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From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: Introduction
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 00:38:55 GMT

>|> >"But welcome to the Place!"
>|> 
>|>   "Hmm. Thats odd, I haven't been able to figure out weather ornot it was
>							^^^^^^^
>							Having a bad spell of
>							whether, DJ?
>								Starknight

   "Yup, but as an excuse I say I have the 'flu ! Achooo ! <sorry, I did 
 use my handkerchief...> Later, I am working on a programming project...
 in Turbo Pascal... Printer code conversion from a data file... Ack !" DJ.

-- 
         Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
                   Video. Cher: Love and Understanding.
From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson@somewhere.out.there)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Let it snow! Let it... <FLOMP!>
Date: 13 Dec 92 04:36:42 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.

Castellan comes in the door, and pushes it closed against the blizzard trying
to follow him in.  "Well, as some of you may know, New England has just been 
hit by one of the biggest nor'easters since '78. Coastal areas have heavy 
flood damage, lost of people have lost power, and the roads are difficult to
impassable.  Started as rain last night, in which I drove to my company's 
Christmas party, and it was changing to snow as I drove home, and there were 8
inches (20 cm) on the ground this morning.  It seems to have maxed out at
around 14 inches (35 cm) around here, and heavy wet concrete-type stuff at 
that.  Sure made driving fun, as I found out this morning."

"To Mother Nature, in all her power and majesty!" <CRASH!>
--
-Chip Olson. | olson@husc.harvard.edu | ceo@{gnu.ai,silver.lcs}.mit.edu 
"These are the days you might fill with laughter until you break. These days
you might feel a shaft of light make its way across your face... And when you 
do you'll know how it was meant to be..." -10,000 Maniacs, "These Are Days"
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: korz@cs.columbia.edu (Frederick Korz)
Subject: Re: Cook-kies...
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 23:00:24 GMT

In article <1glfaqINN9a8@newsman.csu.murdoch.edu.au>
keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!) writes:
>I'm impressed ... we were threatened with the wooden spoon as kids ...
>maybe that threat was emptier than we thought.  Come to think of it, I
>actually was on the receiving end of the wooden spoon once, and it didn't
>break - maybe it was a heavy duty spoon?

Wow, talk about triggering a memory.
\begin{recollection}

Not all were/are so sturdy.

About 25 years ago I was fig^H^H^Hplaying with my brother. :)

   *Whack*, came the maternal censure - *whack* *crack*.

Her trusty implement had dispensed its last justice.

*yikes* was she angry when that happened - its role in maintaining
order was only secondary.  Foremost it was a favorite cooking implement.

(At that point, I think my brother and I ran.)
\end{recollection}

	frood
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: u906451@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (Damien Saunders)
Subject: Chess match
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 02:42:05 GMT

Hello all again,
After a nice weekend away there was over 130 articles here in th bar to read.
Now onto the subject.

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.

Damien.
--
"Its a 106 miles to Chicago, we have a full tank of gas, 1/2 a pack of
cigarettes, its dark and we're wearing sunglasses"
"Hit it" Blues Brothers Movie. Jake & Elwood.
Damien Saunders (Gunnar Njalsson SCA) Email:u906451@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au
From: ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Dalek has entered the building
Date: 13 Dec 1992 08:38:11 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: seurat.wag.caltech.edu

The Dalek enters the room, and finds he cannot drink ...

>MonTemplar eventually stops rolling around on the floor laughing, and gets up.
>"Deary me. I thought I'd seen everything happen in here, but you beat the rest
>hands down (suction pad?)" Wiping the tears from his eyes, he approached the
>Dalek. "I don't think I can help you with the liquids problem, but I daresay we
>could link you up to the jukebox and radio if you're looking for some
>entertainment. Just mind you don't exterminate anybody, y'hear!"

Abner smiles.  "I'm sure you'll find some of the tunes taste dalektable."

He ducks!

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: prejudice
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 03:24:19 GMT



>>>>Abner smiles.  "Prescribe?  As in, 'Take two Callahanians and call me in the
>>>>morning!'?"
>>
>>>Danger Mouse looks at Abner. "Something like that, yes. The question is:
>>>which two would you take?"
>>
>>Abner considers for a minute, then decides not to decide.  "Wouldn't be
>>politic anyway," he mutters.

