HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: amanda@wam.umd.edu (Me again)
Subject: Re: Chess match
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:14:51 GMT

In article <> keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!) writes:
>u906451@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (Damien Saunders) writes:
>
>>Before exams I was playing a game of chess against a friend of mine Delroy, 
>>or Del for short. The game was said to be the battle of the incompedants by 
>>both of us the game was won by a checkmate by me with a Queen and King verus 
>>a King.
>
>Chuckle - sounds like the way I play chess ... unfortunately I couldn't
>find a partner who played the same way, and I was continually defeated
>soundly.  Needless to say I found the game quite boring after a while, and
>haven't played in years :-)
>
>Splash!

I'll play ya!  I have the same problem <grin>...

Amanda Babcock
amanda@wam.umd.edu
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: prejudice
From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson@somewhere.out.there)
Date: 18 Dec 92 23:22:41
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.
In-reply-to: mjmh@crsa.bu.edu's message of 18 Dec 92 16:19:55 GMT

In article <105254@bu.edu> mjmh@crsa.bu.edu (Michael J M Holmes) writes:

>/* scratches his head, mussing up the violet hair.
>
>"Uhm, Abner?  Is that really a joke?  Just a week or so ago
>I saw a report on the local (Boston-area) news about a real
>group of gays and lesbians who were an anti-gay-bashing group
>modeled on the Guardian Angels, and they really did call
>themselves the Pink Panthers.  At least, I think that's 
>what the report said."
>
>"Can anybody else confirm/refute this??"

"I can't, but I have heard of a lesbian organization somewhere in Massachu-
setts- I can't remember if they're a bicycle team or a motorcycle gang, but
they call themselves `Dykes on Bikes'."

--
-Chip Olson. | olson@husc.harvard.edu | ceo@{gnu.ai,silver.lcs}.mit.edu 
"These are the days you might fill with laughter until you break. These days
you might feel a shaft of light make its way across your face... And when you 
do you'll know how it was meant to be..." -10,000 Maniacs, "These Are Days"
From: keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: "Humor" and real humor
Date: 14 Dec 1992 00:04:41 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au

amanda@wam.umd.edu (Me again) writes:

>I find myself doing that so much!  Leaving the room because a tv character
>is about to be embarrassed.  Maybe the "average" audience enjoys the long,
>obvious lead up to the "punchline"... the heightening tension as the 
>characters further and further misunderstand each other... arrrgh... this
>is torture to me! :)  I get so agitated when a character is embarrassed.  
>I physically jump around, getting more and more uncomfortable until i'm sure
>it's a relief to my family/friends when i finally leave the room and stop
>annoying everyone :)  This is one of the things that can get me depressed
>about human nature - that most people enjoy this sort of thing!

Hmmm - I feel exactly the same way ... some of you might be familiar with
the UK TV show "Fawlty Towers"; I know a _lot_ of people who absolutely
cringe at Basil Fawlty's (John Cleese) antics and the disasters which
befall him.  Another, similar show was "Some Mothers do have 'em" starring
Michael Crwaford.  Needless to say, I switched off at the point these
shows came on.

Splash!

--
		Splash!		*To love is to LIVE!*
	(aka Mike van Keulen -- e-mail: keulen@murdoch.edu.au)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: PCAHN@EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU
Subject: Re: Chess match
X-Unparseable-Date: 15-DEC-1992 11: 51:44.75
Organization: Yale CS Mail/News Gateway
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:52:16 GMT

X-VMS-News: eagle.wesleyan.edu alt.callahans:11891

so keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!) sez:

> amanda@wam.umd.edu (Me again) writes:
> 
>>In article <> keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!) writes:
>>>u906451@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (Damien Saunders) writes:
>>>
>>>>Before exams I was playing a game of chess against a friend of mine Delroy, 
>>>>or Del for short. The game was said to be the battle of the incompedants by 
>>>>both of us the game was won by a checkmate by me with a Queen and King verus 
>>>>a King.
>>>
>>>Chuckle - sounds like the way I play chess ... unfortunately I couldn't
>>>find a partner who played the same way, and I was continually defeated
>>>soundly.  Needless to say I found the game quite boring after a while, and
>>>haven't played in years :-)
> 
>>I'll play ya!  I have the same problem <grin>...
> 
> You're on ... ummm, that makes three of us so far.  Can you play three
> dimensional chess with three people?
> 
> Splash!
> 
> --
> 		Splash!		*To love is to LIVE!*
>    (aka Mike van Keulen -- e-mail: keulen@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au)

Did I hear a fourth for chess?  We could play tag team, sort of like pool...

