HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: *Now* I can celebrate.
Date: 30 Dec 92 01:12:14 GMT
Reply-To: rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove)
Organization: RICOH California Research Center

> With a spinning sidearm hurl and flourish followthrough, the glass dies
>violently.   >>>>CRASH!!!!!<<<<<


>"To The End Of My Worries--IT'S OVER!"

>He grins. "It appears, after all that worry, I seem to be the proud and
>relieved owner of my Very Own Comp Sci Bachelors Degree from RPI.
>Got a C in the course I thot I failed-  Prof. Issaccson, I might just name
>my first kid after you.   The long wait is over.  Four and a half years
>of -- no, 17 years of education, over.   Khai, this feels great!!!"

>"Yeeeehah!!"

>Taldin and Sudrith

Gypsy watches as Taldin makes his toast.  She dances over and
drapes a happy looking rainbow scarf around his neck in 
celebration and adds her glass to the fireplace...


*****CRASH********

Gypsy

Rowan Fairgrove

*****************************************
Current Book:  The Silent Stars Go By (James White)
Current Music:  More Magical Songs (Bob Stewart)
Current Movie:  Peter's Friends
Current Holiday:  Hogmanay
Current Drink: Mumm's Extra Dry
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Sunglasses (was Re: Hats)
Date: 28 Dec 92 05:58:10 GMT
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi

>kitten:
>
>"well, i have photograys...on orders from my optometrist.  real light
>sensitive ... 
>
>that's 4 with glasses...i'll bet there are more."

  "Yes, I wear glasses... I have a pair of prescription sunglasses with 
a UV coating on them. Well worth it on the Gulf of Mexico ! These days
they are both plastic safety lenses, when I first started wearing
glasses, they were thick glass. I'm glad I don't have to wear what
are refered to as 'soda bottle bottoms' lenses, " DJ.

-- 
         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 !'
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: ekho@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (amanda rothman)
Subject: Re: wonderful life
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:25:28 GMT

trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:

[bandwidth sacrifice.  I hope it doesn't anger the feline gods :)]

> what does everyone else think?  do you all ever wonder what the world
> would be like without you?"  kitten sits back to wait for answers.

  Becoming unaccostomedly (is that a word?) serious, Amanda looks around 
the room and says, "Well, I know what this world was like without Ekho 
for a while until she arrived here."  Looking over at her, Amanda 
continues, "I feel a lot safer now, both physically and emotionally."

  Ekho gaze drops for a moment, then locks with Amanda's and traverses
to all present in the room.  "My life has certainly changed since I met
you all.  I know what Amanda is trying to say."

  Amanda nods, "I don't know how the world would be different without you 
all, but I know the difference that you have made in *ours*!"

               Yours in Time and Space
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: ARRRGH!!
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 06:54:34 GMT

 (Randolph Fritz) writes:
>Randolph, listens, then walks up to the chalk line.
>
>"To change!"  <*CRASH*>

   <crash!> Jim.

>__Randolph (note new address) randolph@netcom.com

  Look in the misc.job.* hierarchy. Especially misc.job.misc or 
misc.job.contract. Many jobs with experience required...
    DJ.

-- 
         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 shows !'
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: aaron@atlantis.uucp
Subject: Re: Hi Alfvaen
Organization: Atlantis Communications, Edmonton, AB, Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 02:26:45 GMT

Michael D. McAfee (mdm@sparc2.prime.com) wrote:

: 	and just to add to the silliness:

: 	Current Current: 50 amps

"Darn, I was going to do this one.  You beat me to it, Michael.  Although I
was thinking of putting in 110 A, which sounds more reasonable for household
current, at least in North America..."

: 	Current Adjective: EmmaThompsonesque

"Good adjective.  It has that certain je ne sais quoi..."

