HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus)
Subject: Re: Failure
Organization: Data I/O Corporation
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 16:33:16 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.125803.336@news.wesleyan.edu> DPERRY@eagle.wesleyan.edu (DAVID M. PERRY) writes:
>Jack Crow suddenly throws his guitar down, and jumps to his feet screaming, 

Liralen blinks and listens quietly until he is done.

>	So now we go on.  We are trying to rebuild.  She knows that I didn't
>mean to be insensitive, but how can she be completely open to me again? Walls
>are being built between us.  And just when we need to have lots of time
>together, I am going into production of a play I'm stage managing (and i can't
>drop), she has fractured her hand, and i don't know waht to do. Some moments
>are fine, and the next there is such ice between us."
>
>	Jack tries to go on but can't.  he starts to cry again

	Liralen sighs, and gets a handful of tissues and sits down on the
floor next to Jack Crow and hands them to him when he needs them.  "Tell
her how you feel.  Tell her that you're sorry about the past but there
isn't anything you can do about something that you've already done; and
all you can do is work on what you can do in the future."

	"Believe it or not, what you're going through is a normal phase in
a relationship.  It's called finding out that the object of an infactuation
is human.  And, believe it or not, if you two hang on and work on it some
more, you'll find that you'll be even more open to each other knowing each
others humanity than you ever could have been relying on each other being
perfect.

	"MyJohn and I have been married for five years, and went out
together for three years before that.  Nine months of that we were 1200
miles apart.  And in that time there have been plenty of times when we've
accidentally hurt each other, sometimes weeks when we've neglected each
other because of tiredness or stress or too demanding a schedule.  Just
this last summer we went through three months of having every weekend
solidly booked with other people.  But we made sure to set aside several
evenings for us to *just* be with each other.  The scheduling thing is
something that will always happen at the wrong time.

	"The only thing you can do about it is to set *some* time aside for
her and make it special.  There must be at least one meal or a couple of
hours that you can get away from being stage manager, use that time to do
something really neat with her.  From my past experience, it isn't the
amount of time, is the quality of it.

	"I hope that *something* in all that helps."  Liralen says softly
and gently hugs the crying Jack Crow around the shoulders.

-----
Liralen Li
li@inigo.Data-IO.com
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Words
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 12:53:35 GMT

liralen offers kitten a hug ....

and kitten hugs back!!!!!!!!!!


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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 
"perhaps _any_ universe becomes real in proportion 
to the number of people who believe in it and spend time there." s. robinson
From: carrot@bear.stonemarche.org (Little red-headed girl)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re:  Holding on to the light
Date: 7 Oct 92 14:23:08 GMT

>kitten quits drooling at grant [over fondue-rsg] and joins the group hug!

	Rachel grins at Grant as she hauls him into the group hug for a
troubled friend.

	"Now when was the last time a lovely lady said that to you? :)
There's hope for you yet..."

(and they say that the fastest way to a _man's_ heart is through the
	stomach...) 8-)
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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: keulen@possum.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Mike van Keulen)
Subject: Re: Coming in for a landing, ArchTeryx!
Organization: Murdoch University
Date: 13 Oct 92 01:08:20 GMT

rcb33483@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (ArchTeryx) writes:

>"Actually, once in a while I do enjoy an alcoholic beverage.  But right now,
>you are correct, I am quite hungry.  The peanuts helped a little but I am
>a rather large bird.

>"I can eat just about anything, even garbage.." [this draws a dirty look from
>Mike and a giggle from Arch, who then continues], "So whatever you want to 
>buy me, I'll probably find quite edible.  Thank you for the kind offer!"

>ArchTeryx sits near the group assembled around to him, a beaky smile on his
>face, as he gets ready for a decent meal.

Hi Arcteryx!  Also apologies for being late ... I would like to blame my tardy
newserver, but the poor overworked thing can't take all the blame (blush!).  In
an endeavour to make up for it, here's a _real_ baked cheesecake (like the sort
my Mum makes), and a BIG birthday hug  <HUG>.  Happy Birthday!!!

Splash!


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>  "ArchTeryx"                          "Of *course* I understand you--I speak 
>email: rcb33483@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu       1406 intergalactic avian dialects!"  
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From: daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: click!
Date: 14 Oct 92 05:23:55 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA

In alt.callahans, sjg@terminator.cc.umich.edu (Susan Gavula) writes:

> In article <122420135@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom) writes:
> >
> >Do not use the phrase 'differently abled'.  It is nonsense.  My
> >father has been in a wheelchair for almost 30 years now, and
> >he would be the first to tell you that he is downright handicapped.
> 
> Amen to that!  Doug, I agree whole-heartedly.  My chair, and your Dad's,
> are real.  They are tools that help us live our lives.  Now, they scare
> some folks who don't want to face reality.  Its not always pretty, but
> we cope, and even have some good times just like everyone else.