Rounder            
Patrick Cahn                   			Simplify, simplify, simplify.
PCAHN@wesleyan.edu                              --Henry David Thoreau
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From: mjmh@crsa.bu.edu (Michael J M Holmes)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: ASCII Dragon picture
Date: 11 Dec 92 19:54:36 GMT
Organization: Boston University Center for Remote Sensing

The still-slightly-moist purple guy has been staring in
awe at his Mac's screen.

"Thanks for the artwork, Damien!  It's most impressive!"

"Would you like a drink on... hmm, nope, not gonna
fall for THAT on again.  Mike, I'll pick up the tab
for his next drink!"

:)


-- 
========================================================================
Mike Holmes       mjmh@crsa.bu.edu           "Happiness Will Prevail!"
Boston University Department of Geography (a truly GREAT place to work!)
========================================================================
From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jason)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Chess
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Date: 13 Dec 1992 20:07:27 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon, Architecture
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aaa.uoregon.edu

In article <92346.133410PJCHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>, Philip J. Comins
<PJCHC@CUNYVM.BITNET> wrote:
> 
>     Philip walks over to the holographic chess board with three glasses in
> his hand. "Hi Jason, hi Ekho. Let me give you another of what you're having."
> He lays the appropriate drinks at the table, and then raises his own, smiling
> slightly. "Tea, of course, since it's fairly early in the day here. Um ...
> could I get the next game with the winner?"
>     Philip turns to Amanda. "Hi there. As we say in New York (which is at
> this moment becoming the soggy wet apple due to flash flooding) What's
> shaking? Of course, if you've been where I've been, you might rephrase it to
> `How art thou?' Anyway, you'll let me know."
>     Philip peers at the chess board, in thought. "Ah," he said, looking at
> Jason, "if you move your kni ... Nevermind, I'll shut up." He glances at Ekho,
> and clears his throat slightly. "Oh yes, before I forget (yes, I feel old)
> I remember Roj Blake, though I never met him. Actually, we were in the same
> jail together (not the same cell though ...)
> 
>      From my VR to yours, (and vice-versa I'm sure,)
>                                                         -Philip J. Comins

Jason looks intently at the board. A rook moves from one plane to another
four levels higher, taking a knight. "Rook takes knight. Check." He looks
up at Phillip, and happily accepts the drink. "Thanks Phillip. You may end
up playing Ekho here. She's pretty darned good." Ekho smiles, and says
quietly. "Bishop takes Rook." Jason shakes his head. "See what I mean?" He
moves a knight to guard a now-vulnerable approach. "The board can be set
for two non-linked players, so your'e welcome to take on the winner. I've
been meaning to ask. Sounds in the news like New York is trying become New
Atlantis. How bad is it there, really?"
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk (Alan Ralph)
Subject: Re: UK AttoSpace
Reply-To: mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk
Distribution: world
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Organization: Chez MonTemplar, Redunser
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 22:21:22 +0000

In article <1gsir3INNfc3@mercury.kingston.ac.uk> me_s420@ceres (Chris Welch) writes:
>The Urban Spaceman (or The Urban Space, as Wumpus' mail program has taken to
>calling him ) materialises.
>
>"Greetings one and all. Hope the run up to Christmas or equivalent is going
> fairly well. I just thought I would pop in in a describe yesterdays UK
> AttoSpace. This was taking advantage of the fact that Kateri was in the UK
> for about ten days. 
>
> Originally the plan was for Kateri, myself and MonTemplar to get together for
> a few hours yesterday evening. Unfortunately the plan was thrown into some 
> disarray by some misinformation. 
>
> When I phoned Kateri the evening before to confirm the meeting, the people 
> she was staying with told me that she was visiting friends in Bath (i.e. Simon
> and Mary) and would not be back for a few days. To cut a long story short, by
> the time I found out that this was not the case, it was four hours before we 
> were due to meet and I couldn't contact MonTemplar to tell him that things 
> were back on.

