HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ml5a+@andrew.cmu.edu (Mark Beirne Lively)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: All mind and no heart?
Date: 9 Apr 92 13:52:43 GMT
Organization: Freshman, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


	Bear listens to COAN nodding his head occasionally.  Then he reaches in
to his pocket and pulls out a strange coin which he holds up for
everyone to see on on side is inscribred a brilliant flame edged in
copper and gold then on the othe side is a silver snowflake.
	"In a way we have the same problem but opposite ones.  I am a thinker
also but my thoughts are mixed with emotions so intense that they can
blind me.  Frost wrote 'some say the world will end in fire some say
ice.'  Which is better cold clear thinking or wild passionate joy,
sorrow, love and hate...  Aside from this basic difference we are very
much alike.  You are so lucky to have found anyone.  I have just
recently found the first person who can put up with me and she has yet
to see what I am like when I am really bad.  But while I personally have
little experience, I watch, listen, nad interpret.  You may feel that
your girlfriend does need professional help that may be true but you can
not force that on anyone and expect it to work.  It was tried on me." 
Bear gets quiet for a bit and then continues, "What you need to do is to
trust her.  You are going through some changes and you admit that you
will need some help.  Trust her feel free to lean on here and ask her
for help.  Turst me, both of you will grow from it.  And it may be just
what she needs.  Her helping you is exactly what she needs."

"But I don't want to be a hero and don't give me that ours is not to
reason why stuff either."
Bear aka the Lord High Rulebender aka (ml5a@andrew.cmu.edu)
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From: mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar)
Subject: Inverse againg? [Re: A stressful winter]
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 02:07:15 GMT

> [Pamela:]
>All of my the net problems, unfortunately caused me to miss out on the
>start of another Birthday Party. So Happy Birthday to Danger Mouse a
>bit late. Tell me do people age inversely down under???

Danger Mouse thinks about this for a few seconds. "Well, I certainly
don't feel any _older_. Yeah, maybe we do..."

He grins and hugs Pamela, "And I'm glad to hear that you're feeling
better too."

- Danger Mouse.
From: mdm@PREMISE.PRIME.COM (Michael McAfee)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Isaac Asimov
Date: 8 Apr 92 01:11:33 GMT


		If I may become serious a moment, I'd like to talk
	about the time I got to meet the late Isaac Asimov.  

		During Boston University's 150th anniversary, there 
	was a series of discussions on several topics.  Dr. Asimov
	(who held an honorary professorship of biology at BU, I believe) 
	spoke at one about science and the future.  Before the panel 
	started, he talked to fans and signed things for them.

		I didn't have anything to sign, but I did get to
	talk with him.  I told him of how, in high school, I had
	to write a paper about him for one of my English classes.  
	He seemed humorously impressed that I was able to get through
	his autobiographies.  

		Throughout he was friendly and full of joie de vivre.  
	This was before his health took a drastic turn for the worse.

		I am not his greatest fan, nor have I enjoyed all of his
	work, but as a fan of SF I owe him a great deal.  He showed what
	could be accomplished in a life when one does what one loves, and
	vice versa.  His articles and editorials have been invaluable in
	understanding what the real world has to do to keep SF going 
	strong.  He will be missed.

		No toast could do justice, so instead a suggestion.  Most
	everyone can name the Three Laws of Robotics, and the word 
	'robotics' is said to have been coined by him, so does anyone know 
	how to petition the publishers of Bartlett's Guide to Quotations 
	to have the Laws added to the next edition? 

		Just a thought.

	Sincerely,
	Michael, the Chaotic
	disclaimer:  Don't you dare hold my employers responsible for
			this post.
From: aralph@cix.compulink.co.uk (Alan Ralph)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: They're coulomb to take me away, ha ha, hee hee, ho ho
Date: 9 Apr 92 19:35:30 GMT
Reply-To: Alan Ralph <aralph@cix.compulink.co.uk>
Organization: Gated to News by demon.co.uk

SEA sez:
>SEA has been listening to the pun fest from her usual spot in the hot tub. 
>After getting another drink from Mike, she turns to face the punsters and
>proceeds with: "IC that my delicate ears don't have the capcitance to
>resist this current flow.  I'm out of phase and amp sure to need grounding
>before this circuit is complete.  I'm wafering on the edge of reluctance
>and this situation needs to be rectified by admittance to the home for
>transient punsters."  Turning to toe the line, SEA throws her glass into
>the fireplace and says, "May we all reach a steady state soon."
[...]
>We now  return you to the regularly scheduled frequency.  Tune in tomorrow
>same Bat Time, same Bat Channel!

