HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: tjlee@iastate.edu (Tom Lee)
Subject: Re: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Co.
Originator: tjlee@pv742a.vincent.iastate.edu
Organization: Seven Wishes Lamp Co.
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 03:56:52 GMT

The Artful Dodger writes:

>...

>Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
>Parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme,
>Remember me to one who lives there,
>She once was a true love of mine

>...

>	The last note fades away, and Arty is silent for a 
>moment.  "Scarburough fair was originally a witch's Mneumonic
>tool, an aid to remembering the steps and ingredeints of a 
>love potion.  Canticle, is obviously a folk song about war."

	The Lamplighter claps copiously as Arty's guitar strings ring
down past pianissimo (I love sounds).  "That was great!  I love that
song, or should it be those songs?"

-----------------------<| "The embroidery of your life holds you in and keeps
  <=|- Tom Lee -|=>   -<| you out, but you survive,
  tjlee@iastate.edu   -<|  Imprisoned in your bones behind the isinglass
-----------------------<| windows of your eyes." -- sung by Judy Collins
From: ml5a+@andrew.cmu.edu (Mark Beirne Lively)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Dr. Asimov
Date: 9 Apr 92 00:45:43 GMT
Organization: Freshman, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

>1)  A science fiction fan (we should have no trouble with this);
>2)  A chemist;
>3)  An historian;
>4)  An English Lit type;
>5)  A biblical scholar
>6)  Several generalists (I can help out here, but can't hope to match

Hmm I guess in me you have the biblical scholar.  I am barely proficient
though  I am in the midst of reading the whole thing through, got boerd
and stopped in psalms(i wish I could read it in hebrew translations kill
poetry)  I am also a generalist in many ways, though still a rank
amatuer in everything, beats nothing though.

"But I don't want to be a hero and don't give me that ours is not to
reason why stuff either."
Bear aka the Lord High Rulebender aka (ml5a@andrew.cmu.edu)
From: stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Scorpio's (was Re: Mundanity)
Date: 8 Apr 92 22:10:31 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

>   The brumby doesn't really beleive in astrology or any of it's related
>stuff but it makes a useful way of looking at someone from a different
>angle.

"Well put!" cries Firecat. "Exactly how I look at it."

>   "Well, every Scorpio I know well, including myself, has a decided sting
>when provoked."

"Or 'claw'."

Firecat ('nother Scorp)
--    
                  A more intimate theology, and one more consonant with 
                  the nature of...love, pictures a demonic force engaged  
stef@apple.com    in continuous creation and participation. - Iris Murdoch
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From: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Alfvaen)
Subject: Re: Begining: The Long Good-Bye
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 16:05:55 GMT

Kateri/Mary Anne writes
> In article <WGARMIL.92Apr2132142@cs.ulowell.edu> wgarmil@cs.ulowell.edu  
(WildCard) writes:
> 
> >That's one of the things I like of about Callahan's Place.  It's
> >always changing.  Anyone here still remember (besides Nick and Aahz)
> >the "Doorway to Anywhere" and the "Floating Dancefloor"?
> 
> 	Hmmm...the doorway must have been before my time...but *I*  
remember
> the floating dancefloor!

Alfvaen grins.  "Do you really, Kateri?  Could that explain why you built  
one on HoloMUCK?"

--

---Alfvaen(and no, this isn't my real name!)
Canadian Network For Space Research, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
If you stand on your head, you will get footprints in your hair.
Current Album--She's Having A Baby Soundtrack
 "I know you have a little life in you yet
  I know you have a lot of strength left."
From: mdm@PREMISE.PRIME.COM (Michael McAfee)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: eek, I've been slushed
Date: 8 Apr 92 01:09:56 GMT


		The dark elf wanders around the picnic area.

		First, he bumps into Danger Mouse, and they talk a bit
	about Rocky Horror and the latest pun thread ("Glad you liked
	that last one I made.").  But the talk of puns has attracted
	Galadin's attention, and he's starting to wave his wand around.
	The elf quickly gets a wind spell ready to deflect the awaited
	onslaught of snowballs.  But Galadin, obviously expecting that
	sort of defense from a fellow sorcerer, fakes the elf out with
	a hand delivered special.

