HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
Newsgroups: alt.callahans

In alt.callahans, regan1016@bestsd.sdsu.edu (T. ELIZABETH HARVEY) writes:

> 
> Please don't take this as a flame (I only play with fire in RL), but 
> personally, I think the 'SEXIST SLIME!' remark was only some teasing by two 
> teenagers. 

I think you are right.

> >Far from giving me the impression that there is hope for the
> >younger generation, it makes me even more convinced that this
> >nation will descend into internecine savagery, because the
> >spirit of compromise and reasoned appeal cannot exist in a
> >nation of zealots.

> You have a point.  But I wouldn't worry about two kids joking around 
> (CrossFire is another story, however) ... then again, I could be wrong.  
> Political science majors have the ability to take a person on the opposite 
> side of the ideological spectrum, eat them up for breakfast, lunch, 
> afternoon snack, and then go in for a pitcher of beer with your heinous foe 
> that same evening *grin*.

Yes, but the level of division, hate, and intolerance seems to
be growing daily.

doug
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: li@Data-IO.COM (Liralen Li)
Subject: Re: Liralin's Present...
Organization: Data I/O Corporation
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 18:56:27 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.025220.29179@tamsun.tamu.edu> rlm7337@tamsun.tamu.edu (Incarnadine) writes:
>[Inky produces a small grey box, about a foot on each side.  It is tied
>with a fat grey ribbon.  Inside, Liralen finds a beautiful crystal fish bowl,
>which has an engraving around the rim, only visible when held to the light.
>If one attempts to chime the bowl, it responds with a haunting resonasence     
>which is very pleasing to the ear]

She holds it up to the light to take a better look at the engraving, and
then tings is lightly and smiles.  "Thank you, Inky." she says.  And fills
the bowl with water for any of the more water oriented denizens of the
Place to do with as they like...
--
Liralen Li
li@inigo.Data-IO.com
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Another Introduction
Date: 13 Oct 92 00:46:28 GMT
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi

Boss Troll writes:
>A more scary thought, two summers ago, my oldest son spent the summer ROTC
>cruise driving a fully armed nuclear submarine from San Diego to Japan.  He
>just barely got his driver's licence the summer before----
>

     "Hmm. As a radar technician I wound up on the Bridge of a Navy Destroyer
once with the helm in my hands. Here I was a person who had never been taught
how to steer a ship before and I was entrusted with the helm during mealtime.
The food trays wound up on the deck. The Captain and I discovered that the
warrant officer I worked for had told me that it was the Captain's idea and the
Captain had been told we had volunteered ! <chuckle> Then CIC called and said
  { The warrant officer volunteered several of us on the technician force. }
they had been looking all over the ship for Petty Officer Pierce and would
the Quartermaster page him ? The Captain then told them I was on the bridge
on watch. I then piped up and stated that I couldn't go down and repair the
radar as I had not been properly relieved. To say the least, the warrant got
in trouble and I was told to get down there and fix my gear and I was no
longer on watch. <kzinti-grin> I think that dumb warrant should have gotten in
more trouble than he did. My gear was too critical for me to be doing someone
else's job ! I got a good laugh out of it, and a number of people questioned
the warrant officer's sanity in volunteering me to steer the ship !" DJ.

   { Yes, I left alot of details out. Like the warrant telling me later that I
     had gotten him in trouble. I gently reminded him that it wasn't me who had
     lied to the Captain ! }
-- 
 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: Another Introduction
Date: 8 Oct 92 16:48:56 GMT
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <Bvs74I.FtK@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:
>kitten hugs minstrel..."welcome back....i never did the radio
>thing...but used to live with WD9GVD (ham operator)  its been 9! years
>and i still remember his call sign..."

StM nominates Kitten for the position of Most Ancient Coot of Callahans.  "Wow! 
9! years!  That's a LONG time! 362880 years!  Are you related to Lazarus Long?"
From: carl@cco.caltech.edu (Carl Lydick)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: oh yeah...wait...
Date: 15 Oct 92 23:16:15 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandman.caltech.edu

In article <1992Oct15.085042.7098@cheshire.oxy.edu> ac@cheshire.oxy.edu (Aileen Cho) writes:
>
>
>How do you change the distribution line?
>                                        sorry,
>                                            --ac
>                                              (aka d'runner)
>


StM suggests, "If you're using rn (as I assume you are, since you're posting
from a SUN), you simply (I think) edit the header line that has the
Distribution: listed.  At any rate, that's what I'm trying here."
-- 
Speaker-To-Minerals, trying to improve his expertise with Unix
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: click!
Date: 14 Oct 92 13:17:26 GMT
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi

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

     "Its okay doug, life ain't permanent no how, " DJ as Pogo Possum.

