HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jammer@eskimo.com (Lyle Harwood)
Subject: Re: Wench
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 11:34:05 GMT

Wales.Larrison@ofa123.fidonet.org wrote:
: Barbara Trumpinski (trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu) wrote:
: : kitten collects jammer's mocha breve....and giggles.  "here you are,
: : good sir...no one has called me 'wench' in years...not since my
friend
: : the great gray wizard left town."  she sits on the floor next to
: : jammer and sips her drink.
:   
: Alfvaen replies:
: >"Well, kitten, we could start calling you 'wench' more often if you
: >want.  We could even make that your official net.alias, or at least
: >add it after conan the librarian.  How far are you willing to go
: >with this 'wench' thing?"
:  
:    Personally, if that's going to be her moniker -- I'd like to
: apply to be the 'loose bolt".  After all, aren't wenches used to
: tighten  loose bolts?
:    And I figure a bar is a pretty good place to get tight.... ;-)
:   
:   "Outa my way -- I've got to duck those peanuts!"
:  -------------------------------------------------------------------
:  Wales Larrison                         Space Technology Investor
: 
: --- Maximus 2.01wb

Warrior turns his massive head to the roof, and wails pitiously.
Jammer shouts
"oh, GAWD! Engage! Engage! Fire! Fire! Fire!"
and begins launching, singnaling for more peanuts, he does not intend
to let up on this, the worst pun yet...
From: jhitch@crash.cts.com (Jeffrey Hitchin)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Grant does Seattle - and Christmas Cards!
Date: 27 Dec 92 21:19:17 GMT
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA


	Grant is seen packing up his backpack and getting Cameron dressed
in a scarf and boots.

	"Well, I'm off to Seattle for about a week or so to visit my sister.
I will be electronically incommunicado for that period of time, so I thought
I'd say a fond so long for a week to let anybody know who cares!  If anyone
wishes to meet me in Seattle, I'm not sure how to arrange that, I'm not 
sure my sister's number is listed.  She has the same last name and lives
in Queen Anne, I think.  I'm not up on Seattle geography."

	He pulls out a Christmas card. "I want to thank DJ, Linda and Robbie
for the lovely Christmas card.  I got it yesterday, that is to say Saturday.
I just wanted to say thanks for thinking of me, and Happy New Year!"

	Cameron climbs onto Grant's shoulder, Grant sets his backpack on the
other shoulder and walks out the door of the bar.

	The only evidence left of his presence is a fondue pot full of
cheese fondue with several forks sticking out of the pot and a plate of
French bread nearby.
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Impressive knitting
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 21:06:15 GMT



>> [Tanais' .sig proclaimeth:]
>>|       Bisexual knitter of quality and distinction since 1992.        |

>Danger Mouse is impressed. "I didn't know anyone could actually _knit_
>quality and distinction. Have you tried selling them to some fast food
>chains - they could probably use a bit more quality and distinction.
>Do you also knit skill and excellence?"  :-)
	
"_I_ didn't know you could knit a bi-sexual!  if i get the material
could you make one for me....?"  kitten teases as she floats by with
drinks and pizzas.

--
***************************************************************************
conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten           /\ /\  barbara ann 
"my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?"      {=.=}
                                              ~   trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu 
"love is the wild card of existance"
                          rita mae brown
From: narxtc@navier.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: From Feather's other half (was Re: boo
Date: 3 Jan 1993 18:09:58 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
NNTP-Posting-Host: navier.math.uh.edu

I don't know about you all, but this Bi-Bulb wouldn't work on a name, 
just have a good place to get lit up... (running to avoid peanut shower!)


--
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* Noah Ramon - The Bi-Bulb     * Your only limitation is your own *
* Mail to : narxtc@math.uh.edu * imagination - Beans Barton       *
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From: daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom)
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 07:32:50 GMT
Subject: Re: The world, and what it'd be like...
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: alt.callahans

In alt.callahans, trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:

> doug the cynic writes:
> >>
> >>Callahans is a usenet news group.  Nothing more.
> >sides are right, and leave it at that.)
> 
> kitten giggles:
> 
> "hi doug...you old cynic you...have some pizza...have a beer...have
> some fun...."  she hugs the cynic and grins at the sour face...

