HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jay Brandt (Jason))
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: A variety of non-related junk
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Date: 23 Nov 1992 21:20:09 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon, Architecture
Distribution: world
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In article <1992Nov23.155734.5411@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>,
s9000938@cumulus.csd.unsw.OZ.AU (Doormat) wrote:
> 
> From where he is leaning Doormat wanders (grinning inanely) to the door
> and steps outside. He returns momentarily holding a bottle.
> 
> Placing the bottle on the bar he turns to Mike saying "This bottle of
> Dom Benedictine was given to me for my 21st. The lady who gave it to
> me shared a glass of it with me that day."
> 
> Turning to look at the crowd he continues "The next time I opened it was
> several years later at a party to celebrate my discharge from the Army."
> 
> Turning once again to face Mike he says "I have only opened this bottle on
> those two very special occasions. I have only shared it with friends."
> 
> "This is my version of wonder booze, and invite those who wish to drink
> of it".
> 

"Hi Doormat!" says a tall feline human woman with downy golden fur. She
twitches her ears and whiskers at him, and he notices she also has a feline
tail. "I'm Thyra, and I don't think we've been introduced yet. My friend
here is Jason." She indicates an equally tall male human in a black leather
jacket and greek Fisherman's hat. He seems engrossed in the display of a
cyberdeck in front of him on the bar. Hearing his name, he disconnects a
5mm black cable from the interface connection on the back of his head and
allows it to reel back into the cyberdeck. "Hello friend." he says "Welcome
to the Place. We'd be honored to share a drink with you." 

Thyra looks Doormat over and says "You sure you want to be called Doormat?
I think Doormouse fits you better. Sounds more warm and friendly. Besides,
no one here is likely to walk on you or treat you like a doormat. This is a
friendly place. And a safe one, too. Care for a hug?"
.
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From: keulen@possum.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Mike van Keulen)
Subject: Re: UK Realspace
Organization: Murdoch University
Date: 20 Nov 92 02:35:13 GMT

pope@physics.su.OZ.AU (The Nightstalker) writes:

>In article <1992Nov20.002932.11086@ucc.su.OZ.AU> mar@physics.su.OZ.AU
(David Mar) writes: 

>>Uh-oh. Danger Mouse is curious now.

>"I hear that curiousity killed the cat, I wonder what it would do
>to a mouse?"

Let me see if I've got this right ... curiosity kills cats, and makes mice
dangerous (Ouch!  Was that DM's or mine?).  Now what does it do to
Nightstalkers?  (Or curious marine biologists, for that matter?)

Splash!

--
***************************** 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: mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar)
Subject: Christmas? But it's only November!!
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 05:37:34 GMT

Danger Mouse sidesteps yet another religious discussion and heads for a
topic which, although still connected with Christianity, can safely be
discussed without the requirement of religious overtones.

"The Sydney Grace Brothers Christmas Parade was held yesterday. One
commentator described it as 'what has become to be regarded as the official
start of Christmas in Sydney'. I had to check my calendar to reassure
myself that it was still November. Gosh, it isn't even summer yet!

"Which brings me to another point. (For those North Americans who recently
learnt what the word 'whinge' means, here is another example! :-) ) Why, oh
why, in a country where the beaches are packed to capacity on Christmas Day,
where Christmas dinner barbecues have to be reorganised because of total
fire bans, and where eating cold turkey slices and salad for Christmas
lunch while shooing away pesky flies is normal, why must we put up with an
overweight man in a furry red suit driving a sleigh through tons of fake
bloody _snow_ every Christmas??

"Aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!"

- Danger Mouse.
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From: li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus)
Subject: Re:  Science and god:  Are they incompatible?  If so, why?
Organization: Data I/O Corporation
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:26:45 GMT

In article <1ebl10INNol2@gap.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
>In article <1992Nov17.044659.16994@muddcs.claremont.edu>, dgreen@jarthur.claremont.edu (David Green) writes:
>>Those being?  (If StM can demand examples, I think it's only fair that I be
>>able to as well.)
>
>To name a few:
>	Roman Catholicism
>	Greek Orthodox
>	Russian Orthodox
>	Jehovah's Witnesses
>	Mormons

You forgot all the Protestants...
	Lutherans
        Baptist
        Congregationalists
        Quaker
	Anglican

uhm... sorry, that's not even *close* to a total list...

