HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: Danger Room Run (The Polymath)
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:24:48 GMT

>"Drinks for everyone.  ON ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
>
>(maniacal laughter as he awaits the coming deluge)
>
>Rie

    <Whhhhooooossshhhhh!!> <Spppllllaaassshhhh!!> { Wet enough ? If not,
barrage ballon of water number 2 coming up !}

     Jim.

-- 
         Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
                      Video. Peter Gabriel: Steam
From: narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Descriptions...
Date: 24 Jan 1993 03:01:28 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
NNTP-Posting-Host: casc.math.uh.edu

Slash (Maraud, that is...) writes :
> <FANTA SUCKS POND WATER. IN FACT, IT IS POND WATER, LEMME BUY YOU A
> SIOUX CITY SASPARILLA. KILLER STUFF, MONSIEUR LE HONK.

Good taste... I've only had Sioux City once or twice. 

Mind you, it was incredible stuff! About once a month, I go to the "health
food" store and buy all the weird sodas I can. My current favorites are a kiwi
soda (I never realized others here even knew about kiwis - I thought they 
HAD to be imported or something...) and various root beers (I can't remember
the names, unfortunately). 
I also saw a lovely innovation - clear cans! I saw an unnaturally "shiny"
can, picked it up - and saw my fingers from the other side! I had to buy 
a can just to put on my "weird liquids" hall of fame.

Drink up!


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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: yho@bmerh585.bnr.ca (Yue-shun Ho)
Subject: Re: Didi's ill, again :-(
Reply-To: yho@utcs.utoronto.ca 
Organization: Somewhere around Toronto
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 19:37:51 GMT

In article <C16Gw9.CKr@news.cso.uiuc.edu> trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) 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....
>

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
From: narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: That last post for Delilah....
Date: 27 Jan 1993 18:51:17 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
NNTP-Posting-Host: casc.math.uh.edu

Shonias writes :
>Oh just shut up Shonias."

NONSENSE! 

I thought that was a nice statement... And it *did* parse, if a bit stockily.

Keep talking, we enjoy listening!

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* Mail to : narxtc@math.uh.edu * imagination - Beans Barton       *
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From: GE.LJB@forsythe.stanford.edu (Louis J Bookbinder)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: #30000
Date: 26 Jan 1993 08:44:31 -0800
Organization: Stanford University
NNTP-Posting-Host: morrow.stanford.edu

Klank

Just wanted you all to know I just read post number 30,000 in the place.

congrats, all you loudmouths!
Nick Chopper - my opinion? ax not! LB>-}  BOOKY@Forsythe.stanford.edu
From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jason)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Culinary Peculiarities
Date: 26 Jan 93 20:44:36 GMT
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Organization: the Polyhedron Group
NNTP-Posting-Host: aaa.uoregon.edu

In article <1993Jan26.101923.21636@ucc.su.OZ.AU>, ablanch@physics.su.OZ.AU
(Shonias) wrote:
> 
> In article <1993Jan22.013147.13751@midway.uchicago.edu> mss2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
> >	"`Cordial'?  The only definition of that I know as a noun is
> >`liqueur', which I _assume_ isn't served in Australian primary
> >schools.  :-)  Care to dispel my benighted ignorance?"
> 
> That one seems to have baffled a few... sorry, I didn't realise that was an
> Australianism... What do Americans call it? Do they have it? Ummmm...
> well it is like... a concentrate that you mix up with water to make a 
> sweet, flat, drink. Tend to come in colours rather than flavours... red,
> green... although there is lemon. Hmmmm, I can't think of any other name
> for it.... am I just forgetful? Anyone know?
> 
Jason chuckles. "Hey, Shonias! That sounds like what we would call
Kool-Aid."
From: narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: bird on ice... (LONG POST) *>
Date: 27 Jan 93 05:29:36 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
NNTP-Posting-Host: casc.math.uh.edu

Rie writes :
[regretfully deleted]
Thank you. I couldn't have put it better myself. 

Bless all of you!


