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From: U3E67@wvnvm.wvnet.edu (Cathy Ridings)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: In need of encouragement
Date: 3 Sep 92 17:03:50 GMT

Hi folks!
It seems there have been an alot of sad stories lately here, and I'm sorry
to say, I have one more.

It's about a college basketball player who on his way back to school after
Easter break had a car accident - ran into a stone embankment at appro.
60 mph!!  He and the driver survived!  The driver of the car, another teammate,
is now out of the hospital and just now learning how to walk my himself, with
a cane.

But Wilfred Kirkaldy is still in the hospital.  The doctors have told him
that they won't have to amputate both of his legs, but he has said recently
that he can't see the light at the end of the tunnel.  It looks as if his
hope has run out.  He needs some encouragement.  And that's why I'm  writing
to you all.  You have given so many HUGS and words of encouragement to the
folks in The Place that I wondered if you could share some with someone else.

My mother works in the basketball office of WVU and she loves " her boys ".
We have had some of them over to dinner and I can tell she really cares for
them.  When I heard about th status of Wilfred, I cried.  It is so cruel and
unfair.  Basketball was his life and now walking may not be possible.

Well if it is possible could some of you take a few minutes and write some
words of comfort for him?


You can Email it to me or send it to me at:

Cathy Ridings
WVNET
837 Chestnut Ridge Rd.
Morgantown,  WV 26505   USA

And I will get a package together for him, and mail all the letters together.

Thank You for your time!  :)(:  kissing smiley faces!

Cathy   U3E67@WVNVM.BITNET
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: dasher@well.sf.ca.us (D Anton Sherwood)
Subject: Latin by the pound
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 07:18:14 GMT

In article <keulen.715241794@possum> keulen@possum.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Mike van Keulen) writes:
>
>Isn't libra the plural of librium?  Being neutral gender, the ending is -um for
>singular and -a for plural.

If it _were_ a neuter noun, the singular would be LIBRUM.  But it isn't;
it's feminine.  The plural is LIBRAE.

(LIBRUM isn't in my little dictionary, and my big one is out of reach.)

Complicating the issue are LIBER (plural LIBRI), `book'; and the adjective
LIBERA / LIBER / LIBERUM (pl LIBERAE / LIBERI / LIBERA) `free'. 
If you speak French in London, and find a bargain, you can buy UN LIVRE (a
book, masculine) for UNE LIVRE (a pound, feminine).
-- 
Anton Sherwood *\\* dasher@well.sf.ca.us *\\* +1 415 664 2229
Libertarian candidate for California Assembly, 12th district
Opinions mine, but available for lease at easy terms.
From: seawasp@vm2.cis.pitt.edu (Sea Wasp)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Pittsburgh Gathering?
Date: 26 Aug 92 03:18:14 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Originator: seawasp@pmax1.cis.pitt.edu

In article <AeafsBi00awBQc4L4t@andrew.cmu.edu> jf2z+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Charles Fiala) writes:
>So, Pittsburgh Callahinians who wish to join in, please do let me know.
>And feel free to suggest a nice place to have brunch at... Eat'n'Park
>really doesn't cut it."

	"Well, I'd love to get together, but if you think Eat'N'Park, which
I think is quite nice actually, doesn't cut it, you'll be doin' it without
me! That's about as expensive as I can afford. None of this $15-20 buck per
person business..."


                                 Sea Wasp
                                   /^\
                                   ;;;
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Roll on summer!
Keywords: winter, summer, weather, diving
Date: 30 Aug 92 14:24:27 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana



>Splash wanders up to the bar, plonks down a dollar bill (slightly damp) and
>asks for a long black coffee.  When Mike hands him the steaming cup, Splash
>strolls over to the chalk line and declares:

>"To the end of winter in the southern hemisphere!"

>gulps down his scalding hot coffee, scalds his throat, wipes the resultant
>tears from his eyes and makes a mental note to ask Mike for luke-warm coffees in
>future.  A quick flick of the wrist sees the cup shatter in the middle of the
>fireplace.  Splash continues:

[   ]

>So saying, Splash wanders back to the bar, plops down another soggy dollar bill
>and asks "Can you fix me a luke-warm long black Mike?"

>Mike looks strangely at him and replies "Can you wait a few minutes while I put
>it in the ultra-fridge?"

