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From: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Thoreau and timothy
Date: 18 Aug 92 16:55:31 GMT
Reply-To: aaron@space.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

JMPIERCE%USMCP6.bitnet@VM.TCS.Tulane.EDU (JIM PIERCE) writes:
: 
:   "Hmm. Although I haven't read any Thoreau, I have read The Whole Earth
: Catalog, Epilog, and the Co-Evolutionary Quarterly. I don't think
: many people who talk about going back to the simple life have been there.
: Its a lot of hard 14 hour days ! Thats why families were large, to
: have enough survivors to work the land. Several people I met, wanted
: to buy cast iron stoves, metal plows, etc. When I asked them did they
: know where those things came from, one of them actually said, 'from the
: catalog man.' Of course, most of the people in that room realized that
: there has to be an industrial base of some sort in order to make those
: tools. Which was the point I was trying to make. I, myself, was almost
: caught up in that desire to build a dome house and live off the land.
: I got to where I liked the toys that civilization gives us. I have
: done without air-conditioning, radio, food, water, but I was lost out
: in the woods. Not a pleasant feeling, to be alone in the middle of
: no where and not know where you are but in general terms.

Alfvaen looks up at DJ, who was listening after all.  ("See, timothy?  I told
you...")  "Actually, Thoreau maintains that he really didn't have to spend a
lot of time.  Mind you, he didn't 'live off the land', per se.  He freely
admits to buying the meal he used to make bread from.  He didn't garden for
more than beans and a few other things.  All he was trying was simplifying his
life as much as possible, not pioneering.  He was only a little ways outside of
Concord in his house, and he could still hear the trains go by..."

--
---Alfvaen(a.k.a. Aaron V. Humphrey)
"So you found a girl who thinks really deep thoughts
 what's so amazing about really deep thoughts"  -- Tori Amos
Current Album--Squeeze:Play
Current Read--Henry David Thoreau:Walden and Other Writings
From: rkoch@lonestar.utsa.edu (Ruth M. Koch)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Bean thought answer
Date: 14 Aug 92 03:41:30 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

This is a little off the subject, but....

>
>Snark nods, "I try to live my life like that, too... I've simply found
>from experience that being open and honest is just *easier*... less
>stressful not having to keep track of who knows what, etc.  I'm just
>not very good at either keeping things hidden, or of keeping track of
>half-truths and such, so I don't try!"

I had a friend ask me why I came out (of the closet).
My answer was that, for me, keeping quiet about my homesexuality
with my friends, people who trusted me with their secrets, was just
too dishonest for me to live with.  I don't go around telling everybody,
I share that information with whom I wish.  But when a new friendship
comes to the point where their not knowing becomes my lying and covering
up, then I just feel awful.  I normally tell a new friend fairly quickly,
and get it over with.  Then I just hope that I did a good job of picking
that person as a potential friend.


Nathan.
Organization: Freshman, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 17:05:15 -0400 
From: Mark Beirne Lively <ml5a+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re-Entry.

Bear walks into the bar;)...
Ouch:)
Old joke I know but...
	Well  I am as they say back.  Until about christmas or so.  THis summer
I worked for Integrated Power Corperation.  A Westinghouse company. 
They make power systems for remote applications.  Like if you need
electricity and don't feel like running miles and miles of wires out
into the boonies.  I worked as a summer slave.  They had me doing
everything.  I didn't think it was possible to get that variety of
experience without gettign fired a half dozen times.  I learned the
difference between getting shocked with AC and DC  if I had my druthers
I'll take AC.  I learned what acid does to clothes.  I installed
telephones.  I broke up shipping pallets I adjusted the valves on a
diesel.  did a 10 GALLON oil change.  spilled more diesel feul than
Exxon.  Found out where they hid the smoke;)  (double E joke)  Melted
some componets.  Cut my hand open accidentally.  Played electrician.  
Wired up solar panels.  Did some manufacturing.  Sifted through tons and
tons of data on batteries.  Some of it was in spanish  which I don't
know but still managed to piece together.  Data entry.  UG the list goes
on and on.  I came back fromwork covered with every substance known to
man.
	Its great to be back!