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From: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (The Didi-Sprite)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Wolf-Attack-Hugs
Date: 24 Jan 93 23:59:11 GMT
Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada
Originator: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca

In article <1993Jan22.184529.728@ee.ryerson.ca> dspeck@ee.ryerson.ca (DOUGLAS SPECK) writes:
>
>Soooooo, Magda, you're trying to outdo T-Bear in hugs, are you? Hah!
>C'mere, little wolfie, and I'll show you a hug....
>
>T-Bear opens his arms really wide in anticipation of a flying Magda-Wolf.
>
>Heh, heh, this should be good...
>
>Rumbles 'n snorts,
>T-Bear.

Beyond the French Doors, the Didi-Sprite suddenly comes wide awake and
sits up straight in her bed.  

"I gotta see this!  Make it good, you two!"

Tee-hee-giggle-SNEEZE!

----<--<@

The Didi-Sprite
Montreal * Canada

braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
didi@geloser.login.qc.ca
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Censorship (was Testing Tin)
Date: 28 Jan 93 12:58:21 GMT
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article  <1993Jan26.071629.19812@netcom.com> lunisea@netcom.com (Stephanie
Alford) writes something more or less like:

> >                  Yes, I know I could get any censored news group I 
> >wanted to via Nyx or uunet.net, but I shouldn't have to ! Argh..  
>
> SEA joins in:  "When I was a younger lass and employed, oh about last
> If he [the system administrator ] had said that all newsgroups
> except the comp.* hierarchy were going to be lost, I might not have
> squawked as much.  DJ is right, censorship is a no-no."  

StM interrupts, "WHOA! HOLD ON THERE! WAIT JUST A MINUTE!  It is most
emphatically *NOT* censorship for someone to refuse to provide you, gratis,
with a publication.  It's not even censorship for him to refuse to sell you
said publication.   CENSORSHIP is when someone tries to prevent a party, USING
THAT OWN PARTY'S RESOUCES, from publishing something, or to prevent you from
buying that publication.  Using the implicit definition of SEA's statement
above, it's censorship when a scientific journal refuses to publish something
that doesn't meet their stated criteria for publication.  Censorship is a bad
thing.  Please *DON'T* undermine protections against it by using the term to
mean something that is most emphatically _*NOT*_ censorship!"
From: eesshlgb@gdr.bath.ac.uk (S H L G Bisson)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Announcement!
Date: 25 Jan 93 09:37:12 GMT
Organization: School of Electrical Engineering, University of Bath, UK

tanais:
>I noticed this line apeared in your .sig Kitten.
>> "it's not easy being a cast iron bitch--it takes years of practice.
>> most people don't appreciate that.
>I can't honestly imagine you -- of all people -- calling yourself a 
>cast-iron bitch.
kitten:
>"a but you haven't seen me in 'bite mode'...and i rust when i get wet.
>but if you still don't see it, maybe i need to practice more, non?"
>kitten giggles through her growl...

The cartoon mouse looks up from a small video player that he's found in
his back-pack.

"Hmm, Kitten, the real question is: `When did you last see _The Abyss_?'.

"Tanais, Marytail and I were watching it last night, and when that line
came up, we all looked at each other, and burst out laughing...

"Good one Kitten!"

Quietly, one of the X-windows starts showing the relevant scene from the
film, interposing it with shots of those incredible ships.

Ignatz Mouse/Simon H Le G Bisson...Reunite Pangaea!.........................
From: ablanch@physics.su.OZ.AU (Shonias)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: That last post for Delilah....
Date: 27 Jan 93 07:52:14 GMT
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia

Shonias looks back at what she just said, somethign about
"not even just...." if it made any sense to anyone, congratulations!
'cos it sure didn't to me.

"I meant something along the lines of... "I hope we can be of more help 
than just buying you a drink, if you'd like" sort of thing.... Oh just 
shut up Shonias."

