HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
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From: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe)
Subject: Re: One quick question
Reply-To: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:18:00 +0000


MerryTail's still not looking too merry, but she looks up
"I have six of the Max Headroom series on grainy tape at double speed 
- there's an incentive for people to come and visit Bath (I know the 
new vid plays NTSC, I'll find out if it tapes as well) - after a 
suggestion by Tanais, now known as Grand Oreo Central
"Oreos - best thing to happen to me so far this week (it's only 
tuesday...
"Mike - got something nice and warming and anti-flu?"
MerryTail snuffles a bit and looks out at the hail, sleet and snow 
she had to wait at the bus stop in
"I like my cold weather *virtual*"
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| Organisation: Me? You're joking, right?   |maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk |
|                                           |                          |
|I know I type "teh" for "the" My fingers have their own accent ;-)    |
|                           OK, I just can't type ;-))                 |
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From: rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Look, ma!  Portholes!
Date: 5 Jan 93 21:29:58 GMT
Reply-To: rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove)
Organization: RICOH California Research Center

> Suddenly the portholes burst open and in flutters a giggling Didi-Sprite
>looking only slightly the worse for wear after her brush with various
>vampire- and werewolf-types.  (Isn't Paris famous for them?)

>"Hi, Everyone!  I'm back!"  she calls out happily.  "I could sure use
>a nice cold 'n' tart lemonade, Mike!"

A seal woman trailing a suspiciously Gypsy-like flurry of multi-
hued and tartan scarves swims strongly across the Place pulling
up just in time to miss barrelling into the Sprite.

Welcome back, my friend.  We have been worried about you.
Please come and join the party and do not hesitate to ask for
whatever you need.  Here is a fresh-squeezed lemonade, I think
Mike already knew you were coming!

And from me, here is a tartan scarf in a hunting sett, the muted
greens and blues and browns appropriate for winter time.  It 
will keep you warm and help to keep you well for I have put
a little magic into it so that when you think of me, my energy
will be available to you.

Bright blessings,

Gypsy

Rowan Fairgrove

*****************************************
Current Book: Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers
Current Music:  Pomegranate
Current Movie: 'Oss 'oss, wee 'oss
Current Holiday:  Twelfth Night
Current Drink: Mumm's Extra Dry
From: narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: No subject
Date: 9 Jan 1993 08:58:14 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: casc.math.uh.edu

Thyra writes :
>Thyra giggles. "Nope, you'd be right -in- line for a conga! Say Brumby!
>Swim over here and join us. we're going to dance a Conga!"

>Hugs and Purrs,
>Thyra

Okay, which song, then? And for that matter, um ... : HEY EVERYBODY, COME ON
AND JUMP ON IN! 

Happiness is a crowded dance floor.

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* Noah Ramon - The Bi-Bulb     * Your only limitation is your own *
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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: an idle observation
From: djsnyder@husc10.harvard.edu (David Snyder)
Date: 8 Jan 93 13:37:51 EST
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

In article <1993Jan8.052338.6921@eskimo.com> jammer@eskimo.com (Lyle Harwood) writes:
>Stephen McNamara (brumby@nella7.cc.monash.edu.au) wrote:
>: 
>:    This guys a real card, ain't he?
>: 
>: kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>: >JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jason) said in
><JBrandt-030193162045@aaa.uoregon.edu>:
>: >> had eluded him. Shadow kept poking her nose into his deck, and
>Pegasus said
>: >> "There are times I want to pull that Decker's Jack.", so Jason
>jacked out
>: >But then his deck won't be playing with a full jack!
>: 
>:    "The deuce you say!"
>: 
>: -- 
>
>Yes, and he ought to be dealt with.
>A true shufflebrain.
>He should consider himself marked.
>When he needs a hand, he should just say so.
>I say this thread has gone to pot, and we're making enought noise
>to raise the dead.
>Someone's going to call the authourities.
>there's going to be a real showdown, and I'm not sticking around for it.
>I'll pass that responsibiliie on.
>If my ante where here, she'd be horiffied.
>I say we should throw him in solitare.
>And feed him fish.
>
>Jammer opens the door, and two gorrillas walk in. They immediatly go to
>the phone, and begin dialing phone numbers at a horrendous rate, buying
>and selling stocks & bonds, dialing again, selling, hanging up, dialing,
>dialing, dialing.
>
>Jammer, with a sweeping bow, announces:
>
>"Or, as a final option, we could just turn him over to the Crazy Apes."
>
>Jammer dives for his dark corner to avoid the peanuts.

