HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus)
Subject: Re: wonderful life
Organization: Data I/O Corporation
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 21:55:44 GMT

In article <BzunHH.Gpt@news.cso.uiuc.edu> trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:
>kitten sniffs and wipes her eyes...."the movie 'it's a wonderful life'
>always does this to me...i love jimmy stewart and this is one of my
>favorite movies...

Liralen wipes a few tears away as well.  Circumspectly.  :)  "Yeah... I got
to see the whole thing for the first time this year, Boxing Day night, I
stayed up 'til 3am just because I was still so completely wound up from the
holidays themselves.  Was crying for the entire ending sequence..." she
grins a crooked grin, "but then I've always cried at happy endings, sad
ones, too.  Endings of all types when I have emotion invested in the
characters involved.  Any story with real players does that to me, I
think."

>...my ideas and opinions on this change, depending on my mood.
>however, 8 times out of 10 i come to the conclusion that i have an
>important place in the world...that it is a better place because i am
>here.  (the other 2 times i think either that a) nobody would miss me
>or b) that at least iwouldn't hurt anyone....but that goes away
>quickly) 

"I'm glad that it goes away quickly." says Liralen, seriously.  "I mean
you've touched a lot of lives, kitten; and one of the lines in the movie
was that *everyone* touches more lives than they ever know.  I know that
logic doesn't really change the emotion or the feeling that you get those 2
times; but, perhaps, from outside, it might help."

>what does everyone else think?  do you all ever wonder what the world
>would be like without you?"  kitten sits back to wait for answers.

Liralen thinks for a bit.  "I don't really know.  I don't think that the
world, as a whole, would be much changed by my not being here; but I also
know that the lives of those that I'm close to would be changed if I
weren't around.  For better or worse, I'm not particularly worried about, I
don't think.  I just know that I've done as much good as I think I can,
though probably less than I actually *could*; but about as much as I
believed I could, which is about the only real measurement I have.  So, no,
I guess I don't really wonder what the world would be like without me..."
-- 
Phyllis Rostykus    | "... and how you feel can make it real  | - _US_
aka Liralen Li      | Real as anything you've seen            |   Peter
li@Data-IO.com      | Get a life with this dreamer's dream."  |   Gabriel
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Gimme a head with (purple) hair ?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:19:37 GMT



>    Philip enters, wearing his normal `street' clothes, though there is a
>predominant colour of red to the pants, shirt and jacket. When his eyes alight
>on kitten (and that happens pretty fast as she DOES stand out) he almost does
>a doubletake. He manages to control himself and strides over to her.
>    "My dear kitten, you look ... different. Wait. Strike that. Reverse it.
>Good. Kitten, you look ravishing. That colour really does suit you! In fact,
>you would look very normal in New York." Philip gives kitten a hug.
>    "I think that you should leave it like that for at least a little while.
>You might get used to it, and I know I will. The great thing about everyone in
>this Place is their ability to adapt. You're still the life of the party you
>know.

kitten blushes, which clashes quite nicely with her hair and freckles...

"amazingly, i have gotten quite a few compliments on it....i am going
to let it fade naturally...i think."

    What is it they say? It doesn't matter what you look like outside, only
>inside and ... Arrrrgggggh"
>    <<<<CRASH>>>>
>    Philip tumbles out from underneath a large number of soapboxes. "All
>right," he demands. "Who put the boxes there? Oh," he looks at the people and
>especially at kitten. Then he turns a bit red and grins. "I guess I did."
>    Philip stumbles over to the bar. "Mike, a drink ..."

kitten helps to dust philip off...and gives mr. callahan a dollar for
his drink.

--
***************************************************************************
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: jammer@eskimo.com (Lyle Harwood)
Subject: Angry
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 09:55:26 GMT


The door burst open, and Warrior leaps through with a roar.
In mid leap, Jammer grabs a handfull of nape and throws Warrior
into a dark corner. (Thank god they have dark corners here.)

Warrior springs to his feet, and takes one step towards Jammer with a
low snarl.

Conversation freezes as a .45 appears in Jammers hand.
He cocks it, and aims at Warrior.

His eyes glitter as he says, quietly,
"Not here. Get into that corner and lie down.
We are here to rest. I WILL end your life.
Lie down, and do it now."

Warrior measures the distance  to Jammer, and then retreats
into the darkness and lays down. The .45 vanishes.

