HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: Didi's ill, again :-<
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 05:42:14 GMT

>>Get well soon, Didi!
>
><<< CRASH!!! >>>
>
>"Good health to yer, Sprite. We already miss you... =("
>
>C
>+

    <<<Crash!>>> Jim.

-- 
         Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
                      Video. Peter Gabriel: Steam
From: keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Descriptions...
Date: 27 Jan 93 09:55:03 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au


Splash looks up at the call for descriptions.  "I seem to recall a series
of descriptions some ... ummm ... 6 months ago ... gee, was it that long? 
Ah well, I'll have another go."

Splash is really a VR image of his RL self ... 5'11" tall, and about 65kg
(about 140-145lb), ie. medium build.  I have medium to dark brown hair,
which was down to my shoulders and generally unruly until September, when
I had it cut for a job interview.  It is now side-parted, revealing a high
brow; there's also a growing patch of thinning hair on the top, but I
can't see that part, so I don't worry about it :-) I have well-built legs
and shoulders, the hallmarks of a swimmer, which reflects my interests. 
I'm a PhD student (nearing completion - I think) in marine biology, at
Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia.  As regards dress, I usually
wear shorts (usually black) and a t-shirt with some sort of brightly
coloured aquatic motif on it), black leather sandals, and I carry a
handbag (men's style wristbag), which contains any number of surprising
items, and is therefore surprisingly heavy.

I have a hobby interest in computers, aside from what I need for my work,
although no formal training (except a BASIC programming course in
undergrad).  Despite this, I'm the unofficial trouble-shooter in our
department; at least, all the secretaries come to me when they have
problems with their computers and software, rather than go to the official
computer support person for the Uni.  I've only just started charging for
my services, when I realised I was spending more time working on computer
problems than marine biology! 

I spend my PhD time either diving for my field work, or in the lab doing
awful things to marine plants.  I have my own boat, which I'm slowly
turning into a floating computer laboratory - all I need now is a small
power station to run all the gadgets on it :-)  My research area is
seagrass ecology, and physical factors affecting marine plants.  I'm
currently looking for work (real work, as in money type work).

At home, I live in a de facto relationship with a psychology/statistics PhD
student/assistant lecturer.  We have four kids - Lesley's two girls from a
previous relationship (Jessica, 10 and Rebecca-May, 13), and our own two,
Jayme, 19 months and Ashlee, 3 days.  We also have two dogs (Cavalier King
Charles Spaniels).

Splash is very much like my RL self, except he sometimes arrives in a damp
condition, and sends soggy postcards and notes from time to time.

RL birthday: May 15 1963
Usual drinks: black coffee, Bundaberg rum and Coke, iced milk chocolate

Splash!

Oh yeah, nearly forgot; I'm vegetarian (ie. no dead animals), but not
rabid about it.

--
		Splash!		*To love is to LIVE!*
   (aka Mike van Keulen -- e-mail: keulen@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: daq@fc.hp.com (Doug Quarnstrom)
Subject: Re: Commemorative toasts (Was: Re: An early toast)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 04:30:54 GMT
Organization: SPUGE
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.8 PL6]

: 
: "It was on the radio this morning--what an announcement to wake up to.
: For a moment I hoped I'd dreamed it.
: 
: "To Katherine Hepburn!"  ***CRASH***

Audrey, my dear, Audrey.  Let us do the dead the honor of not
burying them in the wrong grave.  We must be proper about
these things or there will be no point at all in dying any more.

Capt. Douglas O'Toole
:
From: chuahl@ocf.berkeley.edu (Chua HakLien)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: The Callahan's Cookbook is ready!
Date: 21 Jan 1993 14:01:52 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: monsoon.berkeley.edu

In article <1993Jan21.064521.5900@ucc.su.OZ.AU> mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar) writes:
>Danger Mouse makes an announcement:
>
>With 17 contributors (so far) and 43 recipes (unless I've miscounted),
>it should be enough to provide hours of cooking fun for everyone.
>Selected highlights include Nicarra's fudge, the Grey Lady's potstickers,
>two different pizzas, two different chilis, and _six_ recipes involving
>chocolate!!
>
>- Danger Mouse.

