HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: carrot@bear.stonemarche.org (Little red-headed girl)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re:  Goodbye, Justice Marshall
Date: 27 Jan 93 01:25:30 GMT

In article <1k3ardINN42t@gap.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals) writes:
>In article <carrot.04qg@bear.stonemarche.org>, carrot@bear.stonemarche.org (Little red-headed girl) writes:
>>	"To Thurgood Marshall, first (and hopefully not last) black
>>Supreme Court Justice,
>
>Y'know, that reminds me of the feminist who told me, about a year ago,
>something to the effect of, "I won't believe our government works until there's
>a woman on the Supreme Court."  Sandra Day O'Conner was, of course, appointed
>to the court in 1991.  Clarence Thomas was appointed in 1992.

	Rachel blushes. "I realized my mistake shortly after I posted, but
I could not for the life of me remember the name of the judge who
replaced Marshall. I remembered Anita Hill, but I couldn't manage to
remember Clarence Thomas' name or face. I figured somebody would point
it out for the sake of those of you fortunate enough not to know much
about American politics."

	She rubs her forehead wearily. "Mike, do you have anything good
for putting one's brain in gear, not caffeinated?"

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From: kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: missing my copy of "Alfvaen is Everywhere"
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 20:07:22 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Brandon S. Allbery's Personal System

mdm@sparc2.Prime.COM (Michael D. McAfee) writes:
> 		Alfvaen recently mailed me asking for a copy of
> 	Alfvaen is everywhere, as he has misplaced his.  Well, I couldn't
> 	find mine either.  Is this a CONSPIRACY? <dum dum dummmmmmmmm>

Alfvaen is Everywhere... but "Alfvaen is Everywhere" is nowhere.  :-)

++Brandon

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From: noj@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Jonathan E Miles)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: I AM SO BLOODY HAPPY I COULD PLOTZ
Date: 27 Jan 1993 23:37:06 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu
Keywords: HEY

siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl Siewert) writes:
>><I LOVE YOU ALL.  I WANT THE MOST MASSIVE DEATH HUG OF DOOM EVER SEEN 
>>IN CALLAHANS HISTORY.  I WANT TANAIS TO TURN BLUE, I WANT MAGDA TO GROW
>>A TAIL, I WANT KITTEN... WELL, THAT'S BETTER LEFT UNSAID, SHE IS MARRIED...
>>BUT THE POINT IS, I AM THE EPICENTER OF THE GREATEST HUG VACUUM KNOWN TO MAN.
>>I EVEN WANT DOUG IN ON THIS.  I AM SO BLOODY HAPPY I COULD PLOTZ!!!!!!!>

Itosu charges towards Slash like a runaway bus.  Just before bowling the now-
growing group hug over, he flips high into the air and lands on the far side.

"BIG-TIME, FULL-FORCE, ULTRA-STRONG OGRE HUG COMING THROUGH!!"

He throws himself into the pile, nearly suffocating everyone with his massive
arms.


Itosu the ogre


Jonathan E. Miles
noj@matt.ksu.ksu.edu 

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From: jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Culinary Peculiarities
Date: 26 Jan 93 00:29:55 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc., San Jose, CA

>The thing is, I've SEEN the chocolate tostado. At a semi-local chain called
>Two Pesos, they have the "ChocoTaco". I pull you not. I don't quite know what
>it is and I really am not curious enough to find out. 

It might be something as mundane as a taco containing chicken
mole or something.  (Which,by the way, you wouldn't know even
contained chocolate, unless you asked.)

Of course, there IS my perverse dessert, which I found in a
Victorian cookbook: chocolate tamales.  Before you completely
freak, let me describe them: the tamale itself made of is lightly
sweetened white corn meal dough with just a dab of cinnamon, and the
tamale filling is chocolate egg custard with chocolate chips mixed
in, which get all nice and runny when the thing is cooked.
Wrap it in corn husks, steam, and you have a very yummy warm
dessert.  (Hmm, does it qualify as a recipe for the callahans
cookbook?)

