HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: carrot@bear.stonemarche.org (Little red-headed girl)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Redheads
Distribution: world
Date: 7 Oct 92 10:30:33 EDT

>>  And what is wrong with redheads?!?
>
>Only the very distinct shortage of them.
>
>Don't send help, Just send women !
>(uh, for non-casual romantic involvement of course...)
>
>Kane.

	Rachel chuckles. "It's amazing how many redhead aficionados I met
_after_ I became engaged (now married)," she says. "I'll give you a hug
anyway- that way you can look at my red hair up close." Her hair gleams
red-orange-gold in the firelight.

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|   "To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, |
| thou canst not then be false to any man..."  --William Shakespeare      |
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From: keulen@possum.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Mike van Keulen)
Subject: Re: Words
Organization: Murdoch University
Date: 15 Oct 92 06:20:57 GMT

aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey) writes:

>Alfvaen says, "I'm not Oriental, or Asian, or even Chinese, but I'll have to
>defend my use of the first term.  First off, I don't use Asian because Asian is
>too nonspecific.  What about people from India?  Or the Philippines?  Or from
>Israel, for that matter?  Or Russia?  I could use the term, but only if I
>included all of the above--and at the University of Alberta, for instance,
>all groups are prominent--Orientals more than most, but the number of East
>Indians(used instead of mere 'Indian' to avoid confusion with Natives or First
>Peoples--I can defend that term too, if you want)and Arabs is non-negligible.

Hmmm ... that's interesting.  In Oz Asian tends to mean (colloquially) people
from east Asia and SE Asia, ie. from China/Mongolia to about Thailand/Burma.
Indian people tend to appear quite differently Asian from the far eastern 
people, and Arab people again appear significantly different; therefore these
peoples are generally referred to as "Indian" and "Arab".  I think the general
definition of "Asian" is understood, but for everyday use the term is more
specific.  I guess it's a bit like splitting up "European" into "north
European", "Scandinavian", "south European", etc.  In the US, does "Asian"
generally refer to the whole of Asia (ie. Mongolia to the Middle East)?


>: "A hug?"

>Alfvaen proffers kitten a hug too.  "I mean, what the heck...why not..."

Well, while we're at it ... hug three  :-)

Splash!

BTW Alfvaen, what do you (did you?) think of "Job"?  Fun eh?

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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: oh yeah...wait...
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 00:31:23 GMT




>How do you change the distribution line?
>                                        sorry,
>                                            --ac
>                                              (aka d'runner)



"hey deadrunner....hi and welcome back...it's been too long.....you
want to help us lick Speaker....he's yummy!"  kitten giggles again.

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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 
"perhaps _any_ universe becomes real in proportion 
to the number of people who believe in it and spend time there." s. robinson

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: keulen@possum.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Mike van Keulen)
Subject: Re: Another Introduction
Organization: Murdoch University
Date: 12 Oct 92 13:02:55 GMT

hollombe@polymath.tti.com (The Polymath) writes:

>"Heck, Texans have whole words that don't appear in any other state.
>For example:

>	ratcheer -- a description of where something is.
>		    'Where is it?'  'It's ratcheer.'

>	ouchonder -- opposite of ratcheer.
>		     'If it ain't ratcheer it must be ouchonder.'

>	jeetyet? -- 'Have you had any food?'

>	nahlesqueet -- 'Nope.  Let's get something to eat.'

>"And so on ..." (-:{

Wow ... maybe Texans are closer to Aussies than other Americans ... I actually
understood all those!!!  Then again, the size scale is closer, between Texas
and Oz (actually Texas _still_ fits into Western Australia 3 times }:->  ).

Splash!

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* Snail: School of BES - Biology         e-mail: keulen@murdoch.edu.au     *
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From: randolph@cognito.ebay.Sun.COM (Randolph Fritz)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Cristobal Colon
Date: 16 Oct 92 03:28:24 GMT
	<1992Oct13.172000.18088@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: St. Dismas Infirmary for the Incurably Informed
NNTP-Posting-Host: cognito.ebay.sun.com
In-reply-to: mss2@quads.uchicago.edu's message of Tue, 13 Oct 1992 17:20:00 GMT

Randolph listens to the discussion not-so-faintly bemused.  The
bemusement increases as he listens to the comments on vulcanized
rubber and peaks when he hears about "planting the seed of democracy,"
and stifles a snicker when he hears about the democracies in the new
world.

