HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: brumby@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen McNamara)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: most passionate of the Signs ???
Date: 8 Apr 92 19:12:29 GMT
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.


   The brumby's knowledge of star signs is somewhat hazy but his wife
seems to know quite a bit. At least she delights in pointing out how
some people fit into the stereotype of their star sign.

>   "gee kitten, I thought it was the Cancer types that were the most
>passionate. After all, I read an article in a magazine that stated
>that women should pay more attention to Cancerian males. Most of them
>look rather plain, but if there was a video screen on a Cancerian
>male's forehead, more women would be interested in them.

   "If there were a video screen on my head I'd have been arrested years
ago...."
   "Actually, I've been told that Cancerians are mostly noted for being
acquisitive. Not as in grasping or greedy but just in that they tend to
keep a lot of things around themselves. 

>  NickD. { yes, I have a video... }

   The brumby wonders whether he should risk looking at NickD's head or
not.


-- 
     The Silver Brumby of          brumby@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
      the Silicon Plains

      The grass is always greener on the other side of the network.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (The Didi-Sprite)
Subject: Re: (long) answer
Originator: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 21:43:04 GMT

In article <1992Apr12.204834.29499@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:
>kitten sighs in frustration...."i sent this via e-mail to john cohen
>and it bounced....so i am posting it...."
>
>

Well, Kitten it seems that our brains are the same size ...
well, sprites can't pack much into their small skulls either!

Anyway, I sent email to you as well, John, and it bounced back.
I have the 'long' explanation of Callahans on file and if you
want it I will gladly send it ... but I need an email address
that works!

Callahans is a wonderful place full of loving people who become
as family.  You are as welcome here as the flowers in May ...
and we would love it if you would join us in wishing Danger Mouse
a very happy birthday ... he is one of our most beloved patrons!
And, there are very many of those!

Happy Sunday!

And ...              WELCOME!!!!


----<--<@


The Didi-Sprite
Montreal * Canada

braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
From: razer@tiamat.hacks.arizona.edu (The Artful Dodger)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Co.
Date: 16 Apr 92 16:18:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: tiamat.16APR92111812
Reply-To: razer@tiamat.hacks.arizona.edu
Distribution: world,local
Organization: Big Bright Green Pleasure Machines, Inc.
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-a4

Alfvaen questions:
>> Arty pulls out his 12 string and some sheet music.  "someone,
>> Walker, I believe, asked for the lyrics to Scarburough Fair.
>> 	"This is actually two songs, Scarburough Fair and
>> Canticle, which have similar tunes.  Simon and garfunkle put
>> them together and launched an enormously sucssesful pop alblum 
>> with them.
>> 		"This works best as a duet - Kateri, would you
>> help me?"
>> 	He tunes, and they begin to sing.
> 
>[Lyrics to Scarborough Fair/Canticle]
> 
>> 
>> 	The last note fades away, and Arty is silent for a 
>> moment.  "Scarburough fair was originally a witch's Mneumonic
>> tool, an aid to remembering the steps and ingredeints of a 
>> love potion.  Canticle, is obviously a folk song about war."
> 
>Alfvaen looks thoughtful.  "Mnemonic for a love potion?  An interesting  
>thought.
> 
>"One thing--I'd always had the impression that in the 'traditional'  
>version of Scarborough Fair, all the verses are 'Tell her to ' such and  
>such, 'and then she'll be a true love of mine.'  Until the last verse,  
>which ends 'and then _you'll_ be a true love of mine.'  Am I totally off  
>my chum?  Am I right, or have I just been hearing things wrong?   
>P65331727, do you know anything about this, or just the Simon & Garfunkel  
>version?"

	Arty shakes his head.  "Nope.  It's been years since I heard
the original, and I don't remember it.  It had a lot more verses, though."
	"I'm never going to live down that username, am I?"

The Artful Dodger (Razer@Hacks.Arizona.EDU)
"Can you imagine us years from today, sharing a park bench quietly?
  How terribly strange to be seventy!"
		-Paul Simon & Art Garfunkle "Old Friends" _Bookends_
From: Elizabeth.Mccoy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Elizabeth Mccoy)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: balrog meets Tizrak !
Date: 6 Apr 92 23:42:45 GMT
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service


>>kitten giggles as the light bulb goes on over her head....

>Panther grins evilly.  "I suppose this means she's been enlightened?"

T'Kee looks up, considers the matter...  "What?" she asks, "Not
Illuminated? Or would that have taken a pyramidal light-bulb?"