Hello.  My face is quite bright as I have recently convinced
myself of the possibility of the evolution of human intelligence.

I may (or may not) soon document my reasons in a short story
titled "Joseph Hegel Schmidt Dreams of Cogito and the Future
of Madness".  

Some thanks are due Derrida from whom I grabbed part of the title
from an essay of his titled "Cogito and the History of Madness."
The subjects are somewhat unrelated.

Thanks for the electronic greeting Ms. Kitty.
It is nice to have one appreciate cultured cynicism.
I wish I had been able to associate with Oscar Wilde 
(just friends, of course).

doug
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center
Date: Tuesday, 22 Dec 1992 10:26:23 EST
From: Philip J. Comins <PJCHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Hats

    Philip finally takes notice of the discussions concerning hat wearing. He
stares into his mug of early morning tea and is silent for a moment. Then, he
looks up at the rest of the populace.
    "Well, I'm glad to see you all enjoy your hats so much. I almost never wear
one anymore, but that was not really my doing. I went through several different
hat stages, one where I was wearing Panama hats a la the our friend the Doctor
(fifth incarnation, remember, Professor?) Then I went on to fishing hats ...
But what I remember most is always being teased or taunted about what I was
wearing, whether in New York or not. People just love to make fun of others who
dress or look different (not anyone here at the Place, though. We're too smart
for that). Eventually I got tired of being bothered all the time, and I just
stopped wearing a hat (possible in New York, as we don't have the weather
conditions that some of you have).
    I don't feel bad about not wearing a hat ... but if anyone tells me to stop
wearing my seven-foot royal-blue scarf, that's a different story all together!
                                                          -- Philip J. Comins
From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jason & Thyra)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: DIDI
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Date: 4 Jan 1993 02:35:28 GMT
Organization: the Polyhedron Group
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aaa.uoregon.edu

In article <C08x5C.KrI@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
(Barbara Trumpinski) wrote:
> "we aren't out of the woods yet....but mellie just sent this...

> didi's auntie says:
> After some blood tests it was decided that Didi had probably made a
> mistake in her medication routine.  She had too much of one chemical
> in her blood and too little of another.  And her 'seizure' was her
> body's way of telling her that things were mixed up.  

> Mellie here.  Well, you heard it!  Didi is going to be alright!  
> Whew!

Jason & Thyra re-enter the place. "Oh! What a relief!" they say.

"Still praying though."

Jason & Thyra
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
Subject: Re: Sunglasses (was Re: Hats)
Organization: Don't blame me, I voted for Bill 'n' Opus
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 12:59:58 GMT

In article <OLSON.92Dec27004455@husc8.harvard.edu> olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson@somewhere.out.there) writes:
>In article <1992Dec26.184359.15289@netcom.com> aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine) writes:
>>
>>I wear glasses, too, and I use clip-on polarizing sunglasses.  They're
>>pretty cheap ($5-$15, usually), and they *really* reduce the glare.
>>Someday I may get a pair of darker prescription lenses for when it's too
>>bright, but it really ticks me off that I can't get prescription
>>polarizers....
>
>"I am also among the myopic, and I have a pair of prescription sunglasses,
>and they work really well for me.  Dark enough (due to my lens thickness)
>to protect against everything short of staring directly at the sun, and
>they're glass so the UV doesn't get through.  Cheap sunglasses can be worse
>than useless- if they're not UV-protective, they let more UV in than if you
>weren't wearing anything, because your pupils are dilated more.  They did 
>cost a bit, but they were 100% worth it.  Only problem is that switching back
>and forth can sometimes be a pain, but I'm used to that."

Actually, if you're careful, I'd say that the far worse long-term danger
is optical distortion.  I have no idea what effect (if any) that has on
my eyes.  In any event, I always make sure that my prescription lenses
have a UV coating, anyway.