		Now that that's done with, the mage and the elf talk
	a little about magic theory.

		"Actually, Galadin, using a wand or staff is much more
	preferable where I come from.  That way, you don't use up your
	own energy.  You let the wand do most of the work.  But, let's
	see, snow...hmmm...okay, first, we need some dust or dirt...oh, 
	look, on the ground.  Dirt.  That was easy enough.
		"Next, I hold the dirt in the cup of my hands.  Now,
	while shaking the dirt around gently in my hands, I try to make 
	the air in my hands very, very cold.  So I think of what it's
	like to be really cold, and concentrate that feeling into my hands.
  	Not easy to do with all this sunshine, but hey, I went to college.
		"And finally, I breathe nice and humidly into the cup of
	my hands, all the while thinking of snow.   Hohhhhhhhhhhhhh.
		"Voila.  Snowball.  Of course, Galadin, the most
	important thing to remember about snow is...
		"The element of surprise!"
		SPLAAT!

	Enjoy.

	Next post: the time I got to meet Dr. Asimov
	Michael, the Chaotic
	disclaimer:  You'd have to be pretty weird to blame my employer
			for this post. 
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Subject: Re: Stuff in the air
From: razer@tiamat.hacks.arizona.edu (The Artful Dodger)
Date: 10 APR 92 15:23:31    
Reply-To: razer@tiamat.hacks.arizona.edu
Distribution: world,local
Organization: Razer IntressenGemeinschaft
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-a4  

In article <10APR92143510@tiamat.hacks.arizona.edu>, razer@tiamat.hacks.arizona.edu (Regan S. Plyman) writes...
> 
>	Arty looks over his head and whistles.  "Man, now THAT's
>a header!  

	Arty looks again and groans.  "I can't believe they not only 
had the default setting be my name, but the MISSPELLED it!  Geeze,
how tuff is it to get the 'y' after the 'l' ?"

	"By the way, did HoloMuck crash today?  I was talking to 
TJ, and got booted off, and can't get back on!  (Sorry, TJ!)"


The Artful Dodger P65331727@CCIT.Arizona.Edu|Razer@Hacks.Arizona.EDU
"Can you imagine us years from today, sharing a park bench quietly?
  How terribly strange to be seventy!"
		-Paul Simon & Art Garfunkle "Old Friends" _Bookends_
From: ml5a+@andrew.cmu.edu (Mark Beirne Lively)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Bear's story
Date: 16 Apr 92 02:20:21 GMT
	<tjlee.703376985@vincent1.iastate.edu>
Organization: Freshman, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


	Bear looks around shocked at all the response his post got.  "Mike Milk
and cookies for my friends.:)"  He says handing Mike a fistful of ones. 
Then taking his glass of milk with strawberry Quick  he drinks it down
and gets a pink mustache.  "To surviviign our childhoods!"
	"The more i read this stuff the more i seem similar to you guys.  I did
start out playing sports and such.  then i got big and clumsy.  And
about the the physical atributes.  my body in a way looks like
frankenstiens monster mad eout of spare parts.  First of all my legs are
very powerful.almost like i was an athlete.  i have broad shoulders,
which i use to cover up my pot belly by wear loose shirts, but my arms
look like pipecleaners!, completely mismatched.  Never had asthma, thank
God, but I know waht its like my brother was hospitalized for a few days
with it.  And I am short winded enough.  I am so glad to find there are
so many people like me out there, well with a similar background.  enjoy
your milk and cookies:)"

"Mankind's primary responsibility consists of saying 'Go to Hell!' to
whomever they feel like and whenever they feel like."
Bear aka the Lord High Rulebender aka (ml5a@andrew.cmu.edu)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jeremyl@screech.owlnet.rice.edu (Jeremy Lyn Hart)
Subject: HappY B-day, DM!
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Keywords: Danger Mouse's birthday
Organization: Rice University
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 02:51:36 GMT


With a start, Walker realizes that another birthday seems to be
going on around him - this time for Danger Mouse!

At the sight of the merriment, Walker smiles and steps to the
bar.

"A Coke, if you please, Mike - I'm going to be up late tonight..."
Mike nods and slides a drink his way.  Then the tall, cloaked man
steps up to the chalk line.

