HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: rich@troll1.msfc.nasa.gov (Rich Krum)
Subject: Re: New Year Pizza Party
Reply-To: rich@troll1.msfc.nasa.gov
Organization: Boeing Computer Support Services
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 18:22:20 GMT

The troll emerges from under the table, clutching a slice of his favorite
pizza.  It's what the troll light-heartedly referres to as a "garbage"
pizza, with everything in the shop thrown on it.  The Troll does allow
anchovies on the side, and tends to avoid pineapple.  The rest of the 
troll gang loves this stuff, except the goose, who isn't into green 
veggies on pizza (oh well)

Since the Troll is in the midst of a riot at work, this will be the 
last bit today-- 

So, Happy gnu beer to you all!

--Troll
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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: feath@agora.rain.com (Feather)
Subject: From Feather's other half (was Re: boo
Organization: Open Communications Forum
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 06:32:58 GMT

>>"Well, kitten, we could start calling you 'wench' more often if you want.  We
>>could even make that your official net.alias, or at least add it after conan
>>the librarian.  How far are you willing to go with this 'wench' thing?"
>
>   "I dunno, a lot of people might find adjusting to the new name a bit of
>a 'wench'. Still, if a nut like you can't torque her into it..."
>
>   The brumby prepares to bolt.

Suddenly a big rainbow wing feather with writing on it drops from the rafters
and lands flat in front of where Feather is sitting.  "Yeep!" goes the startled
Feather, who then reads the writing.  Suddenly the small gray avian puts one
wing over her eyes and groans.  "Ohhhh, nooooo, R-Crow, PLEEEZE don't make me
say this... pleeeeeeze...!"

There is a small but noticeable rumble of thunder in the rafters just above
Feather. "Ok, ok, ok!" says the gray avian, who then turns to the patrons.
"It's a message from my RL self.  She says that if she ever opens a tavern,
it would be called the Rainbow Crow-bar..."

Feather PK's the rainbow feather, "kicks" it back to the rafters where it
came from, and yells upward: "Nice pry!"

-Feather (one exasperated little bird)
From: feath@agora.rain.com (Feather)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Dalek has entered the building
Date: 30 Dec 92 17:58:53 GMT
Organization: Open Communications Forum

>> Feather takes off from her former resting point on Taldin's head and lands
>> on a high place directly above the hot tub. 
>> 
>> "Did someone say 'telekinetic'?"  Feather grins.  "Hey, THYRA!  How does one
>> levitate an object submerged in water without levitating the water itself?
>> Teach me, and we can do it together, somehow.  What do you say?"
>
>"Prrrrrrhmmmmm." Thyra looks at the very small bird who wants to levitate a
>rather large, wet Dalek. "I thought Linda The Starship hauled Dalek out
>already with a tractor beam. Oh well, I guess he fell in again." She pads
>over and leaps up onto the rim of the tub. At the moment, Thyra is still in
>the form of a largish, tawny housecat, wearing a black velvet collar. She
>looks at the Dalek, looks at little Feather, and washes her ear with a paw.
>"Well, the easiest thing is to apply the TK to Dalek's 'head'. The top of
>him is sticking up out of the water, after all. The other option is to
>extend the TK forces -through- the water, but concentrate on attaching them
>to the surface and interior of his casing. Sort of like reaching into a
>barrel of black-eyed peas and grabbing an orange that's beneath the
>surface. You work by touch, get a good grip, and haul it out." She smiles
>at her avian friend, and the sapphire on her collar glows a soft blue.
>"Give it a try. I'll help if you need it."
>
Feather looks down and gulps.  "Uhhh..."
The tiny gray bird looks down at the big wet robot, and decides that she
has bitten off more than she can chew.  (as if that tiny beak could chew! :-)
"This is what I get for being impulsive.  NOW what do I do?"
The small bird is feeling intimidated...
From: jhitch@crash.cts.com (Jeffrey Hitchin)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: wonderful life
Date: 26 Dec 92 19:02:06 GMT
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA


	"Have I ever wondered what the world would be like without me?"
Grant scratches his beard. "Too many times I should think.  As most of
you know, I had an emotionally tumultuous childhood.

	"Of course, you have to remember that the questions, 'What would
the world be like without me?' and 'Would the world be better off without
me?' are two entirely different things.  One is a question of philosophical
interest, the other is (IMHO) a cry for help.  I've asked the second
question too many times to not know.

	"Gotta go now, I've got things to do."
From: ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Sunglasses (was Re: Hats)
Date: 28 Dec 1992 02:27:55 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: degas.wag.caltech.edu

Chip Olson says:
>"I am also among the myopic, and I have a pair of prescription sunglasses,
>and they work really well for me. 