The real point that I'm making is that polarization is the only way to
reduce glare relative to the actual brightness level.  (Unless someone
more knowledgable about optics corrects me?)
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

Virtual anniversary: 1 day and counting
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: from danger mouse
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 04:17:03 GMT

>kitten says...."poor danger mousekins has a full news spool....so this
>is for him:
>
>***************cut here******************
>
>"Some chatting, catching up on news, then dinner. Sliced cold meats, cold
>chicken pieces, and various salads. We ate outside, on the patio. I
>glanced at the thermometer once - it showed 32 C (90 F). It was also
>extremely humid. There was no sunshine, because of the thick, black
>clouds which were gathering. As sunset approached, lightning flashes
>lit the scene intermittently and the rumble of distant thunder punctuated
>the sounds of the children playing.

     Hmm.. Thats the weather we stay indorrs for, and run the
air-conditioner, and drink ice tea... :-)

   How and when we open presents has changed over the years. When I was
growing up, we sat around Christmas Eve and talked, sang songs, and
did any last minute cake and cookie eating... or decorating.

     Then up early in the morning and rush to open presents.

     Most recently we meet at one of the houses in the family.
  Presents are moved from under the tree to each recipient. Then the
  host house figures out who goes first. One year it might be oldest
  to youngest, or youngest to oldest. We go in sequence, we went
  according to a draw of cards this year, last person in sequence
  handed out the gifts. 1st person removes a layer of wrapping paper
  from whichever gift that person wants to open, if a second layer
  of paper is found under the first, that person's turn is over
  and they get to wait ! Then the next person unwraps a gift, until
  all have unwrapped one gift or layer. We then start again on the
  next gift/layer... and continue until all gifts are unwrapped.
  It works okay with eight people, but my brother-in-laws group has
  about twenty, and it would take too long. What they do is, the
  gift giver can limit you on time taken to open a gift. Thats
  okay if only paper and ribbon is used on the gift... Sometimes
  duct tape and shipping tape is used on gifts between adults...

     Later and have a safe and happy holiday !

         Dreamy Jim, Linda, and Robbie.


-- 
         Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
                   Video. Cher: Love and Understanding.
             'Rush Limbaugh is the 'Chia Pet' of TV shows !'
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: hollombe@polymath.tti.com (The Polymath)
Subject: Re: Hats
Organization: The Cat Factory
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 02:15:38 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.081407.11568@midway.uchicago.edu> mss2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
}"... I'm
}wondering who here chooses to wear hats in these post-Kennedy years,
}and what kind?  ...

}"... So what, if anything, are the rest
}of you wearing on your heads?"

"My trademark hat for the past 20 years has been a khaki Malaysian bush
hat.  It looks a bit like the classic 'Aussie hat' in that one side of the
brim folds up and snaps to the crown, but it's made of stitched cotton
rather than felt.  I acquired my first one, British Army surplus, on my
first trip to London.  It finally wore out after 12 years hard use and my
current edition is a Banana Republic(tm) replica.  Most of my friends
(especially the Australians) find it embarrassingly silly, but it keeps
the rain and sun off and my head warm, so they'll just have to put up with
it/me.

"I've also got a few specific toppers for special occasions.  Most of
them are 'baseball' style with appropriate symbols across the front.  They
include a 'CAT2 Team' and 'BCR Network On Track' engineer's cap from my
employers, an 'NRA Instructor' and, as of yesterday, a 'Bullwinkle' hat
(sans antlers).  There's also a hard hat for work around the house and
some skullcaps for the rare Jewish religious service.  I'm considering
getting an 'Official Mensa Thinking Cap', but I'm not sure I'd have much
use for it.

"Truth is, I spend most of my time bareheaded.  As time passes, and my
receding hairline and bald spot slowly approach each other, that may
change.

"Someone else mentioned walking sticks.  I've got a stout, western red
cedar 'mugger discourager' I carry most places.  For Ren. Faire I've got
a dragon headed staff and I brought a Lake District walking stick,
complete with alpine spike, back from my last visit to Britain."

