HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (The Didi-Sprite)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: a Guy in a Yankee's cap enters ...
Date: 25 Dec 92 20:18:41 GMT
Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada
Originator: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca

In article <1h7r54INNs22@newsman.csu.murdoch.edu.au> keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!) writes:
>lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals) writes:
>
>>What's the difference between a Lime spider and a Sprite float?
>
>Ummm ... you need a slightly larger glass for a Sprite float ... the hot
>tub would probably do  ;-)
>
>Splash!
>
The Didi-Sprite looks up from her ever-present pile of Christmas
magazines and remarks:  "Ouch!"

----<--<@

The Didi-Sprite
Montreal * Canada

braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
didi@geloser.login.qc.ca
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: bshsiung@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Bernard Hsiung)
Subject: Re: New Year Pizza Party
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:15:04 GMT

Dear me.  An octopus, a manta ray, a sea elf, and more to come ...
I've never been much for costume parties in the past, but VR is much
more accomodating; I'll make a brief fly-by appearance as a flounder,
lurking at the bottom of the virtual ocean.  *smile*

And, though it's still 11 hours RL time before the new year as I write
this, I will offer the first New Year's toast [the Squire raises his
glass of chocolate milk]:

To those who make the world a more interesting place,
may they continue to be inspired and curious.
To those who make the world a more caring place,
may they continue to have joy and strength.
And to those who make the world a more terrible, dangerous place,
may they learn to confront their fears and grow more human...

Cheers and best wishes for the New Year!
--
the Jedi Squire-in-Training (bshsiung@eecs.umich.edu)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Sunglasses (was Re: Hats)
From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson@somewhere.out.there)
Date: 27 Dec 92 00:44:55
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.
In-reply-to: aahz@netcom.com's message of 26 Dec 92 18:43:59 GMT

In article <1992Dec26.184359.15289@netcom.com> aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine) writes:

>In article <vkt2dkd@rpi.edu> youngj4@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Jeffrey 'Taldin' Young) writes:
>>But the
>>reason I started wearing it mainly was because I wear glasses,
>>and as such, can't wear sunglasses.  (I know prescriptions and
>>photogreys are available, but they's expensive...) 
>
>I wear glasses, too, and I use clip-on polarizing sunglasses.  They're
>pretty cheap ($5-$15, usually), and they *really* reduce the glare.
>Someday I may get a pair of darker prescription lenses for when it's too
>bright, but it really ticks me off that I can't get prescription
>polarizers....

"I am also among the myopic, and I have a pair of prescription sunglasses,
and they work really well for me.  Dark enough (due to my lens thickness)
to protect against everything short of staring directly at the sun, and
they're glass so the UV doesn't get through.  Cheap sunglasses can be worse
than useless- if they're not UV-protective, they let more UV in than if you
weren't wearing anything, because your pupils are dilated more.  They did 
cost a bit, but they were 100% worth it.  Only problem is that switching back
and forth can sometimes be a pain, but I'm used to that."

--
-Chip Olson. | olson@husc.harvard.edu | ceo@{gnu.ai,silver.lcs}.mit.edu 
"If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down?
Maybe we would if they screamed all the time for no good reason." -SNL


Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: boo
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 23:11:24 GMT



>>   The brumby puts on his best lecherous impression.  Despite his actual
>>habits, he is very good at it.
>>

>>
>>>Frood continues, "Literature and life are rife with all sorts of
>>>wenches - buxom, comely, skinny, earthy, lusty, spritely, ....  Just
>>>throw in the flavor, where appropriate.*"
>>
>>   "So where is it appropriate to throw flavour into a wench?"

>"In poetry or prose, wherever the modifier goes."

>"However, in RL, sweet or tart,
> they flavor themselves for the most part."

>"As with many things, the fun is in the dance."  and frood winks.


"ooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhh....."  kitten LOVES poetry.  and poets..."
--
***************************************************************************
conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten           /\ /\  barbara ann 
"my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?"      {=.=}
                                              ~   trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu 
"love is the wild card of existance"
                          rita mae brown
From: mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar)
Subject: Re: wonderful life
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:05:53 GMT

>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.
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: The world, and what it'd be like...
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 17:01:59 GMT

doug the cynic writes:
>>
>>Callahans is a usenet news group.  Nothing more.

dan'l replies:

>Let me see now, was that CIAGDH or CIAWOL?  I tend to view it more as the
>former, but I recognize that others may see it as more than that.

>(For the acronym impared, the reference is to the perennial debate of
>Fandom Is A God Damned Hobby  vs.  Fandom Is A Way Of Life  that so often
>splits the fannish community.  It's been debated time and again, as has
>this issue been hashed over many times here.  Personally, I think that both
>sides are right, and leave it at that.)

kitten giggles:

"hi doug...you old cynic you...have some pizza...have a beer...have
some fun...."  she hugs the cynic and grins at the sour face...