"But.. but.. did you rememebr the tomato & peanut butter sandwiches????"
=)

C
+

[ The weird stuff from the 'Culinary pecularities' thread.... ]
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Laz does fun stuff.
Date: 28 Jan 93 12:52:09 GMT
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <108513@bu.edu>, schweppe@acs.bu.edu (Edmund Schweppe) writes:
=>  A kzin is a fearsome beast, yes?  But who can fear a kzin who is having
=>  his ears scratched?  It put Louis's guests at their ease, and it put
=>  the kzin at ease too.  Anything above the level of a field mouse likes
=>  having its ears scratched."
=
="THAT'S where that quote came from!" exclaims Merlinvin delightedly.  "I
=*knew* someone had written that, and one of the reasons I keep offering
=earscritches to the various patrons here is to test that hypothesis.

_Ringworld_, chapter 2 ("And His Motley Crew"), paragraph 124 or thereabouts.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: Dan'l hits Australia
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:04:01 GMT

>Parakeet looks up and smiles...
>
>"Gee, I don't want to hurt anybody's feelin's, so I guess I'll have one
>of each... HEH!"

   "Okay, I'll buy you one of each youngen ! Mike, here three dollars
for those beers, " DJ.

-- 
         Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
                      Video. Peter Gabriel: Steam
From: siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl Siewert)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: bird on ice... (LONG POST) *>
Date: 26 Jan 93 22:43:50 GMT
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

<KZAHLLER@MIAMIU.BITNET> writes:


>She fears she may be felt presumptuos (or even--Heaven forbid--
>utterly boring and a total buttinsky), and that she may have
>made the small gray bird unhappy.  She blushes with the
>realization that she just spent entirely too much of everyone's
>time running her mouth off and starts to go back to her corner
>sit down and shut up again.



<IF I WEREN'T LURKING, THERE WOULD BE TEARS IN MY EYES.  AS IT IS, 
NEVER APOLOGIZE FOR THE TRUTH. 

DON'T SHUT UP, MAGDA.


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.           /
From: narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: On This Day
Date: 22 Jan 1993 17:04:05 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
NNTP-Posting-Host: casc.math.uh.edu

Kitten writes :
> kitten comes out of her corner long enough to celebrate national hug
> day.

Thank you, Ma'am... any other takers? 

And what HAS happened? You seem to cyclelurk...

Take care and keep flying!

--
*******************************************************************           
* Noah Ramon - The Bi-Bulb     * Your only limitation is your own *
* Mail to : narxtc@math.uh.edu * imagination - Beans Barton       *
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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: ablanch@physics.su.OZ.AU (Shonias)
Subject: Re: And now, for something completely different.
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 10:15:11 GMT

In article <1jnlttINNct0@shelley.u.washington.edu> lazuli@byron.u.washington.edu (Fred Sloniker) writes:
>[Deleted for the sake of bandwidth (I wonder if he is related to Auld Angsine)]
>>"Ummmm, I'm Shonias, is there anything in particular you like to drink?"
>>-=> Can-ingest-anyorganic.  Selfmobileorganic-preferred-dueto-more useful/
>>survival-favourable genecodes. Selfimmobile/photosyntheticorganic genecodes
>>lesser-utility but chemical-content-life-sustaining when selfmobileorganic
>>unavailable. <=-

Shonias, having basic telepathic powers, gets most of the transmitted message.
Not all of it has much meaning to her, but she is trying...
"Now if inactivity upsets your captors, presumably being nice to people 
would upset them even more? Having a good time seems to me to be nice
revenge... but then I know very little about your own motivations..."

Shonias listens to Laz...

>Laz watches, and 'listens', to the byplay curiously.  "Self-immobile..." he
>mutters, trying to puzzle out the meaning, then ahs.  "Um, I don't think
>they sell live animals here, but I think we can get you a salad."
>
>-=> "Salad?" <=-
>
>"Um, self-immobile photo-synthetic organics, cut into small pieces to aid
>our digestive systems.  Possibly with a flavor-enhancing spice coating.
>How about it, Mike?  Do we have a salad?"

