HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Anti-Freeze/Much too Cold!Sundog, who has been busy wrestling with concepts of creation
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 01:52:32 GMT

sundog:


>     "I wish it was cool/cold all the time!" he says, looking with
>longing out a suddenly appearing X-window where snow and ice gleam
>on the side of a well-sculpted ski run.  "Everybody gets so tired
>and dull when it gets hot out.  People perk up(particularly me!) in
>the cold.  You feel more alive, have more energy, and the cleanest,
>purest air in the world is air that is breathed on a day when it is
>below freezing out!  God, it feels good!"
>     Sundog looks over towards the door where his E-skis and poles
>lean, snow still melting off of them.  He then grins at the patrons
>of the Place.  "I guess everybody has their prefered temp./season,
>which is okay, but I'm going to try and show all of the hot-weather
>types the joys of cold weather.  Keep an eye for my nest post, which
>will be titled "Snow Fantasy".
> 
>Don't touch that dial!



"toothpick....oh tooooooooothpick....."  kitten looks around for
toothpick...a strange type who LIKES snow....

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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: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Subject: Re: Snow FantasyAnd now, back to the show:
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 09:32:34 GMT

In article <3744@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>, seawasp@vm2.cis.pitt.edu (Sea Wasp) writes:
>
>	The Wasp reponds first to StM's comments:
>
>	"Well, if your aversion to clothing is that high, okay. But
>to be comfortable in literally freezing weather sounds inhuman to me.
>Is your normal body temperature 55 or something???"

StM responds, "Actually, in my opinion, someone with a bit of dyslexia
originally wrote down the number for normal body temperature.  That would
explain why my temperature is normally somewhere around 96.8 degrees
Fahrenheit.  I'm serious.  If, when I wake up, my temperature is above 96.0, it
means I've got a fever.  If it ever goes above 98.0, I'm sick.  Call me
cold-blooded if you will.  Actually, I think my unusual tolerance for cold
temperatures might be somehow related to my diabetes."
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From:  braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (The Didi-Sprite)
Subject:  Was a lot of stuff I can't remember - is now the weather
Originator: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 15:02:56 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.100117.21745@gdr.bath.ac.uk> eesshlgb@gdr.bath.ac.uk (S H L G Bisson) writes:
>In article <1992Jul27.105908.3438@cco.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:

[   ]
(Speaker and Ignatz, two of the -Sprite's faves {and, like Space Cadet,
I also have a lot of those!}, have been discusing ... ta-da ... the 
weather!)

And, Ignatz announces ...
>"Anyway, I'm British, and we always talk about the weather here...
>
>"Just a quick report for Didi - it's sunny, with a light breeze, and a
>scattering of cumulus clouds (you know, the little fluffy ones...). The
>temperature is currently about 22 Celsius (so if you shine the LoR in my
>direction you'd get to see that rare sight, my legs, as it's shorts weather
>there in Bath...)"

"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.

----<--<@

The Didi-Sprite
Montreal * Canada

braley@binkley.cs.mcgill
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From: SG.MML@isumvs.iastate.edu (M. Loughin)
Subject: a joint toast, short!
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 16:54:21 GMT

Marie approaches the bar and orders two drinks, a lemonade
for herself and Abner gets his favorite.  They continue their
discussion for a moment more, and then approach the line arm-
in- arm.

"To equality and understanding," cries Abner, flinging his
emptied glass into the ashes with a crash.

"For all genders, races, cultures . . . ah, heck, for
everyone!"  adds Marie, who sends her glass into the mess.

Wiping the stream of lemonade from her chin (she never did
learn to chug), Marie turns to Abner and says, "Sometimes
people differ in view points far less than they realize, but it
sure can take a lot of work to figure that out!  But it's
worth it!"
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From: esti@quads.uchicago.edu (Paul A. Estin)
Subject: Re: Yet another sleepless night
Reply-To: esti@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: U. Michigan Cognitive Psychology
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 00:08:46 GMT

Snark just wants to reiterate a point which was made by someone
earlier but has since become in danger of being lost in the shuffle...