"Bum!" :-) "S'Ok Chris, not your fault a certain Mouse and his accomplice-with-
a-tail detoured Kateri to Bath and back *grrr!*"

> At the meeting point (sout side of Nelson's column), life was further confused
> by the fact that I had forgotten my black hat with the alt.callahans notice 
                                      ^^^^^^^^^
"NO! NOT THE BLACK HAT! ANYTHING BUT THAT! AIIIIEEE!" :-)

> in the hatband, that I was ten minutes late (trains) and that Kateri was
> around 35 minutes late (more trains). Nevertheless and despite all this, we 

"British Rail - dontcha just luv 'em!" :-(

> did finally manage to identify each other. I ascribe this purely to the magic
> of The Place.
>
> We spent about two hours wandering around the West End (the weather was 
> very warm for a December), talking about varied subjects, visiting the 
> occasional pub for food and drink (and where Kateri sang me her Fairy Story 
> song which I had missed on the net) and locating the theatre where she
> was going to see the complete plays of Shakespeare in only two and a half
> hours (don't ask me how they do this !). We parted outside the theatre with
> a traditional Callahan's hug. 
 
"The Reduced Shakespeare Company? Yeah, I've heard them on the radio, must catch
one of their shows sometime..."

>--
>           |                      Chris Welch - The Urban Spaceman     
>_______   | |   _______                me_s420@uk.ac.kingston
>| ooo |  /| |\  | ooo |      
>| ooo | |/ ^ \| | ooo |  "Second star on the right, straight on till morning."
--
Alan Ralph, AKA Kimberley MonTemplar (when in alt.callahans)
aralph@cix.compulink.co.uk  OR  mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk
Cominatcha' c/o Demon Internet Services - Internet for a tenner+VAT a month!
Note: redunser is NOT associated with any other site of demon.co.uk
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Thomas J Lee)
Subject: Re: Cook-kies...
Reply-To: tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Thomas J Lee)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 14:25:48 GMT

Alfvaen writes:

A>"My wife and I made sugar cookies today.  My mother used to make them, and
A>then didn't for a number of years, but it was a Christmas tradition.  Now,
A>hopefully we can make it into a Christmas tradition again...

A>"Notable events...I broke a wooden spoon in vigorous stirring of the sugar
A>and margarine in the first stage of the mixing.  I didn't know you could
A>>do< that.  Now I know.  And we spilled chocolate sprinkles all over the
A>stove at one point.  We had fun trying to get the cookies from the table to
A>the cookie sheet--or more precisely, getting them off the table at all.

	"My wife and I have been making cookies on the weekends, on and off,"
says the Lamplighter to Alfvaen.  "Mine usually wind up too greasy, so they
harden when they cool off.  My wife's usually turn out fine, except yesterday
she forgot to put white sugar in the chocolate chip cookies.  They taste kind
of breadlike, but they're still good -- she did remember the brown sugar."

---==--===-+===++==+++=*+++**++***+****#****+***++**+++*=+++==++===+-===--==---
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 Listen:  "Listen to the Music," by the Doobie Brothers
Current Read:  _Linguistics_, by Akmajian, Demers, and Harnish
From: arsmith@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Alan Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Chess match
Date: 16 Dec 92 07:14:33 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

In article <1992Dec15.222132.15738@onetouch.COM> jpalmer@onetouch.COM (John Palmer) writes:
>    It is possible to mate, obviously, with a bisop and knight and any other
>non-pawn piece. . . can anyone figure out if it's possible to mate with just a
>bishop and a knight?

Yes.  Off the top of my head (well, after some serious pondering):

   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 
A  K
B        N
C  K   B
D
E
F
G
H

manuver his king against the back row and stick your king as a buffer,
pinning him to the back row.  When he goes to the A2 spot, pop your
knight into a place where he's in check, when he goes to a corner, 
use your bishop to mate him.  Possible, though I doubt you'll catch
anyone that way.  Alternately:

  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
A       K
B
C     K N   B

This works off the "knight's fork" principle.  Anyway, that's all the
ones I can think of.