The Dalek (back from a quick jaunt to Skaro) opens fire with his peanut
gun.  But as he is a Dalek, the peanut misses Jammer, bounces off the
wall and strikes the Daleks own eyepiece.  Ouch.

The Dalek
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: parakeet@wixer.cactus.org (Jim Eikner)
Subject: Re: To New Life!
Organization: Real/Time Communications
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 22:53:22 GMT

Parakeet pushes back the brim of his Stetson and says...

"Keep your powder dry, kid. And good shootin', Darkshot."

He then scans the room for any errant peanuts...



                                              --- Parakeet ---

-- 

"...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in
 the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows
 and the storied wall."                                      --- RLS ---
From: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Impressive knitting
Date: 5 Jan 93 14:32:09 GMT
Reply-To: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

In article <726047525snx@redunser.demon.co.uk>, mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk (Alan Ralph) writes:
|>In article <memo.836941@cix.compulink.co.uk> cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
|>>In-Reply-To: <C07pzv.IA4@agora.rain.com> feath@agora.rain.com (Feather)
|>>TITLE: Re: Impressive knitting
|>>
|>>> "Aren't you guys getting a bit knit-picky?"
|>>
|>>Knot at all!
|>
|>Oh god, these puns have got me in cross-stitches! I'd better lie down and rest
|>or I might unravel! :-)

"Purls of humour to keep us in stitches, eh?  Let me weave my few strands here
with yours, to try to keep this thread alive..."

Starknight leans back in his chair, a mischevious smile playing across his face.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: aaron@atlantis.uucp
Subject: Re: Snowball
Organization: Atlantis Communications, Edmonton, AB, Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 04:54:30 GMT

Rowan Fairgrove (rowanf@crc.ricoh.com) wrote:
: Gypsy looks up at her friend's voice, but when she understands
: the request she shudders. <There are a lot of things that I am
: willing to try in VR that I don't in RL, but the idea of voluntarily
: going out into the snow is *not* among them!>

"Well, Gypsy, we may not agree on Analog, but we agree on one thing, anyway...
If I wasn't so proud to be a Canadian, I'd move somewhere warm..."

-- 
---Alfvaen(Still looking for "October's Baby")
"I'm gonna follow my feelings...I'm gonna follow my senses...I'm gonna follow   my compass!"  --Lone Justice
Current Album--Tom Waits:Blue Valentine
Current Read--OnSpec Winter '92
From: keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Moving Right Along
Date: 6 Jan 1993 22:52:12 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au

jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce) writes:

>>Toothpick, glowing, smiles.
>>
>>"To 1993, which will be the best year of my life."

>     "And I say, without doubt ! " DJ. { Thinking positive I am. }

Is there any other way to think, now really?

Splash!

--
		Splash!		*To love is to LIVE!*
   (aka Mike van Keulen -- e-mail: keulen@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au)
From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Charles Olson)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: purple
Date: 13 Jan 93 05:03:20 GMT
Organization: Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services, Cambridge, MA
In-reply-to: schweppe@acs.bu.edu's message of 12 Jan 93 17:32:25 GMT

In article <106870@bu.edu> schweppe@acs.bu.edu (Edmund Schweppe) writes:
>Suddenly, Merlinvin has a vision.
>
>He imagines Joe College, UIUC freshman extraordinaire, flushed with pride
>after having finally finished his first term paper.  Unfortunately, he
>forgot to renew one of the references that contributed to his scholastic
>success and it is now two days overdue.  Being, after all, a fine and
>upstanding young man, he is the first one in line when the library opens,
>ready to pay his fine...
>
>Then the librarian comes out from the back room.
>
>Kitten.
>
>The purple haired, leather skirted, studded collared, whip wielding,
>electro-cuty, Biker Punk Librarian Wench From Hell.
>
>"This book was due WHEN?"  
>
>And Joe College goes screaming into the back racks...

