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From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: Radio Information?
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 00:55:49 GMT

>Danger Mouse pipes up, "It's an eleven year cycle, actually. The most
>recent peak was about four years ago, maybe a little less, so we're sliding
>down to a minimum in activity at the moment."
>
      "Well, as long as we don't go through another Maunder Minimum or
   Little Ice Age { or a big one for that matter } will suit me just fine !"
Dreamy Jim.

-- 
 Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science
 jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
  "Is it the weekend yet ?" me :-)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: edotto@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Ed Otto)
Subject: Re: Football (Rugby vs American) and other neanderthal games
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 21:27:39 GMT

(90 lines deleted)

You folks wanna see a game, catch an Aussie Football game sometime...

See, they have these FOUR goalposts...and 15 players per side...and the game
involves MASSIVE violence and mayhem...


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From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jay Brandt (Jason))
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Phoenix still ABEND
Date: 9 Oct 92 19:46:01 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon, Architecture

Phoenix is ABEND until further notice.

I received an e-mail from Phoenix this morning. She is still with us, but
can't get her e-mail or net access to work right yet from her home PC. She
may have to but a new telecomm program (which she can can ill afford)
before she will be able to break through. She had to use a terminal at the
college to e-mail me, and the on-line editor is the pits. I could read what
she said, but it was garbled.

More on her later today,
Thanks again for your love and concern for Phoenix.

Jason
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: GE.LJB@forsythe.stanford.edu (Louis J Bookbinder)
Subject: mia again
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 17:30:39 GMT

Klum klum de klum kloop ...(oh, heck with the melodrama!)

Nick walks to the chalkboard for the semi-regular sad event:

The following have not posted in OH, So Long. Are they gone forever?

MEMBERS IN ABSENTIA (M.I.A.)   (as of 1 Oct 1992)
----------------------------
Abaddon            *
Alaric             *
Arjay              *
Artful Dodger      +
Aslan              *
Balrog             ABEND
Cali               *
Caprice
Chris Davis        the founder
chris Phoenix      *
Daydreamer         ?
Diana Egly
Die Fledermaus
Eowyth
Erik the Red
Escorpia
Flynn              *
FTWW               *
Gail Valentine
Gray Lady
Green Tiger
Grey Wolf          *
Jim Gaynor
Karl Heuer
Ken Olum
Laughing Cat
Leaper
Logos
Lone Drifter       *
Lucky Bitch
Mary-anne Wolf     *
Moonchilde         *
Nao
New Kid
Nicarra
Parakeet
Perrian            ABEND
Pincushion
Ruger
Shanalyralithia (see Kadyriatha)
Skeeve
Starchaser
Static
Statyk
Subrata Sircar
Sunkai
T'kee
Tankgirl
Thenomain
Thoughfox
Tonya gonzales
Viola              *
Wanderer           *
Wildside
Wuzzie             *
Yukipuma
Zack Frey          *
Zane               *
'eHvan

* In contact with other patrons, probably lurking.

+ I know for a fact that he or she will never return to the place, or
anywhere else, except in our memories. Peace.

ABEND: Absent By Enforced Netnews Deprivation

This is not EVERYBODY who has left. Just the ones I remember, and miss.
And I added people who SAID they were leaving.  Did they, really?  Hey,
I am just a tin man, I have not the brains of a scarecrow.  So if I put
you on here and you are not MIA, please tell me what a dummy I am.  If
you have MIAs to add, please post, or Email me.

I may have used an alternate persona for someone who usually posts by
another name.  If so, please correct me.  If you are here, and want
others to know you are here, please drop us a line.  Or just walk up to
the board and erase your name.  Thank you, and blessed be.

(Just a note about broken newservers:  If you still have Email to the
internet, you can still post:  The ghost address for Alt.Callahans is
alt-callahans@ucbvax.berkeley.edu, most places, or
alt.callahans-news@newsbase.cs.yale.edu or
alt.callahans@news.demon.co.uk in Britain, or
alt.callahans@uk.co.demon.news from JANET (Thanx, Montemplar).  Email to
that address and it will be posted to the newsgroup!