Jammer turns to Mike, and says loudly.
"Mike, I'm sorry. Warrior had a rough day. Lots of things happened,
and he's mad at the world. Since we share a soul, so am I, I guess.
We need your dark corner, and we need enough time for tempers to
calm down. Warrior will have a bowl of half n half, I'll have a mocha.
I'm sorry for the confrontation, serve the house a drink on Warrior.
Let us rest."

Jammer lays a handfull of bills on the bar, and retreats into the
corner.
From: philon@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (George Scott Huggins)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Glass house puns
Date: 12 Jan 93 19:37:22 GMT
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!) writes:


>Following from a now-defunct glass-house joke:

>In a small African village, the new king, after the death of his father,
>wanted to get a queen-size bed to sleep on, since he was sick of sleeping
>on grass mats on the floor.  The trouble with the royal hut was that the
>new bed wouldn't fit at the same time as the throne.  The new king
>suggested removing the throne, but the witch-doctor predicted disaster if
>the throne was moved.  It was decided to tie the throne to the rafters.

>All went well, until one night, three weeks later, when the young king was
>in bed with his third wife.  The ropes supporting the throne gave way, and
>the throne crashed onto the bed, killing the king.

>The moral of the story?    People in grass houses shouldn't stow thrones!

>Damien and Splash!

Old joke! So sorry.
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From: dph1jg%tuda@newcastle.ac.uk (J.P.Gardner)
Subject: Callahan's Filk
Organization: Yale CS Mail/News Gateway
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:56:14 GMT

The Space Cadet comes into the Place after returning from his Christmas and
New Years adventures. He is carrying his guitar. After smiling a greeting
at several of the patrons, he sits down and tunes up.

"Here's something I wrote on the plane."


Spider Robinson
sung to the tune of Mrs. Robinson by Paul Simon


Chorus:
And here's to you, Spider Robinson,
A stranger's just a friend we haven't met,
At least not yet.
God Bless you please, Spider Robinson,
Usenet holds a place for those who care,
It's everywhere,
Everywhere.

We'd like to know your birthday for Nick Chopper's birthday files,
We'd like to help you celebrate yourself,
Look around you all you see are sympathetic smiles,
In the Place where you can meet an ogre and an elf.

Chorus.

It's a very special Place where everyone gets hugged,
You can make a toast for just a dollar,
When you need to find it, then Callahan's is there,
Come along inside and you will find a teddy bear,

Chorus.

Sittin' in the hottub on a Punday afternoon,
Listen to the soapboxers debate,
Laugh about it, shout about it, you don't have to choose,
There's just no way that you can lose,

And when you leave, we will think of you,
And you will know that there's a special Place,
With a smiling face :->
What's that you say, Spider Robinson?
Callahan's is there wheree'er you go.
That's good to know,
Good to know.



--The Space Cadet
Jon Gardner
dph1jg@tuda.ncl.ac.uk

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From: rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove)
Subject: Re: Callahan's Filk
Reply-To: rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove)
Organization: RICOH California Research Center
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 21:18:31 GMT

> The Space Cadet comes into the Place after returning from his Christmas and
>New Years adventures. He is carrying his guitar. After smiling a greeting
>at several of the patrons, he sits down and tunes up.

>"Here's something I wrote on the plane."


>Spider Robinson
>sung to the tune of Mrs. Robinson by Paul Simon
[deleted]

The Gypsy smiles as Space Cadet offers his song
and begins to jam on the chorus.  By the time he is
finished she is laughing and crying and clapping
wildly.  Oh thank you!  I shall forward it on to
all the folk I am trying to lure into the Place.  

Thank you.

Gypsy


Rowan Fairgrove

*****************************************
Current Book: When the Bough Breaks (Lackey & Lisle)
Current Music:  Pomegranate - Dance of the Seasons
Current Movie: Hoffa
Current Holiday:  Ides of January
Current Drink: Mumm's Extra Dry

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Toasting
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:08:31 GMT
Keywords: toast



>A previously unnoticed door opens cautiously on the far wall, from the smoky,
>bright, noisy, and obviously beer-drenched room beyond pads a quiet figure.
>The suede-clad gentleman softly clears his throat and introduces himself.

>"My name is Rie.  I've been watching you from a nearby multidimensional bar
>called the Taiwan On.  If you don't mind, I'd like to make a toast. . .  I've
>brought my own glass."

>Encouraged by the smiling, warm faces, he timidly steps up to the chalk and re-
>cites:

>"To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each
>and every one of us always give the devil his due."

>Blushing slightly, Rie pads to the bar and asks for a Seagram's Red Sangria 
>wine cooler.  Have you got any?