Shonias Q'Tari

--
***********************
So sit there all alone
it's time you realised,
I'm not your fool
Nobody's fool,
Never again, no no!
***********************
From: ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: One quick question
Date: 26 Jan 1993 01:53:50 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: monet.wag.caltech.edu

David Green writes:
>Noah Ramon writes:
>->Starknight writes :

>->> "LUXURY! When I was child, we didn't 'ave Usenet to play wordgames
>->> on... There were seventeen of us trading puns in shoebox in middle of
>->> road..."

>->"humph! We didn't even have puns! We had to trade plain nouns and verbs, with
>->NO ADJECTIVES! And under a pebble, all thirty of us!"

>Oh, sure.  *You* had it easy.  The seventy-four of us spent our time under a
>sand grain, trading letters back and forth, and we couldn't even afford vowels.
>Hmmph.  Kids these days.

"Hah!  All 128 of us *lived* under seven silicon atoms, trading bits back and
forth all day.  All of you are naught but chips off the old block, but by
nary a miracle could you compare to us!"

Abner goes back to lurking (under those seven silicon atoms in the corner).
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: Announcement!
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 04:58:14 GMT

 (Ed Otto) writes:
>second was a complete saturation from glasses to belt.  Response from
>pediatrician: "Shit..."
>
>	Just thought you'd all like to know...he's got plumbing, and knows how
>to use it...

     Wonderful ! ROFL ! I can just picture it... My mother tells me I
 didn't like being prodded at that age either... Jim.

-- 
         Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
                      Video. Peter Gabriel: Steam
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Danger Room Run (The Polymath)
From: <KZAHLLER@MIAMIU.BITNET>
Date: Thursday, 21 Jan 1993 22:58:13 EST
Organization: Miami University - Academic Computer Service

Magda-Wolf heaves a deep sigh of resignation.  "It
figures.  There's a weapons restriction?  Guess you
probably want mine, too, peace-knotted or not."

She moves well away from everyone.  "Well, if I've
gotta give up Schnuggles, then I might as well be
comfortable."  She takes a deep breath, squeezes her
eyes shut, and *concentrates*.  There is a sudden
implosion of air, various technicolored sparks (chiefly red,
blue, and purple), and a smell of singed fur (followed
immediately thereupon by a sharp and startled yelp).

When the smoke clears, a new Magda is discovered sitting
on the floor, gazing up at her new friends with a rueful
expression.  "Sorry about the special effects," she says,
rubbing her posterior as she bounces to her feet "but I
seem to be *sadly* out of practice.  RL people tend to
get a little crazy at the sight of me like this."  This,
on the whole, is not that surprising, as Magda is now a
shortish (5'3"), stocky wolf with glossy black fur and
very pointy canines.  She is wearing a loose red tunic,
belted with a braided red-and-black belt over baggy black
pants which are stuck into (the same) black boots.  There
is a curved cavalry sabre (Mongolian, 13th C) in a black
leather scabbard slung over her shoulder, a bone handled
hunting knife at her right side, a boot knife inside her left
boot, and a curved Middle-Eastern-looking dagger nestling along
the small of her back.

Magda notices a few puzzled expressions.  "I know you're
wondering why I don't have a tail--actually a lot of were-
wolves (especially the more anthropomorphic of us) never
did.  Can't say as I'm sorry, either--the tailoring would
be a real pain in the tail!"

She sighs, walks over to the bar, and begins the lengthy
process of removing her steel.  "At least I'm only carrying
the basics today.  Do I HAVE to let go of Schnuggles?" she
pleads.
From: jpalmer@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (John D Palmer)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: it's gonna be a great 4 years
Date: 26 Jan 93 22:44:34 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University

In article <1k0cp0INNsc9@gap.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
>Nice piece of music.  Now, has Slick Willy *NOT* repudiated any of his campaign
>promises, other than tokenism in the cabinet?  Cutting the deficit by 50% has
>gone by the boards (despite Clintons disingenuous claim that the actual figures
>came as a surprise to him;  the numbers were available in mid-summer;  he just
>chose to ignore them) as has the tax cut for the middle class.


