HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus)
Subject: Re: second thoughts about a friendship
Organization: Data I/O Corporation
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:34:25 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.100923.14047@midway.uchicago.edu> mss2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <1gpgmrINNcg0@gap.caltech.edu> ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz) writes:
>>
>>Liralen says ...
>>>I now am very careful to make it clear that
>>>I'm no Patron Saint.  I'm human.  I have flaws, I have pain, I have
>>>idiocies, I have a hell of a temper and I can't solve anyone's problems
>>>for them.  I can listen, I can offer a hug or two, but I'm no messiah and
>>>no one to fix people's lives."  
>
>>Abner smiles.  "Liralen Li, the Patron Saint of Recognizing One's Own Flaws."
>
>	Michael does a bad British accent: "Only a Patron Saint would
>deny that she was a Patron Saint.  She _is_ a Patron Saint!"  :-)

"AAAGGHHH!!!" says Liralen and then starts cracking up with laughter.  Soon
she's laughing so hard, she's nearly crying.  Eventually, she calms down,
after the long, hard laugh... she wipes her eyes and says, "Oh, God...
thanks, I think I needed that."

With that she giggles again at the silly thought of her being *any* kind of
a saint, and turns back to her mocha and building her debugger a piece at a
time.  Never *quite* accepting or realizing the fact that the nickname will
probably stick like crazy glue... oh shit... ;)  
-- 
Phyllis Rostykus    | "... and how you feel can make it real  | - _US_
aka Liralen         | Real as anything you've seen            |   Peter
"I'm no Saint!!" Li | Get a life with this dreamer's dream."  |   Gabriel
From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Thyra)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: small wings and other things...
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Date: 17 Dec 1992 21:22:15 GMT
Organization: the Polyhedron Group
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aaa.uoregon.edu

In article <m0n2AAq-0001EMC@agora.rain.com>, feath@agora.rain.com (Feather)
wrote:
> "Hey, Thyra!"
> 
> Feather gets the attention of her feline friend.
> 
> "Are there going to be Brandy Alexanders at the Portland realspace?  Because
> I think I may be able to show up!"

Thyra purrs back at her small feathered friend. "I think that might be
arranged. I'll ask Jason to look up the recipe in his bar guides, and we'll
need a blender or food processor to mix them."

"Caithelin! Do you have a blender, so we can make Brandy Alexanders?"

Hugs and Purrs,
Thyra
From: keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Aus RealSpace [Re: UK Realspace]
Date: 13 Dec 1992 23:45:14 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au

jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce) writes:

>  "Texas ! Of course thats were we would meet !" DJ, a Texan, for those
>who don't know already !

"Yeah - but _where_ in Texas?" pipes up Splash (from Western Australia,
which happens to be three times the size of Texas ;-)  ).

--
		Splash!		*To love is to LIVE!*
	(aka Mike van Keulen -- e-mail: keulen@murdoch.edu.au)
From: pechever@phakt.usc.edu (The Heckler)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Dalek has entered the building
Date: 15 Dec 1992 17:43:03 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: phakt.usc.edu

In article <1992Dec14.222954.18495@husc3.harvard.edu> djsnyder@husc10.harvard.edu (David Snyder) writes:

>The Dalek will be more than happy to remove his weapon arm, but will require
>some assistance as his other manipulator isn't up to the task.
>However, as having only his suction arm and eye stalk makes him feel
>unbalanced, he will require a new appendage.  He kindly (kindly for a 
>Dalek that is) asks for suggestions that fit the spirit of the Place.
>The Dalek

"Here, let me help you with that."
Impu-Sebek pulls out a Swiss Army knife from the back pocket of his
good pair of black jeans and fiddles with the arm.  As he works, he 
mentions, "A peanut turret would go nicely here.  Won't have to re-code
or re-name the 'weapon' area of your program, but change the parameters
to 'pun' instead of 'anything'.  Jason can more than likely help you
if you find trouble with the programming.  OK by you, J?"  He glances
over at Jason and Thyra inquisitively.

"Plus, anything that can give us an arm-istice for this udder-ly 
dis-arming punwar is something I'd give an arm and a leg for.  The puns
just stimulate the limb-ic system of the punster while tentaclizing
the listeners."

"Now, where can we mail-order that peanut turret from?"