The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, M.A., CDP, aka: hollombe@polymath.tti.com)
Head Robot Wrangler at Citicorp                Do not meddle in the affairs of
3100 Ocean Park Blvd.   (310) 450-9111, x2483  dragons, for you are crunchy
Santa Monica, CA  90405                        and go well with ketchup.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: henry@netcom.com (Henry Polard)
Subject: Re: New Year Pizza Party
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 01:42:24 GMT

In article <1992Dec31.185002.20802@atlantis.uucp> aaron@atlantis.uucp writes:
>: Henry Polard |Current drink: Guiness 
>:              |Current book: L'epuisement du soleil by Esther Rochon
>
>"Esther Rochon?  My gosh, someone reading Quebecois SF!  Waycool!  I have to
>read it in English, and then only the stuff I can find in Edmonton...I don't
>have 'Canadian SF Quasi-Activist' in my .sig anymore, but I still am one...
>and I'm currently busy trying to read all the Aurora-eligible works in
>English."

I used to live in Trawna, and was a member of OSFiC. I have the
pleasure and priviledge of knowing Esther Rochon, and have translated a 
couple of her short stories into English.  I've tried to market them, but to
no avail. A few stories of hers have been published in English; I
don't know which, unfortunately. 
I noticed that a book (The City something) 
by Elisabeth Vornarberg, another Montreal author,
has gotten very good reviews in Anglophonia.
Could you recommend a couple of Canadian authors that write
distincly Canadian science fiction? (As if I didn't
have an Everest of books in my house to read...) 

 Henry Polard, | Your golden wine is sweet, my friend,   / from _Banished
  Wordslinger  | come fill my cup with amber.           / Immortal_
  Have Brains  | If we drink long enough together,      \ Visions of Li T'ai-Po
  Will Travel  | we'll drown the loneliness of strangers \ Tr. by Sam Hamill
From: snarf@access.digex.com (Sean Eustis)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Spheres and Calculus [Re: Cyber (was Introduction was Eh?)]
Date: 22 Dec 1992 04:27:09 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com

In article <105443@bu.edu> mjmh@crsa.bu.edu (Michael J M Holmes) writes:
>The purple guy raises his hand and hopes to be called on so that
>he can participate in DMs and frood's conversation about the
>American educational system.
[stuff deleted}
> The teacher
>didn't like this either, again thinking I was a wise guy,
>when I was just bored - and she would frequently send me
>to sit in a chair in the hallway as punishment for talking
>out of turn."
[stuff deleted} 
  In hindsight, its amazing that I retained a 
>love of learning after some very traumatic early experiences!"


The Dreamweaver, hearing the subject of our education system, chirps in,"I
know what you mean. My own experiences included much of the same. The
cute story about 2nd grade I'll save till later.


 >"I don't blame most of my
teachers, mainly the >system is set up very poorly.  There is a 
>definite lack of flexibility that is sorely
>needed, on levels from K through 12."
>
>(Education is a subject that can push my
>buttons, too!)
"Likewise, however, in the waking world I am changing some of these
problems by being on the inside and becoming a teacher.

"My story about the 2nd grade is one of a small boy who was told by his
teacher,'If you don't finish your work, you don't get to go to reccess.'
Seizing the opportunity to avoid playing the (at the time) ultra-rough
game of RED-ROVER, the child promptly stopped working on the assingment.

Slapping a dollar on the bar for an apple juice.

	"To teachers, forgive them, they're only human...or Kesh, or
Gallifrean, or Elf, or...well, you get the idea."
<Crash.>
-- 
In VR -- The Dreamweaver		In RL -- Sean Eustis
						snarf@access.digex.com
"God never closed a door without
 first opening another."
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: Hullo...
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 07:04:14 GMT

>He approaches the chalk line...hefts whatever glass he has and
>toasts, "To all who have been this way before...and to all
>who would follow them...may everyone who needs to find this
>place...or at least someplace like it."
>
>   <CRASH>

    >>Crash!<< DJ, Linda, and Robbie.

>he turns and finds a quiet corner to sit down in and watch....
>
>     -Gazer   (In real life... Rickey Hite)

      "Welcome to The Place !" Linda, DJ, and Robbie.

