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From: rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Anti-Discrimination
Date: 30 Dec 92 01:22:09 GMT
Reply-To: rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove)
Organization: RICOH California Research Center

In talking about anti-discrimination ordinances which
cover sexual orientation, someone mentioned that
Cincinnati recently passed an ordinance.  When I saw
an article on it (excerpt below), it wasn't the sexual
orientation part that intrigued me, but the Appalachian
origin.  Does anyone else know of local ordinances
tailored like this to local problems of discrimination?

>  The law prohibits discrimination in housing, employment and public
>accommodations based on sex, sexual orientation, marital status, color,
>religion, Appalachian origin or disability.

Gypsy

Rowan Fairgrove

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Current Music:  More Magical Songs (Bob Stewart)
Current Movie:  Peter's Friends
Current Holiday:  Hogmanay
Current Drink: Mumm's Extra Dry
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: Pizza Party
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 06:40:48 GMT

(Jane Beckman) writes:
>"Mmm, broccoli quiche and spinach souffle!" Jilara says,
>taking her special order from the counter and heading over to
>Abner's table.  "We won't bother Alaric with this.  He doesn't
>relate to anything green that's not a pea or a broad bean!"
>
>"Hey, who ordered the fried okra?" Callahan asks.

   "Hmm. I did. I rather like it ! But not often... " 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 shows !'
From: schweppe@acs.bu.edu (Edmund Schweppe)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: From Feather's other half (was Re: boo
Date: 2 Jan 93 14:48:03 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

Feather writes:

[ various puns about kitten the librariwench and other hardware deleted ]

[ Actually, in her Eunice Braca costume, I think kitten is demonstrating
  nice *Software*, to quote Johnny 5 ... ]

>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..."

Merlinvin snickers, and throws the traditional handful of peanuts towards
Feather.  Actually, he throws her a curve, since the peanuts swoop upwards
into the rafters just before they reach Feather.  The Rainbow Crow gets
the peanut shower, startling those nearby lurkers who hadn't seen it coming.

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

Some of the peanuts, who hadn't quite disappeared into the rafters yet,
reverse course and fly towards Feather...

Suddenly, Merlinvin gets a brilliant idea, and a candleabra appears above
his head.  Due to the magic of Callahan's, the candles don't drip wax as
Merlinvin waxes eloquent:

"I wonder what the appropriate names would be for taverns opened by other
Callahanians?"

"kitten, if she decided to become a full-time serving wench, would of
course run the Li-Bar-y.  Nick Chopper might invite the veterans (and
others) to the Bar-Ax.  And those in the physics-cryptography thread might
band together to open the Bar Code."

"Anybody else have any inn-sightful ideas?"

__________________________________________________________________________
Ed Schweppe o/k/a Merlinvin - schweppe@acs.bu.edu,
    (or for faster replies)   eschweppe%drcoa1.decnet@drcvax.af.mil
All standard disclaimers (also datclaimers and deotherclaimers) apply.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: brumby@nella7.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen McNamara)
Subject: Re: Hi Alfvaen
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 21:53:28 GMT

   The brumby is engaged in one of his common habits, staying where he is
comfortable instead of going somewhere he is supposed to be.

mdm@sparc2.prime.com (Michael D. McAfee) writes:

>	and just to add to the silliness:

   "Well, to continue the current thread..."

	Current Directory:	 /staff/rdt/brumby/junk
	Current Drive (at home): D:
	Current CD:		 cd: shell built-in command.
	Current _playing_ CD:	 Oxygene - Jarre
	Current Activity:	 Procrastinating
	Current Read:		 (none, I've just finished re-reading my
				 Flandry stuff, by Poul Anderson)
	Current Hack:		 Linux 0.99.1 (if I can get it to boot)


-- 
     The Silver Brumby of          brumby@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
      the Silicon Plains            brumby@zikzak.apana.org.au

      The grass is always greener on the other side of the network.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus)
Subject: Re: second thoughts about a friendship
Organization: Data I/O Corporation
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:48:25 GMT

In article <1pt28_f@rpi.edu> youngj4@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Jeffrey 'Taldin' Young) writes:
>
>Liralen, you're going to kill me for this....

At the words, Liralen turns around to look at Taldin.  At first, her eyes
go wide, and then she rolls 'em in complete disbelief.  And then she 
listens with a few groans and a few shakes of her head and a few unexpected
smiles.

