HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
Subject: Re: Haircut for Tanais
Reply-To: mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk
Distribution: world
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Organization: Chez MonTemplar, Redunser
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 23:16:35 +0000

In article <memo.888597@cix.compulink.co.uk> cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>TITLE: A Haircur for Tanais
>
>Well, it's happened. I managed to sell my old double bass to one of 
>the ex members of a local(ish) band called the Wurzels (most famous 
>for a 70's "Hit" Song called "I am a Zyder Drinker" (to the tune of 
>"_____ paloma blanca". To celebrate I bought myself a pair of hair 
>clippers and Merrytail was let free to have a go at my hair -- I'm a 
>trusting fox like that! She did a marvellous job.


My god! Someone remembers the Wurzels! Rush him to bed IMMEDIATELY!!! :-)

>We're thinking of "carving" a rune into the back of my head as well 
>(let's see how well that goes down with immigration when I get into 
>the USA), and my new role as freelance journalist (I got sacked/we 
>parted on amicable terms) after being off from work ill for four 
>months is already delving deep into the San Fran and Chicago computer 
>community for good candidates to interview and sell to UK magazines.
>
>I may even see about seeing a few US magazines about being a UK 
>columist/analyst for US computer magazines...

Excellent news! Good luck!

>Cool! Now, my friends you can scritch me anywhere you like -- from 
>behind, in front, from the sides, you can even doff my mop on top...

*scritch!* *scritch!* *scritch!* "Better?"

>Tanais
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>|  ..    "When I grow up, I want to stop being a computer journalist|
>| .OO.    and learn how to write."                                  |
>| O/\O                                                              |
>|  --                              Tanais - friend to all furkindred|
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>|cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk | Bisexual knitter of quality since 1992|
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From: schweppe@acs.bu.edu (Edmund Schweppe)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Didi's ill, again :-(
Date: 22 Jan 93 17:19:18 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

kitten, who can't stay lurked for a minute, writes (quoting yue-shun):

>>A kitten tries to look stern?  Hee hee hee!  Haa Haa Haa!  Wait until
>>  you're older and become a cat.  Or better still, a tiger!

>>yue-shun

>kitten hugs yue-shun (i just don't lurk very well....sigh)

Merlinvin goes to hug kitten.  "Maybe you don't lurk very well...
but you delurk very nicely."

"And perhaps you would like your ears scritched? Or your back rubbed?"

__________________________________________________________________________
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: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Laz does fun stuff.
Date: 26 Jan 1993 13:00:35 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Distribution: world
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
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In article <108229@bu.edu>, schweppe@acs.bu.edu (Edmund Schweppe) writes:
>Merlinvin turns to greet StM.  "Welcome, friend! Sorry I stole your thunder,
>so to speak, but I hadn't seen you around... in fact, I'm not entirely sure
>we've properly met."

StM answers, "No, I don't think we have.  I had the flu back in early December,
and am only now finally caught up on other, more pressing things.  Nice to meet
you."

>So saying, Merlinvin goes to offer StM a hug, a drink, a scritch behind
>the ears, or any combinations or permutations thereon.  (The massage
>table is also open - although I think that skipping the scented oil remains
>a good idea for massagees of the furry kind.)

"A scritch behind the ears would be nice."
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk (Clive Grace)
Subject: Re: The Scribe plays a song for Decker
Reply-To: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:11:00 +0000



> Alfvaen sits with arms folded.  "Okay, now do 'A Day In The Life'.
> 
> "Or 'Fox In Socks'."  The latter with a grin to DM.

Umm... well, at the moment I *think* I'm the only Fox here, so if you 
hum it, i'll play it...


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|  ..    "When I grow up, I want to stop being a computer journalist|
| .OO.    and learn how to write."                                  |
| O/\O                                                              |
|  --                              Tanais - friend to all furkindred|
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|cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk | Bisexual knitter of quality since 1992|
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From: didi@geloser.login.qc.ca (didi)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Not another one?!
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 13:37:01 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Gentleman Loser System, Montreal/Qc/Cdn

carrot@bear.stonemarche.org (Little red-headed girl) writes:

> 
> 	"A FOURTH baby? Wow. This is getting to be kids' heaven."
> Soem patrons might notice that Rachel has almost a Spritely gleam to
> her eyes...
> 
> --
> +--------------------------+----------------------------------------------+
> |	carrot		   |	carrot@bear.stonemarche.org               |
> +--------------------------+----------------------------------------------+ 
> |   "Feel what might be. See what I see. Again and again and again and    |
> | again say you don't. You say you don't, but you will.                   |
> |   "How can you be so near and not see?" -"If You Intend"-10,000 Maniacs |
> +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+


----<--<@

Suddenly there is life amongst the covers on Didi's couch:  "What?
What did I miss?  Who had a baby!?!  Drat Binkley anyway!  Will
someone tell who and what ... has arrived?  Puhleeeeeze?  Sigh."

