HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jpalmer@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (John D Palmer)
Subject: Christmas. . . and a Joyous Christmas to all!
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 17:50:32 GMT

     Many people go around celebrating lots of holidays this year. . .and try 
to make their greetings match those of other faiths. . . from happy hannukhah 
to 'seasons greetings'

    Me, I'm a Christian, and I can't help that.

     I believe that 1992 years, give or take, a child was born to a young woman
named Mary, wedded to Joseph. . .

     Mary, who knew she might be shamed by bearing a child before properly 
married,

      Joseph, who may well have feared he'd never be first in his bride's 
heart.

     Perhaps, because of scripture, they knew their child was slated to die, 
but they raised him and loved him, through all of the troubles this must have 
lead to.

     And that child became a man, who brought meaning to the teachings they had
all lived by, and who brought to us all a new message from God. . . that we 
need not be perfect, that what we TRY to do means more than a bunch of old 
fashioned rules.

     He wasn't perfect himself.  He got mad at merchants in the temple, and 
even got mad at innocent fig trees on occasion. . . but in the end, when it 
counted, he let himself be tortured to death, to die in one of the most painful
and humiliating ways possible.

     Many people have asked why he had to be crucified, and some even claim 
that suffering was necessary to expiate our sins. . .

     Me, I just picture a man who knew that we would be faced with problems we 
would never feel we could surmount. . . and so he showed his people that, even 
when life is darkest, there is still hope for miracles. . . and indeed, on the 
thrid day , he rose from the dead and sent out his people to spread the news of
this.

     Many of those who claim to speak for him mis-state his words, and many 
people, either intentionally or mistakenly, use the beleif that people have in 
this man incorrectly. . . but to me, that is meaningless; what Christ IS means 
nothing to what people try to say he is.

     Tommorrow I shall celebrate the birth of this man/god/whatever he was.
And I hope that you will find joy on this day, regardless of your own beliefs.
But even if you do not find happiness with the belief that this HAPPENED, I 
hope you will find happiness in  the meaning. . .

     May you all have a joyous Christmas. . .

     And lots of love and happiness to you all, now and forever,

                                                   John/The Crazyman
-- 
"Love is cool; I mean, like, really cool.  Like, the coolest thing in
the universe, where, like, people open up inside and show the world how
they feel, and they ain't afraid someone's gonna laugh because they, like,
love themselves already!"  --Personality 42, a generic 60's philosopher 
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From: aaron@atlantis.uucp
Subject: Re: boo
Reply-To: aaron%atlantis@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
Organization: Atlantis Communications, Edmonton, AB, Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 05:03:51 GMT

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.

"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?"

-- 
---Alfvaen(Still looking for "October's Baby")
"Give me your mirth.  It bores me when you weep.                                 My loves you cannot touch.  They're buried deep."  ---Don Marquis
Current Album--Frank Mills:The Twentieth Anniversary
Current Read--Tesseracts4
From: schweppe@acs.bu.edu (Edmund Schweppe)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: DIDI
Date: 2 Jan 93 23:19:02 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

kitten writes:
>>kitten has a message...
>>
>>mellie sent a note and said didi is in ICU in a paris hospital ... she
>>had some sort of seizure...heart, they think.
>>
>>pass the word...and PRAY....
>
>kitten heaves a sigh of relief....
>
>"we aren't out of the woods yet....but mellie just sent this...
>.....
>
>didi's auntie says:

[ ... ]

>After some blood tests it was decided that Didi had probably made a
>mistake in her medication routine.  She had too much of one chemical
>in her blood and too little of another.  And her 'seizure' was her
>body's way of telling her that things were mixed up.
>
>We are now heaving huge sighs of relief.

As are we all.

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Get well soon, dear Didi.

__________________________________________________________________________
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.
From: snarf@access.digex.com (Sean Eustis)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Hello
Date: 28 Dec 1992 05:04:17 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com

In article <234gwB1w165w@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> ekho@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (amanda rothman) writes:
>  Amanda smiles and walks up to Dreamweaver, "Welcome to the Place!  I'm 
>glad to meet you.  My friend, Ekho, and I would like to join you in 
>adding our energy for the continued healing of the Sprite."

>  Amanda holds out her hand to Ekho who walks over, pauses, then takes 
>her hand.  They both concentrate, friendship and energy perceptively 
>flowing between them and then concentrating in their linked hands.  
>Amanda holds out their hands to Dreamweaver, "Shared giving heals the 
>healers as well as the healed."

Dreamweaver readilly accepts the hands of Amanda and Ekho, adding to the
growing energy and giving a little bit of a knowing smile.