>"True," Danger Mouse agrees, "if you took ones like kitten and Didi.
>They almost never make political comments. If you took Michael and
>Mentor, however..."

kitten (from lurker mode) says, "didi and i will go with you,
abner....hey, DM are you going to take us, too (or two)...i want to go
someplace WARM!"
--
***************************************************************************
conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten           /\ /\  barbara ann 
"my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?"      {=.=}
                                              ~   trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu 
"love is the wild card of existance"
                          rita mae brown
From: HC61@lafibm.lafayette.edu (HC61000)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: re: Pair-arell Universes
Date: 17 Dec 92 14:30:19 GMT
Organization: Lafayette College
Originator: news@lafcol

"The optimist feels we live in the best of all possible worlds.
The pessimist fears that that is true." - RAH?
Which is more probable: the set of universes containing all
possible worlds (ie: 1,2,3,4 to keep the math analogy).
or the set that is missing some? Would it not be more
difficult to describe, as you would have to account for
the differences?  And therefore, by Occam's Razor, is the
all possible set not more likely?
On the other hand, I *could* be talking through me 'at.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: s9242932@win4.vut.EDU.AU (Chris)
Subject: Aussie Ramblings and other stuff ...
Organization: Victoria University Of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 04:52:36 GMT

Chris loosk up from his Lime Spider ( "you do knwo how to make a lime
spider , dont you Mike ? ") and notices the 'board.
He rambles over and scrawls in small , sort-of neat capital letters
   
          Chris Singline      26/4/73 yes , i knwo it's written the wrong
                                            way around , it's an Australian
          			            date , not an American one !!
                             Lime Spider, or anything really gross looking
                              and non-alcoholic .

He observes his handywork for a minute , and then announces to the 
assembled mass
"To the lower drinking age in Australia , without which i would be in 
trouble just for _being_ here !!!" , and with a loud smash , the toast is made.

to the Didi-Sprite : thanx for the *hug* , it was much appreciated , coming as  it did just after i got a snail mail letter telling me i have to go befre a 
review committee at school .. mucho **hugz** back at ya' =)

to Brumby : congrats on Your daughter !! may she grow up to be a great little
Callahanian ( Melbournian Callahanian ?? try saying that with a mouth full
of olives !! )

and to all Australian Callahanian's , and particularly Melbournians , when are
we gonna get a RealSpace together ? i volunteer my place , between
Christmas and New Year's , when my parents are away , and i have the house
to myself ... let me know what you think , Guys ..

and is there a comprehensive list of all of the works of the great and all-
knowing Spider floating around out there anywhere ?? i ahve read most of the    book type stuff , but how about magazines ? please ??

Thanx in advance
Chris
s9242932@win4.vut.edu.au
"prestidigitator (verb) : what de accountant do when he cant figger it up
                          in his own hed "
From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Thyra)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: INTRODUCTION: Knight and day
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Date: 13 Dec 1992 18:49:58 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon, Architecture
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aaa.uoregon.edu

A golden-furred woman with the ears, whiskers and tail of a cat is seated
at the next table, enjoying a Brandy Alexander. She's wearing a black
velver minidress, and a matching velvet choker set with a single sapphire.
"Welcome Henry! I'm Thyra. Always glad to meet new friends. But I noticed a
small problem with your post. It's one Jason and I had when we first used a
Macintosh word processor to prepare our posts. If you have the 'smart
quotes' feature active, those typographers single and double quotes get
garbled by the newsgroup. It only understands standard ASCII characters,
not the extended set used by Macintosh (and I assume Windows) applications,
even in their 'text only' formats. Turn smart quotes off, and your posts
will be a lot easier to read." She purrs loudly, and settles back into her
chair. Her tail switches gently back and forth by her ankles.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: dgreen@jarthur.claremont.edu (David Green)
Subject: Re: greetings and subroutines
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 06:12:28 GMT

In article <1groo9INNjb8@phakt.usc.edu> pechever@phakt.usc.edu (The Heckler) writes:
->In article <1992Dec18.010906.4694@ucc.su.OZ.AU> mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar) writes:
->>downright cold - try 9 degrees (Celsius, that's about 17 deg F) below
->>the average for this time of year."
->
->Impu-Sebek looks up (again).  "Hm...maybe you mean 47 F?  17 F is below
->zero Celsius...that much I know. (0C=32F).  And 9 is barely chilly, anyway.