>"Sure - I haven't got much else to do, what with this wretched weather!"
>Looking out the X-window to his lab, Splash notes that it's begun to rain again
>... rats!

kitten comes over to splash and offers her sympathy..."it is lovely
here today...probably one of my last chances to go swimming.  but fall
approaches ... and it is supposed to be a hard winter for the central
u.s. ...i can't complain about today...but you have my sympathy...take
heart, though...your spring is coming."  she sips the last of her
vanilla iced tea and  pitches her glass into the fireplace..."to the
kind of weather we want...no matter what that may be!"   crash!!!!!
--
***************************************************************************
conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten           /\ /\  barbara ann 
"my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?"      {=.=}
                                              ~   trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu 
"perhaps _any_ universe becomes real in proportion 
to the number of people who believe in it and spend time there." s. robinson
Organization: Sophomore, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Date: Thu,  3 Sep 1992 22:06:06 -0400 
From: Mark Beirne Lively <ml5a+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Never Never Land pt2

     The group slowly comes down through the clouds upon a large island, just
as the sun peeks it's head over the horizon.  The pixie calls for a landing.

     " By the way, whats your name?"  Bear asks the pixie.

     " I don't have one, can't you figure one out for me!."   <BOP>

     " Stop that <BOP>ING!  It was bad enough on the flight over.  I'll think
of a name for you later, for now you will be the pixie".
     <BOP>

     Bear looks up with a pained look in his face and raises his hand and says,

" Why me?!? Just tell me WHY ME?"

     A thundering response comes down from the heavens. " Well it seemed like a
good idea at the time."

     The group sets down on what should be Never never land.  But it never
looked like this.  It is dull and grey.  No color to it whatsoever.  It makes
the beginning of Wizard of OZ( book or movie take you pick, I prefer the
book :)) look like a neon acid trip.  The water has an eerie gray cast to it
and smells like raw sewage.  There are a few withered remains of trees, all
dry and broken up.  The sky has a pallid grey look, which oozes impending
doom.

     " Pixie " Bear yells, " You sure this is the right place?  This looks more
the bikini atoll( where the natives wear no bikini atoll:))"

     " Of coarse I am sure!" The pixie hovers indignately <BOP>

     " So, what exactly is the problem?  "

     " How should I know!  I am just a plot device!"

     " Then why do you keep <BOP>ing me?!?"

     " Because its funny! <BOP>

     Just then a head poppes out of the water, covered with slimy ooze.
The mermaid coughes and sputters.    " Pixie!! Where have you been?  What took
you soooo long.  You were supposed to go get help.  Peter has been captured by
pirates.  You have to go save him and NNL".

     " I did get help" and pixie turns around to look at her followers.

     " Some help!  Where did you get these mortals anyway?"  The mermaid asks.



     " For your info. Ms. slimy scales,  I got them from a very special place
called Alt.Callahans.  These people are known for their Understanding, Imag-
ination, Love and most of all HUGS. I will let them introduce themselves to you
and tell you about their happy thoughts that just may save our never land. "

     Bear jumps in here and asks " Did you say NNL? I thought we were hear to
save Never Never Land?"

     " Yeah I did, I guess I have been reading to much news recently.  And
besides I don't have to make sense, I am a plot device too!"

     " You're not going to <BOP> me too, are you?"

     " Come back alone and we'll see."  the mermaid grins slyly and dives
under.

AS WE LEAVE OUR GROUP, ONE BY ONE THE PARTY IS SHARING THIER HAPPY THOUGHT,
WHILE BEAR LUSTS AFTER THE MERMAID, WISHING HE WAS A BETTER SWIMMER........

By Mark Lively(ML5A@andrew.cmu.edu) and
Cathy Ridings(U3E67@WVNVM.bitnet)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: steve@Advansoft.COM (Steve Savitzky)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: a square grand
Date: 2 Sep 92 17:57:12 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Advansoft Research Corp, Santa Clara, CA

"I could spend a Megabuck in nothing flat" says the Mandelbear.  "By
the time I'd set up college funds for the two kids and paid off the
loan on the house it would be almost half gone.  Maybe enough left
over for a couple of cars and a couple of SGI Indigo's.  Then I'd
invest the other half and see whether I could live on the interest
while I tried to catch up on all the writing, music, and software
projects I have on hold.