      Has he?  I think he said that at the end of four years he INTENDED 
to halve the deficit.  He MAY have gone back on 'middle class tax relief.'
He does not seem to have gone back on gays in the military, nor did he waste
any time reversing the abortion gag rule.

      I'm all in favor of giving the top man a hard time every time he muffs
it, but simultaneously, I don't like taking random pokes at him. . . I mean,
that's just ME. . .my policy is make sure the president is always 
accountable, but stand by him when you can.  It's not like it's an easy job 
to do right, you know. . . 

                                               John 
-- 
"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 
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: Dan'l hits Australia
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:24:28 GMT

>"As long as we're talking about sandwiches that disgust others, has anyone ever
>tried peanut butter and pickle?  Chunky peanut butter, hamburger dill slices, 
>and a little mustard and mayonnaise.  Best on a nice dark rye (If you get a 
>chance, and are in Minnesota, find a little town near Shakopee called Chaska.
>On the main street is the Chaska bakery, where they sell Chaska rye.  Best 
>bread I've ever tasted.  No question.  While you're there, say `Hi!' to Karl's
>grandma, Nadine Rohy.  Happy eating!!"
>
>Love, etc.
>
>Rie  (and Karl)
>

  "Hmm. Whats so terrible about a peanut butter, dill pickle, mustard,
 and mayo sandwich ? It was a childhood favorite ! But I preffered
 sour pickles over dill pickles. Hmm. My mouth is watering... And an
 earlier mention of 'mustard and ketchup' sandwiches, also a childhood
 fave. Wouldn't eat either of them now, but i don't think they are
 disgusting... " DJ.

   Only 550 posts to go... I much prefer rrn over gopher !

-- 
         Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
                      Video. Peter Gabriel: Steam
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: BOING!
From: Jeff Pierce <JPIERCE@MIAMIU.BITNET>
Date: Tuesday, 26 Jan 1993 18:06:55 EST
Organization: Miami University - Academic Computer Service

Happy the Man drops out of the rafters with a pogo stick.  The pogo stick
strikes the ground, and interested patrons note that while Happy is
going up toward the rafters, his rate of ascent is much slower than his
rate of descent, giving him a decent interval to say hello.

"I ran into Velvet and Niko a few nights ago by accident in a used book
store, and it turns out that Velvet lives in the residence hall next to
mine and eats in the same dining hall.  They've had some contact with
Die Fleidermaus since his graduation.

I haven't been in here since the early part of September, I believe.  I
was going to post more often, but my Hydrogeography professor starting
flooding me with some nasty assignments right after my last post.  This
semester should be easier, so I hope to get in here more often.

Glancing through the user ids, I noticed that Kitten, Speaker to Minerals,
the Urban Spaceman, and many other familar faces are still here.  Hi and
hugs to all.  Please take my name off the MIA list if it ever made it on
the list.  And hello and hugs to everyone I haven't yet met."

Happy the Man enters the rafters.  The patrons hear his voice yelling
"Velvet!  Niko!  It's your turn on the pogo."

                                    Happy the Man
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Culinary Peculiarity (was Re: Dan'l hits Australia)
Date: 26 Jan 1993 13:19:04 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Distribution: world
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <1k2kcoINN26b@menudo.uh.edu>, narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon) writes:
=But humorously, folks... A steak is always nice, but there is just something
=(vegetarians might want to move on, carnivore-oriented post in sight)
=about a big, thick, rare, chunk of meat, just dripping down the arm, 
=with chili and other garnishes (important ingredients?) also falling off 
=the sides...

Well, I'd agree with everything but the "rare" part.  Either raw or well-done
for me, and only the latter if I'm eating at Jack-in-the-Box.
From: ekho@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (amanda rothman)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: testing tin
Date: 25 Jan 93 05:02:08 GMT
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida

daq@fc.hp.com (Doug Quarnstrom) writes:

> Karl Siewert (siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu) wrote:

> : <ACTUALLY, THE DOWNCAST PART WAS MARVIN.  I AM NOW MOCKING DOUG IN 
> : PUBLIC FORUM.  MOCK MOCK MOCK...