Na, that's what I thought, too, until I noticed that it wasn't a temperature,
but a *difference* in temperature.  I.e., if the temperature changes 9 degrees
Celcius, it changes (actually) 16.2 degrees Fahrenheit.

Anyone for Kelvin and degrees Rankine? *'grin*
-- 
dgreen@jarthur.claremont.edu		        	   David "Mishael" Green
		    Have you scritched your local Furry today? 
************************Who ordered the muon? -- I. I. Rabi*********************
  I have not been appointed Judge, Jury, or Executioner by God.  Just witness.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Thomas J Lee)
Subject: Re: IRC
Reply-To: tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Thomas J Lee)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 14:29:57 GMT

Chris writes:

C>Do any of you Doods , Doodette's and regulars use IRC on a regular basis ?
C>how about MU*'s ??

	The Lamplighter says, "You can find me on HoloMUCK every once in a
while.  Except it doesn't seem to be up right now ... anybody know what's
going on?  I've used IRC, but not recently, and never much."

C>okay , and my personal ultimate world ???  it;s made out of chocolate fudge
C>, and gunpowder doesnt work , and the birds will land on your shoulder if
C>you ask nicely =)

C>pretty idylic , huh ??

	"Sounds good to me."

---==--===-+===++==+++=*+++**++***+****#****+***++**+++*=+++==++===+-===--==---
The Lamplighter             |"To overcome an obstacle or an enemy,
(Tom Lee)                   | To dominate the impossible in your life,
                            | Reach in the darkness ..."
tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu |                    -- Paul Simon
Current Listen:  Paul Simon, _Rhythm of the Saints_
Current Read:  _Linguistics_, by Akmajian, Demers, and Harnish
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: It's a girl!
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 22:55:06 GMT

>>Soprano jumps up and heads for the bar.  Placing a rather worn dollar bill
>>on it, she gets a hot buttered rum from Mike and approaches the chalk line.
>>
>>"To Jennifer Rhiannon McNamara and her parents:  may your lives be filled
>>with wonder!"
>>
>>>>>crash<<<
>
><crash!>  Gecko-boy.  

   <crash!> DJ, Linda, and Robbie.

-- 
 Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM - Gulf Park Campus 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
             Video. Cher: Love and Understanding.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus)
Subject: Re: Quantum (and untutored Zen) and Beliefs (was Re: Absolutes)
Organization: Data I/O Corporation
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:39:56 GMT

In article <1govt3INN2cl@gap.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
>I don't agree with your substitution of "true" for "valid."  I've just flipped
>a coin, and haven't checked to see which way it somes up.  Now, were I to
>believe it came up heads, and you were to believe it came up tails (rather than
>both of us doing the reasonable thing and simply admitting that we don't know),
>both beliefs would be invalid, in that there's no basis for either of them.  In
>that sense, they'd both be equally valid.  However, one of them would be true,
>while the other would not.

But your example *can* be determined true or untrue.  I'm talking more
about situations like Schrodinger's Cat which is, in essense, both there
and not there at the same time, yes?  The example you give is something
which can be determined.  The questions I'm asking are things which
*cannot* be determined with any accuracy in any reportable manner.

So like the cat, which may be there or not there at the same time, so with
beliefs which are unobservable and undocumentable.  Both true and false at
the same time.

Actually, given that example, before the coin is tossed, the belief in
either direction is equally valid, and to argue one way or the other is
absurd, as you pointed out.  Both may be equally true or equally false.  So
it is with *any* belief which hasn't been proven and cannot be proven.
In essense, most of the questions of belief are in that section before the
toss and there isn't going to *be* any toss in their lifetime.  

