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From: carole@peregrine.Sun.COM (Carole Parker)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Food, Glorious Food
Date: 8 Sep 1992 09:13:03 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: peregrine

[ ]
>"...Dim Sum!"  he finishes, as he wheels out a cart full of food.
>Grapevine is right behind him with another cart (whose steel
>nicely matches the sheen of Grapevine's own robotic exterior.)
>
>As John walks toward the tables, he opens the lids of the various
>containers, announcing "I've got pork dumplings, spicy mussels, sesame
>bread, and --- hmm, looks like hot & sour soup.  And there's more
>stuff in Grapevine's cart," he says, gesturing over to a nearby table,
>where Grapevine has already removed the cover on a rice container.
>"And that tea" (he says, glacing over toward Mike) "should be ready
> pretty soon too."
>
>"Who'd like some?"

I'd love some!

Anyone who knows me knows how much I enjoy chinese food.  Anyone for a
dim sum outing when our guest arrives later this month?  I prefer
Ocean Harbor.  Anyone care to join me?

Depending on our guest, the time will be either:

   Friday noon

   Saturday 11:00 a.m.


I found myself. See? I'm right here! Until later--

Carole Parker
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Good Morning, Friends!
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 23:49:40 GMT



>Emter enters Callahan's without much of a flourish, and waves at everyone.
>Several patrons execute lovely doubletakes as they realize that the woman
>standing there has been absent from this venue for several months.
> 
>"Hi everyone! I'm back, as you can tell. I was forced to absent myself for
>a while over the summer, since I wasn't logging on often enough or long
>enough to keep up with the traffic through here. I have been on the
>Didinet (sort of), so I've been keeping up with the highlights of what's
>going on here. I thought I'd take this opportunity to reintroduce myself
>with a description. (With apologies to those of you on the Didinet who
>have already seen a description. So without further ado,"
>>


[    ]  "hi emter....glad you are back." kitten hugs emter hello.
--
***************************************************************************
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

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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 13:05:26 -0400 
From: Mark Beirne Lively <ml5a+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: A toast!

	Bear stand up and bangs a large battered pewter mug into a wooden
support by the bar.  "Mike drinks for everyone on me.  I have a toast!"
	He picks up his shot glass and starts handing others out.  "A toast to
Didi sprite, may she never leave us again!"
	<CRASH!>  A huge volley of glasses fly towards the fire place and Didi
styands looking surprised when bear starts singing(accompanied by
everyone each in thier own key:))

For she's a jolly good fellow
For she's a jolly good fellow
for she's a jolly good fellow
Which nobody can deny!

"What would happen if gravity went by the cube of the distance and we
tweaked the universal gravity constant up a little bit?"
"How much is a little bit."
"Only a few orders of magnitude."
Bear aka the Lord High Rulebender aka (ML5A@ANDREW.CMU.EDU)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: uribe@jarthur.claremont.edu (Lydia Uribe)
Subject: Re: where I am and things with wings
Organization: Claremont Shelter for Maladjusted Singers
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 05:23:26 GMT

In article <9209142151.AA02881@sparc2.Prime.COM> mdm@SPARC2.PRIME.COM
(Michael D. McAfee) writes:
>
>		The dark elf talks with Soprano.  "You're more
>	eastern then me?  By 2.5 degrees?  Oh...heck.  So much for
>	fame, wealth, and notoriety, with my dreams and ambitions dashed 
>	upon the rocks like so many cheap and chintzy (yet somewhat elegant
>	in its innocence) faux china cups, the sort that were reportedly
>	all the rage during the 50's.  Hey, maybe I should enter that
>	last sentence into the Bulwer-Lytton contest."

Soprano laughs.  "Hey, I *like* that!  But I'm farther east than you only
during the summer; the rest of the year I'm in southern California, at least
physically....  I can tell how stressful a year (I'm thinking September to
June here) it's been by how soon I start seriously dreaming of the place in
Maine; last year I started in *November*!  Anyway, you're still in the
running.  And does anybody have any idea how many miles 2.5 degrees is?  I
got that figure by looking at a map with meridian markings only."

