HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: A Tall Tale for Twelfth Night (Postscript)
From: spok+@cs.cmu.edu (John Ockerbloom)
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 23:06:39 GMT
Organization: School of Mango Science, Cranberry Melon

John brushes the peanuts off himself.  It's a harder job than he'd expected,
since they tend to disappear in pockets, and even one or two down shirt
fronts.  "I suppose I'll find the rest when I do laundry," he says with a
grin, and pops a loose one in his mouth.  "Thanks to everyone who, er,
showed their appreciation; and to those who went out screaming, I promise
not to do it again for... well, at least another week."

"Splash, you asked about the tradition of Twelfth Night, and that deserves
 an answer, though I'm perhaps not the most knowledgeable about it.  In
 a nutshell," he says, throwing a peanut husk over his shoulder, "it's a
 night of celebration associated with the feast of the Epiphany, which
 traditionally closes out the Christmas season on January 6.  (The period
 between Christmas and Epiphany is the 'twelve days of Christmas'.) 
 Epiphany commemorates the the visit of the Magi, eastern astrologers
 (or 'wise men') who honor the baby Jesus with kingly gifts.  (The story's
 in chapter 2 of Matthew's gospel.)  Christians in some countries do their
 gift-exchanges on this day rather than on Christmas.

"Twelfth Night is either the night before or the night of Epiphany.  (I'm
 told one or the other, or both, depending on what source I consult, so I
 imagine it varied from place to place.)  In Elizabethan England, and
 elsewhere, it was a time of great revelry and merriment.  It's thought that
 Shakespeare's comedy _Twelfth Night_, for instance, was written for one of
 these revels.  That play never actually mentions Twelfth Night explicitly, 
 but that sort of comedy of errors, at various points romantic, silly,
 and gender-bending, would have fit in well with the revels of the time,
 as I understand it.

"As I said earlier, Twelfth Night really isn't celebrated much in the modern
 day US, where even Epiphany's been moved from its traditional date on the
 Catholic calendar.  But it does seem to me a good basis for a celebration,
 whichever day you decide to celebrate it on."  John grins.  "And if in doubt,
 why not celebrate on both days?"

John (who rarely passes up a good holiday) Ockerbloom
-- 
==========================================================================
ockerbloom@cs.cmu.edu                4209 Murray Ave., Pittsburgh PA 15217
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: feath@agora.rain.com (Feather)
Subject: Re: A dead ringer  *-> 
Organization: Open Communications Forum
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:17:46 GMT

In article <106671@bu.edu> schweppe@acs.bu.edu (Edmund Schweppe) writes:
>Splash! tries to blame this one on Damien:
>
>>A church was advertising for a new bell-ringer.
>
>[ rest of bell-ringing pun deleted to make inews happy ]
>
>Is Merlinvin the only clapper for this attempt at the brass ring?
>
>Or should we just give Damien the gong?
>
Chirps the small, gray avian, "Going, going, gong!"
From: keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Last one into the pool ...
Date: 12 Jan 1993 21:43:41 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au

jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce) writes:

>  "Well, he wasn't 'God's Own Drunk' ! That's a Jimmy Buffet song ! Or was
> the song I wanted 'Changes in Attitudes, Changes in Latitudes' ? 

Wasn't it Douglas Adams who suggested that flying was simply a matter of
jumping at the ground and missing?  Sounds like attitude to me  :-)

> Boss, have
> you been messing with the song database again !? Anyway, Of course, I'll
> dance ! Would you like a little Hustle, dance fever, Xanadu with roller
> skates, The Peppermint Twist, or a Lufberry Special!" Linda. 

>    "Oh Splash, the Lufberry Special is a 'flying' song. Are you a 
>flying fish, or are you just water down the floor drain ??" Robbie.

Ummmm ... how about a hustle?  I haven't done a hustle in years (actually,
doing demonstration hustles in shopping malls as a kid, for my dance scool
sorta put me off for a few years).  After all, how much damage can Linda
do with a hustle?

