HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Newbies on the March
Date: 24 Dec 92 01:15:21 GMT
Organization: Don't blame me, I voted for Bill 'n' Opus

Jilara, yours is the carelessness of the true expert.  I cook much the
same way you do, and have gotten into the habit of automatically
converting any measurements into proportions.  E.g.: 2 parts water to 1
part flour.

However, if I were to try sewing something, I'd make a horrible mess of
it with those kinds of measurements; I'd *have* to sit down with tape
measure and work it all out.
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

Virtual anniversary: 8 days and counting
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: amanda@wam.umd.edu (Me again)
Subject: Re: New Year Pizza Party
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 02:49:41 GMT

"Happy New Year's!!"

Amanda (without the Ekho) is posting this early so it can travel the wide
reaches of the Net and still get there on time.

"VPM: Some nice crunchy crumbly Christmas goodies..."

You may remember Amanda's recent de-toothing.  She wasn't able to fully
participate in some of Christmas's more delicious traditions, and now has
found out that she can't eat crunchy crumbly stuff for two months till the
holes heal....

"So i want my Christmas pastries here, in VR, if i can't have them in RL!"

Amanda is wearing a garish pirat-oid outfit, in keeping with the undersea
theme.  It looks a lot like what someone might wear to a Con.  "Wouldn't
want to stand out, you know... can't wear something *mundane*...."

Peering through a wormhole X-window, Amanda watches the New Year approach...
"10! 9! 8! 7! 6! 5! 4! 3! 2! 1....

   "Happy New Year's!!!!"   Tweet!  Party favors sound throughout the bar.
                         "TO 1993!!!"  <CRASH!>

amanda@wam.umd.edu         -- Happy 1993! --           Amanda Babcock
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: bshsiung@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Bernard Hsiung)
Subject: Re: Utopiae (Was: Amanda wants to be a Kesh)
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:14:12 GMT

lower-tony@cs.yale.edu (Tony Lower) writes:
>  Manx suddenly perks up.  "And for another comment... this is an example
>of my favorite quote" (which I can't remember who said, and like that,
>so I'm not going to attribute it!  so there!)
>
>   "The opposite of a simple truth is a falsehood.  The opposite of a
>profound truth is another profound truth."

Hi, Manx!  I think it was Niels Bohr (the physicist) who said that.

On the subject of utopia, I think the optimal form of government is a
benevolent dictatorship, but let me say (before y'all rush out to toss
stuff at me *grin*) that I'm very well aware of the problems...

Who gets to be dictator?  An infinitely benevolent, omnipotent, omniscient
God seems to me to be the best choice (almost by definition).  Unfortunately,
God is MIA or otherwise not available for comment at the moment.  (Or at
least, interpreting what said God wants is left to us humans, who are not
exactly in agreement on the subject.)

Thus, we're stuck with second best.  For me, second best _is_ me.
Of course, I recognize respectfully that most people would disagree
vehemently that I would be _their_ second best choice.  *smile*

Furthermore, even if a compromise could be made on dictator, how does one
ensure benevolence once the dictatorship is established?  (Assuming, of
course, that the dictator is someone besides me; I think I can count on
myself to strive to keep myself happy.)  I don't think it's possible.

From a more practical standpoint (or at least one which I can implement
here and now with what I have), I feel that the statement "'An you harm
no one, do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" pretty much sums
up my (current) approach to life.  I won't make any more general comments,
since I also strongly believe that each person has to find the way that
works for him or her (and there's no reason on earth that their approaches
would have or should have to be the same as mine).

Just my two cents.  *grin*

--
Jedi Squire-in-Training (Bernard Hsiung, bshsiung@eecs.umich.edu)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar)
Subject: Re: greetings and subroutines
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 09:28:25 GMT

>"Ooops", says Starknight.  "I completely missed the fact that DM was saying
>the temp. was 9 C *below* the normal temp.  He's right, I'm wrong, and I'll
>shout him a drink for that..."

Danger Mouse smiles. "Wow, the net does fun things to situations like
this! No sooner had you made this (rather easy to make) boo-boo, but
Mishael fixed it up and you apologised! All before I could get another
word in!

"Well, thanks for the offer, Starknight. I think I'll have a nice large
mug of Darjeeling tea please."

He collects the mug from Mike as Starknight hands the bartender the dollar.
Then DM wanders over to the fireplace, happy to sit by it in yet another
rainy, wintry, Sydney summer evening.

