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From: rmarsh@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: More Paperwork
Date: 16 Sep 92 16:48:51 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

Current Name: Robert George Marsh
Alter Ego: Stumpy. 
Birth Date: 23 January 1971
Birthplace: Lisburn, Northern Ireland (about 20km from Belfast)
Residence: Hamilton, New Zealand
Sex: When the time is right
Gender: Predominantly male
Sexual: Hetero- 
Marital Status: never married 
Offspring: None
Siblings: 1 Sister, Dawn (b.17Nov1972) 
Blood Type: A-
Hair: Brown
Eyes: grey/green
Height: 5'7" (170cm)
Dominant Brain Hemisphere: I think I'm fairly balanced hemisphere-wise.
Physical Deformities: Mole on right jawline. Shortsighted.
Music Preferences: 'most anything but opera. Particularly 50's/60's stuff.
Favorite Books: Pretty much anything by David Brin, the Callahan's books,
Desolation Road.
Pet Peeves: Computer Services' Paranoia. My mother constantly losing her keys.
Favorite Movies: Short Circuit, Casablanca, most action-adventures that have a
halfway decent plot.
Least Favorite Activities: Cleaning things that smell.
Most Favorite Activites: Take Callahan's. Abstract. You got it.
Quotes: "Standard quote number two: I don't rate guys." (I don't know what
standard quote number one is.)
Hobbies: Role-Playing Games (esp. GURPS, CoC), Reading, E-communication
Political Affiliation: REAL. If you weren't around shortly after I arrived this
won't make any sense to you.
Allergies: Mild Hay-fever, and for some reason the first glass of OJ in the
morning always makes me sneeze.
Occupation: Student. 
Favorite Foods: Chocolate, chicken. 
What I regret most: Trying too hard to hold onto my first girlfriend after we
broke up.
Favorite TV shows: Low budget BBC science fiction and/or comedy. Time Tunnel,
Police Rescue, Away Laughing.
Parting words: Ciao.

-- 
Robert 'Stumpy' Marsh | 95 Fairfield Rd | I can't reply to E-Mail, but 
rmarsh@waikato.ac.nz  | Hamilton        | don't let that stop you sending.
+64 7 855 4406        | New Zealand     |
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: dasher@well.sf.ca.us (D Anton Sherwood)
Subject: Vote Lazy
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 21:58:48 GMT


You might find this amusing.  It's my basic campaign speech.
---

I am taking this opportunity to run for office because I see it as a way to
apply my natural laziness to the benefit of my fellow citizens.

My opponents are full of ideas about how the state can take on more of the
burden of managing your life.  They will promise to pursue these programs
with untiring vigor.

They have been at it for generations, and we have seen the ugly results.  In
the name of equal education, they equally snuff out children's love of
learning.  In the name of helping the worker, they discourage hiring.  In
the name of health, they prevent treatment.  And in the name of better
housing, they put people on the streets.

The state claims that its powers were voluntarily delegated to it by you.  I
propose to delegate them right back.  Controlling how you educate your
children, from whom you buy telephone service and so on, cuts into time when
I could be reading books or watching VH1.  Therefore, in order to make the
legislator's life easier, I hope to abolish a number of state agencies.

I won't promise to carry out this program, because I don't expect to see any
large number elected who feel as I do.  But I will promise to do less than
my opponent.  Unlike my opponents, I will never vote to put the public
fingers deeper into your pockets, or the public nose deeper into your door.

Thomas Jefferson said, "That government is best which governs least."  For
better government, vote Lazy.
-- 
Anton Sherwood *\\* dasher@well.sf.ca.us *\\* +1 415 664 2229
Libertarian candidate for California Assembly, 12th district
Opinions mine, but available for lease at easy terms.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Doing NOTHING and getting paid for it! What a deal...
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 23:55:16 GMT



>Here I sit, on Friday morning.

>Another week has gone by, and I STILL have nothing to do.