>One can also receive comfort from friends and family, and from the realization
>that one can't be responsible for unforseeable events.  So what extra does
>religion provide?  And could it provide that extra without imposing other costs
>in the first place?

Hmmm... depending on the circumstance and how the religion sets up its
organizations... in our congregation there are a lot of people without
'family'.  Folks that *need* a support network that they do find in our
concept that everyone that's a member is a member of the Church Family.
There is a *lot* of inter-generational support within the structure of our
congregation that makes it very easy for our elderly to get support from
the younger members, and the younger members to get experience from the
elder members.  We have a special organization called WITs (Women in
Transition) just for women and women's issues.  Part of the group's
charter is to teach about things like rape, to talk about how folks have
dealt with it and how it's easier to deal with it and to provide
communication and support.

Sometimes it's *eaiser* to ask for help from those that aren't close to
you, especially if all the family one has is the husband that one moved
here with, as one of our ladies noted; because half the terror and the
fear is *in* further sexual advances by *anyone*.  So it helped her to
have WITs to work through things with.

Not everyone has family. 

Some of the older members of our church have had their kids go free, and
most of their other friends and family die before they have.  Now they have
kids to love, people that still look up to them as experienced, and other
people to interact with.

I'm *not* saying that only Christian churches provide this, as the folks at
the Buddhist Temple in the International District has similar stuff set up.
But it *does* seem to be common to those that gather for *any* religion.
So it seems be something that is commonly provided with a religion.
----
Liralen Li
li@Data-IO.com
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From: rcb33483@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (ArchTeryx)
Subject: Re: FOOD FIGHT !!! (Re: Oh Yeah)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 14:56:59 GMT

s903040@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Christopher Francis Anderson) writes:

>Not realizing the awful pun until Splash points it out, the ThunderKat runs
>over to Chip, pins him to the floor, and sits on him. This will probably stop
>him making *any* sort of mover for a while. (Ever have a several hundred pound
>cat sit on *you*?)

>Grin! :-) (Cheshire cat-type)

ArchTeryx, with Feather on his shoulder, decides to make his introduction at
this point (bad timing, true, but AT's well known for that in the other worlds
he frequents, and this is no exception! :>).

"Allow me to introduce myself.  My name's ArchTeryx.  In case you haven't seen
one of my infamous description posts before, let me introduce myself by
describing myself to you:

"I am an evolved Archaeopteryx, a highly advanced version of the bird-lizard
that was Earth's first feathered animal.  I am 12' tall with an approximately
20' (over 6 meter) wingspan.  I stand upright like most 'morphs do, on 
digitigrade talons.  On my wings I have two 'handclaws' - with a true wrist and
palm, each with three fingerclaws.

"My head, neck, and chest are bare of feathers except for a blocky white crest
and a very thick stole-like ruff around my neck and chest, shaped like an 
inverted teardrop. My beak is rather vulture-like, but rather then being made
of horn, it is made of soft flesh and cartilage, much like the human ear or
nose, and I can bend it to form facial expressions. Instead of the standard
set of tailfeathers, I have a long double layered, fully feathered, flap of
skin that is rather like an oval throw-rug, starting narrow at the rump and
getting very broad at the end, almost three feet broad.

"Finally, my irises are covered over with a membrane that flexes with their
opening and closing the pupil.  This membrane gives them the appearance of 
being made of thousands of very tiny prisms, underlaid with green.  It makes my
eyes quite literally glitter."

ArchTeryx sits down next to the ThunderKat, and skritches him behind the ears,
as he says, "And yes, I've had several hundred pounds of kitty sitting on me,
when I more or less acted as a throwrug for Mytu the sabre-toothed tiger back
on my homeworld.  *That* was an experience, I'll tell you."

ArchTeryx then goes quiet for a bit, skritching TK behind his ears.

