HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon)
Subject: Re: Holding on to the light
Organization: Open Age, Inc.
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1992 19:11:33 GMT

keulen@possum.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Mike van Keulen) writes:
>rcb33483@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (ArchTeryx) writes:
>>braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (The Didi-Sprite) writes:
>>>In article <9w+pra+.aahz@netcom.com> aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine) writes:
>>>>In article <1992Sep28.145035.12812@terminator.cc.umich.edu> sjg@terminator.cc.umich.edu (Susan Gavula) writes:
>>>>Group hug!  Group hug!
>>>>-- 
>>>The Didi-Sprite looks up and calls out:  "Count me in!"
>>ArchTeryx, having sung his songs, looks up and goes over.  He opens his wings,
>>offering himself *as* the group hug (20 wingspan, y'know. 1/2 :>).
>Splash wanders over and tries to get in on the group hug ... hey!  ArchTeryx!
>Lemme in!  

>Archteryx opens his wings slightly and admits Splash to the enclave of huggers.

><HUG - HUG - HUG> all round!

>Splash!

The Golden Gryphon adds a smaller wings to the hug.

-- 
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.
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From: keulen@possum.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Mike van Keulen)
Subject: Re: schools re: Old Coots Test
Organization: Murdoch University
Date: 30 Sep 92 11:06:04 GMT

ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz) writes:

>A friend of mine, who is now a teacher, refers to them as 'hormones with feet.'

Yup - I agree wholeheartedly!  We've got one right now, and talk about hormones
- there are so many racing around in her it's not difficult to forget about the
rest of her!  Any idea when we can expect some form of recovery?

Splash!

--
***************************** Michael van Keulen *************************** 
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*************************** "To Love is to _LIVE_!" ************************
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: korz@cs.columbia.edu (Frederick Korz)
Subject: Re: Friends ... forever ...
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 16:24:07 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.132933.1839@samba.oit.unc.edu> Jack.Smoke@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Jack Smoke) writes:
>Smoke re-enters the bar.  "I have been asked to speak more fully of
>Arty's death.  I knew he had friends here, but I am surprised at 
>the number and depth of feeling.
>	Thyra, Arty was a Cherokee.  Instead of an Irish wake, lut us
>to the meadow, build a fire, and speak his death."
>	Smoke walks through the french doors and watches the fireworks 
>with aproval.  He gathers wood, building a bonfire, as te stars come out.
>when it is dark, he fires them, and looks arround the fire at Arty's friends.
>	"I have been asked to speak the Dodger's death.  Is there
>any here who would do it instead?" He waits, then resumes.  "The Artful
>Dodger was my friend, my shipmate, and a member of my Clan, and my Tribe.
>He was Wolf clan Cherokee.
>	"We met in the Navy.  Art was the calmest, most professional
>Search and Rescue (SAR) jumper it was ever my privelege to work with.
>He would jump where angels feared to swim - I once saw him pull a bleeding
>pilot out of water where sharks werebegining to circle.  He was kept in
>the navy after his enlistment should ave been up, involuntarily extended.
>On a mission over the northern end of the Persian gulf, he and the crew of 
>Speargun 119, Lt. Lunn, Lt. Mullen, Petty Officer Lopez, and Art, decided
>to make a short detour to pick up the pilot of a downed f-18.  They
>were shot down, and Petty Officer Lopez died in the crash.


>	Among my people it is believed that you can send things to the 
>dead, things that they might need.  I brought with me his flight jacket.
>In the Navy, each flight jacket is individual, different patces, different 
>placements of patches.  Art was proud of his."
>	Smoke tosses the jacket into the fire and sits back,
>watching it burn.

As the jacket starts to burn, Frood comes over to the bonfire,
nodding to Smoke and the others there.

  "Fair weather and following seas, Art"

He sits down, watching the fire, the smoke, and somewhere between
there and infinity. "Fare well" he adds softly in a choked up voice
and lapses back into silence, distance and smoke.