--
  Jilara   [jane@swdc.stratus.com]

"Every now and then, a big rock falls out of the sky, and everyone has 
a *very bad* day."  --from the PBS "Dinosaurs" special.
From: S.S.B.Glover@bradford.ac.uk (SSB GLOVER)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: An early toast
Date: 21 Jan 93 17:53:00 GMT
Organization: University of Bradford, UK
Originator: 92909131@muser
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Chris Welch (me_s420@king.ac.uk) wrote:
: The Urban Spaceman engages the delurkatron and, with a sound reminscent of
: treacle imploding, materialises in The Place.
: 
: "Anyway, I'm not here to bore you with my problems but to make a toast. Mike,
:  a dram of Dufftown Glenlivet, if you would be so kind."

That's a good malt. The fact that it's currently tres bon marche' in Leeds is
(of course) irrelevant -- even if we did get clva for the party instead...

:  "Chaffee, Grissom, White, Jarvis, McAuliffe, McNair, Onizuka, Resnik, Scobee,
:   Smith. Gone, but not forgotten."

I'll join you in that, adding only the four(?) russians whose names I can
never remember.

		the glass soars, crossing under the rafters, and just before

reaching the grate

				a thin stream of left-over malt
pours,
		ignites
					and a 

		(*crash*)
					happens
From: JBrandt@AAA.Uoregon.EDU (Jason)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Priests and Cyberdecks
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Date: 27 Jan 1993 04:55:33 GMT
Organization: The Polyhedron Group
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: fp1-dialin-1.uoregon.edu

In article <1993Jan26.164508.6801@nmsu.edu>, jgoodric@dante.nmsu.edu
(GOODRICH) wrote:
> 
> 
> 	From a dusty corner, the figure of the Laughing Priest once
> again animates, brushes off the cobwebs, and pays for a Bailey's and
> Milk.
> 	"TO THE YEAR OF THE COCK!" he crows, drains his drink, 
> D
> and goes ofer to hug the Didi-Sprite.
> 	Later figuring that his typing skills have rusted
> a good deal of ther last semester, he walks over to Jason 
> and tries to get him to show the Priest how to use a 
> cyberdeck.

Jason smiles. "Any time, my friend, what can I show you? And what would you
like for your drink? Pegasus and I are celebrating, and just bought a round
for everyone."

Hugs, 
Jason
One happy Decker, at the moment
From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: YET ANOTHER DELURKING
Date: 22 Jan 93 04:37:52 GMT
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.
In-reply-to: 's message of Wednesday, 20 Jan 1993 16:02:00 EST

In article <93020.160200KZAHLLER@MIAMIU.BITNET> <KZAHLLER@MIAMIU.BITNET> writes:
>Magda suddenly yanked off the scarf and whooped in loud glee. "This IS Callaha
>n's PLACE, isn't it? I've always dreamed of finding it--fur and fangs, who wou
>ldn't?--but I never dreamed I'd actually be this lucky!"
>
>She bashfully looked around at the other folks in the bar from under a mass of
>thick black hair.  "I'm sorry to just jump in like this, but you were so nice t
>o Laz that I wanted to come in from the cold, too.  I would really like to get
>to know you all better, and I hope you can put up with me, too.  My friends cal
>l me "wolf cub" or "Magda-Wolf" and I'm told I give great wolf-hugs.  I like pu
>ns and I have a very warped sense of humor, especially when I'm slap-happy (whi
>ch, since I am a perpetual grad student, is most of the time).  I'm actually a
>run away from a time/place somewhat like your medieval Europe, but we have Gate
>s that a few of us can travel through.  I'm also an infrequent werewolf, but, s
>ince I always have to do everything differently, I love garlic and wear lots of
> silver!
>

>"I've told you a little about myself.  I hope you'll let me stay and I -really-
>hope you'll tell me more about yourselves!"

