HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Greetings
Reply-To: aaron@space.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 02:27:10 GMT

brumby@nella11.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen McNamara) writes:
:    The brumby looks up from the fireplace with a start, and for a few
: moments looks a little more alert.
: 
: u906451@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (Agamemnon) writes:
: >ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz) writes:
:      ^^^ (Am I the only one who thinks this is apt? :-)
: >>Abner sneaks in (between plane flights) to welcome the new vict(oops) 'member'.
: >The difference between vict(oops) 'member' is slight. :)
: >>Hmmm.  Named Damien, from Tasmania.  It's a Tasmanian Devil!  =8)
: >No, I am not a marsupial about a foot and half long, 6 inches high and the 
: >shoulders, coloured black and white and has the strength in my jaws to crack
: >the bones of carrion. :)
: 
:    "Well, it seems that I am no longer the southern-most patron of the bar.
: It would be interesting to know who occupies the other cardinal points
: though."

"I'll open bids for Northernmost(unless someone else has already--I don't feel
like looking ahead to check).  Edmonton, Alberta, 53.5 degrees North Latitude.
(I learnt that in Astronomy class.  ;-})  Fairly northern for Canada, but maybe
not as much so for Europe.  Heck, most of Britain is probably north of me...
can I be Northernmost North American?"

--
---Alfvaen(Canadian SF Quasi-Activist)
"What have I done to piss the gods off?"  ---Terence Trent D'Arby
Current Album--Aztec Camera:Knife
Current Read--John Updike:Rabbit, Run
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From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: A Returning...
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 23:24:41 GMT



>	The door opens to a cold, damp day, and in walks Raven.  He looks
>around the bar, and realizes that he hardly knows anyone here anymore.  Shad up
>in the rafters, Cynic, Kitten, Aahz, DM, and a few others, but the Place has
>mostly completely new people. "Wow," he says.  "It's like totally starting over
>again, I don't know anybody.  Has it really been that long?"  It has actually,
>been about eight months since he was consistently present here.  

[    ]

>eyes, and pale skin.  "My name, as you might have guessed is Raven, and i used
>to patronize this wonderful place, but haven't recently.  First I had no time,
>then I fell in love (am still in love but have more time), and just sort of
>drifted away. Anyway, I am back now, and it's good to be here."

>He wanders over to a shadowy booth with his whisky, and sits there noodling on
>his guitar, playing depressing ballads. 


kitten, who LOVES depressing ballads, sits near raven,
listening..."welcome back, raven...and congratulations on  falling in
love."  kitten has to wait for raven to pause before she can hug him.
--
***************************************************************************
conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten           /\ /\  barbara ann 
"my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?"      {=.=}
                                              ~   trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu 
"perhaps _any_ universe becomes real in proportion 
to the number of people who believe in it and spend time there." s. robinson
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Approriate Gift
Date: 11 Sep 92 19:54:29 GMT
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera

In article <1992Sep11.151622.23439@openage.openage.com>, gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon) writes:
><JDK116@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>
>>"My question, to all around, is rather simple (or so I think). I trust you all
>>will provide interesting and useful responses. You've provided myself and
>>others with adequate counsle in the past and I'm sure it will continue. Ok,
>>Let the games begin! My question is:
>
>>      What is an appropriate item as a pre-engagement gift/ring/token?"
>
>"Being in that engagement stage myself I would think that money would be
>best.  Unfortunately my relatives are all sending picture frames!  Oh
>well, You can win'em all."
>
>The Golden Gryphon welcomes Jack back, and offer to buy him a drink.

Er, Gryphon?  I think Jack was asking what would be an appropriate thing to
give to someone he's thinking he might one day ask to marry.
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From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Subject: Re: Stumpy visits Aus - Part 2
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 03:19:13 GMT

In article <1992Sep8.222427.15144@ucc.su.OZ.AU>, mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar) writes:
>Hmmm... Stumpy missed mentioning the fact that we've just come back from 
>watching _Lethal_Weapon_3_ in town. We happened to run into a group of six 
>friends of mine inside the cinema, so we sat in a wonderful rowdy group 
>(although we settled down once the movie started). Strangely, the eight of 
>us were the only ones who applauded the Daffy Duck cartoon before the 
>film...