"Holy Circuit Breakers, Batman! Looks like we got here in the nick of
time!"

"Yes, Robin. And now to neutralise this menace with the aid of my trusty
Batarang!"

*woosh!* *KLUNK!* "I surrender! It's a fair cop!"

"And now to hand you over to Commissioner Gordon. And this time you'll
stay earthed for a good long time!"


Altogether now.... "NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA.... BAT-MAN!!!!"

Alan Ralph <-> Kimberley MonTemplar
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From: pierce@navo.navy.mil (Jim M. Pierce)
Subject: Re: Epistemological Question
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-16278]: spop.navo.navy.mil
Reply-To: pierce@navo.navy.mil (Jim M. Pierce)
Organization: POPS Operations
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 05:44:56 GMT

In article <1992Apr10.061655.19315@cco.caltech.edu>, lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals) writes:
|> Sorry, I left out an even more important criterion:
|> 	0)  Do the events in the account satisfy the laws of nature as we know
|> 	    them?

     "uhm, StM. Back in the 19th century, scientists said rocks couldn't
   fall from the sky. Today we call them meteors. { And when they land,
   they are called meteroites. For those who don't know the difference..}.

     My mother told me a few years ago that an encyclopdeia that she read
  about 1938 showed the length of time it would take for a diesel locomotive
  to get from the Earth to our moon. Thereby proving that space travel,
  even to our moon, was impossible." NickD. not being picky, I hope...

-- 
     pierce@navo.navy.mil  Jim Pierce aka Nick D.
From: Elizabeth.Mccoy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Elizabeth Mccoy)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Months in songs (was Re: still playing Encore)
Date: 7 Apr 92 14:50:23 GMT
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service


Caithelin adds in some month-songs, and then suggests a whole new
word... 

>How about this for a word... I only know one song that has it
>in it, (I heard the singer in concert claim it was the only song
>in the english language, or probably any other with this word in it)

>        Exhume????

T'Kee perks up her ears, looks startled, then starts muttering to
herself.  "Blast!" she finally exclaims. " 'something something in the
rapture, when precious flesh is greedily consumed/but mystery's a thing
not easily captured (?) and once deceased, not easily exhumed....'
Or something like that. I've heard the thing on the local easy listening
station lots of times, but never paid attention... Is that the song you
were thinking of? I don't know what the name would be..."

--E_McCoy@unhh.unh.edu aka T'Kee the Absent-Minded Cat-Centaur  
--
   The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of
     North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
        Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
           internet:  bbs.oit.unc.edu or 152.2.22.80
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From: pope@physics.su.OZ.AU (Michael Pope)
Subject: Re: A new wizard.
Rganization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 00:43:50 GMT

>In article <92103.034636AXM113@psuvm.psu.edu> AXM113@psuvm.psu.edu (Abner Mintz) writes:
>>"Well ..." says Tizrak "the globe isn't important.  The only other thing you've
>>done is your challenge itself, and the evoking of guesses about your magic."
>>
>>"Since you've made us wonder, I'll say that your magic is to make us wonder!"


The Wizard, who is now at the chalk line throws his now empty glass at the    
fireplace, and as the glass shatters, the globe shatters as well into many
tiny shards.  Each of these shards glows and melds itself into the form of a
many handed Warm Fuzzy (just right for tickling), and they leap about the room
singing and dancing.  They chant in a teasing sort of way,

"The Wizard's magic is the magic people come to this bar to seek, surely you allknow what that is???"

With that, they decend upon all in the room in a tickling frenzy.  When this ha
s died down, all look up to find the Wizard gone.  The door to the bar flaps,  
and outside, the sound of heavy rain can be heard.
From: moh2@quads.uchicago.edu (Kateri/Mary Anne)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: A toast...
Date: 8 Apr 92 19:38:29 GMT
Reply-To: moh2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

Kateri moves up to the chalk line, apple juice in hand, muttering..."I should
have done this a long time ago..."

"Many of you have met my boyfriend, Paul in RL...he goes by snark here.  I
suddenly realized that I've never told you all what a marvelous person he is -
and I don't tell him often enough either."

"This toast is to Paul, and to love."

She downs the glass, but doesn't throw it into the fireplace...the reason for
that becomes a little clearer as she reads you a poem she wrote for him...

	Fragile Trust

A crystal treasure
Cracked and burned, in careless hands long past...
Taped over with black bandages of forgetfulness
And covered with fine white scars.
It trembles in the light of your regard,
And your song echoes back in a pure crystal singing,
Marred by the subtlest of distortions,
Smoothing out over time.

Oh love, do you even know what you hold
In gentle hands?
A sadly battered heart...
Take care.

*****

And she moves back to the circle of his arms, still holding her glass...


-- 
The autumn leaves are falling like rain.
Although my neighbors are all barbarians,
And you, you are a thousand miles away,
There are always two cups at my table.		 - A T'ang Dynasty poem
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: pacific@polari.com
Subject: ??????
Organization: Seattle Online Public Access Unix.  (206) 328-4944 (all lines telebit-equipped)
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 02:26:53 GMT

     Pardon my lack of understanding, but I don't quite get what this
newsgroup is all about.  Can someone explain this to me?
     PLEASE no flames.....

John cohen
Surprise Lake Middle School
Milton, Washington
a

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (The Didi-Sprite)
Subject: Re: Before I forget...
Originator: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 03:24:29 GMT

In article <vad276g.702141553@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au> vad276g@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen McNamara) writes:
>
>   The brumby overhears people talking about the person responsible for much
>of the 200Kbytes in his received mail folder.

The Didi-Sprite, turns from her search for Danger Mouse and the promised
dance when she hears Brumby ... "Ha!  Don't listen to him, Firecat!
Brumbys are noted for their tendency to exaggerate!"

>trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:
>
>>In <64423@apple.Apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
>
>>>stef/firecat considers this. "What did you do to earn the alias The
>>>Mbox Sprite?" 
>
>   "Oh she earned it. Believe me. I think that was before the day that I got 
>100 messages in about 5 hours."
>

"Yeah ... and he wrote and complained too!  (Teehee!)"  Giggles the
-Sprite, now holding her sides.

>>"oh, firecat," giggles kitten..."just wait....our dancing didi-sprite
>>will fill your mailbox with hugs and love (of various sorts....divided
>>up into the days of the week and holidays and mornings and evenings
>>and seasons......:) )....

"Hmmm ... well there is love for every season ... yes?  Would anyone
refuse love offered on a daily, hourly basis?  What fools ... if you
answer yes!"  Harrumphs the -Sprite.

>   "And she will want to hear about all the things that go on in your
>corner of the world."

"Mais, oui!  And, why not?  Life in other parts of the world is 
interesting ... if any of you out there are "Road to Avonlea Fans",
or, Lucy Maude Montgomery devotees ... and have read all the Anne
books ... you will know why it is that:  "The Mbox Sprite wants
to know!"
>
>>she is a dedicated and faithful coorespondent...

"Ah ... geee... (blush) ... I do my best!  But even Mbox Sprites
falter ... sometimes ... sigh."

> "That she is."

"Sigh ... isn't he wonderful!?"  
>
>>"ha!  there isn't a cow in all of VR who would dare to soil didi's
>>meadow with a pattie or pie...."

"Not unless she brings her own pooper-scooper equipped milkmaid
with her!"  

>   "No, but there is this silver stallion who hasn't arrived yet...."

"And, I insist that such a gorgeous creature comes accompanied by his
groom ... pooper-scooper in hand!  I don't mind a little fertilizer
for the daisies though ... "   

"Now, may we return to the festivities ... please?  Chicken, anyone?
And, I would certainly like you all to taste the desert Lord Galdrin
and I will be unpacking later ... ?"

----<--<@

And, Happy Rainbow Springtime Love to all of You!

----<--<@

The Didi-Sprite
Montreal * Canada

braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
From: salford@orion.lrmsc.loral.com (Stephanie Alford 5850)
Subject: Re: Potstickers
Organization: Loral Rolm Mil-Spec Computers
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 23:46:13 GMT


Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: erikred@ocf.berkeley.edu (Erik Nielsen)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re:  Belated greetings, and other topics (was Re: Rhetoric: The.
Date: 9 Apr 1992 20:54:09 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandstorm.berkeley.edu

In article <204584@unix.cis.pitt.edu> seawasp+@pitt.edu (Ryk E Spoor) writes:
>	Can't argue there -- I still can't comprehend the SCAdians who actually
>WANT to live in that era. Me, only if I can bring the CRC and a couple sturdy
>bodyguards (and several firearms with lots of ammo) with me....

I don't know which is scarier: SCAdians sitting around a fire bragging about
what they'd do to any would-be thief who broke into their house or a mugger
who threatened them in an alley-way, or gamers who fire off half-assed ideas
about going back in time with firepower.  No, scratch that; they're equally
scary.

RMT's and NRMT's.  Right-Minded Thinkers and Non-Right-Minded Thinkers.  The
difference?  One knows where to draw the line.  The other is obsessed.  If
you go to game cons, you probably know lots of NRMT's.  Same goes for the
SCA.  And for engineering majors.  And med students.  And just about every
other high pressure, low release areas out there.  Relax, people; it's just
a life.


>                                 Sea Wasp

Erik, the BFG
-- 
     "All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."
			Roy, _Blade Runner_
Erik Nielsen					erikred@ocf.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: lindercs@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU (Galadin (Craig Linderoth))
Subject: about Asimov
Reply-To: lindercs@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 21:54:51 GMT

	Well, I would like to volunteer my services for the Asimov cause.  If I
remember correctly, a chemist is still needed.  Technically, I am not a
chemist, but I am a chemical engineer with a lot of Biochemisty.  Also, I am a
literature minor, (especially english), a science fiction fan (won't try to
count the books, but I own over 500 and have read at least 3times that) and a
generalist.  Or at least I try to be a generalist, but anymore I am thinking
more of the world as a process with disturbances and transfer functions and not
on a general level.  Oh well, the problems with an education.


******************************************************************************
*Craig Linderoth                * Reality is for People who Lack Imagination.*
*Lindercs@Rosevc.rose-hulman.edu*   The Callahanian Protector of People from *
*ChemEng, Rose-Hulman           *    Outrageous Pun Throwers    SPLAT :)     *
******************************************************************************
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Stuff in the air
From: razer@tiamat.hacks.arizona.edu (Regan S. Plyman)
Date: 10 APR 92 14:35:10    
Reply-To: razer@tiamat.hacks.arizona.edu
Distribution: world,local
Organization: Razer IntressenGemeinschaft
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-a4  


	Arty looks over his head and whistles.  "Man, now THAT's
a header!  
	"Anyway, most of you prolly haven't noticed me being gone, but 
my internet priv's were pulled on my CCIT account, and I had to get another
way out into the net....
	"Anyway, the point is, I lost a whole bunch of messages (Pretty
much everything posted after "It was a beautiful day"), so if there was
anything you really wanted me to see, please send it to me at one of the
two addresses below."

The Artful Dodger P65331727@CCIT.Arizona.Edu|Razer@Hacks.Arizona.EDU
"Can you imagine us years from today, sharing a park bench quietly?
  How terribly strange to be seventy!"
		-Paul Simon & Art Garfunkle "Old Friends" _Bookends_
From: aahz@netcom.com (Aahzmandius)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Books to build a civilization...
Date: 15 Apr 92 18:37:14 GMT
Organization: Bill 'n' Opus for Prez

CRC = Chemical Rubber Company

At one point, they were a chemical products company bigger (relatively)
than DuPont is today.  They are now most famous for a series of
reference books, of which the best-known is the Handbook of Chemistry
and Physics.  Also known as the Rubber Bible.
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

Why is this newsgroup different from all other newsgroups?
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: bruce@grate.ugcs.caltech.edu (Bruce J Bell)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: All mind and no heart?
Date: 11 Apr 92 01:52:04 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena


Skeeve ears prick up, and he drifts over to the discussion --

CD is speaking...

>COAN writes about his apparent inability to be emotionally affected :
>[...]
>> Shared pain lessened, shared joy increased...  but I have nothing to
>> share but confusion.  Confusion and a calm familiar inner quiet where
>>I'd rather be rage and storm.
[...] 
>"One evening, shortly afterward, I took a look at myself, 
>wondering where my pain was.  I was feeling relief... almost 
>happiness, and it disturbed me.  I realized that I had shut 
>down emotionally.  There was no beauty in life; no wonder at 
>things earthly.  I was not living... but merely existing.
> 
>"What shook me the most upon realizing this was that I had 
>been thinking this was 'happy' when it was actually something 
>closer to 'miserable'.
> 
>"I found my pain, and relished in it.  It was comforting to 
>feel something, anything again... and it had been nearly a 
>year.  Then I rediscovered some things in life.  I think the 
>first was... stars.  They hadn't gone anywhere, but I happened 
>to gaze into the night sky on my way to my car, and I was 
>struck numb.  Such beauty... and it was there all along, just 
>waiting to be found.  Suitably impressed, I began to search 
>out other things that I realized that I'd been missing.

"Yeah, that sounds familiar.  Well, it's not that I can't see beauty,
it's just too intense, it makes me want to cry.  Glorious red sunsets
through LA smog, moving poetry, clear skies after a month of rain, a
couple holding hands... they all produce a cringing feeling in the
back of my head.  It's just a little too much.

"I recently came to the conclusion that feeling pain is better than
feeling nothing at all.  Unfortunately, it seems my way of dealing with
pain is to avoid the cause..."


Skeeve

"Have brain, will travel"
From: pierce@navo.navy.mil (Jim M. Pierce)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: They're coulomb to take me away, ha ha, hee hee, ho ho
Date: 13 Apr 92 01:32:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Apr13.013241.17265
Reply-To: pierce@navo.navy.mil (Jim M. Pierce)
Organization: POPS Operations
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-15169]: spop.navo.navy.mil

In article <1992Apr09.193530.1629@demon.co.uk>, aralph@cix.compulink.co.uk (Alan Ralph) writes:
|> SEA sez:
|> >SEA has been listening to the pun fest from her usual spot in the hot tub. 
|> >After getting another drink from Mike, she turns to face the punsters and
|> >proceeds with: "IC that my delicate ears don't have the capcitance to
|> >resist this current flow.  I'm out of phase and amp sure to need grounding
|> >before this circuit is complete.  I'm wafering on the edge of reluctance
|> >and this situation needs to be rectified by admittance to the home for
|> >transient punsters."  Turning to toe the line, SEA throws her glass into
|> >the fireplace and says, "May we all reach a steady state soon."
|> [...]
|> >We now  return you to the regularly scheduled frequency.  Tune in tomorrow
|> >same Bat Time, same Bat Channel!
|> 
|> "Holy Circuit Breakers, Batman! Looks like we got here in the nick of
|> time!"
|> 
|> "Yes, Robin. And now to neutralise this menace with the aid of my trusty
|> Batarang!"
|> 
|> *woosh!* *KLUNK!* "I surrender! It's a fair cop!"
|> 
|> "And now to hand you over to Commissioner Gordon. And this time you'll
|> stay earthed for a good long time!"
|> 
|> 
|> Altogether now.... "NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA.... BAT-MAN!!!!"
|> 
|> Alan Ralph <-> Kimberley MonTemplar

   "Oh well, if you can't beat them, join them together by solder.

    Eh Wattson. Coulomb along this copper buss. Methinks the vacuum
  
    doth follow the path of least resistance. The plate gets its currant

    berries from the grid on the moor," says Shearlock Ohms.

   { Vacuum tubes. yuck ! }
-- 
     pierce@navo.navy.mil  Jim Pierce aka Nick D.

    "I want a new duck...." Weird Al Yankovic