Noone ever accused me of being nice!
Bear aka the Lord High Rulebender aka (ml5a@andrew.cmu.edu)
From: jevans@ius.indiana.edu (JEVANS)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: The Faire!
Date: 17 Aug 92 15:26:16 GMT


              The Doctor hears the BillBoard proclaiming the Bon Fire
          and Cook Out in progress on the Western Playing Field. Being
          thoroughly ravenous, The Doctor heads thence for some
          barbecue and corn on the cob.

              Upon arrival, he spots the distinguished Lord ap Morgan
          and the delectable Didi and joins them, food and ale in tow.
From: jevans@ius.indiana.edu (JEVANS)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Oh, pun! season
Date: 12 Aug 92 20:49:40 GMT


              Inside the TARDIS (Bitnet/Internet is EVERYwhere!), The
          Doctor received The Manx's challenge. Adjusting the
          controls, he heads for Callahan's.
          ***********************************************************

              The Doctor strode in the doors, collected a God's
          Blessing from Mike, and with a wicked grin, faced Manx.

          ***********************************************************

              "So, Manx, you're not a cat, eh? Didn't mean to give you
          claws for alarm, but I had to scratch up something, no
          kitten.
              As far as the other puns, I have to say something in
          return. You forgot to praise my poise and carriage. Indeed,
          every pun has it's function, no cloning around. Keep trying,
          and someday maybe YOUR print-cess will come, and the both of
          you'll enter into a new home, single file.
              Regretfully, though, some of your respones were a little
          chili. Very salty lanuguage, indeed. You pasta point of good
          taste some thyme ago. Sage observations, though. Very
          peppery personality you have there. I'd like to see other
          aspics of your humor as well.
              Ale do my best to applaud your story about the
          bell ringer. Poor fellow, what a job. Always had to go to
          the clapper."


                       >***CRASH***<

******************************************************************************

    "More to the point, what are you young people doing inside my TARDIS?"

                                The Doctor
            Current Album: Star Trek:The Unofficial Comedy Album
               Current Read: Doctor Who: The Nightmare Fair
            Current Videos:Doctor Who:The Hartnell Years, Doctor
          Who:The Troughton Years, Doctor Who:The Brain Of Morbius and
                 Roger Waters:The Wall:Live In Berlin 1990
                   EMail me at: JEVANS@IUS.INDIANA.EDU

******************************************************************************

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: mbr2@quads.uchicago.edu (Curious Of All Natures)
Subject: Quote Happens: to the folded land!
Reply-To: mbr2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Universtiy of Chicago
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 03:54:19 GMT


In the X-window above the grey furring form, you begin to see an image
of soulful irregular landscapes, an uncountably lit sky, a pounded
shore.  You feel the tingles of someone else's longing - the longing
of a fellow in lands of which Euclid would have been proud.  The
mountains have a niche by their hearts for that fellow...

...a change in your peripheral frame garners a glance down.  Only a
warmth remains on the sill.  On the toenails of the terrain, Curious
Of All Natures waves a week-long farewell.


As if to see COAN off, a memory of Ralph Waldo Emerson's echoes from
ago:

Crossing a bare common, in snow puddled, at twilight, under a clouded
sky, without having in my thoughts any occurance of special good
fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration.  I am glad to the
brink of fear.


-Matt Ryan, who'd love responses to Quote Happenses,
mb-ryan@uchicago.edu                Curious Of All Natures
==================================  ====================================
If I'm dreaming, never let me wake. You'll never see the end of the road
If I'm awake, never let me sleep.   When you're traveling with me.
               -old chinese fellow                        -Crowded House     
==================================  ====================================
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: dgil@ipsaint.ipsa.reuter.com (Gillett, David)
Subject: Re:  Desctop Pub-lishing [sic]
Reply-To: dgil@ipsaint.ipsa.reuter.com (Gillett, David)
Organization: Reuters APL Software Division
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 10:26:01 GMT


-----------Message forwarded from IPSA Mailbox-------------
no. 6485964 filed 18.25.24  fri 14 aug 1992
from dgil
to   locun
subj Re:  Desctop Pub-lishing [sic]
ref  6483481

     I *thought* I had responded to the call, but I don't seem to be on
Alfvaen's list; nor do I recall seeing my posted description.

