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From: narxtc@navier.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Stick
Date: 3 Jan 93 18:02:00 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
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In article <C0786I.JEw@news.cso.uiuc.edu> trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:
>
>
>
>>>Meanwhile, on the dance floor, in a dark and shady corner, stands a man in a
>>>wool overcoat that must be way too warm, a white scarf, and a grey fedora.
>>>He stands near the stick player, nervously tapping his lapels with the fingers
>>>of both hands, and occasionally taking notes...
>>>--
>>> . _____________________________
>>>/:|                    /  /  : =| Chapman Stick		Chuck Ivy
>>>\:|___________________/__/___:_=| White Oak #240	cei@po.cwru.edu
>>>                       ++				cei@math.uh.edu
>>"MALIK!!!" The constrictor jumps over, and starts looking him over. "When did 
>>you show up? Hang around, there are some people here you need to meet!"
>
>>(Constrictor does a jig...)
>
>
>kitten dodges to avoid the constrictor's dance and delivers her pizza
>to the appropriate party...
>
>"...ah HA!  a friend of yours, bi-bulb?  how lovely...welcome to the Place."
>
>--
>***************************************************************************
>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
>

Gee, whatever made you think that? ;-) Ma'am, if you could pass this wanderer
a good root beer (his preference), I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks boodles!



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* Noah Ramon - The Bi-Bulb     * Your only limitation is your own *
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From: aaron@atlantis.uucp
Subject: Re: boo
Organization: Atlantis Communications, Edmonton, AB, Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 02:05:32 GMT

Barbara Trumpinski (trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu) wrote:
: >"Well, kitten, we could start calling you 'wench' more often if you want.  We
: >could even make that your official net.alias, or at least add it after conan
: >the librarian.  How far are you willing to go with this 'wench' thing?"

: kitten giggles...."i don't know....it is okay for occasional
: use....makes me feel 18 again....but i am really not buxom enough to
: be a wench...sigh....

: but you, good sir, are welcome to call me what you will...shall i
: fetch your drink, as well?"

"No, I'm fine for now, wench.  Maybe later, next time a toast is in order..."

% sort toast

-- 
---Alfvaen(Still looking for "October's Baby")
"Give me your mirth.  It bores me when you weep.                                 My loves you cannot touch.  They're buried deep."  ---Don Marquis
Current Album--Talking Heads:True Stories
Current Read--Tesseracts4
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From: li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus)
Subject: Re: second thoughts about a friendship
Organization: Data I/O Corporation
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 00:15:12 GMT

In article <JBrandt-231292082125@aaa.uoregon.edu> JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jason) writes:
>"Ya better watch out.
>Ya better not pry.
>Ya better have clout,
>I'm tellin ya why.
>Liralen Li will getcha, for that!"
>
>Then he breaks down in a fit of giggles, burried under his own mound of
>peanuts.

Liralen laughs until she's breathless; and then tosses a handful of peanuts
on top of the mound of 'em just for completeness' sake.

-- 
Phyllis Rostykus    | "... and how you feel can make it real  | - _US_
aka Liralen Li      | Real as anything you've seen            |   Peter
li@Data-IO.com      | Get a life with this dreamer's dream."  |   Gabriel
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: A toast
Date: 2 Jan 93 05:54:41 GMT
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi

Boss Troll writes:
>The Troll, eyes misting up a bit, raises his glass also--
>
>"To those we served with--
>To the ones who came home--
>To the ones that did not--
>To all of us who remember--
>May we never forget--
>
><CrasH>

   <<Crash!>> Jim.

>--The Boss Troll (USN 1967-1976, and more memories than he can stand)

  I sort of guessed you were the correct age... I was in the Destroyer
Navy, USN from January, 1967-December, 1972.  Jim.

-- 
         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: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe)
Subject: Re: New Year Pizza Party
Reply-To: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 23:10:00 +0000


hugs back,DreamWeaver
Er, I hate to put a damper on things.. but hairy fish are *not a meat 
topping (in my recipe book). Hairy fish - that's anchovies - they're 
hairy!
Mary MerryTail
+-------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
| 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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From: mss2@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer)
Subject: Re: Unbe Awakens
Reply-To: mss2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 02:32:01 GMT

In article <105441@bu.edu> mjmh@crsa.bu.edu (Michael J M Holmes) writes:

>"I think this is a good point - all of us are in some sense
>constrained by the time we live in, and by the society we
>developed in."

>"Hmmm.  If I have Michael's ideas correct, though, a response
>to this might be that our cannibalistic ancestors were pretty
>far away from the 'absolute moral standard,' and that our current
>societal views are closer to that standard."