					Soprano

"You're more than beginning -- you're learning to fly;
 You feel like you're falling, but it passes in time...."
			"From Me to You", Janis Ian
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Soprano (Lydia M. Uribe)                      uribe@jarthur.claremont.edu |
| Claremont, CA                                  uribe@hmcvax.claremont.edu |
|           Cats, quilts and diving -- what more could anyone ask?          |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: LALFORD@FSU1.CC.FSU.EDU
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Nicarra will soon return
Date: 12 Sep 92 15:58:26 GMT

A small message suddenly appears in Callahans.  

Nicarra should soon return with reports on her travels to Brazil and to
the world science fiction convention.  Love to all.

Nicarra
From: daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom)
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 00:37:53 GMT
Subject: Re: Libertarianism
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: alt.callahans

In alt.callahans, lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals) writes:
> Do you know enough about microeconomics to understand the technical definition
> of a "public good"?  Essentially, a public good is one that can't be provided
> to some people without also providing it to others.  Let's look at a few
> examples.
>    o	The one most libertarians agree on:  National defense.  Obviously if
> 	you defend the nation, ALL citizens receive the benefits of that
> 	defense;
> 

Some more than others.  It is a common tactic of the american war
machine to arrange things so that the poor fight and die to protect
everyone.  Most notable are cases in the civil war where there
was a draft, and people were allowed to pay $300 not to be
drafted.  In VietNam, this was accomplished through college deferement.

doug
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: feath@agora.rain.com (Feather)
Subject: Callahan's avain population?
Organization: Open Communications Forum
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 23:49:12 GMT

Stumpy has offered Feather some shoulder space.  Gratefully, Feather accepts,
and now flutters in his direction.  With a muttered "watch out!", she manages
to land without falling off, and happily settles down on the friendly shoulder.

Feather looks around.  "Hey Callahaners!  I am just wondering about the avian
population in this Place.  How many bird-folk are here?  And who is each one?
Just curious..."

-Feather

 
 :

:
:



Organization: Sophomore, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Date: Mon,  7 Sep 1992 14:12:34 -0400 
From: Mark Beirne Lively <ml5a+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: libertarianism
Distribution: alt


>>If you have a government-run court system, then that requires taxes
>>if you select "fair and equitable access to courts" as a criterion.
>
>SS>Nonsense.  Just require that whomever loses a case pay the court
>SS>costs.
>
>It would mean that the only people who would avail themselves of the
>court system would be those who could afford to lose, and those who
>have nothing left to lose.  It would discourage the little guy from
>ever going to court, unless the outcome was so certain that the
>opponent would settle out-of-court anyway.  The big guys would use
>the court (or the threat of it) as a weapon against smaller opponents
>if it was cost effective to do so.  There goes "fair and equitable
>access".

How about a system where there are no fee's and no criminal suits but
there would be, representative for the state.  These people would
represent the government in crimainal matter and such and allow the
governemtn to sue people for wrong done against society.  So someone who
commited an assault would first be sued the by the victim and also by
the state, prefereably both in the same proceeding to minimalize costs. 
Any damages paid to the state would then get get paid to the
perpetuation of the system.  (Judges would be given life time posistions
with a fixed real income No raises or decliments in pay, but only
modified for inflation(Perhaps to the local median)  This would prevent
judges from having quotas real or imaginary.)  There would also be a
feedback in the system to prevbent "senseless cases"  and trumped up
medical charges and such.  The incident would be on trial not the
people.  Therefore if there is conclusiove proof that the case was
frivalous or pointless then people would be fined accordingly.