Big Al.  Who would probably be checkmated with method #1.
From: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (The Didi-Sprite)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: AAARRRRGGGGHHH 2
Date: 16 Dec 92 08:13:48 GMT
Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada
Originator: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca

In article <ice9.29s7@hotcity.COM> ice9@hotcity.COM (Jeremy Dragt) writes:
>seconds latter the doors burst open again as Avec  Chapeau burst back into the
>bar screeching to a halt before Kitten, Takeing paws in hand Avec says in a
>voice as clam and quite as moonlight "I am sorry Kitten but it had been so long
>since I have been away that I mistakenly credited didi-sprite when only you
>responded to me and therefore might remember me.  I beg your forgiveness. 
>Pardon me but I have final accademic matters to attend."  and witha courtly bow
>he runs screaming for the door, arms flailing. leaving a second layer of two
>year tennie smoke about the room.

Didi splutters indignantly and then remarks:  "In the immortal words of 
my Aunt Janet:  Well, I never!"  And, hugs herself in l

----<--<@

The Didi-Sprite
Montreal * Canada

braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
didi@geloser.login.qc.ca
From: keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Unbe Awakens
Date: 15 Dec 1992 20:07:10 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au

mjmh@crsa.bu.edu (Michael J M Holmes) writes:

>"John, I have *no* intention of flaming you.  Everyone is entitled
>to develop their own ideas about morality and religion."

Ditto!

>"Is Bob [/*'s atheist roomie] a moral person?  

Of course he is ... surely a set of morals is simply a code of ethics
which someone chooses to follow.  Just because that person doesn't follow
precisely the same code of ethics espoused by a religion (remember, there
are quite a number, and they don't all have exactly the same code of
ethics) does not mean he's immoral.  In some ways, Bob could be said to be
following a different "religion" - basically a different set of morals. 
(BTW, I'm only using "religion" and "morals" here as an example - I fully
understand that "religion" is not _only_ a set of "morals".) IMHO one can
only say that someone is/is not following a specific set of morals, as set
down by a specific "religion"; aside from those people following
established religions, our society expects a certain code of conduct, eg.
murder not being allowed, etc.; is society therefore a religion?  Not in
terms of what we normally consider to be a religion.  Perhaps we need to
stop considering religion and morals together ... most of us follow
basically the same code of ethics/morals, since we all live in the same
society, regardless of religion/beliefs/disbeliefs.  Perhaps the things
which set religions apart should not be considered morals, but "rituals",
particular to those religions.  If that happened, perhaps we would lose
some of the animosity which exists between different religious groups, and
we might have a bit more peace and understanding in this world ... after
all, isn't that also a part of the moral code to which we all aspire? 

Splash!

--
		Splash!		*To love is to LIVE!*
   (aka Mike van Keulen -- e-mail: keulen@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au)
From: djsnyder@husc10.harvard.edu (David Snyder)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Dalek has entered the building
Date: 13 Dec 92 01:23:54 GMT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

kitten writes:
>the dalek says:
>
>>There is a eery quiver that sounds through the Place, similar to the
>>familiar noise of the Doctor's TARDIS, but quicker, clearer and more 
>>well tuned.  A large metal box appears in the middle of the Place.
>>A door in the box opens, and a pepperpot shaped creature slides out.
>>"Exterminate," cries the Dalek.  "Exterminate."
>>No one in the place showest the slighest sign of terror.
>>"Exterminate?" asks the Dalek.  He is suddenly struck by a stream 
>>of positive emotions, a stream that bores into his brain and
>>activates parts that the Dalek had long belived remove.  The Dalek
>>finds happiness.  He'd like to order a drink, but has no experience
>>ingesting alcohol.
>
>"you don't have to drink alcohol here in the Place...but if you do it
>won't hurt you...welcome..."  kitten is trying to figure out who exter
>minute is ....
>--
Actually, Dalek has a problem drnking anything, not just alcohol.
His polycarbon shell doesn't come with a straw.  And exterminate's
not a name, its a verb.  It kind of means "Kill" "Annihilate", that
type of thing.  But Dalek has had a change of heart(having just found
that he possesses one) and apologizes for threatening to vaporize 
people.  He's not really bad; its just that Davros was a very
bad influence on his upbringing.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: aaron@atlantis.uucp
Subject: Re: So long, farewell, Auf Wiedersehn...
Reply-To: aaron%atlantis@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
Organization: Atlantis Communications, Edmonton, AB, Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 04:51:41 GMT

Splash! (keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au) wrote:
: 
: "Alfvaen has left the building!"

"Hey!  I heard that!  (Being back in the building now.)  And that's the second
time I've been compared to Elvis(sort of)in the past couple of weeks.  I hope
this doesn't get to be a habit, because personally I can't >stand< Elvis."

