HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ablanch@physics.su.OZ.AU (Shonias)
Subject: Re: testing tin
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 10:31:20 GMT

In article <C19yBA.CnH@fc.hp.com> daq@fc.hp.com (Doug Quarnstrom) writes:
>Always the new.  Always the different.  That is the heart of variety
>and the grist of life.
 
"At the risk of contradicting myself, I'll drink to that!"

and another glass, once containing cider, ends its life in the fireplace...

Shonias Q'Tari

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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Descriptions...
From: <KZAHLLER@MIAMIU.BITNET>
Date: Monday, 25 Jan 1993 14:49:48 EST
Organization: Miami University - Academic Computer Service

"Surely, M. <<Maraud>>, you have zat outrageous accent purely
to taunt ze engleesh peeg-dogs whose mothers were hamsters
and whose fathers smelled of elder berries!"

Magda-Wolf (who once used *The Holy Grail* to teach Medieval
social history to a freshman university class on Western
Civ.  Honest, NO Kidding!)
From: c9b-ap@po.berkeley.edu (HakLien Chua)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Happiness is...
Date: 27 Jan 1993 14:22:13 GMT
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: po.berkeley.edu


Happiness is someone else's Porsche with a parking ticket under the wipers.


C 
+

( Who's feeling a bit irrelevant today.. ) =)
From: narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Culinary Peculiarities
Date: 27 Jan 1993 19:04:59 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: casc.math.uh.edu

In article <1k64l4INN6eb@gap.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
>
>Don't forget blue corn.  Real popular with the yuppies these days.  I guess
>they've never encountered the stuff on the stalk.  You see, maize is
>susceptible to a really disgusting fungus known as smut.  Used to be, when you
>found a cornstalk infected with smut, you burned that part of the field.  Now
>you leave it alone, hoping it'll infect the rest of the crop, since smutty corn
>sells at several times the price of the healthy stuff.

I can't go in a Whole Foods Market (a local helth/yuppie supermarket) without
seeing those chips, but I wil say that (A) I don't mind them, (B) I don't 
know how dangerous they are (although I assume the FDA has checked into the
matter), and (C) I can't taste any difference between them and regular corn
tortilla chips.


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From: narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: On This Day
Date: 22 Jan 1993 17:07:04 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
NNTP-Posting-Host: casc.math.uh.edu

In article <1jlgbrINNeil@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl Siewert) writes:
[news report deleted]
>
>Rie climbs into the rafters and plunges down into the middle of the rapidly ex-
>panding hug.
>
>>Loving all!
>
>By all means.  Love to all!!!
>Rie

Thank you! Glad to see you!

Take care and keep flying!


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From: youngj4@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Jeffrey 'Taldin' Young)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: The Cracked Reflection..
Date: 27 Jan 93 07:36:23 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY


The night owls are still around in Callahans as the quiet blue unicorn
gets up out of his seat.  Seems he's changed slightly;  the once
deep blue and silver mane he sported is now a frosty white, and his
fetlocks are white, to match.  He seems older, in some odd way, too.

"One more of my usual, Mike.  And don't worry about Suds. He's asleep."
Indeed, there's a draconic snore, on cue.  Taldin quietly swaps a dollar
for a drink, and sips it contemplatively.  

"Someone I care very deeply about.. can't see her own beauty.  
  The mirror reflects only what spectres Doubt conjures for her.
   In so many ways, she is my very reflection.. I've been where
she is, in the throes of uncertainy, self-hatred and self-denial. 
  I still, to this day, don't think I'm anything special that
 warrrants such things as my life brings me.   Still don't think that
I'm special enough, or good enough, or wise enough, to not make
the mistakes I made previous.  But my soulmate.. believes in me.
  She claims I am far more than she deserves, and she loves me dearly.
  But she feels overshadowed from what I am, and I don't even know
what I am.  I worry that she's underestimating herself, bringing
 doubts and charges against herself needlessly.  She says she's helped
me to learn to fly again, and now she's only slowing me down....
..sounds achingly familiar, identical to a poem I wrote a few years ago...
 ..her RL situation isn't helping much, either, and in some ways I feel
 her slipping, and the distance between us (1000 miles) is even 
less of a help.  I am not about to leave her for any reason, but I worry
 that she might consider letting me go... 'for my own good.'  Ah
dunno what to do.. and I am trying very hard not to get frustrated at
her, for that will most surely drive her away from me.   Perhaps
it's just a bad night, but..... "

Taldin drains his glass.  

"To... not being able to see oneself as others do...!"