----<--<@

The Didi-Sprite
Montreal * Canada

--
didi@geloser.login.qc.ca
braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
Gentleman Loser System -- Montreal, Qc, Canada
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: brumby@nella07.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen McNamara)
Subject: Re: Bearcats (was: T-Bear replies!)
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:15:08 GMT

   They don't sell these cans of acid to the general public where the
brumby comes from.

<KZAHLLER@MIAMIU.BITNET> writes:
>Unfortunately, even I decided maybe I'd best quit when I discovered
>the soda had eaten *through* the cans sitting on top of my frig!"

   "My father works for one of the places that makes cans around here, and
even though Coke is the strongest drink they seem to sell around here, it
requires a special coating on the inside of the cans over what they
normally put on them."
   "I never touch the stuff, if it can dissolve ordinary paint off a
can...."


>Magda-Wolf
-- 
     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.
From: cei@casc.math.uh.edu (Chuck Ivy)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Happy Returns 8) ^m 8) ^m 8) ^m...
Date: 25 Jan 1993 18:47:08 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
Distribution: world
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YAMiB (Yet Another Man in Black), Malik finally returns from the Folx room
after about 20 days, feeling MUCH better. He returns by way of the dumb-
waiter, somehow, and sits at the bar contemplating the concept of a
Jolt & 151, then remembering he dislikes rollercoasters, orders an IBC
for himself & the Bi-Bulb.
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From: didi@geloser.login.qc.ca (didi)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Didi's ill, again :-(
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 13:31:56 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Gentleman Loser System, Montreal/Qc/Cdn

jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce) writes:

> >"didi, get BACK into bed...and have some soup...or some icecream and
> >7-up.... put a hot water bottle on your toes and vicks on your
> >nose...and here are some sunglasses."  kitten tries to look stern and
> >fails miserably....
> 
>   "Oh dear, Didi you better get back into that bed before boss notices.
>  You wouldn't want to worry the poor dear... " Linda.
> 
> -- 
>          Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM 
>              jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
>                       Video. Peter Gabriel: Steam 


The Didi-Sprite props one eye open:  "Linda?  I *AM* in bed!  And
very much incommunicado, as well!  Binkley is comatose again! Grrr ...
Cough-cough-sputter.  No word on when he will be back on line again.
And, I thought the flu was bad!  Sigh."

----<--<@

The Didi-Sprite
Montreal * Canada

--
didi@geloser.login.qc.ca
braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
Gentleman Loser System -- Montreal, Qc, Canada
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe)
Subject: Re: Decapitalization?
Reply-To: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:00:00 +0000


> TITLE: Re: Decapitalization?

> "The Folx room *is* the restroom," says the Mandelbear.  "There's only
> one, and it has a sign on it that says 'Folx'.  The plumbing in the
> restroom of a bar whose patrons include beings of many different
> sexes, species, and even dimensionalities is best left to the
> imagination."

yeah, says MerryTail with feeling - but weren't you here at New Year 
when MonTemplar pulled half of it out and kept giving me a tap on teh 
shoulder......
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|                                           |                          |
|I know I type "teh" for "the" My fingers have their own accent ;-)    |
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From: mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk (Alan Ralph)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: C and Bicycles
Date: 26 Jan 93 22:39:26 GMT
Reply-To: mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk
Organization: Chez MonTemplar, Redunser
X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.30 $

In article <9301251758.AA16705@sdl.mdcbbs.com> mikew%SDLUNIX@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Whitaker) writes:
>MonTemplar said something about...
>>EX-TER-MI-NATE
>
> ######
>#      #
>#  X   #
> ######
># term #
>#      #
> ######
>
>Uhoh. Peanuts.