Shonias quickly calls Mike for a salad and pays for it, bringing it back
to ... "Ummmm, is there some name that we can call you by? Or have you 
told us already and I have missed it?"

Shonias

--
**********************************
I could have a nervous breakdown,
But I don't believe in shrinks.
I should be drunker than a monkey,
But I don't like to drink.
**********************************
From: narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Wolf-Attack-Hugs
Date: 25 Jan 1993 01:12:06 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
NNTP-Posting-Host: casc.math.uh.edu

In article <C1DuMp.Ewv@cs.mcgill.ca> braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (The Didi-Sprite) writes:
>Beyond the French Doors, the Didi-Sprite suddenly comes wide awake and
>sits up straight in her bed.  
>
>"I gotta see this!  Make it good, you two!"
>
>Tee-hee-giggle-SNEEZE!

Alright, kid, back to bed! 
Besides, it's not like we wouldn't do this sort of thing again, anyway... :-)
In fact, I'll spot you the first hug when you get back to snuff (I mean,
better, that is)...

Get well SOON! 
Take care and rest!
Loving all!
(I think I'm piling on the signoffs now!)


--
*******************************************************************           
* Noah Ramon - The Bi-Bulb     * Your only limitation is your own *
* Mail to : narxtc@math.uh.edu * imagination - Beans Barton       *
*******************************************************************
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: daq@fc.hp.com (Doug Quarnstrom)
Subject: Re: testing tin
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 02:43:53 GMT
Organization: SPUGE

I have been around here far too long to start respecting the traditions
at this point.

I respond as I see fit.

doug
From: siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl Siewert)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Descriptions...
Date: 24 Jan 1993 00:40:35 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu



>Slash (Maraud, that is...) writes :
>> <FANTA SUCKS POND WATER. IN FACT, IT IS POND WATER, LEMME BUY YOU A
>> SIOUX CITY SASPARILLA. KILLER STUFF, MONSIEUR LE HONK.

>Good taste... I've only had Sioux City once or twice. 

>Mind you, it was incredible stuff! About once a month, I go to the "health
>food" store and buy all the weird sodas I can. My current favorites are a kiwi
>soda (I never realized others here even knew about kiwis - I thought they 
>HAD to be imported or something...) and various root beers (I can't remember
>the names, unfortunately). 
>I also saw a lovely innovation - clear cans! I saw an unnaturally "shiny"
>can, picked it up - and saw my fingers from the other side! I had to buy 
>a can just to put on my "weird liquids" hall of fame.

<JA EVER SEE A RATHER OBNOXIOUS PURPLEY KINDA GIG CALLED KENTUCKY NIP?
PROBABLY THE WORLDS MOST SUGARY SUBSTANCE.  MAN, IT KNOCKED MY 
HYPOGLYCEMIC BUTT RIGHT OFF THE MAP.  BIG OL BOOM AS MARAUD GOES BALLISTIC.

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: jammer@eskimo.com (Lyle Harwood)
Subject: Re: /*'s name
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 05:03:14 GMT

mike wasson (mwasson@nyx.cs.du.edu) wrote:
: >I've been meaning to ask.  Have I missed sometihing?  I have seen
several post
: >ings mentioning /*, but I don't recall anything from him/her.  
Jammer and Warrior gaze in wonder at the marching band, Ed M. in drag,
and then look at each other, shake their collective heads, and order
another mocha.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: Announcement!
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 06:00:03 GMT

Bi-bulb writes:
>Gee, so there went Games Workshop, I guess (no Blood Bowl for Andrew (-:)
>
>Sounds like a good life to me... At least that's what _I_ aspire to...
>(said by a "Proud" owner of a Zocchihedron - the 100 sided die...)

   "Hmm. Zocchi's Gamescience is about 5 miles east of me. He is a rather
 obtuse person. I have met him. Not certain which universe he's from.
 Myself, I wrote a ZX-81 BASIC program that rolls dice from 1-1 million
 sides in 1 side increments, and allows the user to do adds for all
 dice, and/or adds for each die... I might even have a printout
 somewhere as my Sinclair ZX-81 bit the dust several years ago. I re-wrote
 the program in Amiga BASIC. It shouldn't be too hard to implement in
 Pascal, as I used a minimum of goto's in the BASIC program... " DJ.
 