>    "I thought you two were in the conga line ? Oh yes, Linda was
>  changed into her 'Bugs, a Bunny' look and was last seen asking
>  the Doctor something or other..." DJ.

Well, Callahans is a virtual place; I think we can be virtually anywhere
at once, no?

Splash!

--
		Splash!		*To love is to LIVE!*
   (aka Mike van Keulen -- e-mail: keulen@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: amanda@wam.umd.edu (Me again)
Subject: Re: A Tall Tale for Twelfth Night
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:42:20 GMT

[long shaggy-dog-pun deleted]

Amanda has only one thing to say....

                          "AUGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!"

But you notice that she is laughing and rolling on the floor as she lets out
this cry of anguish....

amanda@wam.umd.edu    "O-pun wide, peanuts incoming..."      Amanda Babcock
From: randolph@netcom.com (Randolph Fritz)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Bouncing confusion
Date: 10 Jan 93 19:06:58 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

I have a note from a McGill sysadmin saying that he's going to look
into the problem; meantime he's shutting off the McGill mail gateway.
To be continued . . .

__R
From: keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: boo
Date: 5 Jan 1993 09:00:01 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au

brumby@nella7.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen McNamara) writes:

>   This could get obscure for the non-unix-impared. (Would they be the
>'systematically challenged'?)

"Ooh ... have some peanuts!"  Splash tosses a handful at the Brumby.

>aaron@atlantis.uucp writes:

>>"No, I'm fine for now, wench.  Maybe later, next time a toast is in order..."

>>% sort toast

>% nice pun

"Hah!  Alfvaen's pun took a couple of posts to sink in ... I keep
forgetting that computerese folk make up a large % of the population on
the net."

Splash!

--
		Splash!		*To love is to LIVE!*
   (aka Mike van Keulen -- e-mail: keulen@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au)
From: mcspikgfm@dct.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: purple
Date: 11 Jan 93 14:18:38 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

In article <C0o2u7.CEr@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:
> 
>>>kitten (who never knows when to leave well enough alone) just wanted
>>>to turn her hair a couple of shades darker than strawberry blonde...
>>>
>>>now she looks like an irish setter that has been sprayed with grape
>>>koolaid. 
>>>
>>>sigh.
>>>
>>	Rachel comes over and hugs kitten warmly. "Don't worry, other 
>>people have done that before. You may have used the same product a friend
>>of mine once used, which did the same thing. If you want to go to
>>a hairdresser and have it done right, give me your snail mail address
>>and I'll send you a sample of mine to match! :)" She looks at her own
>>hair, which is (naturally) just the orange side of red, like an Irish
>>Setter. "I should warn you, though... every hairdresser I've spoken to says
>>that red dyes fade the fastest. But I have seen some _excellent_ dye jobs."
> 
> "thanks....i am starting to get used to it...but why do i feel the
> urge to get a leather skirt and studs...."
> 

	Because its the right thing to do.......wear the leather skirt and the
studs will come to you......
	It'll give you a more altogether look and then no-one will be able to
work out whether you meant to do it or it was an accident.....

	Dont worry.....I've seen a sheep dog with its hair dyed pinkish purple
to match both its owners hair.....wierd looking on a dog....
	maybe you could inflict it on your cats if they think yur crazy....
          ( I totally deny I said that as I like cats lots....find a dog...
I have a phobia about them.....their not as cute as cats....!)

							Mel.

	Looking forward to seeing Kitten in a Leather Skirt and studs....
	( I wont get the chance unfortunately...damn....)


> --
> ***************************************************************************
> 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: keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: An unexpected ring-in, whose face rings a bell
Date: 11 Jan 1993 21:34:32 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au

trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:

[stuff deleted]

>kitten delivers a mexican pizza to damien...along with a hug.  and a
>hug for splash...

>"i think i will come to WA too....the temp is 23 and the windchill is
>2 (that's farenheit...)

