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From: hollombe@polymath.tti.com (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Friends ... forever ...
Date: 30 Sep 92 19:27:54 GMT
Organization: The Cat Factory


The Polymath steps into the ring of firelight.

"With respect to Smoke and the Artful Dodger, I speak to the living.

"I hardly knew the Dodger.  I only saw his posts go by in Callahans.  I
don't think I ever replied to one.  Never the less, his passing saddens
me, the more so for having heard him described by those who knew him well.
A light has gone out of our group and will be missed.

"I don't know what was in the Dodger's mind when he chose to end his life.
I do know that, as a suicide, the final decision was his to make, and his
alone.  I'm sure he had his reasons and, to him, they seemed good ones at
the time.

"Despite recent adversity, he was not without resources and support in the
world.  He knew some of you well.  He could have reached you if he wanted
to.  For reasons of his own, he chose not to.

"That is not your fault.

"There is no fault associated with this tragedy.  We all thought well of
the Artful Dodger.  We did what we could for him and would have done more,
given the opportunity.  It is right that we should grieve and mourn his
passing, but do not take on any burden of guilt for it.

"Likewise, place no blame on the Dodger.  He did what he thought he had to
do.  It is not for us to judge his actions."

He turns to the fire and takes a battered Swiss Army Knife from his
pocket.

"I don't know what kind of afterlife the Artful Dodger believed in, or
what he might need there now.  I've often found this useful in this life.
It's served me well for nearly 20 years.  Perhaps it will be of use to
him."

He adds the knife to the fire and returns to the shadows.

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: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Pegasus Objects (RE Gypsy)
Date: 26 Sep 1992 21:52:43 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <1992Sep24.151450.11813@crc.ricoh.com>, rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove) writes:
>But a Gypsy must have a vardo and I really didn't
>see how else I could get from California to Michigan to
>Alabama to Florida to California in 10 days unless we could
>fly! So I enlisted my old friends.

You couldn't just buy a used Lear jet and paint it appropriately?
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From: uribe@jarthur.claremont.edu (Lydia Uribe)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Burma Shave Signs (was Re: Song of Sixpence - Part Five)
Date: 6 Oct 92 23:52:25 GMT
Organization: Claremont Shelter for Maladjusted Singers

In article <1992Oct6.194026.14649@ra.msstate.edu> jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce) writes:
>
>      "Did any of you ever hear the Burma Shave song ?!? I did ! Back about
> 1957. I also remember the signs...

[examples deleted]

Soprano grins.  "I'm not *quite* old enough to remember seeing Burma Shave
signs, but I remember being told about them by my parents.  One example that
sticks in my memory went

		"Missed the turn
		 Car was whizzin'
		 Fault was her'n
		 Funeral his'n"

;-) ;-)

> Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science

					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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| Soprano (Lydia M. Uribe)                      uribe@jarthur.claremont.edu |
| Claremont, CA                                  uribe@hmcvax.claremont.edu |
|           Cats, quilts and diving -- what more could anyone ask?          |
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From: rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Phoenix arrives
Date: 5 Oct 92 20:47:40 GMT
Reply-To: rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove)
Organization: RICOH California Research Center

Gypsy listens to Phoenix as she arrives, dodging
away from the fires as many of her scarves are 
very combustible!  When Thyra has cooled Phoenix
down, Gypsy approaches.

"Blessed be, may I offer you the drink of your choice?"

And zen hugs, of course.

Rowan (Gypsy Woman)

Rowan Fairgrove
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Yow... a Form Letter!
Date: 26 Sep 1992 23:19:40 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <1992Sep23.155115.18631@reed.edu>, turner@reed.edu (My goodness, I thought you were dead.) writes:
>In article <19d2g6INN7vq@gap.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
>>Could you give us a hint as to geographical location?
>
>Caithelin blushes at first...then looks up at the header and realizes that
>in the header is her organization....

