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From: SG.MML@isumvs.iastate.edu (M. Loughin)
Subject: Re: Yet another sleepless night
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 18:36:20 GMT

In article <Bs2wHI.36I@news.cso.uiuc.edu>,
trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:
>>In article <1992Jul26.161337.10915@cs.tulane.edu>,
>>pierce@spop.navo.navy.mil (Jim M. Pierce) writes:
>>>In article <Bs039K.A9p@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:

>>>|> kitten looks down off the top of a mountain of soap boxes...hoping
>>>|> somebody will catch her if she jumps.

>>>        I will.
>>>DJ.

>>I would, too, but she'd have to jump up!  My pile is about
>>97000 boxes higher than hers.  Anyone got a parachute?  The
>>breeze is starting to pick up  . . .
>
>>--Marie
>
>kitten borrows a boomerang from the nearest aussie...and fastens a
>purple silk parachute to it..."here marie...catch.  if you put this
>on and jump...TJ and i should be able to give you a soft landing..."

"Ooooo, purple!  My fav!" says Marie, as she leans precariously
over the edge of the top box to catch Kitten's missile.  She
straps it on, yells "Gironimo (sp?)" and takes a leap of faith.

________________
p.s.  Kitten, have you ever received e-mail from me?  I've sent
some two or three times over the months, and want to make sure it
reaches you.  I occasionally have a problem with that.
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From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Pepsi Drinkers Unite! (was Re: Snow FantasyAnd now, back to the show:
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 03:26:31 GMT



>>"dear speaker....no offense...but you are loony..."  kitten grins and
>>offers him a hug...to show she is teasing....
>>
>>"cold it okay up to a point...even snow (I HATE ICE...the only good
>>ice is in small enough cubes to fit into a pepsi glass)
>                                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^

nathan:

> Hooray!  Someone else who isn't afraid to admit to drinking
> pepsi, and doesn't use coke as a generic word for cola.

> (BTW, kitten sorry about the pipes, glad you hooked up with
> TC because of it.  See, cold weather has it's uses. )


"thanks nathan....yes...i prefer (diet) pepsi....but i can drink diet
cherry coke...i have never been fond of "southern champagne" (RC)
however..." 

kitten offers to let nathan sip from her pepsi and bacardi...

"yeah...t.c. just got lucky....:)


of course, that is only the story of how we ended up living
together...the story of how we met is great too...."

kitten sits back and waits for somebody to say...."kitten, tell us a story..."


--
***************************************************************************
conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten           /\ /\  barbara ann 
"my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?"      {=.=}
                                              ~   trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu 
"perhaps _any_ universe becomes real in proportion 
to the number of people who believe in it and spend time there." s. robinson

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From: lower-tony@CS.YALE.EDU (Tony Lower)
Subject: Re: A Night in the Hills of West Virginia
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 16:16:38 GMT


   Manx approaches cautiously.  A sizzling round black bomb sits on 
the table, but nobody seems to notice.  Manx wets his thumb and
fingertip and puts out the fuse.  "Hey, why is Noah Gonzalez never
around when you need him???

   "Now that I've done my best to defuse this argument, I want to
put my three cents in.  I think that things can be said to be getting
out of hand when we talk about people _"DEFENDING VIOLENCE"_ or
_"DEFENDING CENSORSHIP"_.  That kind of talk just DOES NOT belong
here!  Nobody here is defending anything of the kind, and using
those kind of terms, even if it's only to make a rhetorical point
is going to lead to nothing but trouble.  I think that a lot of
the points made here have been VERY good, and have been protrayed
with admirable restraint, and that the discussion should continue.
But a few people are letting instincts learned in other news groups
take over.  Leave it at the door, people!"

   Somebody was not paying very good attention to their ginger ale,
for which Manx is thankful.  Wiping his lips, he continues:

   "So, as long as I've been preaching a bit, I might as well also
express my opinion on these matters.  I think that the spread of
violence in all medias (which is perceptible almost by the minute)
should be stopped, but that there's no way to turn back the clock.
Would you ban all early Tom and Jerry cartoons (some of the most
graphic violence I'VE ever seen)?  I just think that, practically
speaking, the only thing we can do is try to make less violent
things in the future, and wait for the old ones to die the death
of serial-rerun.

