HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Cook-kies...
Date: 15 Dec 1992 20:31:22 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au

[Alfvaen wrote ]

>"Notable events...I broke a wooden spoon in vigorous stirring of the sugar and
>margarine in the first stage of the mixing.  I didn't know you could >do< that.

I'm impressed ... we were threatened with the wooden spoon as kids ...
maybe that threat was emptier than we thought.  Come to think of it, I
actually was on the receiving end of the wooden spoon once, and it didn't
break - maybe it was a heavy duty spoon?

>"We wrapped most of our presents tonight, too, except for the one that seems
>to have gone missing.  After a short and frantic search, we've concluded that
>we must have left them in the story by mistake.  Ah, well--we'll just have to
                               ^^^^^ 
                                 ^-- maybe you'll have to read them again!
  
>buy them again.  They weren't >that< expensive, just a couple of cute tree
>decorations..."

Splash!

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		Splash!		*To love is to LIVE!*
   (aka Mike van Keulen -- e-mail: keulen@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: henry@netcom.com (Henry Polard)
Subject: Re: INTRODUCTION: Knight and day
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 22:31:47 GMT

In article <JBrandt-131292104012@aaa.uoregon.edu> JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Thyra) writes:
>A golden-furred woman with the ears, whiskers and tail of a cat is seated
>at the next table, enjoying a Brandy Alexander. She's wearing a black
>velver minidress, and a matching velvet choker set with a single sapphire.
>"Welcome Henry! I'm Thyra. Always glad to meet new friends. 

Henry turns to Thyra and says, "Thank you! I am delighted to meet
you."

> But I noticed a
>small problem with your post. It's one Jason and I had when we first used a
>Macintosh word processor to prepare our posts. If you have the 'smart
>quotes' feature active, those typographers single and double quotes get
>garbled by the newsgroup. It only understands standard ASCII characters,
>not the extended set used by Macintosh (and I assume Windows) applications,
>even in their 'text only' formats. Turn smart quotes off, and your posts
>will be a lot easier to read." She purrs loudly, and settles back into her
>chair. Her tail switches gently back and forth by her ankles.

Henry checks his quotidians and says, "I think I've got things
straightened out. My line is very noisy right now, so I'll log off.
I look forward to talking with you further."
From: keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Feed
Date: 14 Dec 1992 20:14:28 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au

aaron@atlantis.uucp writes:

>Alfvaen sighs, mumbling to himself once again, "Beggars can't be choosers..."
>Then, in a louder voice, he says, "Well, it seems that the feed here is a bit
>strange.  I didn't think it would be, since it's direct from the U. of A. feed,
>which I almost always found satisfactory, but...today, on the 12th, I haven't
>seen anything from later than the 10th which I didn't post myself.  What's
>more, I just got a batch of 8 new posts--from Liralen, in Seattle, from the
>9th.  So if I seem to be a bit out of it, that's why.

Heh-heh ... welcome to the wonderful world of Net-lag.  Today (Monday Dec.
14th) I've been reading posts from as far back as December 4!  On the
other hand, I'm also reading yours, dated the 13th.  Beats me how it
works.  I wouldn't have a clue on how long it takes my posts to get
through, but I'd say it varies from same day to a week or more.

>"It's far, far, far, infinitely, better than nothing.

Very true!

>"I'm also sad that I won't be able to make my planned return to HoloMUCK, no
>longer being on the Internet...ah, well.  Later, perhaps.  Snark, maybe you
>can move my house into storage or something...but you can keep the Art Museum
>if you want."

BTW, what _is_ HoloMUCK?  People keep mentioning it, and it sounds
fascinating, but how do I find it?

Splash!

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		Splash!		*To love is to LIVE!*
   (aka Mike van Keulen -- e-mail: keulen@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Subject: Re: Utopiae (Was: Amanda wants to be a Kesh)
Reply-To: "Brandon S. Allbery" <kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org>
Organization: The NutHouse
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 16:52:10 GMT

On Sun, 13 Dec 1992 07:47:39 GMT, "Michael S. Schiffer" <mss2@kimbark.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> it.  A single central government like Niven's UN would by its nature
> become more constricting, a scientific psychology would lend itself to
> a truly horrendous tyranny, and that long world peace would either be
> shattered by fanatics or the fanatics would be `cured'-- and I'm not
> sure I _like_ the idea of government `psychists' deciding who needs to
> be cured.

Check out the MAN-KZIN WAR books.  Granted that most of the historical
background is given in the Pournelle stories and is therefore a bit suspect,
nevertheless the "Golden Age" starts to look downright threatening.

> civilization.  For those who don't get involved in a story, life seems
> fairly pleasant and interesting, one has a choice of places to live
> from the very civilized and comfortable to the newest of colony

It has occurred to me that we *never* see how Everyman lives in Known Space.
There are various remarks in various stories hinting that boosterspice is
rather expensive, so we can assume that the common man/woman doesn't have
access to it.  And the characters in Niven' stories are essentially the
"elite".  Are you *sure* you want to chance it?