Hero's Inc.  Damsels slewn and Dragons rescued oops reverse that.
Bear aka the Lord High Rulebender aka (ML5A@ANDREW.CMU.EDU)
From: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Gift Story
Date: 14 Sep 92 21:56:14 GMT
Reply-To: aaron@space.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

mbr2@quads.uchicago.edu (Curious Of All Natures) writes:
: Relevant to this is a story I remember my mother telling me long long
: ago.  Sorry I haven't retained the flowery prose, all I ever remember
: is the gist and the symbolic stuff.  (surprise, surprise)
: 
: 
: Two young lovers.  Innocent folk, romantic, very very poor.  His one
: treasured item of value was a gold-plated pocket watch.  Hers was her
: long, silky smooth beautiful blone hair.  
: 
: Christmas comes.  Neither have any money to spare to buy presents.
: So... he pawns the watch to buy her a lovely comb.  
: And... she sells her hair to a wigmaker to buy him an ornate
: watchwinder.
: 
: 
: A terribly sad and ironic story, yes?  No!  How wonderful it was for
: each, to discover that the other loved them SO MUCH that they would
: sell a most treasured belonging for their beloved's happiness.

Alfvaen nods.  "Gifts of the Magi, O. Henry.  I always found it terribly sad
and ironic, myself, but your interpretation throws a new light on it.  I love
irony, myself, though...

"I also remember the Beautiful Stories For Ugly Children version.  There, it
was about a man who had beautiful hands and loved to play the piano, and his
wife who had beautiful eyes.  The husband always got beat up on his way home,
so his wife sold her eyes to buy him a set of brass knuckles...except that he
had sold his fingers to buy her...I forget.  Damn--ruins the story--but it had
something to do with her eyes, natch.

"Boy, those BSFUC guys.  They're so wacky."  He ignores the choruses of "Ooh!
Sick!  Yuck!  Those guys should be locked away, is what."

--
---Alfvaen(Canadian SF Quasi-Activist)
"You better hope and pray that you're gonna awake
 Back in your own world..."  ---Shakespear's Sister
Current Album--Steve Martin:Let's Get Small
Current Read--Robert Heinlein:The Past Through Tomorrow
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Subject: Re: >a timid enterence
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 05:22:23 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.065013.12172@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au>, krisj@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Kristina Johansson) writes:
>Raven, whose been perched on a bar stool, opens her eyes  to the sight of
>the beautiful big cat.

StM, who's rather puny for a Kzintosh, at a mere 110 kilos, looks confused (a
rather typical expression for StM).  "Wait a minute, I thought Ocelot was about
25 pounds (11 kilos).  Now, that's NOT a big cat.  True, it'd be big for a
housecat, but it's small for, e.g., a puma, a tiger, a panther, or a lion. 
Those felines are known as ``big cats.''  I really don't think an ocelot
qualifies as a ``big cat.''  They DEFINITELY qualify as ``cute cats,'' though
he says, then asks Ocelot ``What are you doing tonight?''"
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: keulen@possum.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Mike van Keulen)
Subject: Re: Y'all are so NICE
Organization: Murdoch University
Date: 13 Sep 92 13:08:15 GMT

clhoerth@david.wheaton.EDU (Cathe L Hoerth) writes:
>here she digs into her Pocket again "have some hummus and pita bread, if
>anybody wants it.  The vegetarians in the room who haven't tried this
>should.  I warn you, though, it's loaded with garlic.  

Yum!  Hummus and pita bread ... can vegetarians who _have_ tried it have
another nibble?  And maybe a choc-chip biscuit?

Splash!
--
***************************** Michael van Keulen *************************** 
* Snail: School of BES - Biology         e-mail: keulen@murdoch.edu.au     *
*        Murdoch University              phone:  ++ 61 (09) 360-2843 (work)*
*        Murdoch WA 6150  AUSTRALIA              ++ 61 (09) 417-3902 (home)*
*************************** "To Love is to _LIVE_!" ************************
From: eesshlgb@gdr.bath.ac.uk (S H L G Bisson)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Cardinal Points
Date: 8 Sep 92 14:17:22 GMT
Organization: School of Electrical Engineering, University of Bath, UK

In article <Mef9dM200awY0MyV5_@andrew.cmu.edu> ml5a+@andrew.cmu.edu (Mark Beirne Lively) writes:
>>"Anyway--we've established Damien as the southernmost, in Tasmania.  And I'm
>>farther north than anyone south of Manchester.  ;-}  But how do we define east
>>and west?  Are we stopping at the International Date Line each way?"

