HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson@somewhere.out.there)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Caramel apples
Date: 1 Oct 92 02:44:55 GMT
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.
In-reply-to: jhitch@crash.cts.com's message of 30 Sep 92 04:49:50 GMT

In article <jhitch.717828590@crash> jhitch@crash.cts.com (Jeffrey Hitchin) writes:

>	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.

Castellan snags a bowl of peanuts off the bar, occasioning some puzzled
looks from patrons trying to figure out what the pun was.  But instead
of using them as projectiles, he goes behind the bar and runs them through
Mike's food processor, then brings the bowl of ground peanuts over to Grant's
table.  He dips an apple in the fondue, then rolls it in the peanuts to
obtain a delicious crunchy coating.  "Optional extra for those who prefer
Snickers to Milky Way.  As for nasty stuff, I seem to recall reading in
one of jan Brunvand's books on urban legends that the Halloween-candy scares
are just that-- urban legends.  Maybe it really happened once or twice over
the years, but certainly not enough to force the end of one of my favorite
childhood traditions, as seems to be happening."

"On the other hand, a friend of mine told me a trick to play along these
lines, though he never admitted whether he'd done it or not:  Go down to
your local supermarket on the afternoon of October 31, and buy a couple
dozen apples and a pack of double-edged razor blades.  Go to a cash regi-
ster staffed by the most naive-looking 15-year-old female in the store
(his words; blame any sexism on him).  Wait for her to make the connection
between your purchase and the date. *While her jaw is still in freefall*,
say "How would you like to go out with me tonight" in as sick and perverted
a voice as you can muster.  Watch out for flying shards when her scream
shatters the plate-glass windows at the front of the store."

--
-Chip Olson. | olson@husc.harvard.edu | ceo@{gnu.ai,silver.lcs}.mit.edu 
"Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, silhouetted
by the sea, circled by the circus sands, with all memory and fate driven deep 
beneath the waves; let me forget about today until tomorrow"  -Bob Dylan.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jf2z+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Charles Fiala)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: John posts!  Run!  Run!
Date: 30 Sep 92 22:33:33 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

John smiles, sitting back in her chair, stroking Em'ly's
back as the cat, in turn, is purring.

"Ah, autumn.  Fall has arrived.  Cold.

"I'm already wearing my jacket, and finding all the odd
things I left in it last spring so I could find them now."

John pushes her hands down *deep* in the pockets of the jacket
on the back of her chair, and when her hands come out, they
contain a golf ball, a green Lantern power ring, some junk 
jewelry, and kleenex.  

"The Kleenex especially impresses me.  I'll be getting a small
cold sometime, like as not, and then I'll be in sore need of it."

John gets up without disturbing Em'ly (a hard thing to do!),
and wanders over to Grant and his Caramel apples.

"Caramel Apples!  Yummy!  Wow, but I shouldn't, but I will."

She takes an apple, shoves a stick into it, and quickly covers
it with caramel.  "I love these, but the only problem is that
the caramel tends to stick to my teeth."  She attempts a bite,
but when she pulls the apple away from her mouth, her teeth
are stuck in the apple cartoon-style.  She eeps, and quickly pulls
them off, sliding them back into her mouth.

"Sneppah taht nehw etah I."

She blushes, takes out the teeth, and puts them in again.  "Oops.
Backwards!"  She smiles.

Hmmms...  "Holiday coming up!  National Coming Out Day is
the 11th of October!  A wonderful day to support various queers
to become more visible in the world.  Personally, I'm about as
queer as they come (*smile*), just in case someone missed it."

She slaps a buck down for Mike, receiving in return a frosty
glass of cherry coke, and wanders off to talk to Lirilen.

-john
"Kiss me, I'm Irish"
"Eat me, I'm Danish"
jf2z+@andrew.cmu.edu   
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: rich@theophilus.msfc.nasa.gov (Rich Krum)
Subject: Re: Another Introduction
Reply-To: rich@theophilus.msfc.nasa.gov
Organization: Boeing Computer Support Services
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 15:22:40 GMT

Trolls kinda sneak in, do nice things (usually) and then split, before we get embarassed
by the Thank you's.

Morris code is definately on the schedule, but my thought was to get the rig on the
air first.  My last run at ham stuff was in the 1960's, and I built up a great 
novice station, including a Heathkit DX-100 (boat anchor, but it worked), a JAP
Collins from Lafayette radio, and enough antennas to scare the H@## out of my Dad--
he referred to them as the biggest lightning rod in South Florida.

I still have the straight key I started with, and the old mechanical Bug that I used
to learn code with.  College and VietNam sorta interfered.

Now, I am working to get my 3 sons into the hobby, and starting all over with a
Rat Shack DX-390 to get my tin ear tuned up again.  