-- 
---Alfvaen(Still looking for "October's Baby")
"Well the end of the tunnel, it never came up
 'Til I came to the end of the line."  --John Hiatt
Current Album--Maria McKee
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk (Alan Ralph)
Subject: Re: I'm back!
Reply-To: mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk
Distribution: world
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Organization: Chez MonTemplar, Redunser
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:45:59 +0000

In article <1ggsmnINNkia@escargot.xx.rmit.OZ.AU> s892057@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Neale Wolfson) writes:
>   Hello there everyone!  As some of you know I've been OS on holidays for the
>past month,  therefore I decided when I got back that 1342 articals are slightly
>too many to catch up on.  :(

:-) :-)

>   Thank you those who congratulated me on my birthday!  Late is better than
>never!  Especially Didi who seems to take delight in such things!
>
>   Next to those callahan patron I met in England.  I've missed the posting
>which has been sent care of the others.  Especially those who put up with me
>and lent me floor space to sleep on (Thanks Rhodri and Simon!).

No 'official' group post, but both myself and Space Cadet posted shortly after.

>   Anything else,  not at the moment,  so a drink to those mentioned on me
>please!

Thanks! *hic!*

>     (Oh Ohhhh!)

Don't tell me - they're reviving 'Prisoner - Cell Block H'? :-)

>     The Wolf.
>-- 
>*    This post is brought to you by The Wolf (Neale Wolfson)               *
>****************************************************************************
>*  s892057@minyos.xx.rmit.oz  *** Full Time 3rd Year RMIT Computer Science *
>*  s892057@yallara.cs.rmit.oz *** Somewhere in Melbourne, Australia        *
>
--
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aralph@cix.compulink.co.uk  OR  mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk
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Note: redunser is NOT associated with any other site of demon.co.uk
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: arsmith@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Alan Smith)
Subject: Re: Humor (was prejudice)
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 05:30:26 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

In article <1992Dec12.200103.28530@netcom.com> henry@netcom.com (Henry Polard) writes:
>In article <Dec12.035405.37380@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> arsmith@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Alan Smith) writes:
>>In article <1992Dec11.163118.22280@netcom.com> henry@netcom.com (Henry Polard) writes:
>>>In article <1992Dec10.191209.484@data-io.com> li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus) writes:
>>>>In article <104394@bu.edu> mjmh@crsa.bu.edu (Michael J M Holmes) writes:
>>>>>"Anyway, he made a really strong case, and no one could
>>>>>come up with even one counter-example [of humor - HP] that didn't have
>>>>>at least some element of pain, or wasn't at someone's
>>>>>expense or humiliation."
>>>>"Puns." said Liralen.  "Puns don't have any of the above.
>>>>I think it's the main reason they're a staple of this Place."
>>>You mean the dazed people here are not inebriated, but merely
>>>pun-drunk? It is a point to punder.
>>Feminabane appears in Big Al's hands and gives Henry a smack upside the
>>head, softer than he would like.
>><bonk>
>>[Rest deleted in order to save everybody's sanity]
>>>--Henry Polard, the happy sadist.
>>"I'll say."
>>Big Al.  No, I didn't hurt him, enough.
>Thank you for proving my point. Pain and hurt respond with pain and
>hurt.

Well he said he was a maso- ooops!  (Dangit!  Sorry about that.)

Anyway, I just went <bonk>, not <Smack!> or even <Bang>.  I suppose I
could have gone <thump>, but to me a bonk was always less than a thump.

>Here at Callahans, the hurt is usually vented on glasses.

The way I understand it, punsters are attacked by peanuts.  

>Or is this newbie missing something?

Hmmm.... Lessee, Head? Heart? [street word for genetalia deleted]?
Maybe he's too inorant.  Or maybe he's just some cruel [deleted] who wouldn't
know humor if it smacked him upside the head.

Take your pick.

Big Al.  Wondering if he's gonna get kicked out for cruelty.  (Wouldn't
be surprising)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar)
Subject: A plurality of wordplay
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 06:02:29 GMT

Danger Mouse has found some trouble he can cause.

"I meant to post this with my reappearance post, but it slipped my
mind. Oh well.

"This thought came to me the other day: graffiti is the plural of
graffito, and data is the plural of datum, so...

"Is a spaghetto an example of a pastum?"

- Danger Mouse.