Headin' for that pool,
			da wordster
			Impu-Sebek
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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Thomas J Lee)
Subject: Re: Brain damage, and an open filk invitation
Reply-To: tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Thomas J Lee)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 22:11:42 GMT

Jason writes:

J>Jason groans at The Lamplighter's challenge. "OK, now you asked for it.
J>I've been rattling around with filk verses for that since I read your post.
J>He're's one to tide you over, and I'll see if I can recall enough of them
J>to finish the filk this evening."

J>Mogadishu, send in CNN and ABC!
J>Then we'll send in troops,
J>with pots of soups,
J>and we'll watch it live on our TV!

J>"You have been warned! The filksongs are coming! The filksongs are coming!"
J>Jason

	"Hmm, I may regret this yet," says the Lamplighter, although
grinning.  He braces himself.

---==--===-+===++==+++=*+++**++***+****#****+***++**+++*=+++==++===+-===--==---
The Lamplighter             |"Se esmera, cora,c~ao ("Do your best, heart
(Tom Lee)                   | E confia               And have trust
                            | Na for,ca do amanh~a"  In the power of tomorrow")
tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu | - Milton Nascimento & Paul Simon, "Spirit Voices"

Current Listen:  _Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe_
Current Read:  _Linguistics_, by Akmajian, Demers, and Harnish
From: eschwepp@butyng.bu.edu (Edmund Schweppe)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: My kingdom for a decent mailer...
Date: 16 Dec 92 03:41:48 GMT
Organization: Boston University Corp. Ed. Center

The Geck' writes:

>"Happier news is Ignatz and Mary-w-a-T (hey, can I get that cough-syrup
>recipe? Hot damn, what was *in* that stuff?) and a veritable slew of
>newcomers and returnees. Amanda + Ekho [whose name sort of eckoes my own
>;-)], Rounder, Chudrys, Philip from Huntah College (I was there for two
>semesters -- still the same? Do the escalators still break every day?),
>Darkshot, Merlinvin, Chris ... did I forget anyone? If so blame that 
>infernal EE project for blowing my EPROM....

Merlinvin looks up and finally notices the Gecko Boy's email address.
"Eh, Gecko, howzit?  I had the (mis)fortune to live for a few years on a
blackened submarine out at Pearl Harbor (misfortune being the submarine,
not Hawai'i), and I know all about the tendencies of electronics to eat
themselves. Have you shown the other Callahanians the joys of a pepperoni
and pineapple pizza yet?"

Merlinvin buys the Geck' another round, picks up a beer from Mike,
and addresses the fireplace again.

"To the silicon chip - genesis of the electronics age. They can't dance,
they can't sing, they're just frying everything..."

__________________________________________________________________________
Ed Schweppe o/k/a Merlinvin - eschwepp@butyng.bu.edu,
    (or for faster replies)   eschweppe%drcoa1.decnet@drcvax.af.mil
All standard disclaimers (also datclaimers and deotherclaimers) apply.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove)
Subject: Re: Introduction
Reply-To: rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove)
Organization: RICOH California Research Center
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 15:54:26 GMT

>     Ok. Real Life: Philip J. Comins, student of everything (distribution-wise)
 >                  at Hunter College, NY
>Born and Birthday: Um ... Older than the ripest tomato and younger than a
>                   mountain? ... Ok, Ok, 12.13.72    Yes, almost twenty (Happy
>                   Happy Joy Joy)
>  Favourite Drink: Hmm ... I should say (and will say) tea (guess where my
>                   father's from)
  

Gypsy hears the echo of Philip's introduction a week late.  Belatedly
she waves and gestures his way.  <Philip, since you are another
tea-osophist, may I offer you a cuppa from my selection?  I usually have
two pots and a full high tea set up here at my corner table.  (have you
noticed yet how very many corners The Place has?)>

<Today I have my favorite, Fortnum & Mason's Assam Superb and
because it is a cloudy day, Constant Comment, which reminds me of
college tea fests on rainy days.  A full selection of muffins, scones,
clotted cream, raspberries, cold meats, pates, cheeses, breads and 
Scottish triffle are also available for your enjoyment.  Mike has some
grilled mushrooms and tomatoes hot for my behind the bar, as well.>