"Gee, does that mean that we have to refer to you as a Myopic-American?"
From: rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Cook-kies...
Date: 22 Dec 92 01:39:41 GMT
Reply-To: rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove)
Organization: RICOH California Research Center

> >"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...

>"Hmm," murmurs Jilara.  "Which reminds me, it's time for my
>Christmas batch of gingerbread.  I have some of the most outre
>cookie-cutters around.  (Nothing quite so outre as the
>gingerbread coffins we did for a "Puritan Thanksgiving" party,
>once--with icing that said "REPENT!")  My personal favorites
>are the man-in-the-moon and the flying pig.  Maybe I'll bring
>some gingerbread to Colleen's on Wednesday, for you
>Callahanians who show up there...

>"In the meantime, I'll just have to whip up a virtual
>batch..."
--
>  Jilara   [jane@swdc.stratus.com]

Gypsy looks up. Ooh, I love custom cookie cutters.  We have
a mermaid, a satyr, a neolithic Goddess, a cat (or maybe two),
stars in different sizes...  Oh lots of wonderful things.  Russell
is busy making candy cane cookies (twisted, colors sugar 
cookies) to give the neighbors.  He steadfastly refuses to give
them little Goddesses and Pen (the plural of Pan right?  I
once made an entire batch of gingerbread Pen. <grin>)

I love gingerbread.  I hope I get a chance to try Jilara's in RS.
She should get a chance to try mine at Hogmanay as I am
planning sheet gingerbread for my birthday cake.  (Its my
party I can eat what I want to, eat what I want to.  Haggis, yum.)

Hmmm, the mailer has been down all day and Gypsy is obviously
feeling punchy.  Better post this silly thing and go to Solstice circle.

Brightest blessings of the season to ALL of you.  Tra la, tra la la.

Rowan (Gypsy Woman)

Rowan Fairgrove

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The wheel of the year is turning now.  The season of darkness stretches before us like a great and sunless sea.   Listen:  the stag bells, the summer has gone.  Winter winds blow wet and cold, the sun is low, short its course, the sea running high.  Deep red the bracken, its shape lost; the little wren finds no shelter for her nest; the wild goose has raises its familiar cry.
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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
Subject: Re: Definition of "monogamy"?
Organization: Don't blame me, I voted for Bill 'n' Opus
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 18:59:30 GMT

In article <BztM9H.9sF@news.cso.uiuc.edu> trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:
>aahz:
>
>>Let's start with emotional monogamy.  I love my parents, I love my
>>sister, I love a lot of the people I know from this Place -- in what way
>>is my love for Stef really any different?  Why shouldn't I share a
>>similar kind of love with many other people?  Note that I do recognize
>>that there's a time-based component to love: you can't really love
>>someone as *intensely* when you spend less time with them, and the
>>*quality* of the love also changes.
>
>kitten jumps in again: 
>
>"you made the point there...emotional monogamy is saving one
>particular kind of emotion for one specific significant other. love
>for parents, cats, friends, doesn't figure in at all...

I'm not sure whether I'm misunderstanding you, or you're
misunderstanding me.  What I'm saying is that, in the end, I really
don't see any *fundamental* difference between my love for Stef and my
love for my parents.

There are unique qualities to my love for Stef -- but I've had similar
kinds of love in the past, and the way I feel about Stef is wildly
different from the others.  Are you saying then that I need to decompose
my love to figure out what "kinds" of love I can and can't share?
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

Virtual anniversary: 7 days and counting
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Thomas J Lee)
Subject: Re: Hi Alfvaen
Reply-To: tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Thomas J Lee)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 16:56:01 GMT

	"Maybe we should start our own newsgroup," says the Lamplighter to
Amanda and Alfvaen, "for language-loving physics types.  I remember being
fascinated by codes and ciphers in grade school, and in high school a friend
and I sent messages back and forth in Tolkien's Elvish letters."

	"Now I'm working in a library, converting computer records of serials
from all over the world.  Lots of Turkish stuff lately, and a couple of
statistical handbooks from Thailand."

	I neglected the undersea costume motif, I think, so let's say the
patches on the Lamplighter's hat and coat look like nautical letter-flags,
spelling out messages like "Happy New Year."