Castellan asks the barkeep "Mike, do you suppose we should let her stay?"

"I dunno, what do you think?" replies the burly Irishman.

"Ummm... oh sure, what the heck.  I'll even buy your first drink here to
make up for that little bit of unnecessary sarcasm.  Actually, one thing 
I'd like to know about you: how'd you get that post set up so that most of 
the lines were exactly 80 columns wide?

"But enough about you, let's talk about me :-). My name's Castellan, or Chip
in RL, I do tech support for a small graphics-board company and take night
classes at Harvard, I'm still living at home :-( but plan to move out within
the month, I ski, bike, homebrew, make bad puns (gee, what a distinction), 
give backrubs (good ones too, or so I'm told), and am generally a terminal
Nice Guy (tm).  I'm also a serious music addict, particularly old English
and Celtic folk music, and I like to jump feet first into discussions when
I haven't the faintest clue what I'm talking about."

"Welcome to the Place!  Sit down, make yourself comfortable, you'll probably
get a whole bunch of people offering hugs right about now, including me."

 




--
-Chip Olson. | olson@husc.harvard.edu | ceo@{gnu.ai,silver.lcs}.mit.edu
This article is a natural product.  The slight variations in spelling and
grammar enhance its individual character and beauty and in no way are to
be considered flaws or defects.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: Didi's ill, again :-(
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:37:31 GMT

>"didi, get BACK into bed...and have some soup...or some icecream and
>7-up.... put a hot water bottle on your toes and vicks on your
>nose...and here are some sunglasses."  kitten tries to look stern and
>fails miserably....

  "Oh dear, Didi you better get back into that bed before boss notices.
 You wouldn't want to worry the poor dear... " Linda.

-- 
         Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
                      Video. Peter Gabriel: Steam
From: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk (Clive Grace)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Toast for friends
Date: 27 Jan 93 15:47:00 GMT
Reply-To: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk


[Magda Wolf's Sad Story Deleted ... you know why]

"Amen to that Magda..." Is all he can say. He doesn't throw his Jug in 
just yet. He ponders looking at the last few tails of flame as Magda's 
beverage flashes in pure blue and yellow brilliance for a few seconds 
more until he can no longer contain what is inside him any longer and he 
hurls his glass in after her -- hoping that all the anger and all the 
pain and all the injustice of the world will follow it.

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From: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe)
Subject: Re: Welcomes and a request
Reply-To: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:04:00 +0000


> TITLE: Welcomes and a request

> After a little bit, Dreamweaver seems bothered by something as he goes to
> a chair and sits down.
> 
>         "I'm sorry, but I think I might need some help. Today I'm going to
> a funeral of sorts. No person died, just a dream. I'm going to a special
> place by a river and I'm going to say goodbye to the life I used to have
> so I can get on with the rest of the life I'm going to have. I'm going to
> take the dreamcatcher we made together and throw it in and say goodbye to
> 'us', and get on with 'me'. Damn, this is hard, but its over and I have to
> move on. What I need from you is probably nothing more than a hug and
> maybe a couple of tissues for my nose. Wish me luck."

"Luck Dreamweaver" - MerryTail comes over to wish you luck, and 
dreams. She pulls a large packet of tissues out of a black bag that 
looks as if it holds a lot of tissues and useful stuff.
"Here you go..."
she offers Dreamweaver a large and friendly hug

MerryTail - apprentice potter (term started ;-)

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From: JBrandt@AAA.Uoregon.EDU (Jason)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: ZX-81
Date: 27 Jan 93 06:53:00 GMT
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Organization: The Polyhedron Group
NNTP-Posting-Host: fp1-dialin-1.uoregon.edu