        I have handicaps, they are called severe allergies. I can't go
where I want to and eat anything. I have to ask if they use any number
of cooking oils that makes me break out or get sick etc... Oh well.
Later...

-- 
 Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science
 jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
  "Is it the weekend yet ?" me :-)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: wyang@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William D Yang)
Subject: Drivers Ed classes, which was 'A hand of Story Poker'
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 22:50:08 GMT

Carrot tells a story about driving, with lemming-like following of
leading cars and a lack of lights, all together...  And mentions that
her driver's ed course never told her what to do in an intersection
with traffic lights that are out...
 
At least in Ohio, (that's in the USA, in the middle of nowhere, all
you ferriners ;), there are specific laws dictating what to do.  An
"uncontrolled" intersection should be treated as a 4-way stop.... and
my Driver's Ed course taught me that...  Your mileage may vary,
depending on what state (including Gaseous, Solid, or Liquid) you
happen to be in... ;)
 
  "Drivers ed isn't all bad... after all, it takes a lot of time in
   your regular high school schedule that'd be better spent playing
   euchre or chess..."
 
		-Bill


Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: bucknerb@bnr.ca (Brent Buckner)
Subject: Re: Problems of Recognition (was Re: Words)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ontario, Canada
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 15:14:20 GMT

In article <1bippiINNqkf@gap.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
>
>StM suggests, "Hybrid vigor?   It's a well-known (though, to the best of my
>knowledge, unexplained) phenomenon."

Here's the explanation I've encountered:  offspring inheriting
multiple disadvantages tend to have a lower rate of reproduction
(indeed of survival to maturity).

Consider two parents, one carrying a single copy of a dominant
gene for disadvantage M and the other carrying a single
copy of a dominant gene for disadvantage N.

They have four offspring.  One inherits M, one inherits N,
one inherits neither, and one inherits both M and N.
That last one dies.  Note the net improvement in the
distribution of genes; from 1 disadvantage (per parent)
to 2/3 (per surviving offspring).

A similar analysis would hold for advantages, I suppose.

-- 
at Bell-Northern Research
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: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: Callahan's is for everyone
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 00:10:45 GMT

In article <1avccuINNq97@gap.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
>In article <122420131@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>, daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom) writes:
>>Some disorders are chemical, and can only be treated by psychologists.
>
>Actually, chemical disorders can't be treated by psychologists.  For that you
>nead a psychiatrist.  I.e., someone who's able to write prescriptions.

   "Of course, allergies have to be handled by an allergist..." DJ.
 :-) :-) Actualamente, I have allergies, they don't incapacitate me, they
just take alot of the fun food out of my life ! 
 
-- 
 Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science
 jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
  "Is it the weekend yet ?" me :-)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: click!
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 02:46:38 GMT

kitten:

>>...but there is
>>damage on the inside of my head (remember, that's why i can't do math
>>:)  )...

>StM asks "You mean that's not simply the result of your being blonde? :-)"

kitten throws herself at the LARGE kzin...."ooooooooohhhhhhhhhh, you
are DOOOOOOOOMED!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

--
***************************************************************************
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: Re: A test
Keywords: test,ignore
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 12:39:43 GMT

Kitten writes:
>
>>Wolf writes:
>>   A test for all seasons.  I've been told that now I should be able to 
>>direct post to the newsgroup.  This test is just to confirm that.  If it
>>works you may well be seeing alot more of me soon.
>
>>    The (Hopeful) Wolf.
>
>kitten bounces up to wolf..."you made it...and we are certainly happy
>to see you...."and hugs the large and furry critter...
>

      "Yes, welcome back all who have beeen gone for a while !" Dreamy Jim.

-- 
 Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science
 jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
  "Is it the weekend yet ?" me :-)
Organization: Sophomore, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Date: Wed,  7 Oct 1992 16:29:59 -0400 
From: Mark Beirne Lively <ml5a+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Burma Shave Signs (was Re: Song of Sixpence - Part Five)
	<1992Oct6.235225.15241@muddcs.claremont.edu>

	well here at CMU  there is a stair well afectioanately named architects
leap 5 story drop straight down.  The stairwell has a large open area in
the middle big enough for a body to fall through.  It has been used for
dropping things down for the sheer thrill of it but to my knowledge no
people.  Anyway along the flat platforms are painted the following words:

If you're felling like a Jerk
Cause your designs just don't work
Then go ahead and take a leap
And finally you can get some sleep
Burmashave!

Cute huh?