StM fiddles with the settings on his news reader software, getting it to spit
out the ORGANIZATION header line, which he'd had disabled (along with the
APPROVED, DISTRIBUTION, MESSAGE_ID, PATH, REFERENCES, SENDER, SUMMARY, and XREF 
headers;  the FROM, DATE, NEWSGROUPS, SUBJECT, FOLLOWUP_TO, EXPIRES, KEYWORDS,
LINES, and REPLY_TO headers take up enough of his screen).  "Hmmm.  So your
organization DOES include a geographical area.  So there WAS a HINT.  Given the
way the net works, though, that can hardly be considered definitive.  I could,
if necessary, post to alt.callahans from any of about a dozen machines
associated with Caltech, University of Maryland, Princeton, or University of
California, and located in Pasadena, California; College Park, Maryland;
Princeton, New Jersey; or Santa Cruz, California.  With a a little effort, I
could probably post from Lick Observatory, wherever that is.  Hell, *MY*
organization line says ``HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera,'' but as near as I
can tell, I'm not in orbit at the moment :-)"
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From: u906451@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (Damien Saunders)
Subject: schooling
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 01:31:47 GMT

Now to confuse anyone who isn't a Australian, I will run you through the
local equivalent of my Schooling up to University (now)

Primary School: Kindergarden, Grades 1 to 6. (grade 6 I was 11.)
High School: Grades 7 to 10 (grade 10 I was 15)
College: 1st and 2nd year (2nd year I was 17)
University: 1st, 2nd, 3rd (now I am 20)

BTW I have had fun with my friends reactions to getting contact lenses after
having glasses for about twelve years. On friday I arrived with my glasses and
my hair about shoulder length (I grow my hair over Autumn through to Spring)
and turned up after lunch with a quite short haircut and contacts. Monday I
also got some people concerned about me supposedly breaking my glasses. :)

Hear from you lot again soon

Damien - Southernmost member of the bar.

--
`Of COURSE I was glad to get rid of him, he's flipped. He's got mad droid
disease! He kept waving a banana in front of me and calling it a femalE
aardvark'  --Red Dwarf, "Camille" 
Damien Saunders (Gunnar Njalsson [SCA]) Email: u906451@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: dgil@ipsaint.ipsa.reuter.com (Gillett, David)
Subject: Re: toast
Reply-To: dgil@ipsaint.ipsa.reuter.com (Gillett, David)
Organization: Reuters APL Software Division
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 15:04:21 GMT

     Really, Splash!

     Please people -- don't arc-welding without a proper helmet/mask, which
will protect your face and eyes from burns, blindness, and flying bits of hot
metal.
                                      Mentor, married to a welder

-----------Message forwarded from IPSA Mailbox-------------
Newsgroups: alt.callahans

In alt.callahans, moh2@quads.uchicago.edu (Kateriwrites:

> Kateri...coming back to callahans and Holomuck after a long absence,
> is stunned.
> 
> "I feel like we failed him somehow.  Isn't the purpose of this place
> to take care of people?"
> 
> "Please, if there's anybody else out there even *thinking* of suicide,
> talk to us?"

No.  People here are NOT qualified as suicide counselors.  If you
are considering suicide, seek professional help.

This place is not capable of caring for people who have emotional
problems that might drive them to suicide.  This place is a diversion,
a place for people to come to talk.  It is not an adequate substitute
for counseling.

Kateri, you failed noone, and nobody here failed anyone.  This is not,
cannont, and should not be a hospital.

doug
From: rmarsh@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Song of Sixpence
Date: 4 Oct 92 23:11:26 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <1992Oct3.195939.12583@data-io.com>, li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus) writes:
> I am absolutely and completely flabbergasted.  The wealth and richness of
> the birthday event as it flowed by was most impressive.  And the gifts...
> 
> Goodness gracious, you people are amazing.  :)
> 

  Stumpy tips his hat to Liralen (where did that hat come from?) and says
in his best Bogart immitation (which is passable but not great) "It ain't
over yet darlin'." He reaches into one of the deep pockets of the
trench-coat that has appeared with the hat and draws out an ornately carved
hour-glass. There are a few moments of appreciative oohs and aahs before
someone points out "Hey! The sand's all stuck in the top!" Stumpy grins.
"We just started daylight savings over here. I figured since I turned up
late, it would be appropriate to give the hour I saved to the birthday
girl." He smiles and hands the glass to Liralen. "Happy Birthday."
  He turns, the trenchcoat and hat fading rapidly and is about to walk away
when suddenly he turns back. "Oh yes! I almost forgot... something else I
recently discovered. After you've finished with the pot-stickers, perhaps
you'd like a fortune cookie? I'd never seen them before... ah... your 
birthday actually." He extracts a small bag from the pocket of the
Technicolor Dream Shirt (tm) and hands that to Liralen too. "May good
fortune follow you wherever you go." He smiles again and hugs Liralen 
before moving off in search of Grant's candy apples...