In article <memo.898090@cix.compulink.co.uk>, cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk
(Clive Grace) wrote:
> 
> In-Reply-To: <1993Jan26.020815.13101@ra.msstate.edu> jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
> 
> >Some company came out with a 64 KB expansion, and then figured out a 
> way
> >to connect 16 of them for a full meg of paged memory... I never tried 
> it...
> >I think they also came out with some way to add 5.25 inch floppy drive
> >to it and a real keyboard... About at the level of the IMSAI 4004 !
> >i.e. add-ons that were way over-priced...
> 
> Bought a ZX81? Naah I *built* my ZX80 -- cost me #100 -- all for the 
> benefit of having a machine that couldn't keep the screen on when 
> processing data (rectified in the ZX81 with a "slow" mode that kept the 
> screen alive). It was amazing I wasn't diagnosed epileptic then... what 
> with all that screen flashing... on a "HUGE" black and white telly -- 
> programming six inches away from the screen because the aerial cable was 
> always notoriously short.

Jason smirks. "Your first computer had a -screen-? Mine had a -teletype-!
It was a kit-built Altair 8800. Ah, for the days of my youth in
high-school, attending classes by day and running a software development
company with a downtown Portland office by night. No kidding. That was in
the early 1970's. Thank the creator I don't have to work with such antiques
now!" Jason jacks in to his cyberdeck again.

Hugs,
Jason

Oops, I'm giving away my age again . . .
From: narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Didi's ill, again : -(
Date: 25 Jan 93 18:01:12 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
NNTP-Posting-Host: casc.math.uh.edu

In article <C1F3MI.1B3@cs.mcgill.ca> braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (The Didi-Sprite) writes:
>
>"Acchhooo!  Bertie!  I am out of tissues again!  Sigh.  But thank
>goodness for public television.  I mean ... wasn't that a dazzling 30
>minutes of quilt making???!"
>

Reminds me of the times I would be waiting for the BBC lineup on PBS. We'd see
Blake's 7, then see a lovely BBC scenery film featuring sheep and other 
wildlife. Then we'd see Dr. Who, then another BBC film with sheep and 
sweeping pastoral scenery. Then, Good Neighbors, and another bloody sheep 
film! I swear, they were the cameramen who later worked on Koyanisqatsi
(or however it's pronounced)... Afterwards, To the Manor Born, and a film
featuring sheep and architecture (don't ask, really). Monty Python rounded 
out the nigh, followed by one last film with cats, jungle cats, and sheep 
before the signoff. 

For every show featuring british actors or muppets, you have five or ten
that make me crack a book. (Of course, that is accomplished by just about 
anything!) And compared to network TV, that is an incredibly good ratio...

But help stamp out sheep films!


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From: pechever@phakt.usc.edu (The Heckler)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: I AM SO BLOODY HAPPY I COULD PLOTZ
Date: 27 Jan 1993 20:07:03 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: phakt.usc.edu
Keywords: HEY

In article <1k7i0bINNc91@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> mattp@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Slash Maraud) writes:
[The 3-D, THX Sound, DuoAroma, FullTactile delurking of Slash Maraud deleted
regretfully]

The Scribe carefully stows his baliset under the table, and dances, grinning
madly, towards Slash.  "You asked for it..."  He whips out a scarf from
his inner jacket pocket and hands one end to Slash, who takes it (albeit
confusedly).  The Scribe starts dancing, a little wildly, around and around
Slash...odd, the scarf never seems to run out of length, and the colors
keep on getting brighter.  Tighter and tighter the scarf goes, until at
the end Slash's head protrudes from a cocoon of dazzling silk.  His job
done, the Scribe *HUGS* the big lunk, and with an obscure gesture loosens
the enfolding silk, whipping it all (but now, surprisingly, there isn't that
much of it) back into the pocket whence it came.

"That, friend, was the little known (mainly because I just made it up) Gypsy
Scarf Hug.  You happy now?"

Smiling at the room, he waltzes himself back to his table, picking up some
hot cider on the way.

			Scribester.