>Taldin stops, out of breath and pelted by a hailstorm of peanuts.

Liralen tosses a few as well.  Just thinking as she smiles at the unicorn.

>"Okay, okay, I'll quit.  Thanks to Belle for typing the whole
>poem in, even if I didn't use it all.  I suppose if you REEALLY
>want I'll compose all the rest.. but Khai that sucker is LONG!"

She laughs and says, "That's *quite* enough for me."  And while the tone is
a bit severe, the grin that goes with it can probably tell Taldin that
she's far from in a killing mood...

>Taldin grins at Liralen. "I know you didn't ask for it,
> but it had to be done." *snug*

Liralen grins back and shakes her head, then walks up to Taldin and *snug*s
him back.  Then softly, "Thanks.  I don't deserve it, but it felt *really*
good.  Then again," her smile quirks, "take that with the grain of salt in
that in my depressed and tired times I sometimes believe I don't deserve
much that's good."  She hugs him again, quietly, "It made my day." 
-- 
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
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jammer@eskimo.com (Lyle Harwood)
Subject: Re: Snowball
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 12:30:49 GMT

Joseph D. McMahon (xrjdm@twinpeaks.gsfc.nasa.gov) wrote:
: In article <memo.834025@cix.compulink.co.uk>,
maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe) writes:
: > "Snow Fight!! Come on! Didi-sprite? Gypsy Woman? Jason? Michael? 
: > Everyone? I feel just like a good fifteen minutes hurling snow!"
: > Mary MerryTail lunges out into the snow-filled meadow after Jammer 
: > and the Lady, hoping desperately that the same effect that keeps her

: > glasses in the fireplace will give her an even chance of hitting 
: > someone with the snow ball she's scooping up....
: > 
: At the mere mention of the "sn" word, Teddy leaps to his feet,
capering around
: joyously in a tight little circle, then heads for the door. Sab,
Booka, and 
: Steling have already piled outside and are busy shoving their noses
into the
: snow, looking up every once in a while to snort with a ring of snow
stuck in
: their eyebrows, mustaches, and beards. Kandy walks over to the door,
wanders
: about for a minute or two, and then comes back in to find a warm spot.
: 
: Teddy is running around at top speed, pausing every once in a while to
shove
: his nose deep into the snow and flick it into the air with his head.
He soon
: is a mostly-white dog. He runs up to Joe, begging him to make a
snowball and
: throw it so he can try to grab it out of the air, then pretend to run
and hunt 
: for it, sliding, rolling and diving.
: 
:  --- Joe M.
: 
: RealWorld: we've had rain, rain, and rain, with the result that the
back yard
:            is now a sea of mud from the pups churning around in it. We
go
:            for walks out front, where there's a sidewalk... Otherwise,

:            envision the same as above, with mud instead of snow. 8-o
: 
: -- 
:                   Joe McMahon | 
:                   P.O. Box 13 | "I've only had it since yesterday."  
:             Lothian, MD 20711 | 
: xrjdm@twinpeaks.gsfc.nasa.gov |                    ---  n. rothwell

Jammer blasts out from behind a building, catching the Lady looking the
wrong way, and unloads two fast Special High Velocity Snow Balls into
the back of her parka, and wheels around, down to one ball, and almost
fires before he recognizes Joe.

"Joe! Good Man! They've ganged up on us, I tell ye! Fire at anything
female, and good luck to ye, mon!"

Jammer whirls, and runs three steps, and then turns, looks at Sab, and
then at Joe, and asks
"What the hell is that thing?"
Before blazing off between the buildings.

Meanwhile, the Lady has scooped up some snow, and in a low alto, says
"oh, Joooee... you've chosen the wrong side, Joe..."
and blasts a direct hit into his leg.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: rhite@lunatix.uucp (Rickey Hite)
Subject: Hullo...
Oarganization: Lexington Public Access Unix. -KY- (606) 255-9121
Organization: Lexington Public Access Unix. -KY- (606) 255-9121
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 03:20:20 GMT
Summary: General introduction

A pale face peeks through the door.
 "Aye it is a strange bunch I've happened upon." he thinks to
himself.

Pulling himself together he steps into the bar and heads towards
the barkeep. He is an average looking blonde haired male with
slight tips on his ears but nothing else overtly odd strikes you.

