HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: clhoerth@david.wheaton.EDU (Cathe L Hoerth)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: I'M BACK!!!
Date: 29 Sep 92 00:59:47 GMT


	Ocelot leans back in her chair and assumes a prim expression.
"I am told that someone has been taking my name in vain in my absence.
I'm afraid I have missed the joke, but never fear, I shall rise above,
rise above.  Yes, I am acquainted with suffering, being put upon by all
and sundry, enduring the slings and arrows..." (There is more.
Remember, Ocelot IS everybody's mother.  Guilt trip the size of a small
African state.)  "I would like to point out that I know perfectly well
the difference between shoelaces, toes, and ankles.  If I nibble your
ankles, I mean it. 
	I would also like to point out for the edification of the
patrons who seem to be unclear on this point that blonde is not a hair
color, it is a lifestyle.  I know lots of brunettes who are blonde ("I
just wanna say that being chosen as this month's Miss August is, like, a
compliment I'll remember for as long as I can...").
	Hey Frood - quick, towel check!
	I've noticed Jilara's end quote several times but never
remembered to mention it - I believe that the person you got it from may
have gotten it from a wonderful Steve Taylor song "Whatcha Gonna Do When
Your Number's Up?" ("Sally's into knowledge, spent her years in college
just to find out nothing is true.  She can hardly speak now, "words are
not unique" now 'cuz they can't say anything new [] Buried in your
psyche is a shadow of a doubt, you're so open-minded that your brains
leaked out...")  Hooray for sarcastic music.
	Speaking of music (OOOO, nice topic shift, Ocelot!), some of
this old coot discussion reminds me of a song, by Chris Chandler I
believe, with the line, "being intelligent in the 90's is a lot like
being sexually active in the 50's."
	Much as I would love to stay and catch up on all the discussions
(especially as all unread posts get deleted after about 3 days.
Whimper.), I feel my Norwegian sweetbread dough calling to me, saying
"bake me, bake me."  So I must away - but I'd love a bite of that steak
on my way out... to keep me from eating the dough instead of baking it!

				I am a pair of brown shoes,
					Ocelot
"OH!"
"What's the matter, Crazy Quilt, have you got a pain?"
"A pain? No, I've a plan!"
"With you it's usually the same thing." - The Cinnamon Bear
(This does not make me and old coot - it makes me the daughter of an old
coot.  I can use a reel-to-reel, too.) (Gee, what a long post.)
From: steve@Advansoft.COM (Steve Savitzky)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: SF Bay Area Realspace and Halloween Party
Date: 30 Sep 92 16:48:58 GMT
Organization: Advansoft Research Corp, Santa Clara, CA

"Yup, it's that time again," says the Mandelbear, as he tacks a flier
up on the bulletin board.  It reads:

			  YET ANOTHER PARTY
			  SATURDAY, OCT. 31
			GRAND CENTRAL STARPORT

   Once again, the Savitzky family is holding its annual Halloween
   party; this year on Saturday, October 31.  (For once, Halloween
   actually falls on a Saturday.)

   As usual, it's from Noon 'til Midnight (or later!) -- drop in any
   time; no need to RSVP; friends and kids welcome.  Wearing a costume is
   encouraged but not required.  It's a potluck, so you're encouraged to
   bring something to eat or drink.  (Beer and soft drinks of various
   flavors will be available.)

   Also as usual, the address is Grand Central Starport (the Savitzky
   household), 343 Leigh Av., San Jose, CA 95128; (408) 294-6492.

if (lost) { 
    Grand Central Starport is located at 343 Leigh Av, San Jose.  It
    has a rock garden in front (the white picket fence is gone), green
    paint, and is bigger than it looks from the street.  