--E_McCoy@unhh.unh.edu aka T'Kee the FNORD You're not cleared for that
information  
--
   The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of
     North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
        Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
           internet:  bbs.oit.unc.edu or 152.2.22.80
From: vad276g@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen McNamara)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: balrog meets Tizrak !
Date: 2 Apr 92 14:48:45 GMT
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.


   This thread is starting to look familiar to the brumby.

trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:

>>>kitten giggles as the light bulb goes on over her head....

>>Panther grins evilly.  "I suppose this means she's been enlightened?"

>"watt....amp i in this punfest....ooooooooooooh nooooooooooooo."

   "Wire you chipping in then?"

-- 
     The Silver Brumby of      vad276g@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (till Apr 13)
      the Silicon Plains           brumby@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au

      The grass is always greener on the other side of the network.
From: Elizabeth.Mccoy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Elizabeth Mccoy)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Dr. Asimov
Keywords: Death, Renescance Men, etc.
Date: 8 Apr 92 23:08:43 GMT
Distribution: world,local
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service

In article <6APR199209044074@violet.ccit.arizona.edu> p65331727@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (The Artful Dodger) writes:
>
>	Arty stands up from behind his table of homework and
>crosses to the bar.  "Mick, I'd like a sprite, no ice."
>	Mike sets it in front of him, starts to mention that
>he prefers Mike, then stops.  "You look like someone died, Art."
>	"Someone did.  Dr. Asimov, one of the last Renasance men,
>died last night.  When I was a kid, Dr. Asimov was one of my favorite 
>science fiction writers.  Later, I read his factual works, and
>was enlightened.
>	"I understand he was rather annoying to know personally,
>but his works are wonderful."
>	Arty crosses to the line.  "To the Big 3 - Heinlein, Asimov,
>and Clarke - and all the wonderful things they gave us."
>	he chugs his sprite, and throws the glass in the fire.
>

T'Kee looks up, horror and tears starting in her eyes. "No," she
whispers. "Oh dear gods no."

"Why couldn't the date of posting that be the *first*?"

She sighs, clenchs her jaw, shakes her head. "From Julia Ecklar's
'Divine Intervention' tape, song: 'Fallen Angel.'  I know it's supposed
to be a Trek filk, but..."

"Though even I can't understand
Why [...] gods can't live forever,
Why should legends have to die?
[...] sleep in glory,
My heart still seeks the sky."
--
   The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of
     North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
        Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
           internet:  bbs.oit.unc.edu or 152.2.22.80
From: moh2@quads.uchicago.edu (Kateri/Mary Anne)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Tam Lin/Thomas the Rhymer (sources and history)
Date: 8 Apr 92 19:08:26 GMT
Reply-To: moh2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <OLSON.92Apr7235623@husc8.harvard.edu> olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson) writes:
>In article <1992Apr7.041337.9346@midway.uchicago.edu> moh2@quads.uchicago.edu (Kateri/Mary Anne) writes:

<I talk about Pamela Dean's marvelous new book, _Tam Lin_>

>Castellan does yet another of his famous double takes.  "I saw that in a store
>the other day... It caught my eye, because Fairport Convention's version of 
>the folksong of the same name is absolutely marvellous.  Actually, I've 
>never heard another version, but there are very few who could hope to equal 
>the late, great Sandy Denny."

<pedant mode on>

Okay, for those interested, Tam Lin is a tale taken from a Childe Ballad (I
don't remember which number offhand) which comes in several versions.  In the
basic tale, Tam Lin, aka True Thomas or Thomas the Rhymer, is a poet/bard who
meets the Queen of Elfland one day, and begs a kiss.  In payment, he is taken
to serve her in Faerie for 7 years, during which time he is forbidden to speak.
When he is released, in payment he is given the double-edged gift of being
able to speak only the truth, an interesting gift for a bard.  Sometimes the 
gift of foretelling comes along with it.  He settles down with Janet, the
girl back home, and they live happily every after.

Another version has him about to be paid as a tithe to Hell when Janet rescues
him.  The Faerie owe Hell one life every seven years, and they'd rather 
sacrifice a mortal than one of their own. Janet somehow hears about this, and
is there to rescue him on the night before Halloween.  She drags him off his
white horse and must cling to him throughout the many awful shape changes 
the Queen puts on him, the last being a burning brand, which she douses in a
well/stream.

In some versions she must be pregnant by his child to accomplish this - how
she manages it after him being away for seven years is never successfully
explained.