      "Squawk !" George the penguin.

-- 
         Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
                   Video. Cher: Love and Understanding.
          'Rush Limbaugh is the 'Chia Pet' of TV talk shows !'
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: She's back....
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 23:46:28 GMT

kateri says:

>Hey, my newsfeed is working again!  yeah! I can try vainly to keep up
>with callahan's....


kitten squeals with glee...."hi kateri....hugs and happy holidays.  i
just spoke with space cadet the other night...he was disappointed to
have missed you...welcome back to the Place...."

--
***************************************************************************
conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten           /\ /\  barbara ann 
"my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?"      {=.=}
                                              ~   trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu 
"love is the wild card of existance"
                          rita mae brown

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: wonderful life
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 21:39:39 GMT


>[...]
>>
>>anyway, this movie, as you all know, poses the question: what would
>>the world be like if i had never been born?  i sort of experienced
>[...]
>>
[   ]
>>
>>what does everyone else think?  do you all ever wonder what the world
>>would be like without you?"  kitten sits back to wait for answers.

>C+ rams in again. ( I promise to be gone by tomorrow, folks... ) =)
>"Well, Kitten, firstly, I think I speak for everyone here when I say
>we really are grateful for your presense in the transdimensional 
>tavern. if you weren't here, everyone would say 'Hmm.. you know, something's
>not right. Someone's missing from this place who can fill it with joy,
>laughter and fun.' Then everyone would leave.. =)

kitten blushes at yet more kind words...."i think you exaggerate just
a bit, C+....but thank you..."

>"Anywayz, I think we do have a purpose here, to do good and maybe change
>it in however small way the life of the people who are around us. "Random
>acts of kindness, senseless deeds of wonder" ( paraphrased.. ) are all
>good enough. Miniscule the deed may be, but if it does help someone get
>by another day, it is sufficient reason for my existence.

"i agree with this...i LIKE knowing that i can do some small good or
add some beauty to the world..."

>"At heart, I'm a cynic, but i never let that cynicism overwhelm me. I
>often question the things that I do, but never let that get in the
>way of me actually doing it. That's my whole philosophy. The world
>will be pretty much the same place whether I was here or not, as I
>know I'm not destined for greatness, but I know some people are
>grateful for me being around, and so that's good enuf, hmm?" =)

"it's like the ripples in the water when you toss a stone...if you are
the stone the ripples you cause might not make a great deal of
difference in the grand scheme of the lake...but .... they are there
and can't be denied...

funny, i don't think of you as being cynical...."

kitten hugs C+ and smiles...

--
***************************************************************************
conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten           /\ /\  barbara ann 
"my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?"      {=.=}
                                              ~   trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu 
"love is the wild card of existance"
                          rita mae brown
From: darkshot@rock.concert.net (Michael B Garrett -- Chudys)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: The world, and what it'd be like...
Date: 28 Dec 92 05:00:48 GMT
Organization: Not much to speak of


Darkshot maniests himself, in a puff of logic. He fixes certain people in
the Place with his eyes, and clears his throat.


The closest thing to passion anyone has ever heard colors his voice, and
he rumbles: "You people need to get Out more."

"To wonder about the world as it would be if you weren't in it, is to wonder
about whether or not you have any effect _on_ this planet- and the tipoff
is that "if ya got time to worry about it, well DAMN....."

"I dunno. Maybe I'm too old to take part in the Place- maybe I shot my wad in
looking for it, and so am unable to interact with the folks herein.

"I dunno. But it seems to me that you all _live_ here. The same names come
up time and time again- and I jst don't get it.

"Trust me: The whole world is out there, and the only reason it doesn't
work as well as the Place is because nobody's FORCED it to yet. The world
DOES work in a rational manner around _me_; I demand that it does so.

"You can do the same."

"I recognize myself in all of you- and what I don't pity, I welcome. You
folks have been kind to me, and I thank you for it. Remember, though-
Callahans's is where you find it. Ya just gotta LOOK for it.

With that, Darkshot turns and walks slowly out the swinging doors.
He does not look back.