   "On another matter near and dear to my heart, I want to hear
what people think on the issue of children and the sometimes
violent games they play.  Particularly, a group of my friends
and I often do sword-fighting with big-old padded thingys, and
often get a large crowd of todays youth watching.  Are we being
a terrible influence on the next generation (as we have been
accused of being, mind you, several times already)??

   "Well, I certainly hope that people will be able to return this
to a kind and reasoned discussion, otherwise I might ask Fast
Eddie to loan me his blackjack, so I can condone a little violence
myself...  I'll see if you all turn into criminals."

   Manx walks away, relishing the (almost) lost pun opportunities
of the bomb at the start: "Well blow me down, a conversation getting
out of control?  A-bomb-inable.  Maybe I should re-fuse to get
involved, or hand the discussion over to my good friend Meg.  She's
a real firecracker when it comes to these explosive discussions,
absolutely dynamite. She always goes in with a glycerin in her eye.
Too bad she's at the Nuke-ids on the Block concert.  Otherwise this
discussion would have given Meg a ton of pleasure."
From: rkoch@lonestar.utsa.edu (Ruth M. Koch)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Breakfast is Served!!!
Date: 27 Jul 92 20:18:01 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

In article <1992Jul25.145657.6326@cs.tulane.edu> pierce@navo.navy.mil (Jim M. Pierce) writes:
>
>     "Well, I start my breakfast off with either water or Barq's Root Beer.
>   And its 'sodapop'. Leastwise thats what we called it in the 1950s back
>   in Texas... Ah, for a bottle of Big Red Sodapop !" DJ.

  Hearing this, Nathan walkes over to Dreamy Jim.

  "Funny you should mention Big Red, I think I happen to have one
  here in my knapsack."

  Shrugging the denim bag off his shoulder, Nathan starts rummaging
  through it.
                                                                      er
  I was in college (one day, I need to see if I can sell that back)...
  [rustle]...no, that's my journal....Oh, look! <holding out a construction
  paper wad> It's my very first journal. (Gee, it looks like it went
  through the wash a few times)....Hmmmm, dog toys....tapes....cd's?
  ...gum (Anybody want some?  No one?)...[rustle]...notes....

  "Ah ha!  Here it is."

  Handing it over to DJ, Nathan mutters, "Lord knows what it was
  doing in there, I don't drink the stuff.  (Tastes like liquid
  bubble gum, don'cha know.)

  "Enjoy!"

>--
>jmpierce%usmcp6.bitnet@vm.tcs.tulane.edu <- guaranteed there Wed. only !
>Disclaimer: Standard. Recent Album: Muddy Waters:Muddy Waters Live
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From: SG.MML@isumvs.iastate.edu (M. Loughin)
Subject: Re: More of Nathan being Depressed. (feel free to skip this)
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:49:14 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.234912.6786@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>,
rkoch@lonestar.utsa.edu (Ruth M. Koch) writes:

>  I'm feeling like I don't belong in.  Mostly what I feel
>  is intimidated by the other Callahaners.

I occassionally feel this way too.  Then I remember, they're
all just people.  Like you.

>  Most of you are so smart,  I feel left out of a lot of the
>  posts.   (By this I mean all the posts about math and
>  math related subjects.  I happen to be very right brained,
>  and a visual thinker and am terrible at all varieties of math.)

Just 'cause you don't do math doesn't mean you're not smart.
I have a math background, and I skip most of the math postings, too.
I do it all day -- don't need it in my recreational time.

Sounding smart and being smart can be two different things ;-).

>  I don't often post to threads because my opinion is often
>  more throughly explained by someone else than I could do
>  myself.  Or I don't know enough about the subject matter
>  to form an opinion one way or the other.  (Here, I'm thinking
>  about the StM/Nightstalker thread.  I'm pretty much an agnostic,
>  raised without religion.  When I do think about religion, I
>  tend to lean towards paganism.)

Well, feel free to jump in and support an argument, or ask
questions or make comments.  You don't have to get heavily involved
in a debate to contribute.  Trust me, you may rather not get
heavily involved in a debate :-).

I have a suggestion.  Start your own thread involving your
interests, things *you* know something about.  Maybe we can learn
something new from you!  Besides, I'd enjoy hearing some less
scientific, more "right brained" discussions.

