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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: testing tin
From: <KZAHLLER@MIAMIU.BITNET>
Date: Thursday, 21 Jan 1993 22:52:23 EST
Organization: Miami University - Academic Computer Service

(Sorry guys--I can't get the computer to take the previous
notes on the tin reader puns)

Magda bats her eyes and does her best look of utter,
brainless innocence.

"Ingot you got anything better to do than steel things,
ore are you just bored?  If that's the problem, lead
me buy you a drink!" ;-)  (*Giggle, snort*)
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From: lunisea@netcom.com (Stephanie Alford)
Subject: Re: Didi's ill, again : -(
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 10:30:03 GMT

In article <1k52uhINNieg@menudo.uh.edu> narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon) writes:
>In article <1993Jan26.072148.20200@netcom.com> lunisea@netcom.com (Stephanie Alford) writes:
>>Having just been to Westech (a job fair), SEA is still wearing her interview
>>suit, which includes heels (she's been through 3 pairs of pantyhose in a week,
>>she thinks the higher powers are trying to tell her something) and seeing what
>>is happening, she joins in the fun.  Daintily (it's hard for her to walk
>>in heels) she stomps hard on a pice of film, then she stomps again, and again,
>>giggling maniacally, she finds a rhythm and continues stomping.  Unnoticed,
>>the celluloid begins turning into postal stamps.
>>
Bi-bulb:
>Ma'am - I salute you.

SEA salutes back...snap!

>By the way : "power" clothes, I assume? 
Well, could be....dark skirt, pastel blouse, white wool blazer.

>Kind of like my "up and coming" friend who was looking for a new job. She
>went to a hairdresser for a new cut, and asked for what she called
>"power hair". 
>She got bangs.

Okay.....I guess.

May I have the honour of buying your next drink?
From: kksys!cipric!jmh%uum1.UUCP@CS.YALE.EDU (Janet Huss)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Food, Fargo, and hymnals
Date: 21 Jan 93 18:36:12 GMT
Organization: Ciprico, Inc.

On discussing strange pizza combinations: 

>>The Grey Lady looks up with delight and interest upon hearing Mishael 
>>expound on the virtues of pineapple and canadian bacon pizza.  "Welcome
>>back, Mishael, and I'll split one of those with you, if you'd like.  I'm 
>>also a devotee of that combination.

>>"I suppose I'll have less luck persuading anyone to share a sauerkraut
>>and canadian bacon pizza with me.  I had one in Fargo, North Dakota, once,
>>and enjoyed it immensely, much to my own surprise!"

Rie adds:

>Here in Hays they have a pizza joint called Augustino's.  Every week they
>have a buffet where they get rid of ingredients they have too much of. I went 
>there last semester and they had sausage and sauerkraut pizza.  Not Italian
>sausage, mind you, but real thick, chewy-skinned Polish kielbasa.  It was 
>great!!  BTW, what is Fargo like?  My mom is from there, but I've never been to
>visit.

The Grey Lady ponders that for a moment, and replies, "That sounds good, 
too!  Kielbasa sounds like a wonderful substitute for canadian bacon.

"As for Fargo, I've only visited it in the dead of winter, which is 
*not* a fair time to comment on it.  They *aren't* the icebox of the 
48 contiguous states (a small town in Minnesota holds that honor), but
they must be in the running for the top 20 or so.

"As for the ELCA hymnal, Rie, near as I can tell, they complicate the meter
so the congregation won't sing, or won't sing well, which makes the choir
sound wonderful by comparison!  (And if that comment gets back to the 
choir director, I'm gonna hear about it!)"
From: narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: The Lady and the Bard
Date: 24 Jan 1993 08:54:17 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
NNTP-Posting-Host: casc.math.uh.edu

In article <ZDyuXB6w165w@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> ekho@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (amanda rothman) writes:
>> *******************************************************************      
>> * Noah Ramon - The Bi-Bulb     * Your only limitation is your own *
>> * Mail to : narxtc@math.uh.edu * imagination - Beans Barton       *
>> *******************************************************************
>
>  Ekho looks up with a raised eyebrow, "One of my 'brother's' favorite
>proverbs is 'If imagination were my only limit I'd be dead in a week.'  My
>sympathies are with you, but this is the truth where I'm from."
>
>  Amanda sighs...