---==--===-+===++==+++=*+++**++***+****#****+***++**+++*=+++==++===+-===--==---
The Lamplighter             |"Everybody here
(Tom Lee)                   | Seen the changing of the year ..."
                            |
tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu |                -- The Guess Who, "Hand Me Down"
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: mss2@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer)
Subject: Re:  Cranial Covers
Reply-To: mss2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 08:09:36 GMT

In article <n12aet@ofa123.fidonet.org> Wales.Larrison@ofa123.fidonet.org writes:
>Michael Schiffer writes:

>   Wales grins and sips from his beer.  "As for hat etiquette --
>well, I would recommend a copy of Ms. Manners.  Gentlemen always
>remove their hats indoors, with very few exceptions.  Removing them
>in an elevator is also highly recommended, for the simple reason
>that in a crowded elevator a large, wet hat is not something you
>want waved around your face -- and you don't want to be guilty of
>doing this to someone else.  The same for theaters or any seated
>gathering of folks.  And you never sit at a table in a hat." <Grin>

	"Miss Manners, while she staunchly defends the honorific `Ms.'
for both social and business use, is equally insistent on retaining
the more traditional form herself in keeping with her persona as the
last Victorian lady still living.  :-)  I've taken a look at some of
her books, but didn't always find the hat-related advice clear-- she
tends to give gentlemen's hats short shrift before moving on to
ladies', sometimes not making clear that she's made the transition.
(Ladies' rules are much easier-- basically, you wear the hat anyplace
except inside your own home, and never there.  On the other hand, I'm
not sure I'd ever quite figure out the difference between a day hat
and an evening hat, so it's probably best that I not be faced with the
challenge.  :-) )"

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: rich@theophilus.msfc.nasa.gov (Rich Krum)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Hats
Date: 22 Dec 92 14:25:36 GMT
Reply-To: rich@theophilus.msfc.nasa.gov
Organization: Boeing Computer Support Services

In article 16016@ucc.su.OZ.AU, mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar) writes:
>>The Troll jumps in, to note that he has a genuine Australian
>>akubra.  It was given to him by his late father.  Unfortunately,
>>it has been 'tarted up' with a feather hatband, but that's how he
>>got it, and he refuses to change it.
>
>Danger Mouse points out, "Akubras are sold brand new with feathered
>hatbands. If the band is thin leather, either a thong or a braid, with a
>small, coloured feather in it, then it could be the original band.
>
>"And while back on hats, I thought you'd like to know that Michael's
>starting of this discussion prompted me to go out and buy myself a new
>akubra. I did it yesterday, and found a good one on sale too!"
>
>- Danger Mouse.


"The hatband on the original hat is braided leather, but my Dad added
one of those "California Cowboy" type feathered hatbands over it.  That
set of feathers is a band of feathers with a rosette of more feathers
in the front of the hat as decoration.

Obligatory Joke:

How can you tell the difference between a "California Cowboy" and a 
real cowboy?











The real cowboy has manure on the OUTSIDE of his boots-----


--Troll, who is not a real cowboy (and doesn't wear boots much)
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From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: StM buys another round for the house
Date: 28 Dec 1992 18:14:39 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

With the comment, "It must've been a *SLOW* two weeks," StM attaches the
following to the bulletin board and, as is his custom, buys a round of drinks.

From: newsstats@uunet.UU.NET
Newsgroups: news.lists
Subject: Top 25 News Submitters by User by number of articles for the last 2 weeks
Date: 22 Dec 1992 23:30:08 -0500

         No. of       % of
Rank Articles KBytes Total   User
  19   139     257.8  0.0%   carl@sol1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU  (Carl J Lydick)
			      22% comp.os.vms
			      15% sci.energy
			      12% sci.skeptic
			      9% sci.electronics
			      8% rec.autos.tech
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: Hats
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 06:31:41 GMT

 rich@theophilus.msfc.nasa.gov writes:
>Obligatory Joke:
>
>How can you tell the difference between a "California Cowboy" and a 
>real cowboy?
>
>The real cowboy has manure on the OUTSIDE of his boots-----
>
>
>--Troll, who is not a real cowboy (and doesn't wear boots much)

     <smirk>   ...   <chuckle>  <laugh> .... <laugh!> ....

     <LAUGH!>.... <K-thump!> as DJ starts
laughing very loudly... "Oh stop... My sides hurt... !" DJ.

     Yes, I have met Urban Cowboys... They are indeed very funny.
Wouldn't know which end of a horse was which, but they shore do like
to pretend they do !   DJ.

-- 
         Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
                   Video. Cher: Love and Understanding.
             'Rush Limbaugh is the 'Chia Pet' of TV shows !'
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: amanda@wam.umd.edu (Me again)
Subject: Con!
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 03:50:34 GMT

Amanda (NOT the one with the Ekho...) wanders in, wondering if any 
Callahanians are planning on attending MD/DC/VA's EveCon Jan. 1, 2, & 3.