If you cannot read alt.callahans, but can get email, you may be able to
receive the group in email form from a Callahans patron.  For instance,
John Ockerbloom <ockerbloom@cs.cmu.edu> runs a small alt.callahans
mailing list through his robot Grapevine.  Write him if you'd like to
get on the list.)

Nick Chopper - my opinion? ax not! LB>-}  BOOKY@Forsythe.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: Words
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 12:50:45 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.212219.7374@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov> rich@theophilus.msfc.nasa.gov writes:
>PS. Did anyone figure out when TV was invented?  Hint: I'm a classic Baby Boomer.

 "It was invented about 1936. Both in the US and later in Nazi Germany.
Actually commercial sales of sets and Tv time didn't occur until after WW II."
Dreamy Jim.

-- 
 Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science
 jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
  "Is it the weekend yet ?" me :-)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: keulen@possum.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Mike van Keulen)
Subject: Re: this is all so subjective
Organization: Murdoch University
Date: 13 Oct 92 01:32:01 GMT

lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals) writes:

>StM adds, "When I'm confronted by a prosyletizing vegetarian, I simply remind
>him or her, `You are what you eat.'"

Hah!  Thanks StM  :-)  I shall endeavour not to prosyletize.  I'm actually
_not_ a rabid anti-carnivore vegie ... I just prefer not to eat meat.  (I would
cook meat dishes for my family if they would let me ... somehow I just can't
seem to cook the stuff right  (
			      ) (
			    )(  )
			    ()()()
			     ^^^^^       @@@@@@@
			  (#########)@@//
			  -----------
			   ^^^^^^^^^


Splash!


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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: click!
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 10:55:33 GMT

doug says:

>My father is a bold and noble man whose courage impresses me
>a great deal.  One of his great joys was working in the wilderness.
>He can no longer pursue that love, because he is handicapped.
>Not only can he not walk, but his condition renders his health
>fairly fragile.

>He is not able to mow his own lawn.  He cannot have sex. 
>Anyone who thinks that the loss of ability to have sex is
>not a flat out HANDICAP is deranged, and I will NOT apologize
>for saying so.  He has no magical different ability that
>makes up for that.  My poem says it better, but I do not
>feel like reposting it.  

"i agree that not being able to have sex is a handicap"

>Let me state it simply.  I can do EVERYTHING my father can
>do.  There are things that I can do that he cannot, because
>he has lost the functions of everything below his waist.
>He has gained ZERO special abilities as a consequence of
>being handicapped.  Oops.  I take that back.  He can balance
>his wheelchair on two wheels.  I cannot do that.

>There is no way in which this diminishes my respect for him
>or makes me condescendig towards him.  He is still human.
>He can still seek and test his limits as can we all.  This
>is the essence of being human.  But compared to me, he
>is handicapped and in no way can he be said to be differently
>abled in any useful or meaninful semantic sense.

>I have belabored this point enough.  Jesus, wha the HELL
>do I care how people refer to the handicapped.

kitten holds out her hand to doug..."please come join our hugs..."


--
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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 
"perhaps _any_ universe becomes real in proportion 
to the number of people who believe in it and spend time there." s. robinson

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar)
Subject: Re: Cultural Exchange (was Re: Schooling)
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 11:07:21 GMT

> [Dan'l:]
>BTW, DM.  You'll have to take me to a rugby game if I make it down under.
>I've never been to one.

Danger Mouse grins. "No problem. But you'll be arriving in the cricket
season, so we'll have to go to a cricket match first! Sample everything
a culture has to offer, I say. I still remember the Giants game at
Candlestick Park I saw two years ago..."

- Danger Mouse.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Newsgroups: alt.callahans

In alt.callahans, rich@theophilus.msfc.nasa.gov (Rich Krum) writes:

> 
> My definition of renaissance man is a bit like Heinlein's--my opinion is that
> "specialization is for ants, people have to be versatile".  Besides, if I can
> justify a tool or two for the project, Dragon Lady will buy it for us--

I think that the classical definition would mean someone who not
only DOES all things, but is a master at most of them.  That
would eliminate most of us.  o
> 
> My three sons also tend to be renaissance types--they are multitalented types.

Yes, but have they invented new technologies or have they revolutionized
art?

I used to like to consider myself a bit of a renaissance fellow.
I think I know better now.  I am a modern man with a lot of hobbies.

doug
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Cristobal Colon
Keywords: AIM, 1492, Lost at Sea
Date: 14 Oct 92 12:39:32 GMT
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi


      After having taken several Anthropology classes and 12 semester hours
of history, i would have to say on this subject that there was good and evil
on both sides here in the Western Hemisphere. The things that are gone
from here include, but is not limited to, cannabilism, rope-writing,
yanking hearts out of still living bodies, tabacco, maze, different pottery
tehniques, silver smithing, different techniques for hide curing, birch bark
canoes, { scalping to the point of death was introduced by the Europeans 
as the Native Americans didn't scalp so that death resulted }, pictographs,
'Indian Sign Language' { which I used to know, sort of }, quill work,
bead work, etc. I know some of these things still exist, but many of the
craftsman are gone. Before Europeans arrived, the beadwork used large
shell beads, the 'seed' beads were introduced as trade items by the Fur
Trappers of the Hudson Bay Company and others. 

    I think one thing about the protests that i find a little hard to accept is
someone with a great deal of European blood in them, saying that Columbus
shouldn't be remembered. If Europeans hadn't come over here, us 'white folks'
wouldn't be alive to protest the Europeans coming over here... 

     The one protest that occurred along time ago { back in the 60s } was
when some Lakotas and several other Native Americans went over the Europe,
and 'claimed' Europe for themselves ! I liked it, it seemed very fitting to me !

 Later. The thing that is really on my mind at the moment is the earthquake
that happened in Cairo, Egypt on Monday afternoon their time. Over 400 dead,
over 3,000 homeless, over 100 buildings damaged. 

   later, Dreamy Jim.
-- 
 Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science
 jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
  "Is it the weekend yet ?" me :-)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: cbj005@cck.coventry.ac.uk (The Mistress)
Subject: Re: The Nightstalker drops in
Organization: Coventry Poly/Uni(Take your pick)
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 19:03:08 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.025635.28137@ucc.su.OZ.AU> pope@physics.su.OZ.AU (The Nightstalker) writes:
>
>The Nightstalker downs his coke, and returns to a mountain of paper.

"Mind if I borrow some paper?" says the white cloaked woman.

"I'm trying to invent an anti junk-mail vest, its an interesting
concept", there is no answer and she turns to the bar and hails
Mike to her attentions.

"Mayonnaise and chip cocktail please Mike"

She sips her funny coloured cocktail while perusing her pockets for
interesting objects, she finds what shes looking for and proclaims;

"Anyone for Coventry fried peanuts?"


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From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: visiting LA at the end of February (was Re: In honor of...)
X-OLD-Message-ID: <1beh2uINNi35@gap.caltech.edu>
Date: 13 Oct 1992 12:57:02 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.012944.22834@midway.uchicago.edu>, esti@quads.uchicago.edu (Paul A. Estin) writes:
=Snark fades into view, wearing mirrored shades...
=
="Hmmm... seems to me I know too many people in California, some of
=them from this newsgroup, *not* to go visiting them!  There seems to
=be a Bay contingent and an LA contingent.  I've been puzzling over
=what to do for spring break (a misnomer... it comes February 20-28
=here), and decided that I'll most likely check out the warmest of the
=Left Coast climes at that time.

StM looks (what else?) confused.  "You mean you're going to visit Grant down in
San Diego?" he asks.  He turns serious for a moment and cautions, "Los Angeles
in late February can get pretty chilly (well, not compared to Chicago [or is it
Michigan?  Your sig and your return address don't match], of course).   Be
prepared for temperatures in the 40s, or, better still, ask about the weather
just before setting out."
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: uribe@jarthur.claremont.edu (Lydia Uribe)
Subject: Re: In honor of actually reading a few messages in this group again...
Organization: Claremont Shelter for Maladjusted Singers
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 16:33:51 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.233320.14028@muddcs.claremont.edu> dgreen@jarthur.claremont.edu (David Green) writes:

>I know I don't post that often, but... I'm another LA-area person who at least
>pops up once in a while.  Heck, I even post off the same machine Soprano does.
>:)

Soprano blushes brightly.  "Oops!  Sorry about that...." ;-)

>dgreen@jarthur.claremont.edu				 David "Mishael" Green

					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?          |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: keulen@possum.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Mike van Keulen)
Subject: Re: Unbeliever fades back in...
Organization: Murdoch University
Date:  7 Oct 92 07:17:23 GMT

Whew!  I'm glad that's all out of the way ... I thought I was about to see a
flame war erupt in Callahans of all places!  I'm glad you gave Speaker to
Minerals the benefit of the doubt, and Speaker ... I'm glad you got some
glucose!  How about a shot of whatever poison you prefer, to clinch the
friendship?  Mike ...

Splash plonks a few coins on the bar ...


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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jay Brandt (Jason))
Subject: Re: Coming in for a landing, ArchTeryx!
Organization: The Polyhedron Group
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 05:37:12 GMT

In article <Bvyqor.MCt@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, rcb33483@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
(ArchTeryx) writes:
> >"Happy Birthday Archteryx!", giggles Thyra. "Congrats on your big 21st!
> >Even if we are a bit late." <and she gives him a quick kiss on the side of
> >his beak.>
> 
> ArchTeryx awwwws and blushes a rather pretty lavender about the cheeks (yes
> he has cheeks) and neck.  He nibblekisses Thyra back gently.  "Thank you!
> It's never too late to say you remember..."

Thyra purrs appreciatively.
 
>>Jason said ... can I buy you something to eat, rather than a drink?"

> "Actually, once in a while I do enjoy an alcoholic beverage.  But right now,
> you are correct, I am quite hungry.  The peanuts helped a little but I am
> a rather large bird.
> 
> "I can eat just about anything, even garbage.." [this draws a dirty look from
> Mike and a giggle from Arch, who then continues], "So whatever you want to 
> buy me, I'll probably find quite edible.  Thank you for the kind offer!"
> 
> ArchTeryx sits near the group assembled around to him, a beaky smile on his
> face, as he gets ready for a decent meal.

Jason signals Mike, and says "You've got it ArchTeryx. One birthday dinner,
comming up! Mike, get our hungry avian friend here whatever he wants for
dinner, on my tab."

Jason
From: rlm7337@tamaix.tamu.edu (Incarnadine)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Cristobal Colon
Date: 16 Oct 92 20:54:29 GMT
Organization: Castle BBS

In article <1bl1toINNdl3@gap.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
>In article <1992Oct13.215454.25743@tamsun.tamu.edu>, rlm7337@tamaix.tamu.edu (Incarnadine) writes:
>>Incarnadine stands and empties his glass, sending it into the fireplace behind
>>Smoke's.  As he sits, people near him hear him mutter, "bloody twit..couldn't
>>navigate his way out of a paper bag..."
>
>But DID manage to make landfall within 20 miles of his starting point.
>Of course, that was no great accomplishment.  Just had to make sure he was at
>the right latitude.  Now, if he'd been sailing north/south instead of
>east/west, it would've been a lot more impressive.

Maybe...but I bet an experienced crew of the time could have said due east
(or west) without difficulty...or a captain.  
********************************************************************************
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*   of the Realms Perilous!            **      of people who have run out      *
*  Incarnadine@tamu.edu 	       **      of resources." Gene Ferraro     *
From: hgb@catalina.opt-sci.arizona.edu (Hubert Bartels)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Making overtures...
Date: 13 Oct 92 03:06:04 GMT
Organization: Optical Sciences Center

In article <1992Oct13.010019.13200@nntp.uoregon.edu> JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jay Brandt (Thyra)) writes:
>
>"You heard him sisters, lets go!" says Thyra with a positively wicked grin.
>She takes StM by one arm, and gestures for Kitten to take his other. She
>says over her shoulder as she guides StM to a more private corner of the
>bar, "Any other felines here care to help us groom STM? Yukipuma, I know
>you're busy studying, but care to take a short break and join us? How about
>you Ocelot? Any others?"
>
>Purrs
>Thyra

	"Ano, Tadaima Tanaka-shacho wa shutchou de gozaimasu ga..." Yukipuma
looks up from her review as she hears her name. Her ears prick up. "Ano...
I know it's not as much fun for StM, but why don't you take him into the
Danger Room and ask for a warm summer rain? It's easier on your tongue and
easier on him. Cat tongues ARE rather raspy, you know, and the effect of
several felines working simultaneously could be rather like having one's
skin filed off..." With that, she drops her green cat eyes back into her
textbook. "Demo, sore o shitaku nai desu..."

--
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Optical Sciences Center (602)-621-2032
University of Arizona   "Uchi-ra wa Buaku-do no Annapuna to Yunipuma ya!" 
Tucson, AZ, USA 85721   "Senshatai Yaburetari!!" Annapuma & Unipuma, Dominion
Organization: Sophomore, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Date: Fri,  9 Oct 1992 13:20:09 -0400 
From: Mark Beirne Lively <ml5a+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Wellsprings
	<MemU=Mq00awJEFPlpW@andrew.cmu.edu>
	<RANDOLPH.92Oct8153220@cognito.ebay.Sun.COM>
Distribution: alt

well there are tribes devloping in the poorer areas of cityes.  For
instance the most famous of this is the Bloods and Crips.  two 'tribes'
in LA.  Each one is composed of a few dozen clans who each have a marked
teritory.  The two tribes have there own rules and traditions and
markings so to speak which are as indivualistics as any of the germanic
bands or native americans or other wandering tribes of the days of lore.

Friend of the one who is.
Bear aka the Lord High Rulebender aka (ML5A@ANDREW.CMU.EDU)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: li@Data-IO.COM (Liralen Li)
Subject: Re: Liralin's Present...
Organization: Data I/O Corporation
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 17:46:02 GMT


	The beautiful blue and red Beta with it's long, trailing fins
slowly circles in the lovely grey glass bowl.  Liralen smiles and nods.
"Thanks, Caithelin, for a perfect denizen for the bowl."  She grins at
Inky's engraving and sets it where everyone can watch or touch...

---
Liralen
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
Subject: Re: Grrr...
Organization: Bill 'n' Opus for Prez
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 03:19:53 GMT

In article <1b37ecINN9a2@gap.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
>In article <1992Oct9.011300.6731@ucc.su.OZ.AU>, mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar) writes:
>=
>=He looks up. "Oh, sorry. Just rebuilding my .newsrc file. I tried reading
>=news last night, not realising that the disk on this machine was full.
>=When I quit news, it tried to save the changes to my .newsrc, failed, and
>=for some reason erased the old version as well.
>
>StM points out, "Er, DM?  That's a *FEATURE*.  Really.  It's deeply imbedded in
>the specification of every single one of the unix filesystems.  When unix
>(including SunOS) tries to create a file, and there's already one of the same
>name there, the first step is to delete the old one.  The second step is to try
>to create the new one.  Now, if the disk is full when it gets to step two,
>you're completely out of luck.  Sorry, but that's the way it works, and that's
>the way it's SUPPOSED to work.  Just one of the many reasons I prefer VMS."

<shrug>  Most programs just rename the old file (say, to newsrc.old),
create the new one, then delete the backup (if desired, it can just be
kept).  NBD
-- 
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                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

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