>Anyone out there looking for a Unix/Ultrix systems manager with
>TCP/IP, NFS, PC Networking experience who has had his duties restricted
>because his supervisor decided that it was more desireable to pay DEC
>about $40K rather than give him a $15K/year raise?

>Since my duties were restricted and I was locked out of my old office,
>I have sat here for 11 weeks with NOTHING to do.  NOTHING.
>(I have made 3 repair calls - one for a defective laser cartridge, one for
>a bad tractor drive belt, and one for a bad fuser unit.  Other than that...)

>HELP!


kitten hugs ed...."shall i fire bomb her for you oh large one...

i can give anyone who wants to lure ed away from the university of illinois
a great character reference...he has been a character for as long as i
have known him..." kitten giggles  and kisses ed  on the nose...

"seriously....ed is wonderful...and a very dear friend of mine."

--
***************************************************************************
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
From: jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: When packrats move . . .
Date: 10 Sep 92 22:19:05 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc., San Jose, CA

Jilara smiles approvingly.  "3000 books?  My kind of people!
We had somewhere around that many, last time we counted.  Of
course, what makes it really sticky is that the majority of
them are hardback...  Hmm, and that's not counting the
basement full I inherited from my father.  I think there's
another thousand or so, down there, though I took most of the
ones I really wanted into "protective custody" some time
before he died.  Once, he had a 8000 volume library.  I can
dream...

"But 500 square feet??  How can you live in that amount of
space?  That would mostly only support the books, with very
little furniture.  And in our case, we certainly wouldn't have
room for the art magazine collection, the comics, and my
collection of antique clothing, let all the rest of the
hobbies!  My condolences on not having room for the furniture
shop.  How do people live without such hobbies?"


--
  Jilara   [jane@swdc.stratus.com]

"Don't be so open-minded your brains fall out."  --Barry
Shein, on the net
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Silent night
Reply-To: aaron@space.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 02:01:06 GMT

dgreen@jarthur.claremont.edu (David Green) writes:
: ->kitten grins...."mudders are always welcome here."
: 
: Mishael grins back.  "Now, by 'mudder,' do you mean one who MUDs or one who
: attends Mudd?... and thanks."

Alfvaen looks more closely at Mishael's Organization: line.  "Harry Mudd
College.  My god!  Harcourt Fenton Mudd got a college named after him?"

--
---Alfvaen(Canadian SF Quasi-Activist)
"What have I done to piss the gods off?"  ---Terence Trent D'Arby
Current Album--Yaz:You And Me Both
Current Read--John Updike:Rabbit, Run
From: /G=Rhodri/S=James/O=SJ-Research/ADMD=INTERSPAN/C=GB/@MHS-RELAY.AC.UK
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: I tried the magic(on)...
Date: 14 Sep 92 16:18:24 GMT


  Windsinger walks back into the Place, waving cheerfully at Ignatz and the
other UK patrons, and wearing an orange baseball cap.  It really doesn't go
with the dark blue tunic and cloak.  <<Hi everybody, especially the new
people/creatures; C and Ocelot and Feather and... and everyone else that my
forgettery has temporarily dropped.

  <<Well, I'm back from Magicon, exhausted by the heat and humidity and more
or less recovered from the jet-lag.  I've also acquired a light dose of
'flu, not serious enough to keep me away from work.  Never mind.  The
worldcon was great fun; I got to meet loads of Callahans folk, Randolph,
Lynn Gold (sorry about that bass line :-), Eoin, Nicarra and a handful of
lurkers, plus loads of fans who had just been names in fanzines or voices on
tapes before.  Great fun.  I ended up spending much more time filking than I
had intended, but I did want to here these people!

