HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson@somewhere.out.there)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Hi Alfvaen
Date: 31 Dec 92 13:39:48 GMT
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.
In-reply-to: aaron@atlantis.uucp's message of 31 Dec 92 02:26:45 GMT

In article <1992Dec31.022645.15452@atlantis.uucp> aaron@atlantis.uucp writes:

>Michael D. McAfee (mdm@sparc2.prime.com) wrote:
>
>: 	and just to add to the silliness:
>
>: 	Current Current: 50 amps
>
>"Darn, I was going to do this one.  You beat me to it, Michael.  Although I
>was thinking of putting in 110 A, which sounds more reasonable for household
>current, at least in North America..."

Castellan shudders.  "Umm, I sure don't want 110 amps coming out of *my* out-
lets- maybe you meant 110V?  110A at 110V is, let's see, eek, 12,100 watts!
*FRAZZZ!*"

He snags a handful of peanuts, and sits back and waits for someone to say 
"How shocking".

--
-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: jammer@eskimo.com (Lyle Harwood)
Subject: Kitten
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 01:31:23 GMT


They told me to ask for Kitten, and to keep my mouth shut if someone
was standing on the chalk line.

I am Jammer, the Son of Ben, and I am here.
From: mcspikgfm@dct.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Christmas Wishes....to Alfvaen and All!
Summary: Christmas & have a good time.
Date: 23 Dec 92 14:29:59 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology



	Well I looked and looked and couldn't find Alfvaen's new address.
well alfvaen if you see this....Happy/Merry Christmas & New Year...
In fact...if you didnt get a personal christmas wish from me ....sorry..
unlimited time has a limit...my computer time in the college....

	So for all that read Callahans...or are Callahans....


	HAPPY/MERRY CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR....TO ALL!!!!!!!!!!!


	Bye..... Real life calls....well actually chucks me out of here for
12 days or so.....how will I face such a loss...???? ...crying probably!

							Melandra.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: aaron@atlantis.uucp
Subject: Re: boo
Organization: Atlantis Communications, Edmonton, AB, Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 05:40:36 GMT

Stephen McNamara (brumby@nella7.cc.monash.edu.au) wrote:
:    This could get obscure for the non-unix-impared. (Would they be the
: 'systematically challenged'?)

: aaron@atlantis.uucp writes:

:>"No, I'm fine for now, wench.  Maybe later, next time a toast is in order..."

: >% sort toast

: % nice pun

% yes indeed

-- 
---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--Black:Wonderful Life
Current Read--Tesseracts4
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe)
Subject: Re: A Christmas Visit
Reply-To: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 14:52:00 +0000


Mary looks around quickly, wondering if Jilara and Alaric are under 
the mistletoe on the end of her tail!
Greetings of the season of greetings dear friends!
+-------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
| Organisation: Me? You're joking, right?   |maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk |
|                                           |maryb@cix.compulink.uucp  |
|I know I type "teh" for "the" My fingers have their own accent ;-)    |
+-------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
From: ekho@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (amanda rothman)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: A Callahans Carol
Date: 29 Dec 92 18:39:17 GMT
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida

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

>       Thank you ! And to all a Good Night ! Its 11 PM here, and I want
> to get rid of this 'flu ! So, I'm hopping off to bed to get some sleep !

  Amanda and Ekho join hands once more, collecting their energy in the 
link while Ekho intones, "Healing energy works best when freely given, 
does it not?  Health once more shall return..."  A ball of energy from 
their linked hands wends its way toward Jim to aid in his recovery, may 
it occur in good time!

           Yours in Time and Space
From: Adrian.Waterworth@newcastle.ac.uk (Adrian Waterworth)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Martyr wakes up...!
Date: 22 Dec 92 11:51:47 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU

In the midst of the celebrations, Martyr stands near the bar and makes
shushing motions with his outstretched arms.

"Everyone, everyone...thanks, thanks and thanks again for all your
congratulations.  You're too kind to a tired, old Martyr, you really
are..."

"Thanks also to the folks who have kindly volunteered to be guinea pigs
for my e-mail testing.  If all is well, they should be receiving my
replies to their messages later today or sometime tomorrow.  If you
haven't heard from me by then, there's probably something up and I'll
have to go and track down the problem."

"However, in the meantime, let the festivities continue!"

"Drinks are on me!!"