Cartoon trivia time again.  I think I might've asked this one before, but here
goes:  What was the song that Daffy Duck sang in his very first cartoon?

>Ftww and I headed back to the city for a
>very early (6am) pancake breakfast. The waitress greeted us with, "You're up
>early." We replied in unison, "No, we're up late."

Hmmm.  Diabetes does strange things to people, I guess.  Before I was diagnosed
as having diabetes, breakfast for me usually happened around 10:00 am.  Since
the diagnosis, breakfast is usually 6:00 am (it has to do with planning one's
meals so they fit in with one's insulin injections [yes, I'm back on insulin; 
I've already told Kitten about it, and will probably fill the rest of you in
sometime soon;  suffice it to say for now that I spent most of a week in
hospital <but, on the bright side, it's now been over three weeks since my last
cigarette>]) (I've been known to get to the coffee shop before the cook).
From: dirbze@doc.bmd.trw.com
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Guess who's come in for Dinner...
Date: 9 Sep 92 13:38:18 MST

In article <1992Sep9.154538.28370@nmsu.edu>, jgoodric@dante.nmsu.edu (GOODRICH)
 writes:


OK, I give up... who came for dinner??  [hehehehe..]

Hugs & Grins!

Dirbze!

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From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Subject: Re: libertarianism
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Distribution: alt
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 19:16:55 GMT

In article <1992Sep7.1202.14332@dosgate>, "dalton spence" <dalton.spence@canrem.com> writes:
>S-N-M, listening to the discussion about Libertarianism, shakes his
>head.  Wandering (I do a lot of that, don't I?) over to the bar, he
>asks "Mike, you wouldn't happen to have..."  Mike reaches behind the
>bar and pulls out a compact parachute.  Donning it, S-N-M says
>sheepishly to the bemused patrons, "I think the soapboxes might get
>a little high about this."  Assuming his best declamitory stance, he
>begins.
>
>"In <1992Sep1.143233.29614@cco.caltech.edu>, Speaker-to-Minerals
>said the following about Re: Libertarianism...
>
>>Vitamin A can be toxic in large doses, but the company selling vitamins
>>fails to disclose this information to you.  How to redress the problem?
>
>SS>Caveat emptor.
>
>That doesn't redress the problem.  What might do so would be a
>successful civil suit for damages against the company.  This would
>set a legal precedent regarding the responsability of companies to
>adequately inform their customers about the correct and safe usage
>of their products.  This approach does NOT require new laws or
>regulations from the government, but it DOES require a fair and
>equitable court system.

Damn near anything's dangerous in large doses.  If the company did something
like suggesting that large doses of vitamin A are beneficial, THEN there'd be
reason for a suit against the company.  If the company recommended a reasonable
dose and some moron decided "If one pill a day is good, 10 a day must be
great," that's NOT the company's fault, and the company shouldn' be held
liable.

>>If you have a government-run court system, then that requires taxes
>>if you select "fair and equitable access to courts" as a criterion.
>
>SS>Nonsense.  Just require that whomever loses a case pay the court
>SS>costs.
>
>It would mean that the only people who would avail themselves of the
>court system would be those who could afford to lose, and those who
>have nothing left to lose.

Don't forget those who have strong cases.

>It would discourage the little guy from
>ever going to court, unless the outcome was so certain that the
>opponent would settle out-of-court anyway.

This doesn't follow.  The same argument says that the opponent will settle out
of court unless he's so sure of winning that the other guy wouldn't bring suit
in the first place.  What that policy WOULD discourage are frivolous suits.

>The big guys would use
>the court (or the threat of it) as a weapon against smaller opponents
>if it was cost effective to do so.  There goes "fair and equitable
>access".

