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From: pierce@navo.navy.mil (Jim M. Pierce)
Subject: Re: Belated greetings, and other topics (was Re: Rhetoric: The...)
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Reply-To: pierce@navo.navy.mil (Jim M. Pierce)
Organization: POPS Operations
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 05:22:52 GMT

In article <1992Apr9.055658.26170@cco.caltech.edu>, lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals) writes:
|> In article <1992Apr8.224200.23092@samba.oit.unc.edu>, Elizabeth.Mccoy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Elizabeth Mccoy) writes:
|> >T'Kee notices Sea Wasp ascending to vast heights upon soap boxes, and
|> >then his descent... Since the soap boxes are still there, the
|> >cat-centaur decides to climb up there herself (save them the trouble of
|> >appearing under her...) and address the same fellow that Wasp did...
|> >(Mentor, was it?)
|> >
|> >>  "Start by recognizing that everyone has equal rights. Evryone has an
|> >>equal right to (to quote the US declaration of independence) 'life,
|> >>liberty
|> >>and the pursuit of happiness' and to the natural resources of the
|> >>planet.
|> 
|> Just a minor point:  Though the Declaration of Independence DOES use the phrase
|> "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,"  the then-current slogan which
|> apparently inspired the phrase was "Life, liberty, and private property."

    "Sigh. Also the poorest person on the Continental Congress, was a
  millionare, in terms of 1770 dollars/pounds/etc." NickD.
-- 
     pierce@navo.navy.mil  Jim Pierce aka Nick D.

    "I want a new duck...." Weird Al Yankovic
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: cplma@groper.jcu.edu.au (Lynn Alford)
Subject: Re: Begining: The Long Good-Bye
Organization: James Cook University
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 92 13:06:06 GMT

In <WGARMIL.92Apr2132142@cs.ulowell.edu> wgarmil@cs.ulowell.edu (WildCard) writes:


>In article <1992Mar31.194105.6004@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Alfvaen) writes:


>That's one of the things I like of about Callahan's Place.  It's
>always changing.  Anyone here still remember (besides Nick and Aahz)
>the "Doorway to Anywhere" and the "Floating Dancefloor"?

Nicarra looks up.  "Can't say I remember the Doorway to Anywhere, but I
certainly remember the floating dancefloor.  Then again, if you really
want to test who has been around, ask about the MIA names.  I came in to
Callahans just before the Rev Mom left, and very very few around here
now would remember her."

Nicarra
-- 
The screen of my Mac doesn't really resemble my desktop despite being designed 
to support the desktop metaphor (1), and the windows on my terminal bear only 
the slightest relation to the contraptions that lets drafts into my office.  
Stroustrup.  1) I wouldn't be able to tolerate such a mess on my screen anyway.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: lindercs@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU (Galadin (Craig Linderoth))
Subject: Re: balrog meets Tizrak !
Reply-To: lindercs@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 21:29:46 GMT

In article <1992Apr6.041346.3981@news.Hawaii.Edu>, saiki@mpg.phys.hawaii.edu (Lauri Saiki) writes:
>In article <1992Apr3.152313.24124@cs.rose-hulman.edu> lindercs@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU writes:
>>In article <1992Apr3.065638.21519@news.Hawaii.Edu>, saiki@mpg.phys.hawaii.edu (Guess who!) writes:
>>>In article <92091.105024AXM113@psuvm.psu.edu> Abner Mintz <AXM113@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>>>>>Castellan rolls his eyes.  "They'll get a charge out of that, I'm sure..."
>>>>
>>>>That one was absolutely revolting.
>>>
>>>"Oh m' god!!  I think it is time for a volt..all those say who are
>>>in favor of the current string, say ' i. '  "
>>>
>>>"Those in resistance...."
>>>
>>>Spacey does not have time to finish when the first of the shells,
>>>from the peanuts, are being tossed at her...
>>>
>>
>>	If Spacey thinks that it is only peanuts that are being shelled then
>>she has another thing coming.  Like a snowball.   :)
>
>SPacey smiles wryly...fanning herself from the heat, she induces 
>Galadin to interconnect her with a nice refreshing snowball.
>
>Under the coolness of the quanta of snow packets she offers Galadin
>a schottky of anything he wants...and pays.
>
>Spacey
>
>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
>Lauri Saiki                                     "              ." -me
>Internet: saiki@mpg.phys.hawaii.edu    o  O     I am a very quiet           
>Bitnet: saiki@uhhepg                    .       person!! 
>'Tis gonna be a looooong Spring!       ---<   
>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
	Maybe you deserve another snowball for that, but alas, I can't throw
one at someone who has offered me a drink.  Make it a ginger ale please Mike. 
So Spacey, would you like a present for the drink?  I think I can conjure
something up for you.  With that, Galadin waves his staff and mumbles a couple
of words.  Suddenly there is a nice breeze blowing on Spacey.  Looking around,
it is seen that it originates from the fan that has now appeared on the bar
beside her.  "There you go Spacey, I hope that helps some.  Be warned though,
my power is limited and this fan runs on batteries and they may go out soon."


