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From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jay Brandt (Jason))
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Black Death Birthdays (Recipe Included)
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Date: 20 Nov 1992 21:10:08 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon, Architecture
Distribution: world
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In article <1992Nov20.001911.9314@ucc.su.OZ.AU>, mar@physics.su.OZ.AU
(David Mar) wrote:
> "That's great, except I still don't know what a bundt pan is, because I
> don't know what a tube pan is, and don't really know what an angel's-food
> cake is like.
> 
> "Still," DM raises a finger in an effort to show he's not a complete
> idiot, "I'm going to try Merri's recipe this weekend, using whatever cake
> tin I have available. I assume a tube pan is a short, fat cylinder with
> a flat base. I'll probably use something like that. Watch out for the
> success reports from a chocolate-bloated DM!"
> 
> DM pauses a second, then continues while he still has an audience.
> "Say, has anyone thought of compiling a Callahan's Cookbook? One or two
> favourite recipes from as many patrons as are willing to submit? I have
> a strange feeling that I'm volunteering to do the collecting and
> formatting... (silly me)..."

Jason looks over at DM. "Actually DM, a Tube pan looks more like a doughnut
or an auto tire. It is a cylander that is rounded on the bottom, with a
tube coming back up the middle. When you bake a cake in one, you get a cake
that has a hole in the middle and a rounded top. A bundt pan, as previously
mentioned, has scalloped or fluted sides, which makes the cake come out
looking more festive, especially if you dribble iceing down the grooves
that are in the sides of the cake."

"A Callahans cookbook sounds like a neat Idea. Pegasus and I both love to
cook. This evening I'll be posting about the mini-realspace we just had in
Eugene, Oregon, and I'll be printing the recipie for the dinner I served as
part of that."

Jason
Organization: Sophomore, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 12:16:35 -0500 
From: Mark Beirne Lively <ml5a+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Science and god: Are they incompatible? If so, why?
	<1ef16kINNobt@gap.caltech.edu>

Excerpts from netnews.alt.callahans: 19-Nov-92 Re: Science and god: Are
.. Abner J. Mintz@wag.calte (777)

> Michael says:

> >	"To be fair, they're hardly saying that people should go
> >around having unprotected sex.  Their line is that the main point of
> >sex is procreation within a monogamous marriage, and that sex which is
> >_not_ directed towards that is sinful.  

> Abner blinks, looking startled.  "Wait a minute ...  If sex not directed
> towards procreation is sinful, then does the Catholic Church officially
> oppose sex after the wife hits menopause?"  After considering a bit, Abner
> is sure that he would have heard about any belief that silly.  Still, that
> means there must be a flaw in the logic chain somewhere.  "If the Catholic
> Church *doesn't* oppose sex after the woman hits menopause, how would they
> make that consistant with sex being sinful if not aimed at procreation?"


	Obout the after menopause and the use of the rythem method.  Both are
allowable because it is still possible for a child to be born.  There
are at least 2 bible stories where a child was born after the woman was
too old.  So there is a possiblity that a child could be born if it was
God's plan without too much difficulty or trouble onhis part.  With the
rytem method there is the same arguement.  That the cycles are generally
evenly spaced but it is a relatively common occurance for the timing to
be off(at least thats What I was told in sex ed many years ago)

-I remember the the glory days when we sat with the king.
Dining on meh yams and washing it down with red rum.
ML5A@andrew.cmu.edu Bear aka the Lord High Rulebender
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe)
Subject: Re: Rejoice, and Velvet reels
Reply-To: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:01:00 +0000


"Oooh! I just remembered. "
Mary jumps up from Rowan's tea table. 
"Robin Williamson who I just posted about. He's coing over to 
America. Don't know where he's playing but if he's near you I can 
heartily recommend the evening. Fun, funny and romatic. Great 
combination."
+-------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
| 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: s903040@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Christopher Francis Anderson)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: FOOD FIGHT !!! (Re: Oh Yeah)
Date: 18 Nov 1992 06:28:48 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
NNTP-Posting-Host: minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au

JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jay Brandt (Thyra)) writes:

>"You're Purrrrfectly welcome to one, ThunderKat." Thyra places an amulet
>around the moor cat's strongly muscled neck. Then she rubs his tummy a bit
>and scratches behind his ears. "I like your new shape. You're cute this
>way."

//Why, thank you very much, Thyra. You're cute too//

The ThunderKat purrs contentedly and stretches out on the floor to relax after
one hell of a tiring exam.