-- 
         Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
                      Video. Peter Gabriel: Steam 
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: testing tin
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:30:52 GMT

>Remember if the the tin plating wears off it will get rusty in damp
>weather. 
>
>(Followups on spanking should be redirected to alt.sex.bondage.)
>                                               ^^^^^^^^^^
>-- the Mandelbear

 But only if your University 'thinks' that people over 21 years old can 
handle reality... Yes, I know I could get any censored news group I 
wanted to via Nyx or uunet.net, but I shouldn't have to ! Argh.. Last 
week all of the alt hierarchy was cut off... I complained in a quiet and 
reserved manner... Jim. { No, I'm not into bondage, but censorship is a 
no-no... }.
<mumble mumble>

-- 
         Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
                      Video. Peter Gabriel: Steam
From: didi@geloser.login.qc.ca (didi)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re:  Didi's ill, again : -(
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 13:34:58 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Gentleman Loser System, Montreal/Qc/Cdn

carrot@bear.stonemarche.org (Little red-headed girl) writes:

> In article <1993Jan25.094400.26460@gdr.bath.ac.uk> eesshlgb@gdr.bath.ac.uk (S
> >Ignatz looks over, turns to Steve Glover, grins, and starts to speak.
> >
> >"Steve and I were considering at one point (probably at a con somewhere),
> >a rather potent cold cure...
> [description of a drink made from honey & lemon flavored vodkas]
> 
> 	Rachel looks up and laughs. "I knew I was forgetting to tell
> Didi _something_... Hey Mike, this dollar is for a shot of Berenjager
> (powerful honey liqueur). And this one is for hot peppermint tea with
> lemon and a shot of Berenjager for her. And no, Didi, this is NOT on
> me. You WILL drink it... and if you're comfortable enough, you'll
> probably fall asleep soon afterwards."
> --
> +--------------------------+----------------------------------------------+
> |	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 the other side of the French Doors comes:  "Zzzzzzzzzzzzz ... "

----<--<@

The Didi-Sprite
Montreal * Canada

--
didi@geloser.login.qc.ca
braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
Gentleman Loser System -- Montreal, Qc, Canada
From: ekho@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (amanda rothman)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: One quick question
Date: 27 Jan 93 16:42:27 GMT
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida

jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce) writes:

>    "Yup, they should have voted Avon as Mr. Congeniality... Not !" Linda.

  Ekho smiles at Linda, "Why, thank you..."  Amanda almost snorts her Coke
and Creme (No!  It's not that kind of coke!!).

>    "I have been told that the BBC considers Blake's 7 to be a kids show.
> I know that here in the US its considered 'B-Movie' sci-fi !" DJ. :-)

  Still attempting a quick recovery from that near accident, Amanda replies,
"B-Movie?!  Perhaps I'm deluded (no comments from the peanut gallery ;), but
Blakes 7 just doesn't equate with Vampire Nurses from Mars... well, there
may be one character in it that does..."  She dodges a swipe from Ekho with
a grin.

               Yours in Time and Space
From: eaeu282@orion.oac.uci.edu (Ching-I Chen)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: wow, delilah tries a SECOND post
Date: 27 Jan 93 19:16:28 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine

>=>	Delilah opens her eyes, mumbles something about her hands smelling
>=>like acetone.
>=>	"Wow, what a nap," she says.  "I dreamt I was living in Cicely, 
>=>Alaska, and had a cold, so I had to go see Dr. Fleischman..."  She rambles
>=>on about nothing in particular, something those who know her well are used
>=>to by now.
>=>	"Neato.  What be going on around here?" she asks.
>=>
>=
>=Acetone? Whoa, Nelly! We ain't never had nothing like that since them pigs
>=ran down old Grocer Jameson at the 4H/Illuminati rally! (+10 points for a 
>=triple negative)
>
>StM, who missed the reference to acetone the first time around, runs to his
>back pack, pulls out his glucometer, lancet, test strips, and alcohol swabs,
>and rushes over to Delilah.  "People aren't supposed to smell like acetone! 
>And when they start getting sleepy, too, that can be dangerous. Last time I
>started smelling like acetone (and feeling awfully sleepy), I ended up spending
>five days in the hospital.  You want I should check your blood sugar level?"