"hi rie...and welcome to the Place.  may i steal your toast?"  kitten
gives rie a special welcoming hug..."
--
***************************************************************************
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: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe)
Subject: Re: Undeliverable mail..
Reply-To: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:02:00 +0000


undeliverable mail messages says C
Me too! sez MerryTail
At first I thought it was a disaster but the mail gets through and 
*then I get the message from reuters (Reuters? what are they doing 
here? Are we going to see reports about the Place in newspapers?)
And if I may quote the Doc - I don't know about you but Arma'gedding 
awful tired of it. I tried to contact postmaster at that site - and 
that message bouced too. Anyone know what's going on? I think Tanais 
has had this too....
+-------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
| Ommmmmm, said the lift                    |maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk |
| Organisation: Me? You're joking, right?   |maryb@cix.compulink.uucp  |
|I know I type "teh" for "the" My fingers have their own accent ;-)    |
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From: brumby@nella7.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen McNamara)
Subject: Re: an idle observation
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 04:07:16 GMT


   This guys a real card, ain't he?

kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jason) said in <JBrandt-030193162045@aaa.uoregon.edu>:
>> had eluded him. Shadow kept poking her nose into his deck, and Pegasus said
>> "There are times I want to pull that Decker's Jack.", so Jason jacked out
>But then his deck won't be playing with a full jack!

   "The deuce you say!"

-- 
     The Silver Brumby of          brumby@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
      the Silicon Plains            brumby@zikzak.apana.org.au

      The grass is always greener on the other side of the network.
From: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (The Didi-Sprite)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: An unexpected ring-in, whose face rings a bell
Date: 11 Jan 93 19:31:27 GMT
Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada
Originator: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca

In article <1ir4d6INNeut@newsman.csu.murdoch.edu.au> keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!) writes:
>

[  lots of great stuff deleted ... you know why! ]

>"Great everyone is here. I can see Didi swimming about giving even more
>elaborate hugs. kitten could you get me a pizza with a mexican topping. I
>am getting sick of having seafood, which is all that is on the yacht."

The Didi-Sprite angles her way over to Splash and Damien ...
>
>Now a toast....
>
>"To people who say that they are leaving for good but make a re-appearance
>in a short space of time" (Yes, this toast was inspired by both Alfvaen's
>and my re-apearances)
>
>"Now how the ... is there going to be a fireplace down here? But I will break
>the glass against a convient rock"
>
><< CRASH >>
>
>Damien. 
>
... and as his glass hits the rock and shatters in a satisfying manner,
the Water-Sprite launches herself at the newly bearded Damien ...



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"I am so glad you are back!"

----<--<@

The Didi-Sprite
Montreal * Canada

braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
didi@geloser.login.qc.ca
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Thomas J Lee)
Subject: Re: Language Physics
Reply-To: tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Thomas J Lee)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 20:50:25 GMT

Amanda Babcock writes:

AB>Amanda has made up more alphabets than she can remember... "I used to get
AB>bored and restless and think of a new way to rationally divide the
AB>alphabet (read: force a natural phonetic system into artificial little
AB>boxes :) and then make up an orthography reflecting the organization I'd
AB>invented.  I was also into new media for writing... trying to think of
AB>some useful way of encoding thought that hadn't been done before... it was
AB>a frustrating and fruitless task :)

	"I want a language that fits my thoughts perfectly," says the
Lamplighter, trying to be funny, in a tone of voice that sounds like a
spoiled child's.  He continues in a normal tone, "but I know there's no such
thing.  Nobody else would understand it as well as I do anyway."

	"Dividing English phonetics into little categories is fun -- I was
about to say 'Try it at home!' but you already have -- isn't it?  New media,
now that's something I hadn't thought of before.  If a day comes when people
no longer write on paper, will written language become known as
computer-stored language?"

The Lamplighter (Tom Lee)                            "Arms wide, dancing inside
tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu                           I got the feeling
                                                      Time tide, so mystified
Current Listen: Indigo Girls, "Rites of Passage"      I got the feeling"
                                                             -- Jamie Bernstein
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Leather Librarian Wench from Hell (was Re: purple)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 05:47:11 GMT

[   ]
>] 
>] Kitten.
>] 
>] The purple haired, leather skirted, studded collared, whip wielding,
>] electro-cuty, Biker Punk Librarian Wench From Hell.
>] 
>] "This book was due WHEN?"  
>] 
>] And Joe College goes screaming into the back racks...

alaric:

>I love it!  The image is wonderful!  Gee, I wish you worked at my local
>library!

>Let's see...  I've never tried my hand at making skirts, Kitten, but
>I'll happily build you a studded leather collar if you want.  I could
>probably even provide a pair of nunchaku for you to stick in your belt.