Thing is that some people will live as if they believe it will be heads,
some would live as if they believe it will be tails; but neither can
determine it.  In esesense, both are true *to* those that believe it, and
neither can disprove the other.  I guess I'm saying that I choose to
believe that both can happen, and choosing to say that it is *true* to each
of those that believe that it is true because they act on that truth, and
most of them can probably find evidense that the way that they see it is
true to them.

So it's not true in the terms of fact; but true in the terms of belief when
there *is* no fact to back any of it up.

-- 
Phyllis Rostykus     | "... and how you feel can make it real  | - _US_
aka Liralen Li       | Real as anything you've seen            |   Peter
li@inigo.Data-IO.com | Get a life with this dreamer's dream."  |   Gabriel
From: daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom)
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 23:22:09 GMT
Subject: Re: Congrats -- It's A Girl!!
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: alt.callahans

In alt.callahans, rich@theophilus.msfc.nasa.gov (Rich Krum) writes:

> Congrats, brumby!
> 
> Just a quick note (alll I have time for)
> 
> "To babies, the best miracle the universe has given us!

Hmm, I would have sworn that was single-malt scotch.


doug
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: pope@physics.su.OZ.AU (The Nightstalker)
Subject: Re: It's a girl!
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 03:21:43 GMT

In article <brumby.724083394@nella7.cc.monash.edu.au> brumby@nella7.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen McNamara) writes:
>
>   Well, some, probably most, of you have been aware that my wife Robyn was
>pregnant.
>
>   At one minute to eight this evening, Friday the eleventh of December,
>Jennifer Rhiannon McNamara was born, after thirty two hours of fairly
>difficult labour by Robyn. At the moment she is in a humidicrib, because
>she found this breathing business a bit difficult for a two and a half week
>premature baby. However, she seemed to have gotten the hang of it when I
>left the hospital.
>
>   This was the first time in my life that I have cried for joy. I don't
>think I will ever forget it.

"Nothing is sweeter than tears of joy.  From a former Monash student to a 
current one, congratulations.  Mike, a drink for Brumby."

"To the miracle of birth".

<crash>


--

Mick Pope,                                          I      "On Christ the
Sir Frank Packer Dept of Theoretical Physics,   ----+----   solid rock I
School of Physics, University of Sydney,            I       stand, all other
Sydney, Australia, 2006.  (02) 692 3241             I       ground is sinking
                                                    I       sand." - C. Wesley
                                                    I 

And the comment for today is:  

          
"Planet Bog - pools of toxic chemicals
bubble under a choking atmosphere
of poisonous gases.  But aside from
that, it's not much like Earth."
        - Calvin (of Calvin & Hobbes)
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Special Limited Offer!!!
Date: 17 Dec 1992 05:07:21 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 <JBrandt-101292090137@aaa.uoregon.edu>, JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Phoenix) writes:
>It reads "Hi, I still haven't figured out how to send e-mail without
>replying to something someone else sent me. Thyra relayed this for me. I
>would like to take you up on your offer. My e-mail address is
><I3JW@PSUORVM.CC.PDX.EDU>

It's been quite some time since I've had to use VM/CMS (the mention of which
operating system is guaranteed to stop any VMS/Unix flame war in its tracks). 
Anybody out there who remembers how to send mail from it, and willing to tell
Phoenix?
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: Chess match
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:33:13 GMT

>Chuckle - sounds like the way I play chess ... unfortunately I couldn't
>find a partner who played the same way, and I was continually defeated
>soundly.  Needless to say I found the game quite boring after a while, and
>haven't played in years :-)
>
>Splash!

    "Thats why I quit playing chess in high school. I either won quickly, 
or lost spectacularly !" DJ.