-- 
ThunderKat (a.k.a. Chris Anderson)    s903040@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au

"Sam pressed the button. A few lights flashed on the CPU. And another human
life ended. Somehow, it's always sad, no matter what."
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: Science and god: Are they incompatible? If so, why?
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 15:03:55 GMT

Pompus Bob says:
>	The large man pulls a twix bar from the inside pocket of his blue 
>trenchcoat and begins eating it, washing it down with the remains of his
>Grape NeeHi.  He orders another and turns to hear any responders.
>

   "Welcome to The Place Pompus Bob ! " DJ.

   "Want to dance to a Viennese Waltz ?? " Linda the Starship.

   "Hello, " Robbie.

-- 
 Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM - Gulf Park Campus 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
From: steve@crc.ricoh.COM (Stephen R. Savitzky)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: God and Science: The Ramblings of The Nightstalker
Date: 24 Nov 92 01:10:36 GMT
	<1992Nov12.020748.21841@midway.uchicago.edu>	<1dtif6INNem4@gap.caltech.edu>	<1992Nov12.141404.5821@midway.uchicago.edu>,<1992Nov17.012155.27920@news.Hawaii.Edu>	<1ea09rINNolh@gap.caltech.edu>
	<1992Nov19.171539.18292@onetouch.COM>,<STEVE.92Nov20164310@styx.crc.ricoh.COM>
	<1ekanuINNpkg@gap.caltech.edu>
Organization: RICOH California Research Center

In article <1ekanuINNpkg@gap.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals) writes:

   StM once again looks confused.  "I don't know whether I agree with
   you or disagree with you.  Your statement is somewhat ambiguous.
   If you meant `defines speech and religions practices as not being
   intrinsically injurious,' I agree with you.

"That's essentially what I meant."

   Remember: The Bill of Rights does NOT limit the rights of private
   citizens (or, as the Constitution puts it `The People'); it limits
   the power of the government to restrict the rights of the people.
   Or at least that's what it meant when it was written.

"Well put."




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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: rcb33483@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (ArchTeryx)
Subject: Re: Lamplighter's Re-Introduction
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 15:04:07 GMT

ArchTeryx, hearing more good news, looks up yet again from his work on the
ThunderKat.  He excuses himself from the huge moor cat for a moment, goes
over, and *HUGS* the Lamplighter in his wings.  For a moment, he is buried
in AT's bodyfeathers, then AT lets him go and smiles, "Welcome back, my friend
and may my blessings and hope for a good life with your new bloodmate.
(Bloodmate = 'teryx version of a spouse).

ArchTeryx then nuzzles Lamplighter tenderly then goes back to skritching the
moor cat, who by now is looking impatient, and being a bird he doesn't want
to make the huge kitty mad at him. :>

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  "ArchTeryx"                          "Hiss!  You *deliberately* dodged!" 
email: rcb33483@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu       "But Sire, I...please..." 
       rcb33483@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu    "Stop snivelling and stand still!!"
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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: /G=Rhodri/S=James/O=SJ-Research/ADMD=INTERSPAN/C=GB/@mhs-relay.ac.uk
Subject: The ultimate in traffic calming
Organization: Yale CS Mail/News Gateway
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 17:01:55 GMT

Here's part of an official city council notice in the local paper that I
though might amuse you.  In accordance with various unintelligable
regulations they intend to "...construct road humps in Hazelwood close and
Molewood close as detailed below:

  Road hump design:                     Round topped, chamfered.
  Road hump construction material:      Tarmac.
  Road hump dimensions:                 3.7 meters wide, 100m high."
                                                         ^^^^^^^^^

That ought to slow the traffic down....

---
Windsinger  -  Rhodri James    *  "If music be the food of love,
                               *   play me a tune on your jam buttie."
Rhodri.James%gb.INTERSPAN.sj   *
            @mhs-relay.ac.uk   *           -- Ken Dodd
   or                          *
rmj10@phx.cam.ac.uk            *
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Science and god:  Are they incompatible?  If so, why?
Date: 18 Nov 92 03:16:09 GMT
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <1992Nov18.015509.27951@ra.msstate.edu>, jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce) writes:
>  Okay. How do either of you feel about the possibility that Red Shift is not
>always an indicator of distance...

It's NOT always an indicator of distance.  In the vast majority of cases where
we could get independent estimates of distances, however, degree of red shift
is closely correlated with distance.

>A certain person's 'peculiar galaxies...'
>I can't remember his name off-hand. He wound up going to Europe as he couldn't
>get telelscope time here in the US.

I'm not familiar with the case in question.  Could you (or maybe DM or one of
the other AY types) give us more information on this?  Or a reference? 