I sometimes think of myself as a walking cliche, and so tend to place great 
stock in the reuse of classic lines. However, I also put GREAT stock in the
realization of one's dreams. As soon as I can get that show together (or
before), I am going to be asking the place for one dance (yes, the whole
place!). There is one song that I think of as *MY* song from Beans, and I
look forward to having you all on it. Almost all of my quotes online come 
from it. 

Keep flying and DREAM ON!
--
*******************************************************************           
* Noah Ramon - The Bi-Bulb     * Your only limitation is your own *
* Mail to : narxtc@math.uh.edu * imagination - Beans Barton       *
*******************************************************************
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: ablanch@physics.su.OZ.AU (Shonias)
Subject: Re: And now, for something completely different.
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:43:32 GMT

In article <1jmsucINNt4t@shelley.u.washington.edu> lazuli@byron.u.washington.edu (Fred Sloniker) writes:
>[Electrifying entrance deleted]

>.... It remains absolutely motionless, its eyeless head still
>>scanning the room.

Shonias, feeling only slightly immortal, summons up her best saunter
and uses it to get closer to this new patron. <Begin really fake
American accent> "So, what's a nice creature like you doing in a
place like this?" <end really fake American accent>.
"Ummmm, I'm Shonias, is there anything in particular you like to 
drink?"

Shonias Q'Tari

--
**********************************************
Walk by my side, and follow my dreams,
And bear with my pride, as strong as it seems.
Will you be there tomorrow?
**********************************************
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: brumby@nella07.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen McNamara)
Subject: Re: Descriptions...
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 01:45:57 GMT

   All these descriptions are starting to get mixed up in what passes for
the brumby's mind.

narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon) writes:
>Okay, I guess it's my turn. (sound kinda like Eeyore, huh?)

   The brumby tries to make a braying noise. It doesn't work.

>Oh, you want more, eh? Okay, okay... I stand about 5'10" (I think) - if I were
>taller, I could get away with "lanky". As it is, I'm thin. REAL thin. I have 

   "There's nothing wrong with being thin! As long as you aren't doing it
because some ad persuaded you that it's cool or something."

   So speaks the person who for the first time in his life has reached
normal weight for his height, and that only because he was on medical
advice to rest and put on weight over the last couple of months.


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

      The grass is always greener on the other side of the network.
From: siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl Siewert)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Goodbye, Justice Marshall
Date: 26 Jan 1993 16:52:57 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals) writes:

>a woman on the Supreme Court."  Sandra Day O'Conner was, of course, appointed
>to the court in 1991.  Clarence Thomas was appointed in 1992.


<DING.  THANK YOU FOR PLAYING.  MS O'CONNOR WAS APPOINTED IN 1982. I THINK.
ANYWAY, IT WAS EARLY IN THE REAGAN REGIME.

MARAUD OUT>
-- 
/               James Riekar, barhopping yoyist, at your service              \
Impersonated at Fort Hays State by Karl G. Siewert, pretending to be at K-State
\                      address=siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu                       /
 \           Never underestimate the power of the truly eccentric.           /
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: henry@netcom.com (Henry Polard)
Subject: Re: I AM SO BLOODY HAPPY I COULD PLOTZ
Keywords: HEY
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 06:20:00 GMT

In article <1k7i0bINNc91@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> mattp@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Slash Maraud) writes:
><YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED TO ME.>
>slash's comfy wooden bench/chair appears as he flops toward the floor.
><THE WORLD IS GOOD.  I, STASH LEOPOLD MARADOVICH, NOT ONLY HAVE MY OWN
>ACCOUNT TO PLAY WITH, NOT ONLY HAVE MONEY IN THE BANK, BUT YOU ARE
>LOOKING AT THE NEW INTERN IN CHARGE OF MEDIA TELECOMMUNICATIONS ELECTRONIC
>CLASSROOM SERVICES.  I'M A BLOODY GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE!!!!!!!
>MIKE, HERE'S YOUR GLASSES BACK>
>the shattered remnants coalesce, and float merrily back to their places, 
>whatever the hell those were.  
><I LOVE YOU ALL.  I WANT THE MOST MASSIVE DEATH HUG OF DOOM EVER SEEN 
>IN CALLAHANS HISTORY.  I WANT TANAIS TO TURN BLUE, I WANT MAGDA TO GROW
>A TAIL, I WANT KITTEN... WELL, THAT'S BETTER LEFT UNSAID, SHE IS MARRIED...
>BUT THE POINT IS, I AM THE EPICENTER OF THE GREATEST HUG VACUUM KNOWN TO MAN.
>I EVEN WANT DOUG IN ON THIS.  I AM SO BLOODY HAPPY I COULD PLOTZ!!!!!!!>
"Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas any more - What's this?" is
heard as the hug vacuum draws in a girl and a dog. 

