primary school, the most exciting thing served was a  cool cup - 
>frozen cordial in a plastic cup. Other than that it was sandwiches...
>We did get milkshakes at high school...

	"`Cordial'?  The only definition of that I know as a noun is
`liqueur', which I _assume_ isn't served in Australian primary
schools.  :-)  Care to dispel my benighted ignorance?"

Michael
-- 
Michael S. Schiffer, LHN, FCS	"I decline utterly to be impartial
mss2@midway.uchicago.edu	 as between the fire brigade and the fire."
mike.schiffer@um.cc.umich.edu	 -- Winston Churchill, July 7, 1926
mschiffer@aal.itd.umich.edu
From: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: testing tin
Date: 22 Jan 93 15:31:06 GMT
Reply-To: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


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>

Starknight
spr@abo.dec.com
Disclaimer:  Huh?  What'd I say?
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Antsy
Date: 25 Jan 1993 08:22:47 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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In article <1993Jan18.083928.16125@cheshire.oxy.edu>, ac@cheshire.oxy.edu (Aileen Cho) writes:
=
=  From the depths of the hallways they come marching inexorably, ruthlessly,
=coldly. She has locked the door but they will not be fazed. They have waited
=for her to leave and they know it when she does. And then they strike. They
=invade the shores of her carpet, they scale her desk, they infiltrate her
=closet.  They have done it before. They will do it again.
=  "Like hell you will, little fuckers!" She plunges into the room, paper  
=towels in hand.  She drops to attack form--hands and knees--and swipes
=inexorably, ruthlessly, coldly.  They scatter. She flushes them out of
=the crevices. She holds up the Ultimate Weapon.           
=   "You raided me and by gawd, I'm going to Raid you."
=   She aims and fires.

Well, that tends to happen when it rains in Southern California.  One good
storm, and all the ants decide that ANY human habitation looks like Noah's Ark.
Of course, Raid only gets rid of the ones already in the place, and perhaps the
ones that show up for the next few days.  A better strategy is to find their
entrance, and wipe the surrounding area liberally with a rag soaked in ammonia.
This removes the trails left by the earlier invaders, so the next wave no
longer has a path to follow.
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: wow, delilah tries a SECOND post
Date: 27 Jan 1993 14:10:24 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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In article <1k51goINNh7n@menudo.uh.edu>, narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon) writes:
=In article <2B659730.17796@news.service.uci.edu> eaeu282@orion.oac.uci.edu (Ching-I Chen) writes:
=>
=>	Delilah opens her eyes, mumbles something about her hands smelling
=>like acetone.
=>	"Wow, what a nap," she says.  "I dreamt I was living in Cicely, 
=>Alaska, and had a cold, so I had to go see Dr. Fleischman..."  She rambles
=>on about nothing in particular, something those who know her well are used
=>to by now.
=>	"Neato.  What be going on around here?" she asks.
=>
=
=Acetone? Whoa, Nelly! We ain't never had nothing like that since them pigs
=ran down old Grocer Jameson at the 4H/Illuminati rally! (+10 points for a 
=triple negative)

StM, who missed the reference to acetone the first time around, runs to his
back pack, pulls out his glucometer, lancet, test strips, and alcohol swabs,
and rushes over to Delilah.  "People aren't supposed to smell like acetone! 
And when they start getting sleepy, too, that can be dangerous. Last time I
started smelling like acetone (and feeling awfully sleepy), I ended up spending
five days in the hospital.  You want I should check your blood sugar level?"

=Well, I am the Bi-Bulb. I provide light, hopefully music, a dancing partner,

"Linda," asks StM, "have you danced with the Bi-Bulb yet?"
From: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Happy Chinese New Year!!!
Date: 25 Jan 93 17:59:28 GMT
Reply-To: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


C+ (Chua HakLien) writes:
|>"Whooops! Ekho was right. The yeras of the rooster are '81, '69, '57, '45,
|>'33, '21 and so on. The previous year was the year of the monkey, and I'm
|>not sure about the year before that.. but the year before that was the
|>year of the Horse.. oh dear, i'm getting all confused... "
|>
|>Chua
|>+==+

"Don't worry about it, C+...  probably just the Monkey playing one final trick
on you.  That is his aspect, after all."  Starknight wishes he could find his
books on Eastern horoscopes.  "Is it the triangles that are compatible?  If so,
I'm due for a good year, 'cause I'm a Snake... but the good parts started with
the Monkey, when I found the Place and a friend turned me on to a business that
could change my life... no, WILL change my life.  I am determined it will be
so (see, the Rooster assertiveness is already beginning to affect me...)"

Starknight
spr@abo.dec.com
Disclaimer:  Huh?  What'd I say?
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From: mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk (Alan Ralph)
Subject: Re: On This Day
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In article <93021.224653KZAHLLER@MIAMIU.BITNET> <KZAHLLER@MIAMIU.BITNET> writes:
>OOOOO!  Sounds like a good excuse for a patented
>Magda's Wolf-Attack-Hug!
>
>Is very simple--take a running start (three steps is
>about optimum--you don't want to do any damage) and
>basically fling yourself at the object of the hug
>with enough velocity to rock them back on their
>heels, grap in a tight bear hug and squeeze until
>they say they've had enough (or start to asphyxiate)

..or, of course you could pick the wrong target, who happens to be a bigger
hugger! :-) :-) 
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From: ablanch@physics.su.OZ.AU (Shonias)
Subject: Re: Culinary Peculiarities
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 10:19:23 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.013147.13751@midway.uchicago.edu> mss2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>	"`Cordial'?  The only definition of that I know as a noun is
>`liqueur', which I _assume_ isn't served in Australian primary
>schools.  :-)  Care to dispel my benighted ignorance?"