Castellan stomps his foot hard, twice, and collapses on the floor shrieking
with uproarious laughter.

When he recovers, he offers Kitten a hug.  "You know, in a university like
UIUC, it shouldn't be too hard to borrow the necessary accoutrements... this
would clearly be a case where posting a GIF file would be appropriate."
--
-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." -J. Handey
From: keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Hi Alfvaen
Date: 9 Jan 1993 06:22:04 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au

ekho@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (amanda rothman) writes:

>jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce) writes:

>> >Splash! (who barely scraped through his first year BASIC course - due to
>> >lack of motivation ... I mean, who wants to work out the theory behind
>> >traffic light operation anyway?)
>> 
>>      "It just sort of Flip-Flops around... Nand on the other and..." DJ.
>> 
>>     { NAND and AND are gates, used in Computer hardware class to simulate
>>       things like traffic lights... }

>  On hearing this, Amanda screams and flees in terror, waving her arms.  
>"Flashback!  Flashback!  Aaaaargh!  Hardware class!" ;}

Hardware?  I'm just lucky I never got to hardware classes - software is at
least reasonably reversible  :-)

Splash!


--
		Splash!		*To love is to LIVE!*
   (aka Mike van Keulen -- e-mail: keulen@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au)
From: narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: an idle observation
Date: 11 Jan 1993 02:27:29 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
NNTP-Posting-Host: casc.math.uh.edu

Kitten writes :
(coffee worship deleted)
>kitten replies...

>"i love them...they are also available at the same coffee shop...i ate
>them all the way to d.c. in 1986....the choice march on
>washington...didn't sleep for days...i don't like the white chocolate
>ones as much."

I can just picture being on that with you :

"OKAYSOWHENDOWEGETTHEREI'MREADYTODOSOMETHING..." 

It takes me a whole JAR of good spun sugar style candy before I am
really obnoxious, but with those beans : five or ten in an hour 
(already asking for trouble...) and I should just be locked up. My sister
sent us some of the beans last Christmas, and I don't think she wants 
to be responsible again...

--
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* Noah Ramon - The Bi-Bulb     * Your only limitation is your own *
* Mail to : narxtc@math.uh.edu * imagination - Beans Barton       *
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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Subject: Re: purple
Reply-To: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 21:33:58 GMT


In article <JBrandt-120193124525@aaa.uoregon.edu>, JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Thyra & Jason) writes:
|>In article <106870@bu.edu>, schweppe@acs.bu.edu (Edmund Schweppe) wrote:
|>> Suddenly, Merlinvin has a vision.

(Due to the magic of VR and the Place, Merlinvin's vision is displayed on an
Xwindow for all to see...)

|>> He imagines Joe College, UIUC freshman extraordinaire, flushed with pride
|>> after having finally finished his first term paper.  Unfortunately, he
|>> forgot to renew one of the references that contributed to his scholastic
|>> success and it is now two days overdue.  Being, after all, a fine and
|>> upstanding young man, he is the first one in line when the library opens,
|>> ready to pay his fine...
|>> 
|>> Then the librarian comes out from the back room.
|>> 
|>> Kitten.
|>> 
|>> The purple haired, leather skirted, studded collared, whip wielding,
|>> electro-cuty, Biker Punk Librarian Wench From Hell.
|>> 
|>> "This book was due WHEN?"  
|>> 
|>> And Joe College goes screaming into the back racks...
|>> 
|>> While Merlinvin dissolves into helpless giggles... and offers kitten a big
|>> hug and earscritch once he recovers.
|>
|>Jason and Thyra share the image, and both crack up in a giggle-fit. 
|>
|>Thyra recovers first. "Oh! -That- would be quite a sight." <Giggle> And she
|>too goes over to the Places' favorite feline to offer a hug.
|>
|>Hugs and Purrs,
|>Jason and Thyra