Hmmm ... how are you with HOT weather?  Today is somewhat cooler than the
last week, it's only about 35 C (95 F) ... last week we had a whole string
of days of about 38 C (100F); we should get more hot weather over the next
couple of days.  I like it, but it might not be everybody's cup of tea. 
Damien and I were wandering around Fremantle last night around midnight,
drinking iced chocolates/coffees, wearing shorts and t-shirts and still
sweating it out.  Great fun.

Splash!

--
		Splash!		*To love is to LIVE!*
   (aka Mike van Keulen -- e-mail: keulen@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: A lurker emerges...
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:39:36 GMT
Keywords: intro, lurker, eggo, Capt. Nemo, Capt. Nemo??, you heard me!


>"Umm... what ... I say?"
>"Whatever you want, blast you!  This is YOUR intro!"

>A puff of breath is heard.  A puff of dust emerges.
>Louder, and clearer:
>"!!AHEM!!"
>Much dust emerges.

>More reasonably:

>"Oh, ah, sorry folx.  Like the Captain said, this is my intro.  I've been
>lurking for, oh, a long time.  Since just after He-Who-At-One-Time-Was-To-
>Remain-Nameless (hi, Dirque!) came in and trashed the Place, actually.  I've
>just recently ended a lengthy ABEND.  The new news reader still doesn't, so
>my thanks to John and Grapevine for e-mailing a.c to a Friend of mine, a Lady
>of your acquaintance (hallo, Lady!).  She let the Captain hook up a speaking-
>tube so I could listen in.  Thanks also to yale (hi, Mom!) for the path the
>other way.  It's a pretty long pipe, and I'm usually a bit behind in my
>reading, so my responses may be a little out of sync.  I'll assume a roomful of
>Virtual Time Lords can handl*-- Ouch!  OK, OK, Captain!  I'll get on with it!

>"My name is in the header (no site.ghod, I), but here, s'il vous plait,
>I will be known as 'Eggo'.  Captain Nemo is a convenient plot device;
>I doubt you will be hearing any more of him as he has no significance."


kitten welcomes eggo with a hug.  "you have been around for QUITE a
long time.  glad you decided to let us see you at last..."
--
***************************************************************************
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: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Bi-bulb (was Re: Dalek has entered the building
Date: 5 Jan 93 15:26:10 GMT
Reply-To: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

(Attributions deleted to please the bandwidth spirits.  Speaking of spirits,
Mike, get me a shot of Glenfiddich, please.)
|>>>>   The brumby can never resist a straight line.
|>>>>
|>>>>feath@agora.rain.com (Feather) writes:
|>>>>
|>>>>>"How many Callahaners does it take to change a Bi-Bulb?"
|>>>>
|>>>>   "Into what?"
|>>>>
|>>>Feather looks over her shoulder at the big gray stallion with a puzzled 
|>>>expression on her small avian face.
|>>>
|>>>"Watt?"
|>>>"
|>>
|>>"Ohmmmmm...." intones MonTemplar :-)
|>
|>I think the heat of the resistance is getting to these folks. 
|>I have an electrifying idea - let's use our capacity to get some snow 
|>and coulomb off.

"Theses puns are true joules.  I'm dyne to jump in on this thread, so here I am
faraday.  Let me amp-lifiy my current thoughts:  Never leave a static pun
around an electronics technician; he might shock you."

Starknight sips his Glenfiddich, awaiting the peanuts...
From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Charles Olson)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: an idle observation
Date: 12 Jan 93 04:40:53 GMT
Organization: Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services, Cambridge, MA
In-reply-to: jammer@eskimo.com's message of 11 Jan 93 07:09:18 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.070918.24529@eskimo.com> jammer@eskimo.com (Lyle Harwood) writes:

>Edmund Schweppe (schweppe@acs.bu.edu) wrote:
>: >: Merlinvin tries to suppress a chortle and fails miserably. "So,
>kitten,
>: >: THAT's why your RL name is Trump-inski!  Well, those puns deserve
>: >: something special..."  Merlinvin throws a handful of bridge mix at
>kitten.
>: >
>: >"Ah! Bridge Mix. wench, I bid you bring me some."
>: 
>: "No, Wench, first to me!" Merlinvin jumps in preemptively. Then,
>realizing
>: his vulnerability to being slammed by other bridge-lovers,  Merlinvin
>: suggests that the bridge mix be auctioned off...
>: 
>:
>At the premption, Jammer raises an eyebrow, while Warrior growls
>softly.
>Jammer looks around, and asks
>"Merlinvin, have you gone mad? Are you ready for the rubber room?"