	"Yes, the giving does heal. That was one of the first and most
difficult lessons I've had to learn recently. I learned that giving is
just something that I do, and no amount of hurt was going to change that."

	"Sprite, I really do hope that whatever your sorrow or pain, that
you find the strength to make yourself strong and whole. Hoping to hear
how you're doing soon."


-- 
In VR -- The Dreamweaver		In RL -- Sean Eustis
						snarf@access.digex.com
"God never closed a door without
 first opening another."
From: bonapart@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Con!
Date: 31 Dec 92 19:22:12 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon Computer Club

In article <1992Dec30.035034.26093@wam.umd.edu>, amanda@wam.umd.edu (Me again) writes:
> Amanda (NOT the one with the Ekho...) wanders in, wondering if any 
> Callahanians are planning on attending MD/DC/VA's EveCon Jan. 1, 2, & 3.
> 
> "I've never had a Callahanian RealSpace... and i'd really like to meet
> some Callahaners someday!  Seeing how many of us do the con thing, i was
> just wondering if there was anyone in the area going to *this* con...."
> 
> "Later..."  Amanda hangs around to watch the goings-on in the danger room
> and around the bar before wandering back out without making a toast.
> 
> amanda@wam.umd.edu     --Amanda *without* the Ekho--      Amanda Babcock
From: keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Arrival of a Stranger
Date: 22 Dec 1992 19:44:46 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au

arsmith@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Alan Smith) writes:

>Big Al.  Am I the only *human* in here?

Nope ... I'm human, as I am in RL (only I'm usually - not always - a bit
soggier here than in RL  :-)   ).

Splash!
--
		Splash!		*To love is to LIVE!*
   (aka Mike van Keulen -- e-mail: keulen@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au)
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From: tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Thomas J Lee)
Subject: Lamplighter's Christmas Eve
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 22:03:48 GMT

	"Aurora and I got a simple prayer answered today," says the
Lamplighter, to anyone who cares to listen.

	"Back in November, my grandmother sent us money and told us to use it
to go down to Rockefeller Center, to see the Christmas tree and the skaters.
We planned to do it last Saturday, but Aurora woke up that morning with an
awful sore throat and a painful cough."

	"Somehow we made it through the weekend, but our trip to see the tree
seemed scuttled.  On Monday, she went to the doctor, and she's now taking
antibiotics for her sinus infection, and cough syrup to quiet her cough.  We
weren't sure whether she'd get well enough to see the tree before Christmas,
but this morning she said she felt fine."

	"We got on the subway -- the 1 to 59th street, and the B to
Rockefeller Center.  A homeless man sang a song to everyone in our car, and
some gave him money.  We arrived, and wandered around the subterranean
network of hallways until we saw a restaurant right in front of us with a
view of the famous skating rink.  A short way farther, and there we were."

	"There was the tree, tall and lighted, behind Prometheus with his
fire.  Aurora took pictures.  We also went to look at St. Patrick's
Cathedral (a homeless woman huddled in a blanket across the street from it,
and a gray-haired man put some money in her box).  We looked at some store
windows, but we got too cold and went home."

	"Before we got home we went to look inside the Cathedral of St. John
the Divine.  Imagine -- all this time it's been one block away and we hadn't
seen the inside of it!  It's very pretty, like a cross between a museum and a
church."

	"I washed dishes, then Aurora made fudge, and I wrapped her presents
(don't tell her what they are!).  It's been a nice day so far."

	"I guess that's all there is to tell!  You know the rest.  Merry
Christmas!"

With smiles of appreciation to Jilara and Alaric's Christmas Spirit, and to
John / Crazyman ...
---==--===-+===++==+++=*+++**++***+****#****+***++**+++*=+++==++===+-===--==---
The Lamplighter             |"Then ringing, singing on its way,
(Tom Lee)                   | The world revolved from night to day,
(The harmless Christian)    | A voice, a chime, a chant sublime
tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu | Of peace on Earth, goodwill to men."
From: snarf@access.digex.com (Sean Eustis)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: ...and to all, a good night.
Date: 25 Dec 1992 04:18:01 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com

Dreamweaver untangles himself from the love and warmth of the various
X-mas wellwishers to order an eggnog and step to the chalkline.
	"Before my weary and happily worn out body turns in for the night,
I'd like to wish all of the children, of whatever age, sweet dreams of
warm fires, cold snow, laughter with friends, and a year full of joy and
happiness."
	"This is the dream I will send you tonight:

Midnight strikes its twelve bright notes
And for a while, there is a swift breeze
That stirs the porch windchimes
And whisks through the trees