"Hee... Hee... Hee... HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"  Starknight is laughing so hard, he can't
remain standing; fortunately, his SmartSuit activates the antigrav unit so he
doesn't fall to the floor.  After his gigglefit has passed, he drifts over to
Kitten to give her a hug, as well.

Starknight
"HeyIMayNotHaveMyOwnAccountToPostFromYetButIDidFindOutHowToEmailOutOfWork..."
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: Return...
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 01:12:03 GMT

 parakeet@wixer.cactus.org (Jim Eikner) writes:
>a bunch of stuff 
   :-)

   Har-war-ya ? You must be that there parakeet fellow !
   Welcome back ! Jim.

>Parakeet then settles into a long afternoon of beer and remembrance...

    "Mike, I'll buy this guy's next Lone Star beer," DJ.

-- 
         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 !'
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From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: Toasting
Keywords: toast
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:08:47 GMT

(Karl Siewert) writes:
>"To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each
>and every one of us always give the devil his due."
>
>Blushing slightly, Rie pads to the bar and asks for a Seagram's Red Sangria 
>wine cooler.  Have you got any?

  "Welcome to The Place. Don't forget now that Alfvaen is everywhere !" DJ.
                                     :-) :-)

-- 
         Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
                      Video. Peter Gabriel: Steam 
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Angry
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 18:11:18 GMT


>Warrior risies to a half crouch, and watched Blammor retreat into the
>shadows. As Blammor fades into darkness, the hackles on Warrior's neck
>come up, and he growls, and takes a step backwords.

>Jammer laughs, and says
>"Drink your milk, cat, *I* will do the understanding."

>Jammer picks up his mocha and advances to the line.
>He raises his glass, and says

>"To courage, and those who are not afraid."

>Jammer drinks, and crashes.
>He then says

>"People, I propose a definition. Callahans needs a new word, a word
>that does not exist "Out There".

>The word is 'Drashes'.
>It is a contraction of 'Drinks' and 'Crashes'.
>To Drink: to stand at the line of Callahan', and, after toasting, drink
>one's drink.
>To Crash: to hurl one's mug, cup, or valise downrange in the general 
>direction of the fireplace, resulting in a huge crash of broken glass,
>ceramic, or valise material.

>To Drash: To do both, in order, regardless of what yer fingers type.
>I leave it to the Babaric Librarions among us to conjugate."

>Jammer spins on his heel, with his face straight, and walks towards his
>chair.
>The patrons look at each other, cocking eyebrows, trying to decide
>if Jammer's joking...

>From Back in The Dark comes a small snort-chortle.

"i drash, you drash, he/she/it drashes, they drash, i/you/hesheit will
drash, i have drashed, hesheit has drashed, they have drashed"

kitten the "almost" english teacher giggles...."the one year i spent
as a teacher in the public school system scared me out of 10 years
growth... "




--
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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
From: alaric@sti.com (Alaric Tekiahyn)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Leather Librarian Wench from Hell (was Re: purple)
Date: 12 Jan 1993 22:15:28 GMT
Organization: Software Transformation, Inc.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: smurf.sti.com

In article <106870@bu.edu>, schweppe@acs.bu.edu (Edmund Schweppe) writes:
] Suddenly, Merlinvin has a vision.
] 
] He imagines Joe College, UIUC freshman extraordinaire, flushed with pride
] after having finally finished his first term paper.  Unfortunately, he
] forgot to renew one of the references that contributed to his scholastic
] success and it is now two days overdue.  Being, after all, a fine and
] upstanding young man, he is the first one in line when the library opens,
] ready to pay his fine...
] 
] Then the librarian comes out from the back room.
] 
] Kitten.
] 
] The purple haired, leather skirted, studded collared, whip wielding,
] electro-cuty, Biker Punk Librarian Wench From Hell.
] 
] "This book was due WHEN?"  
] 
] And Joe College goes screaming into the back racks...