>"Of course, a cynic could say that our ancestors were closer
>to the absolute standard, and we have been in moral decay
>ever since we stopped practicing cannibalism... "

	"Actually, I would guess that strictures against cannibalism
aren't `primary' morals at all.  That is, I speculate that the reason
cannibalism is immoral, if it is, is because it tends to lead to other
sins-- murder being the most obvious, but also things involving
disrespect for others, objectifying people, etc.  I don't know whether
`innocent' cannibalism is possible.  I do know that in a society like
ours it is virtually impossible for reasons including those given by
Jubal Harshaw in _Stranger in a Strange Land_: with meat costing what
it does, and poverty existing, do you really think people need another
temptation to murder?  But beyond that, consider how some people turn
sex into a manner of using people, with rape being the ultimate in
treating a person like an object (although rape also entails
deliberate hurt as well as simply indifference to the person's
wishes).  If people saw others as potential meals, that might be
extended still further and through people who wouldn't be tempted by
rape.

	"It's sort of like the Jewish dietary laws.  There's a line in
the Bible, "you shall not cook a calf in its mother's milk".  From
there, through Talmudic safeguarding, comes the whole array of rules
against eating any sort of milk and any sort of meat anywhere near
each other.  The idea being that _even_ if by some horrible
coincidence, you happen to have the meat of a cow's calf _and_
someone's put the mother's milk in the goat's milk bottle, you still
can't be led into mixing the two if you don't put milk and meat
together at all.  If you don't eat people, you don't have to fear
coarsening your sensibilities or letting hunger get in the way of your
respect for your fellow humans.  And being neither tempted to eat
people nor having to deal with cannibals, I don't have any need to
decide whether cannibalism is absolutely, always, 100% wrong.
Fortunately for me, that's not my department.  :-)"

Michael
-- 
Michael S. Schiffer, LHN, FCS	"Indeed I tremble for my country
mss2@midway.uchicago.edu	 when I reflect that God is just."
mike.schiffer@um.cc.umich.edu	 -- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on
mschiffer@aal.itd.umich.edu	    Virginia (1784)
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From: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (The Didi-Sprite)
Subject: Solstice - December 21, 1992 - 9: 43 a.m.
Organization: Yale CS Mail/News Gateway
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 03:50:33 GMT



        \|/
	-X  \|/   
	/|\ -X-
      |-----/|\
  ^~  |   |-----|  
      ~~~~|     | ^-
^^--      ~~~~~~~   --^^
      --^^      ~~^^
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

It is Solstice.   December 21st, 1992.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Didi-Sprite steps from the 'Folx' room into the now-empty bar.
She is dressed in white leggings and tunic and wears a wreath of
mistletoe and holly in her hair.  In her hands she carries a bouquet
of Rosemary, Sage, Lavender, and Rue ... the four herbs associated
with the festival of Christmas.  

                   Rosemary for Remembrance and Friendship;
		   Sage for good health and long life;
		   Lavender for its sweet fragrance and long
			  association with this festival;
                   and, Rue, the herb of repentance and subse-
			   quently of grace.


Opening the French Doors, Didi steps out onto the meadow where she
joins the assembled company of friends.  She allows herself to be
drawn into the center of the circle and awaits the start of the
healing ritual.

----<--<@

The Didi-Sprite
Montreal * Canada

braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
didi@geloser.login.qc.ca
From: mjmh@crsa.bu.edu (Michael J M Holmes)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Introduction
Date: 21 Dec 92 19:53:06 GMT
Organization: Boston University Center for Remote Sensing

In article <1992Dec17.213234.21187@e2big.mko.dec.com> pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan) writes:

>|> >"Yes, it shall.  Nice .sig you've got there."

 [that was a comment about my Dr. Who -  "Happiness Will Prevail" .sig - 
            see below!!!  :)   ]

>"No, I think I missed that one...  I'm most familiar with the Tom Baker
>episodes, and I've seen most of the Peter Davidson ones (did you know he was
>the Dish of the Day in HHGTTG?  A bit part (pun intentional), but a fun one)
>as well.  If I did miss that, I'm sorry, but it's been years since I've seen 
>the show; it just recently started up again in Albuquerque after a long hiatus."

"That's okay, Starknight - I'd been a loyal Dr. Who watcher for over a 
decade before I ever saw 'The Happiness Patrol.'  Sylvester McCoy, the
seventh (and so far the last) actor to play the Doctor was in that
episode."

*grin*  "There has been a bit of controversy over this particular
episode in rec.arts.drwho - quite a few people think it is about
the worst Dr. Who show ever!  Personally, *I* think they didn't
get into the fun and silliness of the episode, and recommend it
highly!!"

(but then again, I am occasionally accused of having a rather
warped sense of humor.... )

:)  "Enjoy Yourself!  Happiness Will Prevail!!"