  <<I've had a great time this past fortnight in Florida, going around
various tourist attractions and enjoying myself.  It was also quite fun
seeing how language and brand names varied across the Atlantic.  There were
times when Randolph and I had to stop and speak slowly to each other, so
that we could get the hang of each other's figures of speech!>>  He looks
around, and then tosses a coin Mike's direction in exchange for the pint
glass Mike has ready on the counter.  <<Here's one example,>> Windsinger
say, waving his glass.  <<In the US, "cider" generally means apple juice,
whereas in the UK, "cider" is what is often referred to as "applejack" in
the States. This is fermented apple juice, one of the strongest undistilled
alcoholic drinks; stronger than your average British beer, which in turn is
considerably stronger than your average American beer.  For an additional
complication, some States use "applejack" to refer to a distilled apple
drink, which I think is apple brandy or "calvados" in the UK.

  <<More things happened than I could possibly have the time to type into a
post; suffice it to say that I enjoyed myself.  Expect a trip report to
appear in The Light Stuff real soon now :-)>>

---
Windsinger  -  Rhodri James    *  "If hot food is what you're cravin'
                               *   No throat lining's worth the savin'
Rhodri.James%gb.INTERSPAN.sj   *   If your stomach's got you ravin'
            @mhs-relay.ac.uk   *   Come into the Curry Queen!"
   or                          *
rmj10@phx.cam.ac.uk            *               -- Me
From: gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon)
Subject: Re: A timid entrance
Organization: Open Age, Inc.
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 00:44:46 GMT

clhoerth@david.wheaton.EDU (Cathe L Hoerth) writes:

>	There is a brief commotion by the door of the Place as an ocelot
>dashes in between the legs of an exiting patron (much to that patron's
>discomfort, but it can't be helped) and runs across the room.  Onlookers
>have the impression of a flash of yellow and black as she darts under
>Nick's chair and huddles there, panting a bit.  Her tail is poofed out
>to bottlebrush size, which on 25 lbs. of jungle feline is pretty
>impressive, but for the most part she just looks scared.  As she peers
>out from under the chair, her liquid black eyes and trembling whiskers
>seem to say, "Oh dear, perhaps I have made a terrible error, but I am
>small and alone and shy.  Be nice to me, scratch behind my ears and give
>me affection... and maybe a dish of milk, but I'm broke."  Amazingly
>expressive whiskers, nu? 

The Golden Gryphon, being able to read wisker language very well, starts
purring, and averts his eyes, in the most no threatening way he can.  Being
part cat he knows the language very well.  It's kind of like growing up in
the America with your parents speaking German.

I crouches down low (about a half meter one all fours) and starts sniffing
The Ocelot.  This being the best way for one cat type person to learn another.

After determining that this Ocelot is cool, he slinks over to the bar, and
orders 2 bowls of milk, and places two dollars on the bar.

"Welcome to Callahans Ocelot.  Nice to meet you."


-- 
The Golden Gryphon 				gryphon@openage.COM
Solve a man's problem and he has 1 less.        No incumbents in 92.
Teach a man to think, and all his problems are less.
Openage - The Premier SCO UNIX integrator in the Washington D.C. area
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jay Brandt)
Subject: Re: Fritz Leiber RIP
Organization: University of Oregon, Architecture
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 16:39:38 GMT

In article <18l0b8INNqt9@agate.berkeley.edu>, chuahl@ocf.berkeley.edu (Chua
HakLien) writes:

> "Fritz Leiber died two days ago. May he rest in peace."

<Ping!> Jason appears at the end of the bar, looking distraught. His
appearance startles the ocelot, but she calms down when he bends down and
starts making cat-like sounds and strokes her ears. "Sorry beautiful, I
didn't see you. I was in a hurry to get here and didn't look first." 

"I just heard about Fritz Leiber. D***! Another great one goes out of ken."
He drops a pile of bills on the counter. "Mike, buy a round on me, in
memory of the creator of Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser. He was one of the
great storytellers, and I for one will miss him profoundly." Lifts a
libation to Fritz, and downs it in a gulp. "Can't stay, but I couldn't stay
away either. See ya all later!"