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From: ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re:  Science and god:  Are they incompatible?  If so, why?
Date: 21 Nov 92 00:28:52 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
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Mary is talking about sex in the Catholic Church (so to speak ...)  =8)

>mayyybe... it's OK if you're doing it to have kids, even though you 
>know you can't (without some sort of miracle - scientific or 
>religious), then it's your *intention* that matters? If you do it 
>*intending* to have a kid, it's OK.

"So if a homosexual couple had sex, it would be OK as long as they intended to
have kids from it, even though that's impossible?"

Abner breaks out laughing at the thought of a Bishop O'Conner's reaction to
that reasoning ...  

>hee-hee. That's a lovely knotty problem Abner

Abner looks insulted.  "Calling me lovely is inaccurate but OK.  Calling me
knotty I don't understand, but it sounds ... suspicious.  But calling me
a 'lovely knotty problem Abner' is not to be bourne!"

*grin*

"Mary, if you are so brave, may I offer you a mixture of Dr. Pepper and
cranberry juice to drink?  Mike, this is on my tab, OK?"
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From: dgil@IPSAINT.IPSA.REUTER.COM (Gillett, David)
Subject: Re: Classifications
Reply-To: dgil@IPSAINT.IPSA.REUTER.COM (Gillett, David)
Organization: Reuters APL Software Division
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:23:01 GMT

     Obviously, Philosophy = Applied Taxonomy.  First you divide the Universe
into parts, and *then* you have something to philosophize *about*.
(See _Laws of Form_....)
                                      Mentor the Sage

-----------Message forwarded from IPSA Mailbox-------------
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From: wyang@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William D Yang)
Subject: Summing up all of Christianity in one statement... 
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:54:00 GMT

It is the case that ALL of Christianity is based on the existence of
at least one facet of a diety which we shall call God.  It is the case
that Jesus must be, within the confines of Christianity, a divine
being of some sort.
 
In the discussions about the compatibility of God and Religion,
someone said that you can't class 'em all together.  I think you can.
 
I think I just did.
 
	-Bill



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From: pechever@phakt.usc.edu (Paul Echeverri)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: God and Science:  The Ramblings of The Nightstalker
Date: 19 Nov 1992 18:48:41 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
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Impu-Sebek trudges in the door...strange, you didn't see him leave.  He 
looks awfully weary, and he has good reason: 2.5 hours of sleep last night
in misguided preparation for a debate class.  Well, it paid off, the debate
went well, and here he is in Callahan's.  A spiderweb of silver chains flies
through the air, gently draping itself over Mike's head.
"Hot cocoa, Mike.  Keep 'em coming till someone passes out."
As he slumps he catches a fragment of conversation from his friend /*:

In article <102503@bu.edu [ mjmh@crsa.bu.edu (Michael J M Holmes) writes:
[deletia]
 [And I should
 [say that *I* always think of love as an unconditional emotion - 
 [any love with strings attached is not quite love in my book.  So
 [when I *was* a Christian, I tried to make sure that I was loving
 [without requiring people to agree with me, or without any other
 [ulterior motives.  I was not always successful (!), but I did try.
 [But it seems to me that you, Liralen Li, are embodying that
 [principle wonderfully."
[deletia]

Yawning mightily, Impu-Sebek manages to say, "I think I'll take exception to 
that, /*.  Love is always conditional.  Let's have an example:
	"You have a SO.  Sie is basically your ideal (I'll take the liberty of
	 defining 'ideal' as the sociologically predominant type:  Tender,
	 thoughtful, sensitive, gorgeous, great cook...your ideal might be nine
	 feet tall, hairy, bazooka-toting, and nicknamed 'snake', but you
	 get the essential concept).  You love your SO.  Sie loves you.
	 Dandy up till now:  Sie avoids you, boffs other people on YOUR
	 couch, becomes slatternly, etc.  Would you still love hir?
	 Most people wouldn't.  So we see love is contingent upon certain
	 personality aspects of the loved one, which are supposed to remain
	 relatively constant.  So that's a condition, and (I daresay) a nearly
	 universal one.
"Of course, you did specify that this definition of love as unconditional is
yours, personally, so feel free to ignore me on this, but I just thought I'd
blurt it out.  Here, have some plums."
He draws some very large, very fresh plums from the inner pocket of his
dark green trenchcoat and hands them to /*.
He sips at a mug of steaming cocoa, then settles off to slumber, wrapping
himself in his trenchcoat.  The baliset rests quietly between his legs.  
Mike shrugs, and puts the cocoa pot on the hot plate, to keep it warm.
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Subject: A toast to life
From: mfbertke@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Mary Bertke....Gwen MacThaidhg)
Date: 19 Nov 92 14:52:42 -0500
Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"

