From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Subject: Sensual delights (was Re: Posting Styles)
Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 16:54:39 GMT


In article <thaaang.726032584@cwis> thaaang@cwis.unomaha.edu
(John Dorrance), hairless and chilled, writes:

>anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:

>>I had intended to invite the Guru of Om-aha to sample the
>>tasties of Madison,

>Gasp!  How wonderful!  Me, you, and a NeXT machine!  I could
>sit around all day watching you compose posts.  O bliss!!!

Two NeXT machines, *and* an Intel (soon to be two) machines,
all networked together nicely.  You would sit here next to
me during one of our posting phases, cheerily writing away,
then we could take time out for amusements of various types,
visits about the metropolis, secret country hideaways (very
exotic in winter), and homes of distinction where we know
the people.  Not to mention our newly remodelled bar complex
(I've not been, but it's reported to be every bit as
deafening as the old one, but with much better smoke
control).  I'm afraid watching me compose posts would be
exceedingly underwhelming, all those lightning flashes in
the eyeballs, etc.  But really beloved, there's no reason to
fiddle with dreary old computers, I do it all with an AI
anyway.  Humans are supposed to be having fun, not sitting
hours at a time in front of the glowing phosphors.  Then
too, there's the locals to divert one; we really do have
quite remarkable exemplars of a certain milk-fed type around
here.

>>Why, the temp on this first
>>bright day of the new year has risen all the way to
>>6 (that's -14 for you celcians).

>Jessie darleeng, I live in O'm'god.  I'm used to that kind
>of thing.

Oh doubtless, but I would not want you to catch cold on *my*
turf, so I'd feel obliged to make sure you were properly
bundled up, safe and secure and warm, and maybe slightly
worn out from all that attention, so we could have a wee nap
together, mid-afternoons.

>>Perhaps when the daffodils are in bloom.  Hm, mayhap
>>I will be in Californication at about that time.

That Paul Asente, he is *such* a viper!  Telling me the
daffs are dilled already Out Yonder.  A plague, a torment,
that's what he is.  Ah, we can get snow and ice here up
to the last day of May, although the daffodils, crocuses,
and a few other early bloomers (heh) do manage to be on
view before then.  That's all right, I can see flowers
anywhere; in Babylon I just stand on the corner to see
the 24 Divisideros go by.

>Now I wouldn't mind visiting you *there* at all, nosirree
>bob!

Unsure which Bob you mean (there are confusingly many), I'm
sure some accomodations could be worked out.  I'm sure we'd
both have such crowded social calendars as to make the head
spin.

>John, who's wondered before how long he could spend
>hitchhiking around the country visiting (and sponging off
>of) people before he had to settle down and get a life...

It's all a matter of delicate adjustments in the Slut
Factor (tm), I'm sure.  I've forgotten most of that.

>(Goddamn, my skull is cold!!!)

Fortunately, it will grow back.  In the meantime, Mara's
advice of a hat seems sensible (but then Mara just about
always is -- sensible, I mean, not a hat).

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