<And in honor of your birthday (a few days late) may I present you
with a scarf.  The magic of this scarve is that it is woven from 
moonbeams and shadows.  One side is silvery grey and the other side
the deepest black.  This will allow you to go invisible as a shadow
or to bring soft moonlight to anywhere that its needed.>

Rowan (Gypsy Woman)

Rowan Fairgrove

*****************************************
The wheel of the year is turning now.  The season of darkness stretches before us like a great and sunless sea.   Listen:  the stag bells, the summer has gone.  Winter winds blow wet and cold, the sun is low, short its course, the sea running high.  Deep red the bracken, its shape lost; the little wren finds no shelter for her nest; the wild goose has raises its familiar cry.
*****************************************
From: keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Winter's here at last :-) (was Re: Summer's...)
Date: 15 Dec 1992 01:45:00 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au

olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson@somewhere.out.there) writes:

>Draining the rest of his Blessing, he steps to the chalk line. "Echoing the
>first post I ever made in this Place... To Old Man Winter!"  He hurls the
>galss into the fireplace, and then turns and hurls the snowball he'd been
>concealing behind his back at Splash. <splat!> "AAIIEE!" "Just wanted to cool
>you off a bit, Splash..."

"Yipe!  Aaahhhh!  Ooh, that's better ... thanks Castellan."  The snow
melts and evaporates within a matter of seconds.  "Ah well, it was nice
while it lasted ... any more of that snow?  Actually, if you have enough,
I haven't been skiing in some time  :-)"

Splash!

--
		Splash!		*To love is to LIVE!*
   (aka Mike van Keulen -- e-mail: keulen@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au)
From: eschwepp@butyng.bu.edu (Edmund Schweppe)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Merlinvin finishes delurking
Date: 16 Dec 92 03:40:16 GMT
Organization: Boston University Corp. Ed. Center

kitten wrote (a long time ago):

>"welcome, merlinvin...glad you stopped lurking and came in to say hello..."
>
>kitten's hugger is getting a definite workout...

Merlinvin hugs back.  "Thank you, kitten; I've been pretty short on hugs
the last few years.  Sorry it took so long to reply, but the infamous Head
Cold from Hell attacked me just after I first saw your post, and it's
taken all this time to more or less recover.  Is it true what they say,
that all small furry creatures like to be scratched behind the ears?"

After a few minutes, Merlinvin suddenly realizes that he's forgotten
something important.  He turns to the blackboard and writes:

        In VR: Merlinvin
        In RL: Ed Schweppe
        Born:  July 1, 1961 (spelled out so as not to confuse my new
               friends from Down Under, Across the Pond, etc.)
        Favorite drink: Sam Adams beers; particularly the Winter Lager
                        (this time of year)

Feeling in his pocket, he pulls out a stack of ones and goes to the bar,
with every intention of buying the next round - but he remembers what
happens to those unwise enough to claim that the next round is on them.
After some thought, he whispers in Mike's ear; Mike grins and produces a
tray containing a can of something, covered with a big cloth napkin.
Merlinvin takes the tray and sets it down in the middle of the room.
Returning to the bar for a beer, he goes back to the tray and pulls the
napkin off with a flourish, revealing a can of diet cola.

"Friends", calls Merlinvin, "the next round goes... on my Tab!"

(ducks)
__________________________________________________________________________
Ed Schweppe o/k/a Merlinvin - eschwepp@butyng.bu.edu,
    (or for faster replies)   eschweppe%drcoa1.decnet@drcvax.af.mil
All standard disclaimers (also datclaimers and deotherclaimers) apply.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: (Yawn)<Blink>Um. Hello ...
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 02:26:55 GMT


wumpus says:

p>Scratching his head, the Wumpus wonders if his posts are making it out
>into the world, where they ought to be ...

>But then, being an overtired sort of creature, he lapses back into
>a semi-coma again ... not so much a lurker as a generator of quiet
>"z" sounding noises in a darkish corner ...

>But, having a choice of places to fail to lurk in, Callahan's definately
>takes first place ...