-- 
         Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
                   Video. Cher: Love and Understanding.
From: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (The Didi-Sprite)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Teddybears and Snow-Sprites Unite!
Date: 15 Dec 92 16:41:38 GMT
Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada
Originator: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca

In article <1992Dec10.180041.29482@news.Hawaii.Edu> mwasson@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Michael Wasson) writes:
>Gecko-boy watches the antics of Lord Galdrin, the -Sprite, Albert,
>Kitten, and many other patrons as they romp around in the snow,
>lobbing snow-balls, sledding, and cavorting with snow bears.
>
>"Whee! I can't remember the last time I had a good snowball fight ...
>or made snow angels ... or just walked through the park feeling
>the snow crunch under my boots and the cold chew on my ears. [Didn't
>know lizards had ears, didja?] Wow. Thanks, guys ... if I can't
>do it in RL I can do it at Callahans."
>
>Gecko-boy puts his feet up and enjoys tall glass of egg-nog.
>(Spiked, of course. 'Tis the season. ;-) )
>
>--the Geck' (lizard in a blizzard)
>
The Didi-Sprite looks up from the pile of Christmas Magazines she is
perusing:  "Did someone mention egg-nog!  Ooooo ... yummy!  Mike?
Could I have a noggin, please? (Giggle.)  Hi, Gecko-boy!  If I haven't
said so before ... Welcome to Callahans!"

----<--<@

The Didi-Sprite
Montreal * Canada

braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
didi@geloser.login.qc.ca
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: /G=Rhodri/S=James/O=SJ-Research/ADMD=INTERSPAN/C=GB/@mhs-relay.ac.uk
Subject: Hello, goodbye, sorry did someone say something?
Organization: Yale CS Mail/News Gateway
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 14:42:12 GMT

  There is a loud >POP< as Windsinger appears in the middle of the bar.  As
usual you didn't see him leave, but this time even he looks startled as he
arrives.

  <<Whoof!  Sorry I've been away so long, but a combination of things has
forced me into lurk mode.  Work has gone into panic overdrive, the realspace
had to be (dis)organised -- hi Wolf! -- Christmas cards and pressies had to
get bought, Grapevine went down for a while, work has gone into complete
panic overdrive overdrive, my PBM turns are late, the church services are
winding up to Christmas and I got saddled with a(nother) convention.  Oh,
and work seems to be a little bit busy, or had I mentioned that?

  <<Kyla, I'm afraid I can't seem to EMail you.  If you are listening, could
you drop me a line, as I still have your pie dish and would like to know how
to return it to you.

  <<Anyway, I'm probably going to have to stay in lurk mode until mid-
February, after the utterly triffic fifth UK filk convention _Pentatonic_ at
which yours truly is the harrassed UK GoH.  I really *must* get some
practise time in before the con!  And if Zander doesn't mind I'd quite like
to type in his "descriptions" of Weston-super-Mare from the PR... if I get
the time.  Never mind.  I'll "see" you all later.  Cheers folks, and may God
be with you, whether or not you believe in him.>>

  And with that he PARs off half a dozen copies of himself, all of which
seem to be frantically busy, and disappears out of the door at high speed.

---
Windsinger  -  Rhodri James    *  "If music be the food of love,
                               *   play me a tune on your jam buttie."
Rhodri.James%gb.INTERSPAN.sj   *
            @mhs-relay.ac.uk   *           -- Ken Dodd
   or                          *
rmj10@phx.cam.ac.uk            *
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: aaron@atlantis.uucp
Subject: Re: Merlinvin finishes delurking
Reply-To: aaron%atlantis@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
Organization: Atlantis Communications, Edmonton, AB, Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 14:42:33 GMT

Edmund Schweppe (eschwepp@butyng.bu.edu) wrote:
: Feeling in his pocket, he pulls out a stack of ones and goes to the bar,
: with every intention of buying the next round - but he remembers what
: happens to those unwise enough to claim that the next round is on them.
: After some thought, he whispers in Mike's ear; Mike grins and produces a
: tray containing a can of something, covered with a big cloth napkin.
: Merlinvin takes the tray and sets it down in the middle of the room.
: Returning to the bar for a beer, he goes back to the tray and pulls the
: napkin off with a flourish, revealing a can of diet cola.
: 
: "Friends", calls Merlinvin, "the next round goes... on my Tab!"

"Does that mean everybody get's a Schweppe's?" Alfvaen says.

-- 
---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--Grapes of Wrath:September Bowl of Green
Current Read--Michael Coney:Charisma
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