--Marie
From: eesshlgb@gdr.bath.ac.uk (S H L G Bisson)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Was a lot of stuff I can't remember - is now the weather
Date: 29 Jul 92 08:33:47 GMT
Organization: School of Electrical Engineering, University of Bath, UK

In article <1992Jul28.150256.25931@cs.mcgill.ca> braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (The Didi-Sprite) writes:

>"Well, thank you, Ignatz!"  says the -Sprite, suddenly noticing his
>long, pale gams under the table, "That is a whole lot warmer than here,
>at present!  It is barely 19 deg. C. here (66 deg. F)!  Hardly shorts
>weather in my book!  How about coming out on the meadow and putting a 
>blush on those things!"
>
>Ramda waddles up and offers Ignatz some high-powered sunscreen.

A slightly embarrassed cartoon mouse looks down, and smiles.

"Ah... ta muchly Ramda..."

Taking the lotion he looks at the bottle.

"Factor Cray? That's pretty high powered!

"At this time of the year I'm always reminded of a Billy Connolly monologue,
where he describes a trip to Australia, and remarks on the fact that coming
from Scotland, his natural skin colour is blue - it takes him a month in the
sun to go white!

"Luckily I have slightly darker skin than that! I've noticed that Jerriais
like myself seem to tan very quickly. We don't go the really dark brown of
some people, just darken enough to protect ourselves. I think it's probably
due to actually being an Iberian rather than a Northern European people.

"Talking of history, has anyone else been following the story of the 
excavations at La Hogue Bie on Jersey? It was thought to be the largest
and best preserved neolithic passage grave in Europe. Now it's turned out
that the earth mound of the tumulus actually has been preserving what
seems to be an intact temple. Apparently one of the most significant
archaeological finds this century!

"It's rather nice when something like that happens to a place that used to
be one of your childhood playgrounds!"

The cartoon mouse smiles.

"Still sunny and warm here in RL - church house-group barbeque and walk from
my place last night, out on the patio till late..."

---=-
Ignatz Mouse/Simon Bisson...I told you to keep me away from that bookshop......
-=---
From: aahz@netcom.com (Aahzmandius)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Columbo re: yet another sleepless night
Date: 21 Jul 92 18:11:05 GMT
Organization: Bill 'n' Opus for Prez

In article <122420098@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom) writes:
>
>Finally, I do not intend to be sucked into this debate in general,
>because people that argue about it almost NEVER seek compromise.
>For most people who are vocal about it, it is a source
>of unmitigated self-righteousness and fanaticism.

Amen.  I'll just add that I'm one of the (relatively) silent, moderate
majority (I think).
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

Babbage's Birthday Bargain Bash -- December 26th, 1992
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Snow FantasyAnd now, back to the show:
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 03:05:16 GMT


>>>>"i don't know..." says kitten  "my natural body temp is below
>>>>97.5....and i have NO tolerence for cold...and no diabetes--and they
>>>>haven't addmitted to the hypoglycemia yet...but i am reading up on the
>>>>subject...
>>>>
>>>>i think you are just weird :)
>>
>>StM:
>>
>>>I thought that was obvious.
>>
>>kitten:  "yes, but i hated to pass up the chance for a compliment...."

>Compliment gratefully accepted.  May I buy you a drink?  I recommend dark
>Bacardi and diet Coke.


"thank you, speaker....but only if you change the coke(tm) to diet
pepsi (tm)....(i am part of the uh-huh generation...:) )"
--
***************************************************************************
conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten           /\ /\  barbara ann 
"my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?"      {=.=}
                                              ~   trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu 
"perhaps _any_ universe becomes real in proportion 
to the number of people who believe in it and spend time there." s. robinson

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: The New Kid
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:55:28 GMT

somebody ...i think it was abner...said:

>>Wait a second.  Kitten lives in Ohio ...  Well then, the scenes from the
>>Rocky Horror Picture Show *are* more likely to get replayed there than 
>>elsewhere.  =8)

"I DO NOT!!!!!!!!!!!  i live in illinois! 'some of my best
friends....' are in ohio....i have NOTHING against the place...i am
not sure i would want to live there }:)...but."  kitten sniffs at the
thought of being from  OHIO...
--
***************************************************************************
conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten           /\ /\  barbara ann 
"my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?"      {=.=}
                                              ~   trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu 
"perhaps _any_ universe becomes real in proportion 
to the number of people who believe in it and spend time there." s. robinson