Current French Phrase: je ne sais quoi
Current Favourite Alphabet: Georgian
Current Favourite Language: Hungarian
Current Expertise In Favourite Language: Laughable
Current Song: Dire Straits: Sultans of Swing (may change before end of post)
Current Tape: Assorted, Tape 38
Current Random Word: Cantaloupe
Current Question: What was the best thing before sliced bread?
Current Question #2: What do they say hotcakes are selling like, when they're
   selling well?
Current Keys On My Keyboard That Don't Work Very Well: qol<End><Keypad
   Right-Arrow>
Current New Years Resolution: To get a job or go back to school
Current Lipbalm: Avon 1993 Care Deeply[w/1993 calendar]
Current Bookmark Quote: "For thy sweet love rememb'red such wealth brings that
   then I scorn to change my state with kings."  Shakespeare, Sonnet XXIX
Current Shirt: Red West Side Story sweatshirt, from Grande Prairie '88
Current Thing I >Really< Should Do: Send out some resumes

: 	disclaimer:  Ha!  Your puny weapons are no match for my
: 			disclaimers!

:-)  :-)  :-)

-- 
---Alfvaen(Still looking for "October's Baby")
"Give me your mirth.  It bores me when you weep.                                 My loves you cannot touch.  They're buried deep."  ---Don Marquis
Current Album--Talking Heads:True Stories
Current Read--Tesseracts4
From: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: The brumby reappears
Date: 23 Dec 92 22:29:18 GMT
Reply-To: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

In article <brumby.725143739@nella7.cc.monash.edu.au>, brumby@nella7.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen McNamara) writes:
|>    The brumby totters across to the bar, looking like he hasn't rested for
|> over a week. Which is in fact close to the truth.
|> 
|>    "Tea, Mike. As strong as you can make it."

(Body of text, about the travails of a new father, deleted.)

|>    "Ahh well. The Jenny-monster seems to have dissappeared for now, leaving
|> a little sleeping bundle. I shall put her back to bed and see if it lasts."
|> 
|>    The brumby's tea arrives, and he sips at it slowly, trying to unwind
|> somewhat.
|> 
|> 
|> -- 
|>      The Silver Brumby of          brumby@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
|>       the Silicon Plains            brumby@zikzak.apana.org.au
|> 
|>       The grass is always greener on the other side of the network.

Starknight looks up.  "Welcome back, Brumby.  Not having been a father (that
I know of), I can't really say I know about what you've been going through.
But I do have two younger siblings, and come from a 'broken home' (as if there
is anything inherently whole about having two full-time parents), so I did
end up with my share of caring for children...  Of course, I was still only
a child myself...

"Sheesh...  I can't believe what I just wrote...  I must be tired of working...
I need a vacation, or a long weekend...  HEY!  That's THIS weekend!"

Starknight heads for an Xwindow, diving through while calling out...
"Mikethebrumby'snext3drinksareonmytabOK?SeeeverybodywhenIgetbacktoworkMonday!"
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: ekho@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (amanda rothman)
Subject: The pair does the limbo
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 05:33:44 GMT

  Amanda and Ekho seem to be frozen in space and time; neither of them 
hear or see anything around them.  Indeed, for a couple of days, they 
were unaware that anything was wrong at all.  But even though they have 
that knowledge, they are still helplessly held in limbo until their 
newserver decides to receive the incoming messages.  They miss their 
newfound friends...

           Yours in Time and Space
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: darkshot@rock.concert.net (Michael B Garrett -- Chudys)
Subject: The world, and what it'd be like...
Organization: CONCERT-CONNECT -- Public Access UNIX
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 04:54:18 GMT


Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: dbriggs@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Daniel Briggs)
Subject: Re: boo
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 93 06:59:20 GMT

In article <1993Jan2.054036.28241@atlantis.uucp>
  aaron@atlantis.uucp writes:
>Stephen McNamara (brumby@nella7.cc.monash.edu.au) wrote:
>:    This could get obscure for the non-unix-impared. (Would they be the
>: 'systematically challenged'?)
>
>: aaron@atlantis.uucp writes:
>
>:>"No, I'm fine for now, wench.  Maybe later, next time a toast is in order..."
>
>: >% sort toast
>
>: % nice pun
>
>% yes indeed

% whoami to disagree?