    if (using(280)) {
        Take the Bascom/Leigh exit from 280 (it's just South of
        I880/CA17), head North on Leigh (i.e. toward the "center" of
        San Jose).  There will be a stop sign at Scott (the first
        major cross street apart from the frontage roads, one of which
        you will have exitted onto) and a light at W. San Carlos (the
        next cross street after Scott).  343 is the 4th house *before*
        W. San Carlos on the left, which is the only side on which
        you're permitted to park.
    } else if (using(880)) {
	Get off 880 on Stevens Creek/W. San Carlos and head East.
	Turn Right on Leigh and find a place to park.  343 is the 4th
	house from W. San Carlos on the right.
    } else if (taking(bus)) {
        W. San Carlos is on several major bus routes.  If you pass the
        Taco Bell at the corner of Richmond (going East), you've gone
        one street too far.
    }

    if (parking_left_on(Leigh) == 0) {
       Go on across W. San Carlos and park in the Safeway lot.
    }
    if (really_lost) call( (408)294-6492 );
}
--
\ --Steve Savitzky--  \    343 Leigh Ave   \ Object-oriented software wizard
 \ steve@advansoft.COM \ San Jose, CA 95128 \ Presently seeking employment:
  \ arc!steve@apple.COM \   h:408-294-6492   \ Resume available on request.
   \__ steve@arc.UUCP _____ w:408-727-3357x246 (9am-6pm) _____________________
From: pope@physics.su.OZ.AU (The Nightstalker)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Callahan's is for everyone
Date: 6 Oct 92 04:12:01 GMT
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia

The Nightstalker wanders in looking hagard but cheerful from a 
weekend of enjoying music and solid christian teaching.  He wanders
up to Mike and grins.

"God bless you Mike, a coke please, the caffine is much needed.  And
here is another dollar.  Give Space Cadet whatever is his usual, and tell
him thanks."

The Nightstalker downs the coke in one gulp, burps loudly and swings the
glass towards the fireplace in a baseball pitch-like action.

"To the place, whatever spirit that is at work here, may it continue."

<crash>


--
 The Nightstalker.....




Paradox: a truth standing on its head to attract attention.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jay Brandt (Jason))
Subject: Re: A test of the national broadcasting system.
Organization: The Polyhedron Group
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 92 06:44:57 GMT

In article <1992Oct4.061135.16836@tamsun.tamu.edu>, rlm7337@tamsun.tamu.edu
(Richard L. Mcmahon) writes:
> 
> 
> John Carney stands from his table and speaks...
> "Hi there..just a quick question.  Well, really this post was to see
> if I had really managed to change my "Sender:" field...been meaning
> to fix that.  But also, I was curious..I get this message everytime
> I post:
> 	You will be posting to the entire civilized world.  It will
> 	cost hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars to send to every
> 	computer system on the plant.  Are you sure you want to do this?
> Does anyone get else get this, and is it true?  Or is it just a scare
> tactic to keep people from fooling around?  I hope not," he smirks,"cause
> it didn't work..."
> 
> John Carney (Incarnadine)
> Castle BBS
> 
> 
> 

<Jason looks up from the screen of his PowerBook.>

Ah, you are a fellow Mac user running "Newswatcher" to access the
newsgroups, I take it? I get exactly that message from Newswatcher, or at
least I did before I learned how to turn it off. Makes sense that you must
be using similar software. To end being harrassed by that message, select
"Preferences" from the File menu. Uncheck the box labeled {"Are you sure"
alert on posts}. Then click on the OK button.

On the other hand, yes, it does cost someone, somewhere money whenever you
post. The longer your messages, the more it costs. It probably won't cost
you or your employer anything in any direct fashion. However, it does take
up some small amount of resources on literaly thousands of systems around
the world to store and forward these messages. Computer equipment is never
free, and computer centers usually have to pay their sysops and support
staff something. However, the cost of a single post is generally negligable
in comparison to the benefits the site receives from access to colleagues
and to newsgroups that relate to work. If allowing alt.* and rec.*
newsgroups makes the employees more interested in learning and using
Internet / Bitnet / etc., the companies that own and maintain the hardware
usually feel it is worthwhile.

Probably there are others here who can give more detail on the mechanisim
and costs invloved, but as I understand it,the level of resources used here
really isn't very high in comparison to the overall bandwidth of Internet.

Don't worry about it, and keep posting. We find your posts enjoyable.