--------
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From: hollombe@polymath.tti.com (The Polymath)
Subject: Re: More old coots tests
Organization: The Cat Factory
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 22:03:59 GMT

In article <1a857eINN3n3@gap.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
}In article <1992Sep24.195511.23411@ttinews.tti.com>, hollombe@polymath.tti.com (The Polymath) writes:
}=In article <920922.18553720.078197@USM.CP6> JMPIERCE%USMCP6.bitnet@VM.TCS.Tulane.EDU (JIM PIERCE) writes:
}=}
}=} "Gee Polymath, I didn't know Cecil had a tail. ...
}=
}="Oh, he had one, but no one ever saw it.  (Not surprising, considering he
}=started out as a hand puppet made from an old sock).
}=
}="One of Bob Clampett's daughters (Sheri, I think) used to torture people
}=by telling them Bob had described Cecil's tail for her, then swore her
}=to secrecy.  (She's otherwise a very nice person.  Really. (-:{ )"
}
}I could've sworn that in one episode of Beany & Cecil, Cecil was shot across
}the sky and we saw a spearhead-shaped tail.

My bit rotted memory isn't as clear on all the cartoon episodes as it used
to be (for that matter, new ones are in production, last I heard).
However, it was the opinion of Sody Clampett and family, when last I saw
them, that Cecil's tail remains a secret.

The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, M.A., CDP, aka: hollombe@polymath.tti.com)
Head Robot Wrangler at Citicorp                   Turn the rascals out!
3100 Ocean Park Blvd.   (310) 450-9111, x2483     No incumbents in '92!
Santa Monica, CA  90405
From: aaron@loki (Aaron Humphrey)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Colorful Phrases
Date: 3 Oct 92 02:26:24 GMT
Reply-To: aaron@space.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Jay Brandt (Jason) (JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU) wrote:
: And we're off! Like a herd of turtles. (For a slow start to a trip)

Alfvaen grins.  "Nicole uses that one a lot.  Mainly because her mother uses it
a lot.  The connotation of slowness has been totally lost, though--it's used
every time a trip is commenced.

"Here's my favourite, culled from the list of expressions for stupidity I once
had the temerity to request on rec.humor.

"His elevator doesn't go all the way to the top.

"or...

"His elevator goes all the way to the top, but the doors don't open."

--
---Alfvaen(Canadian SF Quasi-Activist)
"And when the thunder breaks, it breaks for you and me."
   ---This Mortal Coil
Current Album--Shriekback:Jam Science
Current Read--Nicole Luiken:Running On Instinct
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From: JMPIERCE%USMCP6.bitnet@VM.TCS.Tulane.EDU (JIM PIERCE)
Subject: thanks re: for frood re: The Form Letter
Organization: Yale CS Mail/News Gateway
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 05:30:18 GMT


StM suggests: "Just look for unexpected tides. Then don't go the direction
               you tend to point."

     "Thanks Speaker ! After boss read all of those Known Universe
   stories by Larry Niven about Louis Wu, Teela Brown, et al. I
   should have remembered those kinds of tides. Too many years, all
   four of them, on a Navy ship must have made sea tides more on his
   and my minds than Black Hole tides... Mike, here's a dollar for
   StM's next drink," Linda.


* <JMPIERCE@USMCP6.BITNET> Jim "DJ." Pierce; Bach. Sci. in Appl. Comp. Sci.
* USM Academic Computing on the Gulf Park Campus. Disclaimer: Standard.
* "I'm tired out from a prolonged squawk !!" me simulating MPFC.
From: rmarsh@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: BAH! HUMBUG! (was Re: Christmas is busting out all over!)
Date: 1 Oct 92 20:01:26 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <OLSON.92Sep30222408@husc8.harvard.edu>, olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson@somewhere.out.there) writes:
> In article <1992Sep30.192701.15210@nntp.uoregon.edu> JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jay Brandt (Jason)) writes:
> 
>>In article <keulen.717828254@possum>, keulen@possum.csu.murdoch.edu.au
>>(Mike van Keulen) writes:
>>> 
>>> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals) writes:
>>> 
>>> >"After all, 31 oct = 25 dec."
>>> 
>>> Splash groans and rushes to the bar ... he grabs the nearest bowl of peanuts
>>> and hurls them accurately, and Speaker-to-Mineral's face temporarily disappears
>>> in a haze of peanuts.
> 
>><Jason looks up from the screen of his powerbook, and chuckles.>
>>
>>Hey Splash!! What's the matter? It was just a bit of -base- humor, right?
>>Or was that two bytes? Well, I guess that's my two bytes worth on this
>>topic.
> 
> "A hex upon you all," cries Castellan. 
> 
  "We've bin-hexed!" Stumpy yelps. "I think I'm losing feeling in my toes and
my fingers are number too..."