You don't think they ALREADY do this?
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From: feath@agora.rain.com (Feather)
Subject: The unlurking of Feather
Organization: Open Communications Forum
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 21:24:32 GMT


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From: gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon)
Subject: Re: Y'all are so NICE
Organization: Open Age, Inc.
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 15:53:08 GMT

lower-tony@CS.YALE.EDU (Tony Lower) writes:

>In article <199209101725.AA16094@david.wheaton.edu> clhoerth@david.wheaton.EDU (Cathe L Hoerth) writes:
>>(net access, shmet access...)
>>
>>  My name is
>>Ocelot, by the way, but I also answer to Minx or Kat or Hey You.  Mike,
>>make mine a Dr. Pepper, in the can, really cold."
>>					---Ocelot
>>"I'm not hip enough to have a sig. file"

>  Manx looks up from the corner where he has been brooding over pages
>and pages of code.  "You answer to Minx?  Oh God... this is sure to
>end in trouble..."

The Golden Gryphon pipes in with, "If you two have kits would that make'em
Manx Minx Mix?"

DUCK!!!

-- 
The Golden Gryphon 				gryphon@openage.COM
Solve a man's problem and he has 1 less.        No incumbents in 92.
Teach a man to think, and all his problems are less.
Openage - The Premier SCO UNIX integrator in the Washington D.C. area
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From: JMPIERCE%USMCP6.bitnet@VM.TCS.Tulane.EDU (JIM PIERCE)
Subject: Hurricane Iniki and Hawaii
Organization: Yale CS Mail/News Gateway
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 05:32:35 GMT


  As the usual laughter, discussion, and puns permeate The Place,
DJ looks off to he west. And worries about Space Cadet and Spacey over
in the Hawaiian Islands. Lauai Island is really getting it ! It looks
like Oahu Island isn't as bad off. Winds of 165 Knots at landfall.
The major winds of the hurricane completely covered Lauai.

   Yes, it should be mostly over by the time you read this...

"To safety !"

 <crash !>

  { I'm just glad I'm not at sea ! }


* <JMPIERCE@USMCP6.BITNET> Jim "DJ." Pierce; Bach. Sci. in Appl. Comp. Sci.
* USM Academic Computing on the Gulf Park Campus. Disclaimer: Standard.
* "I'm a computer operator and I'm Ok !" me.
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From: cevans@nyx.cs.du.edu (clay evans)
Subject: This, that and the other thang
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix (sponsored by U. of Denver Math/CS dept.)
Disclaimer1: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University of
Disclaimer2: Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
Disclaimer3: control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 17:22:40 GMT

     The Doctor looks up from Table 82. "No, no. Patrick Troughton (Doctor
#2) and William Hartnell are the only Doctors dead. BTW, welcom back
everyone. Mike, a round for the house on me!"

     The Doctor steps up to the chalk line. "Ahem, to you friendly
neighborhood weatherman! Long may he reign!"

***CRASH***

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From: lunisea@netcom.com (Stephanie Alford)
Subject: Re: Congratulations SEA ! re: In which SEA finds a job
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 02:20:39 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

In article <1992Sep9.005033.27027@ucc.su.OZ.AU> pope@physics.su.OZ.AU (The Nightstalker) writes:
>"My newsfeed as always sucks, but here goes.  *Hug*  Congrats Sea!"
>
"Thanks Nightstalker!  Mike, I'll have a glass of Anderson's White
Zin, at Nightstalker's expense."

Hugs to you Nightstalker and I'm glad you're back!

SEA
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: survey
Date: 15 Sep 92 01:28:19 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana


kitten finally decides it's time to answer this thing....
 
Current Name: barbara ann robinson byrnes trumpinski
Alter Ego: kitten/conan the librarian
Birth Date: march 6, 1955--anniversary of the day the alamo fell
Birthplace:chanute afb, rantoul, illinois.
Residence: champaign, illinois
Sex: a great goodness
Gender: female
Sexual: bi 
Marital Status: once divorced, twice married 
Offspring: 3 step children (heather, brad, lee) 1 son-in-law, 2 cats
Siblings: 3 sisters, 1 brother living, 1 brother not 
Blood Type: O+
Hair: light blonde
Eyes: blue
Height: 5'3"
Dominant Brain Hemisphere: damaged :)
Physical Deformities: slight limp when i am tired, glasses, small scar
under right breast
Music Preferences: anything but opera....but i really like "white girl
with guitar" (folk music) 
Favorite Books: little women, stranger in a strange land, gone with
the wind, the hobbit, a wrinkle in time...but i will read the back of
a cereal box if there is nothing else available
Pet Peeves: fleas
Favorite Movies: many....gone with the wind i guess
Least Favorite Activities: housework
Most Favorite Activites: sex, being with friends
Quotes: "my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?" (i stole this) 
Hobbies: reading, crochet, collecting young men, the net
Political Affiliation: recovering college republican
Allergies: none really, but i can't eat coconut and the older i get
the more trouble i have with my sinuses
Occupation: library technician (circulation--ag library, university of
illinois, u-c)
Favorite Foods: chocolate 
What I regret most: hurting ANYONE
Favorite TV shows: all my children
Parting words: later....hugs, i love you