Take care friend,
Jason
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: keulen@possum.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Mike van Keulen)
Subject: Re: Holding on to the light
Organization: Murdoch University
Date:  1 Oct 92 04:12:30 GMT

rcb33483@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (ArchTeryx) writes:

>braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (The Didi-Sprite) writes:

>>In article <9w+pra+.aahz@netcom.com> aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine) writes:
>>>In article <1992Sep28.145035.12812@terminator.cc.umich.edu> sjg@terminator.cc.umich.edu (Susan Gavula) writes:
>>>>
>>>>I am sorry if the following post is not completely coherent.  I am 
>>>>trying to put many conflicting feelings into words.
>>>>
>>>>   [deleted]
>>>>
>>>>I try to hang on to the light, but I feel the darkness closing in and
>>>>I am just so tired.
>>>
>>>Group hug!  Group hug!
>>>-- 

>>The Didi-Sprite looks up and calls out:  "Count me in!"

>ArchTeryx, having sung his songs, looks up and goes over.  He opens his wings,
>offering himself *as* the group hug (20 wingspan, y'know. 1/2 :>).

Splash wanders over and tries to get in on the group hug ... hey!  ArchTeryx!
Lemme in!  

Archteryx opens his wings slightly and admits Splash to the enclave of huggers.

<HUG - HUG - HUG> all round!

Splash!


>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>R. Cody Buchmann                             ^.^  
>  "ArchTeryx"                          "Of *course* I understand you--I speak 
>email: rcb33483@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu       1406 intergalactic avian dialects!"  
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
***************************** 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: rcb33483@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (ArchTeryx)
Subject: A final song for Arty...
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 17:09:01 GMT

ArchTeryx, after he sings his two songs, sits for a while and comforts
Elizabeth, holding her in his wings softly and letting her cry into his 
feathers. He warbles softly and comfortingly to her, and eventually her
tears slow and stop.

ArchTeryx and Lizzy then engage in a brief whispered conversation.

ArchTeryx stands up and goes over to the front of the bar again.
"Gentlefolks, I hope you can be patient with me. I'd like to sing a final song
to Arty's memory. It is dedicated also to somebody who, thank StarWing, 
is still here with us. I dedicate this final song to Lizzy as well."

ArchTeryx once again unpacks his keyboard, though it is almost not needed at all
for this song, which is Enya's 'Evening Falls'. (The previous song was 
misidentified; it is 'Distant Shore'.  Sorry for the goof. *blush*).

ArchTeryx begins to play, and he sings in a low, almost baritone voice.  The 
entire bar goes silent as he begins the haunting song, singing slowly.

When the evening falls, and the daylight is fading...
From within me calls, could it be I am sleeping?
For a moment I strain, then it holds me completely...

Close to home, I cannot say...
Close to home, feeling so far away...

As I walk the room, there before me a shadow...
From another world, where no other can follow...
Carry me to my own, to where I can cross over.

Close to home, I cannot say...
Close to home, feeling so far away...

Far away...

The searching never right, I am lost in oceans of light...
Another hoping I can't fall...
Memories...those memories I left behind...

(ArchTeryx plays a brief solo, his station sounding very much like a church 
organ, accenting the reverent, funerallike quality of the song.  He then
resumes singing.)

Even though I leave, will I go on believing...
That this time it's real, am I lost in this feeling?
Like a child passing through, never knowing the reason...

I am home, I know the way...
I am home...

Feeling oh, so far away...

ArchTeryx holds the last note a long time, and then ends the song.  He walks
up to the blazing fire, "May the love of StarWing go with thee, Arty."

He throws both Feather's little feather and one of his own flight feathers,
over six feet long, into the fire.  He then, tears once more in his eyes, 
goes over and rejoins Lizzy and (hopefully) Feather.