>Crash!!!<

Taldin the Blue Unicorn

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   TT  AA   LL DD  D  II   II NNNN      that doesn't believe in me."
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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: lunisea@netcom.com (Stephanie Alford)
Subject: Censorship (was Testing Tin)
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 07:16:29 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.023052.14540@ra.msstate.edu> jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu 
(Jimmy Malcolm Pierce) writes:
>>
>>(Followups on spanking should be redirected to alt.sex.bondage.)
>>                                               ^^^^^^^^^^
> 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>
SEA joins in:  "When I was a younger lass and employed, oh about last
summer sometime, the systems administrator complained that there wasn't
enough disk space and he was thinking of ways to increase disk space for
the programmers that really needed it to do *work* of all things!  One
of the solutions was to lose the alt.* hierarchy starting with alt.sex
and those newsgroups he considered (I forget the term he used) racy, etc.
While I agree in general that newgroups provided to one at work should
have to do with work, I disagree with letting someone decide what "fun"
newsgroups should be let through.  If he had said that all newsgroups
except the comp.* hierarchy were going to be lost, I might not have
squawked as much.  DJ is right, censorship is a no-no."  
Collecting a glass of wine from Mike, SEA turns to DJ and says, "Isn't
it time we had another dance?"  Strains of big band swell in a corner
somewhere and she smiles sweetly.

SEA
(still looking for work in all the wrong places)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: I/O, I/O, it's off to pun we go (was Re: Dan'l hits Australia)
From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson)
Date: 25 Jan 93 23:17:32
 <122420201@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM><8907.26531@stratus.SWDC.Stratus.COM> 
 <1jscauINNn02@matt.ksu.ksu.edu><1jsf4iINNocf@matt.ksu.ksu.edu><1993Jan25.170159.26686@e2big.mko.dec.com>
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.
In-reply-to: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com's message of Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:01:59 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.170159.26686@e2big.mko.dec.com> pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan) writes:


>|>siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl Siewert) allows his friend to write:
>|>><I'LL HAVE A FINGER SANDWICH, HOLD THE MOLD.  AND FOR MY FRIENDS, 
>|>>TONGUE ON RIE.  BA DUMP BUMP>
>|>><MARAUD <MERCIFULLY>OUT>
>|>
>|>Did I hear someone taking my name in vain??
>
>"No, no, no...  Rie, it should have been...
>
>"Did I ear someone taking my name in vein?"

"In the immortal words of Doc watson: Aorta pop you one for that"

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This article is a natural product.  The slight variations in spelling and
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be considered flaws or defects.
From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jason)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Wolf-Attack-Hugs
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Date: 24 Jan 1993 23:18:54 GMT
Organization: the Polyhedron Group
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aaa.uoregon.edu

In article <1993Jan22.184529.728@ee.ryerson.ca>, dspeck@ee.ryerson.ca
(DOUGLAS SPECK) wrote:
> 
> 
> Soooooo, Magda, you're trying to outdo T-Bear in hugs, are you? Hah!
> C'mere, little wolfie, and I'll show you a hug....
> 
> T-Bear opens his arms really wide in anticipation of a flying Magda-Wolf.
> 
> Heh, heh, this should be good...

Jason chuckles. "And -then- you two can each try one of -my- bear hugs. I
should warn you though, that for most folx I usually have to be careful
when I hug. In fact, one of the reasons I married my wife, Pegasus, was
because she could withstand my -strongest- bear-hugs without complaining
that I was trying to squeeze her in half."

Jason,
Waiting for hugs . . .
From: narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Didi's ill, again : -(
Date: 27 Jan 93 04:26:57 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
NNTP-Posting-Host: casc.math.uh.edu

In article <1993Jan26.072148.20200@netcom.com> lunisea@netcom.com (Stephanie Alford) writes:
>Having just been to Westech (a job fair), SEA is still wearing her interview
>suit, which includes heels (she's been through 3 pairs of pantyhose in a week,
>she thinks the higher powers are trying to tell her something) and seeing what
>is happening, she joins in the fun.  Daintily (it's hard for her to walk
>in heels), she stomps hard on a pice of film, then she stomps again, and again,
>giggling maniacally, she finds a rhythm and continues stomping.  Unnoticed,
>the celluloid begins turning into postal stamps.
>
>
 
Ma'am - I salute you.

By the way : "power" clothes, I assume? 

Kind of like my "up and coming" friend who was looking for a new job. She
went to a hairdresser for a new cut, and asked for what she called
"power hair". 

She got bangs.



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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: <HI THERE>
From: <KZAHLLER@MIAMIU.BITNET>
Date: Monday, 25 Jan 1993 13:19:53 EST
Organization: Miami University - Academic Computer Service

Magda-Wolf hands <Maraud> an empty drinking horn.