My brother (who lives in north Miami, but that`s another story) has promised a
VHF or UHF rig as soon as we get a licence.  I plan to be observing/helping on the
upcoming Jamboree-on-the-air that international Scoting is doing on the weekend
of 17-18 October.  We hope to be on all bands from Huntsville, AL for the entire 
48 hour run.  I do not know who the control operator(s) are yet, but if I find out
in time, I'll post.

--Rich AKA The Boss Troll

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From: rcb33483@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (ArchTeryx)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Holding on to the light
Date: 30 Sep 92 15:26:39 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

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:
>>>
>>>I am sorry if the following post is not completely coherent.  I am 
>>>trying to put many conflicting feelings into words.
>>>
>>>   [deleted]
>>>
>>>I try to hang on to the light, but I feel the darkness closing in and
>>>I am just so tired.
>>
>>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 :>).


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R. Cody Buchmann                             ^.^  
  "ArchTeryx"                          "Of *course* I understand you--I speak 
email: rcb33483@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu       1406 intergalactic avian dialects!"  
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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: feath@agora.rain.com (Feather)
Subject: fowl puns
Organization: Open Communications Forum
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 19:56:31 GMT


A flustered Feather manages to unmuss her feathers as she unexpectedly ends
up on ArchTeryx's shoulder.  "Nice peanut trick, ArchTeryx!" Feather grins
at the big avian.  "Are you hungry for any more?  Because first of all, I am 
especially grateful for you protecting me from that oncoming barrage, 
considering I had no idea where to duck after quacking that fowl pun!"

Feather immediately takes off and hides underneath ArchTeryx's big wing...
 

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: College advice for John
Date: 29 Sep 1992 03:30:15 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <1992Sep22.062837.8433@nntp.uoregon.edu>, JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jay Brandt (Jason)) writes:
>>How much time should be spent in clubs, and what are some 
>>good ones to be part of?  
>
>     Job/major related clubs : History, thespians (drama club), Society of
>Manufacturing Engineers, computer user's group, campus radio station, honor
>societies (if your grades are good enough), etc..

Don't forget the student newspaper.

>If you followed most instructor's rule of thumb, you
>would study for two hours outside of class for each hour spent in that
>class. Add that up for a typical full course load, plus the classes
>themselves.

45 hours or so per week.  Of course, most instructors seem to think that their
classes are special, so you ought to put in a few extra hours a week on
them....
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: cooking... Re: Song of Sixpence - Finis?
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 18:58:19 GMT

>        In the middle of the field, Grant is cooking.  He has pots on
>burners on one side of a table with a grill on the other.  He's wearing
>a large apron that says, "Breastfeeding is a real let-down."
>
>        "So, rather than try to think of something that San Diegans have
>made famous, I have set up a virtual kitchen for use for everybody.  Of
>course, my caramel apples are here."  Grant 

   "Sometimes I like to cook and sometimes I prefer my naps...
  I guess I'll cook. Lets see; a wok, ladel, rice, vegetables, and shrimp
  { not those little 'popcorn' shrimp, but those regular size 5 inch long
  ones. }, and an apron with 'I boogied 'til dawn, now where did I put the
  car !' I think I'll just make my favorite meal, shrimp fried rice. "
Dreamy Jim. 
 
-- 
 Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science
 jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
  "Is it the weekend yet ?" me :-)
From: steve@Advansoft.COM (Steve Savitzky)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: schools re: Old Coots Test
Date: 30 Sep 92 17:26:48 GMT
	<6364@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> <1992Sep27.230933.5804@news.Hawaii.Edu>
	<6384@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>
Organization: Advansoft Research Corp, Santa Clara, CA

In article <6384@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> seawasp@vm2.cis.pitt.edu (Sea Wasp) writes:

	"Second... 5-10 dollars IN RANGE OF AN ALLOWANCE????? Good god!

"Inflation strikes again," says the Mandelbear.  "When I was a kid, I
got $.25 a week, which would buy 5 candy bars or most of a paperback
book (at $.35).  Katy gets $2.50, which buys 5 candy bars or maybe a
little less of a book."
--
\ --Steve Savitzky--  \    343 Leigh Ave   \ Object-oriented software wizard
 \ steve@advansoft.COM \ San Jose, CA 95128 \ Presently seeking employment:
  \ arc!steve@apple.COM \   h:408-294-6492   \ Resume available on request.
   \__ steve@arc.UUCP _____ w:408-727-3357x246 (9am-6pm) _____________________
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
Subject: Re: Holding on to the light
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 19:36:23 GMT
Organization: Bill 'n' Opus for Prez

In article <1992Sep28.145035.12812@terminator.cc.umich.edu> sjg@terminator.cc.umich.edu (Susan Gavula) writes:
>
>I am sorry if the following post is not completely coherent.  I am 
>trying to put many conflicting feelings into words.
>
>   [deleted]
>
>I try to hang on to the light, but I feel the darkness closing in and
>I am just so tired.