--
***************************************************************************
conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten           /\ /\  barbara ann 
"my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?"      {=.=}
                                              ~   trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu 
"love is the wild card of existance"
                          rita mae brown

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: *Now* I can celebrate.
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 14:16:19 GMT




>Taldin sweeps into the room, dressed in jeans, T-shirt, flannel shirt
>worn open over it, and blue fuzzy slippers,  Slaps a stack of ones on
>the bar. "Next round's on me, Mike.. IBC Cream Soda.   This is the one I've
>been saving..."  

[   ]
>With a spinning sidearm hurl and flourish followthrough, the glass dies
>violently.   >>>>CRASH!!!!!<<<<<


>"To The End Of My Worries--IT'S OVER!"

>He grins. "It appears, after all that worry, I seem to be the proud and
>relieved owner of my Very Own Comp Sci Bachelors Degree from RPI.
>Got a C in the course I thot I failed-  Prof. Issaccson, I might just name
>my first kid after you.   The long wait is over.  Four and a half years
>of -- no, 17 years of education, over.   Khai, this feels great!!!"

>"Yeeeehah!!"

>Taldin and Sudrith

kitten cheers....chugs her ICB and flings her glass after taldin's....

"i KNEW you could do it....i am so proud of you!"  she hugs taldin
till he starts turning purple...chugs another rootbeer and toasts...

"to the end of education and the start of lifelong learning!!!!!"

<crash!>

--
***************************************************************************
conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten           /\ /\  barbara ann 
"my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?"      {=.=}
                                              ~   trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu 
"love is the wild card of existance"
                          rita mae brown

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Thomas J Lee)
Subject: Language Physics
Reply-To: tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Thomas J Lee)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 18:36:13 GMT

Alfvaen writes:

A>"Great.  CFD--sci.phys.lang.  Maybe sci.phys.lang.cipher, because I was
A>also a cipher nut.  And what are alphabets and languages but other ciphers,
A>eh?  I never learned Elvish, but I do know Greek and Cyrillic, even if my
A>Georgian is a bit rusty.  I know a dabbling of Devanagari, and have Hebrew,
A>Arabic, and Thai written down somewhere waiting for me to commit them to
A>memory.  And, of course, I've invented a couple of my own along the way..."

	"Neato," says the Lamplighter; "me too!  I mean, I've made up some
alphabets of my own, mostly while trying to write phonetically.  I've found
several that others have made up, though, so now I'm teaching myself the Shaw
alphabet.  Maybe I'll be able to achieve the 'linkup' that I have with
English letters or words, where I don't have to consciously sound them out.
Or maybe I'll just confuse myself.  Hmm, anybody else interested?"

The Lamplighter (Tom Lee)                            "Arms wide, dancing inside
tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu                           I got the feeling
                                                      Time tide, so mystified
Current Listen: Indigo Girls, "Rites of Passage"      I got the feeling"
                                                             -- Jamie Bernstein
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: a small sentiment
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 07:58:54 GMT

>My dear friends. This has been a tough year for many of us. We have
>found love and joy, and fear and pain and loss. And laughter. We are a
>tiny group, certainly only a mote in the vast tapestry of human life. A
>flake, in fact :)

   "Silly you aren't a flake ! Boss is !" says Linda who plants an oily
kiss on Nick Chopper's jaw and smiles at him.

>But I love you ALL. Some of you more than others. Please do not ever
>forget, in this joyous season, or the year round. YOU ARE LOVED.
>So
>
>                       Blessed be, unto thee.
>      Kindle the lights that others can realize the love we share.
>      Forever and ever,
>                             GLORY
>                             HALLELUJAH!
>Nick Chopper - my opinion? ax not! LB>-}  BOOKY@Forsythe.stanford.edu
>"STAN?! WHERE ARE YOU?!"

     "I think he's up in the rafters, at least it looked like him as I
sailed past up there. Flake ?! Nah ! I'm getting over the 'flu, or
will if I get some rest..." 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
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe)
Subject: Re: Sunglasses (was Re: Hats)
Reply-To: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 01:06:00 +0000


Mary MerryTail and Ignatz Mouse remove their glasses from their noses 
before realising that they can no longer see the half-full glasses in 
their hands - and barely each other. A comic  moment ensues as they 
try to get the right spectacle back on the right face before 
declaring themselves "very shortsighted"
Mary speaks up" I have anti-glare lenses (plastic with a coating) to 
deal with teh glare from overhead lights in teh library where I used 
to study (Bodleian Oxford) and with computer screens - this reflects 
90% odd of the light and works well in all but the most direct 
sun/glare."