******************************************************************************
*Craig Linderoth                * Reality is for People who Lack Imagination.*
*Lindercs@Rosevc.rose-hulman.edu*   The Callahanian Protector of People from *
*ChemEng, Rose-Hulman           *    Outrageous Pun Throwers    SPLAT :)     *
******************************************************************************
From: moh2@quads.uchicago.edu (Kateri/Mary Anne)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: A business major catching up.
Date: 14 Apr 92 18:16:31 GMT
Reply-To: moh2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

Kateri blushes a bit...

"This is only vaguely on the same subject, but...

I'm looking for a summer job in business or management or publishing or
advertising or public relations or journalism in the Chicago area.

If anybody knows of one or could introduce me to someone or give me a name,
it would be muchly appreciated.

Many thanks, everyone..."

					Love,

						Kateri

-- 
The autumn leaves are falling like rain.
Although my neighbors are all barbarians,
And you, you are a thousand miles away,
There are always two cups at my table.		 - A T'ang Dynasty poem
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: RHPS
From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson)
Date: 10 Apr 92 21:49:54
 <rsv5fINNco8@agate.berkeley.edu><1992Apr7.204923.14885@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu><s2e6oINN4bh@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.
In-reply-to: erikred@ocf.berkeley.edu's message of 9 Apr 92 21:50:16 GMT

In article <s2e6oINN4bh@agate.berkeley.edu> erikred@ocf.berkeley.edu (Erik Nielsen) writes:

>"Get your ass off my table!" and "Everyone gets a piece of ass at Frank's
>parties."  "It's nutritious, it's delicious, it's-- STEAM!!!"  [Steam will
>save the world!!!]  "Use a fork, dork; try the spoon, goon."  "Hey, Riff,
>what kind of wine is that?  Oh, must be a table wine."

"He's from UMass, she's from Smith! Use a fork! Fork you, bitch!"
(this one made for amusing reactions when I used it *at* Smith once)

"it's the Black & Decker Pecker Wrecker! It slices, it dices, it circum-
cizes! It chops, grates and castrates! First cut hurts, second cut tickles;
congratulations, you're now Jewish!"

"There's no crime in giving youself over to pleasure [there is in Massachu-
setts!]"

"[Describe Kennebunkport] oh, it's probably some sort of hunting lodge for 
rich wierdos"
--
-Chip Olson. | olson@husc.harvard.edu | ceo@gnu.ai.mit.edu (seldom used)
"So come all ye lovers of the Good Life, your children playing in the sun,
And set a sympathetic flag a-flying, and be there when the Dutchman comes..."
                                      -Jethro Tull, "Flying Dutchman"
From: pierce@navo.navy.mil (Jim M. Pierce)
Subject: Re: most passionate of the Signs ???
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Reply-To: pierce@navo.navy.mil (Jim M. Pierce)
Organization: POPS Operations
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 05:51:55 GMT

In article <12134@tamsun.tamu.edu>, scm3775@tamsun.tamu.edu (Sean Malloy) writes:
|> The Brumby writes:
|> >   "If there were a video screen on my head I'd have been arrested years
|> >ago...."
|> 
|> CD smiles softly.  "I've been told that sometimes my mind is an open book.
|> And it often reads like a Victorian novel..."
|> 
|> -cd
|> 
|> -- 

   with no expression on his face except a twinkle in his eye, NickD. says,
 "Oh ? Which one cd, 'Lady Chatterly's Lover' or 'The Pearl' " :-)