- Danger Mouse.
From: ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Martyr wakes up...!
Date: 22 Dec 1992 02:39:02 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: degas.wag.caltech.edu

Martyr (Adrian.Waterworth@newcastle.ac.uk) writes:

(Nasty car accident, email problems, but successful thesis defense described.)

Abner nods.  "Well, I'm glad to hear that your thesis defense went well.  And
sorry to hear about your other problems.  On the plus side: at least you can
be sure that Santa will decide you were good, and bring you a present!  
After all, nobody takes coal to Newcastle!"

*Evil, sadistic (but seasonal) grin*
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe)
Subject: Re: January birthdays
Reply-To: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 01:06:00 +0000


Hippo birdies dear Rowan!!!! Hippo birdies to ewe all....
January *already* ... sheeesh
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| Ommmmmm, said the lift                    |maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk |
| Organisation: Me? You're joking, right?   |maryb@cix.compulink.uucp  |
|I know I type "teh" for "the" My fingers have their own accent ;-)    |
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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: hello
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 05:55:47 GMT

>Smiling for the first time since entering Callahan's as he raises the
>whiskey to his lips, Dreamweaver drinks deeply of life and hurls the shot
>glass in to the fire.

  Welcome to The Place !

-- 
         Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
                   Video. Cher: Love and Understanding.
From: daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom)
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 04:52:35 GMT
Subject: Re: The world, and what it'd be like...
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: alt.callahans

In alt.callahans, darkshot@rock.concert.net (Michael B Garrett -- Chudys) writes:

> 
> "I dunno. Maybe I'm too old to take part in the Place- maybe I shot my wad in
> looking for it, and so am unable to interact with the folks herein.

Maybe you are just being tendentious.

> 
> "I dunno. But it seems to me that you all _live_ here. The same names come
> up time and time again- and I jst don't get it.

Some are bored.  Some are hooked.  Some just like it.

I am none of the above.

> 
> "Trust me: The whole world is out there, and the only reason it doesn't
> work as well as the Place is because nobody's FORCED it to yet. The world
> DOES work in a rational manner around _me_; I demand that it does so.

Right.  Perhaps you should try entering an environment that is a
little less vulnerable to your influence.  Your rhetoric has 
a ring of EXTREME naivete.  One wonders if Reginald Denny could
have "demanded that the world around him work in a rational manner"
during the LA riots.  
> 
> "You can do the same."

To a limited extent, yes.

> 
> "I recognize myself in all of you- and what I don't pity, I welcome. You
> folks have been kind to me, and I thank you for it. Remember, though-
> Callahans's is where you find it. Ya just gotta LOOK for it.

Callahans is a usenet news group.  Nothing more.


doug
From: keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: greetings and subroutines
Date: 22 Dec 1992 19:23:53 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au

pechever@phakt.usc.edu (The Heckler) writes:

>Impu-Sebek looks up (again).  "Hm...maybe you mean 47 F?  17 F is below
>zero Celsius...that much I know. (0C=32F).  And 9 is barely chilly, anyway.

I think DM meant the temps were 9 degrees C _below_ the average (which
would be around 25 C at this time of year); the resulting temps would be
something like 15-17 C ... too cold for this time of year in Oz!

>"Who the H*ll was glorying over how 'nice' 90-100 F weather was?  I think it
>was YOU, come to think of it."  He glares accusingly.

It may have been me  :-)

>"That's not 'nice', that's bloody uncivilized!  Anything over 85 is too hot.
>Anything over 95 is much too hot.  Anything over 100 is just plain unfit for
>human habitation."  These dictums are of course stated with all the pompous
>weight of irrefutable fact.  *Gryn*.

I've never had problems with it ... I guess being a marine biologist, and
going "sampling" is sort of a solution to the temperature problem  ;-) 
For me, the hotter the better ... around here it can get up to 45 C in
summer - great weather!

Splash!

--
		Splash!		*To love is to LIVE!*
   (aka Mike van Keulen -- e-mail: keulen@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au)
From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson@somewhere.out.there)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Sunglasses (was Re: Hats)
Date: 28 Dec 92 04:26:13 GMT
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.
In-reply-to: ajm@wag.caltech.edu's message of 28 Dec 92 02:27:55 GMT

In article <1hlonbINNf99@gap.caltech.edu> ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz) writes:

>Chip Olson says:
>>"I am also among the myopic, and I have a pair of prescription sunglasses,
>>and they work really well for me. 
>
>"Gee, does that mean that we have to refer to you as a Myopic-American?"

"That being the new, Politically Correct equivalent of "Four-Eyes", I suppose?"