++Brandon
-- 
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From: keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: seduction
Date: 17 Dec 1992 21:30:12 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au

maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary with-a-Tail) writes:

>Enya. Clannad. Something that can fade off into the background, and 
>preferably where you don't have to get up to take the record off 
>*grin*

Yep, Enya and Clannad sound good to me too.  You could always try a CD
player that repeats (or a record player that repeats - auto-reverse tape
player?), but then, you can get a shock sometimes when the music starts up
again  :-)

Splash!


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		Splash!		*To love is to LIVE!*
   (aka Mike van Keulen -- e-mail: keulen@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: I Froze in California
Date: 17 Dec 1992 03:25:26 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Distribution: world
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <1g66jpINNa2j@gap.caltech.edu>, ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz) writes:
=Abner thinks for a second, then remembers something.  "Oh, one of the reasons
=I'm chuckling ...  I just found out that my furnace has broken down!  In the
=meantime, I have no heat ...  I'm an east-coaster, so I'll survive, but until
=then I really am freezing in California!"

??????????  I've been thinking that maybe, in a month or so, if it gets
considerably colder, it might be time to think about lighting my furnace.
From: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: The Ritual for Didi Begins.... NOW!
Date: 11 Dec 92 14:17:36 GMT
Reply-To: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

"Sorry to be late, all..."  Starknight drops in on gravity beams from space.
"I was just out cruising around the asteroid belt, looking for some special
crystals, and that's a lot of space to cover."

(By the way, I think I missed the original post.  Oh well, better late than
never, right?)

"I've spoken to my RL persona, and he's agreed to contact some of his allies in
the spirit world, especially Black Fire, his spirit guide.  He thinks they
can help to channel some healing to the Didi-sprite.  In addition, if you'll
E-mail him the address, he can send some more healing crystals, since he has
access to quite a few in Albuquerque.  In the meantime, let me add my strength
to this circle..."

Starknight assumes the full lotus position, summons up four candles via an
Xwindow, lights them, and joins in the chant, sending thoughts of love and
healing to the Didi-sprite...
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From: ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Jesus and Quantum Physics (was Re: Summing up all of Christianity in one statement...)
Date: 15 Dec 1992 00:30:15 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: degas.wag.caltech.edu

>|> Amanda says ...
>|> >And still people look at me funny when i answer "What religion are you?"
>|> >with "Physics major"....
 
>|> Abner says ...
>|> "Gee, does a follower of physics as a religion come up with apostulates and
>|> theolories?"

>Starknight steps up to the bar.  "Give me a drink, please, Mike."  He steps to
>the line.

>"Here's to the Twelve Disciparticles!"

"Are physics agnosics victims of the Heisenberg Blaspheme?"
From: GE.LJB@forsythe.stanford.edu (Louis J Bookbinder)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: first from fidonet? NO
Date: 14 Dec 1992 07:10:39 -0800
Organization: Stanford University
NNTP-Posting-Host: morrow.stanford.edu

Klunksproing!

"Ooops, have to get that fixed.

"No, you are wrong", contradicts the tin man: "there have been several
patrons from fidonet already:

brenda daverin     bdaverin@clubzen.fidonet.org
???                clubzen.fidonet.org!shakala!jake
mark folse         mark.folse@p911.f421.n109.z1.fidonet.org
michael hughes     michael.huges@computh.fidonet.org
wales larrison     wales.larrison@ofa123.fidonet.org

There may have been more, but I only kept rigorous records for the last
2 years." Nick sits back down at 28x, having annoyed nearby patrons with
this untimely interruption.

Nick Chopper - my opinion? ax not! LB>-}  BOOKY@Forsythe.stanford.edu
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From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: AAAARRRGGGHHHHH
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 04:33:47 GMT



>AAARRRRRGGGGHHHH
>The door burst open as Avec Chapeau storms into the room screaming to
>Mike,"Give a sacrifice Mike and make it a double .....But make it a virgan I
>got a twelve page paper to write on creativity and chaos science." 
>Mikw tosses it to him as Avec makes a screaching stop on the chaulk line, flame
>shooting out from under his Nike's.
>  TO BEING BACK, GOTTA GO, NEWS AT 11
>  <KER-SLAM>
>  Avec Chapeau tears out  of the bar leaving only the bewildered patrons
>(except perhaps didi sprite who might remember me) and the smell for burning
>two year tennies.

au 'voir, avec....and i remember you, too....

welcome back....

kitten notices yet again that people come and go so quickly here.
--
***************************************************************************
conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten           /\ /\  barbara ann 
"my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?"      {=.=}
                                              ~   trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu 
"love is the wild card of existance"
                          rita mae brown

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jpalmer@onetouch.COM (John Palmer)
Subject: Re: Chess match
Organization: MCS/OneTouch, Inc.
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 22:21:32 GMT

alaric@sti.com (Alaric Tekiahyn) writes:

>] of us the game was won by a checkmate by me with a Queen and King verus a King.