	Delilah brightens.  "Be my guest!  While you're at it, maybe you've
got a gizmo to check out my stress level?  And blood pressure?  And do I get
a lollipop, too?"
	Again, she stifles a yawn.  "Excuse me," she says.  "I was up til 4
last night.  And stupid me, I wasn't even studying!  I was reading JOHNNY
GOT HIS GUN."  She glances around the bar.  "Don't you have any complimentary
M & M's or something?"
From: narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: On This Day
Date: 22 Jan 1993 17:37:03 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: casc.math.uh.edu

In article <93021.224653KZAHLLER@MIAMIU.BITNET> <KZAHLLER@MIAMIU.BITNET> writes:
>OOOOO!  Sounds like a good excuse for a patented
>Magda's Wolf-Attack-Hug!
>
>Is very simple--take a running start (three steps is
>about optimum--you don't want to do any damage) and
>basically fling yourself at the object of the hug
>with enough velocity to rock them back on their
>heels, grap in a tight bear hug and squeeze until
>they say they've had enough (or start to asphyxiate)

Wowsers! Sounds WONDERFUL!

Keep going!

Take care and keep flying!


--
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* Noah Ramon - The Bi-Bulb     * Your only limitation is your own *
* Mail to : narxtc@math.uh.edu * imagination - Beans Barton       *
*******************************************************************
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: ablanch@physics.su.OZ.AU (Shonias)
Subject: Choose your poison (was Re: Poetry...)
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 23:15:51 GMT

In article <1k5g7vINNp19@phakt.usc.edu> pechever@phakt.usc.edu (The Heckler) writes:
>	ALCOHOL & CANNABIS: ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES.
>
>Substance         Advantages           Disadvantages       Remedies for same
>---------         ----------           -------------       -------- --- ----
[List deleted]

I'd like to add one more disadvantage to the cannibus list, I don't
know if there is any medical basis but several independent observations
have convinced me of it. With overuse it makes a mess of your memory,
mostly short term (in the general sense, rather than the psychology
definition). Same cure, use it sensibly. I agree with the Scribe
and second his toast, who has the right to choose which poisons are
good, and which are bad?

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...
*************************************************
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Danger Room Run (The Polymath)
Date: 26 Jan 1993 13:08:26 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Distribution: world
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <STEVE.93Jan25180753@styx.crc.ricoh.COM>, steve@crc.ricoh.COM (Stephen R. Savitzky) writes:
>"The tricky one," says the Mandelbear, "is figuring out how to
>peace-tie a set of bagpipes."

Can't be done.  Even tied, they're *STILL* the most fearsome weapon in the
British arsenal!
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: MIKEW@SHAPEL.UG.EDS.COM (Mike Whitaker)
Subject: Yet another for the cookbook
X-Unparseable-Date: 27 Jan 1993 03: 48:35 -0800 (PST)
Organization: Yale CS Mail/News Gateway
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 12:12:28 GMT

	The Bard looks up from a sheaf of printout, the header page of which
reads "Cookbook.txt", and grins at the Danger Mouse. "Nice work, people...
I'd missed a lot of these when they first came round." He sighs. "Diets....
ho hum... Anyway, here's another idiot proof recipe (i.e. Bard-proof)...

    Easy meringues
    --------------

    9-12oz icing/confectioner's sugar
	(the original recipe says 10oz but it's not critical)
    white of one egg

    Beat ingredients together till they have the consistency of marzipan or
    putty.

    Take a sheet of greaseproof paper that will fit in your microwave,
    place several smallish (1-2" diam) balls of the mixture on the sheet,
    Microwave on full power for around a minute. Repeat with rest of mix.

    Presto - instant, crunchy, somewhat fragile, light, meringue 'pats' -
    flattened domes about 3-4" across. Crush and serve with fruit + frozen
    yoghurt + whipped cream, top with one intact piece

    Warning - this makes a LOT! No. I mean a LOT!

    It's also a great way of spotting just HOW unevenly your microwave
    cooks.