<SPLOOOOOOOOOOOSH!>

<Drip...drip...drip...>
				:-)

				Martyr.
		\----------------------------------------/
		 |  Adrian.Waterworth@newcastle.ac.uk	|
		/ ---------------------------------------\
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From: li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus)
Subject: Re:  Cranial Covers
Organization: Data I/O Corporation
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:42:13 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.080936.29864@midway.uchicago.edu> mss2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>(Ladies' rules are much easier-- basically, you wear the hat anyplace
>except inside your own home, and never there.  On the other hand, I'm
>not sure I'd ever quite figure out the difference between a day hat
>and an evening hat, so it's probably best that I not be faced with the
>challenge.  :-) )"

Liralen giggles and tilts her head, "Hmmm... I guess by baseball hat would
qualify as my day hat, and me neon yellow one that I only wear for my
night games would be m evening hat!  Simple!  I *do* like those rules..."
-- 
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: chuahl@ocf.berkeley.edu (Chua HakLien)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: So This Is Christmas....
Date: 24 Dec 1992 22:32:05 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandstorm.berkeley.edu


C+ runs back into the bar, carrying a small bag of Xmas presents.

"Merry Christmas everyone. Liralen, Didi, Kitten, Thyra, DM, Rowan
and all you wonderful people.... ( Not in that order... =) )

"This morning, I was wondering what one could do to make this Xmas a 
little more special. So I was reading the _San_Francisco_Chronicle_,
and came across this article about letters to Santa Claus which ended
up in the dead letter office of the SF post office. They're kept there
so anyone can go in, read them and maybe reply to the gifts requested.

"So... I went to the SFPO, and went to the DLO and looked through the
letters. Some of them were quite funny, while some quite sad. One kid
only wanted Santa Klaus to find her lost pet Shih-Tzu back, and all
another wanted was for Santa to wake her up when he came so she could
talk to him. Quite a number were really simple, asking for clothes,
toys or dolls, though I think at least a quarter of the letters had
requests for a Super NES system.... You should also see how the kids
addressed their letters. 'Mr and Mrs Santa Claus, North Pole, 00000'.

"Anyway, I picked up a letter from a woman who had simply sent in a list
of six children, their ages ( from 2 to 12 ) and their sizes. The address 
placed the house in one of the lower-income areas of town, so off I was
headed to Fao Schwarz and a sporting goods store to get some gifts.
I had some doubts, of course, and actually tried to look her up in the
phone book and called up a person with the same name, but it wasn't her.
I thought to myself "What if they're not that needy??", then thought again 
"Maybe one shouldn't doubt so much. I don't think Santa does credit checks,
does he???"

"So now I'm at home, getting to ready to pack and gift-wrap a Gund bear
and a SF 49ers cap. Big problem is, i don't have a car, and looks like
this would-be Santa's gift is gonna be late. But I guess I had better try to
get to a UPS station or try to find someone willling to loan me his
car.... Nobody out there has a four-horse open sleigh, does one??? =)

"Well, I hope it does make someone's Xmas season a little brighter.
Merry Christmas to all, and don't drink and drive! Take care, I'll be
off to Mexico backpacking on the 27th, so if you want me to drop you
a postcard, dump me your address ASAP. "

With that, C + runs out of the bar again, wondering if employment
opportunities at the North Pole are better than those in the Bay Area...


C +
/*\
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: youngj4@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Jeffrey 'Taldin' Young)
Subject: Re: second thoughts about a friendship
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 08:21:26 GMT


Liralen, you're going to kill me for this....

  ("The Moonlight Eyes That Grace Us Here.." 
              -by Jeffrey 'Taldin' Young
   --with extreme apologies to Longfellow and Paul Revere..

Taldin recites softly, with echoes of the real poem from the
fourth grade in his ears...


-------------
   Listen my friends and you will hear  
    Of the Patron Saint who we all revere  
    She seeks to deny it, she seeks to contrive
    Hardly a patron is now alive 
    Who can deny that famous lady's here.

   I tell you my friend, tho her eyebrows arch
   She's Liralen Li, heroine and Light
    Whether October, November, December or March
     Our Liralen will grace our bar tonight
    She compes by Polari, our Liralen Li
   (and I think for this she's gonna kill me)
   (I'm ready to run and head for the farm..)
   From Callahans still she can reach with an arm
  For those who themselves would do themself harm.
  