This looks like a good time to include my standard disclaimer:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL

Disclaimer:  Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS.  That's what I get paid for.  My
understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below).  So
unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
organization responsible for it.  If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: A Little Light
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 02:35:59 GMT



>> [Liralen:]
>>Quietly she says, "Hey, DM.  Can you tell me about what the Australian
>>summer is like now?  I could use a little of it... the days here are now so
>>short that I wake up when it's dark and don't get home from work until it's
>>dark, again.  And it's rained for about four days straight... It's only 
>>going to get worse, in a while."

>Danger Mouse smiles at Liralen. "Well, it's a few days early, but I
>suppose I can make a special effort just for you."

>He stares into the fireplace and somewhere south of the equator a real
>person looks out of his office window as he types. Probably the first
>thing you'd notice if you were next to him is the birdsong.


[   ]  australian summer in winter deleted


"thank you, DM...i really needed that..."

kitten hugs DM and hands him a glass of something cold...
--
***************************************************************************
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: mjmh@crsa.bu.edu (Michael J M Holmes)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: God and Science:  The Ramblings of The Nightstalker
Date: 23 Nov 92 16:04:20 GMT
Organization: Boston University Center for Remote Sensing

In article <1ek2l7INNitl@gap.caltech.edu> ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz) writes:

 [deletia - "love" vs. "in love"]

>Abner nods.  "That's pretty much what happened to me when my fiance dropped
>me a month before the wedding.  I spent about two weeks feeling absolutely
>numb, then realized that I still cared for her and still loved her ... but
>that I no longer wanted anything but friendship from her!"

>"Of course, now she wants to get back together, and can't understand why 
>I'm reluctant.  Yes, I still love her.  No, I don't want to marry her, or
>even date her - a person who would drop me like that isn't the person I
>want to spend my life with."

/*'s amethyst eyes open wider as Abner speaks.

"Yikes!  What a terrible situation that must have been for you!
Congratulations for getting through it!"

"I hope you can deal with the ongoing situation - it seems like
you've got it well in hand, although it must be difficult.  Being
able to retain a friendship in these circumstances seems very 
difficult, but more power to you for being able to do it!"

"You have a very clear view of what you want in a relationship - 
and a lot of healthy self-respect.  I have to admit that I'm very 
impressed, carrying that through what must be one of the more
turbulent times in your life!"

"And its good to know that I finally was more clear with my
view on love!  I think I garbled it a bit when I first
brought the it up!"





-- 
========================================================================
Mike Holmes       mjmh@crsa.bu.edu           "Happiness Will Prevail!"
Boston University Department of Geography (a truly GREAT place to work!)
========================================================================
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: figmo@netcom.com (Lynn Gold)
Subject: Re: CD's Early Thanksgiving Ramblings
Organization: The Burn the Candle at Both Ends Club
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 02:01:53 GMT

Lynn walks out from the shadows.

"This used to be a time of year I enjoyed, even if it was a bit of a
cashectomy."

An oversized calendar showing the months October, November, and
December slides down behind her.  Dates light up in neon pink as she
mentions them.

"October 22nd -- my parents' anniversary.
 November 4th -- my father's birthday.
 November 13th -- my brother's birthday.
 December 25th -- my paternal grandmother's birthday, not to mention
		  my other grandparents' Christmas celebration.
 December 29th -- my paternal grandfather's birthday."

All the dates except for November 13th fade to grey, and several
others light up in a muted red.

"October 14th -- my paternal grandmother died -- lung cancer -- four
		 years ago.  Even though she brought it on herself by
		 chain smoking for most of her adult life, I still 
 		 miss her, and I still curse out the employer who
		 wouldn't let me have time off to see her before she died.
 December 6th -- my father died of colon cancer. It'll be three years.
		 Dad was no saint, but he got a far worse punishment
		 than I ever would've wished on him.
 December 20th -- my paternal grandfather died of colon cancer.  It
		 was 13 years ago, yet in some ways it seems so recent.
		 It was five days before what I knew was to be my last
		 Christmas, with the family planning to stop the tradition
		 once my non-Jewish grandparents had died."

The faded pink and red dates seem to blur into one massive bloody
mess, but then two dates light up in bright blue.

"My brother wasn't particularly fond of this trend, either, and has
done what he could to undo the pattern.

"October 31st -- my brother's wedding anniversary -- well, it WILL be
		 when next year hits!
 November 28th -- a new date on my calendar -- his wife's birthday.

"While I DO get bummed-out over everyone I miss, I try to find new
things to keep me busy.  Last year on December 25th, I got to live a
fantasy of mine and do the traffic (well, just BEING on the air is
enough!) on the #1 station in the SF Bay Area.  I spent time
babysitting the "girls down the hall" -- a pair miniature dachshunds
Fuzzball likes to play with, visited Grand Central Starport, and I
kept busy from 6am till 2am the next morning.  Yes, it was grueling,
but it kept my mind off what I didn't want to think about."