Pamela Dean quotes one Childe version at the end of her novelization.

Another marvelous version is that written by Ellen Kushner, entitled, I believe
_Thomas the Rhymer_.  Better than her first novel _Swordspoint_ - which I enjoyed.

If you prefer music, there are many versions of the tale.  One of the better
known is that done by Steel Eye Span, also named Thomas the Rhymer.

Any questions?

<pedant mode off>

 - Kateri
-- 
The autumn leaves are falling like rain.
Although my neighbors are all barbarians,
And you, you are a thousand miles away,
There are always two cups at my table.		 - A T'ang Dynasty poem
From: razer@tiamat.hacks.arizona.edu (THe Artful Dodger)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Holomuck
Date: 10 Apr 92 23:54:43 GMT
Reply-To: razer@tiamat.hacks.arizona.edu
Distribution: world,local
Organization: Razer IntressenGemeinschaft
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-a4


	Arty scowls, terribly.  "I finally get a night away from
the house, I plan to spend an evening with my friends on Holomuck,
and what happens?  The Blasted thing crashes!
	"One of these days, the world's going to run the way I 
expect it to, and when I realize what's happened, I'm going to drop 
dead of shock."

The Artful Dodger P65331727@CCIT.Arizona.Edu|Razer@Hacks.Arizona.EDU
"Can you imagine us years from today, sharing a park bench quietly?
  How terribly strange to be seventy!"
		-Paul Simon & Art Garfunkle "Old Friends" _Bookends_
From: razer@tiamat.hacks.arizona.edu (THe Artful Dodger)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: RHPS
Date: 11 Apr 92 17:52:07 GMT
Reply-To: razer@tiamat.hacks.arizona.edu
Distribution: world,local
Organization: Razer IntressenGemeinschaft
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-a4

> kitten:
>>Chip Olson:
> 
>>>BFG:
> 
"That's a tender subject."
[Doc gets it!  Brad gets it!  Janet gets it!  Rocky doesn't care, he's
a Marine!  Ugh!]

>>>"Get your ass off my table!" and "Everyone gets a piece of ass at Frank's
>>>parties."  "It's nutritious, it's delicious, it's-- STEAM!!!"  [Steam will
>>>save the world!!!]  "Use a fork, dork; try the spoon, goon."  "Hey, Riff,
>>>what kind of wine is that?  Oh, must be a table wine."
> 
>>"He's from UMass, she's from Smith! Use a fork! Fork you, bitch!"
>>(this one made for amusing reactions when I used it *at* Smith once)
> 
>>"it's the Black & Decker Pecker Wrecker! It slices, it dices, it circum-
>>cizes! It chops, grates and castrates! First cut hurts, second cut tickles;
>>congratulations, you're now Jewish!"
> 
>>"There's no crime in giving youself over to pleasure [there is in Massachu-
>>setts!]"
>[there is in illinois....we still have sodomy laws]
> 
>>"[Describe Kennebunkport] oh, it's probably some sort of hunting lodge for 
>>rich wierdos"
> 
> 
>that man has no f*cking neck....
> 
>what the hell is an rko radio picture....
> 
>sigh....

	Yup.  Sigh.

The Artful Dodger P65331727@CCIT.Arizona.Edu|Razer@Hacks.Arizona.EDU
"Can you imagine us years from today, sharing a park bench quietly?
  How terribly strange to be seventy!"
		-Paul Simon & Art Garfunkle "Old Friends" _Bookends_
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: dgil@ipsaint.ipsa.reuter.com (Gillett, David)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Potstickers, and a return
Date: 7 Apr 92 19:15:48 GMT
Reply-To: dgil@ipsaint.ipsa.reuter.com (Gillett, David)
Organization: Reuters APL Software Division
X-Unparsable-Date: 7 Apr 92 17:10:36 UT


-----------Message forwarded from IPSA Mailbox-------------
no. 6130391 filed 16.58.24  tue  7 apr 1992
from dgil
to   locun
subj Re: Potstickers, and a return
ref  6128680

     Danger Mouse wants to know what a 'potsticker' is....

     Briefly, it's a chinese stuffed dumpling that is fried instead of steamed. 
I say briefly, because there are umpty-many sorts of chinese dumpling, cooked 
in several different ways; as far as I can tell, there's not necessarily any 
difference in content between steamed and fried ones.

     The 'canonical' chinese dumplings encountered in North America are
slightly crescent-shaped, 3"-4" long, and stuffed with sausage, and are eaten
with vinegar or pepper sauce.  Dumplings of similar size and shape, but a
variety of fillings, are usually included in dim sum.

