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Subject: No subject
Organization: Bedroom Software :-)
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 21:51:58 +0000

Exploding Scratchpad Ate My Hard Disk!
Well, that'll teach me to look before I leap!

Last night I had a near-disaster with my PC, after installing USN2TP, 
TP2USN and KA9Q2TP to link KA9Q, my news/mail software, to Wigwam, 
the offline reader I use with CIX.

Seems I must have a) double-transferred my news messages, b) set up 
USN2TP and TP2USN to think it was using CIX's read-only gateway 
rather that the full service at Demon.

Result - when I tried to read in my Usenet messages, all the free 
space on my E: partition was eaten up as it went into thrash mode!

Got it working now, after much hacking, but I lost last night's 
Usenet.

Ho hum.

Alan/Kimberley

--
Alan Ralph       | mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk
Watford, England | aralph@cix.compulink.co.uk
+44 923 230097   | NOT affiliated to any other site of demon.co.uk
AKA Kimberley MonTemplar, sometime poster to alt.callahans !
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: lurk, lurk, lurk, post, lurk...
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 17:45:58 GMT


>A young (twenty-two's not OLD, not yet anyway), bearded (though it could
>use a trim) brown-haired man enters the Place.  A few old-timers wonder
>whether they recognize him or not; he *does* look kind of familiar...

>``I haven't been in the net.Place for a while, oh, years now.  Been too
>busy with work, life, work, stuff like that.  You know the drill.  When
>last I visited I was still a student at Boston U, unsure where I was
>going to go when I graduated, very much at loose ends.  Things have
>changed, yet they haven't... so much has happened.

[   ]

>``Well, I left my old job on Thursday.  The very next week I saw an ad,
>on the net, for a Sun/Mac system & network type.  Talk about tailor-made
>jobs!  Even better, it was for a good cause (EFF); I'd been following
>their activities since before they were founded, since I'd always been
>interested in computers and networks.  I sent my resume in and got an
>interview set up; they were skeptical about my experience level, since I
>hadn't actually administered a Unix system yet.  So I wound up on a
>month's "consulting" as a test.  Two weeks later I was hired.

[    ]

>``In a very interesting bit of "small-world"-ism, Steve Jackson Games
>has released a _Callahan's_ sourcebook, which even (of course) mentions
>the net.place.  Note that SJG was the game company nearly sent out of
>business by the Secret Service, in an event that helped cause the
>formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation--and therefore my job.

>``Life's like that sometimes.

>``I'll probably remain lurking as time permits; my online time is
>certainly not metered, but my total time is.  I've had to practically
>use a machete on my .newsrc, and I have quite a few groups I *have* to
>read for my job...but I'll try to make time when I can.''

>He wanders off into the shadows, finding either a corner or a door;
>nobody's really sure which (including him)...

kitten bounces up to chris....."welcome back!!!!!!!!  and thank you
for starting up this Place in the first place....and congrats on your
job... "  she hugs poor chris...who looks like he's not sure what hit
him... 
--
***************************************************************************
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
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Callahan's is for everyone
Date: 7 Oct 92 19:05:02 GMT
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <122420131@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>, daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom) writes:
>Some disorders are chemical, and can only be treated by psychologists.

Actually, chemical disorders can't be treated by psychologists.  For that you
nead a psychiatrist.  I.e., someone who's able to write prescriptions.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Another Introduction
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 02:04:55 GMT



>The troll climbs out from under his table---
>Maybe the whole problem is the excessive use of punctuation!!!!!!!!!
>Especially what a lot of computerists refer to as "Bangs" (!)

>---Maybe kitten banged her head

>The troll suddenly realizes what he said, turns, and frantically dives
>back under tha table, pursued by a lot of peanuts in fast pursuit---


kitten giggles....and tosses several peanuts under the table in the
direction of the troll....

--
***************************************************************************
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
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Making overtures...
Date: 12 Oct 1992 22:27:35 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <1992Oct12.181700.4207@data-io.com>, li@Data-IO.COM (Liralen Li) writes:
="But..." Phee sighs, "My mommy's in San Diego... and she *can't* come here."
=She wrinkles her nose a little, thinking.  "O.K.  I'd like it if you'd..."
=Phee pauses at the word and smiles, "introduce me to her."
=
=>=Then a thoughtful, "Hey, Speaker," Phee says softly
=>=while looking at her apple, "you think M&M's would go good on a caramel
=>=apple?"
=>
=>StM ponders this for a moment, then answers, "I'm not so sure.  Sounds like
=>we're getting close to where you won't be able to taste the apple.  But you
=>could try a couple of M&Ms WITH the caramel apple."
=
=Phee thinks about it and then grins, "Sounds good."