-- 
========================================================================
Mike Holmes       mjmh@crsa.bu.edu           "Happiness Will Prevail!"
Boston University Department of Geography (a truly GREAT place to work!)
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From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Definition of "monogamy"?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 15:12:52 GMT

aahz:

>Part of the reason I'm asking here about monogamy is that it really
>doesn't make sense to me in some fundamental way: it makes a set of
>artificial distinctions that don't apply in Real Life.

>Let's start with emotional monogamy.  I love my parents, I love my
>sister, I love a lot of the people I know from this Place -- in what way
>is my love for Stef really any different?  Why shouldn't I share a
>similar kind of love with many other people?  Note that I do recognize
>that there's a time-based component to love: you can't really love
>someone as *intensely* when you spend less time with them, and the
>*quality* of the love also changes.

kitten jumps in again: 

"you made the point there...emotional monogamy is saving one
particular kind of emotion for one specific significant other. love
for parents, cats, friends, doesn't figure in at all...

i am not very good at it....i am a 'clinger' to the past...and i still
have emotional connections of deep love with people who don't feel the
same way...it puts a strain on my primary relationship...because t.c.
thinks that this kind of feeling can be diminished by spreading it
around. that is, if you love more than one person deeply, the love is
less for all...in the same way that if you share a chocolate cake
between two people, each gets more than if you share the same cake
with 10 people.  LOVE DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY!"

>Physical monogamy makes more sense in a way.  Still, hugs and backrubs
>are OK :) -- so where do you draw the line?  Anything you can do with
>clothes on?  No intercourse?  How do you determine the difference
>between a friendly "hello/goodbye" kiss and a romantic one?

"i've never been any good at this either....because i think that sex
can be a part of friendship (for certain values of friendship) and
other people do not assume this is so.

this is NOT the same thing as being promiscuous.

it is also NOT something that is accepted in my primary
relationship....and compromise is the key to a happy marriage...."

--
***************************************************************************
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: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (The Didi-Sprite)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: New Year Pizza Party
Date: 1 Jan 93 19:51:59 GMT
Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada
Originator: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca

In article <C03qnG.EB7@news.cso.uiuc.edu> trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:
>[    ] pizza party prelude deleted for bandwidth
>
[ ditto ]

>>DM demonstrates why he chose such an outlandish costume... ten arms with
>>which to hug people!! He welcomes back Kateri and Toothpick in similar
>>manner.
>
[    ]
>
>kitten swims and bounces from patron to patron...taking drink and
>pizza orders...
>
>and sipping pink champagne and nibbling seaweed pizza in between...of
>course, she occasionally interupts her waitress work to get a
>tentacled hug from the octomouse...
>
The Didi-Sprite-now-turned-mersprite gurgles from the hot tub:  "Can
I have one of those please?  No!  Not seaweed pizza ... hugs!  Lots
of hugs!  Yum!"

----<--<@

The Didi-Sprite
Paris * France

braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
didi@geloser.login.qc.ca
From: narxtc@navier.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: From Feather's other half (was Re: boo
Date: 2 Jan 1993 17:28:42 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
NNTP-Posting-Host: navier.math.uh.edu

feath@agora.rain.com (Feather) writes :
{Suddenly a big rainbow wing feather with writing on it drops from the rafters
and lands flat in front of where Feather is sitting.  "Yeep!" goes the startled
Feather, who then reads the writing.  Suddenly the small gray avian puts one
wing over her eyes and groans.  "Ohhhh, nooooo, R-Crow, PLEEEZE don't make me
say this... pleeeeeeze...!"                       
                                                                   
There is a small but noticeable rumble of thunder in the rafters just above
Feather. "Ok, ok, ok!" says the gray avian, who then turns to the patrons.
"It's a message from my RL self.  She says that if she ever opens a tavern,
it would be called the Rainbow Crow-bar..."

Feather PK's the rainbow feather, "kicks" it back to the rafters where it
came from, and yells upward: "Nice pry!"

-Feather (one exasperated little bird)}
 
Feather, I need to send you a t-shirt from one of my former homes. A little
background, first, though. I used to visit a local bar/club called 
Blythe Spirits. Wonderful place, it was... Places to sit and drink a pint of 
coke and read a good book, or go upstairs and dance to one's heart's content.
Then it closed a little over a year ago. Then in October, it reopened as 
(you can see it coming, can't you?) The Crowbar. Unfortunately, it recently
closed again... But I do have the gimme shirt I received there on opening 
night. Thought you might like it...
--
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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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From: rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Solstice morning musings
Date: 22 Dec 92 21:39:09 GMT
Reply-To: rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove)
Organization: RICOH California Research Center

Gypsy settles into her chair with barely a flicker of 
whirlwind teasing her draping of scarves.  <I've
finally caught up with Callahans after my site's
recent computer problems.  So hopefully I can keep
up in real time now.>

Before I head out to the meadow to help with Didi's
ritual if its still happening, I thought I would share
my Solstice morning with you all.