>Alaric chuckles, then stops; then looks puzzled; then frowns.  He thinks
>for a moment.

>"I'm a little curious as to exactly how you managed that," he pronounces
>at last.


   There are actually two methods of straight K & Q vs K

  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
A Q   k             A      k
B                   B      Q 
C     K             C    K 
D                   D
E                   E
F                   F
G                   G
H                   H


     In the first, the Q can be anywhere on row A, except 2 and 4 (since the k
can capture.)  In the second, the K can also be in c4 or c5.  The first is also
the standard rook mate.

     Now for a really tough mate:  You can NOT mate with just a knight or a
bishop; you can mate with a rook or a queen.  With just pawns, you'll probably
have an easier time making them queens than trying for a mate. . . 

    It is possible to mate, obviously, with a bisop and knight and any other
non-pawn piece. . . can anyone figure out if it's possible to mate with just a
bishop and a knight?

                                                       John
"Of COURSE I know the answer. . . I had a perfect record on the chess club two
years running."
-- 
John Palmer					jpalmer@onetouch.COM
Columbus, OH					...!uunet!onetouch!jpalmer
From: Eric.Troup@ofa123.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: New Arrival
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 11 Dec 92  12:11:22

The door to Callahan's opens and a large horned head sticks itself
inside.  "Okay if I come in?" a big voice rumbles.  "I just sorta
found this place and was wondering if I could get something to drink
and maybe have some interesting conversations."

... Oxymoron #5: Enough memory.
___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.10

--- Maximus 2.00
From: GE.LJB@forsythe.stanford.edu (Louis J Bookbinder)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Sainthood
Date: 17 Dec 1992 09:21:05 -0800
Organization: Stanford University
NNTP-Posting-Host: morrow.stanford.edu

KLUNK

"$.02 DEPARTMENT:" says Nick, sitting at his table, looking somewhat
sad.

"All this discussion about God and Truth and Science. Now Liralen claims
not to be the Patron Saint of anything. She is right. Like everyone else
here she is not a saint.

"Liralen, like all of us, Thou Art God."

The tin klunker looks around with a puzzled expression. Shrugs (Klank)
and continures.

"I have thought about your friend, Liralen. I sort of feel that the
business of this place is to provide the kind of healing people need.
But not to reach out and hand it to anyone. If your friend comes here
and asks for our hearing and sympathy, we will listen and even provide
sympathy. But we cannot heal the world's hurts. We can only heal
ourselves. He is, of course, welcome to come if he can.

"I think someone else's suggestion to arrange a regular visiting
schedule is a good one. A dying person does not want to be left alone.
To have friends drop in regularly would be a great comfort, to the
family as well.

"I thought, also, it might be nice if he wanted to share some of the
most important things he has learned in his life. His loves and fears,
his regrets, his joys. If he wishes to share these, we can cherish them.

"What else can we do?"

Nick looks around again. "Where did she go? Why did I not notice before?
Where have I been? Where am I?" He rises and wanders into the back room.

"Stan?"
Nick Chopper - my opinion? ax not! LB>-}  BOOKY@Forsythe.stanford.edu
From: alaric@sti.com (Alaric Tekiahyn)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Hats
Date: 18 Dec 1992 20:57:10 GMT
Organization: Software Transformation, Inc.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: smurf.sti.com

In article <1gqrlmINN4e2@smurf.sti.com>, alaric@sti.com (Alaric Tekiahyn) writes:
] Alaric chuckles.

Oh no!  Reduced to following up my own posts!!!

] "One:  A battered, once-brown, now faded to reddish, low-crown hat that
]  is something between a Stetson and a Hardee hat.  It has red artillery
]  cords on it, and it's part of my civil war re-enactor's uniform.

"Slouch hat!!!" he cries triumphantly.
"That's the term I was looking for, I think.  It's a faded, reddish-brown
 felt slouch hat, with artillery cords and crossed cannon."

-- 
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    ......................................................................
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From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: A leaving for good
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 12:45:20 GMT

>Mike a dragon's breath please. [ I am going to need it]
>
>"A toast"
>
>"To friends gone but not forgotten!"
>
><<CRASH!!>>

   <crash!> DJ, Linda, and Robbie.

>Damien.
>
>BTW My account goes today, so this is final. :(

-- 
         Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
                   Video. Cher: Love and Understanding.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: Is it working???????
Keywords: help
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 16:05:11 GMT

   Jack, it seems my computer hasn't heard of your computer. Error
mesage I recieved is below. DJ.