Names:  Dave Gillett (Mundania)
        Exil Q Trob (Fandom)
        Mentor (Wicca)
        Mentor the Sage (Alt.callahans)
        Barbara Gordon (Vampyres mailing list)

Physical:  About 155 cm tall, 100kg or so, "young coot" about to turn 35
           Hazel eyes, thinning brown hair, red-brown beard (ZZ Top-ish)

Education:  Bachelor of Independent Studies (Software Engineering) from
            University of Waterloo.  Subsequent courses in History of Medieval
            Witchcraft, Television Production, and Marine Biology.

Languages:  Canadian English, rusty French, smatterings of Italian and Spanish,
            ASL, APL, BASIC, C, C++, FORTRAN, J, Turbo Pascal, ZOPL.

Avocations: Sex, writing, theology, percussion, reading, gaming.
            Irregular publication of zine _Glyph_.

Passions: Sex, writing, marine mammals, naval technologies, visual arts,
          seafood (including anchovies and sushi).

Impediments: Anosmia, correctable myopia, slight hearing loss, flaky ankles
             and knees.  Uncomfortable about initiating hugs, but improving.

Mutations: Has been known to resemble R.A. MacAvoy's 'Black Dragon' on a few
           rare occasions.
                                            Mentor the Sage
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: hollombe@polymath.tti.com (The Polymath)
Subject: Re: Responsibilities of Artists (was Re: Pornography and Playboy)
Organization: The Cat Factory
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 17:57:05 GMT

In article <8127.6867@stratus.SWDC.Stratus.COM> jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman) writes:
}In article <1992Aug7.184501.7957@midway.uchicago.edu> mss2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
}>
}>... Uther Pendragon, disguised magically
}>by Merlin, comes to Igraine and immediately has sex with her.  So
}>immediately, in fact, that while he remembers to take off _her_
}>clothes, he doesn't bother with his own.  And he's wearing plate
}>armor.  ...

}I always thought it was something to do with the fact that in
}those days, manly men came in shells ...

"Err ... would you like to rephrase that?" (-:{

The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, M.A., CDP, aka: hollombe@polymath.tti.com)
Head Robot Wrangler at Citicorp                   Turn the rascals out!
3100 Ocean Park Blvd.   (310) 450-9111, x2483     No incumbents in '92!
Santa Monica, CA  90405
From: aahz@netcom.com (Aahzmandius)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: A True Story
Date: 13 Aug 92 12:07:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.+p5mdhr.aahz
Organization: Bill 'n' Opus for Prez

In article <1992Aug12.164204.15653@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> aaron@space.ualberta.ca writes:
>lgold@callahans.Cadence.COM (Lynn Gold) writes:
>: 
>: >Alfvaen says, "Well, today is a special occasion...only a week after the last
>: >one, true--and no, Didi, it's not a birthday.  Well, for 1/365.2422 of the
>: >population it is...(haven't I said this once already?)...but for me, it's
>: >something a bit different.
>: 
>: >"It's an anniversary.  In fact, it's the anniversary of my marriage--the first
>: >one, hopefully of many.
>: 
>: Many marriages?  What would Nicole say? :-)

{I *still* can't see Lynn's articles.  Grrrrr.  Anyone else have this
problem?  I found out last night that Netcom is passing her articles to
other sites, so it must be the news software here.  Any ideas?}

Actually, some couples do periodically renew their vows.  It's basically
like getting married all over again.  So, maybe you *could* have many
marriages with Nicole......
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

"I 'got a life'.  Now what?"
From: jevans@ius.indiana.edu (JEVANS)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Candlesticks
Date: 12 Aug 92 18:01:26 GMT


              The Doctor pours a flagon of ale on Castellan's head and
          says:

              "Myself, I'm incensed at that wick pun. Fires me up, it
          does. Don't know how I could match it, but ale try."