Group hug!  Group hug!
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

Trying to be happy is like trying to build a machine for which the only
specification is that it should run noiselessly.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: JMPIERCE%USMCP6.bitnet@VM.TCS.Tulane.EDU (JIM PIERCE)
Subject: re: Friends ... Forever...
Organization: Yale CS Mail/News Gateway
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 21:59:10 GMT


  maybe I can get through this route...

      Dj, no Jim, Dj is too happy of a guy to be here. Jim walks out into
the meadow in his Petty Officer Third Class Dress Bules with his National
Defense Ribbon and his Meritorious Unit Commendation Medal on his uniform.
On the left sleeve toward the bottom is his red 4-year stripe. jim walks up
to the fire: 'salutes, to.' He then unpins his MUC and tosses it reverantly
into the fire. Jim earned it under peacetime conditions, but Arty will
understand. Far off somewhere can be heard the playing of Taps.

  "Arty, good-bye." Jim goes to parade-rest, and then after hugging SEA and
Didi, starts talking, its almost a poem, maybe not, it doesn't matter.

Its kind of hard to hear at first, Jim is not one for speech making or
well, I'll let the words talk. "Arty I was never in combat, I doubt if a
hurricane at sea would compare with a war. Out there in the dark, Navy
ships and planes flying, danger from storm and bulltits missles today can
kill a ship with small chance of survival. You did good rescueing pilots,
braver deeds were never done than to rescue a shipmate in need.
  Softly fals the darness across the land,
  a good friend is gone from The Place,
  nevermore will I get an email from a gone friend,
  we didn't talk much being busy and all,
  my high school class doesn't hold reunions,
  too many out of 250 died in war,
  some people appreciate the vet, some make fun of 'em,
  they lay their lives on the line,
  sometimes a shipboard accident can claim many lives even in peace,
  helicopters when I was in, were rather unreliable so it seems,
  at least we weren't there in WW 2 when meical help was a far walk to
   the rear, Oh heck Arty, I'll miss you I guess I just can't say anymore.

    Then Jim sits back a safe distance from the flames, and sits and
dreams the flames. Watching there deep in the coals, the moving flame
shapes dancing there. They gyrate and gymbol and wobble to and fro,
but Arty is gone, not there for me to talk to anymore.'

   Jim bows his head, for he just has to relax for awhile.

  Sorry for the mis-speeled words, its a little hard to see the screen.

* <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.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: pope@physics.su.OZ.AU (The Nightstalker)
Subject: Re: What exactly does this Nightstalker do?
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 00:55:32 GMT

In article <1992Sep26.155013.11044@waikato.ac.nz> rmarsh@waikato.ac.nz writes:
>In article <1992Sep26.020652.27699@ucc.su.OZ.AU>, pope@physics.su.OZ.AU (The Nightstalker) writes:
>> "Mike, a coke if you will, damn my stomach lining I like the stuff too
>> much.  If Stumpy is here will he join me in a drink?  
>
>  Stumpy accepts the offered drink and listens as Nightstalker describes
>his life and work. 
>  "It's funny you should choose now to mention your work. Just last night I
>went to see 'A Brief History of Time'. As you can imagine, it raised all
>sorts of questions in my over-active little grey cells (remember Journal
>Club?). The principle of which you (or someone else here) may be able to
>answer. Does Quantum Mechanics necessitate the spontaneous appearance of
>matter/anti-matter particle pairs, or merely allow for the possibility?
>  "I also didn't understand the concept of imaginary time, but that
>question is of quite another order."
>  Stumpy sips at his drink and muses about Life, the Universe and
>Everything...
>> 
>> "To science and love, but mainly to love."
>
>  "I'll drink to that!"
>> 
>> <crash>
>  <crash>
>-- 

The Nightstalker takes another sip of his coke and ruminates.

"I don't know if I even believe the concept of imaginary time, I wonder
if half of the maths in theoretical physics these days is anything more
than that.  As for pair production in vacuum, who knows.  If we see black
holes radiating, then it happens, but then we don't see blackholes either.
Sigh...."

"To theorising and the contemplation of the cosmic navel."

<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
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: dbriggs@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Daniel Briggs)
Subject: Re: Another Introduction
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 00:54:29 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.152240.10937@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov>
  rich@theophilus.msfc.nasa.gov writes:
>Morris code is definately on the schedule,

Say what?  Caper-caper-clash-caper-clash-clash-caper-clash-caper.  Nah,
just doesn't sounder real practical to me.