He lays a tattered and torn bill on the bar and says, "I'll
have a Vanilla Cream Soda if it's not to much trouble...and
if it is...anything decafinated and non-alcoholic"

He pauses for a momemnt and then addresses the general room
quietly "I've been outside for a while listening...I've heard
things that made me want to cry..." he glances briefly at a cup
placed on a stack of bills..." and things that have made me want
to roll on the ground laughing...and the snowfight out there was
something to behold..."

He pauses again..."If a newcomer could be so bold..."

He approaches the chalk line...hefts whatever glass he has and
toasts, "To all who have been this way before...and to all
who would follow them...may everyone who needs to find this
place...or at least someplace like it."


   <CRASH>
he turns and finds a quiet corner to sit down in and watch....

     -Gazer   (In real life... Rickey Hite)

-- 
"Don't do anything I wouldn't do, but if you do...take pictures."
                         -Al from Quantum Leap
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: wonderful life
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 08:02:10 GMT

 mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar) writes:
>>kitten sniffs and wipes her eyes...."the movie 'it's a wonderful life'
>>always does this to me...i love jimmy stewart and this is one of my
>>favorite movies...
>
>Danger Mouse looks up at the mention of one of his favourite actors.
>"I think Jimmy Stewart is brilliant. I've never seen a JS movie I didn't
>like. But, I've never seen _It's_a_Wonderful_Life_ at all! From various
>humourous sources, I gather that this movie is shown each Christmas in
>the USA. Well, it isn't here... I've been looking out for it on TV for
>several years now, and am still yet to see it.  :-( "
>
>- Danger Mouse.

    Its information from CNN and Entertainment Tonight that, not
including small independent tv stations, it is being shown over 200
times in the US this holday season... Probably one of the reasons
I haven't watched it this year. The weekened before Christmas I could
almost watch it on all channels... Well it felt like it. It was being
shown on three cable channels, and one New Orleans station. The
colorized version and the original B&W version... If you timed it
just right, you might have been able to watch it, without ever getting
hit by a commercial interruption. Its kind of lost its impact due to
'over showing.' Kind of like when MTV shows the same new video 5-7
times in the day... Or the numerous versions of 'The Christmas Carol'
on tv. I even noticed a colorized version of the one I watched back
in the 1950s ! 

      Ooooh Look. Soap Boxes ! ....

      Later, 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 !'
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: brumby@nella7.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen McNamara)
Subject: Re: boo
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 23:17:37 GMT

   The brumby pricks his ears at kitten's giggling.

aaron@atlantis.uucp writes:
>Barbara Trumpinski (trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu) wrote:
>: kitten collects jammer's mocha breve....and giggles.  "here you are,
>: good sir...no one has called me 'wench' in years...not since my friend
[...]
>"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?"

   "I dunno, a lot of people might find adjusting to the new name a bit of
a 'wench'. Still, if a nut like you can't torque her into it..."

   The brumby prepares to bolt.


-- 
     The Silver Brumby of          brumby@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
      the Silicon Plains            brumby@zikzak.apana.org.au

      The grass is always greener on the other side of the network.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: StM buys another round for the house
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 07:50:01 GMT

>With the comment, "It must've been a *SLOW* two weeks," StM attaches the
>following to the bulletin board and, as is his custom, buys a round of drinks.

     "Hello Speaker, welcome back to The Place !" 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 !'
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: second thoughts about a friendship
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 07:02:51 GMT

Kitten writes:
>>Liralen, you're going to kill me for this....
>
>>  ("The Moonlight Eyes That Grace Us Here.." 
>>              -by Jeffrey 'Taldin' Young
>>   --with extreme apologies to Longfellow and Paul Revere..
>
>>Taldin recites softly, with echoes of the real poem from the
>>fourth grade in his ears...
>>-------------
>>   Listen my friends and you will hear  
>>    Of the Patron Saint who we all revere  
>[   ]
>
>kitten giggles delightly and hugs taldin...."that was WONDERFUL...the
>perfect way to start my morning."
>

  "Yes, it was good ! And the radio station I'm listening to, just played
20 minutes of the screwiest Christmas songs I ever heard... One was about
'bvds much too small, Auntie ... please take them back' or something
like that, then they played the Loony Tunes theme music... " DJ.