-- 
Robert 'Stumpy' Marsh | 95 Fairfield Rd | I can't reply to E-Mail, but 
rmarsh@waikato.ac.nz  | Hamilton        | don't let that stop you sending.
+64 7 855 4406        | New Zealand     |
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: saiki@mpg.phys.hawaii.edu (L. Saiki)
Subject: Re: colorfully descriptive phrases
Organization: University of Hawaii, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 15:42:43 GMT


I just heard this last night on the television..

"As ready as a ham sandwich at a church picnic."

-- 
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
     The end!					 L. Saiki	
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Organization: Sophomore, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 22:46:44 -0400 
From: Mark Beirne Lively <ml5a+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Old Coots test
	<1a2u30INNsg8@gap.caltech.edu>

>>  I'm sure there are lots of things we could be nostalgic about, but
>>I'm glad a cure was found for polio, small pox, and several other
>>things.
>
>Just to be picky, no cure has been found for either polio nor smallpox, and
>participation in vaccination programs for both has taken a nosedive in
the last
>15 years.  If there are still natural pockets of either, or if the lab samples
>somehow get loose, we could be in *BIG* trouble.
	Actually with small pox they have found a somewhat cure.  Annihilation.
 In a few months I think it is there will be another creature added to
the extinct species list and that will be smallpox.  It is being
preserved on computer disk.  Just incase its ever needed.

Intellectual Detrivore
Bear aka the Lord High Rulebender aka (ML5A@ANDREW.CMU.EDU)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Friends ... forever ...
From: DPERRY@eagle.wesleyan.edu (DAVID M. PERRY)
Date: 27 Sep 92 17:19:44 EDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Wesleyan University
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20In-Reply-To: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU's message of Sun, 27 Sep 92 18:13:54 GMTLines: 25

In <1992Sep27.181354.22341@nntp.uoregon.edu> JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU writes:

> In article <1992Sep26.161957.6297@cs.mcgill.ca>,
> braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca  (The Didi-Sprite) writes:
> > "Listen up everyone!"  she cries.  "Arty has left us in the physical
> > sense ... but otherwise he is till a part of The Place!  Yes!  Of course
> > he is!  He lives on in our memories ... and he lives on in his own
> > words.
> > 
> > Didi lifts her glass and cries:
> > 
> > 	       "Best Wishes, Artful Dodger!
> > 		Peace and Happiness be yours forever!"
> > 
> > The -Sprite turns and hurls her now empty glass into the fireplace.  
> > For the next few minutes Callahans resounds with the sound of 
> > splintering glass.

Jack Crow makes his toast:

	"One of our mottos, there are no strangers only friends we haven't
	 met yet.  To the Artful Dodger, a friend I never met.  Blessed Be."

			<<<<<Crash>>>>>

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jhitch@crash.cts.com (Jeffrey Hitchin)
Subject: Christmas is busting out all over!
Date: 29 Sep 92 07:37:59 GMT

	Grant has his radio on the table playing "A Carpenter's Chistmas."
His various holiday rubber stamps are strewn across the table with his
glue pen, heat gun, various embossing powders, and Kromekote put where 
there is any leftover space.

	"You might be wondering why I'm jumping the gun here," he says.
"Well, actually, I didn't jump the gun first.  Everywhere I go, the
Christmas stuff is going up!  Geesh!  I haven't decided what my Halloween
outfit will be!  I'm hoping this will give me ideas."  Grant holds up
a copy of _All Hallows' Evil_ by Valerie Wolzein.  "Murder in Suburbia
on Halloween.  Gotta love it.

	"Anyway, when I was in the Price Club - that's a discount membership
warehouse type thingee - they had a big display of musical Christmas
ornaments.  Later that week, most every stripped rerun show that was
on had the Christmas episodes playing.  They were mostly dippy and sappy
and horribly ANNOYING!