Henry tootles a few congratulatory flourishes and fanfares on his
recorder, then joins the hug. 

Happy plotzing!

-- Henry Polard, your friendly neighborhood fraternal marxist.
From: keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: bird on ice... (LONG POST) *>
Date: 29 Jan 1993 01:29:54 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au

pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan) writes:

>"Oh, no, you don't!  Kitten, everyone, I think these two deserve a great
>big happy supportive group hug!"  Starknight, suiting action to words,
>Magda-Wolf and Feather to begin the Hug...

"Yeah!  Group hugs never go astray, and they usually hit the right spot
for support." says Splash.  "Hey lemme in too!"  he calls out as the crowd
gathers around Feather, Magda and Starknight.

--
		Splash!		*To love is to LIVE!*
   (aka Mike van Keulen -- e-mail: keulen@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au)
From: narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Hi there!
Date: 27 Jan 1993 18:41:28 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
NNTP-Posting-Host: casc.math.uh.edu

In article <199301270647.AA00737@dinadan.st.nepean.uws.edu.au> cbauer@st.nepean.uws.edu.au (Christine Bauer) writes:
>There is lot of of thumping and banging outside the front door, until
>it finally flies open to admit a stranger (although no stranger than
>most of this bars patrons)
>"Did I make it?" she gasps  "Am I finally in?  Or is this thing going
>to bounce me back out again in a second?"
>

Nope, you're here.

Welcome! I hope you enjoy yourself here... Can I spot you a drink? 

Take care and keep flying!


--
*******************************************************************           
* Noah Ramon - The Bi-Bulb     * Your only limitation is your own *
* Mail to : narxtc@math.uh.edu * imagination - Beans Barton       *
*******************************************************************
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: mwasson@nyx.cs.du.edu (Gecko-boy)
Subject: Re: Question...
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 00:44:47 GMT

>I was almost unable to resist engaging in punnery of my own.
>Thankfully Nietzsche and Zarathustra arrived to prevent me
>from violating my principles.

"Ah! The temptation, when you come down from the mountain
to mingle with the crowd ... best return to your aerie
and send down the occasional report by telegraph ...
I know, doug, it's a hard path..."

>
>doug


hee hee... I really *will* go back to lurker mode now

Da Geck' (recent devotee of the threaded news reader)

--
Mike Wasson (Gecko-boy)           |         U Hawai'i/Fat Messiah Games
mwasson@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu    |         #include <std_disclaimer.h>
"The concatenation of 'dog' and 'house' is 'doghouse.'"
From: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk (Clive Grace)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Delilah tries her hand at this...
Date: 26 Jan 93 21:07:00 GMT
Reply-To: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk


>         And there, in the middle of the bar, she sleeps.

"O-ho?" Says Tanais as he notices a new patron join the Place and 
eventually sees body sloop gracefully off the bar. Catching one arm and 
winking at Mike Callahan he places her on his Barstool (Foxes like 
stools so they don't sit on their tails) -- she's still asleep. From 
under the bar Mike pulls up the softest feather pillow you could imagine 
and between the two of them they rest her head down on the pillow and 
place a small "do not disturb" x.window above her head. It is programmes 
to switch off the moment she wakes up.

"Been there before", mutters Tanais as he prepares to eat his evening 
meal, "They don't pay students enough for this kind of self-abuse", and 
he jauntily walks over the Pizza machine to select a small vegetarian 
Pizza to nibble in the corner while he ponders fox-like thoughts in a 
dark quiet corner.

+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
|  ..    "When I grow up, I want to stop being a computer journalist|
| .OO.    and learn how to write."                                  |
| O/\O                                                              |
|  --                              Tanais - friend to all furkindred|
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
|cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk | Bisexual knitter of quality since 1992|
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+


+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
|  ..    "When I grow up, I want to stop being a computer journalist|
| .OO.    and learn how to write."                                  |
| O/\O                                                              |
|  --                              Tanais - friend to all furkindred|
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
|cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk | Bisexual knitter of quality since 1992|
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jammer@eskimo.com (Lyle Harwood)
Subject: Re: Announcement!
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 04:52:50 GMT

Barbara Trumpinski (trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu) wrote:
: 
: >: 
: 
: >Jammer signals Mike that the Father's next drink is paid for.
: 
: "he's NOT going to play football!  he is going to be a computer jock
: and master gamer, just like his old man..."  kitten grins to show
: jammer she's not mad.
: --
:
Jammer looks at Warrior, a baffled look on his face.