              As Fast Eddie strikes up "Candle In The Wind", The
          Doctor stops cold enroute to table 82. "Castellan?" he
          mutters. "No, it couldn't be!" Suddenly, me moves to the
          door, promising to return by the time the next posts go up.

              The TARDIS disappears...............
******************************************************************************

    "More to the point, what are you young people doing inside my TARDIS?"

                                The Doctor
            Current Album: Star Trek:The Unofficial Comedy Album
               Current Read: Doctor Who: The Nightmare Fair
            Current Videos:Doctor Who:The Hartnell Years, Doctor
          Who:The Troughton Years, Doctor Who:The Brain Of Morbius and
                 Roger Waters:The Wall:Live In Berlin 1990
                   EMail me at: JEVANS@IUS.INDIANA.EDU

******************************************************************************

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jhitch@crash.cts.com (Jeffrey Hitchin)
Subject: Grant goes to Ohio (briefly)
Date: 23 Aug 92 05:33:19 GMT

	"Hi, there," Grant says. "I just thought I'd ask this or at least
post this, so here goes.

	"I'm going to be in Ohio for a couple of weeks at the beginning
of December!  If any Callahan people are out in that general vicinity,
let me know!  Maybe we could do lunch!  (ugh, Californese is sneaking into
my vocabulary.)  Actually, during some weekend, I'll be heading off to a
wonderful amusement park called King's Island for some great roller coasters.
I mean, the absolute BEST coasters anywhere.  Maybe.  What the heck, they're
fun!

	"Anyway, let me know if anyone wants to get together.  Let's talk!"
Organization: Freshman, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 16:45:14 -0400 
From: Mark Beirne Lively <ml5a+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Cities and Metro Areas

Well I just escaped from the DC metro area.  
	Tom Clancy once wrote that the laws of reality cease to function inside
of I-495 (the nominal name for DC's beltway which actually has 3
separate numbers 49s for the nothren and western half 295 for the
sothern and 95 for the easteren and a bit of the sothern part.  THat is
the same 95 that reaches from New England to Florida)  This refers to
how out of touch everyone is there.  "OH dear I'm going to be late for
work, theres a protest.  Something about why the Us should invade
ethiopia."(Yes I saw a protesdt on this very subject!)  The people there
are well informed.  To informed actually.  Everything takes on the life
shattering urgency of millions of dieing people.  While very little of
it is.  The suburbs have government complexes the Pentagon and the CIA
in Virginia and DOE, NIST, DMA(Department of energy, National institutes
of Standards and Technology(Fornmarly the Beaurue of Standards and
Technology(they measure how long an inch is :)) and the Defens mapping
agency) in Maryland add on to this the Beltway bandits aka the defense
contractors who like to go where their money is.  DC is a city which
runs on governmental largess fraud an mismanagement, so whats a few
murders amoung friends.  I just wish they would aim for the guys in the
limos:)  Actually the area around the monuments and museams is
realtively safe and the Western half of the city.
	The buildings in DC are very low to the ground there is a limit on the
height of buildings to no more than 120' or so.  The 2 exceptions being
the national cathedral and the washington monument.  The surrounding
suburbs follow suit for the most part.
	Geographically DC is built on the edge of the piedmont.  So there are a
few small hills and hafl dozen people drown in the potowmac every year. 
The weather can be summed up in the word hellish.  The winters are cold
and dry and there is an occasional snow. which comes down turns to sluch
and then freezes.  Add to this that it happens so rarely noone knows how
to deal with it and EVERYONE goes ape.  The summers can be explained by
sayign that DC was built on a drained swamp.  Hot and humid.  90's all
the time and the humidty is around 95%.  Not fun.

Noone ever accused me of being nice!
Bear aka the Lord High Rulebender aka (ml5a@andrew.cmu.edu)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar)
Subject: Re: Invisible Callahans
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 06:14:59 GMT

[Polymath:]
>}>a. neck cramp, equip
>crick kit: cricket.
>
>You're fighting a foreign dialect here.  "To kit out" is not part of
>American usage.