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: ablanch@physics.su.OZ.AU (Shonias)
Subject: Re:  Was a lot of stuff I can't remember - is now the weather
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 00:21:32 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.150256.25931@cs.mcgill.ca> braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (The Didi-Sprite) writes:
>
>"Well, thank you, Ignatz!"  says the -Sprite, suddenly noticing his
>long, pale gams under the table, "That is a whole lot warmer than here,
>at present!  It is barely 19 deg. C. here (66 deg. F)!  Hardly shorts
>weather in my book!  How about coming out on the meadow and putting a 
>blush on those things!"

Shonias chokes, "Barely shorts weather????? 19 deg C is two jumper
weather!!!!"

Shonias


--
********************************
Just when you think you're free
The eyes are what you see,
Why are they watching me?
********************************
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: salford@orion.lrmsc.loral.com (Stephanie Alford 5850)
Subject: Re: { long ! } more re: SEA takes a ride...
Organization: Loral Rolm Mil-Spec Computers
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 03:37:23 GMT

In article <920724.19143268.022947@USM.CP6> JMPIERCE%USMCP6.bitnet@VM.TCS.Tulane.EDU (JIM PIERCE) writes:
>
>   "SEA would you care to roller skate ?" DJ
>
>   "Up here !?!" SEA.
>
>   "Well, yes. We have roller skates, portable space suits, a car
>we can return to when we get tired," DJ.
>
>   "Are you certain ?" SEA.
>
>   "Oh yes ! These suits are clear, they have protection against
>the sun, but someone else wearing one can see the person not just
>the surface shields. So, if there were more than two of us wearing
>them, all could see who was in the other suits and wouldn't need
>to ask. Wearers of these suits see the other wearers in their
>'street' clothes, not space suits. The skates are in the backseat.
>Just reach back and grab a pair, they will fit your suit. " DJ
>
>  "I didn't put a suit on when I got in the car !" SEA.
>
>  "Well, its automatic, "DJ.
>
>  "A little too far from Radio Free Colorado, but a request I'll
>make for R.E.M. singing 'Orange Crush.' " DJ.

Admiring DJ's choice in music once again, SEA reaches back and grabs a
pair of roller skates, and what do you know..they're in her favourite
colour...hot pink!  Looking stylish, she gets ready to skate. 

>"Hmm. When I said let's have FUN ! I don't know if I meant to be
>in low-earth-orbit." SEA.
"But I'm willing to try it anyway"

>"First one to that satellite is the winner !" SEA.
><zooooooom    skate, skate, rolla rolla >
>
>"Wheeeeeeeee !" DJ.
>
>  <zoooooooom> SEA.
>
>  <zoooooom> DJ.
>
> "I beat you !" SEA.
>
> "Okay, you beat me to the satellite, lets see if you can beat me
>around the earth..." DJ.

And they're off folks..."look, there's Australia DJ...wave to DM, Shonias
Brumby, Danny and all those other nice Aussies!"

"wheeee" says SEA


Stephanie Alford			.sig line on vacation,
salford@monolith.lrmsc.loral.com  	maybe if you ask nicely
or				 	it'll send you a postcard
lunisea@netcom.com
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: pope@physics.su.OZ.AU (The Nightstalker)
Subject: Re: The Nightstalker makes an observation
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 01:30:13 GMT

In article <1992Jul20.093732.11077@cco.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
>In article <1992Jul20.030611.21355@ucc.su.OZ.AU>, pope@physics.su.OZ.AU (The Nightstalker) writes:
>>In article <1992Jul20.021213.25950@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> jpalmer@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (John D Palmer) writes:
>>>
>>>      Nightstalker, some clarification:  there is a point in the bible that
>>>describes a certain circular wall that is 1000 (cubits? paces?  dunno.)
>>>across, and 3000 in diameter.  Some people take this as proof that
>>>pi=3.0. . .
>>> 
>>>       It's at times like this that I understand people who try to shoot
>>>holes in religion. . . 
>>> 
>>>                                              John
>>>
>>"Do they in the OT have to be perfect mathematicians, picky for every decimal
>>place??  It's times like this that I think hole shooters are being picky to
>>dodge more important issues."
>
>If the Bible is to be considered inerrant and to be interpreted literally, then
>YES, THEY DO.  Remember, it's not the people in the OT you're talking about,
>it's GOD, IN ALL HIS PERFECTION, who dictated the Bible to these people you're
>talking about here.  Your capacity for hypocrisy is truly amazing.