My father is a bold and noble man whose courage impresses me
a great deal.  One of his great joys was working in the wilderness.
He can no longer pursue that love, because he is handicapped.
Not only can he not walk, but his condition renders his health
fairly fragile.

He is not able to mow his own lawn.  He cannot have sex. 
Anyone who thinks that the loss of ability to have sex is
not a flat out HANDICAP is deranged, and I will NOT apologize
for saying so.  He has no magical different ability that
makes up for that.  My poem says it better, but I do not
feel like reposting it.  

Let me state it simply.  I can do EVERYTHING my father can
do.  There are things that I can do that he cannot, because
he has lost the functions of everything below his waist.
He has gained ZERO special abilities as a consequence of
being handicapped.  Oops.  I take that back.  He can balance
his wheelchair on two wheels.  I cannot do that.

There is no way in which this diminishes my respect for him
or makes me condescendig towards him.  He is still human.
He can still seek and test his limits as can we all.  This
is the essence of being human.  But compared to me, he
is handicapped and in no way can he be said to be differently
abled in any useful or meaninful semantic sense.

I have belabored this point enough.  Jesus, wha the HELL
do I care how people refer to the handicapped.

doug
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: turner@reed.edu (a 29 hand)
Subject: Re: Coming in for a landing, ArchTeryx!
Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 17:16:36 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.053712.14041@nntp.uoregon.edu> JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jay Brandt (Jason)) writes:
>In article <Bvyqor.MCt@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, rcb33483@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
>(ArchTeryx) writes:
>> ArchTeryx sits near the group assembled around to him, a beaky smile on his
>> face, as he gets ready for a decent meal.
>Jason signals Mike, and says "You've got it ArchTeryx. One birthday dinner,
>comming up! Mike, get our hungry avian friend here whatever he wants for
>dinner, on my tab."

Before Mike can do anything, Caithelin appears at his side.  She whispers in
his ear.  He looks dubious.  She gets insistent.  He looks even more
dubious.  Then he wrinkles his nose and nods.  "If you think that's what
he'd like best, I guess go ahead. But it'll be a mess..."

"Don't worry Mike, we'll use a little Callahan's magic to clean it up
afterwards."

She goes over to a handy X-window.  (Gotta love these things.)  She opens it
to what looks like a fish-house.  (Cold storage, fish processing, whatever
you want to call it.)  While all the workers in the place are looking the
other way she swipes a couple fish and pulls them back through the window.
They flop on the floor of the place, 60lbs each of slime covered fish
complete with bulging eyes on top and ghostly white bellies underneath.  She
grins impishly at Arch.  "I was in a nice mood.  So I got two reasonable
sized, actually kind of smallish ones.  Just for the halibut, you
understand."

She laughs as she watches the smaller felines circle the monster fish.
"Just be glad I brought in dead ones, or you really wouldn't know what to do
with them."

	Caithelin

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: neilb@physics.su.OZ.AU (RiemannZeta(s))
Subject: Re: A tale which kneeds telling
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 22:56:37 GMT

>Danger Mouse exchanges a dollar coin for a tall glass of cold milk.
>"Ta, Mike. Say, did I ever tell you the story about the guy who was
>looking for a job in a stand-up comedy club?"

>DM takes a sip of milk while this sinks in... then ducks!

While this is going, The Bellman walks in, tired out after a
night ringing bells, and orders a cider (large, very large) turns
to Mike and says " There was this lady I heard about recently, wife
of a rich rancher. When her husband died she decided that it was time
to see more of life, so she left the ranch in the hands of her sons
and headed for the city. Before she left she renamed the ranch Focus
because that was where the sons raise meet"

Shonias if you want a cider after that it is on me.

bye

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: sjg@terminator.cc.umich.edu (Susan Gavula)
Subject: Meeting the Dynamic Duo
Organization: University of Michigan
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 11:32:33 GMT


li@inigo.data-io.com writes:

>David grins at Susan, "You haven't met the dynamic duo, yet, have you?"

"Nope...not yet anyway." she answers.

>Phee peers out from her safe shelter at the woman in the wheelchair.  The
>little girl stares at the wheelchair with solemn eyes.  David hunkers down
>with her still in his arms, and Fezzik moves in closer.

"Hi, Phee.  I'm Susan."  She notices the little girl's facination with the 
the chair and says, "If we can find some free space here to roll around
I'll let you ride in my chair if you want. " 

"See these?" she asks, indicating the small black levers mounted above 
and to the side of each wheel. "They're the brakes.  I think I better lock
them, just so Fezzik won't push me backwards." She grins at Phee and 
pushes both brakes forward, locking them.  "You know something,"
she says to both Phee and David, "he's the *biggest* dog I've ever 
seen in my life."