"So,

I can unnerstand being a master gamer..

But...

How does being a computer jock help him play football?"

Jammer is puzzeled.
From: narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: TTFN/Last Dance
Date: 28 Jan 1993 05:08:24 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
NNTP-Posting-Host: casc.math.uh.edu

Rounder, I'll miss you! Come back soon, or at least on March 5th... 
And I may take you up on that dance - If you're here tomorrow, I'll find 
what I think may be the bar's song... We'll see... But in the mean time - 

BOUNCE/BOUND/SPIN/TWIRL! 

As the Bulb describes a pattern in fourspace with his gyrations, he seems to
change attire. He's now wearing a pair of greyish jeans with a t-shirt 
emblazoned with the legend "Blythe Spirits". He continues to dance, spinning
from folk to folk in a kind of disembodied chain. Some, he does a kind of 
skipping step with; some, a kind of mutated pogo (ah, the old days :->); some,
a sliding move - but with all, he shows joy.

THANK YOU ALL!
Take your feet or take your seat!
Loving all!

--
*******************************************************************           
* Noah Ramon - The Bi-Bulb     * Your only limitation is your own *
* Mail to : narxtc@math.uh.edu * imagination - Beans Barton       *
*******************************************************************
From: keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Wench
Date: 22 Jan 1993 05:56:43 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au

siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl Siewert) writes:

>Rie says that he has known the Punmaster, and thinks the punalty should be
>a stay in the punitentiary.  A point to punder, no?

Splash chortles ... "Sounds like Rie's been p[l]undering the New Zealand
pronunciation dictionary.  We Australians frequently punder about the way
New Zealanders manage to distort the English language and pronunciation -
for the uninitiated, Kiwis (NZers) tend to pronounce e sounds like uh, and
the result is usually a quite definite identification of: Kiwi!  Some say
that they have placed a curse upun the English language."

Splash!


--
		Splash!		*To love is to LIVE!*
   (aka Mike van Keulen -- e-mail: keulen@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Descriptions...
From: <KZAHLLER@MIAMIU.BITNET>
Date: Monday, 25 Jan 1993 15:11:47 EST
Organization: Miami University - Academic Computer Service

Magda rolls her eyes exasperatedly towards the sky and tries
very hard to look stern (muffled giggles tend to spoil the
effect)

"What do you mean no-body's asked, Laz?  Didn't the description
request/idea specifically mention b-days and drinks?  OK, so if
not, I--on the behalf of the Place and especially brain-dead
and befuddled newbies (i.e. me)--am officially asking!"




Magda-Wolf
From: JBrandt@AAA.Uoregon.EDU (Jason)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: YET ANOTHER DELURKING
Date: 27 Jan 93 06:40:05 GMT
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Organization: The Polyhedron Group
NNTP-Posting-Host: fp1-dialin-1.uoregon.edu

In article <93026.134507KZAHLLER@MIAMIU.BITNET>, <KZAHLLER@MIAMIU.BITNET>
wrote:
> 
> Magda-Wolf pulls her eyes back in focus from where they've
> crossed after the whiff of the strange potion Jason is
> drinking.  She has decided that this place is *definitely*
> interesting.
> 
> "Hi, Jason!  It's nice to meet you.  The shapeshifting would
> explain Thyra's changing size, but it's a real eyetwister
> nonetheless!
> 
> "By the way, what on earth ARE you drinking?"
> 
> Aaaarrrroooo
> Magda(yes, I'm sitll avoiding that paper)-Wolf

<heh heh> "It's called a 'Dragon's Breath'. It's a drink I devised back in
1980 or so, originally for a 'Callahan's Place' hospitality suite that was
being planned for Orycon II, a Sci Fi con still being held each year in
Portland, Oregon. The bar never materialized, but the drink was a big hit
with my friends. I kept the recipe a secret until this year, when I shared
it for the first time here in Callahans."

"To Mixacology and Alchemy!"