"To DM - happy birthday, and many more!" *smash*

Walker, aka
-- 
Jeremy L. Hart				jeremyl@owlnet.rice.edu
"As opaque warriors, we ride alone
 Guarding our secrets with souls of stone
 Waiting for someone who holds the key
 Do you hold it...do you hold the key to my heart..."
	- "Apache Teardrops," copyright 1991 by Bill Fillbach and Steve Estes
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From: pierce@navo.navy.mil (Jim M. Pierce)
Subject: Re: More Rhetoric
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-16278]: spop.navo.navy.mil
Reply-To: pierce@navo.navy.mil (Jim M. Pierce)
Organization: POPS Operations
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 06:15:12 GMT

In article <1992Apr10.213315.29322@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, jpalmer@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (John D Palmer) writes:
|> In article <1992Apr9.045245.24189@cco.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
|> >In article <atterlep.702524824@vela>, atterlep@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Montgomery J. Moose) writes:
|> >>
|> >>  Francis, preparing to picnic, says,
|> >>
|> >>  "Harry Harrison had the best solution to the problem of money--eliminate 
|> >>interest.  Money is kept basically the same, but is used mainly in its original
|> >>function as a barter-equivalent.  People buy and sell as before, but they must
|> >>do _something_ that someone considers important in order to continue life at
|> >>their standard of living.  They can no longer make money simply by having it,
|> >>which would take care of many of the inheritance issues.
|> >>  "What do you think?"
|> >
|> 
|>     Hmmm.  I don't think interest is the problem. . . I think one of the 
|> problems is the horse race, er, I mean the crap shoot. . . Damn!  I mean the
|> STOCK MARKET.
|>  
|>       You know, where people make money, not by producing, not by 
|> investing, but by 'playing the market'.
|>  
|>      Investing in a company is a service.  Buying it's stock in the hopes
|> that it will go up eventually is a service.  Buying it at 2:00 and
|> selling it at 2:27 is doing it a DISSERVICE.  You are making the market
|> a less stable indicator of what the REAL value really is.
|>  
|>       There is only one thing that I keep in mind, however, and that is
|> that I NEVER feel sorry for a person who goes broke in a stock market 
|> crash when they were palying the market. . . any more than I feel 
|> sorry for someone who goes broke at a horse track or in a casino.
|>  
|>                                                      John

    "Some smaller companies would never have become larger companies
    unless their stock had been purchased by people hoping the market
    would go up. And several crashes happened because everybody sold,
    all at the same time." NickD.

-- 
     pierce@navo.navy.mil  Jim Pierce aka Nick D.
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Huh? [Re: Dr. Asimov]
Date: 10 Apr 92 19:21:28 GMT
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera

In article <1992Apr10.090818.23101@ucc.su.OZ.AU>, mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar) writes:
>"Here is where my extended analogy to a quasar breaks down. In a trombone
>you only hear the sound coming out of the end, so you would hear the loud
>sound followed by the soft sound 0.006 seconds later.
>
>"In a quasar, we have light intensity variations, not sound ones, and we
>can see all parts of the quasar at once. If we replace the speed of sound
>with the speed of light, the trombone length with a quasar size of a few
>light-days across, and the sound variation with a light intensity variation
>with a period of a few days, you can see what will happen. One part of the
>quasar will be bright, another part dim - and the total will be smeared
>out so that the variations are undetectable to us - since all we will see
>is an average of the bright and dim parts at any given time.
>
>"But since we _do_ observe variations in quasar light intensity with a
>period of a few days, we must conclude that the light travel time across
>the size of the quasar is smaller than a few days, and hence that the
>quasar is less than a few light days across. Thus we have an estimate for
>the maximum size of the quasar. And I hope you can see that the phenomenon
>of harmonic resonance has absolutely nothing to do with this argument."
>
>DM stops speaking, aware of the ranked masses of non-physics folks
>staring at him as he raves on like this. He turns to the bar, and the
>other patrons slowly return to their pre-lecture conversations.

