HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: testing tin
Keywords: frottage
Date: 21 Jan 93 15:17:18 GMT
Reply-To: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl Siewert) writes:
|>daq@fc.hp.com (Doug Quarnstrom) writes:
|>
|>>I am testing my spanking new tin notes reader. 
|>
|>>doug
|>
|>"So now you tin write notes to us, doug?" prattles a wide-eyed Rie.  "That's
|>ok.  I'll steel read them.

"Should iron away from this thread?" muses Starknight.  "Or should I call the
coppers?"

Starknight
spr@abo.dec.com
Disclaimer:  Huh?  What'd I say?
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Didi's ill, again : -(
Date: 26 Jan 1993 12:26:11 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Distribution: world
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <1k2kqiINN2bk@menudo.uh.edu>, narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon) writes:
=In article <01GTY9FDWG5C8Y7C0Q@EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU> PCAHN@EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU writes:
=>
=>Rounder is seen in the middle of the floor jumping up and down upon reel after
=>reel of celuloid.  You heard what the man said!
=>
=>Rounder
=
=Thank you! If I never see one of those things again, it'll be too soon!

Are you telling us that after seeing what the BBC had done with you tax
dollars, you concluded that you'd been fleeced?
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: ablanch@physics.su.OZ.AU (Shonias)
Subject: Re: Culinary Peculiarities
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:30:20 GMT

In article <1jn57qINNqgh@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl Siewert) writes:
>At my grade school (Topeka Lutheran, if you must know) they served something
>called a ham boat.  This was a thick slice of fried bologna topped with plain
>mashed potatoes, no gravy.  Later, they began serving something called a pizza
>boat, common fare in school cafeterias, which is simply pizza on french bread, 
>but the image that came to our minds...

Hmmm, at my primary school, the most exciting thing served was a  cool cup - 
frozen cordial in a plastic cup. Other than that it was sandwiches...
We did get milkshakes at high school...

Shonias Q'Tari


--
******************
Because the night
Belongs to lovers,
Because the night
Belongs to lust...
******************
From: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk (Clive Grace)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: ZX-81 was Re: Announcement!
Date: 27 Jan 93 01:23:00 GMT
Reply-To: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk


>Some company came out with a 64 KB expansion, and then figured out a 
way
>to connect 16 of them for a full meg of paged memory... I never tried 
it...
>I think they also came out with some way to add 5.25 inch floppy drive
>to it and a real keyboard... About at the level of the IMSAI 4004 !
>i.e. add-ons that were way over-priced...

Bought a ZX81? Naah I *built* my ZX80 -- cost me #100 -- all for the 
benefit of having a machine that couldn't keep the screen on when 
processing data (rectified in the ZX81 with a "slow" mode that kept the 
screen alive). It was amazing I wasn't diagnosed epileptic then... what 
with all that screen flashing... on a "HUGE" black and white telly -- 
programming six inches away from the screen because the aerial cable was 
always notoriously short.

It made a great 16th Birthday Present though -- then I got greedy and 
manted an Acorn Atom -- anyone remember their "wonderful" video system 
whereby you overlaid red and yellow to produce orange?

It reminds me of Mary's favourite joke about expanding the Acorn 
Electron so much that all the add-ons to turn it into a BBC Micro would 
make the desk for you. (Teletext-mode adaptor, Rom Box, Disk Drive, 1MHz 
Bus, Tube Interface, User Interface, joystick port... all from a poor 
8bit port hanging off the end of of a 6502 bus...

[ObRef: The Electron never made it to the US -- It was basically a 
schizophrenic bastard mutant half child of the BBC Micro, so 
schizophrenic that it was operationally just the left hand side of a BBC 
Micro motherboard.]

I have two in the loft... in separate sealed plastic bags -- thank God 
they weren't allowed to breed.

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From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jason)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Peace-ties for firearms
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Date: 25 Jan 1993 07:21:41 GMT
Organization: the Polyhedron Group
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aaa.uoregon.edu

In article <1jvdt7INN1jb@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>, siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl
Siewert) wrote:
> >And thank you for the courtesy of keeping the
> >blades peace-tied." 
> 
> jason hears a slight telepathic voice w/ a noo yawk accent say:
> <WHEN I GET BACK, YOU MUST SHOW ME HOW TO PEACE TIE MY SHOTGUN AND
> MACHINE PISTOL.

Jason reaches into his satchel and takes out two oval objects about an inch
thick and 1.5 x 2 inches on the minor and major axies. He also takes out
two small jump rings, each bearing two cylindrical keys. He tosses the
items into the air, toward the portal to the Tiwan-On. Thyra's eyes flash,
and the items disappear from -this- reality, to continue their trajetory in
the Tiwan-On. They land on the bar in front of Slash Maraud with a metalic
<thunk>. 