StM escorts Phee over to where Ocelot is still jingling her anklet and
displaying the M&Ms.  "Phee," he says, "this is Ocelot.  Ocelot, this is Phee."
He then waits patiently to see how Phee reacts to being between two cats both
of whom are bigger than she is.
From: hollombe@polymath.tti.com (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Memorial Service ... OOPS!
Keywords: n
Date: 7 Oct 92 17:35:12 GMT
Organization: The Cat Factory

Sorry.  That was intended to be an e-mail reply, not a follow-up.

I really have to start getting more sleep ...

The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, M.A., CDP, aka: hollombe@polymath.tti.com)
Head Robot Wrangler at Citicorp                   Turn the rascals out!
3100 Ocean Park Blvd.   (310) 450-9111, x2483     No incumbents in '92!
Santa Monica, CA  90405
From: s892057@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Neale Wolfson)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Football (Rugby vs American) and other neanderthal games
Date: 11 Oct 92 03:41:03 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
NNTP-Posting-Host: minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au

edotto@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Ed Otto) writes:

>(90 lines deleted)

>You folks wanna see a game, catch an Aussie Football game sometime...

>See, they have these FOUR goalposts...and 15 players per side...and the game
>involves MASSIVE violence and mayhem...

  Almost.  Try 18 players per side and skills which would put any of the 
aformentioned versions to shame.  :)

     The Wolf.

-- 
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From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: BAH! HUMBUG!
Date: 12 Oct 1992 23:06:55 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

StM barely suppresses an urge to scream.  "Yesterday was only the 11th of
October, and already they're starting to show _It's_a_Wonderful_Life_ on
television."  He reconsiders for a moment.  "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!"
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
Subject: Re: click!
Organization: Bill 'n' Opus for Prez
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 16:17:37 GMT

>>kitten and doug converse...
>and Susan comments
>>[  ]
>>
>>>> and he would NEVER be condescending to a differently abled person...
>>
>>>Do not use the phrase 'differently abled'.  It is nonsense.  My
>>>father has been in a wheelchair for almost 30 years now, and
>>>he would be the first to tell you that he is downright handicapped.
>>
>>kitten:
>>i KNEW this....and i know your opinion of the term...i use it from
>>habit more than anything else...(however, if he functions in other
>>ways he is NOT handicapped...he just can't walk.  if he doesn't
>>function then he is handicapped) 
>>
>Me:
>Habit?  You mean that there are people who actually expect you to
>use that phrase?  Yikes...

Yup.  Depending on your physical location and your social/work group, it
can be easy to forget that many other people lie under the shadow of
Political Correctness.  I don't want to start a debate on the subject,
but PCness definitely exists, although the threat of it is usually worse
than the reality.
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

Who needs Lime Jello [tm]?  We had lasagna.....
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: Redheads
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 05:41:50 GMT

In article <UerNpEK00aw=IC02gP@andrew.cmu.edu> Mark Beirne Lively <ml5a+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>>>>>   Now, Now, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Don't you know ? :-)
>>>>
>>>>Are they?
>>>Is this going to turn into a cascade?
>>
>>Shouldn't you have asked, "How many ways will this thread split before we lose
>>all control of it?"
>Should I apologize for not reading the entire thread first?
>
>ML5A@ANDREW.CMU.EDU
>"I haven't failed I have discovered 10,000 ways not to make a lightbulb"
>                                        -T Edison.
>

    "Hmm. Does mean we are in many places at once and not just one Place
 at all ? " DJ.   { who hopes they don't figure out The Firesign Theater
                    record album title of this which is: 'How can you be
                    two places at once, when you're not anywhere at all ?' }

    I think its a cascade ! :-)

-- 
 Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science
 jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
  "Is it the weekend yet ?" me :-)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: regan1016@bestsd.sdsu.edu (T. ELIZABETH HARVEY)
Subject: Re: In honor of actually reading a few messages in this group again...
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Organization: San Diego State University - Dept. of Redundancy Dept.
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 18:43:00 GMT

In article <ceotBXu00WB48N0H91@andrew.cmu.edu>, "Steven M. Stadnicki" <ss7m+@andrew.cmu.edu>    writes...