-- 
     Nick D.
From: mss2@quads.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: An Introduction
Date: 11 Apr 92 08:35:59 GMT
Reply-To: mss2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

At a table in one of those multitudinous corners a man stands up.
He's in his early twenties, of medium height, and his hair and eyes
are both brown.  He is dressed nondescriptly casually, save that he is
wearing a black fedora, and he carries a black walking stick with a
brass knob at the end, which he now leans on.  He tips his hat to
Snark and Kateri, and begins:

	"I've been lurking here for a bit now, and I have to say, I'm
impressed.  I've seen you discuss at least three topics which
elsewhere have been the cause of violent, insulting flamage and
argumentation-- Heinlein, abortion, and the general political/economic
speculation in the "Rhetoric" thread. Despite the fact that there are
clearly strongly held, disparate views on the subjects in question,
I've seen hardly anything which could be characterized as even a mild
flame.  You have something unique here.  So I decided to introduce myself.
	"I'm usually called Mike, but if you'd prefer something to
distinguish me from the bartender, I'll answer to Michael instead.  I
was born September 25, 1968.  If you still need a historian for the
Asimov expedition, I can try to fill the bill, as history is what I
got my BA in and is one of my primary interests.  I'm afraid I'm
currently studying to be a lawyer."  Michael looks around nervously,
uncomfortably aware that recent popularity polls placed lawyers
somewhere between plague bacilli and members of Congress.
	"As Snark can attest, my primary drink and basic life-support
system is Diet Coke.  When I do drink something alcoholic, it's
generally a mixed drink which masks the taste of the alcohol, such
as a screwdriver or kamikaze.
	"Aside from that, there's not much else to tell.  Who I
am will become more apparent from what I have to say than from
any self-description.  But I did wish to offer my congratulations
on what you've achieved here."

	Michael finishes the remainder of his Diet Coke off and
considers.  "I suppose I should finish off with some sort of
toast.  `To moderation?'  No.  The whole point is that many
people are hardly moderate in their views.  `To reasoned discussion?'
No.  Too clumsy...

	Michael step up to the line:

	"To civility, decency, kindness and tolerance-- would
that every place had so much of it."

	He tosses the glass into the fireplace.


-- 
Michael S. Schiffer, LHN, FCS	"Never let your sense of morality prevent
mss2@midway.uchicago.edu	 you from doing what's right!"
mike.schiffer@um.cc.umich.edu	 --Mayor Salvor Hardin of Terminus
mss2@usite-next.uchicago.edu     Isaac Asimov, _Foundation_
From: sjane@bmers248.bnr.ca (sjs)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: All mind and no heart?
Keywords: compassion
Date: 10 Apr 92 21:34:05 GMT
Organization: Irrelevant, Ottawa, Canada

In article <1992Apr10.153419.6433@midway.uchicago.edu> moh2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <1992Apr9.191453.29819@cco.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
>
>>"Consider the following:   Shared
>>pain is lessened ONLY IF THE PERSON EXPERIENCING THE PAIN FREELY CHOOSES TO
>>SHARE IT.  
>
>Kateri cheers, "Well said!"
>
>	"When someone you loves is in pain, your first instinct is to try to 
>heal them, of course.  With our culture the way it is, the general rule seems
>to be to try to talk it out.  While that can work, and you probably should 
>make the offer, if they say they don't want to talk about it, listen to them!
>Let it drop until *they* bring it up again."

sjane pops up from her lurking spot and exclaims, "Gee, that sure strikes a
nerve, but what gets me is not so much 'talking about' the problem, its the
advice offered to solve the problem!

Y'see, when I'm depressed and complaining about something, I'm looking for
Compassion, not some quick fix-it scheme.  If some poor soul suggests a fix for
me, I just get mad at them because (in my depressed, negative state) I see it
as an indication that the other person thinks I can't fix the problem myself
("So you think I'm stupid, do you?") !!

Ahhh, logic, whither goest thou when the clouds of depression lurk upon my
brow?

