HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: mwasson@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Gecko-boy)
Subject: subs, pizzas, ICs
Organization: Fat Messiah Games
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 04:10:25 GMT


>Merlinvin looks up and finally notices the Gecko Boy's email address.
>"Eh, Gecko, howzit?  I had the (mis)fortune to live for a few years on a
             ^^^^^^
Gecko-boy grins. "Ey, brah, full on wit' da pidgin or what, you," thus
confusing anybody who has never spent time in Hawai'i.

>blackened submarine out at Pearl Harbor (misfortune being the submarine,

"I imagine you could get pretty claustrophobic after awhile?"

>not Hawai'i), and I know all about the tendencies of electronics to eat
>themselves. Have you shown the other Callahanians the joys of a pepperoni
>and pineapple pizza yet?"

"Ah yes ... actually, you know, I just had a ham + pineapple pizza for the
first time the other day. Not bad, actually.  The *true* local-kine
foods, though, are things like chicken katsu, kailua pig, mauna pua, 
teri-mahi (that's mahimahi fish with teriyaki...) .... yum."

>Merlinvin buys the Geck' another round, picks up a beer from Mike,
>and addresses the fireplace again.
>
>"To the silicon chip - genesis of the electronics age. They can't dance,
>they can't sing, they're just frying everything..."

"Cheers!" :-)

<crash!> 

"...and t'anks for the beer, Merlinvin."



--
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mike Wasson                              "What the--? Web in my eye?!?"
mwasson@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
U of Hawai'i -and- Fat Messiah Games     #include <std_disclaimer.h>
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: korz@cs.columbia.edu (Frederick Korz)
Subject: Re: Humor (was prejudice)
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 17:32:59 GMT

In article <Dec13.053026.34203@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> arsmith@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Alan Smith) writes:
>In article <1992Dec12.200103.28530@netcom.com> henry@netcom.com (Henry Polard) writes:
[what had become 5 levels of attributions snipped]
>
>Well he said he was a maso- ooops!  (Dangit!  Sorry about that.)
>
>Anyway, I just went <bonk>, not <Smack!> or even <Bang>.  I suppose I
>could have gone <thump>, but to me a bonk was always less than a thump.
>
>>Here at Callahans, the hurt is usually vented on glasses.
>
>The way I understand it, punsters are attacked by peanuts.  

Frood*, who was last seen seeking shelter in an existing mountain
of peanuts provided by Robbie(DJ) and -Sprite, remarks,
 "Or simply put, 'shelled'."

>>Or is this newbie missing something?
>
>Hmmm.... Lessee, Head? Heart? [street word for genetalia deleted]?
>Maybe he's too inorant.  Or maybe he's just some cruel [deleted] who wouldn't
>know humor if it smacked him upside the head.
>
>Take your pick.
>
>Big Al.  Wondering if he's gonna get kicked out for cruelty.  (Wouldn't
>be surprising)

   seeing if it is possible to get kicked out for cruelty ... to the language,
   frood


*(having returned by virtue of ridding the local news system of 69,908
overaged (beyond expiration) articles which it had choked upon.)
From: keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: I'm back!
Date: 14 Dec 1992 23:03:16 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au
Keywords: Again?

s892057@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Neale Wolfson) writes:

>   Anything else,  not at the moment,  so a drink to those mentioned on me
>please!

>     (Oh Ohhhh!)

<SPLASH!>

Splash!

--
		Splash!		*To love is to LIVE!*
   (aka Mike van Keulen -- e-mail: keulen@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au)
From: c188-cr@po.berkeley.edu (Chua Hak Lien)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Fare-thee-wells
Date: 18 Dec 1992 17:48:15 GMT
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: po.berkeley.edu

In article <memo.819178@cix.compulink.co.uk> maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>hugs?
Here's one...

* HUG *

>Mary Merritail

=)
C
+
"I'm a Psychic Amnesiac. I know in advance what I'll forget."
					- Michael Mcshane
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Subject: Re: Danger Room (was Re: Showers? [Re: An Introduction])
Keywords: more
Reply-To: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:56:12 GMT