He touches the button on his PowerBook, and disappears again with a soft
<Ping!>.

Mike comments "OK, it's a nice hologram, but where does the liquor go to,
hmmm?"

<Hugs and commiserations all around> --
Jason
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: feath@agora.rain.com (Feather)
Subject: Feather's reply to Splash
Organization: Open Communications Forum
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 05:56:04 GMT

Splash has offered Feather a Brandy Alexander, which pleases this small, gray
avian.  

"Yeah, I guess you are right, maybe I don't have to be shy.  It takes awhile
to learn, though...

Anyway, sure, anytime you want to buy me an Alexander, go for it.  For now,
be sure to place it on the table...  I may be psychokinetic, but I would
rather not risk spilling it all over
Stumpy's shoulder here..."

Feather waits for her cue to fly down to the table and enjoy another
Brandy Alexander... this time from a new friend...
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Punday, 9/8 - Jason
Date: 10 Sep 92 23:33:55 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

jason....a punday night contestant...relates the following:


>RNow, lets just say I was going to go away for a while on vacation. I ask
>you if you would take care of as few of my pets while I was away, and you
>agree. Just before I leave, I pull up at your house with a huge truck
>hauling a small trailer. I hand you the keys, pat you on the back and walk
>off, never to be seen for two weeks. In the truck are two very inebriated
>sea-mammals. In the trailer are two female sheep. What do you now have?S

>Jason leans back with a smirk on his face, while everyone tries to guess.

>{Scroll down for the answer}


....

>Jason starts to sing to a familiar cowboy melody. RHappy whales, two ewes,
>until we meet again . . .S and ducks as a new shower of peanuts erupts in
>his direction. (The tune was _Happy trails to you_.)  :-)

kitten groans from her spot next to raven...."WHERE did i put those
peanuts?  hey, dreamy jim...does linda have any peanuts for me...?"

--
***************************************************************************
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: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Subject: Re: I tried the magic(on)...
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 17:04:32 GMT

In article <ARM200-920914161824-677B7867*@MHS>, /G=Rhodri/S=James/O=SJ-Research/ADMD=INTERSPAN/C=GB/@MHS-RELAY.AC.UK writes:
>  <<I've had a great time this past fortnight in Florida, going around
>various tourist attractions and enjoying myself.  It was also quite fun
>seeing how language and brand names varied across the Atlantic.  There were
>times when Randolph and I had to stop and speak slowly to each other, so
>that we could get the hang of each other's figures of speech!>>  He looks
>around, and then tosses a coin Mike's direction in exchange for the pint
>glass Mike has ready on the counter.  <<Here's one example,>> Windsinger
>say, waving his glass.  <<In the US, "cider" generally means apple juice,
>whereas in the UK, "cider" is what is often referred to as "applejack" in
>the States. This is fermented apple juice, one of the strongest undistilled
>alcoholic drinks; stronger than your average British beer, which in turn is
>considerably stronger than your average American beer.  For an additional
>complication, some States use "applejack" to refer to a distilled apple
>drink, which I think is apple brandy or "calvados" in the UK.

Actually, customary usage in the U.S. is:
	Hard cider:  Fermented apple juice
	Cider:	Apple juice, either fermented or unfermented
	Applejack:  Either a brandy made by distilling hard cider, or a similar
		beverage made by repeatedly freezing hard cider and removing
		the ice.  In either case, the alcohol content is considerably
		higher than that of hard cider.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jgoodric@dante.nmsu.edu (GOODRICH)
Subject: A thump at the door. .  .
Organization: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
        And a tall figure enters the room.  He is very tall, at least 6'5",
	A small, pale hand emerged from the cloak, holding a dollar bill.
	The hand picks up the drink, and the giant moves over towards the 
	The Giant begins to pick itself up, and begins to tug on the heavy 
	"Ah, well, the Laughing Priest is here.  Read my file, he says."
	The amber liquid sparkles in the bright lights of the bar.  The 
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 23:07:20 GMT

	he crushes the glass in his hand, and allows a few drops of blood to
spatter onto the floor.
	Thanks, he says.