He finishes off the potent drink, and tosses the glass in the fireplace. It
explodes in a blue-white fireball.

"And since that one's gone, let me show you what it is." He walks over to
the bar. "Do you mind, Mike?" The big Irishman smiles. "Not at all, it -is-
your drink, Jason." Jason nods and takes a place behind the bar. He places
a couple larrge chunks of ice in a wide-mouthed glass, and pours about
three ounces of 7-Up (lemon-lime soda) over the ice. Then he takes out a
steel ladel, with the handle bent back 90 degrees to form a crucible. Into
the bowl of the ladel, he pours two ounces of Bacardi 151 rum, and one
ounce of grenadine syrup, which he stirs up. Then he lights the liquour -on
fire- with a match. It burns with a steady, blue fire. Mike dims the
lights, as Jason picks up the crucible and glass. Suddenly he pours a
three-foot stream of red liquour and blue fire into the ice and mixer, and
holds out the glass towards Magda-wolf. The ice is -BURNING-, and slowly
going out. 

"Care for a taste?" he says with a grin. "The resulting drink is about 40
proof, after flaming it. Drunk straight, like the one I had earlier, it's
about 110 proof! I actually serve this at parties. Ask Caithelin, Feather,
and some of the others that were at the New Years realspace in Portland.
They liked it, and so do I. In cold weather, leave out the ice and don't
flame it. In hot weather, or for a milder drink, flame it and add more
mixer."

Still waiting for my wolf-hug,
Jason
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Bearcats (was: T-Bear replies!)
Date: 27 Jan 1993 14:41:13 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 <brumby.728100908@nella07.cc.monash.edu.au>, brumby@nella07.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen McNamara) writes:
=   They don't sell these cans of acid to the general public where the
=brumby comes from.
=
=<KZAHLLER@MIAMIU.BITNET> writes:
=>Unfortunately, even I decided maybe I'd best quit when I discovered
=>the soda had eaten *through* the cans sitting on top of my frig!"
=
=   "My father works for one of the places that makes cans around here, and
=even though Coke is the strongest drink they seem to sell around here, it
=requires a special coating on the inside of the cans over what they
=normally put on them."
=   "I never touch the stuff, if it can dissolve ordinary paint off a
=can...."

That'd be because of the phosphoric acid they use in Coca Cola.  It's right
there on the label, just before the flavorings (note:  In the U.S., ingredients
on food and beverages must be listed in decreasing order of amount).  You
shouldn't take the fact that it can dissolve paint all that seriously, though.
Do you have any idea what stomach acid can do?
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: steve@crc.ricoh.COM (Stephen R. Savitzky)
Subject: Re: Culinary Peculiarities
Organization: RICOH California Research Center
	<1993Jan26.101923.21636@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
	<1k3qacINNdc1@shelley.u.washington.edu>
	<1993Jan26.195345.20499@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 26 Jan 93 17:09:41

In article <1993Jan26.195345.20499@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> traum@silver.lcs.mit.edu (Jonathan Traum) writes:

   Now here in the US, jam and jelly are identical. But in the British
   Commonwealth, jelly is what we call jello (which is actually a brand
   name for a gelatin dessert). 

"Not in MY usage," says the Mandelbear.  "Maybe it's an east-coast
thing, but in my family jelly is filtered, while jam isn't, i.e. it
has bits of fruit pulp and maybe seeds in it."
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From: JBrandt@AAA.Uoregon.EDU (Jason)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: a Punday delurking
Date: 27 Jan 93 05:45:40 GMT
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Organization: The Polyhedron Group
NNTP-Posting-Host: fp1-dialin-1.uoregon.edu

In article <108354@bu.edu>, schweppe@acs.bu.edu (Edmund Schweppe) wrote:
> 
> Thrya writes:
> 
> >In article <108228@bu.edu>, schweppe@acs.bu.edu (Edmund Schweppe) wrote:

> "I would be overjoyed", replies Merlinvin, helping Thyra onto the table.
> Starting with the cyan-blue scalp, Merlinvin's magic fingers slowly work
> their way up and down Thyra's body, soothing and easing tensions away,
> oiling bare skin (but not the golden-brown fur) and thoroughly relaxing
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> feline muscles ...  

Jason whispers to Merlinvin "Thyra doesn't -have- any 'bare skin'. It's all
covered by that downy fur of hers. Er, unless you were rubbing her more
intimately than I thought?"