Velvet grins as she hears Splash and Alfaen talking about school , the leaving
of it, and joining the "real" world.   She walks over to Mike at the bar and
reaches into her hip pouch.  After feeling around she pulls out a copper dollar
peice.  "I'd forgotten I had these, really.  Hm.   Mike!  Give me a brandy!"

After receiving her drink, she walks over to the the fireplace and drinks down
the glass.  "I've always dreamed of leaving home, just so that I could be out
on my own.  College is Ok, but my parents are supporting it.  That's one of the
reasons I'm so excited about this internship- my parents really don't have
anything to do with it.  All the songs I sing are of leaving..."

Velvet looks reflectively at the fire, then a sparkle lights her eye.
"To life, and the freedom to make of it what you will!"
*CRASH*
From: s903040@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Christopher Francis Anderson)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: 'Twas a dark and stormy night...
Date: 9 Nov 1992 06:59:31 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
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jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce) writes:

>     Thunderchild fades out. A metal sign hangs momentraily in the air:
>  'Repair pickup by Linda.'

>      Thunderchild finds himself in a large silver room pulsing with energy.
>A sign on one wall: 'Liquid Metal Repair; Tech Level 11'

>      A great deal of energy is expended. Repairs are made forthwith.
>   A scroll of 'Recharge Magic Missles: Crystal Enhancement; 5 replays.'
>   finds its way into Thundrchild's magic pouch...

>     "I can't reach that location easily Thunderchild. Please tell the
>others. Something is blocking me. I can't find Robbie anywhere ! Boss seems
>to be with Morticia ! Argh ! Sigh. I have repaired your 'self.' You now have
>a slightly higher capability self-repair mode. Luck !" Linda.

>    Thunderchild fades back into the Inn.

//Thankyou, Linda, for that wonderful repair job. I feel 135% better already!
However I think I might stay in ThunderKat mode for a while - umpteen feline
personas can't be wrong!//


-- 
ThunderKat (a.k.a. Chris Anderson)    s903040@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au

"Sam pressed the button. A few lights flashed on the CPU. And another human
life ended. Somehow, it's always sad, no matter what."
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From: /G=Rhodri/S=James/O=SJ-Research/ADMD=INTERSPAN/C=GB/@mhs-relay.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Another introduction...
Organization: Yale CS Mail/News Gateway
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 13:40:47 GMT

ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz) writes:

>Windsinger writes:_[about the Tripods trilogy]

>Abner laughs.

>"We both forgot the third book in the series!  I really am going to have to
>go home and check.  "The Pools of Fire", maybe?  That doesn't sound quite
>right ..."

  Rhodri frowns.  "That sounds vaguely right.  I meant to check last
night...."  Then Bear confirms it, at least "The Pool of Fire" (singular). 
"Ah, thanks."

---
Windsinger  -  Rhodri James    *  "If music be the food of love,
                               *   play me a tune on your jam buttie."
Rhodri.James%gb.INTERSPAN.sj   *
            @mhs-relay.ac.uk   *           -- Ken Dodd
   or                          *
rmj10@phx.cam.ac.uk            *
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From: hollombe@polymath.tti.com (The Polymath)
Subject: Re: The Difference Injure..
Organization: The Cat Factory
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 05:36:11 GMT

In article <1e6hd6INN951@gap.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
}In article <4f1fJb_00awNE3uJQt@andrew.cmu.edu>, Mark Beirne Lively <ml5a+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
}=Excerpts from netnews.alt.callahans: 15-Nov-92 Re: The Difference
}=Injure.. Speaker-to-Minerals@SOL1 (398)
}=
}=> > If I were taller and stronger then they wouldn't do that."
}=
}=> I suspect you're wrong in that claim.
}=
}=Thats why some of us had those sorts of problems.
}
}Perhaps.  But I can tell you from experience that unless you're willing to
}respond to words you don't like with physical violence, being large and strong
}doesn't prevent the behavior in question.