"If we're up in the 10M range, though, I'd buy a 100-foot cruising
sailboat and sail around the world while the new house is being built."
--
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 \ steve@advansoft.COM \ 4301 Great America Pkwy \ Committee for a Free and \
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Organization: Senior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 19:50:37 -0400 
From: John Charles Fiala <jf2z+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Who are these people?
	<1992Aug23.155711.28754@cco.caltech.edu>
	<EeZwZjS00awAA3J2RM@andrew.cmu.edu>

John is sitting back at what he rather egotisticly calls 'his' table, covered
with various books, papers, computer stuff, books, and so forth, the usual
detrius that collects around any college student's work area.  He smiles,
sipping a celebratory drink due to his new job.  Em'ly is cleaning her toes
on his lap, george is off terrizing something.

"Hmm... Who am I, eh?  The question, indeed."

He takes a pull on his drink, and thinks.

"I am, in contrast, I sometimes think, to everyone else, very similar in RL
to how I portray myself here.  I am named John, I am six feet tall, and
slightly overweight.  I used to have a beard, but it got shaved off recently.
(I also used to be unemployed.  Whether these two are related are being
internally debated.)  Lessee... I have glasses, greenish eyes, a mustashe 
and hair brownish coloured, and usually go about in short sleaved shirts
and long pants.

"The cats are one of my bends from rl, although I do own a cat I call
george, and another I call Em'ly, the first is a flatcat, and the second
is electronic.  My other bend from reality is a steal from Japan, known
as the 'Ranma Curse'.  When I'm splashed with cold water, I turn into
a cute redhaired chinese girl.  When then splashed with hot water, I turn
back to 'normal'.  It's from a tv show/comic from Japan, where a boy
there gets the curse by falling into a cursed pool in Jhuhenkyo, China.
A fun thing to do, from time to time, and I do wish I did it in rl.

"Personality wise, I'm easy to get along with, and fairly quiet on the board,
which tends to get too busy for me to follow at times.  I'm both bi and
interested in B&D&c, so will, from time to time, show up in leather.  Now
that I've got a new job, just recently, I shall be able to buy all the
nice leather-
toys that I've had to forego.  :)

"Ah, well, time to split.  Seeya in the place."

-john
"Yes, [AIDS] is probably a message from God.  It's God trying
to show us how mean a healthy man can be to a sick man."
jf2z+@andrew.cmu.edu	-- Joe Bob Briggs
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: brumby@nella11.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen McNamara)
Subject: Re: Good Morning, Friends!
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 15:27:16 GMT

   The brumby stares in amazement at one particular survey result.

brumby@NELLA11.CC.MONASH.EDU.AU (Stephen McNamara) writes:

>   You are lucky that I noticed this, I haven't had time to read much of my
>mail lately, and I haven't read news for days!

   "Now what is *that* doing here?"
   The brumby carefully lifts up one corner of the virtual reality of the
post and looks at the news header underneath. Hmmm. 
   "Ucbvax huh? Oh well. I shall have to be more careful in checking mail
headers next time I reply to things. Not that I mind this being here but I
got rather a shock when my email showed up here."


-- 
     The Silver Brumby of          brumby@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
      the Silicon Plains

      The grass is always greener on the other side of the network.
From: daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom)
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 15:16:52 GMT
Subject: Re: Re: Good Morning, Friends!
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: alt.callahans

In alt.callahans, gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon) writes:

> Pet Peeves: People in their own world. 

Jeez, well, that would be EVERYBODY.

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon)
Subject: A friend is Dead
Organization: Open Age, Inc.
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 20:24:04 GMT


The Golden Gryphon walks back in to the place.  He looks really down, and
heads up to the bar.  Mike hands him something brown as he heads to the
chalk line without breaking stride.  He chugs the liquid and frowns at the
bitterness.  A listless fling and the glass shatters in amongst the rest.

"To Deal Whitley!"

"Deal died this weekend of conjestive heart failure.  He had been ill for
some time.  I have only had sporatic contact with him and those who
surrounded him on a regular basis.  But each time we met we fell into a 
something I called real friendship.  I haven't seen him or his SO, Dorothy,
since Thanksgiving.  Now I have to make arrangements to go north for the
funeral."