-- 
Robert 'Stumpy' Marsh | 95 Fairfield Rd | I can't reply to E-Mail, but 
rmarsh@waikato.ac.nz  | Hamilton        | don't let that stop you sending.
+64 7 855 4406        | New Zealand     |
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From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jay Brandt (Jason))
Subject: Re: colorfully descriptive phrases
Organization: The Polyhedron Group
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 06:45:30 GMT

> In article <BvEE15.3E8@agora.rain.com> feath@agora.rain.com (Feather) writes:
> 
> >"Hey you guys, how many others can come up with colorfully descriptive
> >phrases like that?  Let me start off by writing that Happy Meal phrase
> >here on the chalkboard..."
> >
> >She does so.
> >
> >"...and then add my own."
> >
> >And then proceeds to write:
> >-  As welcome as a hyperactive puppy at a housecat convention.
> 

<Pegasus adds>

A few cards short of a full deck

Playing with a soggy deck

<Jason adds>

I saw a great one on a t-shirt once. The picture was a mallard, visible
from the waist up. The caption, "Not playing with a full duck!"

As busy as a one-armed
paper-hanger
From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jay Brandt (Jason))
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Another Introduction
Date: 2 Oct 92 23:50:23 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon, Architecture

In article <1992Oct2.214215.3544@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov>,
rich@theophilus.msfc.nasa.gov (Rich Krum) writes:

> Hobbies:  Radio, woodworking, --basic renaissance man in disguise.
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^
<Jason perks up as he reads The Boss Troll's bio sheet.>

Ah Ha! Another woodworker! And someone who considers himself a renaissance
man as well. Glad to meet you, Boss Troll. 

I am also a woodworker, and one of those crazy folks who decided back in
grade school that my answer to "And what do you want to be when you grow
up?" was "A Renaissance Man!". 

I used to be fairly active in CB radio, and was a REACT volunteer for many
years. I currently run a small sideline business, called "Bear Paw
Woodworks", designing and building custom furniture. What kind of
woodworking do you like to do?

Jason
From: ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Old Coots test
Date: 28 Sep 1992 20:47:14 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: renoir.wag.caltech.edu

Bear says ...
>	Actually with small pox they have found a somewhat cure.  Annihilation.
> In a few months I think it is there will be another creature added to
>the extinct species list and that will be smallpox.  It is being
>preserved on computer disk.  Just incase its ever needed.

Aaaaaaaahhhhh!   Another computer virus! 
=8)
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From: jhitch@crash.cts.com (Jeffrey Hitchin)
Subject: Anybody from Southern California going to Halloween party?
Date: 3 Oct 92 03:40:45 GMT

	Grant is consulting a map of California after brushing away a few
strands of caramel, and cleaning the marshmallow out of his hair.

	"I was wondering if anybody from Sothern California is going to
the Realspace.  (Here's an opportunity for all you Rocky Horror people:)
<F> You see, <K> I live in San Diego and am wondering if I can hitch a
ride from anyone.  Otherwise, I'll have to beg my parents to borrow the
car. Ouch.  Anyway, I will pay for gas.  

	"I figured that stating this now might help making plans."

	"Shoot, I forgot to set distribution.  Oh, well.  All you non-
californians, disregard this message!"
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: And in this corner...uh, where's the corner?
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi - Gulf Park Campus 
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 00:47:46 GMT

In article (Richard L. Mcmahon) writes:
>>>-John Carney lists his favorite authors:  
>>[stuff gone]
>>>Mike, give this guy a drink on me...he's thinking too clearly :)
>>
>
>Sorry...you gotta remember, I'm new here.  It'll take me awhile to catch up
>to the running gags (pun intended..I know, it's cheap humor)
>DP and OJ is fine, I take my DP straight tho...
>
>John Carney  (Incarnadine)
>Castle BBS

 Well, off the record. If someone says that the drinks are on
them, they get drinks poured on them...
-- 
 Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science
 jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
  "Gad, I dislike beta-testing, it makes me fell all irky inside." me :-)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
ReplyTo: mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk
Subject: Re: Ping?  Ping, I say?
Distribution: world
X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.18 $
Organization: Chez MonTemplar, Redunser
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 22:58:15 +0000


In article <ARM200-920930130656-7C2D72D8*@MHS> /G=Rhodri/S=James/O=SJ-Research/ADMD=INTERSPAN/C=GB/@MHS-RELAY.AC.UK writes:
> 
>   Windsinger appears to be talking down some kind of speaking tube.  <<Ping?
> Hello, testing, testing, anything there?>>  There is a loud rubbery >BOING!<
> from the other end, and he throws the tube down in annoyance.
> 
>   <<Can anyone here help?  I get another newsgroup, comp.sys.acorn.tech. 
> Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be registered with the mail-to-post
> converters either at Yale or Berkeley.  Does anyone know who I should moan
> to about this;  I was hesitant about contacting postmaster@either, just in
> case in was nothing to do with them!>>

"Hello, Windsinger!"