That one seems to have baffled a few... sorry, I didn't realise that was an
Australianism... What do Americans call it? Do they have it? Ummmm...
well it is like... a concentrate that you mix up with water to make a 
sweet, flat, drink. Tend to come in colours rather than flavours... red,
green... although there is lemon. Hmmmm, I can't think of any other name
for it.... am I just forgetful? Anyone know?

Shonias Q'Tari

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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: narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Toast (and Re: Descriptions...)
Date: 27 Jan 1993 18:47:43 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
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Shonias writes :
> 26th is *Australia Day*??? Gee, I thought it was a holiday
> celebrating Eddie Van Halen's birthday... and we were so good and
> listened to *lots* of Van Halen too... By the way... never try to
> make a red guitar cake unless you have something better than red food
> colouring... you have never seen a Kramer like the one we made a few
> years back... hot pink is not Eddie's colour... 
> :)

I don't know - look at some of those guitars he has... :-) So when is Elvis 
Costello's birthday? *That* one, I need to celebrate!

"Five miles out of London on a Western avenue..."


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From: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Subject: Re: testing tin
Reply-To: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:28:13 GMT


In article <C1DwGI.GnM@fc.hp.com>, daq@fc.hp.com (Doug Quarnstrom) writes:
(Discussion between MARAUD and Doug deleted...)
|>By the way, I am all for your poking fun at me.  I will poke back,
|>and perhaps everyone will be able to see verbal dueling in good
|>fun without committing the rhetorical murder of placing me or
|>you in kill files.

"Ouch.  Yes, I deserved that, but I've already apologized several times...

"Besides, I never did kill Doug's articles... couldn't deprive myself of his
poetry (or his cynicism, come to think of it...)"

|>doug

Starknight
spr@abo.dec.com
Disclaimer:  Huh?  What'd I say?

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From: daq@fc.hp.com (Doug Quarnstrom)
Subject: Re: Cynical friendliness and a poem
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 06:22:23 GMT
Organization: SPUGE
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amanda rothman (ekho@cybernet.cse.fau.edu) wrote:
: 
:   Ekho finally makes her way over to Doug and the "lurking" Slash M. 
: "Greetings to the two of you.  I am pleased to make your aquaintance.  I am
: also pleased that things are sorted out between everyone involved.  I would
: have told you to kiss and make up,

All right, let us put an end to this innuendo right now, ok.

: but I've been too busy taking the VR
: version of Cybernet slowly and painfully apart with my laser probe for
: daring to prevent the receipt of postings by my associate and myself.  I
: have noted that you have a talent for poetry, Doug.

Thank you for saying so.  It is really "poetic" prose.  It lacks
the discipline of form needed for poetry, I think, but it does have
a certain flair, I suppose, and I do thank you for saying so.

I have a desire to some day write poetry that is actually good, but that,
like all good things, must be achieved through sweat and perseverence.
In the mean time, all of us who fall short of perfection can play
with the tools we have.

:  I enjoyed your postings
: very much.  

Oh, good.  Most egotists, me being one, enjoy hearing that they
pleased another with their work, so I am, of course, gratified.

:I also found great inspiration in the statements about loving
: being living, and you being among the undead.  Thank you.

Oh, you are most welcome.  The whole undead thing can be considered
a lesson in what I call serious play.  I was making a jest, yet
still making serious observations about the human condition (mine
in this case) as I see it.  That typifies my style, or the style
I yearn for in any case.

:  I feel that I
: must contribute to the creativity, hence:
: 
[poem deleted]

The poem was very lyrical.  I recognize the expression of
the sentiments you display.  I think they are fairly universal,
certainly in callahans.  I am not going to play public 
poetry critic here though.  If you care for more specific 
comments, I might be willing to make some observations
privately.

doug
From: narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Culinary Peculiarities
Date: 28 Jan 1993 05:14:21 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
Distribution: world
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In article <JBrandt-270193125341@aaa.uoregon.edu> JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jason) writes:
>In article <1993Jan27.095124.18870@ucc.su.OZ.AU>, ablanch@physics.su.OZ.AU
>(Shonias) wrote:
>> 
>> In article <1k43nhINNeen@menudo.uh.edu> narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon) writes:
>> >either food or clothes : THERE IS NO BLUE FOOD.
>> 
>> Blueberries? They're pretty blue, but I have to admit, it's all I can think
>> of.
>"Nope, Shonias, To quote George Carlin, 'Blueberries are purple. Who's got
>the blue food?'. Seriously, aside from strange varieties of Jello and
>Kool-Aid, I don't think there -is- and food item that's really blue."

Any blue foods are pretty much dyed to take on that lovely pale (meaning : 
BRIGHT) azurian hue. I have been through the fridge, and had no luck finding
any blue food. And with the level of growth in there, that's kind of 
impressive! I have had food in the fridge that is older than the duration 
that we have lived in this house. (It's not long, but still!) 

By the way, which piece is that in? I haven't heard enough Carlin, and am 
looking to expand my horizons... 



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From: siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl Siewert)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Oi!
Date: 25 Jan 1993 11:23:19 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
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pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan) writes:

>"Aha!  Doug, you reveal yourself.  It's true, folks; sarcastic cynics don't
>really exist!"

>Starknight sips his Guinness...

a telepathic message
<BAD HUMAN! 
DON"T BEAT YOURSELF OVER THE HEAD WITH THIS.  IT"S SHARP.

leave me alone, i'm not really here
MARAUD OUT>

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