"Deal was a comic book artist whose characters were truely charming.  He
worked on anthropomorphes (animals with human  form and character).  He had
been working a long time on his own book, and I know that a few of his stories
were published in anthology type comic books.  The title was 
'Oppornockity Tunes:  100% Emotion'.  I remember the first time I met him.
I spent the entire time reading his portfolio works, and the fist set of 
stories as his characters made their way as freshman's in college.  I was
in absolute awe.  Dorothy had written the storys and Deal had put life in
them.  It was truely excelent work."

"A great artist and friend of mine is dead."  Says The Golden Gryphon as 
RL tears threaten to fall.  "It's 4:00 pm and I just found out.  I have
to go someplace else now, but I needed to do this first.  If any of you happen
to have know Deal Whitley, please feel free to contact me at (301) 948-6422.
This is my home number.  I can point you in the right direction."

"I had planned to jump back in when I had time to tell you of my trip to
California.  I felt a little embarrassed that I could'nt call or show up
at Grand Central Starport.  I am a great fan on The Mandelbear.  That post
just won't ever happen.  Please accept my appologies, I made promises to call
and couldn't keep them."

"I gotta go."

The Golden Gryphon plucks a long golden crest feather and throws it into
the fire.  Paul Fischer logs off and goes elsewhere until later.


-- 
The Golden Gryphon 				gryphon@openage.COM
Solve a man's problem and he has 1 less.        No incumbents in 92.
Teach a man to think, and all his problems are less.
Openage - The Premier SCO UNIX integrator in the Washington D.C. area
From: eoin@xocolatl.com (John F. Snyder)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: I'm off to MagiCon
Date: 31 Aug 92 18:30:17 GMT
Reply-To: eoin@xocolatl.com
Organization: Amethyst Systems, Fremont, CA

Early Tuesday I hop a plane for Orlando and MagiCon.

Hope to catch some you there.


    \|/  Eoin    eoin@xocolatl.com    * 
     *  ------   GEnie: J.SNYDER18   \|/    

PS:  As of midnight Monday night my vacation program kicks in. 
Hopefully I'll be able to telenet in to my account sometime over the
week and check my mail though.



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From: ceo@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Chip Olson)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: an extra birthday
Date: 3 Sep 92 02:47:43 GMT
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.

In article <1992Aug27.141530.19615@morrow.stanford.edu> GE.LJB@forsythe.stanford.edu (Louis J Bookbinder) writes:

>Balrog                  guest@carusso.ime.gov.sg (temp)         Sept  6, 1970
> -                      grapefruit juice      ^^
                                               
Where's this? .sg doesn't match any country I can think of offhand.
--
-Chip Olson. | ceo@silver.lcs.mit.edu | ceo@gnu.ai.mit.edu 
"I get drunk, drinking Guinness with Creme de Menthe in it. It's really
bad for you."  -Shane MacGowan.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: GE.LJB@forsythe.stanford.edu (Louis J Bookbinder)
Subject: an extra birthday
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 14:15:30 GMT

KLoing!

"Hey, Stan?! Where are you! Emergency request! We missed a birthday
person from the list. Drat! where is that scaley flutterbudget!" Nick
looks hopelessly among the rafters, with little effect.

"Well, here it is, anyhow. It is our very own, although MIA,

Balrog                  guest@carusso.ime.gov.sg (temp)         Sept  6, 1970
 -                      grapefruit juice

<SCREEEEEEEE!> trills a green firelizard diving from a dim corner. She
lands neatly on Nick's tin cap and starts carolling:

<HEEEEEPEEEEEE BEEEEEDEEEEE  TOOOOOOOO YOOOOOOOOOOOU>
Balloons! Birthday shower! Confetti! Rice! Left-over snowballs!
<HEEEEEPEEEEEE BEEEEEDEEEEE  TOOOOOOOO YOOOOOOOOOOOU>
The VPM Pings and proceeds to produce a Party Pastry of pretentious
pulchritude festooned with frivilous flowers of frosting.
<HEEEEEPEEEEEE BEEEEEDEEEEE  HEEEEEPEEEEEE BEEEEEDEEEEE>
Dragons bugle. Xwindows show Xfireworks. Alien space-ships flash lights.
<HEEEEEPEEEEEE BEEEEEDEEEEE  TOOOOOOOO YOOOOOOOOOOOU!> (Stan bows)