In article <1gj5j1INN581@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>, noj@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Jonathan E Miles) writes:
|> li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus) writes:
|> >In article <JBrandt-131292111540@aaa.uoregon.edu> Jay Brandt wrote:
|> >> Liralen and I, and a few others, also use it for martial arts workouts and
|> >> combat training.  Argent is a positively incredible automated training
|> >> droid. Sort of the ultimate sensi." He smiles at Liralen. "I may take you
|> >> up on that as soon as I am done with our chess game. I could use a good
|> >> workout. I've been inactive too long."
|> 
|> At this, Itosu perks up..."A martial arts training room?  Just what I've been
|> looking for...does he do point sparring, I'm not real used to full-contact."
|> 
|> He grins.."Other than street fighting, that is, and there's a BIG difference!"
|> 
|> >At Ecko's study of Argent, Liralen only smiles to see someone appreciate
|> >the gift given to her with true understanding of what it is.  "Jilara gave
|> >it to me.  Somewhat based on the Terminator 2 technology, but programmed
|> >only to teach.  As Jason said, 'the ultimate sensei.'"
|> 
|> "VERY interesting...I'll have to check it out...I need the practice."
|> 
|> Itosu the ogre
|> 
|> --
|> .sig

Starknight leans forward at this...  "Hmm...  My martial arts skills have been
getting a bit rusty lately; chasing pirates through the asteroid belt doesn't
do a darn thing for your hand-to-hand skills.  Wu Shu does take a lot of
practice to maintain, so maybe I'll see you all there sometime."
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: henry@netcom.com (Henry Polard)
Subject: Re: Humor (was prejudice)
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 16:31:03 GMT

In article <1gedkbINN8l@phakt.usc.edu> pechever@phakt.usc.edu (The Heckler) writes:
>In article <1992Dec12.200103.28530@netcom.com> henry@netcom.com (Henry Polard) writes:
>[deletia ref. Big Al, Liralen Li--see the thread]
>
>Impu-Sebek glances sharply upwards at the N-word, then puts a slowly growing
>grin on his face. 
>"Newbie?  Let me get this straight, here.  YOU are calling Big AL...a
>Newbie?"

No. I was referring to myself as a newbie. Apologies for the
ambiguity.

>"About humor:  I don't have a problem with humor being based on pain and
>humiliation.  If you've read _Stranger In A Strange Land_ (Thanx Robert Anson!)
>you know what I mean here.  You laugh when you see something hurt, because
>laughing is what makes the hurt stop.

Good point. Now, the interesting thing about puns is that they do
not involve pain and humiliation as part of the joke. I had written
that they cause pain to the hearers hence their being greeted
with groans or, as with Big Al's reaction, forms of agression.

I am begining to think that, while humor may involve pain and
humiliation, those are not what is essential to humor; for you can
get lots of humorless pain and humiliation. I recall reading
somewhere that the essential ingredient of humor is incongruity.
This fits well with how puns seem to work, and with the notion that
a cartoon of somebody being run through with a sword has very
little humor potential, whereas a cartoon of somebody being run
through with a strand of speghetti caould be very funny.
There are scholarly publications about humor; I'll take a look at
those and report before further using up forests for soapboxes.

Henry takes a rope off of his shoulder and rappels down the stack of
soapboxes.

 Henry Polard, | Your golden wine is sweet, my friend,   / from _Banished
  Wordslinger  | come fill my cup with amber.           / Immortal_
  Have Brains  | If we drink long enough together,      \ Visions of Li T'ai-Po
  Will Travel  | we'll drown the loneliness of strangers \ Tr. by Sam Hamill
From: eesshlgb@gdr.bath.ac.uk (S H L G Bisson)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: ...nothing was stirring, not even a cartoon mouse...
Date: 16 Dec 92 16:40:44 GMT
Organization: School of Electrical Engineering, University of Bath, UK

Another quiet day in the place. Patrons are wandering in and out as usual,
as Ignatz wanders over to the X-windows. He gently touches one (a natural
mouse pointer if there ever was one!), and a view of Bath in winter
appears. 

The sky is grey, and a yellow storm-light tinges the bare trees on the hills.
The golden stone of the city is drab and brown, waiting the life-kiss of 
summer sun. The light dims to dusk and dark, as the viewpoint shifts down
from the hills into the city. Bright lights, people, a rush and bustle as
the crowds jostle their ways to that last present. Smiles and laughter from
some, silence from others, the shoppers doing their bit for the economy.

The window fades into darkness, and then, avoiding the old cliches, is 
full of stars. The winter night sky, three planets in conjunction with the
moon, Orion bright and clear, Cassiopeia low on the horizon, the light mist
of the Pleiades, the reclining Plough, forever pointing mutely to Polaris.
The sudden punctuation of light as a meteor streaks across the sky...

"Winter, a season of contradictions, of cold, of warmth, of silence, of noise,
of light, of dark, but most of all, of renewal in the quiet nights, as we wait
for the summer's days..."

The cartoon mouse, wumpish as always, strolls over to the fireplace, and
gently tosses his glass into the flames.

"The turning of the year!"