Hoping the humor isn't too subtle,

Dan'l

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| New Mexico Tech / National Radio Astronomy Observatory |            DoD #387
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From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Old Coots Test (was A grinning Nightstalker)
Date: 27 Sep 92 18:02:24 GMT
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <122420124@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>, daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom) writes:
=In alt.callahans, aaron@helios (Aaron Humphrey) writes:
=
=> 
=> "I remember when the D&D Basic set first came out in its original format.  
=
=I remember when D&D was four or five shoddily produced pamphlets
=that described a very crude method for making up games.

I remember when it was three.
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: I Never Thought . . .
Date: 28 Sep 1992 20:22:08 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <1992Sep25.050145.27260@nntp.uoregon.edu>, JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jay Brandt (Jason)) writes:
>As I understand it, the direct dial-in line accesses the newsgroups via the
>VAX software _VNEWS_ . The on-campus connections that I use access them via
>the campus LAN, using a Macintosh program called _Newswatcher_ . Two
>different mail servers, using different communication protocols.

StM comments, "That seems highly unlikely.  They should both be using NNTP."

>The VAX mail server is subscribing to a subset of what is available. The Mac
>Interface has been set up so it subscribes to a larger list.

StM asks, "Would you like your very own copy of NEWSRDR?  Requires no
privileges (well, it might require privs if you want to use it to post), takes
up less than 200 blocks of disk space, and will let you read any newsgroup
your NNTP server is willing to deal with.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus)
Subject: Re: Perfect Caramel Apples
Organization: Data I/O Corporation
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 20:45:14 GMT

In article <1992Oct5.170936.29411@terminator.cc.umich.edu> sjg@terminator.cc.umich.edu (Susan Gavula) writes:
>
>li@inigo.data-io.com writes:
>
>>He then wanders back out into the taproom, deposits the wax paper into
>>VAX's amazing suction hose, and goes over to Susan and hands her one of the
>>apples.  There is *just* enough stick to make the hand off simple.
>
>>"Your wish is my command..." David says with a laugh.

>Susan just stares at him with wide eyes as she watches the process.  Then
>she starts blushing and laughing.  "Perfectionists...I forgot just who I
>was dealing with, dearheart.  I s'pose it doesn't do any good to say you
>didn't *have* to go to all that trouble....but thanks muchly."  

He grins a lambish (slightly sheepish?) grin and bows with one apple near
his heart, and the other rather dangerously waved in the air.  Well,
dangerous in that a... certain... dragon might take it.  "Not at all, not
at all." he says negligantly, but there is a glint in his dark eye as he
comes back up.   "I'm not sure that it would do any good at all..."

>She gives
>him a kiss on the cheek as he hands her the apple.  It takes her a moment
>to grasp it but David waits until she has it securely before letting go.
>She takes a small bite, savoring the sweetness of the caramel along with
>the tart fruit.  "Wonderful..."

He smiles and is just about to take a bite of his own apple...

>Before David can take a bite of his own apple Susan asks, "Want to share mine
>first?"

David blinks and closes his mouth.  He looks at her and blushes rather
deeply, "Uhm... sure."  And, not quite sure of what she has in mind, he
sits on the edge of one of the usually quite comfortable chairs in the
Place and looks at her.

---
David
li@inigo.Data-IO.com
From: ptd2@po.CWRU.Edu (Palmer T. Davis)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Basic Trivia (was Re: BAH! HUMBUG!)
Date: 6 Oct 1992 03:26:28 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ptd2@po.CWRU.Edu (Palmer T. Davis)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, dgil@ipsaint.ipsa.reuter.com (Gillett, David) says:
>
>     C-Hawk asks if anybody remembers "RADIX-50"?  I think he means RADIX-40.
>Observe that 40^3 == 64000, while 50^3 is 125000.

``Tsk, tsk, Mentor... you're thinking in decimal.  The `50' in `RADIX-50'
is in _octal_, which makes it....''
-- 
Palmer T. Davis      ___
<ptd2@po.cwru.edu>   \X/   cthread.  cthread_fork().  Fork, thread, fork!
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: Jack.Smoke@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Jack Smoke)
Subject: Movie Plug
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 18:58:22 GMT

I don't often review movies, but last night I saw one that  deserves it.
"Last of the Mohicans" staring Daniel Day-Lewis as Hawkeye, produced and 
directed by Michael Mann.
	The story is wildly different from the Fenimore Cooper novel 
(Which Sam Clemens (Mark Twain) once called the worst novel ever written).
Mann went to great trouble to find out what the period looked and felt
like, and then went to great expense replicating it.
	Using original holographic sources (Diaries, letters, etc.) 
and consulting with historians, Mann spent $35 Million producing a 
movie that never stumbles.
	As a Cherokee, it is rare for me to enjoy a movie made by 
whites about Native Americans, but Mann has given his subject the attention and
respect it deserves.
	
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