From: GE.LJB@forsythe.stanford.edu (Louis J Bookbinder)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: January birthdays
Date: 28 Dec 1992 17:45:00 -0800
Organization: Stanford University
NNTP-Posting-Host: morrow.stanford.edu

Klunkklank

Nick takes time out from his search ("Stan, where are you?") to do the
honors:

"Birthdays for the new year."

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Debbie Fligor           fligor@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu                 Jan   3, 1969
Dan'l (Daniel Briggs)   dbriggs@nrao.edu                        Jan   3, 1964
 -                      Irish Coffee, Gin & Tonic
Bethany                 BXJ101@psuvm.psu.edu                    Jan   6, 1974
Lyrec Greyskye (michael)lyrec@intelhf.hf.intel.com              Jan   6, 1962
 -                      varies depending on occasion, mood, and
 -                      moonphase - wil try anything at least twice
Reverence Pavane        iborchar@physics.adelaide.edu.au        Jan   6, 1970
  (Ian Borchardt)       Mead, Ginger Ale
Gypsy Woman             rowanf@cache.crc.ricoh.com              Jan   6,
  (Rowan Fairgrove)     champagne, whiskey mac, espresso w/ tuaca,
  -                     diet peach soda
Speaker to Minerals     LYDICK@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU             Jan  10, 1956
   (Carl J Lydick)      Dark Bacardi & Diet Coke
C-Hawk (Palmer Davis)   ptd2@po.cwru.edu                        Jan  12, 1969
 -                      diet IBC Root Beer
Unbeliever (Reed)       rsch281b@cl.uh.edu                      Jan  12, 1968
Rowan (Kathy Dailey)    tvis04@tvisl.tv.tek.com                 Jan  12, 1951
HAL9000                 --------------------                    Jan  12, 1992
Perrian(Rich Cranswick) gex41@seq1.keele.ac.uk                  Jan  13, 1971
Wildside a.k.a. Jack    dewinter@watserv1.waterloo.edu          Jan  17, 1969
 -                      Water, Hot Chocolate, Earl Grey
Erik the Red (BFG)      erikred@ocf.Berkeley.edu                Jan  17, 1970
 -                      Akaavit, Guinness, vodka, white rum
 -                      tequila, Baileys, Blair Athol scotch,
 -                      port, Harps, Killian's Red etc.
Gorsuch, Glenn F.       ggorsuch@cscihp.ecst.suchico.edu        Jan  19
 -                      Mountain Dew spiked with Lemon Juice
Michael Pereckas        msp333277@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu              Jan  19, 1972
                        vanilla tea with vanilla sugar
Callidus (Andrew Lang)  canute@csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au             Jan  20, 1970
green Soora (Rachel)    carrot@bear.UUCP                        Jan  20, 1989
 -                      _Really_ cold water, iced peppermint tea
Seth Orin Cloud (Seth   seth@alchemy.tn.cornell.edu             Jan  23, 1970
 Cohn)                  Chocolate Orange Surprise, OJ, Seltzer
Stumpy (Robert Marsh)   rmarsh@waikato.ac.nz    Port            Jan  23, 1971
Logos (Lukin Brewer)    CH_A077@Titan.King.Ac.UK                Jan  27, 1972
 -                      Non-alcoholic drinks only, fruit juice
 -                      mainly
Vlad Taltos             slandry@eagle.wesleyan.edu              Jan  28, 1968
 -                      God's Blessing, Glenfiddich
Merrygold (Mary Mark)   mark@skorpio.usask.ca                   Jan  31, 1961
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From various perches, rafters, and rookeries fly a multihued menagerie
of dangerously darting but darling dainty dragonoids dealing out this
din:  (no words - Stan is not around)

(much singing to the tune of happy birthday)
Balloons! Birthday shower! Confetti! Rice! Left-over snowballs!
(more singing)
The VPM Pings and proceeds to produce a Party Pastry of pretentious
pulchritude festooned with frivilous flowers of frosting.
(even more singing)
Dragons bugle. Xwindows show Xfireworks. Alien space-ships flash lights.
(final stanza, sans Stan)

There is a rush to the bar for drinks (Mike and Tom and a couple of
volunteers are tending bar at what looks like time-lapse speed) and
numerous toasts and shattered glass and VAX humming quietly in the
corner something which nobody notices sounds like Rockabye Baby but not
sweeping up any glass while Fast Eddy pounds out unrecognizably jazzy
variations on Happy Birthday while Jakes harmonizes with a happy singing
of electrified strings.

(If you just had a birthday and you did not appear on this list,
NYaaah NYaaah you forgot to tell me, turkey! Send me your name and Email
address, your favorite drinks and your birthday (year not required,
besides nobody comes CLOSE to being as old as I). Better luck next year)

(Also if you are lurking and decide to come out, you might email me for
the ALLABOUT Callahan's, which gives rather more than you wanted to know
about the place, but might make an interesting 5 minutes reading)

Nick Chopper - my opinion? ax not! LB>-}   BOOKY@Forsythe.stanford.edu
"Oh, Stan, sweet, where ARE you"
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