However, today is sunny and warm (well, 10C is warm after winter!) and my
first snowdrops have poked a hole in the snow & where the snow has melted
next to the house the crocuses (crocii?) are sprouting up.  :) :) :)

And the robins are here and the red-winged blackbirds :) 
--
It's not irrelevant; it's a hippopotamus.   sjane@BNR.CA
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: pierce@navo.navy.mil (Jim M. Pierce)
Subject: Re: The Handmaid's Tale
Reply-To: pierce@navo.navy.mil (Jim M. Pierce)
Organization: POPS Operations
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 09:53:43 GMT
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-6140]: spop.navo.navy.mil

In article <1992Apr12.191404.10707@cs.rose-hulman.edu>, lindercs@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU (Galadin (Craig Linderoth)) writes:
[ quit a bit deleted to get to one point..]

|> 	As for the case of government control, I am trying to get across the
|> idea of the counselors and such as being a voice for the fetus that he/she does
|> not have.  As such, it would be that every case was handled individually.  Oh,
|> and please do not call us busybodies, I believe that in Callahans we were above
|> stereotyping.
|> 

   "Actually Galadin, I wasn't stereotyping you. I was pointing out
 that people who shove their religious beliefs at other people are
 busybodies. People { debateable } like Jerry Fallwell, Operation
 Rescue, etc. They seem to think, and I have listened to them, that
 they hold the only truth there is. I don't have to follow them to
 get into what I believe is heavan.

     You are doing okay in discussing your beliefs. I don't agree, but
  that okay. We are having a reasoned discussion. I don't feel that
  I have any real argument with you, we just disagree.

     I have to go, my boss needs this machine, later, JimP.

-- 
 
                 pierce@navo.navy.mil Jim Pierce
   jmpierce0smcp6.bitnet@vm.tcs.tulane.edu
'now where did I put that dictionary ...' me :-)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: pamela@keps.kodak.com (Pamela Blalock)
Subject: Re: A stressful winter
Organization: Kodak Electronic Printing Systems
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 21:54:14 GMT

In article <rr9stINN8cc@agate.berkeley.edu> erikred@ocf.berkeley.edu (Erik Nielsen) writes:
>In article <1992Apr3.210837.13728@keps.kodak.com> pamela@keps.kodak.com (Pamela Blalock) writes:
>}Cheers ... CRASH ... Boy that felt good ... Hey Mike, a round of
>}stress-free for any who are interested ON ME.
>
>The giant motions towards Mike.  "I'll have one of those, thanks...  assuming
>you'll take one of these."  With that, he offers her a giant's hug.


Well thank you very much, and thanks to everyone else who sent hugs
(virtual and otherwise) Of course, just as I was getting back into net
life, I had a problem with my account where lots of mail seems to have
bounced, so if you tried to get in back touch with me and mail
bounced, I seem to be back on line again. Sorry

All of my the net problems, unfortunately caused me to miss out on the
start of another Birthday Party. So Happy Birthday to Danger Mouse a
bit late. Tell me do people age inversely down under???



-- 
Pamela Blalock                                     pamela@keps.kodak.com
Kodak Electronic Printing Systems, Inc             4 down, 8 to go!
164 Lexington Road, Billerica, MA 01821-3984       Darn, we got in!
From: Elizabeth.Mccoy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Elizabeth Mccoy)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: I FINALLY GOT IT EVERYBODY!!!
Date: 6 Apr 92 23:39:45 GMT
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service


>[Toothpick got a job. :-)]
>[She's happy about it.]

T'Kee grins.  "Congrats!"

--
   The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of
     North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
        Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
           internet:  bbs.oit.unc.edu or 152.2.22.80
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Week from hell...
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 18:03:54 GMT

In <204636@unix.cis.pitt.edu> seawasp+@pitt.edu (Ryk E Spoor) writes:

>	
>	The Wasp sniffles, coughs, and sighs. "However, I am now having a
>nasty health problem... it's been hanging on for quite some time now,
>and I'm starting to fear that it's MONO..."

>                                 Sea Wasp
>                                   /^\
>                                   ;;;

even though she is relatively sure sea wasp will hate it
kitten immediately goes into "mom mode" (just ask didi about kitten in
mom mode) and starts fussing.  "i'll bet you are gaming to much,
studying to late and not eating right.  she shakes her head and gets a
cup of hot tea from the bar.  "drink this."  she wraps a rainbow
covered afghan around the wasp...ignoring his growls.

