From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jason)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: wow, delilah tries a SECOND post
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Date: 27 Jan 1993 20:33:04 GMT
Organization: the Polyhedron Group
Distribution: world
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In article <2B66DE5F.6328@news.service.uci.edu>, eaeu282@orion.oac.uci.edu
(Ching-I Chen) wrote:
> >Jason looks over at Delilah from where he is sitting in the hot tub. Next
> >to him is a sleepy-eyed feline/human woman. "Oh good, you're awake again.
> >Welcome to Callahans, Delilah. I liked your first post. Especially the part
> >about the 'Dan Quayle' drink. I just bought a round for everyone in the
> >house. What's your pleasure?"
> 
> 	Delilah blinks a few times, pondering the question.  "Are we
> speaking aesthetically or recreationally?  For pleasure, you see, is a
> relative term... I'll have to contemplate that one before I can even come
> with an answer of any kind."  She wipes a speck of dust off her Clinton-Gore
> button.  "By the way, how exactly does this string of posts work?  Do you
> add to one or the other..."  Realizing her question is of course, confusing,
> she rolls her eyes and shakes her head.  "Dumb question, I know, I know," she
> mumbles.  "As usual, I'm lost.  Pay no attention to me."

"But I -want- to pay attention to you." Jason smiles again.

"As to your pleasure, I was asking what you would like to drink. This -is-
a virtual bar, after all. And I'm celebrating a bit and bought a drink for
each person reading that particular thread. It doesn't have to be
alcoholic, but it can be. Mike, he's the big Irish bartender over there, he
can get you just about any drink you can imagine, and a few you probably
can't imagine, for that matter."

He pauses a moment to scratch behind the ears of the feline woman next to
him in the hot tub. He's in his early 30's or so, with shoulder length
brown hair tied back in a short pony-tail, and a close cropped, dark brown
beard. His eyes are blue. In general, he seems to be a rather normal
caucasian human, from what you can see of him. Which isn't much, since he's
up to his armpits in bubbling hot water.

The woman next to him is only part human, seems mostly asleep, and is
-purring- like a housecat. Which is probably appropriate, since she has
short, downy, golden brown fur covering her skin, and the ears and whiskers
one would expect of a housecat. The hair on her head is shoulder length,
and a rather unusual shade of cyan blue, with white highlights. Her eyes
are blissfully closed.

On the other side of her is a caucasian human woman, with a mass of dark
hair tied up in a bun on top of her head. She has brown eyes, and is
wearing a silver necklace with a charm in the shape of a Pegasus on it.

The man speaks again. "Alow me to introduce ourselves. The woman next to me
with the furr is Thyra, a friend of mine. The woman on the other side of
her is my wife, Pegasus. I'm Jason. We've been regulars here since last
August or so."

"As to how strings of posts work, think of each string (or thread) as a
conversation going on in the room. So long as the topic remains generally
the same, keep the same title. It helps in keeping track of who's talking
to whom. If the topic gets changed, for example if we got off introductions
and started discussing woodworking, or some other topic, one of us should
change the title of the new posts appropriately."

He moves over and places his head on his arms, on the rim of the tub
closest to Delilah.

"You generally only want to quote as much of the previous post as is
necessary to retain continuity. Some folks have to read this stuff by
rather slow modems, and don't appreciate re-reading stuff they've read
before, to get just a few lined of new conversation."

"Oh, and on this newsgroup, adding narrative material like I've done, to
flesh out the actions and appearances of the participants, is part of the
fun. It's not required, but it makes things more interesting."

"Does that help? And what would you like for that drink?"

Jason