  Ekho silkenly adds, "Yes, we must always mock the fates for putting us in
such absurd situations..."

> By the way, I am all for your poking fun at me.  I will poke back,
> and perhaps everyone will be able to see verbal dueling in good
> fun without committing the rhetorical murder of placing me or
> you in kill files.

  "Kill file?  I?  Well, not so much a kill *file*..."  An evil grin grows.

                    Yours in Time and Space
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: mwasson@nyx.cs.du.edu (Gecko-boy)
Subject: Re: testing tin
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 00:27:26 GMT


Gecko-boy looks up from a large tome on discreet mathematics at
the sound of impending altercation...

>|>I have been around here far too long to start respecting the traditions
>|>at this point.
>|>
>|>I respond as I see fit.
>
>"Better yet, don't...  No.  I'm not going to flame anyone, especially not
>here.  I vowed to be a better person this year, and that includes toleration,
>even of things I can't stand... like people who jump down my throat for
>having fun.  Take care, doug... respond as you see fit, but I won't see it."
>
><kill all by author:daq@fc.hp.com>

"Oh dear. Starknight, are you perhaps taking this the wrong way?
What you don't see in doug's posts are all the invisible smiley
faces. Actually, doug is insistently dead-pan, so maybe he should
append a dead-pan face to all his posts, like so:
			;^|
Well, OK, in this font it looks a little gap-toothed, but the
point is -- I don't think our resident ironist was really jumping
down anyone's throat."

Gecko-boy breaks off and looks around nervously for any sign of
stormtroopers, then continues.

"Whether you put doug in your kill file is your business,
of course. I just hope you aren't doing so because of a 
misinterpretation ... "

>Starknight
>spr@abo.dec.com
>Disclaimer:  Huh?  What'd I say?

--Da Geck' (doing about as good a job of lurking as kitten)


--
Mike Wasson (Gecko-boy)           |         U Hawai'i/Fat Messiah Games
mwasson@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu    |         #include <std_disclaimer.h>
"The concatenation of 'dog' and 'house' is 'doghouse.'"
From: steve@crc.ricoh.COM (Stephen R. Savitzky)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Danger Room Run (The Polymath)
Date: 26 Jan 93 02:07:53 GMT
	<1993Jan23.005549.14618@ttinews.tti.com>
	<1jqgncINNt7e@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> <JBrandt-240193142821@aaa.uoregon.edu>
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Organization: RICOH California Research Center

"The tricky one," says the Mandelbear, "is figuring out how to
peace-tie a set of bagpipes."
--
\ --Steve Savitzky--  \    343 Leigh Ave   \ REAL HACKERS USE AN AXE!
 \ steve@crc.ricoh.COM \ San Jose, CA 95128 \     Free Cyberia!
  \ w: 415-496-5710     \   h:408-294-6492   \ 
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From: JBrandt@AAA.Uoregon.EDU (Jason)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Danger Room Run (The Polymath)
Date: 27 Jan 93 06:46:07 GMT
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Organization: The Polyhedron Group
NNTP-Posting-Host: fp1-dialin-1.uoregon.edu

In article <1993Jan27.005839.29582@ra.msstate.edu>,
jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce) wrote:
> 
> >Hugs,
> >Jason
> >(about 4 Kg of weapons/armor at last count)
>         ^^^^^^^^^^^------- only that much ? :-) :-) { No response needed. }

<Grin> "Just traveling light for social occasions, while among friends. My
combat gear is too heavy and uncomfortable, and would make some folks here
a mite nervous."

Hugs,
Jason
From: carrot@bear.stonemarche.org (Little red-headed girl)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Tanais's Dream ...
Distribution: world
Date: 26 Jan 93 20:39:26 EST

In article <memo.896615@cix.compulink.co.uk> cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk (Clive Grace) writes:
> "Anyone care to say what the hell happened to me last 
>night?".

	"A voyage of discovery, my friend, from which you can still
learn."
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