"I think postmaster@either is a good place to start - as I remember, with the 
exception of comp.sys.acorn.misc , all the other groups in the comp.sys.acorn
reorg passed with a healthy margin, so I can't think of any reason why they
wouldn't be carried by Yale or Berkeley."

"Let me know what they say..."

> ---
> Windsinger  -  Rhodri James    *  "If hot food is what you're cravin'
>                                *   No throat lining's worth the savin'
> Rhodri.James%gb.INTERSPAN.sj   *   If your stomach's got you ravin'
>             @mhs-relay.ac.uk   *   Come into the Curry Queen!"
>    or                          *
> rmj10@phx.cam.ac.uk            *               -- Me
> 
 
--
Alan Ralph, AKA Kimberley MonTemplar (when in alt.callahans)
aralph@cix.compulink.co.uk  OR  mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk
Cominatcha' c/o Demon Internet Services - Internet for a tenner a month!
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From: pope@physics.su.OZ.AU (The Nightstalker)
Subject: Re: huh?
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 00:59:40 GMT

In article <lc8d5nINN40r@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> carole@rembrandt.Sun.COM (Carole Parker) writes:
>In article <1992Sep22.134918.26558@cs.mcgill.ca> braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca  (The Didi-Sprite) writes:
>>In article <1992Sep22.115743.1933@ucc.su.OZ.AU> mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar) writes:
>
>[]
>
>>>After he has chewed and swallowed, DM begins to protest again...
>>>"But.. but.. what about all those brunettes and redheads out there?!!"
>>>
>>>He turns to Mike to order another mug of tea (and also to not look at the
>>>expressions on kitten and Didi's faces....).
>>>
>>
>>Didi looks at Kitten in mock horror,  "Now he wants brunettes and
>>redheads TOO!  This mouse is insatiable!   Have we created a monster
>>rodent?"
>>
>*ahem* As Carole looms over Didi and Kitten, she asks with a smile on her
>face:
>
>  And what is wrong with redheads?!?
>
"Absolutely nothing", grins The Nightstalker, running his fingers through
his red locks.

"To redheads."

<crash>



--
The Nightstalker.....




"I'm going to sleep.  Wake me if if there is anything else we can
             screw up tonight" -James T. Kirk, Star Trek VI
From: jhitch@crash.cts.com (Jeffrey Hitchin)
Subject: Caramel apples
Date: 30 Sep 92 04:49:50 GMT

	Grant pulls out his fondue pot and lights the flame.  He then
pours a big bag of caramels into it and melts them.  In the meantime,
he pulls a large bag of apples and inserts a large, flat stick into
each one.

	"Okay, this was Didi-Sprite's idea, and I'm more than willing
to oblige wild flights of fantasy, especially when they involve me!"
Grant smiles remembering a few trips through the X-window.  "Ahem,
anyway, Didi said that taffy apples - which I'm interpreting as
caramel apples, please correct me if I'm wrong - would just about hit
the spot right now.  Seeing as how we're nearing Halloween, and lately 
caramel apples have hidden some pretty nasty stuff, let me assure you
that all that's in this is one apple, a caramel coating (Brach's) and
wooden sticks.

	"One condition, though.  Imposed by me, of course.  You have to
dip your own!  Trust me, that's half the fun!":x
From: chgs02@vaxa.strath.ac.uk (By learning and courtesy)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Basic Trivia (was Re: BAH! HUMBUG!)
Date: 6 Oct 92 16:46:47 GMT
Organization: Strathclyde University VAX Cluster

In article <9210052059.AA06607@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM>, dgil@ipsaint.ipsa.reuter.com (Gillett, David) writes:
> 
>    The "trinary" computer, based on three-state logic, was "imminent" as much
> as twenty years ago.  I've given up waiting for it.

I think you are correct - it was about '69, and the assembler was fun,
I enjoyed writing in it.

Ann
From: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (The Didi-Sprite)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Suicide (Was: Friends ... forever ...)
Date: 1 Oct 92 02:05:19 GMT
Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada
Originator: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca

In article <1992Sep30.023013.12425@ra.msstate.edu> jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce) writes:
>In article <1992Sep28.211130.25756@cs.mcgill.ca> braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (The Didi-Sprite) writes:
>>Now that I have had my say, Goldie ...
>>Could I please have a *hug*?
>
>      <Hug!> "Of course a hug !" Dreamy Jim. { eventhough I'm not Goldie. } 
>
>>----<--<@    <- Out in the desert a rose grows... 
>

The Didi-Sprite loses herself in Dreamy Jim's arms and sighs
contentedly.

"Ummmmm ... just what I need!  Thank you Dreamy Jim!"

----<--<@

The Didi-Sprite
Montreal * Canada

braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
From: daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom)
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 16:48:21 GMT
Subject: Re: click!
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: alt.callahans

In alt.callahans, trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:

> kitten has a great click! story for the group (a click! is when
> something happens that triggers a great revelation--often about
> sexism. i think the term was coined by gloria steinem).
> 
> the scene:  driving home from football practice (me, t.c. and lee--15
> year old stepson)
> 
> lee:  a friend of mine took a military aptitude test today
> 
> t.c.:  how did he do?
> 
> lee:  IT WAS A SHE....YOU SEXIST SLIME!
> 
> (unfortunately the discussion of women in the military degenerated
> into a discussion of a special forces group that only gets sent out
> once a month...the PMS squad)
> 
> little things like this give me hope for the younger generation...

What gives you hope, that someone would refer to another on as sexist 
slime merely for making a fairly innocent inference?  Indeed, perhaps these
inferences need to go away, but the sexist slime remark is
VERY indicative of the combative and militant self-righteousness
that is common with almost all issues right now be they liberal
or conservative.  

Far from giving me the impression that there is hope for the
younger generation, it makes me even more convinced that this
nation will descend into internecine savagery, because the
spirit of compromise and reasoned appeal cannot exist in a
nation of zealots.

doug
From: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (The Didi-Sprite)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Yet Another Periodic Return...
Date: 4 Oct 92 12:00:45 GMT
Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada
Originator: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca

In article <1al6e2INNk88@gap.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
>In article <1abqaaINNgaq@gap.caltech.edu>, lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals) writes:

[    ]

>The rest is, unfortunately, history.  My thanks to the Unbeliever for
>mentioning that he was shaking.  That's what alerted me to the fact that *I*
>was also shaking, and prompted me to check my blood sugar level.  My last
>coherent memory of that evening is of eating several glucose tablets.
>
>Again, my apologies to everyone.

The Didi-Sprite flutters over to StM's shoulder and gives him the
biggest hug she can manage at this size.  "It is sooooo good to have
you back!  We have missed you and been so very worried about you!  Hey!
You know what?  There is a party going on outside ... I'll show you the
way if you would care to join us?"

----<--<@

The Didi-Sprite
Montreal * Canada

braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: A blast from the past:
From: John Charles Fiala <jf2z+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 18:11:01 -0400 
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Anyone else remember this letter, sent to the board 
over two years ago?  I liked it so much, I saved it.

-----------+
[An Andrew ToolKit view (embedded text) was included here, but could not
be displayed.]-john
"Kiss me, I'm Irish"
"Eat me, I'm Danish"
jf2z+@andrew.cmu.edu   
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From: neilb@physics.su.OZ.AU (RiemannZeta(s))
Subject: Re: Cultural Exchange (was Re: Schooling)
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 22:42:16 GMT


>"Now..." Liralen grins a slightly wicked grin, "I have one for the
>Austrailians.  It deals with the insane game of Austrailan Rules Football
>(o.k. I'll admit, US Football probably seems pretty insane to you guys, or
>even boring for that matter).  WHAT is the difference in the tackles that
>result in the referee bouncing the ball and those that result in the
>referee tossing the ball in the air?  That was the one thing that we had
>absolutely *no* clue how to differentiate when we were watching the Grande
>Final."

I think it is more a matter of what the ground is like, it the
ground is firm enough he will bounce it, otherwise
he will throw it up.

A question that has long puzzled me about Americian Football,
can the ball be passed as many times as you wish in one play?
bye

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