In article <1992Jul21.195025.24102@news.iastate.edu>
SG.MML@isumvs.iastate.edu (M. Loughin) writes:

Marie:
>I never said men weren't hurt by the views of a male-dominated
>society.  I'm only saying that I think it's a different problem.
>After all, if men are in control, aren't they in a better position
>to make changes?

I'd agree that the problems of men vs. women being hurt by
'male-dominated society' are different sorts of problems.
(Discrimination against giving a woman a promotion, for example, is
certainly qualitatively different than, say, a man being forced to
hide his emotions for fear of ridicule.)  But I disagree with the
sentiment that men-being-hurt are necessarily in a better position to
make changes.  Maybe the class of 'men in power' doesn't overlap much
with the class of 'men who dislike the way society is structured'.
For that matter, maybe a better description of societal limits than
'men oppressing women' would be 'those in power (mostly men)
oppressing those who don't fit the standard roles (both men and women,
though the oppression almost certainly takes different forms).'
Actually, I wouldn't even phrase it that way, because it attributes
wholly to malice what can probably be better attributed to stupidity
and inertia.

Marie and everyone else in this discussion have so far been very
careful not to overstate, for which I'm grateful.  I don't have the
energy for a proper rant right now. :)  I just want to sound a warning
signal against the sentiment which says things like, 'You are in the
group with power, therefore you should not complain.'

I applaud efforts to reform society to be more equitable in treatment
of men and women as individuals... in part due to selfish reasons!
Since I don't fit in well into male stereotypes, it seems like I will
almost certainly gain personally by having society's rules changed to
more fair ones. :)  Equal rights, equal responsibilities, people being
treated as individuals.

>It strikes me that the women's equality movement
>prompted the change that it is occuring in the court system, where
>men are now starting to have better luck in custody battles.

A good example of my point.

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From: ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: A Night in the Hills of West Virginia
Date: 28 Jul 92 20:24:57 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

>little brother has been just as gaurded as the rest of us yet he, like we 
>did, takes sticks, carrots, his hand, anything, and plays gunfighter with 
>them. We did too. Once he even nibbled his graham cracker into the shape of 
>a gun and shot me with it. Now if, with all the precautions my parents have 
>taken, my little brother still does this, what can you do? Why not just give 
>the kid a gun and have done? I mean, my parents won't even let us have water 
>guns, and he still plays like this. What can you do?

"Um, New Kid, I take it you meant give him a toy gun?  Giving him a real gun
would be a bit of an over-reaction ..."
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From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: A return
Date: 26 Jul 92 15:18:41 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

kitten:

>>and i tend toward cold hands and COLD feet...(my feet have ALMOST 
>>gotten me kicked out of bed on occasion...that's why i sleep in sox 
>>(like the fox) in winter." 

>StM (rather predictably) says, "You know, that's one of the symptoms....
>I know, I know, this gets rather tiresome.  But, Barbara, have you ever asked a
>doctor about this?  I STILL (after having been diagnosed [and treated] as a
>diabetic) don't know why my temperature tends to average about 2 degrees
>Fahrenheit below average).

"speaker...i honestly have been driving my doctors NUTS for
months...ask didi and nick chopper, who have heard the whole long sad
story.... i have been tested...for diabetes, hypoglycemia, lupus,
thyroid/liver/kidney problems...had a sonogram, proctoscope and colon
xray...and a uterine biopsy to PROVE i am not going through
menopause... accordind to ALL these tests there is NOTHING wrong with
me.  but...my hormones are screwed up...(2 periods since january
1st...both induced by hormones)...i have the classic symptoms of
hypoglycemia... i have had trouble with my joints swelling and fluid
retention ... and i have felt lousy off and on for a year.

i have an appointment with a dietician tomorrow...and i shrink in
early august...and i got one of my medicine's changed (i read in a
women's magazine that naprosyn--which i have been taking for a couple
of years--can cause depression, confusion, paranoia....!--and told my
doctor so she changed it...) and found out that i have been taking
another one WRONG...because i was taking it the way it said to take it
on the bottle....

you are not getting tiresome at all StM...and i appreciate your
concern... and i will let you know if i ever find out that my raging
hypochondria is more than that :)."  

kitten smiles at speaker and offers to buy him a drink.
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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: jcj9536@tamsun.tamu.edu (Cindy Brown)
Subject: Re: The New Kid
Organization: Texas A&M University
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 22:43:39 GMT

In article <LGOLD.92Jul29154941@callahans.Cadence.COM> lgold@callahans.Cadence.COM (Lynn Gold) writes:

Aslan looks around at the place thinking that even when I caome back I
don't have all the time I need to stay caught up :(. 
 