--
-Chip Olson. | olson@husc.harvard.edu | ceo@{gnu.ai,silver.lcs}.mit.edu 
"If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down?
Maybe we would if they screamed all the time for no good reason." -SNL
From: chuahl@ocf.berkeley.edu (Chua HakLien)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Off to Mexico, and an Irish Blessing
Date: 27 Dec 1992 06:41:22 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandstorm.berkeley.edu

"Well, I'll be off. Happy New Year to everyone. See you in about a
week's time!

"Here's something, courtesy of someone from alt.quotations, 
a newsgroup I suggested.

	May the road rise up to meet you,
	May the wind be always at your back,
	May the sun shine warm upon your face,
	    the rains fall soft upon your fields,
	and until we meet again,
		May God hold you in the palm of His hand.

					- Traditional Irish Blessing

"Hasta Luego."

C +

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: wonderful life
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 21:33:14 GMT




>	"Have I ever wondered what the world would be like without me?"
>Grant scratches his beard. "Too many times I should think.  As most of
>you know, I had an emotionally tumultuous childhood.

>	"Of course, you have to remember that the questions, 'What would
>the world be like without me?' and 'Would the world be better off without
>me?' are two entirely different things.  One is a question of philosophical
>interest, the other is (IMHO) a cry for help.  I've asked the second
>question too many times to not know.

>	"Gotta go now, I've got things to do."  

"good point grant...." kitten realizes that she really needs to be
more clear...like a chameleon on a glass.
--
***************************************************************************
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: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: a Guy in a Yankee's cap enters ...
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:15:48 GMT

speaker to minerals:

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

splash!:

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

kitten bounces up and down....and giggles delightedly at the thought
of a hot tub sized glass...full of french vanilla ice cream, green
fizzy soda, and didi.

--
***************************************************************************
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
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: Leaving Takings...
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 07:47:24 GMT

 youngj4@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Jeffrey 'Taldin' Young) writes:
>
>Taldin mumbles to himself anout keeping this short...
>
>>>CRASH!!!<<
>
>He finds real tears, now.  I need these.  
>
>P.S.  I'll be home this evening, and my net access shouldn't
>go away til sometime n January, I expect.  Will be back later.
>
>Taldin
>
>-- 
>TTTTT AA    LL DDDD   II   II NN      "I don't believe in a religion
>   TT  AA   LL DD  D  II   II NNNN      that doesn't believe in me."
>  TT  AAAA  LL DD   D   II II NN NN        Taldin The Blue Unicorn
> TT  AA  AA LL DDDDDD IIIIII  NN  NN          youngj4@pawl.rpi.edu

 "Farewell Taldin ! Glad to see you here for awhile, " DJ, Linda, and Robbie.

 "A farewell dance Taldin ? " Linda.

-- 
         Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
                   Video. Cher: Love and Understanding.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe)
Subject: Re: Hullo...
Reply-To: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 16:40:00 +0000


welcome to the Place, Gazer. Like a hug?
Mary MerryTail (short, plump, long blonde hair, with a long, blonde, 
furry, prehensile tail that's clutching an Irish coffee - today it's 
got green highlights and I *still haven't got the mistletoe out!)
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| Ommmmmm, said the lift                    |maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk |
| Organisation: Me? You're joking, right?   |maryb@cix.compulink.uucp  |
|I know I type "teh" for "the" My fingers have their own accent ;-)    |
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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: RIP (another... sigh)
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 05:48:55 GMT

>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...

   "Yes," DJ, Linda, and Robbie.

    <silence>

-- 
         Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
                   Video. Cher: Love and Understanding.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk (Clive Grace)
Subject: No subject 
Reply-To: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 23:24:00 +0000

Mary Bought me a Hat!
Mary Bought me a Hat...

MARY BOUGHT ME A HAT!

Taa-daa! Tanais perks up as she proffers a hat he said he liked in 
his direction. It's red, and circular, with a gold braid and a swirly 
deep blue pattern  on the top. There is no peak or rim, it's 
perfectly circular if you looked down on it. Worn like a skull cap, 
it perches rakishly from Tanais' head and two brown ears pop out from 
each side. The right ear is wiggling every now and then -- a sign of 
deep happiness.

His tail is perked up -- it's a *perfect* Hat. With great 
satisfaction he notices it can be turned inside out so that the black 
lining looks like a black skull cap for those "monochrome" days, or 
when he's feeling colourful he can wear it as it was intended -- just 
like Too Ticky's in "Moominland Midwinter" -- one of Tanais' 
favourite books.