In article <Jack.Crow.3.724514802@cardinal.sc107.wesleyan.edu> Jack.Crow@cardinal.sc107.wesleyan.edu (David Perry) writes:
>um, ok.  it worked, maybe.
>
>Could you write me at 
>	
>	dperry@eagle.wesleya.edu
>
>if you can see this.
>
>please??
>
>One of Jack's Crows.

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From: s9242932@win4.vut.EDU.AU (Chris)
Subject: IRC
Organization: Victoria University Of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 05:03:31 GMT

One thing i forgot to ask :

Do any of you Doods , Doodette's and regulars use IRC on a regular
basis ? how about MU*'s ??

okay , and my personal ultimate world ???
it;s made out of chocolate fudge , and gunpowder doesnt work , 
and the birds will land on your shoulder if you ask nicely =)

pretty idylic , huh ??

**hugz** all round ,

Chris

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar)
Subject: Spheres and Calculus [Re: Cyber (was Introduction was Eh?)]
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 23:45:17 GMT

> [Michael:]
>	"Hmm... but wouldn't an intersection of a hypersphere with a
>plane be a circle?  Or has my mathematical intuition decayed even more
>than I feared?

Danger Mouse nods. "That's a yes to your first question, and a no to
your second. Your intuition on this point seems fine to me. You can
get the intersection of a hypersphere with a plane by restricting the
equation to two variables. You just get the equation of a circle."

>	"The latter wouldn't surprise me any more, though there was a
>time when I considered myself reasonably mathematically adept, and a
>time after that when I at least considered myself pretty good for a
>layman.  (Even at the U of Chicago, where _everyone_ has to take
>calculus, there aren't many history majors who've taken group theory.)

DM is surprised. "Don't you folks in the US learn calculus in high
school? What _do_ you learn in high school mathematics? (To clarify
my point - Australian high school students do learn calculus. Not too
advanced, but enough to solve reasonably tricky problems.)"

>My only question now is whether the decay will go progressively
>backwards, so that in a few years I'll be struggling to remember what
>8 times 5 is.  :-)"

:-) "Why, it's 42, isn't it?"

- Danger Mouse.
From: ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Introduction
Date: 19 Dec 1992 04:56:56 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: degas.wag.caltech.edu

Starknight:
>>"Thanks.  Mike, another glass of grape soda (right) for /*, and I'll have
>>a rum collins.  Put it on my tab."

/*:
>"Thank you very much!  Hmm, a rum collins...  Never had one of those.
>I am *very* fond of vodka collinses, though."  :)

"How about a jackie daniel's collinses?"

(Hmm.  Was that obscure enough?)
From: steve@crc.ricoh.COM (Stephen R. Savitzky)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Travel, Troll-style (long)
Date: 18 Dec 92 01:44:12 GMT
Organization: RICOH California Research Center

"Reminds me a little of my last solo cross-country trip," says the
Mandelbear.  "Only a little, since I was alone at the time, but it was
in November, in an aging yellow Dodge A100 van called 'Zorn's Lemon'.
The most memorable incident was in Wyoming, where I had snow drifts
*inside* the van.  No heater, and the accellerator linkage goes right
through  the airscoop...  Then there was the time the truck I was
trying to pass hit a mud-puddle--no heater = no defroster, either.

"Ah, yes... To Travel"  < C R A S H > -- and let's hope that's not
prophetic! 
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From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Arrival of a Stranger
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 04:23:25 GMT


>    The patrons of Callahans suddenly feel a slight breeze run through the bar
>and look around to see where it's coming from.  They all seem to focus their
>attention to the center of the room as a blue simmering light appears there.
>The light begins to grow and two shapes begin to take form inside the aurora.
>The crowd looks on in interest as the light slowly fades away and the figure
>of a humanoid and a wolf are left in its place.  The figure is clad in a heavy
>blue robe and has the hood drawn over his head hiding his face from view.  Upon
>closer investigation you seem to be able to make out two blue eyes glowing
>faintly from within the hood.  The figures slender hand rests on the head of 
>the grey wolf sitting obediently beside him.  Strangely enough, the wolf's eyes
>also have a faint blue glow to them.  Slowly the figure raises his hands and   
>draws the hood back to reveal the face of an elf.  His face is long and slender
>and has a thoughtful, maybe even sad, expression on his face.  He looks around 
>quietly and turns to address the waiting crowd.
>    "Hello.  My name is Galan and this is my faithful pet Greywolf.  We have 
>heard many things about this place in our travels and decided to come see it 
>for ourselves."  He pats the wolf lovingly on the head.  "I do hope that we're
>not intruding." 

"hi galan..." smiles kitten...scritching greywolf behind the ear.  "no
one is an intruder here...just a friend we haven't met yet."
--
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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 
"love is the wild card of existance"
                          rita mae brown

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