--
***************************************************************************
conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten           /\ /\  barbara ann 
"my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?"      {=.=}
                                              ~   trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu 
"perhaps _any_ universe becomes real in proportion 
to the number of people who believe in it and spend time there." s. robinson
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From: uribe@jarthur.claremont.edu (Lydia Uribe)
Subject: Re: Food, Glorious Food
Organization: Claremont Shelter for Maladjusted Singers
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 05:06:28 GMT

In article <Bu6nGA.xJ.2@cs.cmu.edu> spok+@cs.cmu.edu (John Ockerbloom) writes:

>As John walks toward the tables, he opens the lids of the various
>containers, announcing "I've got pork dumplings, spicy mussels, sesame
>bread, and --- hmm, looks like hot & sour soup.  And there's more
>stuff in Grapevine's cart," he says, gesturing over to a nearby table,
>where Grapevine has already removed the cover on a rice container.
>"And that tea" (he says, glacing over toward Mike) "should be ready
> pretty soon too."
>
>"Who'd like some?"

Soprano's nose comes out of the opera score she's been studying and starts
to twitch as it senses the wonderful aromas which are starting to waft
throughout the Place.  Putting down the score, she drifts over towards John
and Grapevine, looking hungry.

"John, Grapevine -- thank you both.  That both looks and smells *heavenly*!
Could I please have some dumplings....and some hot and sour soup....and some
mussels....and you wouldn't by any chance have some fried wontons in there,
would you? ;-)   And Mike, could I have another caffeine-free Pepsi?"

					Soprano

"You're more than beginning -- you're learning to fly;
 You feel like you're falling, but it passes in time...."
			"From Me to You", Janis Ian
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Soprano (Lydia M. Uribe)                      uribe@jarthur.claremont.edu |
| Claremont, CA                                  uribe@hmcvax.claremont.edu |
|           Cats, quilts and diving -- what more could anyone ask?          |
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From: mbr2@quads.uchicago.edu (Curious Of All Natures)
Subject: Gift Story
Reply-To: mbr2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Universtiy of Chicago
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 18:42:52 GMT

Relevant to this is a story I remember my mother telling me long long
ago.  Sorry I haven't retained the flowery prose, all I ever remember
is the gist and the symbolic stuff.  (surprise, surprise)


Two young lovers.  Innocent folk, romantic, very very poor.  His one
treasured item of value was a gold-plated pocket watch.  Hers was her
long, silky smooth beautiful blone hair.  

Christmas comes.  Neither have any money to spare to buy presents.
So... he pawns the watch to buy her a lovely comb.  
And... she sells her hair to a wigmaker to buy him an ornate
watchwinder.


A terribly sad and ironic story, yes?  No!  How wonderful it was for
each, to discover that the other loved them SO MUCH that they would
sell a most treasured belonging for their beloved's happiness.


-Matt Ryan, giver of feelings and messages,
mb-ryan@uchicago.edu                Curious Of All Natures
==================================  ====================================
If I'm dreaming, never let me wake. You'll never see the end of the road
If I'm awake, never let me sleep.   When you're traveling with me.
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From: JMPIERCE%USMCP6.bitnet@VM.TCS.Tulane.EDU (JIM PIERCE)
Subject: Anthony Perkins is Dead.
Organization: Yale CS Mail/News Gateway
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 05:53:29 GMT


  "I was watching the Evening News and they said that Anthony Perkins,
age 62, of Psycho movie fame died today, " DJ.