     Dumplings, and perhaps particularly potstickers, are the food which the
old edition of _The Hacker's Dictionary_ called 'ravs', short for ravioli.

                                      Mentor the Sage
From: pierce@navo.navy.mil (Jim M. Pierce)
Subject: Re: steel bars
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-16278]: spop.navo.navy.mil
Reply-To: pierce@navo.navy.mil (Jim M. Pierce)
Organization: POPS Operations
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 05:29:33 GMT

In article <1992Apr9.230123.16765@NCoast.ORG>, allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH) writes:
|> As quoted from <1992Apr7.072229.13451@ucc.su.OZ.AU> by mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar):
|> +---------------
|> | > [Michael the dark elf:]
|> | >		And at the edge of hearing comes a pun:
|> | >			"Steel bars do not a prism make."
|> | >	
|> | >		Not bad, but not the sort of pun the elf would Bragg
|> | >	about.
|> | 
|> | "Please. You're grating on my nerves."
|> +---------------
|> 
|> Utterly bar-bar-ic.
|> 

    " 'Bar-Bar Anne ! Bar-Bar Anne ! A rocking and a rolling
    Bar-bar Anne !' Yes folks, that was the Beach Boys down on
  the beach singing their hit 'Bar-Bar Anne !' " NickD. the DJ :-)  
-- 
     pierce@navo.navy.mil  Jim Pierce aka Nick D.

    "I want a new duck...." Weird Al Yankovic
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Subject: Re: astrology
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 06:50:50 GMT

In article <1992Apr9.221115.4001@cs.rose-hulman.edu>, lindercs@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU (Galadin (Craig Linderoth)) writes:
>	Galadin is listening to all of this talk about passionate signs and he
>realizes that no one has addressed the issue of Capricorns.  He will forgive
>such an oversight as long as it doesn't happen again  :)   Now on to
>Capricorn's (The Goat),  which for some reason is the most neglected of the
>signs also.  According to the books, we are not as passionate as some of the
>other signs, except for when we are in a relationship that is really important.  
>	In this case, capricorns can tend to be some of the most passionate of
>the signs.  This is due to the fact that a capricorn is a very loyal partner
>and will do most anything in their power to keep the relationship alive.  And
>well, passion is one of the important things in many relationships.  The only
>thing that is not suppose to happen is to get 2 capricorns together.  Then they
>will tend to fight it out and not work real well together.  Good thing my
>fiancee' and I don't listen to that.
>	Anyway, anyone looking for a loyal and after the relationship has
>started, passionate person, seek out the capricorns.  Oh, the male capricorns
>are also much more emotional then the females.

Stm (January 10) reaches into RL and extract's Carl J Lydick's XXXX Beaver,
Resistol Quicksilver (with tycoon crease).  Donning it, he turns to Galadin and
drawls, "Polecat, this place isn't big enough for both of us."

"But if you're any good as a carpenter, we should be able to add another room."
From: JPIERCE@MIAMIU.BITNET (Jeff Pierce)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Week from hell...
Date: 9 Apr 92 00:43:32 GMT
Organization: Miami University - Academic Computer Service

Happy the Man listens to Grant's anxious discussion of the GRE exam.
"I wish you the best of luck and hope that you have time for sleep this
week.  I took the English GRE seven years ago and didn't have a very
good time.  It may have had something to do with the woman taking the
political science GRE who burst into tears after 20 minutes and had to be
escorted from the room.  Everyone was really tense from that point on until
they finished.
     I've proctored the subject tests a few times since then, and that
appears to be the isolated incident that I've experienced.  Just make sure
you get a good night of sleep the night before the exam.  We'll be waiting
to hear how it went for you."
 
                             Happy the Man
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: salford@orion.lrmsc.loral.com (Stephanie Alford 5850)
Subject: A little late
Originator: salford@orion
Organization: Loral Rolm Mil-Spec Computers
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 21:06:01 GMT

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: uribe@jarthur.claremont.edu (Soprano)
Subject: Re: Living in Sin
Organization: Claremont Shelter for Maladjusted Singers
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1992 23:37:35 GMT

In article <92096.145018AXM113@psuvm.psu.edu> AXM113@psuvm.psu.edu (Abner
Mintz) writes:

>Anyway, Tizrak orders one of his mixtures for himself, and Rachel (yes, Rachel
>is here too) orders a strawberry daquiri.