>Don't yinz know Pittsburgh is sitting smack dab right on top of the East
>pole.  

The wumpish Cartoon Mouse in the rocking chair by the fire looks up...

"Me, I have a penchant for the 0 and 180 meridians, in which case we have
The Urban Spaceman in Kingston as least west (so that should make him 
furthest east), or is Chelmsford in Essex nearer to the Greenwich meridian?
I think a UK Callahanian probably stands the best chance of being northmost,
and we do have a candidate in Leeds at present, though the Space Cadet will
soon hit Durham - westmost to northmost in one move... Not bad!

"So furthest west or most east? Hawaii or New Zealand?

"Hmmm. It's all probably part of the old cartographers conspiracy."

Ignatz grins.

---=-
Ignatz Mouse aka Simon H Le Gros Bisson...too many names for my own good!
-=---
From: JDK116@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Approriate Gift
Date: 14 Sep 92 16:19:35 GMT
 <1992Sep11.151622.23439@openage.openage.com>
Organization: Penn State University

Gryphon, Thanks for the suggestion. Bu it's not quite what I meant. StM seems t
o understand what I'm talking about though....

Well, what about some suggestions????!!!!!!

Jack
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey)
Subject: Re: When packrats move . . .
Reply-To: aaron@space.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 02:08:44 GMT

baillie@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Stephen Baillie) writes:
: That's something I don't really understand.  Why do people hoard books?
: I always think that books are to be circulated, so tend to use public
: libraries an awful lot.  About the only books I keep are those I know
: I'm going to refer to again, and again...
: 
: Do you actually read all the books you have?  More than once?
: 
: Just wondering,
: 
: The Polycarbon Hobbit.

Alfvaen shrugs.  "I can't understand why people get rid of books.  The only
books I don't want to have in my collection are those that I never finished
reading in the first place, because they were so unreadable--and I can count
those on my fingers, without using binary.  (I mean, one can count up to 1023
on one's fingers using binary.)

"I do read and reread my books.  My wife certainly rereads books she likes,
since she doesn't take too many risks with books--she'd rather read a book she
knows and likes than a book she doesn't know, often.  And despite the fact that
I have probably several hundred books in my collection that I haven't read, I
do indeed plan to read every single one of them--got an organized list and
everything.  It will certainly take me many years to read the ones I have now,
and I may never catch up.  Currently I'm on a program where I only get to buy
one for every two I read...  I sometimes get a vision of a day when I finish a
book, set it down, and say, 'I've now read all of them!'  Then I think, 'In my
dreams!' and go out and buy twenty at the second-hand store.

"As for lending--I have some people I lend books to, but not many.  Some of
them have never returned the books I lent, and I in fact do not know where
they are right now in some cases.  Others just never get around to reading
them--my brother is like that, because he reads books at the rate of about one
a month.  There are a few good and reliable people, and they get to borrow
books more than once.  And when I borrow books, it may take me forever to get
around to reading them, but they are in my schedule, I do intend to read them,
and I eventually do, and then I give them back.

"But as for donating them to the library--never.  I like to have them to refer
to at need, and I like to have them.  Besides, I don't have all their ISBNs in
my catalog yet, let alone my lists of first and last lines..."

--
---Alfvaen(Canadian SF Quasi-Activist)
"Don't fight it--it's over your head."  --King Crimson
Current Album--Joni Mitchell:Chalk Mark In A Rain Storm
Current Read--Robert Heinlein:The Past Through Tomorrow
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: hollombe@polymath.tti.com (The Polymath)
Subject: Re: east is east, west is west
Organization: The Cat Factory
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 21:02:31 GMT


"This brings up an old chestnut of a riddle:

"Name the northernmost, southernmost, easternmost and westernmost states
in the USA.