StM answers, "OK, this argument makes sense, given the assumptions.  But what
rules out something like the following:  Matter throughout the quasar is
excited via processes distributed throughout the quasar, creating a population
inversion.  Some object on the far side of the quasar produces a signal which
triggers relaxation of the excited matter to a lower state (much the same sort
of thing that happens in a laser).  Because the wave front of the relaxation is
spherical rather than planar (as it is in a laser), the resulting emissions
aren't coherent, and we don't see a sharp fluctuation in intensity.  I realize
that such a scenario is unlikely;  on the other hand, so is the energy density
of a quasar using the current estimates of the size of quasars.  So why is my
proposed scenario less likely than the high energy density?  I suppose it was
Asimov's failure to address questions such as this to which I was objecting."

>"It's been a long day, Mike. (No offense, StM - I've enjoyed answering
>your question. I'm talking about my RL day.) A nice soothing mug of
>spearmint tea, please."

"Sorry to hear that, DM.  Mike, I'm buying this one."
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From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: most passionate of the Signs ???
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 18:16:04 GMT

In <122420043@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom) writes:


>I am a cancer, and I am NOT fucking passionate.  OK!?

>And if anyone could see a video on MY forehead, they would
>run screaming.

>doug

"maybe if we reverse the two words....put passionate FIRST...." kitten
just giggles at doug AGAIN.

--
***************************************************************************
conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten           /\ /\  barbara ann 
"my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?"      {=.=}
                                              ~   trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu 

"kittens today are not properly trained--the way that they were when
victoria reigned." asparagus (gus: the theatre cat)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: sjane@bmers248.bnr.ca (sjs)
Subject: Re: Giving unasked-for advice (was Re: All mind and no heart?)
Organization: Irrelevant, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 13:49:46 GMT

In article <1992Apr14.223150.24068@midway.uchicago.edu> esti@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
Snark:

>Now, a question in return: In the case when one 'reserves advice for a
>time when you are no longer emotional', when is a good time?  How
>would one know?
>
Well, gee, ummm, errr, well, speaking for myself, if I'm whistling or humming,
its a good time & if I'm growling & grumping, its a bad time.  For my lord, a 
couple of hours after a fun hockey game or a successful bit of woodworking is
a good time and if he's rushing around banging doors, its a bad time. 

For the rest of the world?  Awww, heck, I don't know!  Unfair!  Unanswerable
question points out the holes in my advice!  :)
--
It's not irrelevant; it's a hippopotamus.   sjane@BNR.CA
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: lindercs@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU (Galadin (Craig Linderoth))
Subject: Re: balrog meets Tizrak !
Reply-To: lindercs@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 01:55:43 GMT

In article <vad276g.702222161@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au>, vad276g@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen McNamara) writes:
>
>   The brumby mentioned this thread to his wife and the results were
>electrifying.
>
>>>Tizrak does indeed start laughing.  "I must tell my parents about this.
>>>That's the first time in years that I've been grounded!"
>>
>>Danger Mouse shakes his head in disgust. "That's the most shocking pun
>>I've seen for a long time, Tizrak."
>
>   "I just wanted to say while this is current that that was one of the most
>revolting puns I've ever heard. This kind of thing amperes civilised
>discussion and makes me want to go ohm. Your capacity for such things
>breaks down my resistance. I should set a copper on you. Watt power is
>required to bring you to earth? I almost diode when I realized who had
>generated this line. However, I shall switch topics before I get my shorts
>in a circuit.
>
>
>-- 
>     The Silver Brumby of      vad276g@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (till Apr 13)
>      the Silicon Plains           brumby@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
>
>      The grass is always greener on the other side of the network.
	WEll, you should have switched topics sooner, but alas you did not and
now it is time to pay the piper as they say.  Watch out Brumby, here it comes,
SPLAT.


******************************************************************************
*Craig Linderoth                * Reality is for People who Lack Imagination.*
*Lindercs@Rosevc.rose-hulman.edu*   The Callahanian Protector of People from *
*ChemEng, Rose-Hulman           *    Outrageous Pun Throwers    SPLAT :)     *
******************************************************************************           
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From: pierce@navo.navy.mil (Jim M. Pierce)
Subject: Re: C-Hawk pokes his head out from under his senior project....
Reply-To: pierce@navo.navy.mil (Jim M. Pierce)
Organization: POPS Operations
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 04:57:54 GMT
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-14071]: spop.navo.navy.mil

|>                       ______    "It may be better to be a live jackal than a
|> Palmer T. Davis       \ \/ /     dead lion.  But it is better still to be a
|> <ptd2@po.cwru.edu>     \/\/      live lion.  And usually easier."  -- RAH

-- 
        "Hello C-Hawk. And yes, I totally agree with your RAH quote. It is
     one of my 'guides' through life." NickD.