"well, you are here...and welcome back wumpus.  glad you could wake up
long enough to join us for a bit..." kitten giggles at wumpus...who
appears to be trying  to hold back a yawn.
--
***************************************************************************
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: tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Thomas J Lee)
Subject: Re: Utopiae (Was: Amanda wants to be a Kesh)
Reply-To: tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Thomas J Lee)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 16:38:32 GMT

Big Al writes:

BA>But, life is not (as a rule) what we make it, so sometimes we get to, er,
BA>'step back.'  Anyway, I was thinking, if you were going to step back,
BA>where would you step back to?

	"Who says we have to step back _to_ anywhere, or anywhen?" asks the
Lamplighter.  "The Kesh don't see constant progress and constant growth as
anything desirable.  They also consider the material and the spiritual to be
equally important in their lives."

---==--===-+===++==+++=*+++**++***+****#****+***++**+++*=+++==++===+-===--==---
The Lamplighter             |"To overcome an obstacle or an enemy,
(Tom Lee)                   | To dominate the impossible in your life,
                            | Reach in the darkness ..."
tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu |                    -- Paul Simon
Current Read:  _Linguistics_, by Akmajian, Demers, and Harnish
From: GE.LJB@forsythe.stanford.edu (Louis J Bookbinder)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: strange quote
Date: 14 Dec 1992 17:19:24 -0800
Organization: Stanford University
NNTP-Posting-Host: morrow.stanford.edu

Klunk

"Bear writes:

>"Strange Game the only winning move is not to play."
>        (Name the character and both of s/h/it's names and the movie
>and I'll get you a drink.)
                                        ^^^^^^ Just a little commentary
on the the hir
                                               What ever the other PC
term is. I'm
                                               partial to they singular myself.
Nick replies:

"It was the war computer in War Games, cannot remember ANY names from
it, but LOVED the movie".

Nick Chopper - my opinion? ax not! LB>-}  BOOKY@Forsythe.stanford.edu
From: HC61@lafibm.lafayette.edu (HC61)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: a Guy in a Yankee's cap enters ...
Date: 18 Dec 92 16:02:33 GMT
Organization: Lafayette College
Originator: news@lafcol

In article <1gp14bINN2cl@gap.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals) writes:
>In article <u906451.724033452@bruny>, u906451@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (Damien Saunders) writes:
>=trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:
>=>"hi chris...and welcome to the Place....WHAT is a lime spider?"
>=
>=>kitten hugs the man in the yankee cap and sniffs the drink..."did you
>=>say ice cream?!"
>=Damien come up and hugs kitten and then explains what a Lime Spider is.
>=You need a tall glass, your lime soda [fizzy drink for non americans],
>=you pour the lime soda to within about an inch [3cm] of the top of the
>=glass, to finish the spider you place a scoop of ice cream in the glass.
>=This drink is usually served with a straw and a spoon. Straw to drink the
>=liquid through, the spoon for the left over ice cream.
>=
>=Damien. [Who is fond of Lime spiders too]
>
>What's the difference between a Lime spider and a Sprite float?
For a sprite float, all you need is a bathtub, -Sprite, and a lifejacket
>CIH
>.
From: mcspikgfm@dct.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Arrival of a Stranger
Date: 16 Dec 92 11:24:02 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

In article <1gj3faINNkai@phazer.ksu.ksu.edu>, ffej@phazer.ksu.ksu.edu (Jeffery Dean Rankin) writes:
> 
>     The patrons of Callahans suddenly feel a slight breeze run through the bar
> and look around to see where it's coming from.  They all seem to focus their
> attention to the center of the room as a blue simmering light appears there.
> The light begins to grow and two shapes begin to take form inside the aurora.
> The crowd looks on in interest as the light slowly fades away and the figure
> of a humanoid and a wolf are left in its place.  The figure is clad in a heavy
> blue robe and has the hood drawn over his head hiding his face from view.  Upon
> closer investigation you seem to be able to make out two blue eyes glowing
> faintly from within the hood.  The figures slender hand rests on the head of 
> the grey wolf sitting obediently beside him.  Strangely enough, the wolf's eyes
> also have a faint blue glow to them.  Slowly the figure raises his hands and   
> draws the hood back to reveal the face of an elf.  His face is long and slender
> and has a thoughtful, maybe even sad, expression on his face.  He looks around 
> quietly and turns to address the waiting crowd.
>     "Hello.  My name is Galan and this is my faithful pet Greywolf.  We have 
> heard many things about this place in our travels and decided to come see it 
> for ourselves."  He pats the wolf lovingly on the head.  "I do hope that we're
> not intruding." 
>     He smiles and retreats to a corner table and takes a seat.  Greywolf 
> follows him and lies down at his feet.  Galan makes a sign in the air and
> mumbles a few words and a spellbook appears on the table in front of him. He
> carefully opens the book and becomes absorbed in his studies.