+-------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
| Ommmmmm, said the lift                    |maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk |
| Organisation: Me? You're joking, right?   |maryb@cix.compulink.uucp  |
|I know I type "teh" for "the" My fingers have their own accent ;-)    |
+-------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
From: narxtc@navier.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Dancing (was Quantum/Zen/Beliefs)
Date: 26 Dec 1992 16:58:37 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
NNTP-Posting-Host: navier.math.uh.edu

I still haven't gotten the hang of DANCING, as in the case of a ritual of some
sort, but my lack of "skill" is more than made up for in energy. Dancing is a
wonderful outlet as well as a perfect method of self-expression. I highly
reccomend it.

--
*******************************************************************           
* Noah Ramon - The Bi-Bulb     * Your only limitation is your own *
* Mail to : narxtc@math.uh.edu * imagination - Beans Barton       *
*******************************************************************
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk (Alan Ralph)
Reply-To: mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk
Distribution: world
X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.20 $
Organization: Chez MonTemplar, Redunser
Subject: None (mail relay)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 23:30:21 +0000

As I type this, those of you in the States should have a few more hours of Xmas
Eve left, whilst our Ozzie compatriots are probably just past their Xmas Day
brekkies (if you're reading this in the UK then GO TO BED, YOU'LL ONLY KNACKER
YOURSELF! :-) )

This is Alan Ralph here, also known in here as Kimberley MonTemplar, wishing
you all a very merry Christmas wherever you are. Especially to those of you
currently sans newsfeed, who are here in spirit alone (big YO! to Kyla, Nicki
and Wumpus).

I have a small glass of Swiss Chocolate Almond liqueur here with me, but alas
no convenient fireplace handy, so you'll only hear a metaphorical *CRASH!* of
glass on brick :-) (besides, it's murder to clean out of the carpet).

Don't overdo dinner, and be sure to keep those relatives at bay.

--
Alan Ralph, AKA Kimberley MonTemplar (when in alt.callahans)
aralph@cix.compulink.co.uk  OR  mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk
Cominatcha' c/o Demon Internet Services - Internet for a tenner+VAT a month!
Note: redunser is NOT associated with any other site of demon.co.uk
From: bshsiung@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Bernard Hsiung)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: hi Alfvaen... (was Re: Dancing et al)
Date: 30 Dec 92 23:06:19 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI

Hi, Alfvaen!  (Guess "Alf" don't cut it, eh...)
Actually, I am new here (no flashy entrance; sorry folks *grin*), tho'
the place (or was that "the Place") had been recommended to me before.
Kinda high volume, but nice folks, good atmosphere -- glad I finally
dropped by.  (But you know that already if you're reading this.)
--
Jedi Squire-in-Training (bshsiung@eecs.umich.edu)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Thomas J Lee)
Subject: Merry Christmas
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:20:02 GMT

	The Lamplighter reappears through his vertical rip in the fabric of
reality.  He reaches down and closes it, bottom to top, and puts the zipper
handle back on his coat.  The cup he was holding when he came through then
abruptly vanishes from his left hand.  "Hmm," he says -- "Flux doesn't seem
to hold up too well out here ..."

	Clicking a gold coin down on the bar, he asks, "Mike, how about an
egg nog?"

	Mike picks up the coin, which has what looks like a very bright star
stamped on it.  "Sure thing, LL!  Nutmeg?"

	"Of course!" the Lamplighter says bouncily.  Callahan delivers the
drink with his usual consummate skill.

	"Thank you!  Merry ..." the Lamplighter hesitates for a moment, then
finishes, "Merry Christmas, Mike!"

	"Merry Christmas to you too, Lamplighter."  If Callahan wonders
whether the Lamplighter will explain his hesitancy, his question will
soon be answered.

	"You know," says the Lamplighter, turning toward people in general,
"there are a lot of Christians who never think of other religions.  There are
a lot of *people* who never think of people who are different from them.
When you try to, you get labeled PC when you're only trying to be a decent
human being, but that's another story."  He sips his egg nog.

	"Anyway, I don't want anybody to think I'm one of those
insensitive louts that seem to be everywhere.  If I say, 'Merry
Christmas,' I immediately want to follow it with, 'Unless you're not a
Christian, which is OK, or you're a Christian who doesn't feel like
having a merry Christmas,' and lots of qualifications.  Call me
neurotic.  Go ahead."

	"OK, you're neurotic!" several people shout, as the Lamplighter
sips his egg nog again and smiles slightly.

	"Thank you.  So now, instead of continuing to be neurotic, I
will take the risk of offending everybody else in the Place ..."