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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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From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: I Never Thought . . .
Date: 29 Sep 92 08:29:21 GMT
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <1992Sep29.031851.26066@nntp.uoregon.edu>, JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jay Brandt (Jason)) writes:
=> StM asks, "Would you like your very own copy of NEWSRDR?  Requires no
=> privileges (well, it might require privs if you want to use it to post), takes
=> up less than 200 blocks of disk space, and will let you read any newsgroup
=> your NNTP server is willing to deal with.
=
=<Jason walks up to STM. He has changed out of the dress whites he wore at
=the bonfire for Arty, and is back in his familiar black learher jacket and
=slacks.>
=
=Thanks StM,
=
=I never turn down access to software (Stuff that can -legaly- be shared,
=that is).  Even if it doesn't work well for me, I can usually help someone
=else out with it. What platform does it run on?

VAX/VMS, running Multinet, UCX, or CMU-TEK TCP/IP packages.  I could mail you
the saveset as a hex dump and a DCL procedure to convert it back into a BACKUP
saveset, or you could FTP the whole thing from FTP.SPC.EDU, in the
[ANONYMOUS.MADISON.NEWSRDR] directory.

=Thyra, now a Kazintosh female, approaches StM.>
=
=     I just wanted you to know that all three of us have read your first
=post about that devistating medical emergency you recently survived with
=much concern.

StM wonders how a Kzinret is capable of speech, but responds nonetheless, "The
emergency was over a month ago, and wasn't really devastating, as you'll learn
in the second installment, which I expect to post within the next couple of
days."
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: JMPIERCE%USMCP6.bitnet@VM.TCS.Tulane.EDU (JIM PIERCE)
Subject: re: College advice for John
Organization: Yale CS Mail/News Gateway
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 04:38:00 GMT


   Also, some places don't get financial aid work study students.
I mean, some departments. I was hired by the guy I work for, until
last Spring he had never had a work study student work for him. So,
someone said to him that I was available to work, and he asked me
and after a short interview I was hired.

  A University I attended in Texas had both work study and jobs via
a department hiring. The Theater Department there required that all
Lighting Assistants, Costume Section, Shop Assistants, not only be
Theater students and apply to the Department for the job, but all
of the jobs be done by Theatrical Design Majors... They wouldn't
hire dancers for any of the assistant jobs as an example. I didn't
see any dancer, while I was there, express an interest in those jobs.

  Up on main campus of USM, where Meredith is, many jobs are filled
by work study students. Here on the Gulf Park branch campus, few
work study jobs exist.

   Jim wanders back over into a corner humming something that sounds
like 'somewhere over the rainbow.' What he usually does when real sad.
 Later.

* <JMPIERCE@USMCP6.BITNET> Jim "DJ." Pierce; Bach. Sci. in Appl. Comp. Sci.
* USM Academic Computing on the Gulf Park Campus. Disclaimer: Standard.
* "I'm tired out from a prolonged squawk !!" me simulating MPFC.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: liralen's birthday party
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 15:34:25 GMT

kitten, giggling and bouncing about...in a black and gold creation
that looks like it came from a victoria's secret catalog, goes from
the cider pot to the bratwurst tent to the story hour and back
again... she has hugged liralen many times...and many of the other
patrons (her CHOSEN family) as well....she finally lights on a
lurker's lap....

"what is the good Deed up too this time" says t.c. (for he gets his
callahans reports from the kitten.)

"a birthday party for liralen and a celebration of the close of the
old year and the beginning of the new...samhain is coming...the sky is
blue and the world is full and ripe and rich.  and for our friends in
the southern hemisphere it is getting on toward spring..."

"okay," says t.c.  "didi's parties are fun...and this one sounds
good... tell liralen happy birthday for me...and send the Deed over
here for a hug...and QUIT BITING MY EAR!"


--
***************************************************************************
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: wgarmil@world.std.com (Wayne S Garmil)
Subject: Re: WildCard returns to stay
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 23:54:37 GMT


With a sudden =POOF=, WildCard changes slightly, but not much at all.

"Folks, I've moved today.  In fact, this is my first at login to my new
account.  My new email address is: wgarmil@std.world.com

"I'll be mostly a weekend and night loginer, so please be patient with
me.  I can't reply as quickly as I use to.

"God, it feels good to be back!"