But it does make it less intimidating and easier to ignore.

The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, M.A., CDP, aka: hollombe@polymath.tti.com)
Head Robot Wrangler at Citicorp
3100 Ocean Park Blvd.   (310) 450-9111, x2483
Santa Monica, CA  90405
From: s903040@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Christopher Francis Anderson)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: puns and cons
Date: 18 Nov 92 06:34:49 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
NNTP-Posting-Host: minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au

olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson@somewhere.out.there) writes:


>"I'm going to be there... anyone else? RealSpace, anyone?"

Only if you pay for my plane tickets.

;-)

-- 
ThunderKat (a.k.a. Chris Anderson)    s903040@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au

"Sam pressed the button. A few lights flashed on the CPU. And another human
life ended. Somehow, it's always sad, no matter what."
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: Rejoice, and Velvet reels
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:36:36 GMT

olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson@somewhere.out.there) writes:
>"Hi Didi! Any chance of my getting the odd waffle or two as well?  I've got
>some Vermont maple syrup to contribute, which isn't so healthful but should
>never be counted in calorie calculations anyway. 

   DJ is heard to mumble something about 'how can you be two places at once,
  when you're not anywhere at all bumm bumm...' 

    "Hmm. If there are one or two waffles left, I would like some also.
  Here's a big jar of Tupelo Honey to go with them, " DJ.

-- 
 Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM - Gulf Park Campus 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
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From: li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus)
Subject: Re: A Little Light
Organization: Data I/O Corporation
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 19:29:05 GMT

In article <1992Nov23.085238.8342@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU> s9000938@aix00.csd.unsw.OZ.AU (Jacqueline Quennell) writes:
>While I am sure that DM will reply to this - I couldn't resist the temptation
>to describe what I can see out the window:

Thank you.  I remember that you are not Jacqueline, actually, but someone
else?  The man who visited Anaheim at a rather terrible time... I think.
I can't help but think that it's gotten better since then, I hope that if
you *do* have to go back for business, it'll be more pleasant. I'm sorry 
to have forgotten your name, though...

But Carlsbad (if it's the city that's just north of San Diego) is, from
what I remember, a desert town that is very nice...  My parents live in San
Diego, and we'd go to Carlsbad for Hadley's dried fruits.  San Diego is a
lovely city, smaller, and with the whole of the beach community around the
Bay, it is laid back, beautiful and quiet and probably just a little
chillier (70's F, 21-26C) than your Australian summer.  A bit overcast on
the coast in the winter/fall/rainy season.

I'm going to get a taste of it, again, for the American Thanksgiving, from
Nov. 25th - Nov. 29th.

But, thank you for a taste of your summer.  I appreciate it.

>The day has been warm - about 28 degrees C (I can't remember what degrees F)
>and while it's cooling off now it's still warm enough for me to be sitting in
>my shorts (which is not a pretty sight).

giggle...

>The sky is THE most amazing shades of orange and red with 3 cirrus clouds
>serving only to highlight the colours.

Mmmm...

>MIKE - more beer please mate.

"On me, Mike." Liralen puts the dollar down on the bar. "In thanks..."
-- 
Liralen Li           | "... and how you feel can make it real  | - _US_
aka Phyllis Rostykus | Real as anything you've seen            |   Peter
li@Data-IO.com       | Get a life with this dreamer's dream."  |   Gabriel
From: s903040@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Christopher Francis Anderson)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: illuminati
Date: 17 Nov 1992 04:26:45 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
NNTP-Posting-Host: minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au

dgil@ipsaint.ipsa.reuter.com (Gillett, David) writes:


>     So, does the Tri-Lateral Commission still exist?

What is the Tri-Lateral Commission?

And why? (Just a general 'why?', to everything in general).


-- 
ThunderKat (a.k.a. Chris Anderson)    s903040@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au

"Sam pressed the button. A few lights flashed on the CPU. And another human
life ended. Somehow, it's always sad, no matter what."
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