"I've never had a Callahanian RealSpace... and i'd really like to meet
some Callahaners someday!  Seeing how many of us do the con thing, i was
just wondering if there was anyone in the area going to *this* con...."

"Later..."  Amanda hangs around to watch the goings-on in the danger room
and around the bar before wandering back out without making a toast.

amanda@wam.umd.edu     --Amanda *without* the Ekho--      Amanda Babcock
From: schweppe@acs.bu.edu (Edmund Schweppe)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Merlinvin finishes delurking
Date: 26 Dec 92 07:39:07 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

Gecko-boy puns:

>In article <1992Dec17.191104.12018@e2big.mko.dec.com>
>pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan) writes:
>>|> "Does that mean everybody get's a Schweppe's?" Alfvaen says.
>>                                    ^^^^^^^^^^
>>                                     Something must be ale-ing Alfvaen...
>Soda rumor has it, Starknight.
>>                                       Starknight (never one to pass up a
>>                                                   cheap pun)
>                                        Gecko-boy (always one to devalue the
>                                                currency still further...)

'Fraid not, folx.  The soda company was never in my part of the family, and 
is currently owned by the same outfit that brings you Cadbury candies.

Hmmm... maybe I can swing a bit of choco-lei-t for da Geck...

__________________________________________________________________________
Ed Schweppe o/k/a Merlinvin - schweppe@acs.bu.edu,
    (or for faster replies)   eschweppe%drcoa1.decnet@drcvax.af.mil
All standard disclaimers (also datclaimers and deotherclaimers) apply.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: rich@theophilus.msfc.nasa.gov (Rich Krum)
Subject: Re: Whee....
Reply-To: rich@theophilus.msfc.nasa.gov
Organization: Boeing Computer Support Services
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:32:38 GMT

>The Percodan doesn't last nearly as long as it needs to.  "Time for some
>Nuprin..."
>
>Amanda eats her milkshake and throws the glass in the fire -
>
>              "To a bar full of friends that fits right in my own home!"
>
>Amanda Babcock             -Temporary Chipmunk-            amanda@wam.umd.edu


Ah yes, notes the Troll, Dave the Wave and I have been there--
And no, nothing helps--just try to hold the world still whilst the
Percodan churns thy belly---and thy brains--

Oral surgery is never any fun--

--Troll and Dave, both experiencing sympathy twinges---
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From: narxtc@navier.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Sunglasses (was Re: Hats)
Date: 27 Dec 1992 09:51:49 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
NNTP-Posting-Host: navier.math.uh.edu

Prescription glasses (specifically sunglasses) really have made my life easier. Now when I bike to or from work (or whereever), I don't have to worry about
horrid glare straight photon injection into the retina. And if you find one of
the "we'll do anything for a buck" glasses outlets, you can usually get a good
set o' shades that will not reduce you to begging. My arrogant opinion : try
some if at all possible...


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From: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk (Clive Grace)
Subject: Re: Happy Gnu Year
Reply-To: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 12:58:00 +0000


>  "To the year that has been and the year that is coming and the timeless time of fr
ie
> ndship. To people, people. To life and growth and pain 
> nd endings and beginnings and realising and remembering it's a 
> journey - we don't stay static - and to reaching the next wonderful 
> place on the road, 
> just when you thought you were stuck in roadworks for the foreseeable 
> future!

One silent, unseen tear rolls down Tanais' muzzle. It's a time for 
moving on he knows. But there is also pain in letting go. It *must* 
happen in order to move on -- he knows and he now has more in common 
with Merry Tail than in 8 years of their past relationship.

"This hurts," he thinks, "but it has to be" and the last of his 
tequila is drained from the jug. He thinks of the uncertainty of the 
future and the frightening shadows in the past (that, for this night 
don't seem so frightening) and wonders just how different 1993 will 
be.

But love and friendship is important -- life would be unbearable 
without at least one of them (he stops in RL to pat Cicero, our cat 
-- often mistaken for a meat loaf). Tanais looks over past threads to 
check the status of the Dalek (i.e. is he still in the hot tub?) and 
he prepares to wash and groom himself. ("Mmm. This is gonna feel 
*good!*" he says to himself).

Tanais stretches and yawns... he feels it in his delicate bones. 1993 
will be a year of love, of  searching and ultimately of finding -- if 
he's really honest with himself, it'll be a bit like 1992 only less 
of a roller coaster ride.

No peeking whilst I get in the hot tub okay? ;-).
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