 Then she'll say 'Goodnight,' with a hug and a soar
  Signs off of the net and is heard from no more
  Just as the moon sets over Frisco Bay
  Near where the Saint, John and Fezzik stay
 (Dear lords, can you really take this much more?)
  A phantom too, in Chatsubo afar
  And Blammor as well, within the Bar
  All our Patron Saint, diversified
  And in alt.callahans, they all preside.

 Our Patron Saint, she's really neat, 
 Listens intently to our doubts and fears
 And comments again on what she hears
 As patrons arrive through Mikes oaken door
 And all of us rise, a newbie to greet
 To those who toe the line, and talk of their cares
 And as time goes on, we care all the more.

 Then she climbed to the rafters, where some lurkers perch
 Nearby  the iron stairs, where once the Lady did tread
 And looked down upon us from overhead
 And within our souls from there she can search
 With somber eyes, she can see whence were made
 Masses and Shadows lurk in the shade--
 By the Patron Saints power, she can see them all
 From the ones by the bar, to the Xwindow'd wall
 But she pauses to listen and then look down
 A moment upon us, whether smile or a frown
 And the firelight playing flickers over us all.

Taldin stops, out of breath and pelted by a hailstorm of peanuts.
"Okay, okay, I'll quit.  Thanks to Belle for typing the whole
poem in, even if I didn't use it all.  I suppose if you REEALLY
want I'll compose all the rest.. but Khai that sucker is LONG!"

Taldin grins at Liralen. "I know you didn't ask for it,
 but it had to be done." *snug*

Taldin the Blue Unicorn
 
-- 
TTTTT AA    LL DDDD   II   II NN      "I don't believe in a religion
   TT  AA   LL DD  D  II   II NNNN      that doesn't believe in me."
  TT  AAAA  LL DD   D   II II NN NN        Taldin The Blue Unicorn
 TT  AA  AA LL DDDDDD IIIIII  NN  NN          youngj4@pawl.rpi.edu
From: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (The Didi-Sprite)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Solstice morning musings
Date: 28 Dec 92 22:51:09 GMT
Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada
Originator: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca

In article <BzouE1.6xK@news.cso.uiuc.edu> trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:
>gypsy says:
>
>>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!!!!!!!!

Didi hops up from her chair and pile of magazines and cries:  "Hey!
That's our Kitten!  I want in on *this* action!"

----<--<@

The Didi-Sprite
France * Europe

braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
didi@geloser.login.qc.ca
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jpalmer@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (John D Palmer)
Subject: To new beginnings
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 03:57:10 GMT


       John steps out of the hole he dug himself into with his writing.  He's
looking pretty shaky and teary eyed, as he walks up to the bar and lays a
dollar on top.

     "Sam adams."  He says.  Mike smiles and takes his dollar, sliding the open
bottle across the bar; he'd had one ready.  John smiles and steps up to the
line.

        "Sometimes endings are really beginnings.

        "Then he turned around again, and Jake was gone.
        "In his place was the beginnings of a sunrise.  The darkness before the
dawn was over; it was the start of a new day.
        "Raphael smiled and walked back into the house with Christine.  Jake
always did have a great sense of timing.

       "The End. . . or a new beginning."

              The bottle crashes into the fireplace.

                                             John/The Crazyman
"Yep. . . the rough draft is finished." 
-- 
"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
From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson@somewhere.out.there)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Snowball
Date: 31 Dec 92 04:24:38 GMT
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.
In-reply-to: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk's message of Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:06:00 +0000

In article <memo.834025@cix.compulink.co.uk> maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe) writes:


>Jammer is ambushed by the Lady...
>"Snow Fight!! Come on! Didi-sprite? Gypsy Woman? Jason? Michael? 
>Everyone? I feel just like a good fifteen minutes hurling snow!"

Castellan jumps to the coat rack and pulls on his parka, hat and gloves,
then goes tearing out into the meadow only to be greeted by a snowball
to the side of his head. "I'm bringing a face shield next time" he mutters,
picking his glasses back up and wiping them off.  Vision restored, he 
scoops up a nice big snowball and fires it at whoever it was threw the 
first one, then starts chucking them at everyone in sight.