	"I shouldn't get so overworked about it, but I like Christmas.
Maybe not the crass commercialism or the large gaudy billboards
proclaiming 'Jesus is the reason for the season' but I like the music,
the sights, the smells, the early wintertime.  Yes, in San Diego we
do have an approximation for winter!

	"I don't know, it just seems too sudden to think about Christmas
now.  Well, since I'm hand-making my cards this year, I'd better get
busy.  If anyone wants to express a little creativity - here a Kromekote
greeting card and stamp pads.  I have all the stamps you'll need, but
you'll have to provide the ideas!"


Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove)
Subject: Re: schools re: Old Coots Test
Reply-To: rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove)
Organization: RICOH California Research Center
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 20:25:30 GMT


Somebody sez: (uncited in Saiki and I don't remember who it was)
 >	"SKIPPED SCHOOL???? 
>	"In HIGH SCHOOL? I mean, if you meant in college, okay,
>I can see that, but how did anyone have enough money in high school
>to afford to go to a nice restaurant... and how could you get OUT
>of the school in the first place?"

L. Saiki sez:

> "We had a very nice shopping mall near the school, so all we did
>was walk/drive off campus and go to one of the restaurants and eat 
>there.  All of us could - somehow - afford it.  It wasn't so bad 
>really since lunches would go for 5-10 dollars a person which was 
                                                     ^^^^^^^^ seems like a lot to me!

>within range of our allowances...but if I wanted to buy records, I
>would have to lay off the fun stuff for a while since I go 
>berserk when it came to buying imported underground records..."

This thread reminds me that in junior high (7-9) we used to skip
school and catch the bus off base into Panama City to go to 
Discolandia, the big record store, to check out the 45's.  And yes,
this was long enough ago that there were listening rooms in 
record stores.

Being a Navy child and moving so much, I felt quite cheated
when I left junior high before ninth grade and started at a
four year high school.  I never got to be top of the heap but
was stuck straight from being in the middle to being 
-gasp- frosh.  It seemed terribly unfair! 

I also left my (next) high school before my senior year so I
never got to be a "senior" type in my young years and after
that it never seemed to matter particularly.  I have never gone
to a graduation ceremony... although I might have for my
MLS if it hadn't conflicted with BayCon (and science fiction
wins over library science any day)!

Rowan (Gypsy Woman)
An Old Cootessa (and feeling it today)

Rowan Fairgrove
From: rcb33483@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (ArchTeryx)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Coming in for a landing, ArchTeryx!
Date: 4 Oct 92 00:45:41 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

feath@agora.rain.com (Feather) writes:

>Feather gets into a mischevious mood.

>From out of nowhere, fluttering is heard, and the small gray avian suddenly
>comes in for a landing...  right on Archteryx's huge beak, making him utterly
>crosseyed looking at her.  Feather grins!

>"Hi, there!"

ArchTeryx yeeps a little, and looks, yes, crosseyed at the Feather-ball.
(Though since his eyes are on the side of his head it isn't too noticeable).

ArchTeryx then finds his voice.  Without moving his bill (though his throat
moves visibly) he says, "Hello there, little fellow.  As my favorite dragon
Berith often likes to say, what can I do you for? ;>"


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R. Cody Buchmann                             ^.^  
  "ArchTeryx"                          "Of *course* I understand you--I speak 
email: rcb33483@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu       1406 intergalactic avian dialects!"  
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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: keulen@possum.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Mike van Keulen)
Subject: Re: BAH! HUMBUG! (was Re: Christmas is busting out all over!)
Organization: Murdoch University
Date:  2 Oct 92 03:39:48 GMT

rmarsh@waikato.ac.nz writes:
>> 
>> "A hex upon you all," cries Castellan. 
>> 
>  "We've bin-hexed!" Stumpy yelps. "I think I'm losing feeling in my toes and
>my fingers are number too..."
                       ^^^

I thought hex was base 6???

Splash!