>A small white furry dog saunters to the middle of the room and
>unsprawls a banner.  It reads:
>
>"Welcome to the place, Bernadette!
> Welcome back, Aslan!"

Aslan grins... remembers her old home in Flux and thinks that that is what
the place was missing... A small friend to match my color scheme...White
For those that never entered I had white walls with white furnature and a
play room with white carpet on the walls that a cat (like me) would really
love to sink its claws in when playing with my big purple ball of yarn.
Oh well times change :) 

>
>The dog gets on her hind legs and gives each a "high five."
>
The big white cat touches paws and smiles...

>-Lynne


Thanks to everyone who wrote me also. I will probably have time to respond
this weekend. Yber has a new 486 so I get to play on the mainframes. 
>
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From: pierce@spop.navo.navy.mil (Jim M. Pierce)
Subject: Re: The New Kid
Reply-To: pierce@navo.navy.mil (Jim M. Pierce)
Organization: POPS Operations I/O Operator
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-1020]: spop.navo.navy.mil
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 16:08:15 GMT

In article <1992Jul24.185153.7762@cco.caltech.edu>, lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals) writes:
|> How 'bout the theme from _Howard_the_Duck_?  Didn't he end up in Dayton in the
|> movie?

      "Yes, Howard did wind up in Dayton. All to save the humans. I liked
    the movie." DJ.
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From: gardner@hale.ifa.hawaii.edu (Jonathan Gardner)
Subject: Re: Political Humor - Duck!
Organization: Institute for Astronomy, Hawaii
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 11:07:32 GMT

jesse@uts.amdahl.com (Jesse Mundis) writes:
>rmarsh@waikato.ac.nz writes:
>>brumby@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen McNamara) writes:
>>>telsor@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Robert Morieson) writes:
>>>>ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz) writes:
>>>>>A supporter of H. Ross Perot is a Perogie!
>>>>Does that mean his supporters are exercising their Perotgative?
>>> 
>>>    The brumby ap-Perot-ches Telsor.
>>>    "Such a Perot-chial attitude Telsor"
>>>    The brumby rears up, executes a neat Perot-ette, and leaps away.
>>> 
>
>>  Stumpy grabs a handful of peanuts and hurls them in the Brumby's general
>>direction. "I guess this thread is going to have to be known as the 'Perot
>>Sketch'. There's more peanuts in this bowl so continue this campaign at
>>your Perotl."
>[...]
>
Jesse:
><ahem>  Most of the Perot-chial voters liked H. Ross since he wasn't like all
>those other political man-eating Perot-nahs.  He was a Perot-gon of the
>community.  Some people think its a bit of a Perot-dox how a man like H. Ross
>got so much support without any advertising.  Some say he was engaged in
>Perot-legal activities, but I don't think so.  He was an unPerot-lleled
>campaigner, and had he stayed in the race, I predict his opponents would
>have been Perot-lyzed with fear.  Alas, we will never know.
>
>Jesse sits down, and awaits the rain of peanuts, pillows, tickles, or
>whatever may be incoming at this moment, and hums a catchy little tune.
>
>"Perot, row row your boat, gently down the stream..."
>

The Space Cadet launches a handful of peanuts at Jesse, which is perhaps
the best way to start a political argument.

"But Jesse, I disagree completely. H. Ross was very un-Perot-fessional,
and he Quayled before the competition.  He is strictly Bush-league at
the game of politics. If he had stayed in, he would have had to
Clean-ton(s) of mud from his name, and he was afraid of the Gore-ing he
would receive."

"By the way, Brumby, nice Dan-cing! For that, Al pay the Bill for your
next meal, as long as you promise not to G(e)orge yourself."

