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Subject: A BDay Message, amongst other things...
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Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:31:07 +0000

MonTemplar stroll up and places a coin on the bar. "Beamish please, Mike."

While he waits for his drink to be poured and rise, he turns to address the
assembled Patrons.

"First and foremost, I should mention that today (the 21st) is the birth date
of a certain noted cartoon rodent who frequents these parts. So, in keeping
with this individual's fabled reputation, I think we should all arise and
celebrate the passing of this event in a fitting manner... PEANUT ATTACK ON
IGNATZ!!!!"

The Cartoon Mouse duly disappears under a mountain of peanuts. (Yes, Simon,
I know you're not actually *here*, but we can imagine, can't we? :-) )

Sipping on his Beamish, MonTemplar continues. "Secondly, I finished off my last
Practical Assignment this morning and handed it in. So now I'm officially on my
Christmas hols! This means I'll have a chance to get through some of those
things I've been too busy to do, like reading some books, and trying my hand at
some computer games, and learning the art of writing applications for Windoze.
Not too many boring films on the telly for me!"

"Also, I may have a crack at writing some stories, and posting them here for
your delectation. You have been warned!"


"To Time - always in short supply." *CRASH!*
--
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From: snarf@access.digex.com (Sean Eustis)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Solstice morning musings
Date: 23 Dec 1992 16:55:25 GMT
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In article <1992Dec22.213909.22209@crc.ricoh.com> rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove) writes:
>Swirling to her feet, she dances to the chalkline.
><To Magic and Love and the Reborn Sun>
>######Crrrrraaaaassssh########

Dreamweavaver somersaults back  in, downs the last of his drink, and joins
Gypsy at the chalkline,","Count me in."
And with a sidearm pitch to the fireplace...

<<<Crrrasshh.>>>



-- 
In VR -- The Dreamweaver		In RL -- Sean Eustis
						snarf@access.digex.com
"God never closed a door without
 first opening another."
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From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Definition of "monogamy"?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 19:51:28 GMT

In <1992Dec25.185930.12464@netcom.com> aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine) writes:


>>aahz:
>>
>>>Let's start with emotional monogamy.  I love my parents, I love my
>>>sister, I love a lot of the people I know from this Place -- in what way
>>>is my love for Stef really any different?  Why shouldn't I share a
>>>similar kind of love with many other people?  Note that I do recognize
>>>that there's a time-based component to love: you can't really love
>>>someone as *intensely* when you spend less time with them, and the
>>>*quality* of the love also changes.
>>
>>kitten jumps in again: 
>>
>>"you made the point there...emotional monogamy is saving one
>>particular kind of emotion for one specific significant other. love
>>for parents, cats, friends, doesn't figure in at all...

aahz:

>I'm not sure whether I'm misunderstanding you, or you're
>misunderstanding me.  What I'm saying is that, in the end, I really
>don't see any *fundamental* difference between my love for Stef and my
>love for my parents.

>There are unique qualities to my love for Stef -- but I've had similar
>kinds of love in the past, and the way I feel about Stef is wildly
>different from the others.  Are you saying then that I need to decompose
>my love to figure out what "kinds" of love I can and can't share?

kitten:

okay....but now i am confused as to what this has to do with monogamy....

any kind of love can be shared....or not.

--
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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

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From: rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove)
Subject: Re: Spheres and Calculus [Re: Cyber (was Introduction was Eh?)]
Reply-To: rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove)
Organization: RICOH California Research Center
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 20:33:25 GMT

Jilara sez:

>   (When I attempted
>to argue that this was against the philosophies of the
>Founding Fathers, I got sent to the Principal's office.)  It
>taught me that Justice is not blind, but dyslexic. 

<giggle>  This reminds me of the time I got sent to the
principal for being a ***communist***. 

I had committed the heinous crime of chewing gum in
class.  I don't even remember which class but it was in
7th or 8th grade.  I got assigned the good ole 500 words
on the thrilling topic "Why I should not chew gum in class".

I wrote (basically) that I should not chew gum as my fellow
students might get distracted and thus not become scientists and
so the Russian students (sans gum chewing disruptors like
me) would get ahead in the Space Race.  