"You might as well put the drink in something and then put it
to the use for which it was intended!"

The anthropomorphic wolf dressed in loose tunic, pants, and black
leather boots (and a belt that looks strangely naked without all
her beloved blades) grins wolfishly.

"Of course, the beauty of the drinking horn, is that you have to
drink everything before you can put it down.  I hope you like
Shonias' choice in potables!"




Aaaarrrrooooo,
Magda-Wolf  (the nonconformist Were-Wolf)
Motto:  Remember, pillage BEFORE you burn!
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Happy Chinese New Year!!!
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:01:05 GMT

In <1jugpm$o78@agate.berkeley.edu> chuahl@ocf.berkeley.edu (Chua HakLien) writes:

>"Whooops! Ekho was right. The yeras of the rooster are '81, '69, '57, '45,
>'33, '21 and so on. The previous year was the year of the monkey, and I'm
>not sure about the year before that.. but the year before that was the
>year of the Horse.. oh dear, i'm getting all confused... "


win (our grad assistant) said it was the year of the rooster, too....

now i am confused.

kitten
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                                              ~   trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu 
"it's not easy being a cast iron bitch--it takes years of practice.
most people don't appreciate that.
From: ablanch@physics.su.OZ.AU (Shonias)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Decapitalization?
Date: 21 Jan 93 21:34:43 GMT
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia

In article <C17rJ0.K39@fc.hp.com> daq@fc.hp.com (Doug Quarnstrom) writes:
>
>Me too at times.  Style over substance is the rule of life!

Aahhh, but of course!


>Well, if you are extremely frustrated, you could try to analyze the
>poem.  Most of the symbolism in it is fairly straightforward,
>and there are definite meanings in it.  You do not have to, of course,
>but it is more challenging than the 'undead' thing.

How can I resist such a challenge? Unfortunately, being a physicist and
all, it may be too great a one, but still worthy of an attempt.

>: You paint an interesting picture, and I will put more thought into the
>: analogy now.
>
>Bear in mind as you do, that it was primarily meant to amuse.

Of course, I have no intention of deciding you are homocidal/suicidal/
otherwise deranged on the basis of a jest.


>If you were a poetry critic, you would have been forced to hate it,
>so perhaps it all works out.  To help you out in beginning to
>deconstruct the poem, I will ask a pertinent question:
>
>"Who is the idiot boy in the poem?"

The first assistance I shall need is the poem, I didn't save it, could
you please email it to me?


Shonias Q'Tari

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And bear with my pride, as strong as it seems.
Will you be there tomorrow?
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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: steve@crc.ricoh.COM (Stephen R. Savitzky)
Subject: Re: ZX-81
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Organization: RICOH California Research Center
	<JBrandt-260193225421@fp1-dialin-1.uoregon.edu>
Date: 27 Jan 93 12:01:01

In article <JBrandt-260193225421@fp1-dialin-1.uoregon.edu> JBrandt@AAA.Uoregon.EDU (Jason) writes:

   Jason smirks. "Your first computer had a -screen-? Mine had a -teletype-!
   It was a kit-built Altair 8800. 

"Your first computer had a *teletype*?" says the Mandelbear in a
quavery voice.  "And *RAM*?  The first computer I ever programmed had
a flexowriter and a drum.  After that, punched cards and core were a
major improvement."
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From: ekho@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (amanda rothman)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Cynical friendliness and a poem
Date: 26 Jan 93 04:38:01 GMT
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida


  Ekho finally makes her way over to Doug and the "lurking" Slash M. 
"Greetings to the two of you.  I am pleased to make your aquaintance.  I am
also pleased that things are sorted out between everyone involved.  I would
have told you to kiss and make up, but I've been too busy taking the VR
version of Cybernet slowly and painfully apart with my laser probe for
daring to prevent the receipt of postings by my associate and myself.  I
have noted that you have a talent for poetry, Doug.  I enjoyed your postings
very much.  I also found great inspiration in the statements about loving
being living, and you being among the undead.  Thank you.  I feel that I
must contribute to the creativity, hence:



The desolation of my mind is such that
  even the emotion has abandoned me, leaving me
  absolutely barren.
I feel no grief, no hate, no regrets or sentiment.
I just exist.
I still exist.
Why do I still exist?

It is said that grief at someone's death is caused by
  the loss of that person's hope to be happy,
  the loss of the hope that that person can make you happy,
  the reminder that the loss can become yours at any time.
But death is a relief.
  a relief that that person doesn't have to go through anymore pain,
  a relief that that person can't possibly betray you,
  a reminder that soon your life-grief will end.
And yet, I still exist.
I live on, and on, and on,
  while others are relieved of
     their pain,
     their shattered hopes,
  their lives.