Friend of the one who is.
Bear aka the Lord High Rulebender aka (ML5A@ANDREW.CMU.EDU)
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Another Introduction
Date: 16 Oct 92 05:48:55 GMT
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi

In article <keulen.719164694@possum> keulen@possum.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Mike van Keulen) writes:
>jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce) writes:
>>I remember when TVs became available
>>for purchase. My mother bought one in 1952. It had a 26" or 27' screen and
>
>Wow!  I didn't know they built such monsters, and expandable too.  I'd heard
>that everything was bigger in Texas, but I never _really_ believed it  :-)
>
>Splash!
>

     "Would you believe we used the 27' footers to watch Gunsmoke ? Or The
  Jack Benny Show or Howdy Doody ? " DJ.

      I saw what I typed just as I pressed the return key to post it...
:-) :-) Ah well, I have gone to Drive-In Movies that had much larger screens.
    Oh the fun of $1.00 night, and watching the car ahead of ours having to
    open their trunk and watching all of the people trying to freeload
    being caught and climbing out of the trunk { boot }. :-) How's that
    foir a run-on sentence...

-- 
 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: Callahan's is for everyone
Date: 8 Oct 92 17:47:35 GMT
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <122420134@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>, daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom) writes:
=In alt.callahans, li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus) writes:
=
=> 
=> Uhm... sorry if this rains on anyone's parade, but... piffle.
=> 
=> Callahan's is a news group.
=> 
=> It is *not* a bunch of people who have the professional know-how to 'help'
=> everyone.  STM looks like he could use some help that *really* knows what
=> its doing as opposed to a bunch of well-meaning, but rank amateurs.  Even
=> the Polymath, who has a degree in mind-work, will not claim to be able to
=> fix things for anyone here.
=> 
=[the rest deleted]
=> ----
=> Liralen Li 
=> li@inigo.Data-IO.com
=
=Great post Liralen.  I agree fully.

Another armchair psychiatrist?  Or just someone who hasn't taken the trouble to
follow the thread?  FYI, the item in question was due in large part because I
*AM* getting professional help.  For diabetes.  I'm currently using insulin.
That carries with it the risk of severe hypoglycemia.  There's absolutely *NO*
way to avoid the possibility.  One can only try to minimize the chances and
take appropriate action in the event of an attack.

Really, Doug, you ought to consider following your own advice.
From: HDKD@MUSICB.MCGILL.CA (HDKD000)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: One more re-incarnation...
Date: 8 Oct 92 00:54:33 GMT
Organization: McGill University

In article <1992Oct7.202433.25148@nntp.uoregon.edu> JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jay Brandt (Jason)) writes:
[deresed lines...]
>
>choker, set with a blue stone. She has downy golden fur, a feline tail, and
>cat-like ears that peek through her curly hair. They look over at the
>Martix Rider with a grin.
>
>Jason says "Welcome back, Matrix Rider! I'm Jason, and this is my friend
>Thyra. We're both new here since you left. It's good to meet a felow Decker
>in this merry place."
>

After some very nice hugging, Rider excuses himself from the ladies and
heads for the bar after hearing is name called form Jason.

"PLease to meet you Jason" says MR extending his hand to Jason
"and more so since I'm not the only Decker around, hehehe."
He then turns a bit, duck a peanut, and galantly lifts his hat
(wich btw, his a fedora(??) or some might say a 'Indy wannabee' shaped)
to Thyra.
"And to you, Lady Thyra, 'Mes hommages' (Please don't ask for the
translation, I might destroy it... )" Turning a little bit, he then
shouts acroos the PLace;
Thootpick!!! What do you think??"
TUrning back he then resume;
"Anyway I'm sure you know what I mean...
Let me say, even if a bit late, Welcome here to both of you"

>"Mike, Matrix Rider's next drink is on my tab!"

Thank you Jason!
Mike a tea please, sugar and milk as usual..."
Looking over to see the frown of some of the programmers in th Place
Rider looks a bit apological...
"Yeah, OK, sorry, I know that programmers and Decker should work on
caffeine, but my stomach can't take it... So I go something as close
to it..."

Rider then lift us cup in salute to Jason and Thyra;
"To new friends!!" and take a sip of tea... "I'll throw it in the
fireplace decently when I'm finish ;-) "

He then smiles to them both, dones his hat and heads back to his table.


Long live Cyberspace!!!

Serge Ayotte

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From: daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom)
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 15:06:25 GMT
Subject: Re: all about callahans
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: alt.callahans

In alt.callahans, spok+@cs.cmu.edu (John Ockerbloom) writes:

> dirbze replays the 'At the Cinema' Iraqi-terrorist movie-musical review:
> 
> >well... there you have it.  a blast from the past.... and I really do wish I
> >remembered who was responsible for this... 
> 
> John grins.  "That was mine.  My MUD persona makes an appearance partway
>  through-- I've been on a few different MUDs as 'Yossarian' over the
>  years.  It seemed to fit, since 'Dirque' and 'Hurin' are both MUD names too."

