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From: narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Wench
Date: 9 Jan 1993 09:49:51 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
NNTP-Posting-Host: casc.math.uh.edu

In article <C0KDIq.3z6@news.cso.uiuc.edu> trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:
>
>
>>>Kitten writes :
>>>>"but doesn't that involve honest work?"  giggles kitten  "....besides,
>>>>there's a hole in my bucket!"
>
>bi-bulb responds:
>
>>>Dear Liza, Dear Liza...
>
>>>Sorry, couldn't resist!
>
>>The ThunderKat shimmers for a moment, transforming into a large (10' tall)
>>Dreadnought, brings weapons to bear on Noah, and opens fire, full peanut
>>capacity, with choco-flares to cover the situation completely.
>
>>Sorry, couldn't resist!
>
>kitten squeals with delight....thunderkat has come to her rescue.
>
>she hugs him...and bi-bulb, too...for responding perfectly to a
>straight line.
>
>--
>***************************************************************************
>conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten           /\ /\  barbara ann 
>"my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?"      {=.=}
>                                              ~   trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu 
>"love is the wild card of existance"
>                          rita mae brown
>

My pleasure! I haven't gotten to use that one in ages!
To quote Harpo Marx, "Honk! Honk!"




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From: kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Undeliverable mail..
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 20:35:08 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Brandon S. Allbery's Personal System

chuahl@ocf.berkeley.edu (Chua HakLien) writes:
> "Has anybody out there been receiving undelieravle mail messages after
> posting to alt.callahans? I've been getting some of my stuff I posted
> sent to me this way, from IPSA.com or something like that....", 
> says C+.

Yes.  It's from "Mentor the Sage"'s machine.  (ipsaint.ipsa.com?  Memory
fails me, as usual :-)

++Brandon

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From: schweppe@acs.bu.edu (Edmund Schweppe)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: No subject
Date: 9 Jan 93 19:32:47 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

Bi-Bulb writes:

>Thyra writes :
>>Thyra giggles. "Nope, you'd be right -in- line for a conga! Say Brumby!
>>Swim over here and join us. we're going to dance a Conga!"
>
>Okay, which song, then? And for that matter, um ... : HEY EVERYBODY, COME ON
>AND JUMP ON IN! 

"Yes, I guess we will be jumping on in (or at least on the inn's floor)!"

>Happiness is a crowded dance floor.

Merlinvin vaguely remembers how to do the conga, but is sure it'll come back
to him as things get going.  So, being ever willing to add to happiness,
Merlinvin joins the line...

__________________________________________________________________________
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.
From: narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: One quick question
Date: 7 Jan 1993 02:52:30 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
NNTP-Posting-Host: casc.math.uh.edu

In article <8802.1236@stratus.SWDC.Stratus.COM> jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman) writes:
>Oh, no, not alt.callahans.pictures!

Well, no, not as such... What I am going to try to do is post the pics AS THEY
COME UP, not yet, at an FTP site. I would like to take a poll and find out 
what people can and can't read. I want to know how many different formats
I should post these things there in... Thanks and "get back to you soon
with more details!" (With apologies to Randy Quaid.)

Take your feet or take your seat!



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* Mail to : narxtc@math.uh.edu * imagination - Beans Barton       *
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From: li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus)
Subject: Re: A returning
Organization: Data I/O Corporation
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:57:32 GMT

In article <9301112327.AA02707@cipric> kksys!cipric!jmh%uum1.UUCP@CS.YALE.EDU (Janet Huss) writes:
>"Oh, I want to catch up on sixteen thousand other conversations, too, but 
>not all at one time, I guess.  I'm just glad to be back, and I'm looking 
>forward to renewing old friendships and making some new ones!"
>
>With that, she sits quietly at the table, sipping the Irish coffee to warm 
>up.

Liralen stops by the table on her way to the Danger Room and smiles a 
greeting.  "Glad to see you back."