Instead of relief, I am forced to
  relive.  Live when I want to be
  relieved.
Such a small difference in a word, but that difference is what I am
  denied.  If I had
  died on Gauda Prime, I would be barren no more.

I have relieved many people,
  some of them deserved that relief,
  others should have lived.
I see that now.
It is a release.
I would have released Servalan before.
Now, she will remain chained... to life.
To desolation.

I am relieved.


                                                                               
-Ekho

                           Yours in Time and Space
From: narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Bearcats (was: T-Bear replies!)
Date: 23 Jan 1993 07:13:05 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
NNTP-Posting-Host: casc.math.uh.edu

In article <1993Jan22.212115.9108@bmerh85.bnr.ca> yho@utcs.utoronto.ca writes:
>In article <1993Jan19.220223.10504@ee.ryerson.ca> dspeck@ee.ryerson.ca (DOUGLAS SPECK) writes:
>>
>>Yes, pandas eat bamboo shoot, many pounds (or kilos) per day, 'cause we're
>>large, and heavy, and need lots of fuel. We sleep a lot, too, which is why
>>I found a nice warm place by the fire to curl up in first thing. Root beer
>>helps to keep us alert, since it contains CAFFEINE!!! Yay! Which is why I
>>am up hugging people, instead of snoozing...
>>
>
>Root beer has caffeine?  Hmmm...  I didn't know that.  Maybe it has...
>  but according to an article I read somewhere some years ago, Mountain
>  Dew has the most amount of caffeine, among popular soft drinks.  Maybe
>  you should give it a try, eh?  (On the other hand, why don't you drink
>  coffee instead?)

Okay, it is time for the traditional softdrink aficionado's report...

To begin, root beer doesn't have caffeine. (unfortunately) I have checked
on countless cans, bottles, and labels, and there is usually a mention of it
being caffeine free... Sad, but true. Now if you want caffeine, try Mountain
Dew. That stuff is good as paint remover, and'll put hair on your chest faster
than a wig. (It doesn't taste half bad, either.) Big Red also is a caffiend's
joy. In fact, all red sodas (not strawberry sodas) are caffeine havens. But
of course, for the ultimate in study aids, try Jolt!. That stuff is good as
a metal remover. DO NOT SPILL ANY WHILE DRINKING! It may damage carpet, pets, 
anatomy, and anything else. But you'll be wide awake to notice it! 

I'm AwAkE NoW!!


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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Announcement!
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 03:40:41 GMT

tanais:

>I noticed this line apeared in your .sig Kitten.

>> "it's not easy being a cast iron bitch--it takes years of practice.
>> most people don't appreciate that.

>I can't honestly imagine you -- of all people -- calling yourself a 
>cast-iron bitch.

>A furry hug for you

"a but you haven't seen me in 'bite mode'...and i rust when i get wet.
but if you still don't see it, maybe i need to practice more, non?"

kitten giggles through her growl...

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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 
"it's not easy being a cast iron bitch--it takes years of practice.
most people don't appreciate that.
From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Culinary Peculiarities
Date: 21 Jan 93 04:04:37 GMT
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.
In-reply-to: parakeet@wixer.cactus.org's message of Tue, 19 Jan 93 07:34:02 GMT

In article <1993Jan19.073402.13595@wixer.cactus.org> parakeet@wixer.cactus.org (Jim Eikner) writes:

>"I can remember when the COOLEST thing in Elementary School was to bring a
>Mustard Sandwich for lunch. Two pieces of white bread, mustard and nothing
>else. It tasted like sh** but was absolutely REQUIRED to be cool..."

"Well, back in my UMass days, the dining commons' sometimes served a thing
called a `Flat Bread Sandwich'.  Now this was actually greasy grilled cheese
and turkey (or some vaguely poultry-ish substance) on French toast, and 
weighed about five pounds apiece, but I kept thinking `take two pieces of 
bread, put a piece of bread in the middle, drive a truck over it...'"

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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: StM buys another round
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 15:58:20 GMT


>Well, StM's done it again.  As you can see, he's been posting mainly to
>comp.os.vms.  He's finally caught and should be able to start participating in
>alt.callahans regularly again.

[   ]

>"Mike, a round for the house please."

>StM looks confused (hey, he's got justification for it:  To quote Larry Niven, 
>"... and no kzin could understand it.  Men confused them terribly.").

>	"What happened to the other 21%?"


kitten squeals...."hi speaker....i was wondering about you!  c'mon and
join the HUG!!!!
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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 
"it's not easy being a cast iron bitch--it takes years of practice.
most people don't appreciate that.

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk (Alan Ralph)