"Ah, Michael--there's a few things you should know.  The original
discoverer of vulcanized rubber was some nameless (to us, anyway)
South American Indian tribesman.  Goodyear rediscovered it.  But it
gets worse--the federation of the Iroquois was very likely a major
model of US democracy.  Ben Franklin used to print their records &
speeches and Thomas Paine was secretary to an 'embassy' to the
Iroquois--the word caucus has Algonquin roots.  The Iroquois were, as
it falls out, teachers of democracy.  The ancient Greeks, I have
heard, were apparently more popular in the South (certainly seems
likely, considering their architecture)--the South thought a
slaveholding democracy was just the thing.

"Not only is there a moral there, somewhere (something about people
who don't study the arguments of their opposition, maybe :-) there may
also be a lesson or two."

__Randolph Fritz  sun!cognito.ebay!randolph || randolph@ebay.sun.com
From: carrot@bear.stonemarche.org (Little red-headed girl)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: A hand of Story Poker
Distribution: world
Date: 7 Oct 92 11:57:41 EDT

	Rachel wanders over to the Story Poker players, who have
migrated outdoors to enjoy Northern Hemisphere fall weather. "Deal
me in," she says.

She receives the following pictures:
	a flock of sheep wandering out of a gate
	a blank traffic light
	a critter from a popular computer game carrying a pickaxe

	She laughs. "Well, that does remind me of something that 
happened last week..." and laughs again as assorted people rush over
for a story.

	"You see, on my way home from work the first traffic light I
get to is notoriously unreliable (it's practically new- installed about
4-6 months ago). Last week, I was at the tail end of a _long_ line of
cars waiting for it to turn green. After a bit, the first car just headed
through and everyone else followed. I couldn't see the intersection very
well and thought that a policeman must have been directing traffic. Nope.
So I slowed down and watched the light... when I got within ten feet of the
crosswalk it turned green!"

	She looks at her third card. "Must be why I got a lemming as well
as sheep! Anyway, a related thing happened a few days later, this time on my
way _to_ work." She holds up her second card.

	"I drive east in the morning and west in the evening, at a time
when the sun is just _below_ the sun visor. I can manage if I squint,
and the clip-on sunglasses help. Anyway, I was going toward a traffic
light and I saw the opposing traffic start to move. I couldn't see what
color the lights were, because of the sun (or so I thought) but I figured
they must have been red so I stopped at the intersection and shaded my eyes
to peer at the traffic light. There were no lights lit at all! Well, I
figured that maybe just the red light was out and settled down to wait.
But it didn't change, so when I had a clear spot I just went across...
and everyone followed me. :-) Maybe every drivers-ed course should have a
section on what to do in such situations. (Mine sure didn't.)"

	Hope you enjoyed the story...
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|	carrot		   |	carrot@bear.stonemarche.org               |
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|   "To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, |
| thou canst not then be false to any man..."  --William Shakespeare      |
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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: moh2@quads.uchicago.edu (Kateri/Mary Anne)
Subject: Poem:  Adulteress (comments welcome)
Reply-To: moh2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 18:10:26 GMT

Adulteress

They speak of her with forbidden glee,
Revelling in wickedness,
In abandon they won't allow to prim and proper lives.

She flirts openly with her lovers, so they say,
Providing fuel for the gossips
While her husband seems to smile in a haze, oblivious.

And while they marvel at her deceptions,
Priding themselves on their ability to see through it all,
To the rotten core within her,

She laughs at them silently.
For every smile, every caress, every hinted, veiled glance is itself a
lie,
And she is the most faithful of wives, to a trusting and beloved man.

Yet even he is snared in her web of deceptions,
Spun without need, without reason, without conscious choice,
Thiking he knows her utterly.

But she finds freedom in her lies.
None know the naked truth behind her masks of shadow,
The trembling vulnerable silence of her mind.