Fezzik, the big, black and tremendously furry dog comes up to the grey lady
and sits on her feet.  He puts her head in square and softly furry head on
her lap; and is rather surprisingly warm leaned up against her legs.
-- 
Phyllis Rostykus     | "... and how you feel can make it real 
aka Liralen Li       |      Real as anything you've seen... "
li@inigo.Data-IO.com |	                         Peter Gabriel _US_
From: narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Wench
Date: 9 Jan 1993 09:06:35 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
NNTP-Posting-Host: casc.math.uh.edu

ThunderKat writes :
>The ThunderKat shimmers for a moment, transforming into a large (10' tall)
>Dreadnought, brings weapons to bear on Noah, and opens fire, full peanut
>capacity, with choco-flares to cover the situation completely.
>
>Sorry, couldn't resist!
>
>-- 
>ThunderKat (a.k.a. Chris Anderson)    s903040@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au

Blop! (the sound a peanut makes when it hits one who doesn't know when to
       duck.)

I'm beginning to feel like an elephant, what with this peanut bombardment!

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* Mail to : narxtc@math.uh.edu * imagination - Beans Barton       *
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From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: QUACK! (was: Re: Wench
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 00:54:20 GMT

(Feather) writes:
> (Rossi) writes:
>>>>>  "Outa my way -- I've got to duck those peanuts!"
>>
>>  duck?!  peanut!?
>>
>>>>Okay folks, do we shoot him now, or at dawn?
>>
>>  Who's Dawn?
>>
>>>Appropriate punnage, sir - Barb has SEVERAL nuts loose...
>>
>
>Feather smiles at all the insanity going on...
>
>"I don't think you guys are playing with a full duck!"

   "Quack ! I am too full !" DJ as Daffy, a sort of Duck...

-- 
         Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
                   Video. Cher: Love and Understanding.
          'Rush Limbaugh is the 'Chia Pet' of TV talk shows !'
From: GE.LJB@forsythe.stanford.edu (Louis J Bookbinder)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Search for Stan, conclusion
Date: 6 Jan 1993 07:19:51 -0800
Organization: Stanford University
NNTP-Posting-Host: morrow.stanford.edu

The search for Stan continues -

And ENDs because the thing which interrupted Nick's attempts to
dismantle VAX is STAN!!! She dives at Nick, screeching in furry, claws
prominent! Nick suffers several long scratches before Stan land on VAX,
wings still unfurled, angry defiance in her whirling orange eyes!

"What the.....! Stan! Where? What? Why? ...." Nick is at a loss -
delighted at Stan's return, hurt at the attack.

Kitten, taking a break from wenching, stands behind Nick and giggles. He
looks up at her, puzzled. "What?..."

"Can't you recognize a protective female, Nick?"

"Protective?"

"Yep!"

"Of.....VAX!?!"

"Nope"

"?"

The astral projection of a distant Didi-sprite floats to Vax. Stan is
startled, but not defensive. "May I?" begs the spirit. Stan folds her
wings and bobs her head. Nick feels a pang of jealosy. The spirit-sprite
vanishes.

"Huh?! Where did she go?"

Didi re-appears. "Four!" she sings, zipping merrily about the place.
"Four!"

"Four what?" Nick is totally lost!

"Eggs" answers Kitten, shaking with giggles.

"Eggs?" a stupid look crosses Nick's tin features. Then the light.

"EGGS! STAN! YOU ARE A MOMMY!" Nick is beside himself! He wants to grab
Stan and scream in delight. But Stan still hisses at him. He grabs the
giggle kitten instead. "And I am a daddy! Whoopee! Where are the cigars!
Drinks for the house! Let us celebrate!" He dances madly with the
helplessly laughing feline. Someone taps him on the shoulder. He stops
and looks around.

Liralen, grinning, asks "Slow down, Nick. One little detail first. Where
are the eggs?"

Nick looks blank. He turns and looks at Stan. At Vax. At Stan. He drops
Kitten. Thud. "Ouch, you rusty oaf!" He walks back to Vax, stopping well
away from Stan. Gets down on his knees again.