>They step up to the chalkline, and drink their drinks.
>               "To living in sin!"

>Abner (Tizrak's real name) and Rachel won't be getting married for another
year >due to events beyond their control.  Sorry folks ...

>Tentative wedding date is in 1993 instead of this summer (or whenever we get
>around to it).  We will both be moving to California together anyway ...

Soprano heads for the bar, places a worn single on it and retrieves a hot
buttered rum (yes, I know it's April, but it's cold and overcast here today
-- good hot buttered rum weather).  Tossing it down (aint VR wonderful? ;-),
she occupies the chalk line and almost echoes Tizrak's toast

			"To living in 'sin'!"

and hurls her mug into the fireplace.

"Actually, guys, you won't be living in sin -- you'll be living in
California.  Of course, there are those who think that the terms are
synonymous.... ;-) 

"In any event, congratulations and welcome to California!!"

				Soprano


+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Soprano (Lydia M. Uribe)                      uribe@jarthur.claremont.edu |
| Claremont, CA                                         uribe@HMCVAX.BITNET |
|           Cats, quilts and diving -- what more could anyone ask?          |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: HF.TXG@forsythe.stanford.edu (Tonya Gonzales)
Subject: Re: Bear's story
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 19:14:21 GMT

Ya know, its funny. I thought I had such a terrible chidhood, UH UH.
Not compared to youse guys....I just wouldn't open my mouth after a
while.  I would open my mouth and be treated like a social pariah,
so I just quit doing it...I retreated into myself.  It's funny, when
I was younger and didn't talk people assumed I was stuck up or just
plain weird (which is true), and as I've gotten older people think
I'm super wise or something...

I can say I've learned a lot from keeping my mouth shut, you watch
people much more and if you're smart you learn from that.  I like to
think I'm smart and that I've learned from others experiences, whose
to say...I am the resident Dear Abby and Printers Inc Bookstore
(Where I work on evenings and weekends) and they seem to take my
advice to heart...no lynch mobs have come after me so guess I'm
doing o.k.

It was really hard for me while I was growing up in that I quite
seriously *care* for people.  Whether I know them or not, I can't
help caring for them. And when people who you care for ridicule
you...you start to question yourself, I've just come to the
conclusion that most people are stupid and wouldn't know a wonderful
person if they were bit on the nose by one...so, there loss.8->
I'm me (not a bad person acually), and I still care about people, I
just don't let it get me down if they don't care about me...

Boy, I'm rambling....time to go back to the homework. I used to
think people who went to school had it good, I'm mixing school with
work now and boy....<sigh> Now I know.

Take care all,

TJ
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: moh2@quads.uchicago.edu (Kateri/Mary Anne)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Once again, Walker's back - for a time...
Date: 14 Apr 92 18:14:30 GMT
Reply-To: moh2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <167C83524.MTURN01@ricevm1.rice.edu> MTURN01@ricevm1.rice.edu (Turner, Martha Axler) writes:
>In article <1992Apr10.211659.5778@rice.edu>
>jeremyl@screech.owlnet.rice.edu (Jeremy Lyn Hart) writes:

>Looking a little more serious and sad, Emter says quietly, "I'm so
>sorry, my friend. I wish I could help. I'm always here to listen, though."
>
Kateri nods..."Likewise, Walker."

>>On a bit less depressing note, does anyone out there have the lyrics
>>to Simon & Garfunkel's "Scarborough Faire"?  If someone does, I'd
>>really appreciate it if you could post or E-mail - I just got a copy
>>of Queensryche's cover of the song and love it...

(Kat adds a couple more verses)

>  Are you going to Scarborough Faire
>  Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
>  Remember me to one who lives there
>  She once was a true love of mine

Tell her to buy me an acre of land
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Between the salt water and the sea strand
Then she'll be a true love of mine

Tell her to reap it with a sickle of leather
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
And to gather it all in a bunch of heather
Then she'll be a true love of mine

>  Tell her to make me a cambric shirt
>  Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
>  Without a seam, or fine needlework   (Without no seam, nor needlework)
>  Then she'll be a true love of mine
>
>  Love imposes impossible tasks
>  Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
>  Though not more than any heart asks
>  One to be a true love of mine

>>--Walker
>--Emter
Kateri


-- 
The autumn leaves are falling like rain.
Although my neighbors are all barbarians,
And you, you are a thousand miles away,
There are always two cups at my table.		 - A T'ang Dynasty poem
Newsgroups: alt.callahans