There is a silent explosion of glass, and a sparkle of light as the shards
drift down into the hearth.

"I'm off back to Jersey for a fortnight on Friday. I haven't been back for
a year - a very eventful year. I must admit I'm a bit apprehensive, I know
I've changed, and I'm sure the people I know on the island will have changed
too... Will there be any links other than our shared pasts?"

Silence from Ignatz, as he wanders off to share a hug with Mary...

----=-
Ignatz Mouse/Simon Bisson...why did they stick a Waterstones here on campus?
-=-------
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk (Alan Ralph)
Subject: Re: Dalek has entered the building
Reply-To: mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk
Distribution: world
X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.20 $
Organization: Chez MonTemplar, Redunser
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 17:33:50 +0000

In article <1gespjINNr3b@gap.caltech.edu> ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz) writes:
>The Dalek enters the room, and finds he cannot drink ...
>
>>MonTemplar eventually stops rolling around on the floor laughing, and gets up.
>>"Deary me. I thought I'd seen everything happen in here, but you beat the rest
>>hands down (suction pad?)" Wiping the tears from his eyes, he approached the
>>Dalek. "I don't think I can help you with the liquids problem, but I daresay we
>>could link you up to the jukebox and radio if you're looking for some
>>entertainment. Just mind you don't exterminate anybody, y'hear!"
>
>Abner smiles.  "I'm sure you'll find some of the tunes taste dalektable."
>
>He ducks!

Unfortutely, as he rises, he suddenly feels a sharp sensation in his neck,
followed by a sudden loss of feeling.  Two Borg soldiers have materialised
either side of him, and the one on his left has just jabbed him with a hype!

The other Borg produces a large sack of peanuts and empties them over Abner's
head. The hype is released from his neck, and then the Borg fade away, as
silently as they appeared.

As Abner flounders in the mountain of peanuts, a voice calls out - "Resistance
to pun-ishment is useless!"

--
Alan Ralph, AKA Kimberley MonTemplar (when in alt.callahans)
aralph@cix.compulink.co.uk  OR  mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk
Cominatcha' c/o Demon Internet Services - Internet for a tenner+VAT a month!
Note: redunser is NOT associated with any other site of demon.co.uk
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: Dalek has entered the building
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 06:33:10 GMT

>"MY VISION IS IMPAIRED" cries the Dalek "I CAN NOT SEE."  He starts
>rotating and randonly moving around the move, bumping into various people.
>(Excuse me).  Finally, the Dalek crashes into the pool, and sinks to
>the bottem. This serves to clear the Dalek's eyepiece and cheers him
>up incredibly.  However, he will need some assistance getting out of
>the water.  (Luckily Dalek casings are waterproof.)
>
>The Dalek

  Linda points at the pool, and out comes the Dalek, at a comfortable
 speed. He lands softly on the floor, dry.

-- 
         Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
                   Video. Cher: Love and Understanding.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: A plurality of wordplay
From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson@somewhere.out.there)
Date: 17 Dec 92 08:30:43
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.
In-reply-to: mar@physics.su.OZ.AU's message of Thu, 17 Dec 1992 06:02:29 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.060229.28680@ucc.su.OZ.AU> mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar) writes:

>"This thought came to me the other day: graffiti is the plural of
>graffito, and data is the plural of datum, so...
>
>"Is a spaghetto an example of a pastum?"

"What I want to know is: if you put pasta and antipasto on the same plate,
do they annihilate each other in a flash of energy?"

--
-Chip Olson. | olson@husc.harvard.edu | ceo@{gnu.ai,silver.lcs}.mit.edu 
"These are the days you might fill with laughter until you break. These days
you might feel a shaft of light make its way across your face... And when you 
do you'll know how it was meant to be..." -10,000 Maniacs, "These Are Days"
From: olson@husc9.Harvard.EDU (Charles Olson)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Hats
Date: 20 Dec 92 19:37:55 GMT
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.

In article <19DEC92.18185573.0024@lafibm.lafayette.edu>, HC61@lafibm.lafayette.edu (HC61000) writes:

|> I _Always_ tip my bicycle helmet when people let me pass. They usually
|> smile.

"I hadn't thought of doing that, but it's a neat idea."

"Let's see, I love hats, but don't wear them much- even x-Large hats tend to
be too small for my swollen head :-).  But I've a Bell V1-Pro bike helmet, a
couple of ski hats (including one with braids coming off the earflaps and an
extendable pom-pom on a string), and a brown felt fedora-ish hat that was given
to me for Christmas some years ago, but is just a bit small for me so I don't
wear it much.