"Oh surely not?  (rhetotic here)  Yes, God is perfect, but the main thrust,
the important part of His message gets through, despite small errors like
PI, for crying out loud!!!!!!  OK, so God acts to write the bible through
the writers, but they are not robots, or will you tell me the entire Bible
reads like the same author style, not affected by the period, thus the
style of the writer.  God is a personnal God, and so alows people into His   
plans, and people will err slightly.  We are harping on PI, for crying out
loud.  Got nothing better to pick on??  Christ's death and ressurection are
the important things, why are we avoiding the more important issues??  If
you don't want to hear about it fine, I'll shut up. But don't try and shoot
my faith down over a piddly point.  If I am a hypocrite, you are being
pathetic!!!  That is as much a flame as your remark."


     

--
The Nightstalker.....




"Though this be madness, yet there is
method in't." - Hamlet act II, scene II
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jpalmer@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (John D Palmer)
Subject: Re: John comes in with what he beleives to be an important message.
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 01:56:01 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.054809.14608@crash.cts.com> jhitch@crash.cts.com (Jeffrey Hitchin) writes:
>	"I think that you have come in with some important things to
>say," Grant says. "So let's take a look again at what you've been
>saying:

       Ummmmmmmmmmmm. . .. 

>
>	Should you be ashamed of believing in God and moral absolutes?
>
>	I don't see why you should.  It's your life.
>
>	Should you be ashamed of being, at heart, prolife? (Though I
>don't understand the murderer of young girls part.)  <I get it now,
>sorry about that.>
>
>	Again, I don't see why you should be ashamed.  If you harrass
>women going into clinics, maybe you should be a little ashamed.  If
>you have attempted the murder of doctors who perform abortions in order
>to preserve life, then you're a hypocrite and deserve to be ashamed.
>(I personally am pro-choice mostly because the pro-life groups I've
>talked to have been too militant or too self-righteous.  I can't
>stand that in an organization.)


      Ummmmmmmmmm. . .that's got nothing to do with what I was saying.
I mean, I KNOW they are not popular opinions, that's the only reason I 
put them in.  My point was not that "Should *I* (as in me) be ashamed
of these qualities"  but more of a "Should ANYONE be ashamed of holding 
a VIEW that is not acceptable to the majority."

     For whatever reason, I can never seem to say "Look, here's an example"
of something without sounding defensive.  Sigh.

      I'm sorry. . . I've just screwed up in this way numerous times,
and I just feel like screaming "No, I don't want anyone to defend me for feelin
this way!"

                                              


                                             John


-- 
"Love is cool; I mean, like, really cool.  Like, the coolest thing in
the universe, where, like, people open up inside and show the world how
they feel, and they ain't afraid someone's gonna laugh because they, like,
love themselves already!"  --Personality 42, a generic 60's philosopher 
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove)
Subject: Re: A Night in the Hills of West Virginia
Reply-To: rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove)
Organization: RICOH California Research Center
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 23:03:44 GMT

I'm not particularly set in my ways on the question
of whether violence on television has an adverse
effect on most people/children.  However, I have
very strong opinions against censorship.  I recently
read a very apt quote from one of the folks at
Children's Television Workshop... something to
the effect that you can turn off television that 
offends you, but you can't turn on television that
isnt' there. 

If we start censoring where do we stop, what is the
agenda of the folks calling for censorship.  How much
great art do we lose by the self censorship of artists/
writers who don't challenge their audience because of
fear of offense?  How many great projects get axed
because of Don Wildmon and his ilk?  

The fact that blowing someone's head off is more
acceptable than showing two people in love is a
sign that there is something wrong with our society.
But I don't think that further censorship will help.

Hmmm, where did this stack of soapboxes come from?
Gypsy grins and stacks them back out of the way.   
Dancing is way more fun than pontificating.

Rowan Fairgrove