It greets us with laughter
It dries up our tears
Spreads the Spirit of giving
To many during the years

And on this X-mas evening
For twelve seconds at least
No one is hungry or alone
Or is turned from a feast

This is just a wish, I know
But wouldn't it be a sight
To see every boy and girl
Feel as lucky as us tonight

And wouldn't it be special
To see their parents smiling, too
Watching children get their wishes
Because of me and you

'Tis not a perfect world
and this dream might never be
But for twelve seconds only
I give this dream to thee"

Draining the eggnog, Dreamweaver throws the empty cup into the fire,

	"To giving, because we can."
<<Crash>>











-- 
In VR -- The Dreamweaver		In RL -- Sean Eustis
						snarf@access.digex.com
"God never closed a door without
 first opening another."
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From: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe)
Subject: Re: Kitten
Reply-To: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 01:06:00 +0000


think you found Kitten already Jammer - but welcome from the rest of 
us. I'm Mary MerryTail - I have a long, blone, merry prehensile tail 
which will be passing you your next drink if you tell me what you'd 
like!
hugs?
Mary MerryTail
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| 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 ;-)    |
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From: narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Snowball
Date: 30 Dec 1992 22:21:18 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
NNTP-Posting-Host: casc.math.uh.edu

Jammer, bravo! I feel honored to be present at a time like that : giving and
receiving. Snowballs would run hand in hand with tickles for joy, if we had snow
down here that is. 
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From: li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus)
Subject: Re: Definition of "monogamy"?
Organization: Data I/O Corporation
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 16:47:42 GMT

In article <1992Dec24.010508.9581@netcom.com> aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine) writes:
>BTW, based on some responses I'm seeing, just wanted to ask that people
>discuss the *definition* of "monogamy", rather than whether or not they
>themselves are monogamous.  Kitten and Mike have done a good job so far.

Laughter!!  But my definition is *based* on my life.  :)

O.K.  In short form.  Monogamy is 1) No Intercourse with anyone but the
one and 2) making the commitment to put the one other first amoung all
others, emotionally.  Mary pointed out a good distinction for that last,
in that the stricture we go by is "Love your neighbor as you love
yourself.", which implies that I love myself *first* and that enables me
to love others.  But it *doesn't* mean that we can't love other people,
just that we're first in each others regard.

And, by the by, Elf! has a wife, who he puts first, above all others; and
everyone *knows* that before they get involved with him.  So he is very
close to Omaha and plans on sharing the rest of his life with her.  But
he's also very polyamorous physically as well as emotionally.  Also, I
know a group of three and a group of four who have polygamous marriages,
they all consider themselves married to all the other members in the
group; and I'd imagine that they'd be a group of three or four candles
that decided to merge that way... none of them ever stand alone, and the
commitment is as solid as any I've ever seen in a monogamous marriage.
The communication, though, is insane...
-- 
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
From: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (The Didi-Srpite)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: New Year Pizza Party
Date: 1 Jan 93 19:57:16 GMT
Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada
Originator: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca

In article <1992Dec31.024941.18946@wam.umd.edu> amanda@wam.umd.edu (Me again) writes:
>
[    ]

Amanda the piratess counts down:
>Peering through a wormhole X-window, Amanda watches the New Year approach...
>"10! 9! 8! 7! 6! 5! 4! 3! 2! 1....
>
>   "Happy New Year's!!!!"   Tweet!  Party favors sound throughout the bar.
>                         "TO 1993!!!"  <CRASH!>
>
>amanda@wam.umd.edu         -- Happy 1993! --           Amanda Babcock

Didi mumbles from within a Kitten hug:  "Golly! Is it that time already?

		HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYBODY!  HAPPY, HAPPY!

----<--<@

The Didi-Sprite
Paris  *  France

braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
didi@geloser.login.qc.ca
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From: li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus)
Subject: Re: hugging back
Organization: Data I/O Corporation
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:04:10 GMT

In article <1h85cfINNce8@mirror.digex.com> snarf@access.digex.com (Sean Eustis) writes:
>Dreamweaver opens his arms to accept the embrace of not only Thyra, but
>any others who might pad over, with a suprising gentleness. He also gives
>gentle scratches behind the ears to all the other fuzzy creaturesin the Place.
>(Purrr.)

Liralen chuckles softly, "Almost makes me wish I were furry..."  And then
looks around at *all* the animals in the Place.  Boy, is *he* going to be
busy...  