      Yes, my flu is getting better, and I do feel better.

-- 
         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 shows !'
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: korz@cs.columbia.edu (Frederick Korz)
Subject: Re: Quantum (and untutored Zen) and Beliefs (was Re: Absolutes)
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 01:52:03 GMT

In article <Bzou2J.6s1@news.cso.uiuc.edu> trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:
[snip]
>bernard, the jedi squire in training, says:
>
>>If everybody is bored to tears by this discussion, I offer my apologies in
>>advance.  This is my first posting to alt.callahans and I ought to try to
>>avoid offending people, after all...
>
>>I just wanted to make a small observation about Schrodinger's Cat:
>>We may not know if the cat is alive or dead.
>>But, certainly, the _cat_ must have observed something!
>
>"i don't know about bored....but the schrodinger's cat thing has
>always made me nervous"  giggles kitten.  "welcome to callahans....we
>are VERY hard to offend...."

"kitten," frood pops in from wherever, "I ran across another
formulation of the gedanken-experiment in last err, July's, Scientific
American, that should leave you and your spirit-kin less nervous.  The
idea of a probabilistic trigger is the same however the gas is
replaced by milk.  Without dane-ing to delve into the manifold
interpretations of what happens before or when checking, the cat is
found either well fed by released milk or not well fed."

"So worst case the cat is just a might peckish."

	am i always trying [to] pun?
	i'm not quite certain
	frood
From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jason)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Definition of "monogamy"?
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Date: 23 Dec 1992 20:55:11 GMT
Organization: the Polyhedron Group
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aaa.uoregon.edu

In article <1992Dec23.165649.5640@netcom.com>, aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green
Dancing Machine) wrote:
> 
> We're having a nice little discussion (read "flamewar" ;-) in
> alt.polyamory about the nature of monogamy.  I'd like to hear some
> thoughts from people in this newsgroup about what it means to them.

Jason ponders that question. "Well Pegasus (My wife in RL) and I have had
an -exclusively- monogamous relationship the entire nine years plus we've
been married, and for most of the four years we dated before that."

"I'm of a nature to lean towards polyandry myself, but I have chosen a
monogamous life for a number of reasons."

"1. Safer with respect to avoiding venerial diseases. Even before AIDS, I
was hyper-cautious about my partners, because the main medications for
'curing' VD, (Pennicylin and it's derivitives) are thing's I'm deathly
alergic to. If I ever did contract a VD, I'd be in a world of hurt trying
to get rid of it."

"2. My partner, Pegasus, prefers a monogamous lifestyle. She has no
interest to speak of in 'dating' anyone other than me. So it isn't really
'fair' to have exclusive access to her favors, while not granting her the
same consideration. When we first started dating, we had an 'agreement'
that we could see other people. It was very one sided and unfair to her.
The folks we knew that she might want to date didn't want to vex me, and
treated her like we were already married. I never ran into that problem,
although the very few times I tried, nothing lasted since they knew thay
were always stuck being 'number two'. I gave it up as a bad deal early on,
'cause it wasn't worth hurting my primary partner's feelings over."

"3. I made a promise to my partner, nine years back when we were married,
that she had final say over my 'favors'. If she -chose- to 'share me', she
could, at her discretion. If she wanted me to 'share her, I had that same
option. Both cases only IF the other also agreed to the arrangement. We've
considered it once or twice, but never taken that option. No real need to,
as we can each meet any 'real' needs the other has. Save for the somewhat
illusiory benefit of 'variety', and a good imagination can solve that."

Jason
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: Newbies on the March
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 05:09:20 GMT

(DM) writes:
>"One of the worst offenders for units, though, is astronomy. Through
>sheer bloody-mindedness and inertia, I am forced to have to cope with
>anachronisms like Angstroms (where the SI nanometre is a perfectly
>sensible substitute) and to measure the size of astronomical objects
>in centimetres!"
>
>- Danger Mouse.

    "Because we still use Angstroms in the US... " DJ... :-)

-- 
         Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
                   Video. Cher: Love and Understanding.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe)
Subject: Re: *Now* I can celebrate.
Reply-To: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 01:07:00 +0000


Taldin! congratulations....
to a degree finished and a lifetime of learning
<<Crash>>>

Mary MerryTail
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