Looks to me like a clear cut case of

      ######
     #      # \|||/
SELF #  IN  # -ION-
     #      # /|||\
      ######
     #      #
     # CRIM #
     #      #
      ######

Peanut Shower t'starboard bow!!!!

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From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: On This Day
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 03:13:17 GMT


>>Subject: On This Day - 01/21/1993
>>
>>January 21, 1993
>>
>>
>>Events today ...
>>            National Hugging Day.

bi-bulb:

>Gee, just today? :-(

>I vote we do something about this... after all , if we hug at an average level
>normally, I think we need to, umm, up the hug index a chunk. Therefore :

>MASS HUG!
>Thanks, I _needed_ that!
>If we have any takers, just jump on in (like you NEEDED an invite...)
>Loving all!


kitten comes out of her corner long enough to celebrate national hug day.
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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 
"it's not easy being a cast iron bitch--it takes years of practice.
most people don't appreciate that.
From: ekho@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (amanda rothman)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Descriptions...
Date: 24 Jan 93 02:29:56 GMT
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida


  Amanda grins (as always) and says, "Well, I seem to frequent a silk shirt
with what Ekho calls "billowy sleeves" and black denim jeans tucked into
short black boots.  I have dark brown hair which is thick, curly, and
impossible to brush... I like Coke and cream sodas mixed together with
crushed ice (I love eating ice!), my birthday is July 10, 1971 and I'm a
Blakes 7 fanati- uh, I mean enthusiast.  I've been writing various (and
sundry) stories and poems set in that universe and enjoying myself immensely
while I'm at it."  She looks over at Ekho who raises yet another eyebrow
(gee, how many eyebrows do you have, Ekho?  Owww!).

  "I, too have long dark hair, but straight and braided down my back.  I
prefer black, often wearing a jumpsuit under a leather tunic and boots
(where do you think Amanda got her boot fetish from?)  I am slightly taller
than Amanda, being 5'3" in height and a petite build also similar to my
associate.  I've been partaking of Adrenalin and Soma, having been
introduced to the concoction by another associate of mine and my
'brother's'.  I am five years old due to the fact that I am a clone of my
brother, but I appear to be approximately 25 whereas he is older. 
Confusing, perhaps, but true.  If you care to learn about the place I am
from, just come in with us to the Danger Room when we visit it in a day or
two. I have come to... appreciate the people in this Place.  That is all I
will say on the subject."

                Yours in Time and Space
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: PCAHN@EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU
Subject: bird-on-ice update  *>
X-Unparseable-Date: 24-JAN-1993 15: 19:18.07
Organization: Yale CS Mail/News Gateway
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:39:19 GMT

X-VMS-News: eagle.wesleyan.edu alt.callahans:14026

Quoth Feather:

> "OK, folks, it seems like my posting on Rainbow Crow's lack of motivation
> had some of the healing effect she was after.  Today R-Crow DID get moving
> a bit, went to her local community college and got herself an appointment
> with a counselor she knows and trusts.  R-Crow is planning on using this
> counselor as a way to keep herself diciplined...  if she has to report
> to a counselor every week on whether or not she has made any progress,
> it's going to keep her on the straight and narrow better.  It should help.
> 
Glad to hear it.  I've been lurking again for a while, and was about to
respond.  The counselor sounds like a good first step.  Have you thought about
trying to do volunteer work in your community?  I realize that it is hard to
reach out and help others when you yourself are hurting, but as long as you are
not working, it could give you something to do with your time until you find a
job.  It might also lead you to people who can help you in your job search.  
Also, you might think that you're not in a position to help others right now,
but you may surprise yourself, and in the process of helping others, help
yourself. 

Shaking off apathy is a difficult proposition, but if you approach
it creativly, it can be done.  My sophomore year, I failed a course because I
couldn't bring myself to write the final paper.  I spent much of that spring in
a daze, interacting with people, but wondering always if they knew how I was
really feeling.  I finally started to pull myself out of it that summer, when I
went on a backpacking trip for a month where I had no choice but to deal with
my own feelings and with other people or risk potentially dangerous situations. 
Since then, I've been in much better shape, but I still have a ways to go in
terms of taking responsibility for myself.  

I wish you luck, and my Email box, like others, is open to you as long as I'm
around.

> Feather thinks about all this a bit...
> "Damn, I think this is going to work...!"

We're behind you 100%, and you've taken some important first steps.  Asking for
help is one, and seeing the counselor is another.  