"Answer follows below."



"Hawaii is the southernmost.  Alaska is all of the other three.

"The tip of the Aleutian Island chain crosses the 180th meridian.

"So, anyone here stationed on Adak?" (-:

The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, M.A., CDP, aka: hollombe@polymath.tti.com)
Head Robot Wrangler at Citicorp                   Turn the rascals out!
3100 Ocean Park Blvd.   (310) 450-9111, x2483     No incumbents in '92!
Santa Monica, CA  90405
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: dgreen@jarthur.claremont.edu (David Green)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Silent night
Date: 5 Sep 92 02:12:17 GMT
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711

In article <wee0J9C00Voy0Mr0ph@andrew.cmu.edu> Mark Beirne Lively <ml5a+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
->	Bear walks in Humming something quietly.  Then he slowly swithces over
->to singing.
->
->	Stillege Nacht, Heilige Nacht
->	Alle ist Kalm Nachsam wacht.
[...]
->	"Humming mostly I can only rember the first couple of lines.  Silent
->night.

S'far as I remember, 'tis
	Stille Nacht; Heilige Nacht;
	Alles schlaeft, einsam wacht,
	Nur das traute, hochheilige Paar--
	Holder Knabe im lockigen Haar.
	Schlaef in himmlische Ruh,
	Schlaef in himmlische Ruh.
Forgive me my punctuation... I never do remember how to punctuate songs.
Probably 'cause music has its own rhythm without punctuation...
Heh.  I suppose I'm rambling, too.  Then again, this, I suppose, serves as
notice that I'm back for anyone who's interested...

					--David / Mishael
-- 
dgreen@jarthur.claremont.edu				   David "Mishael" Green
		    Have you scritched your local Furry today?
***********************Who ordered the muon? -- I. I. Rabi**********************
From: JMPIERCE%USMCP6.bitnet@VM.TCS.Tulane.EDU (JIM PIERCE)
Subject: re: When packrats move . . .
Organization: Yale CS Mail/News Gateway
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 06:17:54 GMT


<chuckle> "I do know exactly what you mean ! Back when my dad was in the
   Army, and I was in high school, 40 percent of the things moved
   when he got transferred, were mine ! Now, for me to reach my
   home computer, I had to move things so that a path was formed.
   I have shelves on three walls, and shelves under my platform bed...
   Ah well, I have cleaned alot of things out of here recently.
   My sisters' comments: 'Oh yeah ? where were things moved out !?!'
   Ah well, I don't have as much as you do, maybe after I buy a house.."
DJ.


* <JMPIERCE@USMCP6.BITNET> Jim "DJ." Pierce; Bach. Sci. in Appl. Comp. Sci.
* USM Academic Computing on the Gulf Park Campus. Disclaimer: Standard.
* "I'm a computer operator and I'm Ok !" me.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: An old friend finds his way back...
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 23:55:57 GMT



>     "This is a unique place. A place to find comfort and friends. A place
>      that is in contunial change but remains the same. This is a home for
>      the wayward spirit. A place that I lost once, and now have found
>      again. This is a place I love!"

>The speaker tilts his head back, consuming his chosen poison (as most would
>call hot sake such). In doing so the hood that has hence obscured his features
>falls back and reveles his identity. A very pale, almost white, skinned
>elven creature, with silky long white hair and black eyes is revealed.

>He cocks his arm and makes the required throw....***CRASH!!!***

>He turns to face those of the crowd that have graced his meager self with their
> attention. "Greetings ALL!!!  Jack's Back!!!"

>Jack looks about and finds a few familiar faces...and nods to them. "Hey,
>is HoloMuck still up? Can somone provide me with the telnet connection code?
>I've a feeling my place has gotten a bit dusty, if it's still standing..."


"yay!" kitten is absolutely delighted to see so many old friends
coming back...."welcome back, jack...."  and yet another hug from kitten.
--
***************************************************************************
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

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