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Subject: Re: New Year Pizza Party
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Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 22:56:13 +0000

In article <memo.836053@cix.compulink.co.uk> maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>In-Reply-To: <725877685snx@redunser.demon.co.uk> mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk (Alan Ralph)
>Mary MerryTail is running in circles around the place dodging a carb 
>throwing bathroom implements. Unfortunately, she's not really looking 
>where she's going as she's laughing so much.... neiterh is 
>MonTemplar, who is still scattering taps, baths, sinks and 
>showerheads in his wake like a demented bathroom shop... seconds 
>later, they both end up in the hot-tub


Under the circumstances, MonTemplar's response to this turn of events is
"Glub!", followed shortly after by "Heyy you! You gone and soaked my pizza!"
The chase then continues anew at the bottom of the Hot-Tub :-)

MonTemplar.
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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: wonderful life
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 06:30:02 GMT

DJ writes:
>>kitten sniffs and wipes her eyes...."the movie 'it's a wonderful life'
>>always does this to me...i love jimmy stewart and this is one of my
>>favorite movies...
>>
>>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.
>
>     I know that me not being here would have caused problems for 
>several family members. Severe problems. Hmm. One of the 'thoughts' 
>that movie always gets going in my head is 'stay put, don't try to
>change' I'm probably misinterpreting the mood of the film, but thats 
>the way it feels to me.  Jim.

    I thought I typed something else...

     "Kitten I would most definitely miss you, and all of my
friends here if they went missing !" DJ.

     "So would we !" 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 talk shows !'
From: keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: a Guy in a Yankee's cap enters ...
Date: 22 Dec 1992 19:43:32 GMT
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lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals) writes:

>What's the difference between a Lime spider and a Sprite float?

Ummm ... you need a slightly larger glass for a Sprite float ... the hot
tub would probably do  ;-)

Splash!

--
		Splash!		*To love is to LIVE!*
   (aka Mike van Keulen -- e-mail: keulen@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au)
From: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Definition of "monogamy"?
Date: 24 Dec 92 18:32:04 GMT
Organization: Don't blame me, I voted for Bill 'n' Opus

Okay, the problem in alt.poly started when someone introduced themselves
as being currently involved with two people, yet having a preference for
the monogamous lifestyle.  Another person flamed them for using
"monogamous" incorrectly, and the rest is history.

Part of the reason I'm asking here about monogamy is that it really
doesn't make sense to me in some fundamental way: it makes a set of
artificial distinctions that don't apply in Real Life.

Let's start with emotional monogamy.  I love my parents, I love my
sister, I love a lot of the people I know from this Place -- in what way
is my love for Stef really any different?  Why shouldn't I share a
similar kind of love with many other people?  Note that I do recognize
that there's a time-based component to love: you can't really love
someone as *intensely* when you spend less time with them, and the
*quality* of the love also changes.

Physical monogamy makes more sense in a way.  Still, hugs and backrubs
are OK :) -- so where do you draw the line?  Anything you can do with
clothes on?  No intercourse?  How do you determine the difference
between a friendly "hello/goodbye" kiss and a romantic one?
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

Virtual anniversary: 7 days and counting
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: aaron@atlantis.uucp
Subject: Re: Hi Alfvaen
Organization: Atlantis Communications, Edmonton, AB, Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 05:29:44 GMT

Thomas J Lee (tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu) wrote:
: 	"Maybe we should start our own newsgroup," says the Lamplighter to
: Amanda and Alfvaen, "for language-loving physics types.  I remember being
: fascinated by codes and ciphers in grade school, and in high school a friend
: and I sent messages back and forth in Tolkien's Elvish letters."

"Great.  CFD--sci.phys.lang.  Maybe sci.phys.lang.cipher, because I was also
a cipher nut.  And what are alphabets and languages but other ciphers, eh?  I
never learned Elvish, but I do know Greek and Cyrillic, even if my Georgian is
a bit rusty.  I know a dabbling of Devanagari, and have Hebrew, Arabic, and
Thai written down somewhere waiting for me to commit them to memory.  And, of
course, I've invented a couple of my own along the way..."

