From: gardner@hale.ifa.hawaii.edu (Jonathan Gardner)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Yet another sleepless night
Date: 26 Jul 92 00:41:52 GMT
Organization: Institute for Astronomy, Hawaii

>TJ:
>O.k., I'll remember that the next time my hormones are going
>wangy-bangy and my head is all cloudy and all the blood has rushed
>to pertinent parts all over my body...or maybe you could just
>follow me around and tap me on the shoulder whenever things get too
>warm.

"Good Lord, TJ, this sounds serious! Does it happen to you often? :-)
Here, for the next time it does, carry one of these. I always do." The
Space Cadet hands TJ a condom.

"And moving, perhaps, from the political to the personal for a moment,
I think _everyone_ in here should carry around a condom at all times.
The only exceptions to this are those who are in a committed
relationship and are absolutely sure of their own fidelity (and either
want a baby or have made other arrangements,) those who have made a
religious committment to celebacy (e.g. until marriage) and perhaps
female homosexuals. Everyone else should have a condom in their wallet
or purse. Lack of opportunity or virginity is not a good enough reason,
because while _you_ might think that the pimple on the end of your nose
makes you so ugly that no one in their right mind would want to sleep
with you, I can practically guarantee you that somewhere there is
someone who will be so entranced by your witty conversation that they
will start feeling the symptoms that TJ described. For you. When this
happens, don't take the risk that the abortion issue will cease to be
academic for you, BE PREPARED! I have known two women who got pregnant
the times they lost their virginity, and one man who got a woman
pregnant on his first time. It _can_ happen, and it _does_.  And the
medical community has a technical term for those who rely on the rhythm
method -- parents.

"I care about the people in here, and I don't want to have to `share
the pain' of an unwanted pregnancy. Condoms are available everywhere in
the US, and in most of the countries represented here, at drugstores,
and even supermarkets. The check-out clerks aren't going to care what
you are buying, they have seen it all before. But, I'll make this
offer: If anyone in here either can't buy contraceptives, or is too
embarrassed to buy them, or for any reason at all, send me your address
by email and I will send you a dozen condoms in a plain brown wrapper
by return mail. You can pay me back if you want, but I feel strongly
enough about this that you don't have to."

>TJ:
>At any rate, I just wanted to say I love you all, regardless of our
>differences and arguments, and ... I'm buying the drinks if y'all
>are interested.
>
>*kisses and hugs [and smiles for those who aren't touchy people]*
>
>TJ

"TJ, I'd like a root beer. (I don't trust the milk in this place
anymore. :-) And I'll take a set of those hugs and kisses if I may."

<<<HUG>>>   <<<KISS>>>

The Space Cadet
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Jon Gardner                                gardner@hale.ifa.hawaii.edu
Institute for Astronomy                           University of Hawaii
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