A 130 pound shaggily furred black dog, looking about twice as wide as he
actually is with his winter coat in wanders over to the Dreamweaver and
sits on Dreamweaver's feet while getting his ears scritched.  The little
Newfoundland (well, Fezzik *is* little for a Newfie) leans happily against 
the man and softly snorts his satisfaction at the scritch.   Eventually, he
gets up and lets Joe's Bouviers take over... all five of 'em...

>	"A Long Island Ice Tea, thanks."
>Dreamweaver realizes just _who_ he is talking to and almost spills his
>drink (except that most of it was already in his mouth). "Silk and Steel!
>I thought I recognised your address! I love your work, keep it up.
>Hopefully I'll get to read more of your stuff later."
>	"I'm not much of a net-jock myself, but I do appreciate the work
>of those who are."

	Again, she just softly chuckles.  Does her heart good to see that,
and then nods at Jason with a grin.  

-- 
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
From: noj@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Jonathan E Miles)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Danger Room
Date: 25 Dec 1992 00:02:10 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

ekho@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (amanda rothman) writes:


>  Chuckling softly at all the interest in the Danger Room (her own 
>included), Ekho comments, "This could very well turn out to be 
>entertaining.  I take it that the factors could be adjusted to compensate 
>for a group of people at once?  This could be like one of your "sports", 
>perhaps a team competition... Not only would it be a physical workout, 
>but a lesson in strategy and tactics, as well as leadership and teamwork. 
>Anyone interested to take this on?  I would be willing to participate."  
>Ekho looks around the room, "The "defeated" team could buy the victors a 
>round of drinks, if a prize is desired for incentive... A friendly game." 

Itosu looks up from several piles of crumpled papers.

"I'd absolutely LOVE to...A good battle game would be great training, and
promises to be fun."

He grins slyly before making the next statement.

"And being an ogre has many advantages and disadvantages for such a game, it
will be interesting to discover them.  Besides, my poetry is at a standstill."



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From: aaron@atlantis.uucp
Subject: Hey!
Reply-To: aaron%atlantis@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
Organization: Atlantis Communications, Edmonton, AB, Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 05:27:55 GMT

Alfvaen suddenly notices that the two-day time lag he's been working under
since arriving at Atlantis seems to have disappeared.  He's actually seen
people whose posts appeared >after< his, and posts from the same day!

"Wow!" he says.  "I feel much better now.  Maybe it's only a seasonal thing,
with the lighter holiday traffic, but I'm not one to look a gift horse in the
mouth...I'm even all caught up on alt.callahans.

"Welcome back, Toothpick, by the way..."  >HUG<  "I'm no longer on the
Internet, so it may be a while before we get to play Yahtzee again.  Ah, well.
Glad to see you back here, at least.  Will you be able to stay for a while?"

-- 
---Alfvaen(Still looking for "October's Baby")
"Give me your mirth.  It bores me when you weep.                                 My loves you cannot touch.  They're buried deep."  ---Don Marquis
Current Album--Carly Simon:Have You Seen Me Lately?
Current Read--Tesseracts4
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From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: Quantum (and untutored Zen) and Beliefs (was Re: Absolutes)
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 06:50:37 GMT

Kitten writes:
>"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...."

    "Yes, welcome to The Place ! I think Linda is looking for a dance
partner, do you dance jedi squire-in-training ???" 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 !'
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From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Coffee's Toast
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 06:05:01 GMT
Keywords: A Toast




>Jammer orders a mocha, and walks to the line.
>He says
>"People, I give you Coffee's Toast.
>I wrote it 17 years ago, when we toasted Sgt. Coffee, ourselves, and
>those like us with 100 proof Wild Turkey, before heading down range.

>It is now 1700 and dark on December 31, 1992 in the Republic of Korea.

>First Sergeant, call the Roll!
>Sergeant Coffee, overdue from patrol.
>Dance of shadows,
>Dance of fears.
>Dance of battle,
>Winter of Tears."

>Jammer drinks, and throws his mug into the fire.
>>CRASH<


kitten silently lifts her glass to jammer and to sgt. coffee...

...and adds her own (maybe inappropriate) toast...

"Under the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie
Glad did I live and gladly die
And I laid me down with a will!

This be the verse you grave for me:
'Here he lies where he longed to be,
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.'


i toast all those who are overdue from patrol and all who wait for them."

<crash!>

--
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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

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From: steve@crc.ricoh.COM (Stephen R. Savitzky)
Subject: Re: *Now* I can celebrate.
Organization: RICOH California Research Center
Date: 28 Dec 92 16:24:54

"Congraduations!" says the Mandelbear, as he sends a glass after
Taldin's.

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