"Um, Stan, baby, I am sorry I upset you, um, can you relax? I will not
threaten either you or your eggs. But I would like to see them. I think
we need to see them before they hatch, do you not agree?"

Stan furls her leathery green wings and looks at Nick first one eye,
then the other. The orange fades to yellow, green, and blue. She coos.
She hops off Vax's control box, looking at it. Slowly, carefully, Nick
picks up the screwdriver. "Ask Vax to hold still, OK?"

"Skweeepunk ssssstit!" she replies. Nick slowly goes after the remaining
screws. Vax allows this. The cover comes off Vax's control box. There,
nestled in warm circuitry, are 4 tiny eggs, 2 blue, 2 green. Stan looks
infinitely pleased with herself.

Nick Chopper - my opinion? ax not! LB>-}  BOOKY@Forsythe.stanford.edu
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From: aaron@atlantis.uucp
Subject: Re: elvis
Organization: Atlantis Communications, Edmonton, AB, Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 04:32:25 GMT

Noah Ramon (narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu) wrote:
: >Alfvaen puts on his leather jacket(over his Aquatic Elf garb), turns up the
: >collar, fixes his hair, and says, "Thank yuh very much.
: >
: >"Who wants to be the first to dial up RFC and request 'Elvis is Everywhere'?
: >Now he's even on envelopes everywhere in the world!"

: Gee, I didn't know that Mojo's despicable influence had spread this far... 
: Well, as long as it has, let's also add ... say, "Don Henley Must Die"?

"Well, a >few< people here have heard Mojo Nixon.  I at least have heard 'Elvis
Is Everywhere' and 'Stuffin' Martha's Muffin'.  But I also have the honour of
having had a filk written about me, called 'Alfvaen is Everywhere', based on a
certain song.  If you like, Michael the Chaotic or I can post or send you the
lyrics...

"As for 'Don Henley Must Die'...well, if you must, but actually I kinda like
Don Henley.  So sue me.  In my personal opinion, Barney Bentall is more worthy
of death..."

-- 
---Alfvaen(Still looking for "October's Baby")
"I'm gonna follow my feelings...I'm gonna follow my senses...I'm gonna follow   my compass!"  --Lone Justice
Current Album--Stewart Copeland:The Equalizer & Other Cliff Hangers
Current Read--Robert J. Sawyer:Far-Seer
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: amanda@wam.umd.edu (Me again)
Subject: Re: Language Physics
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 16:44:18 GMT

In article <1993Jan2.183613.18340@news.columbia.edu> tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Thomas J Lee) writes:
>Alfvaen writes:
>
>A>"Great.  CFD--sci.phys.lang.  Maybe sci.phys.lang.cipher, because I was
>A>also a cipher nut.  And what are alphabets and languages but other ciphers,
>A>eh?  I never learned Elvish, but I do know Greek and Cyrillic, even if my
>A>Georgian is a bit rusty.  I know a dabbling of Devanagari, and have Hebrew,
>A>Arabic, and Thai written down somewhere waiting for me to commit them to
>A>memory.  And, of course, I've invented a couple of my own along the way..."
>
>	"Neato," says the Lamplighter; "me too!  I mean, I've made up some
>alphabets of my own, mostly while trying to write phonetically.  

Amanda has made up more alphabets than she can remember... "I used to get bored
and restless and think of a new way to rationally divide the alphabet (read:
force a natural phonetic system into artificial little boxes :) and then make
up an orthography reflecting the organization I'd invented.  I was also into
new media for writing... trying to think of some useful way of encoding thought
that hadn't been done before... it was a frustrating and fruitless task :)

"I even remember two or three of them... :) "

amanda@wam.umd.edu            --  Physling  --               Amanda Babcock
From: JBRANDT@AAA.UOregon.edu (Jason)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Bi-bulb (was Re: Dalek has entered the
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Date: 8 Jan 1993 16:57:35 GMT
Organization: the Polyhedron Group
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: fp1-lawrence-north-19.uoregon.edu