The Space Cadet
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Institute for Astronomy                           University of Hawaii
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From: lynne@ender.tamu.edu (Meredith Lynne)
Subject: Missing you guys...
Followup-To: alt.callahans 
Summary: It's been six months since anybody asked me, "Are you sure you
         really want to do this? [y/n]" 
Organization: Independent Paranoiac
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 22:25:02 GMT

Greetings all!  I see that someone new has popped in...Aahz has 
posted the intro again, at any rate...so Hi!  How are you?  

To the Place at large, I miss hanging out here...I'll be back
very soon, though.  Less than a month now, in fact!  I can't
wait.  I've been in net.withdrawal for the past few months--
when I have my new account, I plan to hook up to it via an 
IV!

Anyway, I just wanted to pop in and say Hi!  

BTW, if anyone has the address of Holomuck, could you drop it
in my e-mail box?  lynne@ender.tamu.edu is the address.

And on a more personal note, to Kateri:  I thought I owed -you-
snailmail, but if you think it's the other way around, WHAT ARE
YOU WAITING FOR, AN OFFICIAL INVITATION???  If so, here it is!

Bye for now!

Take care,
--Meredith Lynne



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From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Snow FantasyAnd now, back to the show:
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 10:53:59 GMT


kitten:

>>
>>"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...."
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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: Psychology, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 20:30:21 -0400 
From: "Mary A. Mark" <mmbt+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Filk-chocolate

Merrigold, who quite enjoyed the filk-chocolate, replies:

"Normallowy I would consider Filk-chocolate to be somewhat less
than the *true* chocolate: after all, perhaps we need a certain amount
of bitter with the sweet so that life doesn't become too cloying. 
But when it's as appealingly packaged as the little ditty that
Michael just presented us, even I can soften my standards and
indulge in a bite.  "

Lends a whole new meaning to the fact that this place is a bar -
"Hmmm, Mike (Callahan), just what *is* that nice dark countertop
made of?"

"Whatever you want it to be, my dear...."

Merry

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From: pierce@spop.navo.navy.mil (Jim M. Pierce)
Subject: Re: The New Kid
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-27855]: spop.navo.navy.mil
Reply-To: pierce@navo.navy.mil (Jim M. Pierce)
Organization: POPS Operations I/O Operator
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 17:13:23 GMT

In article <Bry2pH.7IG@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:
|> "hi, aslan....congratulations...and my best to yber too....glad to
|> have you back..."  kitten offers aslan a hug....
 
    "Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends !" DJ as Emerson,
   Lake, and Palmer...
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From: ceo@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Chip Olson)
Subject: Re: Cold and Stuff Re: Snow Fantasy
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 04:23:10 GMT

In article <92209.155844JW83HISW@MIAMIU.BITNET> <JW83HISW@MIAMIU.BITNET> writes:

>     To Danger Mouse: Cool!  That's what the *Snow Fantasy* was
>meant to do - ether remind those who've skied before what it is
>like, or let others who haven't feel what it is like.  Hope you
>get the chance to ski real soon.

"Well, it worked... in the same way as the first _Skiing_ magazine of the
season, which shows up around this time of year.  Always sets me to looking
at the sky for signs of snow... usually a futile quest in late July/early
August.

"However, as I will no doubt be reminded when I shell out for new equipment
this year (way overdue), skiing has been compared to sitting in a walk-in
freezer burning $100 bills to keep warm."

>     To Speaker to Minerals: This was just to let the ones who
>don't like the cold know what they are missing.  Yes the cold is
>good for many things.  I love taking walks on nights when there
>is a good wind blowing during the winter.  Exhilirating!

"Amen... but I am reminded of a favorite Calvin & Hobbes Sunday strip:
[for our poor benighted patrons who don't get this particular strip: a socio-
pathic 6-year-old with a hyperactive imagination, his stuffed tiger who comes
to life to play with Calvin, and his long-suffering parents]

Calvin's Dad [walking home in a howling blizzard]: "What a marvelous day, and
no one to share it with!"
[entering house]: "Hoo-boy, it's COLD out there, folks! Yeesirree, weather
like this makes you KNOW you're alive!  Well, don't just sit there! Put your
jackets on and come on out!"
Calvin and Calvin's Mom [huddled by the fire]: "SHUT THE DAMN DOOR!!!"
Calvin's Mom: "There's one in every family..."
Calvin: "Just how long did you know Dad before you married him?"


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