<crash>


* <JMPIERCE@USMCP6.BITNET> Jim "DJ." Pierce; Bach. Sci. in Appl. Comp. Sci.
* USM Academic Computing on the Gulf Park Campus. Disclaimer: Standard.
* "I'm a computer operator and I'm Ok !" me.
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From: lgold@callahans.Cadence.COM (Lynn Gold)
Subject: Yet another survey form answer
Organization: /mnt4/lgold/.organization
Distribution: alt
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 09:59:42 GMT

Since you insist.... :-)

Current Name: Lynn Ann Gold
Alter Ego: Gayle Alexander (but only if I'm paid for THAT one!)
Birth Date: 7/4/58
Birthplace: Bristol, PA
Residence: Mountain View, CA
Sex: Yes
Gender: Female
Sexual Orientation: Nauseatingly Straight
Marital Status: Paid good money to be single
Offspring: None (unless you count Fuzzball :-) )
Siblings: one brother in NJ, soon to have a sister-in-law and niece or nephew
Blood type: O+
Hair: Gold blonde
Eyes: Blue
Height: 5'2"
Dominant Brain Hemisphere: Northern
Physical Deformities: Too short for my weight
Music Preferences: Filk, Novelty, Comedy
Favourite Books: SF, Humor, Biographical, Reference
Pet Peeves: People who go out of their way to convince me that reality
isn't, people who smile when they're giving me bad news
Favourite Movies: None in particular
Least Favourite Activities: Housework, running, programming, indexing
Most Favourite Activities: Filking, broadcasting, socializing, playing with
Fuzzball, spending time with my boyfriend, eating, drinking
Quotes that can be attributed to me: "If the shoe fits, it's ugly", "The CHP
doesn't know whether to call it 'Bambi' or 'venison,' but it's in the #1 lane
on northbound 101 at McKee Road."
Hobbies: Filking, broadcasting, food & drink, writing
Political affiliation: Democrat (they had a more interesting primary in CA)
Allergies: Penicillin, sulfa drugs, mushrooms, bell peppers, green beans,
bananas
Occupation: Tech Writer/Traffic Reporter
Favourite Foods: Anything spicy
What I regret most: Not going into broadcasting professionally until I was in
my 30s and too old to live on a broadcaster's salary
Favourite TV shows: Red Dwarf, ST:TNG, the news
Parting words: I'll leave that one for Fuzzball.

--Lynn
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From: dasher@well.sf.ca.us (D Anton Sherwood)
Subject: Re: Jon Pertwee
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 05:01:36 GMT

In article <1992Sep4.135628.1513@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> cevans@nyx.cs.du.edu (clay evans) writes:
>     The Doctor speaks up from Table 82: " Has anyone heard about Jon
>Pertwee reportedly collapsin from pneumonia? Is this a rumor, or has it
>indeed happened? If it has happened, how's he doing?"

I thought he died years ago.

-- 
Anton Sherwood *\\* dasher@well.sf.ca.us *\\* +1 415 664 2229
Libertarian candidate for California Assembly, 12th district
Opinions mine, but available for lease at easy terms.
From: steve@Advansoft.COM (Steve Savitzky)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: When packrats move . . .
Date: 10 Sep 92 16:36:07 GMT
Organization: Advansoft Research Corp, Santa Clara, CA

"You *count* your books?" says the Mandelbear.  "Mostly I measure them
by the foot.  And we've been in the same house *16* years, though
we've been through a remodel that was almost as bad as a move.  (They
say that three moves equal one fire; I can believe it.)  Good luck."
--steve
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From: keulen@possum.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Mike van Keulen)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: A timid entrance
Date: 13 Sep 92 13:38:24 GMT
Organization: Murdoch University

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

>>I'm generally not a cat person, although I get on well with most animals
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>... I guess being an aquatic vegetarian is not the best qualification for
>>dealing with cats :-)

>>Splash!

>kitten sniffs at this comment from splash...."now, i would NEVER have
>guessed that you aren't a cat person," she says...."at least, you've
>always been nice to me."

Sorry kitten!  No offense intended - it's just that I generally attract dogs
rather than cats, for some odd reason.  When I have met cats they haven't had
any problems with me (I actually half owned a cat for several years, ironically
named Mouse, but that's another story), nor I with them; they do have a
tendency to try to eat my ankles though ...   can you explain perhaps?  :-)

Splash!

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