--
-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: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
Subject: Re: Bah!
Keywords: Virtual candy
Organization: Don't blame me, I voted for Bill 'n' Opus
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 19:00:28 GMT

In article <1992Dec25.065330.16580@netcom.com> henry@netcom.com (Henry Polard) writes:
>
>Henry Polard | Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker. -- O. Nash

Funny, I always heard it as, "....but lick her is quicker."
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

Virtual anniversary: 7 days and counting
From: mjmh@crsa.bu.edu (Michael J M Holmes)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Purple Holiday Wishes, See you next year!
Keywords: going, but not for very long
Date: 23 Dec 92 20:25:54 GMT
Organization: Boston University Center for Remote Sensing

/* gets up from the table, and looks around at all of the
wonderful friends in Callahans, the terrific people he
has gotten to know over the last few months.

"I wish I had the time to be more personal in my wishes,
but in less than 2 hours I will be beginning my break - 
I won't be back at school/work until January 4th or so.
Its not even 2 weeks, yet I *know* I'll miss being here
for that short time."

"I hope all of you have a very special holiday - whether
it is Christmas, Hannukah, or any other tradition, this
is a very special season filled with possibilities."

"I also hope that 1993 is a year in which everyone finds
happiness, love, joy, surprises, new horizons and new growth!"

"Please remember how incredible each of you is - you are
all spectacular people with many gifts and talents, and
I have been privileged to share in them this past semester."

"And I look forward to seeing you in '93!!"

/* puts on a long, dark purple overcoat, swings his 
overly lengthy purple scarf around his neck, and heads
to the door.  With a final wave, he heads out the door.
But the giant purple snowflake on the wall remains as
a reminder of his good wishes towards all in Callahans.

:-)


-- 
========================================================================
Mike Holmes       mjmh@crsa.bu.edu           "Happiness Will Prevail!"
Boston University Department of Geography (a truly GREAT place to work!)
========================================================================
From: narxtc@navier.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Bi-bulb (was Re: Dalek has entered the building
Date: 31 Dec 1992 20:50:55 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
NNTP-Posting-Host: navier.math.uh.edu

feath@agora.rain.com (Feather) says :
>"How many Callahaners does it take to change a Bi-Bulb?"

Well, I must warn you at this point that whatever answers you state will be 
repeated ad nauseum to the rest of the Peds...

That said, fire away! (ducking to avoid puns)

--
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From: ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Christmas Wishes....to Alfvaen and All!
Date: 23 Dec 1992 23:58:17 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: degas.wag.caltech.edu


>(The Troll) declares, "Let us all remember
>who's birthday this season really commemorates!"

Abner looks at his copy of the birthday list.
"Cameron's?"                                   
=8)
From: narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Dalek has entered the building
Date: 30 Dec 1992 22:32:58 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
NNTP-Posting-Host: casc.math.uh.edu

>Feather looks down and gulps.  "Uhhh..."
>The tiny gray bird looks down at the big wet robot, and decides that she
>s bitten off more than she can chew.  (as if that tiny beak could chew! :-)
>"This is what I get for being impulsive.  NOW what do I do?"
>The small bird is feeling intimidated...

"Say, Feather, do you have any manipulatory appendages or something like that?
If so, I have just the thing!" The Bi-Bulb makes an odd twist in fourspace, and reappears in his jacketed form. He then reaches into one of his pockets, and 
pulls out a strange contraption. The words 'ACME MECHANICAL AND BAKED GOODS,
INC.' are stenciled on the side. "Here! This winch/pulley/cable/thingamabob
should be able to do an okay job. I hope... Give it a try..." 
--
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* Mail to : narxtc@math.uh.edu * imagination - Beans Barton       *
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Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center
Date: Monday, 21 Dec 1992 11:41:40 EST
From: Philip J. Comins <PJCHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Summer Solstice

    Lords and Ladies attend me please ...
    Philip, who was unhappy that he totally missed the last convocation to
assist the Sprite, awaits you all outside so that we may help her heal herself
(no snickers please) All new newcomers to the Place are invited to help also
(we need all the help we can get)
    A previously unnoticed silvery chain is around Philip's neck. It has a
yellow-coloured gemstone set in the centre. The stone pulsates slightly.
    "It is almost time, friends. We must be ready ..."
From: narxtc@navier.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: boo
Date: 1 Jan 1993 02:00:58 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
NNTP-Posting-Host: navier.math.uh.edu

>   "I dunno, a lot of people might find adjusting to the new name a bit of
>a 'wench'. Still, if a nut like you can't torque her into it..."
>                               
>   The brumby prepares to bolt.

Look, Phillip : if I have to keep screwing into these puns, i might have to 
make a flathead out of you...

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