We didn't vigil all night this year, perhaps we're getting
old.  But we got up long before the sun and went out
to a bird sanctuary in the Baylands along San Francisco
Bay.  We go there every May morning and every Yule
to watch the sunrise.  In May there are birds nesting and
the feeling that life is all around.  Several bands of 
Morris dancers dance up the sun and carols are sung by
the dancers and many revelers.

At Yule this year there were very few people.  The birds
were silent and few.  Unlike some years there was no
frost and it was nice to just sit and join in spirit with the
sleeping marsh.  A long wooden walkway allows one
to go far out into the marsh to a bench on a platform
at Bayside.  We sat and watched as the clouds became
yellow and then gold and then firey orange and the
sky above us got bluer and bluer.   

<chant> Shining undying swift-horsed Sun,
Shining undying swift-horsed Sun,
We see you rising, we see you rising, 
Shine, shine, shine, shine, shine, shine.

The sun itself hid behind the clouds but the few birds 
began to wake and fly and our bodies and spirits told us
 that the Sun had risen yet again.  Now the days will
lengthen and all that depend on it for life will feel
the increase.  

I realized how many blessings I have had this year.
I have loving family, good friends, work I value, a
warm home with cats and comfort.  Yes, the cycle of
life and death  and rebirth has touched me.  But most
days have brought growth and goodness.

May the blessings of the season be with you all.

Gypsy smile again with a far look in her eye, still 
envisioning the quiet momeny by the Bay.

Swirling to her feet, she dances to the chalkline.

<To Magic and Love and the Reborn Sun>

######Crrrrraaaaassssh########


Rowan Fairgrove

*****************************************
Current Book:  Odd Girls & Twilight Lovers
Current Music:  Youtu Yinde
Current Movie:  Daddy & the Muscle Academy
Current Holiday:  Yule
Current Drink:  Cocoa with Tuaca & Cognac
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From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: The pair
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 07:36:58 GMT

 HC61@lafibm.lafayette.edu (HC61000) writes:
> ekho@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (amanda rothman) writes:
>>keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!) writes:
>>[Introduction Deleted
>>Amanda and drags Splash over to the hot tub... SPLASH Splash           h!
>>"What'll you have?" inquires Ekho with a rather nasty grin.
>Don't you mean 'Splish Splash'? <ducks>
>Chris
>>.
>>.

  'Splish splash, I was taking a bath, long about Saturday night !'

     Yup, a song from about 1959-63.

       :-) Yes, it exists, I'm laughing because I have this picture
  in my head whenever i hear it... DJ.

-- 
         Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
                   Video. Cher: Love and Understanding.
From: korz@cs.columbia.edu (Frederick Korz)
Subject: Re: boo
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 21:25:57 GMT

In article <brumby.725929114@nella7.cc.monash.edu.au>
 brumby@nella7.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen McNamara) writes:
>   The brumby puts on his best lecherous impression.  Despite his actual
>habits, he is very good at it.
>
>korz@cs.columbia.edu (Frederick Korz) writes:
>
>>Frood continues, "Literature and life are rife with all sorts of
>>wenches - buxom, comely, skinny, earthy, lusty, spritely, ....  Just
>>throw in the flavor, where appropriate.*"
>
>   "So where is it appropriate to throw flavour into a wench?"

"In poetry or prose, wherever the modifier goes."

"However, in RL, sweet or tart,
 they flavor themselves for the most part."

"As with many things, the fun is in the dance."  and frood winks.

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From: snarf@access.digex.com (Sean Eustis)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Dia dhuit and slainte...Hello and to your health.
Date: 22 Dec 1992 02:38:31 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
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From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson@somewhere.out.there)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: snow and pizza and cons, oh my
Date: 4 Jan 93 00:39:43 GMT
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.
In-reply-to: mdm@sparc2.Prime.COM's message of Thu, 31 Dec 1992 20:00:46 GMT

In article <9212312000.AA04613@sparc2.Prime.COM> mdm@sparc2.Prime.COM (Michael D. McAfee) writes:

>		Anyways, with all this talk about Evecon, I thought I'd
>	remention for those who can get to Boston Jan 15-17 there's the 
>	Arisia SF con.  I plan on being there, with "the Chaotic" on my 
>	nametag.  It should be a lot of fun (hopefully this isn't too
>	blatant a plug :).  If anyone's interested, we can probably meet
>	up there for a RL.  Also, I'm helping out the folks running it,
>	so if you'd like any info, feel free to ask.

"I'll be there, and I'm interested... won't have Castellan on my nametag, 
but will have my real name and email address.  I know of at least one (former?)
Callahanian who will almost certainly be there, and that's Whirlwind (aka
Nancy Liebowitz, "the button lady")."

 
--
-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
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