In article <C0JAtz.D7E@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
(Barbara Trumpinski) wrote:
> 
> 
> >> > >kitten writes:
> >> > >>*giggle*  (you guys realize that people think i am crazy when i talk
> >> > >>to the terminal)
> >> 
> >> Jason ponders "Hmmmmm. I always thought Kitten was small, but I see now she
> >> is a meduim. Talkling to the not-quite-dead (the terminal) would make her a
> >> clairvoyant as well, Hmmmm?"
> 
> ++brandon says:
> 
> >Does that make her a small medium at large?  <ducks>
> 
> >Of course, she might simply think she's Speaker to Minerals... :-)
> 
> "oooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh, i woudn't dare....." *giggle*  "hey, speaker,
> nobody would ever think i am you....right?  and if i tried to be you
> you might bite me }:) and i am NOT on your diet!"

Jason smirks at the thought. "Well, you -are- both feline's at least. But
then there's a matter of scale to consider. (Scales? Oh, right, the
undersea theme party.) Nope, I just can't see Kitten as a Kzin cub."

Hugs,
Jason
From: mjmh@crsa.bu.edu (Michael J M Holmes)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: A purple return...
Date: 12 Jan 93 16:19:04 GMT
Organization: Boston University Center for Remote Sensing

In article <JBrandt-110193175824@aaa.uoregon.edu> JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jason) writes:
>In article <106735@bu.edu>, mjmh@crsa.bu.edu (Michael J M Holmes) wrote:

>> "Kitten!  I *LOVE* your hair!!!  Don't change it - lilac it that way!"
>> He runs over to her to give her a hug.  "And with one of *my* hugs,
>> we can match the rest of you to your hair!  Temporarily, at least!"

>Jason looks up from his Cyberdeck. "Welcome back, /* ! You sure that hair
>dye Kitten used wasn't a Christmas gift from you?" <grin>

/* smiles.  "Y'know, Lamplighter suggested something like that
as well.  It could have been me!  How do you think *you'd*
look with purple hair, Jason... I could arrange it!!"

"Jason, before I forget, I wanted to express my amazement at
the story of how you and Pegasus met - that was great!!
Just goes to show that RL can be just as good, even better,
than fiction or VR!!"


-- 
========================================================================
Mike Holmes       mjmh@crsa.bu.edu           "Happiness Will Prevail!"
Boston University Department of Geography (a truly GREAT place to work!)
========================================================================
From: pcahn@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Whew!!
Date: 11 Jan 93 21:21:05 GMT
Organization: Wesleyan University

Rounder emerges from amidst a pile of exhausted Callahanians, having just
completed the world's wildest Bunny Hop.  He grabs Merrigold in a big hug and
swings her around.  He then wanders around the room giving "Hi, I'm back" hugs
(or welcome hugs, where appropriate) to all he sees. Didi gets an extra big
hug, and a sigh of relief.  "Glad to hear that you're OK."  He turns to address
all assembled, "Well, it is good to be back.  This post was supposed to happen 
days ago, but it's taken me this long just to catch up, what with moving in to 
a new appartment and all.  Cheers to Tadeusz Michael!  Well, I finally got over
my mental block."  He produces a small, vaguely oblong piece of metal with a
brass finish; it looks rather like a slide for a steel guitar.  "It's smaller
than my stumbling block," pointing to a milk-crate size object carreening
around the FDF, "but can cause me just as much trouble.  I just sent off my
first resume in my quest for employment.  I bungled asking my Boss to write a
letter of recommendation, however.  I didn't do a good enough job of explaining
why I might not come back to work this summer, or even telling her that I might
not take another job under the right conditions.  I guess I just find it hard
to be critical in a constructive way.  At the moment, there are compelling
reasons both to Seek Employment Elsewhere ($$, better opportunities, learning
new systems, etc) and to Stay Where I Am (security, Soba the dog, etc.) so I
don't know what I'm going to do."
Looking down, he notices that the Stumbling Block is now underfoot, resembling
a soap box more than anything else.  He grabs the pint of porter that Mike has
ready for him and downs it.  Wiping foam from his moustache, he toes the line
and tosses the glass towards the fireplace.
"To a New Year, to old friends and new beginnings."