-- 
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| New Mexico Tech / National Radio Astronomy Observatory |      DoD #387
| P.O. Box O / Socorro, NM 87801   (505) 835-7391        | 
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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jammer@eskimo.com (Lyle Harwood)
Subject: Re: boo
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 05:22:15 GMT

Barbara Trumpinski (trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu) wrote:
: 
: 
: >: kitten collects jammer's mocha breve....and giggles.  "here you
are,
: >: good sir...no one has called me 'wench' in years...not since my
friend
: >: the great gray wizard left town."  she sits on the floor next to
: >: jammer and sips her drink.
: 
: alfvaen:
: 
: >"Well, kitten, we could start calling you 'wench' more often if you
want.  We
: >could even make that your official net.alias, or at least add it
after conan
: >the librarian.  How far are you willing to go with this 'wench'
thing?"
: 
: kitten giggles...."i don't know....it is okay for occasional
: use....makes me feel 18 again....but i am really not buxom enough to
: be a wench...sigh....
: 
: but you, good sir, are welcome to call me what you will...shall i
: fetch your drink, as well?"
: --
:
************************************************************************
***
: 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
: 
Jammer looks at Kitten, winks, and turns to Alfvaen.
"No, no, no, wee one, Wench is a name that is USED, not assigned!
Only those of us who DARE use such names may use them!
Methinks that if you DARED to use such a term, ye would have done
so by now!"

Jammer launches a barrage of rapid fire peanuts at Alfvain, and
tells the bartender that Alfvaen's next drink is on him, as well
as his next two drinks if he DARES to use the term wench.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Definition of "monogamy"?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 23:51:37 GMT

aahz says:

>We're having a nice little discussion (read "flamewar" ;-) in
>alt.polyamory about the nature of monogamy.  I'd like to hear some
>thoughts from people in this newsgroup about what it means to them.

>(I'm posting this because I'm annoyed that one of the other people went
>to soc.couples for a definition.)
>-- 

kitten jumps in..."well, i think monogamy is like two candles that
fuse into one light...the wax from each candle melts together...till
you have one candle with two wicks...

...conversely, a non-monogamous person lights many flames but
ultimately stands alone."

--
***************************************************************************
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: snarf@access.digex.com (Sean Eustis)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Definition of "monogamy"?
Date: 29 Dec 1992 16:19:38 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com

In article <1992Dec28.210002.4304@crc.ricoh.com> rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove) writes:
><To the many paths that bring people to happiness>
>
>***CRASH*****
>
>Gypsy 
>
>Rowan Fairgrove

<<<<Crash>>>>

				-The Dreamweaver



-- 
In VR -- The Dreamweaver		In RL -- Sean Eustis
						snarf@access.digex.com
"God never closed a door without
 first opening another."
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk (Clive Grace)
Subject: Re: Impressive knitting
Reply-To: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 16:03:00 +0000


TITLE: Re: Impressive knitting

> "Aren't you guys getting a bit knit-picky?"

Knot at all!
--
+-------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
| When I grow up, I want to give up being   |cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk|
| a Journalist and learn how to write...    |                          |
+-------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
|       Bisexual knitter of quality and distinction since 1992.        |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: wonderful life
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 04:36:51 GMT

kitten sniffs and wipes her eyes...."the movie 'it's a wonderful life'
always does this to me...i love jimmy stewart and this is one of my
favorite movies...

anyway, this movie, as you all know, poses the question: what would
the world be like if i had never been born?  i sort of experienced
this first hand, like jimmy stewart, when i was not conscious for 16
days... it was like i wasn't in the world...but, of course, the world
was still here.  i often think about what the world would be like if i
had died, instead of recovering...