--
***************************************************************************
conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten           /\ /\  barbara ann 
"my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?"      {=.=}
                                              ~   trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu 

"kittens today are not properly trained--the way that they were when
victoria reigned." asparagus (gus: the theatre cat)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Subject: Re: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Co.
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Distribution: world,local
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 06:36:27 GMT

In article <1992Apr17.020712.25326@muddcs.claremont.edu>, uribe@jarthur.claremont.edu (Soprano) writes:
>"Tell her to make me a cambric shirt,
> Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
> With neither seam nor needlework,
> If she would again my true love be.

Doable with modern technology.

>"Tell him to clear me an acre of land,
> Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
> And grow me wheat from grains of sand,
> Then I will be his true love again.

Still impossible.

>"Tell her to wash my shirt in a well,
> Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
> Where no water runs nor rain ever fell,
> If she would again my true love be.

Dry clean it!

>"Thresh the wheat with an old shoe sole,
> Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
> And store it all in a little mouse hole,
> And I will be his true love again.

Still not possible, at least for any reasonable amount of wheat.

>women [men] (last line is unison)
>"Tell him that when he's done his work,
> 	[I'll gather the wheat in a bottomless sack,]
> Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
>	[Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,]
> Come on to town and get his shirt,
>	[And bring it home on a butterfly's back,]
> Then we shall be true lovers again."

Sounds like confirmation that women's expectations of men have always been
unreasonable, compared to men's expectations of women :-).
From: pierce@navo.navy.mil (Jim M. Pierce)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: correct myself Re: Books to build a civilization...
Date: 13 Apr 92 01:38:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Apr13.013806.19066
Reply-To: pierce@navo.navy.mil (Jim M. Pierce)
Organization: POPS Operations
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-15169]: spop.navo.navy.mil

In article <1992Apr13.012355.14796@cs.tulane.edu>, pierce@navo.navy.mil (Jim M. Pierce) writes:
|> |> book of formulas and such; unless I miss my guess, you're thinking of Hensley's
|>    "Thats the title, 'Hensley's Formulas.' Only it is 'translated' By that
|>  I mean that many of the formulas use terms that have changed their
|>  meaining or they are no longer in use. I have read it, but thats what I've
|>  been told about it.
|> 
    It would be nice if I kept a better watch on my grammer. 'Here grammer!'

    Anyway, I meant to say: Only it isn't translated. By that I mean that
  many of the formulas use terms that have changed their meaning or they
  are no longer in use. I have not read it, but thats what I've been told
  about it. Now what I posted makes a little more sense.

|>      pierce@navo.navy.mil  Jim Pierce aka Nick D.

-- 
     pierce@navo.navy.mil  Jim Pierce aka Nick D.
    "I want a new duck...." Weird Al Yankovic
From: vad276g@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen McNamara)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: balrog meets Tizrak !
Date: 2 Apr 92 13:42:41 GMT
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.


   The brumby mentioned this thread to his wife and the results were
electrifying.

>>Tizrak does indeed start laughing.  "I must tell my parents about this.
>>That's the first time in years that I've been grounded!"
>
>Danger Mouse shakes his head in disgust. "That's the most shocking pun
>I've seen for a long time, Tizrak."

   "I just wanted to say while this is current that that was one of the most
revolting puns I've ever heard. This kind of thing amperes civilised
discussion and makes me want to go ohm. Your capacity for such things
breaks down my resistance. I should set a copper on you. Watt power is
required to bring you to earth? I almost diode when I realized who had
generated this line. However, I shall switch topics before I get my shorts
in a circuit.


-- 
     The Silver Brumby of      vad276g@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (till Apr 13)
      the Silicon Plains           brumby@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au

      The grass is always greener on the other side of the network.
From: JMPIERCE@USMCP6.BITNET (JIM PIERCE)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Arthur C. Clarke is Alive folks !!!
Date: 8 Apr 92 00:36:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: USM.920407.18362148.070824


 In a recent newsletter from the company that makes 'Distant Suns',
a planetarium program, they state that he is using the above
program in a book of his. As of 5 weeks ago, he was alive and
working on the last part of the book. So he is definately alive !!
 Later...

* <JMPIERCE@USMCP6.BITNET> Jim Pierce; Bach. Sci. in Applied Computer Science
* USM Academic Computing on the Gulf Park Campus. Disclaimer: Standard.
* "Women are People, *not* property." me