"I think he's positively whistful for it", observes Castellan.

--
-Chip Olson. | olson@husc.harvard.edu | ceo@{gnu.ai,silver.lcs}.mit.edu
"If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down?
Maybe we would if they screamed all the time for no good reason." -J. Handey
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Newsgroups: alt.callahans

In alt.callahans, daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom) writes:

> She suggests that the typical aristocratic penchant for discrestion
                                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^

Mother told me never to be pompous without a spelling checker.

Dear old mom....
From: jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: New Year Pizza Party
Date: 6 Jan 93 23:47:37 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc., San Jose, CA

An almost spaceman-ish figure drifts out of the seaweed,
swaying ever-so-slightly in the currents.  A baggy pressure
suit balloons out around it, and a bulbous brass helmet crowns
the ensemble.  Through the glass-rimmed faceplate one sees
glasses, and a bit of blond hair and face.  

"I've been looking for a good excuse to wear this thing,"
echos Jilara's voice from inside the brass dome.  "And it's
very good for keeping one's glasses dry."
--
  Jilara   [jane@swdc.stratus.com]

"Every now and then, a big rock falls out of the sky, and everyone has 
a *very bad* day."  --from the PBS "Dinosaurs" special.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: Hippo birdies again
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:09:14 GMT

>"merry dear, take care of yourself....
>
>i looked for speaker all day yesterday...and he didn't show up...
>
>*sniff*  happy birthday, stm..."  kitten misses the large sized kitten
>(well, after all, that's all a kzinti is, non?)
>

  I sent him a birthday greetings via email, and he replied. He said
something about having a hard time of it at a New Year's dance. Said he
would post/explain. Details he didn't give. Jim.

-- 
         Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
                      Video. Peter Gabriel: Steam 
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: New Year Pizza Party
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:12:53 GMT

>> { You may notice a few references to Monty Python, and H. Beam Piper's
>>   Federation... }
>
>>     Well. DJ is asleep in his Comfy Chair, Linda is trying to decide
>>  to wear, and Robbie is puzzled... <sniff> <sniff>
>
>>    "Snurq, blurgle I smell pizza !" DJ.
>
>>    "Boss, its a pizza New year !" Linda.
>
>
>kitten bounces over to hug dreamy jim, linda and robbie...."it's about
>time you got here..."

    Hmm. I guess my post saying I got invited to a RL party by one of
the former computer lab monitors I used to work with never made it...

    Thanks for the hug ! I'm glad Did is better ! Sigh, alls well as 
 ends better ! Hi doug ! Yes kitten, lets give grouchy a hug !!! :-)

-- 
         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: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: Hullo...
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:02:30 GMT

(Edmund Schweppe) writes:
>Jim Pierce writes:
>>Kitten writes:
>>>(i have ALWAYS wanted to wear what eunice wore in _i will fear no evil_)
>>
>>      A good story, and kept me awake for several nights afterward.
>>    Why ? I wanted her to be rescued by a certain family. Jim.
>
>Hmmmm... Jim, if I remember correctly, _The Number of the Beast_ was written
>**after** _I Will Fear No Evil_.  That certain family hadn't gotten into
>that business, yet.  (Although that doesn't explain why RAH didn't have
>anyone make pickup *later* in the sequence...)

    Ah, you got the reference... Yes, but they still could have made pickup.
  The thing is, RAH mentions _I Will Fear No Evil_ in one of his later
  stories, and says he didn't like it via one of the characters. I got the
  impression from what he had the character say that he wasn't pleased
  with the story. <shrug> I have no concrete info...