	Melandra looks around and sees an Elf with a wolf. With this arrival
she attempts to send to both the wolf and the Elf. " A welcome to you both, I
hope you will like it here. It is a place of healing and rest, fun and joy but
it is not a place of violence...(Unless you make a bad joke...or start a pie
fight). Would you like a scratch Greywolf?. Your not as big as Gapjummer but I
think you'll like it." 
	She then slowly walks towards the wolf as it sits at Galan's feet.
From: alaric@sti.com (Alaric Tekiahyn)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Special Limited Offer!!!
Date: 12 Dec 1992 01:30:11 GMT
Organization: Software Transformation, Inc.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: smurf.sti.com

In article <JBrandt-101292090137@aaa.uoregon.edu>, JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Phoenix) writes:
] In the fireplace, a tongue of flame flickers and stiffens. It takes the
] shape of a single feather, still made of fire. The firey quill (a phoenix
] feather, of course) floats out of the fireplace to where Alaric is seated,
] and begins to write in the air, trailing a fine glowing line of fire from
] it's point. The letters float there for him to read, in a flowing cursive
] script.
] 
] It reads "Hi, I still haven't figured out how to send e-mail without
] replying to something someone else sent me. Thyra relayed this for me. I
] would like to take you up on your offer. My e-mail address is
] <I3JW@PSUORVM.CC.PDX.EDU>
] 
] Phoenix"

Alaric looks thoughtful...

"Now that's different from the address I got from you via email, which
 was I3JW%PSUORVM.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu.  Which address do
 you prefer I use?
"For that matter, has anything been coming through on the BITNET@cornellc
 address?
"For the time being, I'll switch you over to this PDX.EDU address.  Let
 me know if it gets through OK, please..."

He scans around the room looking for the Little Red-headed Girl.

"Carrot," he asks, "is your feed coming through OK?  I haven't had any
 bounces from anyone, so I assume you're receiving it..."


-- 
      "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom."  --  Thomas Jefferson
    ......................................................................
    Phil Stracchino : phils@sti.com : alaric@sti.com : The Renaissance Man
      PGP 2.0 - Freeware public-key data encryption.  Get it and use it!
           Finger alaric@sti.com for PGP 2.0 info and my public key
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: Travel, Troll-style (long)
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 00:23:48 GMT


    Boss Troll, I very much undestand. My father was in the Army while I
was growing up. This sounds like one of our more uneventful trips... 

    One time we went on Christmas Leave from Maryland to Texas. The car
engine threw a rod in North Carolina. We had to buy a junk car to get
the rest of the way. It died just as we got in the driveway of my
grandmother's house. Oh, this was the great snowstorm of 1960/61. We ran
just in front of it all the way into South Carolina. It caught up 
with us when the car died... We had three cats and a dog, and one of
the cats had kittens during the trip ! Oh, it was fun ! Not ! :-)

    Later and good luck, Jim.
 
-- 
         Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
                   Video. Cher: Love and Understanding.
From: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: It's a girl!
Date: 11 Dec 92 16:06:45 GMT
Reply-To: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

CONGRATULATIONS BRUMBY AND ROBYN!!!!!

"'Jennifer Rhiannon McNamara', hmm?  Beautiful name - but then, I'm biased.
See, my parents named me Sean Patrick in RL, and I've had a thing for Celtic
names ever since..."

*HUGS*  *SNUGS*  *KISSES*  **AND MORE OF THE SAME**

"I just love it when people bring a new life into this world.  Mike, did my
YoYoDyne SmartSuit set up my credit account with your comp?  Thought so.
FREE DRINKS FOR EVERYONE WHO JOINS IN THE TOAST..."

Starknight collects a Hot Rum Toddy from Mike, downs it smoothly, and
lobs it into the fireplace >>KRASH!<<

"TO MOTHERHOOD!"
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk (Alan Ralph)