Tanais begins a dance. He dances around the tables and chairs. He 
skips across the Dalek and over the bar. He smiles, he prances like a 
horse, he is joined by Kateri and falls over a wet patch of spilled 
beer laughing and giggling.

"Oh my..." he giggled..." Oh *Goodness me* [gasp] a dance was what I 
needed all [pant] along". I guess [pant] if you want to get ahead, 
get a hat.

This tired fox will see in 1993 a very happy creature indeed.

Know yourself loved -- or at least cared for. Thank you my friend 
MerryTail. It's a fitting present.

Tanais.
--
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| When I grow up, I want to give up being   |cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk|
| a Journalist and learn how to write...    |                          |
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|       Bisexual knitter of quality and distinction since 1992.        |
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From: tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Thomas J Lee)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Lamplighter & Aurora's New Year's Eve
Date: 1 Jan 93 17:39:32 GMT
Organization: Columbia University


	The Lamplighter says, "I think you'd like to hear about our New
Year's Eve ...."  He smiles.  "And if you wouldn't, then hit 'n.'  It's your
finger."

	"My beloved wife and sunshine-bear Aurora and I called some friends
of ours, Jim and Lori, and decided to go to the New Year's Eve Concert for
Peace at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, right down the street from
where we live.  So we went, and waited in a huge line (and read the signs --
Madeleine L'Engle is apparently the cathedral librarian), and got in about
ten people after they ran out of seats.  So, we stood along the side, in a
chapel, and watched.

	"The MC was Harry Smith, of CBS This Morning, and people like Li Lu
(one of the leaders of the Tiananmen Square demonstration, now studying at
Columbia) and Betty Friedan (a noted feminist writer) spoke.  The Brooklyn
Philharmonic played music by Haydn, Handel, Vivaldi, and others.

	"There was a message from the Primate of Nagorno-Karabagh.  He was
going to come himself, but there is no airplane fuel there anymore, so he
couldn't fly out.  Then Sahan Arzruni, an Armenian pianist (and last
descendant of the last king of Armenia) played a piece by Alan Hovhaness, an
Armenian composer.

	"After the candle lighting ceremony, we left, because we wanted to
catch the 'Spinal Tap' reunion show.  But we thoroughly enjoyed the concert.
James and Lori left before the witching hour came, and Aurora and I went to
bed shortly after.  An enjoyable night, it was," and he grins, "giving me an
opportunity to name-drop like I've never name-dropped before."

	"Now I must log off," he concludes, "to squeeze Aurora."

---==--===-+===++==+++=*+++**++***+****#****+***++**+++*=+++==++===+-===--==---
The Lamplighter             |"Arms wide, dancing inside
(Tom Lee)                   | I got the feeling
                            | Time tide, so mystified
tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu | I got the feeling"  -- Jamie Bernstein
From: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Unbe Awakens
Date: 21 Dec 92 22:28:31 GMT
Reply-To: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

In article <105417@bu.edu>, mjmh@crsa.bu.edu (Michael J M Holmes) writes:
|> In article <1golthINN2cl@gap.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
|> >In article <104386@bu.edu>, mjmh@crsa.bu.edu (Michael J M Holmes) writes:
|> 
|> =="The name '/*' actually came out of a conversation with one of
|> ==my 'oldest and bestest' friends.  He and I were discussing sf, and
|> ==I think we had just seen 'THX 1178' (or whatever that movie's title
|> ==is - help!),
|> 
|> >THX1138, I think.
|> 
|> /* jumps up - 
|> 
|> "Eureka!!"
|> 
|> "Yes, that was it!  Thanks, StM!!"
|> 
|> A purple frown appears.  "Its been so long since I saw it...
|> is it worth trying to rent?  I remember the conversations it sparked,
|> but little of the actual movie!  Aside from a few visual images, that is..."
|> 
|> :)

Starknight sticks his head in through an X-window.  "I knew the name of the
movie, but didn't reply (too busy with RL)...  It's one of my favorite films
of all time, the best thing that George Lucas has done (IMHO).  The basic plot
centers around the hero, THX1138 (yes, that's his name) and his problems
coping with his society (which claims to be Utopia, but is actually an Orwell-
ian totalitarianism, ala 1984 - pretty dystopic, if you ask me).  Eventually,
he gets thrown in prison...  Oh, hell, just go rent it.  It's a good movie,
and much better than Star Wars, I think."

"Thirsty work, this.  Mike, build me a strawberry daiquiri, please."

---------------
Starknight, aka Sean Roberts
Science-fiction fanatic and voracious reader
Newsgroups: alt.callahans