>On another note:  Are there still occasionally RL Callahanian gatherings?
>Particularly, are there any on the left coast, LA area?  I'm out here, and it
>looks like it may be on a permanent basis, and it'd be nice to meet a few
>folks I already more-or-less know...

Hola, Mr. Stadnicki!
Welcome to the City of Lost Angels ...
I'm a newbie to alt.callahans, but I do know of one other person here who 
is within LA County lines: Abner Mintz.
Are there any other regulars who live in that squalid, ethereal, hell-hole 
of a paradise known as LA?

>                                   Steven Stadnicki
>                                   ss7m@andrew.cmu.edu
>                                   "Wishes come true, not free"

---<--<-{@ | "I believe that before all else, I am a reasonable human being,
Elizabeth  | just as you are -- or, at all events, that I must try and 
	   | become one." _A Doll's House_, Henrik Ibsen
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: visiting LA at the end of February (was Re: In honor of...)
Date: 15 Oct 1992 04:01:49 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <14OCT199215131521@bestsd.sdsu.edu>, regan1016@bestsd.sdsu.edu (T. ELIZABETH HARVEY) writes:
>Yes!  Definitely.  After all, it doesn't snow in LA (no, I don't consider 
>the Grapevine part of LA, so don't mention Antelope Valley or Lancaster ... 
>thank you ...)

StM yells, "Time-out!  Reality check!  Puleeeeze!  It snowed (and the snow
stayed on the ground for at least 1 hour) in Pasadena in both 1988 (I think; it
might've been 1989) and 1975.  And just a few years ago, there was footage of
kids sledding in the Hollywood Hills!  So, yes, it *DOES* snow in LA.  And the
snow gets more coverage than the Landers quake did :-)!"

>>>Be prepared for temperatures in the 40s, or, better still, ask about
>>>the weather just before setting out." 
>>"Hmmm... guess my friends lied to me then.  They promised at least 50s. :)"
>No, they didn't ... average temps in years past during the winter here is 
>in the low to mid-50s ... 

StM, in pedagogical mode, says, "For our purposes here, average temps don't
count.  I told Snark to be prepared for temperatures in the 40's.  Certainly
not nearly the average daytime temperature, but well within the range of
expected temperatures at 5:30 am (the time of day I usually leave my apartment; 
OK, so I'm strange;  I've never denied that).

>then again, with El Nino, and the ozone, and whatall

StM screams an extremely anguished scream: "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-
rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr-
rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr-
rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!

"Ozone and global warming are two _*ENTIRELY*_ (is there any way I can add more
emphasis?) separate issues!  I'd've thought that alt.callahans would've been
one of the few places on the net where the idiocy of confusing the two wouldn't
show up, but I guess I was wrong."

StM walks to the bar, and says to Mike "I'd like a beer that I can cry into.
Finding out that there's a Callahanian who knows that little of science HURTS."
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: click!
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 17:30:58 GMT


stuff by bear about the book by the handicapped author...

>By sheer coincidence, the cartoonist's name is Callahan. I think his
>stuff is pretty funny, too!

"yeah" says kitten...."i read it too...it's called _he won't get far
on foot_....this guy has a WICKED sense of humor...particularly since
he has been totally screwed by the system."
--
***************************************************************************
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

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: A tale which kneeds telling
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 00:38:17 GMT



>While this is going, The Bellman walks in, tired out after a
>night ringing bells, and orders a cider (large, very large) turns
>to Mike and says " There was this lady I heard about recently, wife
>of a rich rancher. When her husband died she decided that it was time
>to see more of life, so she left the ranch in the hands of her sons
>and headed for the city. Before she left she renamed the ranch Focus
>because that was where the sons raise meet"

>Shonias if you want a cider after that it is on me.

"gosh, shonias....doesn't he look silly all covered in cider?"  kitten
smiles at the bellman...

i stole this lot from marsha....hope you enjoy it:

Speaking of rabbits, I saw a group of bunnies playing leapfrog on the mall 
around sunset and as they ran off into the distance I said my God, there
goes a 
"receding hare line." 

Then there was the experimental psychologist who cloroformed
 his experimental rabbits and was left with ether bunnies; 

a geneticist was sodisturbed by the rabbits killed off that he cloned
several bunnies only to be brought to court on criminal charges of
"splitting hares". 

Then there was the professor of wildlife management who fell into a
snowbank on a field trip and would have died of suffocation had not a
snowshoe rabbit given him mouth to mouth resusctation; he was saved by a
hare's breadth, if you will. 