I love it!  The image is wonderful!  Gee, I wish you worked at my local
library!

Let's see...  I've never tried my hand at making skirts, Kitten, but
I'll happily build you a studded leather collar if you want.  I could
probably even provide a pair of nunchaku for you to stick in your belt.

(So they're *nerf* nunchaku...  anyone who's going to freak won't look
that close, and you can't be busted for carrying an offensive weapon.) 



-- 
      "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom."  --  Thomas Jefferson
    ......................................................................
    Phil Stracchino : phils@sti.com : alaric@sti.com : The Renaissance Man
      PGP 2.0 - Freeware public-key data encryption.  Get it and use it!
           Finger alaric@sti.com for PGP 2.0 info and my public key
From: IO20746@MAINE.MAINE.EDU
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: boo
Date: 10 Jan 93 00:45:19 GMT
 <1993Jan2.044613.27634@atlantis.uucp> <1ij1buINNe9l@escargot.xx.rmit.OZ.AU>
 <C0KDs3.42y@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: University of Maine System

huh

heh
From: pechever@usc.edu (The Heckler)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: A Voyager Returns, with a Difference
Date: 9 Jan 1993 13:32:06 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: phakt.usc.edu

The door to the bar flies open; a bedraggled, wet crow tumbles to the floor.
Weakly, it stands up, and raises its wings.  Feathers drop, merge, and 
eventually turn into a green trenchcoat, the beak separates from the face
and sharpens, turning into a spear that the man -- for man it is, now --
grasps in his hand.  He closes the door.
Some people think he looks vaguely familiar; he is not entirely recognizable.
The 'paths in the room, of course, know him: He was Impu-Sebek.
He is so no longer.
He strides to the bar, deposits some worn Ecuadorian sucre bills on the bar,
and whispers to Mike.  Mike rings the bell: A round for the house.
He sits at the bar, and smiles for the first time, and it is like morning
over Cotopaxi; cold and harsh and filled with the raw joy of living.
"It's good to be back.  A new name for a new year, and different circumstances:
Call me Scribe."
He reaches into his pocket, and extracts an intricately folded multicolored
sash, which he ties around his waist.  It enlivens his apparel, which
under the trenchcoat was relentlessly black.
"It's been an...unusual winter solstice.  One of the more salient events is
notable by its absence; Didi, I have to tell you I did not participate in
the ritual that was organized for you.  It had been brought to my attention
that I'd been playing with certain...awkward...energies, and I didn't want
to risk anything backfiring. 
"That seizure...it'd be hideously arrogant to claim I had anything to do
with it, but I feel guilty nonetheless."
"But enough paganism for one evening; I can see the Speaker's whiskers
curling in distaste at all this irrationality."
"It _is_ good to be back.  Hello again to all of you."
Kitten, I could use a good strong warm one about now.
		
			the Scribe.

-- 
Your fingers weave quick minarets      |"They robbed from the rich...and gave
Speak in secret alphabets	       |to the CRIMINALLY INSANE!" -- R&S
I light another cigarette	       |Legalize the weed NOW! CANORML
Learn to forget...                     |email: pechever@usc.edu (changing soon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk (Clive Grace)
Subject: Re: harpy gnu ears
Reply-To: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 11:04:00 +0000


> BTW, Michael did a wonderful set at my Hogmanay
> party without my having known I had invited a fiddler!  A
> wonderful surprise.)

Slipping into the hot tub, Tanais sighs... "Ahhh, that's good. Now 
please do tell me about Michael and your Hogmanay party... perhaps he 
played something I knew?"
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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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