--
***************************** Michael van Keulen *************************** 
* Snail: School of BES - Biology         e-mail: keulen@murdoch.edu.au     *
*        Murdoch University              phone:  ++ 61 (09) 360-2843 (work)*
*        Murdoch WA 6150  AUSTRALIA              ++ 61 (09) 417-3902 (home)*
*************************** "To Love is to _LIVE_!" ************************
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus)
Subject: Re: Young Coot's thoughts... (was Re: Old Coots tests)
Organization: Data I/O Corporation
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1992 16:16:48 GMT

In article <RANDOLPH.92Sep24220330@cognito.ebay.Sun.COM> randolph@cognito.ebay.Sun.COM (Randolph Fritz) writes:
>Randolph smiles, "Ah, yes, the bad old days.

Liralen grins and listens to Randolph's description of the old PDP-11 he
used to use, and nods...

>"There's a lesson there, somewhere."

She laughs softly.  "Yeah... for the bulk of my home use, I use a $400
laptop that has an 8MHz 8088 with two floppies and one parallel port that
can plug into a modem or another PC.  It responds faster than I can type,
on the most part, and that's all I need for text stuff, news, and email,
because it becomes a dumb terminal when I'm called in somewhere.  It's
entirely useless for any real design work; but I expected that."

She scrunches her nose a little, and a pair of glasses appear, 3/8th of an
inch on the side... at the moment, her allergies are acting up enough to
mess with her eyes.  "I guess that the only lesson that I can think of
would be that the tools we need for human interaction aren't nearly as
complicated as the tools we need to build more tools for building more
insane systems... which, in turn, get used to built other tools as well..."

"Technology begat more Technology, begat even more gnarly Technology..."
she chuckles, "Perhaps we should move this line to a.2c?"  She shakes her
head, "Nah..."
---
Liralen Li - li@inigo.data-io.com
From: rmarsh@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Cultural Exchange (was Re: Schooling)
Date: 6 Oct 92 23:42:55 +1300
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <1992Oct6.062507.3135@ucc.su.OZ.AU>, mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar) writes:
> Still, I
> think a decent rugby team could run circles around any NFL team, provided
> they don't have to wear all that damned armour."

  "A rugby league team should do especially well since the scrimmage is 
fairly close to the concept of the dummy half." Stumpy grins... "And if 
the Aussies start to lose their supremacy (which they inevitably will 
eventually) the Kiwi teams will take all comers until the Aussies knock 'em
off the top spot again."

  He turns and performs the international gesture of 'invitation to 
high-five' to DM and Nightstalker...

-- 
Robert 'Stumpy' Marsh | 95 Fairfield Rd | I can't reply to E-Mail, but 
rmarsh@waikato.ac.nz  | Hamilton        | don't let that stop you sending.
+64 7 855 4406        | New Zealand     |
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus)
Subject: Re: Sticker Shock
Organization: Data I/O Corporation
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 20:00:50 GMT

In article <STEVE.92Sep28104311@diana.Advansoft.COM> steve@Advansoft.COM (Steve Savitzky) writes:
>"Here's to new ventures!" says the Mandelbear, as he flings a glass
>that once held Genever into the fireplace.  "It's amazing what a large
>bank balance will do to your sense of values.

Liralen chuckles... and flings a glass as well.  Being in exactly the same
place as the Mandelbear in terms of just having refinanced the house and
in the middle of a remodelling job.  She listens to the Mandelbear tell of
the purchase and grins at the end.

>"I *hate* making expensive, difficult decisions that I'm going to have
>to live with for years and years -- seems like I've been doing it too
>much these last few weeks.  Two more in the next couple of weeks that
>I know of: which job to take, and which flavor of PC to buy.  GAAAK!

She chuckles, and thinks about how she and the JF resolved the problem,
there's a 386 in the guest room, a laptop that floats around with them
whenever they go on a trip, and a Mac that sits upstairs by the modem...

>"Hi, Liralen! Good to see you back in the Place."

"Hi, Mandelbear, it's good to see you as well..." and she gives him a hug.

>The Mandelbear loses focus and slowly drifts off in the general
>direction of -i, causing his cross-section to flatten out and finally
>vanish in a blaze of disconnected fractal sparks.

She shakes her head, chuckles, and sits back down at Jilara's table.
---
Liralen Li
li@inigo.Data-IO.com