All the best,

Rounder
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Wolf-Attack-Hugs
From: <KZAHLLER@MIAMIU.BITNET>
Date: Tuesday, 26 Jan 1993 14:04:29 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Miami University - Academic Computer Service

"Brace yourself, Jason!  One Wolf Attack Hug coming up!
Anybody else want to jump in?"


Magda-(preparing to have the air squeezed out of her)Wolf
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Goodbye, Justice Marshall
From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson)
Date: 25 Jan 93 23:14:46
Distribution: world
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.
In-reply-to: carrot@bear.stonemarche.org's message of 25 Jan 93 06:23:01 EST

In article <carrot.04qg@bear.stonemarche.org> carrot@bear.stonemarche.org (Little red-headed girl) writes:

>	"To Thurgood Marshall, first (and hopefully not last) black
>Supreme Court Justice, the lawyer who ended school segregation by winning
>Brown vs. the Board of Education, generally a great man who really cared
>about the ideals he stood for. He died yesterday of heart failure at the
>age of 84.
>
>	"Blessings upon you, Justice Marshall, wherever you may be."
>
><CRASH!>

Castellan joins Rachel at the chalkline.  "To Justice Thurgood Marshall, one 
of the most influential people of this century.  And to the day your hopes 
and ideals are fully realized." <crash!>



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This article is a natural product.  The slight variations in spelling and
grammar enhance its individual character and beauty and in no way are to
be considered flaws or defects.
From: steve@crc.ricoh.COM (Stephen R. Savitzky)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: testing tin
Date: 22 Jan 93 22:02:25 GMT
	<1993Jan22.153106.16146@e2big.mko.dec.com>
Organization: RICOH California Research Center

"Far be it from me to tell you what to put in your kill file,
Starknight," says the Mandelbear, "but I find our resident cynic,
Doug, to be worth listening to in almost all cases.  Especially since
he's one of the few who posts original poetry on a semi-regular basis.

"Of course, your milage may vary, and you may not appreciate his dry
brand of humor.  As for me, I find it goes well with my gin.  Another
Genever, Mike."
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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: /G=Rhodri/S=James/O=SJ-Research/ADMD=INTERSPAN/C=GB/@mhs-relay.ac.uk
Subject: A quick delurk
Organization: Yale CS Mail/News Gateway
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:45:16 GMT

Windsinger pokes his head around the door.  He looks shattered but
fundamentally OK, and grins and waves at the Grey Lady and the Bard.  <<Hi! 
I thought I'd better just drop in quickly and say hello to everyone.  I've
been firmly in lurk mode since before Christmas because of a new software
release at work, which had to be demonstrable in time for a major exhibition
last week.  It was too, though we were working 30-hour days for a while. 
Anyway, the pressure hasn't slackened off much; the exhibition's done, but
the release deadline means we have to be at beta-release in two or three
weeks time.  And I have to practise up for Pentatonic, the UK filk con in,
oh God, a week and a half.  Sleep, clearly, is for wimps.>>

A quick description for those who haven't see me in real or virtual life: 
Rhodri is 6'0", slightly overweight (actually substantially overweight at
the moment, too many takeaways bought at company expense!), bearded with
glasses, dressed as coincidence would have it in blue cords and a blue
sweatshirt with a little SJ logo over the breast.  Windsinger is slightly
taller, slightly slimmer, clean shaven, dressed in blue with a midnight blue
cloak.

<<Just a few quick catch-up comments before I lurk again.  Congratulations
on surviving the C course, Kim.  Hope you get a job with it soon, it
shouldn't take too long.

<<Thanks for the boost to my ego, Wayne.  Actually I can't take all the
credit for "Monty Who?", it was co-written with the Bard (Mike W) in the
twenty minutes it took us to walk to a D&D session.  I think it was mostly
Mike's work in fact, I just do the silly voices and the arrangement.

<<Enough.  I really ought to get back to figuring out why my boot code is
fetching complete gibberish off the disc.  See you later!>>

---
Windsinger  -  Rhodri James    *   RMJ Munge-o-matics,
                               *
Rhodri.James%gb.INTERSPAN.sj   *   a division of SJ Research Ltd,
            @mhs-relay.ac.uk   *   Cambridge, UK
   or                          *
rmj10@phx.cam.ac.uk            *   Insane programmers to the gentry