The gold-haired woman picks up a glass.

"To holidays -- past, present, and future!"  <+*CRASH*+>

--Lynn
From: rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: No subject
Date: 19 Nov 92 20:13:46 GMT
Reply-To: rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove)
Organization: RICOH California Research Center


 maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe) sez:

> Back in a week
>I'm going to be off work for a week, so I probably won't be passing, 
>and I don't want to leave it that long before I buy some drinks...

>Ignatz? I owe you a real drink too - what do you drink when you're 
>not driving? Kitten? Jim Linda and Robbie? Gypsy Woman? hmmm - that's 
>almost enough for pizza!

>irish coffee for me please Mike - it might help my cold (can anyone 
>tell I'm typing in baritone ?)

Gypsy looks up from her table in the corner.  Thanks, Mary!
I'll have an Irish with you.  (No sugar please, Mike).

I love your description of typing in baritone!   Have a good week
off.  Come by and have a cuppa with me when you get back.
(Gypsy gestures at her tea service.  Grandmotherly pots of 
Assam Superb and Queen Anne are virtually brewed to perfection
accompanied by an ever-filled three-tier tray of strawberries,
scones, clotted cream and other delights.)

Rowan (Gypsy Woman)

Rowan Fairgrove
From: s903040@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Christopher Francis Anderson)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Hot Tubbing
Date: 9 Nov 1992 06:53:51 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
NNTP-Posting-Host: minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au

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

>When the Golden Gryphon dives in, headfirst, she, of course, gets
>completely swamped.  She squawks and then uses both hands to splash the
>Gryphon back, and, with a light in her dark eye, happily smiles back at
>the Gryphon and wonders if it's time for a water fight...
>-- 

Water fight? Where? Let me in!!!!


-- 
ThunderKat (a.k.a. Chris Anderson)    s903040@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au

"Sam pressed the button. A few lights flashed on the CPU. And another human
life ended. Somehow, it's always sad, no matter what."
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: walker@superboy.jsc.nasa.gov (Doug Walker)
Subject: Eh?
Reply-To: walker@superboy.jsc.nasa.gov
Organization: NASA Johnson Space Center
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:59:36 GMT

	The door slowly opens.  A rather average sized figure wearing a
heavy coat with the hood pulled up and almost closed enters the bar.  No
one seems to notice.  The figure in the coat slowly walks to the bar,
takes a seat, then reaches into a hidden pocket in the coat and pulls
out a crumpled bill.  After smoothing the bill out and laying it on the
bar a deep, raspy voice says "Beer."  

Meanwhile, several of the patrons of this fine establishment have
noticed the stranger at the bar, but none have commented and all go back
to their discussions at hand without a second thought.


-- 
Doug                   

Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can 
do for your country.  - JFK
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Science and god:  Are they incompatible?  If so, why?
From: jwwalden@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (P'relan)
Date: 17 Nov 92 22:27:47 -0500
Organization: Dept. of Physics

In article <1992Nov16.214120.27547@midway.uchicago.edu>, mss2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer) writes:
> 	"Granted, science cannot operate in a world which is not
> uniformly lawful a large majority of the time.  But the existence of a
> being or beings with the power to violate those laws does not
> invalidate science (though it might circumscribe its scope) so long as
> that power is not used to violate laws too often.

No, even one violation of the physical laws invalidates science.  Extremely
limited intervention does not prevent science from being *useful* though it
remove any chance of it being correct which may be what you meant by not
invalidating science.

> and the fact that a particular electron's location is
> indeterminable doesn't prevent us from determining the location of a
> lightning bolt."

The electron is obeying extremely precise physical laws, for which we can make
far better measurements than we usually can make in classical physics.  The
fact that these laws are statistical and not classically deterministic in
nature does not matter as long as the electron *always* obeys the physical
laws.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 P'relan (and Birith)      	   ``Time stand still -
 jwwalden@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu      I'm not looking back -
  or jwwalden@miavx1.bitnet	     But I want to look around me now.'' - RUSH
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: keulen@possum.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Mike van Keulen)
Subject: Re: Back To School?
Organization: Murdoch University
Date: 18 Nov 92 01:57:41 GMT


Splash listens to Alfvaen talking about going back to school ... "I know
what you mean about a nice safe womb," he chuckles.  "I've been at Uni now
for, ummmm, 11 years?  Since 1981!  I think I've still got another year to
go!  I don't know how I'll face the "real" world when I'm done.  Heh heh! 
Anyway - good luck with the career change  :-)  To decisions!"

<CRASH!>

Splash!

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