...my ideas and opinions on this change, depending on my mood.
however, 8 times out of 10 i come to the conclusion that i have an
important place in the world...that it is a better place because i am
here.  (the other 2 times i think either that a) nobody would miss me
or b) that at least iwouldn't hurt anyone....but that goes away
quickly) 

what does everyone else think?  do you all ever wonder what the world
would be like without you?"  kitten sits back to wait for answers.


--
***************************************************************************
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: kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: boo
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 93 00:31:26 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Brandon S. Allbery's Personal System

brumby@nella7.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen McNamara) writes:
> korz@cs.columbia.edu (Frederick Korz) writes:
> >Frood continues, "Literature and life are rife with all sorts of
> >wenches - buxom, comely, skinny, earthy, lusty, spritely, ....  Just
> >throw in the flavor, where appropriate.*"
> 
>    "So where is it appropriate to throw flavour into a wench?"

Through her mouth, usually.  :-)

++Brandon

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

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Snowball
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:10:19 GMT



>TITLE: Re: Snowball
>Jammer is ambushed by the Lady...
>"Snow Fight!! Come on! Didi-sprite? Gypsy Woman? Jason? Michael? 
>Everyone? I feel just like a good fifteen minutes hurling snow!"
>Mary MerryTail lunges out into the snow-filled meadow after Jammer 
>and the Lady, hoping desperately that the same effect that keeps her 
>glasses in the fireplace will give her an even chance of hitting 
>someone with the snow ball she's scooping up....
>"Keep the mocha warm till we get back please, Mike?"

kitten laughs and heads out into the snow....sweeping up a handful for
the back of mary's neck (i'll BET i will regret THAT!)

--
***************************************************************************
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: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson@somewhere.out.there)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Castellan's New Year's weekend
Date: 4 Jan 93 03:19:42 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.

Castellan sits and listens to the tales of New Year's celebrations, old
friends reunited and new friends discovered, and hopes and dreams for the
coming year.

"I spent this weekend at the annual COG New Year's conference.  COG (Commun-
ity Of Growth) is an informal organization of East Coast Unitarian young 
adults, that gets together a few times a year.  I saw a lot of old friends
and made some new ones, and got in some much-needed relaxation and cleaning
crud out of my head.  Highlights included bellowing out Tom Lehrer songs
at 3am, listening to a long-parted friend's tales of bumming around Thailand,
another long-parted friend's slide show of bumming around Peru, and taking a 
group shower with 15 other people.  

"Someone recently said `you people need to get out more.'  In one respect,
I'm inclined to agree with him.  Not that I think, as he seemed to, that
all our entire social lives revolve around the Place.  I think of it as a
reminder that this Place may be only a virtual one, consisting of electronic 
impulses across a huge, far-flung network, but the love and caring we share 
here are no less real for that than the love and caring I gave and received 
this weekend. And if we can create this sort of atmosphere in an electronic 
forum, almost never seeing each others' faces, and if a bunch of people, some 
old friends and some total strangers, can create it for a weekend (and drive 
hundreds of miles to do so), what's to stop us creating it in our own everyday
lives?  I like to think of this atmosphere as the result of people simply
being at their most human, and getting rid of the bullshit society heaps on
our shoulders.

"So this is my toast and my resolution for the New Year: To the Place, wher-
ever we may find it!  May we continue to give of ourselves, to be open in our
thoughts and feelings, and to liberate the beauty in us all, within the Place 
and outside it."

Castellan turns and hurls his glass into the fireplace.

A new year has begun.

--
-Chip Olson. | olson@husc.harvard.edu | ceo@{gnu.ai,silver.lcs}.mit.edu 
"If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down?
Maybe we would if they screamed all the time for no good reason." -SNL
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: aaron@atlantis.uucp
Subject: Re: boo
Organization: Atlantis Communications, Edmonton, AB, Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 04:46:13 GMT

Stephen McNamara (brumby@nella7.cc.monash.edu.au) wrote:
:    The brumby pricks his ears at kitten's giggling.