>(So they're *nerf* nunchaku...  anyone who's going to freak won't look
>that close, and you can't be busted for carrying an offensive weapon.) 



"well, jammer is too far away....and t.c. would never wear a
collar...but it still might be fun...."  kitten hugs alaric...

--
***************************************************************************
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: mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk (Alan Ralph)
Subject: Re: Definition of "monogamy"?
Reply-To: mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk
Distribution: world
X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.20 $
Organization: Chez MonTemplar, Redunser
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:36:25 +0000

In article <1ibei8INN4lb@newsman.csu.murdoch.edu.au> keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!) writes:
>Splash pipes up from the corner in which he's been lurking for the last
>.... 2 weeks? (not very well, mind you)  "It must be one hell of a drink to
>fit the two of you ... if it's big enough, can I join in?  My shout. 
>Welcome Tanais ... I'm one of the Australian contingent, and yes, we are
>behind the rest of the world - at least, as far as netnews goes."

"Ok, you asked for it!"

MonTemplar promptly splashes Splash with the remains of the drink!

"Oi!" shouts Splash!

Nuff said really :-)
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From: brumby@nella7.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen McNamara)
Subject: Re: boo
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 04:19:15 GMT

   The brumby just decides to hammer the point home.

pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan) writes:

>In article <brumby.725843857@nella7.cc.monash.edu.au>, brumby@nella7.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen McNamara) writes:
>|>   "I dunno, a lot of people might find adjusting to the new name a bit of
>|>a 'wench'. Still, if a nut like you can't torque her into it..."
>|>   The brumby prepares to bolt.
>"I'd screw up my courage, Brumby, if I wire you.  You may get us all hooked on
>hardware puns, and we'll have to bracket you into a corner.  Does anybody else
>care to try to hit the nail on the head?"
>(Ouch, that hurt *my* sensibilities...)

   "Okay folks, you all know the drill! Brace yourself Starknight, this
could get a bit much."


-- 
     The Silver Brumby of          brumby@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
      the Silicon Plains            brumby@zikzak.apana.org.au

      The grass is always greener on the other side of the network.
From: narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: elvis
Date: 11 Jan 1993 02:07:13 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
NNTP-Posting-Host: casc.math.uh.edu

In article <1993Jan10.041654.25872@atlantis.uucp> aaron@atlantis.uucp writes:
>Chris Welch (me_s420@ceres) wrote:
>: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:
>: : kitten just wants to be the first to wish y'all a happy elvis's
>: : birthday... 
>
>: "Elvis who ?", asks the Urban Spaceman.
>
>Alfvaen does another quick change, this time donning glasses and a plaid
>jacket.  "Elvis Costello, of course," he says.  Then he launches into his very
>own rendition of "Everyday I Write The Book" before they come and drag him
>away.
>
>-- 
>---Alfvaen(Still looking for "October's Baby")
>"I'm gonna follow my feelings...I'm gonna follow my senses...I'm gonna follow   my compass!"  --Lone Justice
>Current Album--Cock Robin:First Love/Last Rites
>Current Read--Antony Swithin:The Lords of The Stoney Mountains

Nonono - "Hoover Factory"! 
I have always wanted to let my beard grow out, so for Halloween, I could 
the current Costello (Jerry Garcia Clone). Then at midnight, shave it off, 
and reappear in the "Buddy Holly Clone" suit, walk on my ankles, and be the 
"classic" Elvis! 
Maybe this year...

--
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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: wgarmil@world.std.com (Wayne S Garmil)
Subject: WildCard's email addresses
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 14:36:12 GMT

WildCard (Wayne to his friends, which includes everyone in Callahan's
Place) rereads his last post.  "Oops.  I neglected to say what my work email
address is.  It's uunet!bgs!wayne   Supposably, wayne@bgs.uunet will work on
some systems (like UMass Boston), but it doesn't work from the World.  If
you've been trying to email me at work and it's been bouncing, use the bang
address.  It does work from just about anywhere."
                                       Wayne
P.S.  Someone told me that "wayne%bgs@uunet.uu.net" will also work.  I haven't
tried it yet, but feel free to do so if you like.


-- 
   _     __  _      __                    Remember:  The WildCard always stacks
  ' )   /   //   / /  )            /      the deck in his favor.  Anyone care
   / / / o // __/ /    __.  __  __/       for a game of strip poker?   My deal.
  (_(_/ <_</_(_/ (__/ (_/|_/ (_(_/_             (wgarmil@std.world.com)