Nick is amazed. "Where did you get all that other stuff?! The balloons?
The cake?! The fireworks? I do not understand this! Ah, well! Enjoy,
enjoy. Thank you little knucklehead. You sing as lovely as ever."
<SKNOOOOO!>

Nick Chopper - my opinion? ax not! LB>-}  BOOKY@Forsythe.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: uribe@jarthur.claremont.edu (Lydia Uribe)
Subject: Re: Good Morning, Friends!
Keywords: me, too! ;-)
Organization: Claremont Shelter for Maladjusted Singers
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 07:59:45 GMT

Current Name: Soprano
Alter Ego: Lydia M. Uribe
Birth Date: 9/5/53
Birthplace: Travis Air Force Base, Fairfield, California, USA (YES!!  An
	honest-to-goodness *Native Californian* (tm) ;-)
Residence: Claremont, California (September to June)
           Little Deer Isle, Maine (June to September)
Sex: ayup (OK, so I *just* got back from Maine and the accent hasn't worn
	off yet.... ;-)
Gender: female
Sexual Orientation: if it matters, heterosexual
Marital Status: married (good lord, 16.5 years!)
Offspring: none (unless you count my cat, who is treated like one.... ;-)
Siblings: 1 younger sister
Blood type: O+
Hair: dark brown
Eyes: brown with my contacts; hazel without them
Height: 5'6" (168cm)
Weight: 128lb (58kg)
Distinguishing Features: my hair is hip-length, worn in a ponytail
Dominant Brain Hemisphere: given my tendency to say "right" when I point to
	the left and vice versa, who knows?
Physical Deformities: do birthmarks count?
Music Preferences: anything but C&W and rap, especially if I can sing it!
Favourite Books: historical fiction, science fiction
Pet Peeves: the baritone next to me at rehearsals who won't keep his hands
	to himself.... ;-(
Favourite Movies: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers; Allegro Non Troppo
Least Favourite Activities: paperwork
Most Favourite Activities: singing, diving, singing, quilting, singing,
	cooking.... ;-) 
Quotes that can be attributed to me: "Holy cats!!"
Hobbies: singing, scuba diving, quilting, genealogy, cooking 
Political affiliation: I'm a very reluctant Democrat 
Allergies: mosquito bites
Occupation: by training and experience, I'm a pharmacist; I'm currently on a
	seven-month sabbatical as a wildly happy domestic engineer.  If
	there were some way that I could earn the living to which I've
	become accustomed by singing, however.... ;-)
Favourite Foods: scallops, tomatoes, corn, popcorn (really balanced diet
	there.... ;-)
What I regret most: Not having realized the extent of my vocal talent early
	enough to have had a shot at developing it professionally -- 39 is a
	little too old to start trying to become a professional opera
	singer....
Favourite TV shows: good grief -- the last thing I watched with any
	regularity was "Hill Street Blues" (and how long has *that* been off
	the air?)
Parting words: "Hey, can we sing that again?!"

+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Soprano (Lydia M. Uribe)                      uribe@jarthur.claremont.edu |
| Claremont, CA                                  uribe@hmcvax.claremont.edu |
|           Cats, quilts and diving -- what more could anyone ask?          |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: yho@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Yue-shun E. Ho)
Subject: Re: RealSpace!  RealSpace!  (maybe?)
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 21:41:08 GMT

In article <nyhnss=.aahz@netcom.com> aahz@netcom.com (Aahzmandius) writes:
>I'm going to be taking a trip at the beginning of October to visit my
>ProblemOlderWoman's parents in Detroit.  We will also be travelling to
>Toronto for a few days, and we'd like to meet whatever Callahanians are
>accessible in either of those two cities.
>
>I'll be arriving in Detroit Sept. 30, going to Toronto Oct. 1, back to
>Detroit on Oct. 4, and leaving the evening of the 5th.

Welcome, welcome...  remember to show me your teeth when you get to Toronto...
  I can be reached at +1 416 452 4934 (work) or +1 416 272 1322 (home).

silly yue-shun

Newsgroups: alt.callahans