>"Here, pup..."  David shoves at Fezzik a little to send him Susan's way.
>The pup, 5' in length from the tip of his black nose to the tip of his
>feathered tail, and nearly 3' tall at the shoulder, puts his broad head on
>Susan's lap and looks up at her with brown eyes.  The ruff around his neck
>is thick and soft and perfect for petting...

Susan starts petting the big dog a little tentatively.  She knows its
silly to be afraid, but it takes a few minutes to relax and enjoy
petting him.  Then she gets a bit more brave and starts scritching behind
Fezzik's ears, hoping he likes it.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: dbriggs@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Daniel Briggs)
Subject: Re: Cultural Exchange (was Re: Schooling)
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 08:24:02 GMT

In article <1992Oct10.110721.6472@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
  mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar) writes:
>> [Dan'l:]
>>BTW, DM.  You'll have to take me to a rugby game if I make it down under.
>>I've never been to one.
>
>Danger Mouse grins. "No problem. But you'll be arriving in the cricket
>season, so we'll have to go to a cricket match first! Sample everything
>a culture has to offer, I say. I still remember the Giants game at
>Candlestick Park I saw two years ago..."

"True.  Though I point out that rugby is one of the more popular sports here
at NMT, though I've still never been to a game.  It might be interesting to
make a cross comparison some day.  And I think that Caltech had a pretty
active cricket team, though I never saw an entire match there either.  I
really should see what all the fuss is about!  I grew up in the Bay Area,
DM, and I made a total of about 2 or 3 Giants games in 18 years, so I'm not
discriminating against the furrin' sports.  I have already looked into
Aussie drop zones, though, so I should be all right in that respect.  Wanna
come jumping?

Dan'l


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From: jlbell@bharh56.bnr.co.uk (John Bell)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: click!
Date: 12 Oct 92 10:33:04 GMT
Organization: BNR Europe Ltd, London Road, Harlow, England.

In article <1ba2s4INNje6@gap.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
>In article <1992Oct11.161737.708@netcom.com>, aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine) writes:
>
>StM agrees, "Aahz is right.  There are actually folks out there who will damn
>near go ballistic if they hear you use the term `handicapped' or `disabled.'
>The amazing thing is that none of the people whom I've met who *INSIST* that
>you use the phrase `differently abled' were actually `differently abled'
>themselves.  Of course, the ridiculous thing about it is that the term
>`differently abled' will almost certainly, like its predecessors `handicapped'
>(which replaced `crippled') and `disabled' (which replaced handicapped, or
>maybe it was the other way around) be considered a pejorative before the end of
>the decade.  It's similar to the whole silly negro/black/afro-american/person
>of color/african-american thing.  You can make up new words all you want.  They
>still  refer to the same thing, and changing the words won't change the
>underlying reality.
>>> The last sentence says it all, my wife Janet is confined to a wheelchair
>>> and accepts all the usual names although 'cripple' is used by the over
>>> sixties only. You will be corrected very quickly however if you call her
>>> Jan as she hates it. Outside the UK the "does he take sugar" syndrome
>>> may not be so well known but it is far more annoying than any name.
>>>
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Words
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 10:49:05 GMT

didi (as identified by giggle)

>{  Giggle!  This could be interesting ... the battle of the HUGS!  }

"but didi," giggles kitten..."isn't the phrase 'battle of the hugs'
oxymoronic?"  (grin....no offense intended, dear deed)

--
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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 
"perhaps _any_ universe becomes real in proportion 
to the number of people who believe in it and spend time there." s. robinson

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: corrections... Re: Redheads
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 21:12:57 GMT

DJ writes:
>from the Prop Department. Whenever R&G said, 'We must go back.' I threatened
>them with the halberd and then they said,' But we can't ' The instuctor loved 
>it ! It worked out alright and got us and A for out project !" DJ.
                                       ^^^^------ !!!
 
     " I meant 'an A for our project !' Good grief..."

-- 
 Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science
 jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
  "Is it the weekend yet ?" me :-)
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: mia again
Date: 9 Oct 92 22:52:50 GMT
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <1992Oct9.173039.13120@morrow.stanford.edu>, GE.LJB@forsythe.stanford.edu (Louis J Bookbinder) writes:
=The following have not posted in OH, So Long. Are they gone forever?
=
=MEMBERS IN ABSENTIA (M.I.A.)   (as of 1 Oct 1992)
=----------------------------
=Balrog             ABEND

In Singapore, at last report (a few weeks ago).  Capable of posting, but not of
reading the newsgroup.