The treasonous nature of my essay was made very clear to
me by the principal.  I really thought it was amazingly
idiotic and so did my parents (thank goodness).

I am always amazed at people who had good public school
experiences.  Sad to say, the people I know with the best
educations all went to private schools.


Rowan Fairgrove

*****************************************
Current Book:  The Silent Stars Go By (James White)
Current Music:  Waterbearer (Sally Oldfield)
Current Movie:  The Crying Game
Current Holiday:  Hogmanay
Current Drink:  Cocoa with Tuaca & Cognac
From: mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk (Alan Ralph)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: DIDI
Date: 3 Jan 93 01:06:40 GMT
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In article <C08KE4.Hrz@news.cso.uiuc.edu> trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:
>kitten has a message...
>
>mellie sent a note and said didi is in ICU in a paris hospital ... she
>had some sort of seizure...heart, they think.
>
>pass the word...and PRAY....

"Egad! Not a good start to a new year. Oh dear. Here's hoping you get your bits
and bobs sorted out and in order soon, lil' Sprite-ster!" :-(

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From: brumby@nella7.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen McNamara)
Subject: Re: It's a girl!
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 21:00:52 GMT

   The brumby looks somewhat less tired than he has for the past couple of
weeks.

carole@rembrandt.Sun.COM (Carole Parker) writes:

>In article <1992Dec11.160645.3043@e2big.mko.dec.com> pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan) writes:
>>CONGRATULATIONS BRUMBY AND ROBYN!!!!!
>>
>>"'Jennifer Rhiannon McNamara', hmm?  Beautiful name - but then, I'm biased.

>I'm not biased; I'm just late in my congrats!

   "Actually, you aren't necessarily late, Jenny was due to be born on New
Years Day, give or take a week. She just decided to show up early for the
Christmas presents we think. Certainly she got more than anyone else in
either of our families." :-)

>To a healthy daughter and a quick recovery for your wife.

   "Both of them are doing well now, though it will still be some time
before Robyn is completely over it."
   "Someone posted a while ago something about all of the congratulations
going to the infant, and very little to the mother, or something like that.
I can't find the article now. For those who want to know, Robyn was in
labour for 32 hours, the last 10 of which were augmented by a syntocin
drip, which made the contractions far more painful. Finally Jenny was
delivered by forceps giving Robyn a 3rd degree tear. That is about as bad
as child birth can get without surgery. And afterwards, she didn't care.
Despite all the things that had happened to her, her only concern was for
Jenny. Similar things were happening with me. I think that the whole
reaction is an instinctive one, and thus everyone is more concerned with
the child than the mother, at least until their brains start to work
again."


-- 
     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.
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From: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe)
Subject: Happy Gnu Year
Reply-To: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 01:27:00 +0000

Every time any of the patrons have looked at the counter clock behind 
the bar tonight, it's been showing wildly different times, skipping 
back and forth so that we've had the New Year start four or five 
times already.. time is looping strangely tonight... but of course, 
it's New Year's Eve in the Place.

Mary MerryTail wanders back in (you probably never saw me leave!), 
shedding many layers oj jumpers and abig grey, sweeping cloak.
"Ooof. It's cold out there."
One of the jumpers leaves a small pile of snow of the carpet... 
"didn't realise *that would be there. Thanks kitten! Or is that 
wench? Can VAX take care of that? thanks.
God's Blessing please, Mike, I need to warm up. Well. it's definitely 
1993 here now and I can confirm Danger Mouse's observations - it's 
dark! Tanais and I walked into town in the fog this evening, dropping 
off tins and bottles at the recycling point and watched the hordes of 
people swarnming. Fancy dress and mostly good humour. Came back and 
spent a quiet evening knitting (have you ever tried to teach a fox to 
hold six pieces of wool at once!?), reading and talking.
This has been quite a year for me and I'm as sad as glad to see it 
go. I've grown a lot, lost a lot, gained a lot. Endings have become 
beginnings and whole new things have just appeared where I least 
expected them. I'm doing well in so many parts of my life at teh 
moment and I'm *very glad to be back here in the Place. Like I said a 
while ago, something always turns up.That's what we celebrate at the 
turning of year - Hope and the human spirit, turning and renewal.
And I'm still delighted, surprised and wondering. And of all the 
paces I could have met Ignatz (and nearly did!) I'm very glad it was 
Here. Just like all my other wonderful friends here, as well. Hugs 
and joy to you all. 
I'm going to repeat myself again, a bit - because I can't find better 
words."
She steps up to the line.
 "To the year that has been and the year that is coming and the timeless time of frie
ndship. To people, people. To life and growth and pain 
nd endings and beginnings and realising and remembering it's a 
journey - we don't stay static - and to reaching the next wonderful 
place on the road, 
just when you thought you were stuck in roadworks for the foreseeable 
future! To the pasts and the places and the people and the 
happenstances that make futures for us. To the new year and the 
future in it. To us and the Place.
Allez-oooop!"
<<<Crash-tinkly-crash>>>>