D
D
	The giant begins pulling on the motorcycle boots, 
	The Laughing Priest!

"Laugh-a while you can, monkey-boy!"  -Lord John Whorfin
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: When packrats move . . .
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 01:42:06 GMT



>So what I'm interested in is: how prevalent are apartments as accomodation in
>the US, as opposed to "real" houses ("detached", as the English would say)?  Is
>an abode such as your original one, Jason and Pegasus, common in the US?

>Just curious ...

"splash....it is lovely to know that you will be adding to the tribe
of mini.callahanians....and february is a lovely month to be born
in...my heather will be 20 on feb. 12.

as far as apartments....we live in a 3 bedroom duplex (2 apartments in
one dwelling...it's not bad. i would like a house...but neither t.c.
nor i is very handy...so it's really better to have a landlord."

--
***************************************************************************
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

Organization: Sophomore, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.callahans,alt.individualism
Date: Tue,  8 Sep 1992 09:55:29 -0400 
From: Mark Beirne Lively <ml5a+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Libertarianism
	<1992Sep8.065034.20117@cco.caltech.edu>

>>>There are a number of services that only a centralized government can
provide.
>>
>>Name some, say why, and say why they all must be provided by the same
>>entity.
>
>I named a few and gave arguments as to why they could only be provided by a
>central government in a previous post.  If you don't understand why the free
>rider problem implies this, then tell me why you disagree with what I posted
>and I'll try to make it clearer to you.
>
>These services need not be provided by the same entity.  They MUST be provided
>by entities with coercive powers.  Do you really want more entities with
>coercive powers than the minimum necessary?

Well that was the principle behind the US govt.  To have three groups
with coercive powers that vehemently hate each and are oppossed to each
other.  THe theory being that if they were busy enough fighting each
other they wouldn't worry about the average joe on the street.

Hero's Inc.  Damsels slewn and Dragons rescued oops reverse that.
Bear aka the Lord High Rulebender aka (ML5A@ANDREW.CMU.EDU)
From: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: When packrats move . . .
Date: 11 Sep 92 20:00:13 GMT
Reply-To: aaron@space.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine) writes:
: In article <STEVE.92Sep10093607@diana.Advansoft.COM> steve@Advansoft.COM (Steve Savitzky) writes:
: >"You *count* your books?" says the Mandelbear.  "Mostly I measure them
: >by the foot.  
: 
: Heh.  Just wait 'til you're tempted into putting all your book titles
: into a database.....

Alfvaen grins.  "I've done that.  I don't have 3000 yet, but to compensate, I
put in all the short stories and poems, too.  And I'm starting to put in ISBNs,
too...  It's easier to start when you have a small collection, except that I
only had an Apple II+ at that point..."

--
---Alfvaen(Canadian SF Quasi-Activist)
"Don't fight it--it's over your head."
Current Album--King Crimson:The Compact King Crimson
Current Read--Robert Heinlein:The Past Through Tomorrow
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: A timid entrance
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 23:42:04 GMT



>Splash cautiously steps past the big cat who is now timidly lapping at the
>saucer of milk, and makes his way to the bar.  He calls Mike over and says "Put
>our new friend's milk requirements on my tab"  (Thank heavens for virtual money
>- I can be a generous as I _really_ want to be  :-)  )  He carefully approaches
>the wary creature and gingerly extends a hand to give a scratch behind the 
>ears of the watchful feline.  "Hello little lady" he says softly.

>I'm generally not a cat person, although I get on well with most animals
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>... I guess being an aquatic vegetarian is not the best qualification for
>dealing with cats :-)

>Splash!

kitten sniffs at this comment from splash...."now, i would NEVER have
guessed that you aren't a cat person," she says...."at least, you've
always been nice to me."

--
***************************************************************************
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