: aaron@atlantis.uucp writes:
: >Barbara Trumpinski (trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu) wrote:
: >: kitten collects jammer's mocha breve....and giggles.  "here you are,
: >: good sir...no one has called me 'wench' in years...not since my friend
: [...]
: >"Well, kitten, we could start calling you 'wench' more often if you want.
We
: >could even make that your official net.alias, or at least add it after conan
: >the librarian.  How far are you willing to go with this 'wench' thing?"

:    "I dunno, a lot of people might find adjusting to the new name a bit of
: a 'wench'. Still, if a nut like you can't torque her into it..."

:    The brumby prepares to bolt.

"Are you on the level, Brumby, or you just being screwy?  I'm sure people will
get plumb used to her new name if we hammer it into them.  It may be a bit of
a strain at first, but if anyone gives us trouble, we'll just nail them.  If I
saw any plankety-plank giving our wench a hard time, he'll get poleaxed."

-- 
---Alfvaen(Still looking for "October's Baby")
"Give me your mirth.  It bores me when you weep.                                 My loves you cannot touch.  They're buried deep."  ---Don Marquis
Current Album--Janet Jackson:Control
Current Read--Tesseracts4
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: bshsiung@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Bernard Hsiung)
Subject: Re: An MIA returns! (-:
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:47:48 GMT

"Pleased to meet you, Toothpick," the Squire says.  "I arrived while you
were away, but it's always nice to make new friends."

He smiles at the rabbit.  "I never had any pets of any sort (discounting
my younger brother), until last year we picked up a pair of hamsters.
They're not quite sentient, but they were fun to watch anyways.  We named
them Geri and Freki, after Odin's wolves ('Greedy' and 'Gobbler').
Unfortunately, Freki has since gone to the Great Hamster Ever-full
Feeding Bowl in the Sky, but Geri is still with us."

"Small fluffy mammals are invariably cute..."  *grin*
--
Jedi Squire-in-Training (bshsiung@eecs.umich.edu)
From: snarf@access.digex.com (Sean Eustis)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: *Now* I can celebrate.
Date: 28 Dec 1992 04:22:54 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com


Taldin ...Slaps a stack of ones on
>the bar. "Next round's on me, Mike.. IBC Cream Soda.   This is the one I've
>been saving..." 
 
	Dreamweaver joins in,"As long as he's buyin', let me have an IBC,
too. Better get a case out, this looks good."

[frantic Taldin antics deleted to save bandwidth]

>"Clear!" he yells, leaning back for a hard throw...
>With a spinning sidearm hurl and flourish followthrough, the glass dies
>violently.   >>>>CRASH!!!!!<<<<<
>"To The End Of My Worries--IT'S OVER!"
	"Yaaay!"
>He grins. "It appears, after all that worry, I seem to be the proud and
>relieved owner of my Very Own Comp Sci Bachelors Degree from RPI.
>Got a C in the course I thot I failed-  Prof. Issaccson, I might just name
>my first kid after you.   The long wait is over.  Four and a half years
>of -- no, 17 years of education, over.   Khai, this feels great!!!"

	Draining his own IBC and sending it after Taldin's, Dreamweaver
ducks to avoid the probable barage of congratulatory toasting.
<<<<Crash>>>>>
	"Congratulations, Taldin! It's not easy to hold your beath not
knowing if you'll graduate or not because of some administrative screw-up
needing to be fixed. Enjoy your sense of accomplishment. You deserve it."
	Dreamweaver grins,"Don't you just love the 5-year plan...






-- 
In VR -- The Dreamweaver		In RL -- Sean Eustis
						snarf@access.digex.com
"God never closed a door without
 first opening another."