*****

M.A. Mohanraj
September 21, 1992
-- 
The autumn leaves are falling like rain.
Although my neighbors are all barbarians,
And you, you are a thousand miles away,
There are always two cups at my table.		 - A T'ang Dynasty poem
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: dbriggs@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Daniel Briggs)
Subject: Re: click! / colorful phrases
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 08:41:42 GMT

In article <1ba2s4INNje6@gap.caltech.edu>
  lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
>StM agrees, "Aahz is right.  There are actually folks out there who will damn
>near go ballistic if they hear you use the term `handicapped' ...
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^

"I've always liked this phrase, though thinking it through it's not clear why
it invokes the powerful image that it does.  Something going ballistic is
completely predictable, sailing along via Newton.  Not really the image of
an angry person.  On the other hand, it might be connoting the explosive
impulse that resulted in the ballistic motion.  One 'explodes', and 'launches'
into a tirade, the latter phase of the conversation being the ballistic part.

"Another phrase that says much the same thing is 'going non-linear'.  It's a
little jargony, and non-technical people might not catch it, but it better
describes to my mind the process of a person getting completely out of hand
over a comparatively mild initial comment.

Dan'l
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From: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca  (The Didi-Sprite)
Subject: Re: Words
Originator: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 02:13:28 GMT

In article <Bw3y1u.B74@news.cso.uiuc.edu> trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:
>didi (as identified by giggle)
>
>>{  Giggle!  This could be interesting ... the battle of the HUGS!  }
>
>"but didi," giggles kitten..."isn't the phrase 'battle of the hugs'
>oxymoronic?"  (grin....no offense intended, dear deed)

Didi gives Kitten 'a look' ... "Yeah?  So?!"

Then skips over and gives her the biggest hug she has available:



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"So there!"

----<--<@

The Didi-Sprite
Montreal * Canada

braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
From: keulen@possum.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Mike van Keulen)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Light In The Tunnel
Date: 16 Oct 92 02:17:40 GMT
Organization: Murdoch University

aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey) writes:

>Alfvaen yells, "A round for the house on me!"  There is a considerable stir at
>this, because Alfvaen's never bought a round before.  (Well, maybe nobody's
>noticed this previously...)

"I for one wasn't counting ... thanks!"  Splash takes a mug of black coffee
from Mike.

>"I got a call yesterday from a company called Sequiter Software in Edmonton.
>(Yes, it is misspelt that way.)  I sent them a resume in response to an ad at
>the University back in August, with an August 31 application deadline.  I heard
>nothing from them until yesterday.

>"They want me to come in for an interview on Thursday.

>"Maybe I'm counting my chickens before they're hatched, but this is the first
>interview I've gotten so far, so I'll just get my hopes up, if you don't mind.
>Thank you.

"Why not?!  Congratulations ... "<HUG>

>"It'll probably be working with Windows stuff, mostly, since the 'recommended'
>skills for the job included C, C++, Visual Basic, and Windows programming
>experience.  I have C, and I'm reading upon C++.  I also have Basic(after many
>years with my Apple ][+, like about 8-10 years...), and I've seen Windows once
>or twice.

>"They also overlooked(I hope)my lack of a Comp.Sci. degree.  So I might not
>have to go back to school next fall and try to get one.  (Although I might at
>some point in the future.)

"Sounds close enough to me :-)

>"More info as I get it.  In the meantime--"  Mike hands him a Wildberry Vodka
>Cooler.  "To a possible end to the job search!  And to getting my hopes up!"

><<Crash!>>

"Amen to that!"  Splash casts the now empty coffee mug into the fireplace ...
<CRASH!>

Splash!