>>          'Rush Limbaugh is the 'Chia Pet' of TV talk shows !'
>                                  ^^^^^^^^
>Does that mean that he'll shrivel up and die if I don't water the telly?

       Possibly, but be careful, you could wind up with your eyes all
     lit up ! Zap !

-- 
         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 !'
From: ekho@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (amanda rothman)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Help!
Date: 9 Jan 93 16:21:04 GMT
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida


  A group of Callahaners gathers around Amanda and Ekho's forcewall.  
Linking together, they begin to push... and push... until -POP- the pair 
are free!  "My thanks to you!"  Amanda smiles.  Ekho is still muttering 
something about primitive computers needing a laser probe taken to their 
circuts...

            Yours in Time and Space
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: PCAHN@EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU
Subject: elvis
X-Unparseable-Date: 10-JAN-1993 15: 27:57.08
Organization: Yale CS Mail/News Gateway
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 20:28:10 GMT

X-VMS-News: eagle.wesleyan.edu alt.callahans:13055
so kitten sez:

> kitten just wants to be the first to wish y'all a happy elvis's
> birthday... 
> 
> :)
> 
> 
> --
> ***************************************************************************
> 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
>
And did everyone remember to buy their Elvis stamps today? I bought half a
sheet and my housemate bought a sheet and framed them.

Rounder
pcahn@eagle.wesleyan.edu
On the Bedtable: Robert Shea/Robert Anton Wilson: Leviathan
On the Turntable: Jali House Rock (Rogue Records Sampler)
From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jason)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Callahan's Filk
Date: 8 Jan 93 21:57:22 GMT
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Organization: the Polyhedron Group
NNTP-Posting-Host: aaa.uoregon.edu

In article <AA21196.199301081456@tuda.ncl.ac.uk>,
dph1jg%tuda@newcastle.ac.uk (J.P.Gardner) wrote:
> Spider Robinson
> sung to the tune of Mrs. Robinson by Paul Simon

"Bravo! Well said."

<Crash!>

Jason
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Bi-bulb (was Re: Dalek has entered the
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 12:03:33 GMT


>> > >kitten writes:
>> > >>*giggle*  (you guys realize that people think i am crazy when i talk
>> > >>to the terminal)
>> 
>> Jason ponders "Hmmmmm. I always thought Kitten was small, but I see now she
>> is a meduim. Talkling to the not-quite-dead (the terminal) would make her a
>> clairvoyant as well, Hmmmm?"

++brandon says:

>Does that make her a small medium at large?  <ducks>

>Of course, she might simply think she's Speaker to Minerals... :-)

"oooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh, i woudn't dare....." *giggle*  "hey, speaker,
nobody would ever think i am you....right?  and if i tried to be you
you might bite me }:) and i am NOT on your diet!"

--
***************************************************************************
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

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: purple
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 05:30:32 GMT


>>
>>"hey, this new leather skirt came with a whip and studded
>>collar...which would look REAL good on a certain jammer i know..."

>Suddenly, Merlinvin has a vision.

>He imagines Joe College, UIUC freshman extraordinaire, flushed with pride
>after having finally finished his first term paper.  Unfortunately, he
>forgot to renew one of the references that contributed to his scholastic
>success and it is now two days overdue.  Being, after all, a fine and
>upstanding young man, he is the first one in line when the library opens,
>ready to pay his fine...

>Then the librarian comes out from the back room.

>Kitten.

>The purple haired, leather skirted, studded collared, whip wielding,
>electro-cuty, Biker Punk Librarian Wench From Hell.

>"This book was due WHEN?"  

>And Joe College goes screaming into the back racks...

>While Merlinvin dissolves into helpless giggles... and offers kitten a big
>hug and earscritch once he recovers.

kitten hugs merlinvin back....and giggles too..."and remember, i work
in the agriculture library...i am giving these farmers a REAL treat!"

--
***************************************************************************
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