=Skeeve

Last known to be lurking.  Can't remember his address offhand.  Anybody
remember his real name?  If so, I can find his e-mail address (if he's still
lurking the same place he used to be).
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
Subject: Re: BAH! HUMBUG!
Organization: Bill 'n' Opus for Prez
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 03:45:12 GMT

In article <1bd0efINNhjb@gap.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
>StM barely suppresses an urge to scream.  "Yesterday was only the 11th of
>October, and already they're starting to show _It's_a_Wonderful_Life_ on
>television."  He reconsiders for a moment.  "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!"

Deck the halls with bulbs of garlic! falalalala, lalalala
For the vampire soon will frolic! falalalala, lalalala
Don we now our silver crosses! falala, lalala, lalala
So we'll cut down on our losses! falalalala, lalalala
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

Who needs Lime Jello [tm]?  We had lasagna.....
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: esti@quads.uchicago.edu (Paul A. Estin)
Subject: visiting LA at the end of February (was Re: In honor of...)
Reply-To: esti@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: U. Michigan Cognitive Psychology
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 01:29:44 GMT

Snark fades into view, wearing mirrored shades...

"Hmmm... seems to me I know too many people in California, some of
them from this newsgroup, *not* to go visiting them!  There seems to
be a Bay contingent and an LA contingent.  I've been puzzling over
what to do for spring break (a misnomer... it comes February 20-28
here), and decided that I'll most likely check out the warmest of the
Left Coast climes at that time.  (The Bay area, not to mention the
Seattle area where I have cousins, will have to wait till later.)

"So, I'll almost certainly be in LA from February 20 to 28, or
thenabouts, staying with some friends who live somewhere near UCLA
(Westwood?).  Just letting people know, in case they want to synch up
plans or suggest things or send addresses or whatever.  Of course,
I'll email again when the visit is more immediately imminent."

Snark fades softly and silently from view.

-----
Paul Andrew Estin
the Snark
estin@csmil.umich.edu

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Another Introduction
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 02:09:05 GMT



>=steven confuses kitten:
>=
>=>>"...i was only born in 1955!"
>=
>=>"What?  You mean you're from some 10^5587+ years in our future?  That's some
>=> *serious* time travelling..."
>=
>=>(No, I am *not* going to write out 1955! in full.  I may be bored, and getting
>=>tired and silly, but I'm not *that* bored, tired or silly...)
>=
>=
>="well....you are confusing"  kitten grins...."maybe it is because it
>=is 5:35 in the a.m., but i don't get it....of course, if it is math...

>=well, i can't do math 'cause i fell on my head.  so there!"

>Since he started this, StM explains, "I'm afraid it is math.  The exclamation
>point means you're supposed to multiply the number by one less by one less, and
>so on, 'til you get to one.  For example, in your post yesterday, you referred
>to 9! years!.  Well, to those of us who do math, 9! means 9*8*7*6*5*4*3*2,
>where the * means multiply.

"okay," says kitten..."i get it...i think." and tosses a couple of
peanuts at StM just because.  }:).  (the exclaimation points,
ellipses, and no caps started out as quirks developed specifically to
annoy one felix ortony...a "plato god" -- plato being a computer ed.
system at the u of illinois...and they have remained as bad
habits...although i really do talk like this...)

--
***************************************************************************
conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten           /\ /\  barbara ann 
"my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?"      {=.=}
                                              ~   trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu 
"perhaps _any_ universe becomes real in proportion 
to the number of people who believe in it and spend time there." s. robinson

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: bucknerb@bnr.ca (Brent Buckner)
Subject: Re: The United Way
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ontario, Canada
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 14:55:07 GMT

In article <1bingdINNqkf@gap.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
>In the meantime, I still advocate
>MY technique:  Look for charities/causes you support, and donate to them
>directly.  Cut out the costs of the middle man."

While you're reviewing the allocations mechanism of your local
United Way, I suggest you also check the cost of their campaign and
other overhead (as a percentage of dollars distributed to the
agencies).  Around here (Canada's National Capital Region) the
economies of scale exceed the costs of the middle man.  Which
is a great part of the motivation for the existence of the
United Way.

-- 
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voice:        (613) 765-2739
Canada Post:  P.O. Box 3511, Station C, Ottawa, Canada, K1Y 4H7
I do not claim that BNR holds these views.  
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jay Brandt (Jason))
Subject: Re: Why 9! = 362,880
Organization: The Polyhedron Group
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 03:43:19 GMT

In article <BvvvG1.JnM@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
(Barbara Trumpinski) writes:
> 
> 
> 
> >Jason decides to explain the mathematical joke on Kitten's recent post. 

<explanation of factorials deleted>

> "thank you jason....can i throw a peanut at you too....just for good
> measure?"
> --

Jason grins and says, "Sure, why -nut-!" then ducks for cover again.

Jason