Oh, I apologize John.  I got it wrong.  Yes, it was you.


doug
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Grrr...
Date: 9 Oct 92 06:05:00 GMT
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <1992Oct9.011300.6731@ucc.su.OZ.AU>, mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar) writes:
=Danger Mouse grumbles as he types away at a keyboard in a corner of the
=Place.
=
="...mumblemumblemumblediskspacemumblemumblestupidfilesystemmumblemumble..."
=
=He looks up. "Oh, sorry. Just rebuilding my .newsrc file. I tried reading
=news last night, not realising that the disk on this machine was full.
=When I quit news, it tried to save the changes to my .newsrc, failed, and
=for some reason erased the old version as well.

StM points out, "Er, DM?  That's a *FEATURE*.  Really.  It's deeply imbedded in
the specification of every single one of the unix filesystems.  When unix
(including SunOS) tries to create a file, and there's already one of the same
name there, the first step is to delete the old one.  The second step is to try
to create the new one.  Now, if the disk is full when it gets to step two,
you're completely out of luck.  Sorry, but that's the way it works, and that's
the way it's SUPPOSED to work.  Just one of the many reasons I prefer VMS."
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: click!
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 12:58:50 GMT

kitten and doug converse...

>> 
>> i am glad lee is aware and unafraid to point out a
>> chauvanism

>This is fair, but the phrase 'sexist slime' carries more weight than
>the suggestion that someone had engaged in a chauvinism.

[  ]

>> automatically assume all people of color are poor and live in slums
>> and he would NEVER be condescending to a differently abled person...

>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.

kitten:
i KNEW this....and i know your opinion of the term...i use it from
habit more than anything else...(however, if he functions in other
ways he is NOT handicapped...he just can't walk.  if he doesn't
function then he is handicapped) 

[   ]

>However, as you point out, he was probably just goofing around,
>and a lot of things get said in good fun at those times.  Conversation
>between friends takes place in a context that is probably not
>subject to judgement from someone outside the friendship.

and fortunately lee and his dad are friends...the 'sexist slime' was
in fun... however, lee's mouth gets him in trouble occasionally...he
called a dean 'fool' ....he wasn't thinking ....it was his word of the
week (his word of the week the week before was 'bitch')...i am
dreading the time when he learns how to cuss in spanish...i will have
to learn spanish so i can yell at him for it....:)

[btw, if anyone is interested, i would be willing to sell a 15 year
old male, CHEAP...]
--
***************************************************************************
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: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: visiting LA at the end of February (was Re: In honor of...)
Date: 16 Oct 92 06:07:42 GMT
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi

In article <2L7msB1w164w@geloser.login.qc.ca> rider@geloser.login.qc.ca (Serge Ayotte) writes:
>> in the rain... I chose the rain, " DJ.
>>
>Stopping is hacking, Rider looks up ans says;
>"Well, being form a place that as snow almost 8 months out of the year,
>I can say that it's not the snow that is bad, I REALLY enjoy taking a
>nice walk on a nice snowy day, what's the killer is the FREEZING
>cold!!"
>
>Just to make is point, he then goes back to his keyboard, and after a
>few seconds of pecking a snow ball materialize itself over is head
>and...   *SPLAT* it goes at the feet  of DJ... (i'm nice, I don't want
>you to catch a cold...

     "Oh, I have been in snow before. Got caught at 3,000 feet Souteast of
    San Francisco Bay when the weather turned bad. It was September and
    we got 6 inches of snow, 50 knot winds, and 5 degrees F. None of
    us was prepared for it. A chill factor of -48 F is no fun unless you
    have the gear for it. What year ? 1968, when I was stationed at SF Bay,
    Treasure Island Navy Base. I was asst. Scoutmaster with 30 kids and
    two other adults, shelter halves didn't do much good in those conditions.

         This isn't one of times I almost froze to death because the Scout
      Camp Ranger opened up one of the buildings for us, a smelly drafty
      building..." DJ.
  

       "Hmm. That hot tub looks promising all of a sudden..." DJ. :-) :-)

-- 
 Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science
 jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
  "Is it the weekend yet ?" me :-)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jay Brandt (Jason))
Subject: Pet phrases
Organization: The Polyhedron Group
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 05:38:15 GMT

More per phrases and colorful descriptions:

One of Pegasus and Jason's pet lines on turning down dessert, or that extra
helping of food, is "No thanks, It would just go to waist.". Usually
accompanied by a pat on their own tummy.

Jason, on the current US administration's economic theories:
"They call it trickle-down economics. I call it 'piddle-on' economics".

Jason