-- 
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)
From: siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl Siewert)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Descriptions...
Date: 25 Jan 1993 10:59:02 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals) writes:
>Kzintosh).  Carl, meanwhile, has lost even more hair (and what he's got is
>going grey, especially in the sideburns;  If this keeps up, I'll trade in my
>brown frames for black, get rid of the beard and mustache, and start doing
>Isaac Asimov impersonations :-).  The weight's remained about the same.

Of course, you could always keep the facial hair, collect some of your old 
t-shirts, and sell them at Grateful dead concerts.

Rie

-- 
/               James Riekar, barhopping yoyist, at your service              \
Impersonated at Fort Hays State by Karl G. Siewert, pretending to be at K-State
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From: narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Culinary Peculiarities
Date: 26 Jan 93 19:34:09 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
NNTP-Posting-Host: casc.math.uh.edu

In article <1993Jan26.101923.21636@ucc.su.OZ.AU> ablanch@physics.su.OZ.AU (Shonias) writes:
>That one seems to have baffled a few... sorry, I didn't realise that was an
>Australianism... What do Americans call it? Do they have it? Ummmm...
>well it is like... a concentrate that you mix up with water to make a 
>sweet, flat, drink. Tend to come in colours rather than flavours... red,
>green... although there is lemon. Hmmmm, I can't think of any other name
>for it.... am I just forgetful? Anyone know?

Ahhh, that would be known as "Kool-Aid" in the reigonal... And yes, "red" is
the predominate color/flavor, kind of like jell-o. Like you said, you can have 
red, green, orange, yellow, and so help me, BLUE! 

I wish I could remember who the person was who color-coordinated their food
with their clothes. They gave a helpful hint, to remember when picking
either food or clothes : THERE IS NO BLUE FOOD.

I've looked, too!


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From: siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl Siewert)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: One quick question
Date: 25 Jan 1993 19:46:21 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl Siewert) writes:

>>ROTFLMAOWTIME!
>>Starknight gradually recovers, and looks at the Monty Python fans...

>>"LUXURY!  When I was child, we didn't 'ave Usenet to play wordgames on...  
>>There were seventeen of us trading puns in shoebox in middle of road..."

><CARDBOARD BOX?  YOU WERE LUCKY>  SIXTY SEVEN OF US LIVED IN
>PAPER BAG IN A SEPTIC TANK>>>

You know, Bruce, if you told the kids of today that, they wouldn't believe you.

Rie.
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From: mcspikgfm@dct.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Culinary Peculiarities
Summary: cider
Keywords: cider,cordial
Date: 26 Jan 93 12:18:59 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

In article <C1FA8n.FpD@hfglobe.intel.com>, hilp@hfglobe.intel.com (Robin Rosenbaum) writes:
> In article <1993Jan22.013147.13751@midway.uchicago.edu> mss2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>	"`Cordial'?  The only definition of that I know as a noun is
>>`liqueur', which I _assume_ isn't served in Australian primary
>>schools.  :-)  Care to dispel my benighted ignorance?"
> 
> I think this is a regional usage.  Like cider: In the USA it's non-
> alcoholic unless it's called "hard" cider.  I've heard that elsewhere
> "cider" refers to an alcoholic beverage.  (Is that right? I've never
> actually tried ordering any when travelling, I guess.)

	Yeah...you could say its alcoholic if you order it in the UK. Mind you
it depends what kind you get. They tend to vary in strength from weak to
falling down after one or two glasses type stuff. I remember drinking 2 and a
half litre bottles of strongbow....and I was happy....so...that shows you:-

	1/ what my tolerance to alcohol is like..

	& 2/ how weak strongbow is.....plus

	it does your stomach no good at all!!!

        In my own opinion......( I feel like writing the full thing today)

							Melandra.

							Insane Elf.

							Here, Cute Wolfrider!

> Robin Hilp
> rosenrob@ccm.hf.intel.com or hilp@hfglobe.intel.com
> Opinions, attitudes, and beliefs expressed herein are mine and do not
> necessarily represent those of my employer.  Or anyone else for that
> matter.
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