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***************************** Michael van Keulen *************************** 
* Snail: School of BES - Biology         e-mail: keulen@murdoch.edu.au     *
*        Murdoch University              phone:  ++ 61 (09) 360-2843 (work)*
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*************************** "To Love is to _LIVE_!" ************************
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Redheads
Date: 16 Oct 1992 18:05:56 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <1992Oct16.054150.14681@ra.msstate.edu>, jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce) writes:
=In article <UerNpEK00aw=IC02gP@andrew.cmu.edu> Mark Beirne Lively <ml5a+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
=>>>>>   Now, Now, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Don't you know ? :-)
=>>>>
=>>>>Are they?
=>>>Is this going to turn into a cascade?
=>>
=>>Shouldn't you have asked, "How many ways will this thread split before we lose
=>>all control of it?"
=>Should I apologize for not reading the entire thread first?
=>
=>ML5A@ANDREW.CMU.EDU
=>"I haven't failed I have discovered 10,000 ways not to make a lightbulb"
=>                                        -T Edison.
=>
=
=    "Hmm. Does mean we are in many places at once and not just one Place
= at all ? " DJ.   { who hopes they don't figure out The Firesign Theater
=                    record album title of this which is: 'How can you be
=                    two places at once, when you're not anywhere at all ?' }
=
=    I think its a cascade ! :-)

FOUL!  Statement.  Now, how do we score it?
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: chgs02@vaxa.strath.ac.uk (By learning and courtesy)
Subject: College football result wanted
Organization: Strathclyde University VAX Cluster
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 13:10:50 GMT

We were showing some of our new graduate students a little
of Usenet this morning, and one of them from Washington said 
that what he would really like to know is the latest college football
result of his team - Washington.
I couldn't find this among the 600 or so postings on
rec.sport.football.college
Might any of you be able to help?
Ann
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Why 9! = 362,880
Date: 9 Oct 1992 16:34:15 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <1992Oct9.154522.21933@nntp.uoregon.edu>, JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jay Brandt (Jason)) writes:
=Jason decides to explain the mathematical joke on Kitten's recent post. 
=Therefore, 9! is equal to 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 x 6 x 7 x 8 x 9, or 362,880. I
=understand it is used in solving polynomial equations and the like. Any
=math majors out there care to clarify the matter further?"

StM says, "Actually, the most common (as far as I know) application of
factorials that a non-mathemetician is likely to run into is in combinatorics.
For example, the number of possible ways there are to pick R objects from a set
of N distinct objects, where order counts, is
	N!/(N-R)!
If order doesn't count, then it's
	N!/((N-R)!*R!)
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Cristobal Colon
Date: 17 Oct 1992 01:35:36 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Distribution: world
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <1992Oct16.205429.6505@tamsun.tamu.edu>, rlm7337@tamaix.tamu.edu (Incarnadine) writes:
=>But DID manage to make landfall within 20 miles of his starting point.
=>Of course, that was no great accomplishment.  Just had to make sure he was at
=>the right latitude.  Now, if he'd been sailing north/south instead of
=>east/west, it would've been a lot more impressive.
=
=Maybe...but I bet an experienced crew of the time could have said due east
=(or west) without difficulty...or a captain.  

Er, Inky?  I thought that what I just said.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Words
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 17:50:30 GMT

liralen:
>: 
>: "A hug?"

>Alfvaen proffers kitten a hug too.  "I mean, what the heck...why not..."

"oh.....nothing i love better than a group hug....and that sounds like
a cue....hey didi....get your buns over here!"




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there is very little that kitten likes better than a hug...



>---Alfvaen(Canadian SF Quasi-Activist)
>"If your breasts are too big, you will fall over.  Unless you wear a rucksack."
>   --Ivor Cutler

"cute .sig, alfvaen"
--
***************************************************************************
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

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Another Introduction
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 02:01:32 GMT


>> >kitten hugs minstrel..."welcome back....i never did the radio
>> >thing...but used to live with WD9GVD (ham operator)  its been 9! years
>> >and i still remember his call sign..."
>> 
>> StM nominates Kitten for the position of Most Ancient Coot of Callahans.  "Wow! 
>> 9! years!  That's a LONG time! 362880 years!  Are you related to Lazarus Long?"
>> 
>> 

>"Hey StM!" says Jason, "You should know better than to ask a Lady how old
>she is. They never want to admit their age, even when they are as pretty as
>our Kitten. It's just a factorial of life."

>Jason ducks under the table to avoid the flying
>peanuts.



"thank you, kind sir....it is so very gallant to risk life, limb, and
peanuts to  defend a lady...."  kitten throws herself in front of the
barrage of peanuts to protect jason...

--
***************************************************************************
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

From: daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom)
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 22:47:09 GMT
Subject: Re: click!
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA