HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar)
Subject: Hi Alfvaen
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 23:59:23 GMT

Danger Mouse waves at Alfvaen. "Welcome back after your Christmas trip."

- Danger Mouse.
Current Album - Good Stuff, The B52s
Current Read - Pole to Pole, Michael Palin
Current TV Show - NBC Evening News, with Tom Brokaw
Current Household Chore - Laundry, Bed Linen
Current Hack - Galaxy, a game of Conquest and Domination
Current Miniature Painting Project - Space Hulk, Genestealers
Current Watercolour - Abstract Landscape, 16 x 24 cm
Current Magazine - National Geographic, December 1992
Current Drink - Water, Iced
Current Work - Lyman Alpha Cloud Clustering, Chi-squared Tests
Current Sportwatch - Second Test, Australia v. West Indies
Current Herb Growing - Parsley, Common
Current Cat's Food - Kangaroo, Minced
Current Film - Kodak Gold 36, ISO 100
Current Pen - Bic Ballpoint, Black
Current Thesaurus - The Macquarie Thesaurus, Macquarie Library Press
Current Latitude - 33 52 26 South
Current Longitude - 150 57 15 East
From: snarf@access.digex.com (Sean Eustis)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: The world, and what it'd be like...
Date: 30 Dec 1992 21:22:44 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com

In article <105771@bu.edu> schweppe@acs.bu.edu (Edmund Schweppe) writes:
>After Darkshot leaves, Merlinvin steps over to Mike and lays two singles on
>the bar.  "One's for me, Mike; the other is for Darkshot when he returns."

>"To the dreamers, who show us where we need to go;
> to the doers, who show us how to get there;
> and to the denizens of the Place, who stand ready to heal the scars
>   we get along the way."
><crash!>

Dreamweaver talks to Mike about starting a tab, even with all the free
drinks everybody else buys. Mike just nods his head, 'Of course."
	"Well then, lets start with some _really_ strong Kahlua or coffe
liquer in honor of Darkshot. I'll kinda miss him."
One shot of the stuff is consumed and the container sent airborne.

<<Crash>>


-- 
In VR -- The Dreamweaver		In RL -- Sean Eustis
						snarf@access.digex.com
"God never closed a door without
 first opening another."
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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe)
Subject: Re: December 29, 1992 (long, silly post)
Reply-To: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 01:47:00 +0000


"Yes!! I love it! Thank you Michael - I've *always wanted to be in 
Quantum Leap! My *favourite!"
Mary MerryTail is jumping up and down with excitement here, as well 
as being doubled up with laugher!
"I'm glad we were able to help Sam relax and cheer up a bit - after 
all, nobody wants to meet the grim leaper."

"thank you Michael!
?hugs?
MerryMary and her MerryMerryTail
+-------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
| 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 ;-)    |
+-------------------------------------------+--------------------------+

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar)
Subject: Anti drink/drive campaign
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:58:21 GMT

Danger Mouse sips a large mug of Prince of Wales tea.

"I saw a very interesting new anti-drink-driving ad on TV yesterday."

The X-window obliges by showing the ad. It opens on the scene of a car
crash, shot on grainy film at night. Rescue workers are rushing back
and forth, yelling orders at groups of shocked onlookers to get out of
the way. Sirens blare and police vehicles and ambulances arrive. A man
with blood trailing down his face sits by an ambulance, his arm being
splinted by a medic. Tears stream from his eyes. Back at the car, a door
is ripped off and an unconscious woman is dragged out, her head caked in
blood. She is laid on a gurney and medics attach various tubes before
putting her in the ambulance.

Cut to a hospital emergency ward. A distraught nurse with a blood-soiled
uniform and a 'oh no, not another one' look watches the ambulance arrive.
The woman is wheeled out and down a corridor. Doctors rush to and fro,
checking the IV, her pulse, using shears to cut her clothes off - her
chest is streaked with blood too.

The police drive in with the man with the bandaged arm. He climbs out of
the car and staggers into the hospital. Another car drives up. A middle-
aged woman, incoherent with tears, emerges and barges through the doors
of the hospital. Nurses restrain her from running into the operating
room. She sees the man, crouched on a chair, head hung between his legs,
and runs at him, yelling. She lifts him to his feet and yells in rage
before more nurses and doctors manage to drag her away.

Cut to a dishevelled nurse, standing outside the emergency doors. She
says, "I don't know why people do this. They wreck other lives, and their
own too because they can't live with what they've done." She shakes her
head. "If you drink and then drive, you're a bloody idiot."

Black screen containing the words, echoed by a male voice-over:
"If you drink and then drive, you're a bloody idiot."

The X-window fades. Danger Mouse can tell that some patrons have been
deeply affected. "Yes, it's extremely graphic, and pulls no punches.
But I think it's rather good. It catches attention, makes you think, and
reaches into your subconscious. If violence is going to be shown on
television, then it deserves to be done like this."

- Danger Mouse.
From: snarf@access.digex.com (Sean Eustis)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Definition of "monogamy"?
Date: 24 Dec 1992 04:57:44 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com

In article <memo.827801@cix.compulink.co.uk> maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>In-Reply-To: <1992Dec23.165649.5640@netcom.com> aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
(She wrote some very wonderful sentiments that I had to delete so my
post would go through...
>To life, to sharing, to getting drunk and telling your friends how 
>you really feel! Never had as many friends as here in the Place. 
>Completely incoherent! To love! To us! Hey!"
><<<<Crash>>>>

Dreamweaver seems to stare into another time and place for a little while,
shivers, and gets himself a glass of champange.
	"Ouch, you hit a lot of nails right on the head.*sip* Believe it
or not, what you're saying makes a lot of sense and I agree with it.*sip*
Its not that I haven't moved on in my own life, it just felt better when
it was "our" life. To moving on.*gulp*"
Dreamweaver sends the glass to a glorious demise as it joins the shards
already pile in the blaze.
<<<<Crash>>>>
And gives MaryTail a great big HUG.

>But tonight my heart is speaking.
	"And a wonderful voice it has."

>A very merry Mary and a MerryTail decorated with bows courtesy of 
>michael and with .... MISTLETOE! Hey! Happy Christmas! Happy New 
>Year. Happy *CHOICES*
Mistletoe? That means you get a kiss, too! 
<<SMOOOCH>>
And a very Happy Cristmas and New Year to you all!
				-The Dreamweaver


-- 
In VR -- The Dreamweaver		In RL -- Sean Eustis
						snarf@access.digex.com
"God never closed a door without
 first opening another."
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: pat@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Louis Sugent)
Subject: Re: ARRRGH!!
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 16:09:25 GMT

rich@troll1.msfc.nasa.gov writes:
>>>Long and fascinating confirmation of the Troll's suspicions deleted<<
>Ha--so now you all know a very technical reason for the Troll deciding
>to get the heck outta California!  The town I was living in was totally
>dependent upon DoD (Department of Defence) money.  Yes, they are still
>in a deep recession.  Prayers for the guy and his wife that 'loved' my
>house--I really want them to get that job and buy my home!  Then I can
>get on with my life elsewhere!

  "It's always interesting when all that economic stuff I follow actually
translates into real-life circumstances. :-)  It is unfortunate that,
in this case, it means a person as nice as yourself is deciding to
to pick up and move. :-(  

  "I hope all goes well for you.

>Hey Pat, you can see darn near forever from up here!

  Don't I know it.  I just try to keep my pace slow so I don't
faint from the thin air. :-)

Pat


-- 
Patrick Sugent                       

pat@chinet.chi.il.us		     
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From: mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk (Alan Ralph)
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: boo
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:03:40 GMT
Keywords: Jammer



>Boo. Jammer was here.

>This is a letter bomb.

> BANG!

kitten jumps at jammer and pops him in the nose....

"hey there, jammer....welcome to the Place.  glad you could make it...

mike, i'll buy jammer's first drink...what would you like, good sir?"

kitten hugs jammer and puts a coin on the bar....

--
***************************************************************************
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
From: schweppe@acs.bu.edu (Edmund Schweppe)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Snowball
Date: 31 Dec 92 07:38:00 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

The Bi-Bulb writes:

>"RIGHT!" Rummaging around in his pockets, he comes out with a device that
>has on the side 'ACME SNOW PITCHER/QUANTUM ACCELERATOR' with a BIG switch
>below the stencil, in the 'snow pitcher' mode currently. He scoops a few
>handfuls of snow into the hopper, and turns the machine on. It begins
>putting after a start, and...

Merlinvin had just dashed out to join the fun when he spots the Bulb's
heavy equipment.  Having read far too many incident reports, recall
notices and other complaints regarding the safety and effectiveness of
Acme's high technology lines, he stops in the doorway and begins muttering
and incanting.  After a moment or two, an all but invisible dome forms around
Merlinvin, who jumps out into the fray.  The observant note that while
hand-thrown snowballs are unaffected by the dome, anything expelled from
the Bulb's accelerator is scattered to the four winds...

__________________________________________________________________________
Ed Schweppe o/k/a Merlinvin - schweppe@acs.bu.edu,
    (or for faster replies)   eschweppe%drcoa1.decnet@drcvax.af.mil
All standard disclaimers (also datclaimers and deotherclaimers) apply.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: harpy gnu ears
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 07:27:51 GMT

>
>here in the Place...people have come and people have gone...and i have
>found some friends who are forever...we did some major
>partying...didi's surprise party comes to mind...we all did that and
>it inspired her to do nick chopper's birthday in oz.....she organized
>it... from her bed in geneva where she nearly died...and i helped her
>post it.

   <<<Crash !!!>>> Jim.

>there has been lots of joy here....and some sadness...and lots and
>lots of fun...and love.
>
>and that brings me to my toast...'to US....to the spirit...to shared
>pain and shared joy...to 1993!'"
>
><CRASH!!!!!!>

     <<<Crash !!!>>> Jim.

-- 
         Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
                   Video. Cher: Love and Understanding.
          'Rush Limbaugh is the 'Chia Pet' of TV talk shows !'
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe)
Subject: Re: 1993
Reply-To: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 19:58:00 +0000



> Sounds great! Your call, though - what's next? I could do with another fast
> one...
> --
> *******************************************************************           
> * Noah Ramon - The Bi-Bulb     * Your only limitation is your own *
> * Mail to : narxtc@math.uh.edu * imagination - Beans Barton       *
> *******************************************************************

"Hmmmm"
MerryTail taps her tail against her leg thoughtfully.
"how about Marillion's Incommunicado? Sing it loud and fast. Toothick 
should like this one....

I'd be really pleased to meet you if only I could remember your 
nah-hame
But I got problems of the mem'ry ever since I got a winner in the 
fame game
I'm a citizen of Legoland, travelling Incommunicado...

Sometimes it seems like I've been here before
when I hear you, opportunity, kicking in my door
call it synchronicity, call it Deejah vue
(MerryTail waves as she catches sight of the cat)
I just put my trust in destiny - it's the way that I choose - 
Incommunicado!!"


+-------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
| 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 ;-)    |
+-------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
From: keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Chess match
Date: 22 Dec 1992 19:45:53 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au

li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus) writes:

>"Hmmm... best make that 4-d with four people."  Liralen says with a smile.
>"I can't play chess to save my life... even took a workshop in it and was
>systematically the worst player in the class.  The instructor actually sat
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	a system?  in chess?  I've never found it  :-)
>down with me for an entire class time and eventually threw up his hands."

Splash!


--
		Splash!		*To love is to LIVE!*
   (aka Mike van Keulen -- e-mail: keulen@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au)
From: ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Pizza Party
Date: 23 Dec 1992 23:27:01 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: degas.wag.caltech.edu

>"Mmm, broccoli quiche and spinach souffle!" Jilara says,
>taking her special order from the counter and heading over to
>Abner's table.  "We won't bother Alaric with this.  He doesn't
>relate to anything green that's not a pea or a broad bean!"

"Sounds very yummy!"  Abner has a few slices of each.    
"By the way, does that mean that Alaric doesn't relate to Christmas trees
either?"

>"Hey, who ordered the fried okra?" Callahan asks.

Abner flinches.  "Well, I didn't order it before, but I'm ordering it now!

OUT, OUT, DAMNED SPROUT!"

(Well, not quite, but you get the idea ...)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: randolph@netcom.Netcom.COM (Randolph Fritz)
Subject: Re: ARRRGH!!
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Service
	<8757.16811@stratus.SWDC.Stratus.COM>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 02:01:26 GMT

Randolph, listens, then walks up to the chalk line.

"To change!"  <*CRASH*>

"Jilara told most of it--there are only a few things to add.  (one) My
net address is now randolph@netcom.com.  (two) If you know of
computing jobs in the Bay Area or in Oregon, please write me.  My
background is mostly in networking and datacomm test; I'd like to get
into architectural CADD & solid modelling.  Also, I'm a pretty good
photographer--and no I don't do wedding (not yet anyway).  Contract
work preferred; permanent is ok too.  (three) If you know of a good
employment or labor lawyer in the Bay Area, please let me know.  My
impression is that my legal rights are quite limited in this case--I'd
like to check that.  (four)" and he looks a Alaric & Jilara, "the way
you feel must be awful.  Would it help if I said that I'm glad to be
shut of my job at Sun, though I wish I hadn't left in this manner?"
He smiles, "Besides, if it weren't for this disaster, I probably would
have missed Heather Alexander's performance last night."

__Randolph (note new address) randolph@netcom.com
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Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:18:20 EST
From: eaj@trionix.com (Eric Jenkins)
Subject: lemacs and SS10
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.bug
I sucked over the precompiled binaries and the full distribution for
Lucid Emacs v. 19.3 from labrea,  installed these on my Sparc 10/30
(SunOS 4.1.3), attempted to start up lemacs and ...

Fatal error (11).Segmentation fault.

dbxtool claims that this occurs in make_string_internal at line 817 in
file alloc.c (though I'm somewhat suspicious of dbxtool's veracity).

Is this a known problem?  We don't have gcc here (or any ANSI C
compiler for that matter), so I haven't attempted to build the
binaries myself. 

Just to make the puzzle more interesting, lemacs actually came up once?!?!

BTW, We have been running 19.2 lemacs just fine on these self-same
machines. 

--Eric

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 10:49:01 EST
From: Jatin.Desai@East.Sun.COM (Jatin Desai -- Contractor)
Subject: lemacs randomly coredumps at startup on SPARCstation 10
Content-Length: 5132
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.bug
Has the Lemacs archive moved?:

  rdm@sun4 180: ftp labrea
  Connected to labrea.stanford.edu.
  220 Aphid.Stanford.EDU FTP server (ULTRIX Version 4.1  ...
  Name (labrea:rdm): ftp
  530 User ftp unknown.
  Login failed.
  ftp> user anonymous
  530 User anonymous unknown.
  Login failed.
  ftp> user ftp
  530 User ftp unknown.
  Login failed.
  ftp> 

Inquiring minds need to know...

Yours, Rich Morin
rdm@cfcl.com
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From: amir@matis.ingr.com (Amir J Katz)
Subject: SUMMARY: Sound on Sun hogs /dev/audio?
Organization: SEE Technologies Ltd.
Reply-To: amir@matis.ingr.com
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 10:26:05 GMT
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.bug
I'm using tar-mode 1.24. In Emacs 18.59, typing 'v' opens the current file for
viewing (read-only buffer). In Lucid 19.3, the 'v' says it's opening the
file for viewing, but no buffer is created. Anyone?
-- 
/* ----------------------------------------------------------- */
/*  Amir J. Katz             |   amir@matis.ingr.COM           */
/*  System Specialist        |   Voice:  +972 52-584684        */
/*  SEE Technologies Ltd.    |   Fax:    +972 52-543917        */
/* ............ Solaris 2.1 - The Final Frontier ? ........... */
From: mly@ai.mit.edu (Richard Mlynarik)
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.bug
Subject: Environment variable completion
Date: 21 Dec 92 23:45:22
Organization: ITS Preservation Society
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: august.ai.mit.edu

   From: tlp00@ras.amdahl.com (Tibor Polgar)
   Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
   Subject: Environment variable completion
   Date: 22 Dec 92 00:06:56 GMT

   Anyone out there written an environment variable expansion to be
   used as part of file name completion.  Basicly its something that
   calls "substitute-in-file-name" before it calls
   "minibuffer-complete-word".  Yeh, i know i could write something
   but if someone already has.... For instance:

   Find file:  $SRC<space>

      expands to:

   Find file:  /usr/project/src/

       and the rest is same as normal...

   [...]

   WOW, i get to follow up my own posting... in looking at it further,
   seems that completion DOES "try" to substitute in an environment
   variable but there is a bug somewhere, all i ever get is a "/".  If
   i enter an invalid environment variable then I get "bad format
   environment variable substitution" so something is trying.


I've rewritten all the minibuffer code in Lisp and in the process
fixed the longstanding bug in minibuffer-complete-word versus pathname
environment variables (amongst a slew of other little problems.)  I
believe this code will be in the next Lucid Emacs release.

At first I misunderstood the question you were asking and thought you
were repeating the longstanding feature-request for completion of
environment-variable names (eg if environment variables "el"
and "es" are defined, then completing "$e" will offer two
possibilities instead of complaining that "$e" isn't defined.)
It wasn't very hard to implement this and so I did it.  It may or may
not be in Lucid 19.4 depending on Jamie's judgement/whims.
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.bug
From: me@Sunburn.stanford.edu (Martin Frost)
Subject: Re: Is Lucid Lost?
Reply-To: me@CS.Stanford.EDU
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: 21 Dec 92 16:34:12

No, Labrea.Stanford.EDU still holds the Lucid Emacs stuff.  However,
Labrea's IP address has changed.  (It is now 36.8.0.112.)  Perhaps your
name server's cache hadn't timed out or you have labrea in a host table
somewhere (bad idea -- use the DNS).

--
Martin Frost		Computer Science Department, Computer Facilities
Systems Programmer	Stanford University, Stanford, CA  94305-2140
me@CS.Stanford.EDU	(or mfrost@stanford.bitnet)
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From: amir@matis.ingr.com (Amir J Katz)
Subject: Sound on Sun hogs /dev/audio?
Organization: SEE Technologies Ltd.
Reply-To: amir@matis.ingr.com
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:22:26 GMT
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.bug
Guys,
When Lucid 19.3 is up on my Sun SS-1, no other audio playing program
(audiotool, soundtol, play, rplay) can play anything. None of them complain,
though, but no sound is heard. Only after I go into soundtool or audiotool,
set the output to Jack and then back to Speaker, only then the audio
programs start to play sounds. Playing any sound in lemacs reverts the situation.
Apparently, Lucid audio code leaves /dev/audio is some bad state.
Before I start hacking the code (asuming that I know what I'm doing :-), has
anyone fixed that?

Config:
  Sun SparcStation 1
  SunOS 4.1.3
  gcc 2.2.2
  X11R5 (MIT), patch #21

TIA,
-- 
/* ----------------------------------------------------------- */
/*  Amir J. Katz             |   amir@matis.ingr.COM           */
/*  System Specialist        |   Voice:  +972 52-584684        */
/*  SEE Technologies Ltd.    |   Fax:    +972 52-543917        */
/* ............ Solaris 2.1 - The Final Frontier ? ........... */
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
From: irvine@nmtvs318.ntmtv (Chuck Irvine)
Subject: missing emacs-lisp info files
Organization: /home/irvine/.organization
Distribution: alt
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:51:51 GMT

testing
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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 19:47:25 PST
X-Windows: The Cutting Edge of Obsolescence.
From: jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski)
Subject: Re: Idea: graphical extents
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help