Hugs and joy and happy new year everyone!
Mary MerryTail


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From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Lamplighter's Christmas Eve
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 15:26:10 GMT



>	"Aurora and I got a simple prayer answered today," says the
>Lamplighter, to anyone who cares to listen.

>	"Back in November, my grandmother sent us money and told us to use it
>to go down to Rockefeller Center, to see the Christmas tree and the skaters.
>We planned to do it last Saturday, but Aurora woke up that morning with an
>awful sore throat and a painful cough."

>	"Somehow we made it through the weekend, but our trip to see the tree
>seemed scuttled.  On Monday, she went to the doctor, and she's now taking
>antibiotics for her sinus infection, and cough syrup to quiet her cough.  We
>weren't sure whether she'd get well enough to see the tree before Christmas,
>but this morning she said she felt fine."


kitten grins...."that is lovely...i am so glad you got a christmas
wish to come true...please tell aurora to take care of herself and
feel better.  fill her up with hot liquids and love....

(i am sure you will have no trouble with the latter.)

kitten hugs the tall lamplighter and sends an extra hug to aurora.
--
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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: narxtc@navier.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Allo, and Good Beast!
Date: 26 Dec 1992 22:15:15 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
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"Well, Ma'am! I believe a return hug IS in order..." He says, in the process of
exchanging a hug. "Don't worry about the cables - I have seen that I am the
only one who has trouble with the darn things (although I have managed to make
knots that would make a sailor blink twice before attacking the lineage or
cordage.) And as for the rest of the Peds, they should be showing up tomorrow
(cross one's fingers), as they don't usually show up right before a show... But I do look forward to introducing you all to one another. A kinder bunch (on 
either side, I'll wager) couldn't be found... Gee, I guess a map of the place might be a little out of the way, huh?"

Okay, so I babble...

Dream On!
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From: jammer@eskimo.com (Lyle Harwood)
Subject: Re: boo
Keywords: Jammer
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 02:35:47 GMT


Jammer rubs his nose ruefully, and regards this beautifull wench
thoughtfully.

That would be a mocha breve, wench, and Jammer thanks you.
We should be friends, as you are far too dangerous to make an
enemy of.

Jammer grins, and sits down.
From: mjmh@crsa.bu.edu (Michael J M Holmes)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Unbe Awakens
Date: 21 Dec 92 19:28:42 GMT
Organization: Boston University Center for Remote Sensing

In article <1golthINN2cl@gap.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
>In article <104386@bu.edu>, mjmh@crsa.bu.edu (Michael J M Holmes) writes:

=="The name '/*' actually came out of a conversation with one of
==my 'oldest and bestest' friends.  He and I were discussing sf, and
==I think we had just seen 'THX 1178' (or whatever that movie's title
==is - help!),

>THX1138, I think.

/* jumps up - 

"Eureka!!"

"Yes, that was it!  Thanks, StM!!"

A purple frown appears.  "Its been so long since I saw it...
is it worth trying to rent?  I remember the conversations it sparked,
but little of the actual movie!  Aside from a few visual images, that is..."

:)

-- 
========================================================================
Mike Holmes       mjmh@crsa.bu.edu           "Happiness Will Prevail!"
Boston University Department of Geography (a truly GREAT place to work!)
========================================================================
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From: ekho@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (amanda rothman)
Subject: Re: Arrival of a Stranger
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 04:08:01 GMT

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

> >    "Hello.  My name is Galan and this is my faithful pet Greywolf.  We have
> >heard many things about this place in our travels and decided to come see it
> >for ourselves."  He pats the wolf lovingly on the head.  "I do hope that we'
> >not intruding." 
> 
> "hi galan..." smiles kitten...scritching greywolf behind the ear.  "no
> one is an intruder here...just a friend we haven't met yet."