     { As far as I let such things guide me that is... }
 
       pierce@navo.navy.mil Jim Pierce

   'now where did I put that dictionary ...' me :-)
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From: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Alfvaen)
Subject: Random Synaptic Connection
Keywords: life after death
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 16:29:46 GMT


Alfvaen sits quietly for a few minutes, trying to remember something  
sparked by one of Shonias' statements in the abortion debate he is  
half-following.  Then he snaps his fingers.  "Got it.

"I used to be an avid reader of Games Magazine, and I remember a  
particular contest which involved proofs of 'logical' propositions based  
on immensely spurious leaps of logic.  My favourite one was brought to  
mind by Shonias' mention of the life sentence...

"I bring you--Proof That There Is Life After Death!

"1.  After death comes mourning.
"2.  After morning comes night.
"3.  Next to the knight is the bishop.
"4.  Above the bishop is the pope.
"5.  The pope has serious convictions.
"6.  After a serious conviction, you get life.
"Quod Erat Demonstrandum."

Alfvaen tries to decide whether he should duck peanuts or not...but  
decides not.  It wasn't his originally, after all, he's just spreading  
it...

--

---Alfvaen(a.k.a. Aaron V. Humphrey)
Canadian Network For Space Research, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
If you stand on your head, you will get footprints in your hair.
Current Album--The Rheostatics:Melville
 "They had big eyes, and they watched like spies..."
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Tuesday, 14 Apr 1992 08:12:18 EDT
From: Abner Mintz <AXM113@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Invisibility and Stupidity Continued

Well, let's see ...

The administration here is gradually implementing the new policies.  All
mudding is illegal.  This is excusable, given that theoretically it ties up
telnet lines that could be better used elsewhere.

They have made all computer games illegal between the hours of 6pm to 1am, and
later in the semester they will be illegal period.  This means, if you walk
into an empty computer lab (say, 24 other terminals free) and start playing
Tetris with the sound off, as soon as they notice they will make you stop and
possibly put you on report (if you are a repeat offender).

They have just reduced the time articles remain on netnews from 7 days to 3
days (which is why I have been missing articles ... I was reading netnews
every few days, and this allowed some to expire before I read them), which was
easy to do without reconfiguring the system.

I suppose that they may do other things to the system over the summer, and
present them as a fait accompli in the fall, but I won't be here.  Good.
From: Elizabeth.Mccoy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Elizabeth Mccoy)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Jacob's Ladder
Date: 7 Apr 92 22:58:53 GMT
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service

In article <ktqqvaINNsbl@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> test@peregrine.Sun.COM (Carole Parker) writes:
>In article <1992Mar31.002833.9585@samba.oit.unc.edu> Elizabeth.Mccoy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Elizabeth Mccoy) writes:
>>
>>Well, in (probably) non-religious areas, a "jacob's ladder" is a design
>>that one can form from a sufficiently long loop of string laced upon the
>>fingers. This one can do 'em with her eyes closed. :-)
>>
>I thought that was called a "cat's cradle"?
>

No, I'm pretty sure that a cats-cradle is something entirely different
(though still made with string).
Hmmm... Lessee...

   O_________________O
  i\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\i
  i/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/i
   O-----------------O   Is essentially what you get, where the O are
finger-tips -- forefinger and thumb <bottom> and the i are the webbing
between them.  And to get it back to a loop, you have to take the sides
of the ladder and pull them apart, or else you get a mess...

There's a game where you pass a bit of string back and forth with a
friend, but there's no *way* I can describe that!

Anyway, I'd always thought that cats-cradles were something else that I
never learned how to do. :-(

--E_McCoy@unhh.unh.edu aka T'Kee teh Cat-Centaur who only learned to
three-clap with a friend when it went out of vogue.... *sigh*
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