Danger Mouse points out, "But you knew what I meant, and you're in the
USA. :-)  But seriously..." he wipes the grin off his face.

"It is a bit difficult to make sure that these things are guessable for
everyone. I remember the first time I saw someone post riddles like this.
(Can't recall who it was, I'm afraid.) She included an entire category
which consisted of types of sweets - none of which exist outside the USA
as far as I know. And Manx's latest set includes the word 'quiffy' as one
of the parts of a clue - I've never heard of a word like that, and have no
idea what it means! (It doesn't appear in the Oxford or Macquarie
dictionaries - which I just checked - either.)

"I think we all just have to do our best to make our clues non-dialect-
dependent."

- Danger Mouse.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar)
Subject: Invisible Callahans - the answers!
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 03:29:36 GMT

Danger Mouse wanders over to the noticeboard.

"The time has come, folks, to make known the answers to the riddles I
posted last week. I have received answers to 4d and 4e since I last
posted, Stumpy receiving drinks for solving those. The final score is:

"Lamplighter: two cases and eight drinks;
 Manx: six drinks;
 John Palmer: one drink;
 Stumpy: two drinks.
Also, Lynn has received a drink for a good effort despite her slow
newsfeed. One final point: nobody managed to guess 1d. Even though it is
well and truly an Australian reference, I felt sure that someone would get
it after we talked about this particular book late last year. Anyway, here
are all the answers."

He pins up an A4 sheet, on which is written:

Category 1. Children's Books

a. people; hotel; drenches
  folks; inn; soaks -> Fox in Socks
b. pronoun; illuminated ,inform; posters
  thee; lit, tell; prints -> The Little Prince
c. boxer, enunciates; tally, caldera, seats; tavern; magic stick, noble,
   conjunction
  Ali, says; add, vent, chairs; inn; wand, earl, and ->
  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
d. African leader, light meals; also; paste, chimes
  Botha, snacks; and; gum, bells -> Bottersnikes and Gumbles
e. plant, blue; sense organ, country
  tree, azure; eye, land -> Treasure Island

Category 2. World Capitals

a. snakes; one who shaves
  adders; a barber -> Addis Ababa
b. container, undergarment
  can, bra -> Canberra
c. Hades, founder, island
  Hell, sink, key -> Helsinki
d. Christmas, one; flying mammal, pitch
  Yule, an; bat, tar -> Ulaan Bataar
e. sick bay, hot drink, in the past
  san, tea, ago -> Santiago

Category 3. Sports

a. neck cramp, equip
  crick, kit -> cricket
b. lowly, dance
  base, ball -> baseball
c. sell, door opener
  hock, key -> hockey
d. male singers
  tenors -> tennis
e. naughty, after dinner sweet, heavy weight
  bad, mint, ton -> badminton

Category 4. People who revolutionised astronomy

a. me, fire; amphibian, over
  I, sack; newt, on -> Isaac Newton
b. every one, bed; German one, beer mug
  all, berth; ein, stein -> Albert Einstein
c. steal, lets; metal, underpants
  nick, allows; copper, knickers -> Nicolaus Copernicus
d. average person, airport buildings; nap, abode
  Joe, hangars; kip, lair -> Johannes Kepler
e. cumulus, podium; fee, tv award
  cloud, dais; toll, emmy -> Claudius Ptolemy

Category 5. Shakespearian plays

a. different, depressed
  other, low -> Othello
b. any; centre, adder; sirs; alcoholic drink
  a; mid, summer; knights; dram -> A Midsummer Night's Dream
c. pig meat, allow
  ham, let -> Hamlet
d. black activist; ogle
  King, leer -> King Lear
e. donkey; sheep; body of water; impact
  ass; ewe; lake; hit -> As You Like It

"Finally, apologies to any North Americans confused by the usage of the
word 'equip' and the reliance on knowing what 'knickers' are. I honestly
thought that these two things were universal enough in English use to be
safe on an international group. Oh well, I'll just try harder next time!"

Danger Mouse.