	"What I mean is: In commemoration of the time when I believe the
Deity came to live among us and to tell us that what we should do is
love one another, I want you all to know that I love you, my fellow
human beings, now and all year long.  Felicitations to all those who are
celebrating holidays this time of year."

	He steps to the chalk line.  "What I say is: Merry Christmas to
you all!"  He finishes the egg nog, and tosses ...

	... and it strikes the fireplace with a heavy CRASH!

---==--===-+===++==+++=*+++**++***+****#****+***++**+++*=+++==++===+-===--==---
The Lamplighter             |"Then rang the bells more loud and deep,
(Tom Lee)                   | God is not dead, nor does He sleep.
(The harmless Christian)    | The wrong shall fail, the right prevail,
tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu | With peace on Earth, goodwill to men."
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Solstice morning musings
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:20:23 GMT

gypsy says:

>I realized how many blessings I have had this year.
>I have loving family, good friends, work I value, a
>warm home with cats and comfort.  Yes, the cycle of
>life and death  and rebirth has touched me.  But most
>days have brought growth and goodness.

>May the blessings of the season be with you all.

>Gypsy smile again with a far look in her eye, still 
>envisioning the quiet momeny by the Bay.

>Swirling to her feet, she dances to the chalkline.

><To Magic and Love and the Reborn Sun>

>######Crrrrraaaaassssh########

"oh blessed sun..." kitten has QUIT lurking and come back with the sun!

she hugs gypsy and didi and nick and crazyman and yue-shun and speaker
to minerals and melandra and splash and ....... EVERYONE!!!!!!!!
--
***************************************************************************
conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten           /\ /\  barbara ann 
"my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?"      {=.=}
                                              ~   trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu 
"love is the wild card of existance"
                          rita mae brown

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: henry@netcom.com (Henry Polard)
Subject: Spirit of the season every day
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 19:52:57 GMT


Henry walks to the chalk line, a glass of distilled water in his
hand.
"The spirit of the Christmas/Hanukkah/Solstice season is love,
generosity and joy. May that spirit not be limited to this season,
but pervade every season. May all, here at Callans and elsewhere,
provide love, generosity, and joy every day! May all revel in love,
generosity, and joy every day!"
He drains the glass and throws it in a graceful arc into the
fireplace, where it explodes musically.
 
Yours in love, generosity, and joy,
Henry 
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: korz@cs.columbia.edu (Frederick Korz)
Subject: Re: boo
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 22:29:13 GMT

In article <C02qJq.36z@news.cso.uiuc.edu> trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
(Barbara Trumpinski) writes to alfvaen and the rest of the assembled
patrons:
>
[[snip]]
>
>kitten giggles...."i don't know....it is okay for occasional
>use....makes me feel 18 again....but i am really not buxom enough to
>be a wench...sigh....

"But, my dear Kitten, from what i've seen, being a wench is, more than
anything else, a state of mind.  Costume and such are ancillary."

Frood continues, "Literature and life are rife with all sorts of
wenches - buxom, comely, skinny, earthy, lusty, spritely, ....  Just
throw in the flavor, where appropriate.*"

"There's naught to keep you from being one, an you want it."


	frood


*I've a friend who sometimes dons the appellation 'wenchlet'.  But i
think she'd do quite well as a wench, sans the diminutive, were she to
put her mind to it.  Then again i'm biased.  :-)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fred Korz			450 Computer Science Building
korz@cs.columbia.edu		Columbia University
(212) 939-7068			NY, NY  10027 (USA)
From: Wales.Larrison@ofa123.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Wench
X-Sender: newtout 0.05 Dec 30 1992
Date: 01 Jan 93  20:50:44

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
: the great gray wizard left town."  she sits on the floor next to
: jammer and sips her drink.
  
Alfvaen replies:
>"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?"
 
   Personally, if that's going to be her moniker -- I'd like to
apply to be the 'loose bolt".  After all, aren't wenches used to
tighten  loose bolts?
   And I figure a bar is a pretty good place to get tight.... ;-)
  
  "Outa my way -- I've got to duck those peanuts!"
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wales Larrison                         Space Technology Investor

--- Maximus 2.01wb
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Quantum (and untutored Zen) and Beliefs (was Re: Absolutes)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 14:36:06 GMT


>[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."


kitten, licking orange danish icing off her fingers says,
"hhhhmmmmmphhhhhh.  personally, i think that is a VERY bad case!"
GGB*



*grin giggle and bounce


--
***************************************************************************
conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten           /\ /\  barbara ann 
"my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?"      {=.=}
                                              ~   trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu 
"love is the wild card of existance"
                          rita mae brown