I go could on, but
these jokes are all a case of "hare today, gone tommorrow." 

------------
 

You all know about the insomniac, dyslexic agnostic who sat up all night
wondering if there really was a Dog. Well do you know what he did in the
morning...he sold his soul to Santa!


kitten giggles....

--
***************************************************************************
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

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca  (The Didi-Sprite)
Subject: Re: Words
Originator: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 15:39:32 GMT

In article <1992Oct15.025743.8553@data-io.com> li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus) writes:
>In article <Bw3y1u.B74@news.cso.uiuc.edu> trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:
>>didi (as identified by giggle)
>>
>>>{  Giggle!  This could be interesting ... the battle of the HUGS!  }
>>
>>"but didi," giggles kitten..."isn't the phrase 'battle of the hugs'
>>oxymoronic?"  (grin....no offense intended, dear deed)

Didi smiles:  None taken.

>Liralen smiles a slightly wry smile and says softly,
>
>	     "I will not play
>	       at tug o' war.
>            I'd rather play at
>		hug o' war.
>            Where everyone hugs
>	      instead of tugs.
>           Where everyone giggles
>	    and rolls on the rug.
>	   Where everyone kisses
>	     and everyone grins,
>	    and everyone cuddles,
>	     and everyone wins."
>
>			  -- Shel Silverstein
>
"Thank you, Liarlen!  That is precisely what I had in mind!
The floor's clean ... anyone for a good roll on it?  Hmmm?"

Tee-hee-giggle!

----<--<@

The Didi-Sprite
Montreal * Canada

braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: A Wanderer from the land of ABEND...
From: olson@husc9.Harvard.EDU (Charles Olson)
Date: 15 Oct 92 20:15:00 EDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.

In article <1992Oct15.010537.17016@ra.msstate.edu>, slrosser@whale.st.usm.edu (Sandra Lynne Rosser) writes:
|> 
|> With a sudden *BANG* the door to Callahan's Place blows open
|> on a hot wind, sand drifting in from the blinding white dunes
|> outside.  Silhouetted against a deep, lonely azure sky is a
|> figure that seems--just a little--familiar?

Castellan is sitting there flipping his mental Rolodex, thinking 
"Now *where* have I seen that face...?"

|> "Sorry about the sand, Mike," she says, leaning over to plant
|> a sloppy kiss on his reddening cheek.
|> 
|> "Evening, Meredith," he says.  "I had a feeling you might drop
|> by."

"THAT'T where I've seen that face before! I must be going senile."

|> "And, among other things, I'm back for the duration, so I hope
|> everybody still likes me.  

"Most assuredly, dear lady" says Castellan as he rises to greet her,
"at least I haven't seen any Meredith-bashing going on :-)"

|> "Those of you out there who remember me, this is a relatively
|> new account, and I don't have any addresses. You guessed it--we've
|> hit the mail-request portion of this post.  I can't write unless
|> I know where to send...

"I can drop a hint or two..."

|> "It's nice to be back.  *hugs* (Yep, I'm one of -THAT- crowd...)

"Oh good, so am I", as he envelops her in a great big warm hug.
"Welcome back, tou were missed..."


-- 
-Chip Olson. | olson@husc.harvard.edu | ceo@{gnu.ai,silver.lcs}.mit.edu 
"Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, silhouetted
by the sea, circled by the circus sands, with all memory and fate driven deep 
beneath the waves; let me forget about today until tomorrow"  -Bob Dylan.

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
Subject: Re: this is all so subjective
Organization: Bill 'n' Opus for Prez
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 04:37:58 GMT

In article <199210082134.AA13593@david.wheaton.edu> clhoerth@david.wheaton.EDU (Cathe L Hoerth) writes:
>
>   [deleted]
>At first I merely thought it was a warning not to wear my heart on my
>sleeve, as I sometimes do.  The next day, however, I suddenly realized
>(and was deeply touched) that not only had the dear man given me his
>heart, but a piece of his sole as well.

Ugh.  May the peanuts from a thousand Uzi barrels cover you from head to
toe.

>	On the topic of colorful language, the other day I came up with
>"Asking me for advice about a relationship is like asking a vegetarian
>how to fix a steak."  No offense to the vegetarians in the Place, of
>course.

Well, I like the one that says, "Vegetarians eat vegetables.  I'm a
humanitarian."  My ProblemOlderWoman likes to say that she's a
kittitarian  (no offense to Conan, of course).
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

Who needs Lime Jello [tm]?  We had lasagna.....