-- 
-Chip Olson. | olson@husc.harvard.edu | ceo@{gnu.ai,silver.lcs}.mit.edu 
"These are the days you might fill with laughter until you break. These days
you might feel a shaft of light make its way across your face... And when you 
do you'll know how it was meant to be..." -10,000 Maniacs, "These Are Days"
From: rickb@hotbox.mti.sgi.com (Rick Braumoeller)
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.bug
Subject: Changing windows wipes out an isearch
Date: 11 Dec 92 14:36:11
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Distribution: alt
NNTP-Posting-Host: hotbox.mti.sgi.com

I'm not sure this is exactly a bug, but...

Here's what happens.  I start an isearch in one lemacs screen, and match
some text.  Then, without quitting the isearch, I move to another screen
and click the mouse.  My cursor position in the original screen just
got reverted to where it was before I began the search.

Is it possible to twiddle the mouse-event code or the mode-motion stuff
to leave the isearch in the original window alone?

And as long as I'm wasting bandwidth, is the click-on-a-mode-line-with-
the-left-mouse-and-drag-it supposed to work?  All I get is a beep and a
"Wrong type argument: windowp, nil".

Thanks in advance!

Rick
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Date: 17 Dec 1992 07:50:13 -0500
From: els@sirius.hrb.com (Eric L. Schott)
Subject: RE: x-set-point-and-insert-selection
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.bug
Richard Caley writes:
> 
> This seems to be broken in 19.3. I have it bound to the middle mouse
> button.
> 
> What happens is that I select some text, then try and paste it using
> the middle button somewhere else in the same buffer and the text
> between the selection and the insertion point is insterted too. 
> 
> I think that that x-set-point-and-insert-selection is setting the
> point before looking at the selection and the set-point it is using is
> one which extends the selection. 

Jamie mailed a fix to this to me.  The patch is below.

*** x-mouse.el.dist	Fri Sep  4 05:43:01 1992
--- x-mouse.el	Fri Sep 18 07:52:54 1992
***************
*** 32,59 ****
      (let ((s (buffer-substring old-point (point))))
        (x-own-clipboard s)
        (x-store-cutbuffer s))
      (kill-region old-point (point))))
  
! (defun x-insert-selection (&optional check-cutbuffer-p)
    "Insert the current selection into buffer at point."
    (interactive)
    (let ((text (if check-cutbuffer-p
  		  (or (condition-case () (x-get-selection) (error ()))
  		      (x-get-cutbuffer)
  		      (error "No selection or cut buffer available"))
  		(x-get-selection))))
      (push-mark (point))
      (insert text)
  ;;    (if zmacs-regions (zmacs-activate-region))
      ))
  
  (defun x-set-point-and-insert-selection (event)
    "Sets point where clicked and insert the primary selection or the cut buffer"
    (interactive "e")
!   (mouse-set-point event)
!   (x-insert-selection t))
  
  (defun mouse-track-and-copy-to-cutbuffer (event)
    "Makes a selection like `mouse-track', but also copies it to the cutbuffer."
    (interactive "e")
    (mouse-track event)
--- 32,59 ----
      (let ((s (buffer-substring old-point (point))))
        (x-own-clipboard s)
        (x-store-cutbuffer s))
      (kill-region old-point (point))))
  
! (defun x-insert-selection (&optional check-cutbuffer-p move-point-p)
    "Insert the current selection into buffer at point."
    (interactive)
    (let ((text (if check-cutbuffer-p
  		  (or (condition-case () (x-get-selection) (error ()))
  		      (x-get-cutbuffer)
  		      (error "No selection or cut buffer available"))
  		(x-get-selection))))
+     (if move-point-p (mouse-set-point event))
      (push-mark (point))
      (insert text)
  ;;    (if zmacs-regions (zmacs-activate-region))
      ))
  
  (defun x-set-point-and-insert-selection (event)
    "Sets point where clicked and insert the primary selection or the cut buffer"
    (interactive "e")
!   (x-insert-selection t t))
  
  (defun mouse-track-and-copy-to-cutbuffer (event)
    "Makes a selection like `mouse-track', but also copies it to the cutbuffer."
    (interactive "e")
    (mouse-track event)

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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 09:42:02 EST
From: ex594bw@pts.mot.com (Bob Weiner)
Subject: Re: Dragging mode line to resize windows doesn't work.
Reply-To: bob_weiner@pts.mot.com
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.bug
<jwz@lucid.com> wrote:

> > And as long as I'm wasting bandwidth, is the click-on-a-mode-line-with-
> > the-left-mouse-and-drag-it supposed to work?  All I get is a beep and a
> > "Wrong type argument: windowp, nil".
> 
> Nope.  That cursor is only there as a constant reminder that it doesn't work.
> This is another of the entries on the long list of things that would be just
> too unpleasant to think about before we rewrite redisplay.
> 

Get Hyperbole, a GNU Emacs add on system for information management which I
wrote.  It handles dragging modelines to resize their windows under Lucid
Emacs.  Under GNU Emacs versions which support side-by-side windows, it also
allows you to resize them by dragging.


* How to Obtain

Hyperbole is available across the Internet via anonymous ftp.  Do not send
requests to have it mailed to you since it won't be.  Instead have another
party who has Internet access obtain it for the both of you.

A server which sends the Hyperbole distribution in response to mail
requests may be put into service sometime in the first quarter of 1992.
The Free Software Foundation has expressed interest in distributing
Hyperbole as a separate add-on to GNU Emacs, once Hyperbole reaches a
stable point of maturation, so you may eventually be able to get it from
them.  Here is how to obtain it from the Brown software archive:

Move to a directory below which you want the 'hyperbole' directory to
be created.  Unpacking the Hyperbole archive will create this
directory and place all of the files below it.

   cd <LOCAL-LISP-DIR>

Ftp to wilma.cs.brown.edu  (Internet Host ID = 128.148.31.66):

   prompt> ftp wilma.cs.brown.edu

Login as 'anonymous' with your own <user-id>@<site-name> as a password.
   
   Name (wilma.cs.brown.edu:rsw): anonymous
   331 Guest login ok, send EMAIL address (e.g. user@host.domain) as password.
   Password:
   230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.

Move to the Hyperbole directory:

   ftp> cd pub/hyperbole

Set your transfer mode to binary:

   ftp> bin
   200 Type set to I.

Turn off prompting:

   ftp> prompt
   Interactive mode off.

Either retrieve just the Hyperbole archive and any diff-based patches:

   ftp> mget h*tar.Z
   ftp> mget diff*

or retrieve all of the files (the individual, non-tar files, are also
included in the above archive, so they are not strictly necessary):

   ftp> mget *

Close the ftp connection:

   ftp> quit
   221 Goodbye.

Unpack the tar archive with:

   zcat h*tar.Z | tar xvf -
or
   uncompress h*tar.Z; tar xvf h*tar



Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.bug
From: me@Sunburn.stanford.edu (Martin Frost)
Subject: continuing sending mail
Reply-To: me@CS.Stanford.EDU
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Distribution: alt
Date: 17 Dec 92 11:29:56

I like lemacs new feature of automatically creating multiple *mail*...
 buffers if you try to send a message while already composing one
(similarly for multiple *manual... buffers).

But there's a problem with the command C-u C-x m (or "c" from RMAIL mode)
which normally puts you back into an unsent ("not saved") *mail*... buffer.

In particular, if you are composing a message in *mail*<2> and have killed
the buffer *mail*, then C-u C-x m CREATES a new *mail* buffer instead of
switching to *mail*<2>.  (This can be particularly confusing if you didn't
realize that *mail*<2> had been used in the first place.)
--
Martin Frost		Computer Science Department, Computer Facilities
Systems Programmer	Stanford University, Stanford, CA  94305-2140
me@CS.Stanford.EDU	(or mfrost@stanford.bitnet)
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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 23:26:55 PST
X-Windows: Japan's secret weapon.
From: jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski)
Subject: Re: x-set-point-and-insert-selection
	<RJC.92Dec16180057@daiches.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.bug
In message <78UD02Pi2fiM01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> Tibor Polgar wrote:
>
> Split a file to a second screen, scroll down few pages, drag-select text,
> now try and insert the selection at some point in the first screen.  
> GARBAGE insert.

There isn't any way for this to work given the semantics of zmacs-regions.
Consider:

In screen one, you are looking at the first page of a buffer.  In screen two,
you are looking at the last page of that same buffer.  You drag out a region
in screen one.  The mark is placed at the beginning of the region, and point
at the end.  

You move the mouse into screen two.  This is just like selecting another
window in a single-screen emacs: selecting this window/screen moves the one
and only point of the buffer.  So now point is on the last page, but mark is
still on the first.

This means the region is covering almost the entire file.  It's a redisplay
bug that you don't see this at first, but if you type ^L it will show up.

So then you click middle, and it obediently inserts the text of the region,
which is no longer what you intend it to be.

To copy text in the way you want, you can use the kill ring (M-w and C-y) or
the Clipboard selection (the "Copy" and "Paste" menu items) but you can't
use the Primary selection for it, since it dynamically changes as point and
mark change.

	-- Jamie