-- 
   _     __  _      __                    Remember:  The WildCard always stacks
  ' )   /   //   / /  )            /      the deck in his favor.  Anyone care
   / / / o // __/ /    __.  __  __/       for a game of strip poker?   My deal.
  (_(_/ <_</_(_/ (__/ (_/|_/ (_(_/_             (wgarmil@std.world.com)
From: s903040@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Christopher Francis Anderson)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Thunderchild @ Fowlcon (NOT an email address!)
Date: 28 Sep 92 07:45:00 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
NNTP-Posting-Host: minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au

The door opens and a rather worn-out, tired, battle-scarred and all round
quite happy Thunderchild walks in. As people watch, the wounds heal and all
damage is repaired, as if molten metal was flowing into a mold (which,
funnily enough, is exactly what is happening).

"Well, I've just (more or less) got back from Fowlcon in Bendigo. It was
the first con I've ever been to, and it was *definitely* worth it.

"I went there as part of a team, three other humanoid types and a cardboard
cutout being the other four. (The cardboard cutout went along in order to
avoid us being stuck with a munchkin. It worked.)

"Purely from an award point of view, we did really well, with everyone
getting at least one award, including the cardboard hero! I picked up two,
which was about three more than I thought I would. I'm not complaining.

"I'll give you all a full report, more or less, as soon as I have a chance
to sit down and put it all together - my brain won't handle it at the moment.
But it will be soon, hopefully this week."

Sitting back at a convenient table, Thunderchild decides to relax a bit,
before being caught up in the whirlwind of life.

In other dimensions, his alter-egos do likewise.

"I really need a drink.

"To hell with the budget - anyone who wants one, this rounds on me!"


-- 
Thunderchild (a.k.a. Chris Anderson)           Badges? We don't need no 
s903040@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au                      steenking badges!
RMIT University of Technology
Somewhere Down Under (Down under where? I don't know, I just live here!)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: euclid@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Elizabeth Kupfer)
Subject: Re: a quiet introduction
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 21:03:45 GMT

JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jay Brandt (Thyra)) writes:

>     Why, thank you Euclid! Yes, I would like that very much. After all,
>Catnip and Mint are very closely related. And you know how kittens like
>Catnip! Yum! That will be a great appetizer for my steak dinner. I don't
>believe we've met before. I'm very pleased to make your acquaintance.

><She rolls about in her share of the mint and nibbles a piece or two.>

>     Ah, some things were just -mint- to be shared. Kitten, would you like
>to join us? You're welcome to share some of mine.

    Yes! I've enough for Kitten,too...literally an infinite supply.  Kitten?
 Euclid reaches into her right hip pocket and pulls out another handful of
 fresh sprigs.  With her left hand she pulls a cinnamon stick from a vest
 pocket, and pops it into her mouth.  Fragrant smoke starts to flow from
 her nostrils.  "Hope you don't mind that i smoke...happens everytime i eat
 something".                                                 
--
elizabeth kupfer, euclid@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu (preferred)
standard disclaimers apply
Hold fast to the center --Tao Te Ching
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: mbr2@quads.uchicago.edu (Curious Of All Natures)
Subject: Re: Halloween Gathering in Chicago?
Reply-To: mbr2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Universtiy of Chicago
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 19:33:20 GMT

Mary Anne announces:
>This is very very preliminary....
>
>I'm throwing my annual Halloween party on Saturday the 31st of
>October.
>
>Would people be interested in having a Gathering then?  Thursday
>through Sunday, perhaps?

Yes!  Rah-rah!  Tremendous!

>Would anybody else in Chicago be willing to loan crash space?

Mort and I have a big double in a dorm that's a 15-minute walk from Mary
Anne's.  There's floorspace for 6-8 tired types, a bathroom and shower,
but no kitchen.  We'd be entirely happy to be a base-of-operations for
folks for all four days, but we do have classes on Th and F of course.

I'm totally psyched.  I saw a lot of us at Mary Anne's Gathering last
year, but that was about a month before I found the Place myself.  So
I've _seen_ many, and many have seen me, but my part of the puzzle is
far from complete.  

I hope you can make it.


-Matt Ryan, to know, and soon to see,
mb-ryan@uchicago.edu                Curious Of All Natures
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