From: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (The Didi-Sprite)
Subject: Summer's Afternoon on the Meadow!
Originator: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 23:33:23 GMT

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It has been a lovely Summer's day on the meadow.  The sun has been
shining warmly down on the company.  People have come and gone as
the spirit and responsibilities have urged them to do.  A wonderful
salad luncheon was served followed by an hour-or-two siesta period
during which a thunderstorm blew up and watered the landscape while
providing a wonderful 'light show' for those curled up under bushes 
and umbrella trees, or huddled in the doorway and around the windows
of the bar.  It was naught but a brief aberration though, quickly
scudding towards the horizon when it was done, leaving behind a 
freshly washed cerulean sky and a brightly polished Old Sol.

The Didi-Sprite turns to her companion, Lord Galdrin, and remarks:
"Isn't it beautiful?  Look how the water-droplets sparkle on the grass.
I can't decide if they look like diamonds or emeralds!"

Just then, a rather contrite Ramda waddles up, a rolled-up parchment
in his paw.

"Oh, what's this?"  asks the -Sprite, giving him a hug.  (Most -Sprites
have forgiving natures, you know.  And, anyway, no-one can stay cross with
a rolypoly teddybear for very long!)

Didi unfurls the parchment, smiles as she reads and shares the contents
with Galdrin, then rises and claps her hands for everyone's attention.

"Hear-ye!  Hear-ye, Folks!"

Lord Galdrin also rises and lifts the -Sprite onto his shoulder.

"Today is another very special one in the annals of Callahans!
For it is the anniversary of the birth of one called:

		   ** DIRBZE!!! ** 

"So, come out, come out, wherever you are Dirbze!  I am saving one
humongous Birthday Hug and Kiss just for you!"

And, in the meanwhile, the entire company has returned to the meadow
and strike up another rousing rendition of:

	 "Happy Birthday to You!

		   Happy Birthday to You!

			     Happy Birthday Dear Dirbze!

				      Happy Birthday to You!


"Hooray!"

"Psssst!  Didi!"  Whispers SEA,  "We seem to be out of Birthday Cake!"

{Good grief ... what an idea!}

"Oh, Kitten!  Oh, Nick Chopper ... !  Puhleeze ... "




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{But not for long!}


Happy Birthday, Dirbze!  And, many more even happier than this one!

We Love You!

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The Didi-Sprite
Montreal * Canada

      and

Callahans * The World!

braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
From: daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom)
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 02:03:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Re: Responsibilities of Artists (was Re: Pornography and Playboy)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA