HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ablanch@physics.su.OZ.AU (Shonias)
Subject: Re: Taking kill files too seriously (was Re: Killefiles [...])
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:46:46 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.224737.13024@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> wyang@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William D. Yang) writes:
>Also (short-shameless-confession), given the rather huge quanity of
>posts to many newsgroups, a.c included, it's unreasonable to read
>everything.  So junk what you don't want to read; kill threads... and
>even user-ID's... if you want.  It's cool, because it's ONLY about
>controlling what one's self experiences.
 
I guess it also depends on what you are used to reading. Lots of 
newsgroups have large sections that are totally irrelevant to what
you are interested in, even this place has some conversations that 
I don't read. None so far that I have been offended by, but if you
know absolutely *nothing* about Cyberpunk, it's not interesting to
read, as no doubt several of us bored soem to tears with astronomy
discussions... So far I've never killed people but then I am getting
close to it on some groups... Groups like sci.astro would be 
unreadable without K...

Shonias

--
*************************************************
She can kill with a smile
She can wound with her eyes
She can ruin your faith with her casual lies
And she only reveals what she wants you to see...
*************************************************
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: steve@crc.ricoh.COM (Stephen R. Savitzky)
Subject: Re: Not another one?!
Organization: RICOH California Research Center
Date: 26 Jan 93 17:01:24

"Welcome to the world, Ashlee!" says the Mandelbear.  "Good year for
babies, isn't it?  Welcome, Splash, to the world of fatherhood.  It's
worth it."
--
\ --Steve Savitzky--  \    343 Leigh Ave   \ REAL HACKERS USE AN AXE!
 \ steve@crc.ricoh.COM \ San Jose, CA 95128 \     Free Cyberia!
  \ w: 415-496-5710     \   h:408-294-6492   \ 
   \_________________________________________________________________________
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: dgreen@jarthur.claremont.edu (David Green)
Subject: Poetry...
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 07:33:51 GMT

There seems to have been a little poetry flowing by here lately, so I thought
I'd throw out the only poetic piece I've written in several years.  That it
is rhymed and metered is unusual for me; I usually tend toward 'free verse.'
Somehow, though, it seemed to fit here.  Also, I don't know why, but actually
posting this here kinda makes me nervous...  I'm open to critique, but... don't
harsh on it too hard, hmm?...


                                     I am
                                My own Paradox,
                              Self-contradictory,
                              Human-accepted, and
                                 Human-denied;
                              Silently standing, I
                               Wield my humility:
                             Forged from my modesty,
                               Born out of pride.
                            Light of the heavens, and
                               Dark of the world,
                            I travel the travelled to
                               Make my own path;
                                Walking alone--
                              Always accompanied,
                             Friend of complacency,
                               Comrade of wrath.
                              Looking behind me--
                           The road lies before me--
                        Knowing oblivion, longing to be,
                            Hidden from no man, and
                             Stranger to everyone,
                              Finding I'm mostly
                                    Enigma
                                    To me.
-- 
dgreen@jarthur.claremont.edu		        	   David "Mishael" Green
		    Have you scritched your local Furry today? 
************************Who ordered the muon? -- I. I. Rabi*********************
  I have not been appointed Judge, Jury, or Executioner by God.  Just witness.
From: schweppe@acs.bu.edu (Edmund Schweppe)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: testing tin
Date: 25 Jan 93 21:42:17 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

Starknight feels abashed:

[ apologia deletia ]

>"Thanks, everyone, for putting up with me when I was such an utter ass. 
>Mike, drinks all around, put them on my tab...  I'll have a Guinness.  I
>need something bitter to drink as penance (fortunately for me, I like
>Guinness...)"

"If you like it," quoth Merlinvin, "it doesn't count as a penance.  However,
perhaps I can think of an inappropriate pun-ishment...  I know!  I shall
sing (for your ears only), as badly as I can (what's a key?), and as loudly
as I can (pulling a megaphone out from under his cloak):"

"  `The Ruler of the Queen's Navy', from the Gilbert and Sullivan musical,
   `The Pirates of Penance'!"

Merlinvin ducks, hurriedly...

__________________________________________________________________________
Ed Schweppe o/k/a Merlinvin - schweppe@acs.bu.edu,
    (or for faster replies)   eschweppe%drcoa1.decnet@drcvax.af.mil
All standard disclaimers (also datclaimers and deotherclaimers) apply.

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: figmo@netcom.com (Lynn Gold)
Subject: Re: I/O, I/O, it's off to pun we go (was Re: Dan'l hits Australia)
Organization: The Burn the Candle at Both Ends Club
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:32:29 GMT

In article <OLSON.93Jan25231732@husc8.harvard.edu> olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson) writes:
>In article <1993Jan25.170159.26686@e2big.mko.dec.com> pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan) writes:
>
>
>>|>siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl Siewert) allows his friend to write:
>>|>><I'LL HAVE A FINGER SANDWICH, HOLD THE MOLD.  AND FOR MY FRIENDS, 
>>|>>TONGUE ON RIE.  BA DUMP BUMP>
>>|>><MARAUD <MERCIFULLY>OUT>
>>|>
>>|>Did I hear someone taking my name in vain??
>>
>>"No, no, no...  Rie, it should have been...
>>
>>"Did I ear someone taking my name in vein?"
>
>"In the immortal words of Doc watson: Aorta pop you one for that"

Years ago, there was a British TV show called "Doctor in the House"
which started out about a bunch of guys in med school.

In one memorable episode, one of the guys had just been introduced to his
first cadavers and then went to lunch.  The entrees in the school
cafeteria included HEARTS of lettuce, KIDNEY beans, LIVER, beef BRAINS,
LEG of lamb, TONGUE, and dessert items included stuff like ladyFINGERS,
elephant EARS, and so forth.

The student more or less turned a sickly shade of green.... :-)

--Lynn

-- 
Lynn Gold				           figmo@netcom.com

Worst pickup line of the decade:
   "You're so cute, so pretty.  I've got the beer if you've got the
time, you know.  I've been all around the world.  Would you like to
see some human remains and intestines I have in the back of my van?"
From: siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl Siewert)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: <HI THERE>
Date: 22 Jan 1993 13:35:32 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

>"Green things and salivations, <<Slash Maraud>>!"
>Magda draws her eyes back from the(now vanished) pile
>of assorted and interesting implements of mayhem, which
>she has been eyeing in semi-lustful appraisal.  "I just
>got here yesterday, but welcome all the same!"

<VEGETABLE RIGHTS AND PEACE, MY ILLUSTRIOUS FURBEARING
COMRADE.  WE NEWBIES GOTTA STICK TOGETHER, ESPECIALLY 
THOSE OF US WITH A FINE EYE FOR WEAPONRY, NON?>
again Rie is patient with his old friends for appropriating his usual
spot.

-- 
/               James Riekar, barhopping yoyist, at your service              \
Impersonated at Fort Hays State by Karl G. Siewert, pretending to be at K-State
\                      address=siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu                       /
 \           Never underestimate the power of the truly eccentric.           /
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: daq@fc.hp.com (Doug Quarnstrom)
Subject: Re: testing tin
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:48:54 GMT
Organization: SPUGE
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.8 PL6]

Phillip E lujan (pel@maximo.enet.dec.com) wrote:
: 
: siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl Siewert) writes:
: |>daq@fc.hp.com (Doug Quarnstrom) writes:
: |>
: |>>I am testing my spanking new tin notes reader. 
: |>
: |>>doug
: |>
: |>"So now you tin write notes to us, doug?" prattles a wide-eyed Rie.  "That's
: |>ok.  I'll steel read them.
: 
: "Should iron away from this thread?" muses Starknight.  "Or should I call the
: coppers?"

The next person that puns in response to this post is a dead man,
unless, of course, it is a woman, in which case the appropraite
gender substitution can be made.


douglas
From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jason)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Happy Chinese New Year!!!
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Date: 25 Jan 1993 06:07:45 GMT
Organization: the Polyhedron Group
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aaa.uoregon.edu

In article <1jugpm$o78@agate.berkeley.edu>, chuahl@ocf.berkeley.edu (Chua
HakLien) wrote:
> 
> "Whooops! Ekho was right. The yeras of the rooster are '81, '69, '57, '45,

Jason laughs, and it comes out as a rooster's crow. "Thought '57 was the
Year of the Rooster. That's Me! Cock-a-doodle-doo!!"

Jason
From: siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl Siewert)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Descriptions...
Date: 24 Jan 1993 02:32:13 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu



>No, but I need to! Man, that just sounds too neat... Being a fan of WEIRD 
>soft drinks, I gotta find some. I am proud to have found "Red Rattler", which
>bills itself as "A darn good red drink". A sterling recommendation if I've 
>ever seen one...
<YEAH.  LIKE WHEN ONE OF MY ALTER EGOS CALLS HIMSELF THE MASTER OF MIMICRY.
GREAT LINE, BUT NO COMPETITION TO SPEAK OF.  I HAVE FOUND A REALLY NASTY
CONCOCTION (NOT QUITE A SOFT DRINK) BILLED AROUND KANSAS AS MR FRUITY.
IMAGINE WATERY KOOLAID WITH JUST A HINT OF FRESH ANTIFREEZE.  AND THE BOUQUET
IS TO DIE FROM.

>One day : Beans and the Dr. Pepper...
<TOGETHER?!!!?  GOD FORBID.  I'D EXPLODE.

LEAPING FROM TREE TO TREE,
MARAUD OUT>
-- 
/               James Riekar, barhopping yoyist, at your service              \
Impersonated at Fort Hays State by Karl G. Siewert, pretending to be at K-State
\                      address=siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu                       /
 \           Never underestimate the power of the truly eccentric.           /
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: On This Day
From: <KZAHLLER@MIAMIU.BITNET>
Date: Monday, 25 Jan 1993 14:12:14 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Miami University - Academic Computer Service

"Wrong Target?  Wrong Target?"  Magda-Wolf indignantly glares at
the speaker (whom she has not yet been introduced to, by the way,
so pardon the lack of a name here).  "Is no such thing as wrong
target.  Stupid target, yes, target-we-are-not-yet-ready-for, yes,
even suicidally-inclined targets, but heck!"  She gives a truly evil
albeit mischievious grin "that's what makes targets FUN!"

Magda-wolf
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: He's baaaaaack
Date: 25 Jan 1993 10:26:40 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

Well, I've finally caught up on my duties at work, in the more serious
newsgroups in which I participate, and alt.callahans (though in the case of the
latter, it involved a lot of invocations of the SET SEEN/THREAD command).  So
you're likely to see me around the place regularly once again.
From: carrot@bear.stonemarche.org (Little red-headed girl)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: bird on ice...  (LONG POST)  *>
Distribution: world
Date: 22 Jan 93 20:15:05 EST

Rachel reaches out to help the small bird on the mantel to her shoulder,
perhaps hoping that her flame-red hair can generate its own warmth.

	"Dear Feather, I cried when I read your post, and I am crying as
I reply to it. How could a child grow up like that... but of course I
know, for without loving parents I would never have survived being a
smart kid in a New York City public school."

	She strokes Feather gently on the back of her head as one might
stroke a cat. "I am afraid to hug someone as small as you, even in
Callahans, but I send as much strength and love that you can receive.
YOU ARE LOVED AND APPRECIATED HERE. Don't allow yourself to fall into
apathy. Anger is, indeed, a step up, for it generates the energy to get
thinngs done. If you email me your phone number, I will call and talk
to you (as R-Crow of course). The fact that you can stand back and
realize what has to be done is a good step. If I lived near you, I
would be making plans to visit you at this very instant. But unfortunately,
the net (and, if you will allow, the telephone) will have to do. I will
not stand idly by while you are in need."

	She looks at the little bird. "Please trust me, so I can help you."

--
+--------------------------+----------------------------------------------+
|	carrot		   |	carrot@bear.stonemarche.org               |
+--------------------------+----------------------------------------------+ 
|   "Feel what might be. See what I see. Again and again and again and    |
| again say you don't. You say you don't, but you will.                   |
|   "How can you be so near and not see?" -"If You Intend"-10,000 Maniacs |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jason)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: how I spent my Arisia weekend...
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Date: 24 Jan 1993 21:01:41 GMT
Organization: the Polyhedron Group
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aaa.uoregon.edu

In article <9301192226.AA16946@sparc2.Prime.COM>, mdm@sparc2.Prime.COM
(Michael D. McAfee) wrote:
> 		"My panel: 'Filk and the SCA'  Managed not to make an
> 	idiot of myself.  The hour flew by, and I'd like to do another
> 	panel someday.

Jason says wistfully "Wish I could have been there, since I've written and
performed quite a few SCAdian filksongs." There's a brief shimmer as the
Light of Reality flicks over at Jason. He's wearing a great-kilt, a blue
elizibethan jacket, a white shirt with a full ruff collar, and a floppy
flat hat with a white ostrich plume. "This is what I wore last night to the
Barony of Adiantum's Midwinter's Feast in the SCA Kingdom of An Tir. Had a
nice time, but didn't perform for a change." The LoR fades, and Jason is
back in his usual black Greek fisherman's hat and leather jacket, with
faded blue jeans.

> 		"Didn't see Castellan or the Red-Headed Girl :( and
> 	I had to miss the talk.bizarre party because it was going on
> 	while I had to do some Masquerade stuff.  But I did manage to
> 	schmooze with friends both old and new :) and I did get to
> 	filk.  I sang 'Yellow Subroutine' (I apologize for not asking
> 	permission first; however, I didn't make any money from it either 
> 	;), and the folks started singing along with the chorus.

Jason chuckles at his table. "That's OK Michael, I don't mind at all if it
gets sung far and wide, so long as credit is given where it is due, if
someone asks who wrote it. The only thing that might annoy me would be if
someone performed it and tried to take credit for writing it themselves.
And I'm sure you didn't do that."

Jason,
Filksong Fanatic with a cyberdeck
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: testing tin
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 01:50:26 GMT

In <1993Jan22.153106.16146@e2big.mko.dec.com> pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan) writes:


>In article <C18I95.A0E@fc.hp.com>, daq@fc.hp.com (Doug Quarnstrom) writes:
>|>I have been around here far too long to start respecting the traditions
>|>at this point.
>|>
>|>I respond as I see fit.

>"Better yet, don't...  No.  I'm not going to flame anyone, especially not
>here.  I vowed to be a better person this year, and that includes toleration,
>even of things I can't stand... like people who jump down my throat for
>having fun.  Take care, doug... respond as you see fit, but I won't see it."

><kill all by author:daq@fc.hp.com>


kitten turns her head to hide a tear....I HATE KILLFILES 
--
***************************************************************************
conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten           /\ /\  barbara ann 
"my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?"      {=.=}
                                              ~   trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu 
"it's not easy being a cast iron bitch--it takes years of practice.
most people don't appreciate that.
From: siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl Siewert)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Peace-ties for firearms
Date: 25 Jan 1993 11:36:10 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jason) writes:

>> <WHEN I GET BACK, YOU MUST SHOW ME HOW TO PEACE TIE MY SHOTGUN AND
>> MACHINE PISTOL.

>Jason reaches into his satchel and takes out two oval objects about an inch
>thick and 1.5 x 2 inches on the minor and major axies. He also takes out
>two small jump rings, each bearing two cylindrical keys. He tosses the
>items into the air, toward the portal to the Tiwan-On. Thyra's eyes flash,
>and the items disappear from -this- reality, to continue their trajetory in
>the Tiwan-On. They land on the bar in front of Slash Maraud with a metalic
><thunk>. 

>Thyra's voice rings sweetly in Slash's inner ear. (Jason isn't telepathic,
>but  Thyra is, and can relay what Jason is thinking for him). <<No problem,
>Slash. What Jason just tossed to you are a pair of trigger locks. They
>insert into the trigger guard from both sides, imobilizing the trigger. The
>key unlocks each unit into two mushroom-shaped, interlocking halves. They
>can only be removed with the key, a process which takes about 15 seconds
>deliberate action with both hands. You can also use a cord to tie a machine
>pisol into a shoulder rig, so it can't be drawn without first untying the
>cord. Have Jason show you what's inside his jacket, sometime.>>
<I GUESS I DESERVED THAT>  OUCH>
just me an gecko boy, lurking about four seconds apiece...
MARAUD OUT>
-- 
/               James Riekar, barhopping yoyist, at your service              \
Impersonated at Fort Hays State by Karl G. Siewert, pretending to be at K-State
\                      address=siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu                       /
 \           Never underestimate the power of the truly eccentric.           /
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: daq@fc.hp.com (Doug Quarnstrom)
Subject: Re: Oi!
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:47:47 GMT
Organization: SPUGE
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.8 PL6]

DOUGLAS SPECK (dspeck@ee.ryerson.ca) wrote:
: 
: T-Bear turns to douglas with a small frown of annoyance, and says, "Oi!
: I didn't ask for silly remarks (this time...), I asked for FEEDBACK, not
: one's feed returned...And another thing, you didn't provide any description
: of yourself. So, where is it? What do you look like? "

There is no need to ask, I do it as a service for the amusement
of the crowd who include this group in their purlieu.  I look
for opportunities to point out odd things, and typically only
refrain from an observation that occurs to me if the topic
under discussion is one of particular sensitivity and gravity.
I DO make SOME concessions to the sensibilities of the 
rigorously empathic occupants of this forum.

As for a disquisition on my physical appearance, I will consider
granting your request should I have the time to give the 
subject its due stylistic attention and if I decide to admit
to my existence in general.

doug
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: figmo@netcom.com (Lynn Gold)
Subject: Re: Culinary Peculiarity (was Re: Dan'l hits Australia)
Organization: The Burn the Candle at Both Ends Club
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:49:18 GMT

The gold-haired woman appears from a dark spot somewhere in the back, and
a soapbox rises to the occasion underneath her.

"How you take your burgers seems to depend on where you're from.  Back in
south Jersey, they seemed to default to having ketchup and mustard on them
and sometimes relish, but never mayonnaise.  Burger chains put pickles on
them, yet I've only come across one person who puts pickles on his
burgers.

"I've also seen burgers with buttered buns in that region.

"Going up to New York City, the burger configuration defaulted to ketchup
and sometimes relish, but no mustard or mayonnaise.  I befriended a
teacher in the school cafeteria because she and I were the only ones who
put both ketchup and mustard on our burgers (she was from the midwest).

"In California, they seem to have this thing about putting mayonnaise on
EVERYTHING.  Yuck.  If a burger only has one thing on it, it'll be
mayonnaise.  Often you have to ask for ketchup and mustard.  Relish?  You
hardly ever see it.  Onions?  Sometimes.  Lettuce and tomato are nearly
always present.  Mayonnaise is so ubiquitous that d if you don't want it,
you have to specify this when you order, and even then, the person taking
your order may not get the hint.

"I prefer my burgers with ketchup, mustard, onions, and Tabasco sauce when
available.  I don't like lettuce, tomatoes, pickles, or mayonnaise, and
I'm neutral to relish.

"When possible, I like bacon cheeseburgers, especially with a good-quality
cheese, unadorned, often on an English muffin.  When the burgers are
barbecued (that is, cooked over a barbecue, as opposed to merely being
smothered in barbecue sauce), they're even better."

The soapbox sinks slowly into the floor.

"Fuzzball, stop drooling!"

--Lynn



-- 
Lynn Gold				           figmo@netcom.com

Worst pickup line of the decade:
   "You're so cute, so pretty.  I've got the beer if you've got the
time, you know.  I've been all around the world.  Would you like to
see some human remains and intestines I have in the back of my van?"
From: ekho@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (amanda rothman)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Happy Chinese New Year!!!
Date: 24 Jan 93 06:13:27 GMT
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida

chuahl@ocf.berkeley.edu (Chua HakLien) writes:

> "A Happy Chinese New Year to everyone! This is the year of the rooster;
> so anyone born in .. duh.. ( counts on his feelers ) '71, '59, '47, '35,
> this is your year, so do give a crow!"

  Amanda frowns in puzzlement, "I was born in '71, and I'm a boar.  Don't
say it!  Anyway, I believe that the rooster? is '69; my brother was born
then...

> "One unfortunate thing about staying away from home; you don't get
> these 'red packets' which have money in them. They're given for good
> luck and prosperity.

  "Gum Hay Fa Choy!  Is that spelled right?  Ah, for the love of good
Chinese Food!"

> "Another custom I like is that you're not supposed to clean up your
> place until the 15th day of the Lunar new Year, because that 
> 'sweeps outs' the luck that has just arrived."

  Snicker.  "Hey, that's all right with me.  I'll have to mention that..."

              Yours in Time and Space
Newsgroups: alt.callahans