-- 
---Alfvaen(Still looking for "October's Baby")
"Give me your mirth.  It bores me when you weep.                                 My loves you cannot touch.  They're buried deep."  ---Don Marquis
Current Album--Janet Jackson:Control
Current Read--Tesseracts4
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: RIP (another... sigh)
Date: 22 Dec 92 01:01:46 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc., San Jose, CA

There is a quiet explitive from Jilara.  She can't think of
anything to say in a case like this.  People getting randomly
shot is one of those things that goes beyond the standard,
beyond sudden death in things like accidents, or even those
folks she has known who were murdered.  It belongs to a
special and tragic category that is part of today's world,
where planes fall out of the sky onto shopping malls, or good
people are gunned down by folks who go seriously off the deep
end.  Besides a the toast to Galen's memory, she proposes a
few moments of silence...

--
  Jilara   [jane@swdc.stratus.com]

"The field of pseudo-science hasn't progressed much in ten
years, except to gain access to the net." --from ca.earthquakes
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
Subject: Sunglasses (was Re: Hats)
Organization: Don't blame me, I voted for Bill 'n' Opus
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 18:43:59 GMT

In article <vkt2dkd@rpi.edu> youngj4@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Jeffrey 'Taldin' Young) writes:
>But the
>reason I started wearing it mainly was because I wear glasses,
>and as such, can't wear sunglasses.  (I know prescriptions and
>photogreys are available, but they's expensive...) 

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....
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

Virtual anniversary: 5 days and counting
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar)
Subject: Re: Another new arrival
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 06:51:06 GMT

> [Philip:]
>    Of course!  The odds are that we've got everything here for your mutual
>pleasure. Come, share a drink with me (before I go outside to join in a certain
>ritual) Mike, this guy's first through third are on ME (yes, I said it). SO!

Danger Mouse looks apologetic. He knows someone else is bound to do this
(or to have done it already - drat slow newsfeeds).

"Mike! Three full glasses, please!"

<splish>
<splosh>
<splush>

"Would you like a towel, Philip?"

- Danger Mouse.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: neilb@physics.su.OZ.AU (RiemannZeta(s))
Subject: Re:  Scientific creationism
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:10:40 GMT

jpalmer writes


>    Scientific Creationism is a movement founded on the assumption that, even
>if there is evolution, God could still have created the universe as the bible
>states.
>
>    The bible has parables; therre are fools who claim that god created the
>world in 144 hours as we measure them today, but there are good, solid pieces
>of evidence that specifically allow for biblical creation (one of the first
>and
>most important is the time frame and another is the lack of fossil chains)
>
There are two things
a) what is a 'time frame' and how does it relate to anything?
b) lack of fossil chains hardly seems to be solid evidence unless you
can prove that such do not exist, as opposed to just being undiscovered.
I would suggest that we have unearthed a minute fraction of all fossils,
and so anything based on lack of fossil evidence would be extremely 
uncertain.

>     While you can and should ridicule the idea that God MUST have done this,
>after all, the bible seems to have said so, be careful ridiculing someone for
>the word 'creationism'.  All the word indicates is a belief that God, in fact,
>
>did have a hand in creation.

I would disagree with such a "weak" defination of creationism, all the
creationist material that I have read, have the much stonger 
"world made in 7 days" type. If you define creationism as you have done,
then I think that anybody who believes in God, not matter what kind
would be a creationist, as what point is there in a god who doesn't
have a hand in creation?




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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Hullo...
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 15:46:04 GMT



>A pale face peeks through the door.
> "Aye it is a strange bunch I've happened upon." he thinks to
>himself.

>Pulling himself together he steps into the bar and heads towards
>the barkeep. He is an average looking blonde haired male with
>slight tips on his ears but nothing else overtly odd strikes you.

[   ]

>He pauses again..."If a newcomer could be so bold..."

>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>
>he turns and finds a quiet corner to sit down in and watch....

kitten, the mermaid, drifts by, and hands gazer a slice of his
prefered type of pizza..."glad you could join us...welcome to the
Place... i will come back for a hug when my hands aren't quite so
full." 

gazer watches as she floats away....trying to figure out if the top of
her mermaid getup is cloth or painted on...