  Amanda smiles shyly at Galan,  "Welcome to the Place.  I'm sure that 
you will see what is true about it here... What'll you have?"

  Ekho nods a greeting to Galan and looks at Greywolf with faint 
curiosity,  "Welcome from me as well.  I've never seen a wolf; they are 
extinct at the time I'm from... most interesting."  She takes out a 
miniature computer and works with it, typing and using her laser probe 
alternatingly.  Absorbed in her work, she mutters, "Drink's on me..."  
Amanda dives for the force wall, activating it in the nick of time before 
the shower of drinks hit her and Ekho.

         Yours in Time and Space
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From: mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk (Alan Ralph)
Subject: Re: Ah, there you are...
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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 01:29:55 +0000

In article <1992Dec28.022456.9573@ucc.su.OZ.AU> mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar) writes:
>Danger Mouse fades in....
>
>"Oh! You're back! Hi folks.
>
>"My server has been dead yet again, but is now working - although I don't
>know for how long this time. And it looks as though it hasn't bothered
>to collect all the posts from the past few days, meaning that I haven't
>seen anything posted between the 23rd and 26th of December! Wlyaahh...
>time travel is so disorienting....
>
>"I haven't even seen my _own_ Christmas Day post (thanks kitten!)....."

MonTemplar grins. "Better get ready with some cups of coffee and matchsticks
for the eyes, DM, sounds like you have plenty of reading to catch up on."

And he orders a VR cuppa for DM to set him up....

>- Danger Mouse.
>
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From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson@somewhere.out.there)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Merlinvin finishes delurking
Date: 30 Dec 92 13:33:40 GMT
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.
In-reply-to: schweppe@acs.bu.edu's message of 30 Dec 92 05:14:21 GMT

In article <105774@bu.edu> schweppe@acs.bu.edu (Edmund Schweppe) writes:

>Gecko-boy continues the punwar:
>
>>Merlinvin is saying (generously)
>>>Gecko-boy puns:
>>>[deleted...]
>>>
>>>Hmmm... maybe I can swing a bit of choco-lei-t for da Geck...
>>
>>The reptile winces. "Ouch, Merlinvin, that was a hula-va bad joke there..."
>
>Merlinvin winces back, and throws macadamia nuts at said reptile (in VR, I
>can afford them!).
>
>"Oahu-lava bad pun indeed.  Guess I'd better not try to outpun a Hawaiian
>like you, who can harbor such Pearls of wisdom..."

"Well, that one totally bombed" observes Castellan, resisting the temptation
to escalate to throwing coconuts.  "We seem to be 'onolulu of a pun war, huh?"

--
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Maybe we would if they screamed all the time for no good reason." -SNL
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From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: wonderful life
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 05:40:14 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...
>
>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.

     I know that me not being here would have caused problems for 
several family members. Severe problems. Hmm. One of the 'thoughts' 
that movie always gets going in my head is 'stay put, don't try to
change' I'm probably misinterpreting the mood of the film, but thats 
the way it feels to me.  Jim.

-- 
         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 !'
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From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: wonderful life
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 03:12:58 GMT



>"Hmmm," mutters Abner, "then maybe I should see it some day.  Before my time,
>though ..."  (tease, tease ...  but true!)

>>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.

>"Tell the truth, I don't think the world would be any different ... neither
>better nor worse ... for my absence.  After all, if I had never existed,
>no-one would notice, eh?  People who are my friends would have used the
>extra time to be friends with someone else, and my enemies would have taken
>out their self-hatred on someone else, etc.  So, no change, really ..."

kitten hugs dreamweaver and then turns to abner...

"i don't think that is true...you tend to make insiteful and
thoughtprovoking comments here...and i'll bet you do in RL as well...

besides, do you really know how important the random acts of kindness
that you do affect others....?  your presence makes a definite difference."

kitten hugs abner.
--
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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

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