<<CRASH>>

Rounder
pcahn@eagle.wesleyan.edu
On the Bedtable:High Weirdness by Mail by Rev. Ivan Stang
On the Turntable:Take it Home by Hot Rize

P.S. Merrigold, the new fiddler is Joe Kessler; of the three I've seen, I think
that he has the most personality.  
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From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Angry
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:19:31 GMT


>The door burst open, and Warrior leaps through with a roar.
>In mid leap, Jammer grabs a handfull of nape and throws Warrior
>into a dark corner. (Thank god they have dark corners here.)

>Warrior springs to his feet, and takes one step towards Jammer with a
>low snarl.

>Conversation freezes as a .45 appears in Jammers hand.
>He cocks it, and aims at Warrior.
[   ]

>Jammer turns to Mike, and says loudly.
>"Mike, I'm sorry. Warrior had a rough day. Lots of things happened,
>and he's mad at the world. Since we share a soul, so am I, I guess.
>We need your dark corner, and we need enough time for tempers to
>calm down. Warrior will have a bowl of half n half, I'll have a mocha.
>I'm sorry for the confrontation, serve the house a drink on Warrior.
>Let us rest."

>Jammer lays a handfull of bills on the bar, and retreats into the
>corner.

kitten...not sure if she is willing to dump a beer on warrior or
not... breathes a sigh of relief that the gun is gone...."hey, friend,
let's talk about this...."  she holds out her arms.
--
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conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten           /\ /\  barbara ann 
"my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?"      {=.=}
                                              ~   trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu 
"love is the wild card of existance"
                          rita mae brown
From: rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Tanais' new fiddle teacher
Date: 13 Jan 93 01:29:12 GMT
Reply-To: rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove)
Organization: RICOH California Research Center

> Tanais sips his Brandy Alexander, puts his cap on the floor and plays 
>a reel he's been learning from the Planxty album "The Woman I Loved 
>So Well" to impress his teacher at his first lesson. It's an odd 
>sight seeing the formal and Classical holding of the bow yet the 
>music is wild and, well... "reeling", he's yet to master the way folk 
>fiddlers seem to hold the bow -- a little futher up from the frog of 
>the bow -- but it will come in time. 

Gypsy hears the lovely tunes coming from a corner of the Place
and dances over to listen.  Always up for a Planxty tune, she
appreciatively throws a handful of change into Tanais' hat.

Gypsy


Rowan Fairgrove

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Current Book: When the Bough Breaks (Lackey & Lisle)
Current Music:  Pomegranate - Dance of the Seasons
Current Movie: Hoffa
Current Holiday:  Ides of January
Current Drink: Mumm's Extra Dry
From: kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: boo
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 19:39:03 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Brandon S. Allbery's Personal System

trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:
> >>"i will certainly accept that" says kitten, with a saucy toss of her
> >>head... (i read _forever amber_ years and years ago...and have always
> >>wanted to be able to saucily toss my head.....)
> 
> splash!:
> >"I've always wondered about that phrase ... sounds extremely messy to me. 
> >Actually, when I was quite young, and still learning English, `saucy' had
> >me puzzled for a long time.  `Tossing your head saucily' sounds sort of
> >salad-like ... :-)"
> 
> "let-tuce consider that.  if i am such a hot tomato, i guess saucily
> would indeed be the proper term..."  kitten grins.  "besides, tomato
> sauce, particularly when combined with oregano, is an aphrodesiac...."

...now I know why I've been serving it over angel hair all these years :-)

++Brandon

He's BAAAACK! Brandon S. Allbery     NOTE NEW ADDRESS!!! kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org

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