(i have ALWAYS wanted to wear what eunice wore in _i will fear no evil_)

--
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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: mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar)
Subject: Re:  Cranial Covers
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 01:50:38 GMT

>   Wales grins and sips from his beer.  "As for hat etiquette --
>well, I would recommend a copy of Ms. Manners.  Gentlemen always
>remove their hats indoors, with very few exceptions.  Removing them
>in an elevator is also highly recommended, for the simple reason
>that in a crowded elevator a large, wet hat is not something you
>want waved around your face -- and you don't want to be guilty of
>doing this to someone else.  The same for theaters or any seated
>gathering of folks.

Danger Mouse poses the problem:
"Okay, but what about in trains? This is a problem I faced this morning,
on my way into university. There were no seats available, and precious
little room on the floor to put anything down (I put my backpack down
standing vertically between my feet). I could take my hat off, but then
I would have to carry it in my hand the entire trip (~40 minutes). Also,
this makes it difficult to read a book - which I usually do on trains,
since 40 minutes otherwise unoccupied is pretty boring. So, what to do?"

>  And you never sit at a table in a hat." <Grin>

"No, you should always sit in a chair..."

- Danger Mouse.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe)
Subject: Re: Spheres and Calculus [Re: Cyber (was Introduction was Eh?)]
Reply-To: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:46:00 +0000


/* recalls being bored in school
Reading was the worst - reading out loud, in a circle - I'd never 
know what page we were on because I would read ahead about 50/60 
pages int eh book and be lost when it got to my turn and have to flip 
back a lot - luckily the teachers figured out why but it was very 
frustrating. I remember trying to help a much older friend with their 
reading (unfortunately when the teacher was standing behind us)... 
schools aren't really set up for people who learnt to read *before* 
they got to school....
On the other hand I did have remedial hand-writing lessons when I was 
16 - didn't help though!
When I did German A level (after doing O level in 2 years from 
scratch (uh - O levels taken at age 16, A leves at age 18)) the 
timetable clashed with Latin so I had - 2 of the eight lessons with 
my year as they had been reschedulued, 2 extra lessons alone with my 
teacher, one extra lesson with the teacher from the next year and 
another odd student and the main 6 lessons with the year above - 
straight in at the deep end made my german come on no end... most of 
it is rusty now but I was very glad of a lfexible system that 
stretched me - it's always worth trying.

Mary with her tail in a book
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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: mwasson@nyx.cs.du.edu (mike wasson)
Subject: Re: Merlinvin finishes delurking
Summary: just another excuse for bad puns
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system [blah blah blah]
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 22:14:25 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.191104.12018@e2big.mko.dec.com> pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan) writes:
>|> 
>|> "Does that mean everybody get's a Schweppe's?" Alfvaen says.
>				     ^^^^^^^^^^
>				      Something must be ale-ing Alfvaen...

Soda rumor has it, Starknight.

>					Starknight (never one to pass up a
>						    cheap pun)

					Gecko-boy (always one to devalue the
						currency still further...)



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mwasson@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu   |   #include <std_disclaimer.h>           
mwasson@nyx.cs.du.edu            |   "What th--? Web in my eye?!?"

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon)
Subject: Re: Con!
Organization: Open Age, Inc.
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 20:33:23 GMT

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

>Amanda (NOT the one with the Ekho...) wanders in, wondering if any 
>Callahanians are planning on attending MD/DC/VA's EveCon Jan. 1, 2, & 3.

>"I've never had a Callahanian RealSpace... and i'd really like to meet
>some Callahaners someday!  Seeing how many of us do the con thing, i was
>just wondering if there was anyone in the area going to *this* con...."

>"Later..."  Amanda hangs around to watch the goings-on in the danger room
>and around the bar before wandering back out without making a toast.

"Hey Amanda," The Golden Gryphon yells as he makes his way back into the place
from the meadow.  "I'll be at EveCon!  How about the other Callahaner in DC?
I'd love to get a DC_Real_Space going."

-- 
The Golden Gryphon 				gryphon@openage.COM
"Mad Scientists seeks mindless brawny assistants, good pay, quiet location."
"They're not ghosts,  they're metaphysically challenged." - Me
Openage - The Premier SCO UNIX integrator in the Washington D.C. area
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe)
Subject: Re: Definition of "monogamy"?
Reply-To: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 01:07:00 +0000


Gypsy Woman points out about....monogamy, fidelity and a single 
committed union... however many people are invloved. That makes a 
whole lot of sense to me.

##<To the many paths that bring people to happiness>

Oh, yes!
<<<Crash!!>>>

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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: uribe@jarthur.claremont.edu (Lydia Uribe)
Subject: Re: Definition of "monogamy"?
Organization: Claremont Shelter for Maladjusted Singers
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 05:20:12 GMT

Soprano wanders back into the Place from the meadow where she has been
taking part in the healing ritual for the Didi-Sprite just in time to
hear Aahz say

>We're having a nice little discussion (read "flamewar" ;-) in
>alt.polyamory about the nature of monogamy.  I'd like to hear some
>thoughts from people in this newsgroup about what it means to them.

She goes over to the bar and gets an eggnog from Mike before settling
back down at her vocal-score-covered table.

"Monogamy, huh?  I guess I'd define it as being committed enough to one
person to want to make a life with that person to the exclusion of
others.  Ideally, this would be both physical and emotional -- but I
have found to my great consternation that it is possible to be
physically monogamous while being emotionally polyamorous."

                                        Soprano

"You're more than beginning -- you're learning to fly;
 You feel like you're falling, but it passes in time."
                        "From Me to You", Janis Ian
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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon)
Subject: DC RealSpace (Re: Con!)
Organization: Open Age, Inc.
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 20:44:08 GMT


The Golden Gryphon walks in from the meadow looking very tired.  He makes a
slow bee-line for the bar to get a drink."

"Mike, and I please have an Apple Juice.  OJ is too rough for my tummy, and I
would have Hot Chocolate but I'm trying to seriously cut down on caffine and
processed sugar.  Oh can I borrow a pen a piece of paper?"

"Sure Pal,  Hey how did the ritual go?"

The Golden Gryphon accepts the amber liquid and the writing implements, and
starts scribing.

"Actually very well.  I have yet to ask Didi how it fells, but from my
personal perspective I think it worked very well.  I not longer feel the drain
I did when I sent the stones to her, and all indications say that everything is
functioning as expected.  I'll have to thank everyone that joined in when I get
the chance."

The Golden Gryphon finishes his writing, and walks over to the bulletin board,
and posts the paper he has been writing on.  It reads:

-=-=-=-=-=-= -=-=-=-=-=-= -=-=-=-=-=-= -=-=-=-=-=-= -=-=-=-=-=-= -=-=-=-=-=-=

				DC RealSpace

Where:		Eve Con
When:		This Saturday at 6:00 pm
Why:		Why Not?

I know Amanda and I will be attending the CON, and I figured we could all get
together by the main registration booth at 6:00 and go out for dinner.   There
is a nice resturant in the hotel, and serveral more in the surrounding warrens
of crystal city.  If you want to come, but are not attending the CON, please
let me know, and I'll see what we can do.  I'm pretty sure you won't need to
join the Con to get into the RS.

Warm Hugs and Love to all.

TGG
-- 
The Golden Gryphon 				gryphon@openage.COM
"Mad Scientists seeks mindless brawny assistants, good pay, quiet location."
"They're not ghosts,  they're metaphysically challenged." - Me
Openage - The Premier SCO UNIX integrator in the Washington D.C. area
From: narxtc@navier.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Sunglasses (was Re: Hats)
Date: 27 Dec 1992 20:24:31 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
NNTP-Posting-Host: navier.math.uh.edu

> kitten:

> "well, i have photograys...on orders from my optometrist.  real light
> sensitive ... 

> that's 4 with glasses...i'll bet there are more."

Well, as I said, sunglasses are a necessity , what with all of my outdoor 
transportation. The prescription lenses work much better than the old 
Robert Stack "Airplane!" layering schtick (no scratches). Also, I have the 
perfect opportunity to pull Elwood Blues or Webb Wilder routines ("Yes, Ma'am."
"Do you ever say anything but 'Yes, Ma'am'?" "Yes, Ma'am.") This is a pretty 
powerful argument for shades. Utility AND looking way boss - who needs a
real life?
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