Thyra's voice rings sweetly in Slash's inner ear. (Jason isn't telepathic,
but  Thyra is, and can relay what Jason is thinking for him). <<No problem,
Slash. What Jason just tossed to you are a pair of trigger locks. They
insert into the trigger guard from both sides, imobilizing the trigger. The
key unlocks each unit into two mushroom-shaped, interlocking halves. They
can only be removed with the key, a process which takes about 15 seconds
deliberate action with both hands. You can also use a cord to tie a machine
pisol into a shoulder rig, so it can't be drawn without first untying the
cord. Have Jason show you what's inside his jacket, sometime.>>
From: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (The Didi-Sprite)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Didi's ill, again : -(
Date: 24 Jan 93 16:04:56 GMT
Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada
Originator: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca

In article <1993Jan21.223718.6033@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> jpalmer@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (John D Palmer) writes:
>In article <C16Gw9.CKr@news.cso.uiuc.edu> trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:
>>
Kitten admonishes:
>>"didi, get BACK into bed...and have some soup...or some icecream and
>>7-up.... put a hot water bottle on your toes and vicks on your
>>nose...and here are some sunglasses."  kitten tries to look stern and
>>fails miserably....
>
John Palmer steps in:
>     "now, now, Kitten lady, like, you gots to understand, like, that's not a
>realsville type sprite, like that's just a magical projection of our most
>spriteous one. . . so be cool, Kitty-kit; we're all worried, but, like, we're
>all caring too. . . you know?"
>
Just then a red-nosed face peers around the edge of the kitchen door:
"Aaaaachhooo!  Cough!  Sputter.   Hey!  What happened to all the garlic/
chicken soup?  Sigh.  Must be a lot of flu-sufferers in The Place.
Mike, Could I have some lemonade instead, please.  Heavy on the vit.C;
light on the sugar.  Thanks."

----<--<@

The Didi-Sprite
Montreal * Canada

braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
didi@geloser.login.qc.ca
From: jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: One quick question
Date: 21 Jan 93 00:03:13 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc., San Jose, CA

>   The brumby should be following this up from zikzak

Hmm, that wouldn't be related to the ZikZak corporation on Max
Headroom, would it?  Since we're on the topic...  ;-)
>
>>Of course, i'd be afraid to actually *see* any of these shows now, five 
>>years later... i have a suspicion they might not age well....
>
>   "Five years ago? They showed here just before I got married, three years
>ago. Of course given the usual behaviour of TV purchasing departments here
>it's surprising that it showed up at all."

Equally surprising that it ever was allowed on network TV at
all, since the media culture and those selfsame mavens of
network norms are what gets skewered, most the time.  And
believe me, my father worked in TV---it's not far off reality!

As far as aging well---um, yes, it really IS twenty minutes
into the future, and the present is looking more like a Max
Headroom plot all the time.  Every time I watch it, I get a
little weirded out, because it's all seeming a little too
close to being reality.  Especially when reality is getting
far too close to a cyberpunk nightmare, as time goes on,
anyway.  Every time I turn on network TV, Max Headroom comes
back...  The technology is only about five minutes into the
future, now, and I suppose that soon Max and Edison and their
lot will still be topical, but their network will be sort of 
like an old newspaper office, using elder technology while the 
rest of the world moves on.  That, however, can be picturesque in 
itself, like a detective novel sort of thing...  

By the way, has anyone noticed how all the cyberpunk universes
seem to be converging, and starting to be the *same* cyberpunk
universe?  And how close reality is obligingly following suit?

--
  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.
From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Culinary Peculiarities
Date: 27 Jan 93 06:32:10 GMT
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.
In-reply-to: narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu's message of 26 Jan 1993 06:09:59 GMT

In article <1k2kjnINN28h@menudo.uh.edu> narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon) writes:

>I'm sorry, Ma'am, but I did freak when I read that first sentence. It
>sounds WONDERFUL, though! It reminds me of something I saw, with wonton
>filled with sweet cream cheese... Gads, those were nice. 

"I had something similar at a Vietnamese restaurant in St Paul, MN last
August-- it was an appetizer listed as "spicy cream cheese wontons", and
spicy they were, with a nuclear mustard sauce for good measure.  Quite
amazingly yummy."

--
-Chip Olson. | olson@husc.harvard.edu | ceo@{gnu.ai,silver.lcs}.mit.edu
This article is a natural product.  The slight variations in spelling and
grammar enhance its individual character and beauty and in no way are to
be considered flaws or defects.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: YET ANOTHER DELURKING
From: <KZAHLLER@MIAMIU.BITNET>
Date: Thursday, 21 Jan 1993 22:40:38 EST
Organization: Miami University - Academic Computer Service

Magda-Wolf raises one eyebrow, screws her eyes shut and
sniffs the tea.  Having decided a: it isn't going to
kill her or make her break out in fluorescent purple
patches and b: her new friends aren't trying to get
rid of her already, she takes a swallow.

"Thank you, Rie, Grey Lady.  My usual tea is Red Zinger
(rosehips, hibiscus, and it literally is red), but this
isn't bad at all--Do you have any honey?"
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Bearcats (was: T-Bear replies!)
From: <KZAHLLER@MIAMIU.BITNET>
Date: Monday, 25 Jan 1993 13:29:44 EST
Organization: Miami University - Academic Computer Service

"Oh, no, no, no, Yue-shun!"  Magda shakes her head.  "Mountain
Dew has been bested in the most-caffeine-in-a-soft-drink-before
-it-becomes-lethal-to-humanoids category.  'Jolt' is the new
champion.  Their slogan is 'all the sugar and twice the caffeine'!"

She sighs, a bit wistfully.  "When I go camping in August I tend
to forget to sleep and eat (I'm too wound up) so Jolt always got
me through the 2 weeks, 3 battles, and way too many guard shifts.
Unfortunately, even I decided maybe I'd best quit when I discovered
the soda had eaten *through* the cans sitting on top of my frig!"




Aaaaarrroooo!

Magda-Wolf
From: ekho@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (amanda rothman)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Blakes 7
Date: 24 Jan 93 06:04:43 GMT
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida


  Some of the regulars inhabiting the immediate area in proximity of Amanda
and Ekho might have noticed that Ekho has a *very* small smile on her face
as she watches Amanda squirm in her seat in the futile hopes of restraining
herself.  Finally she shouts, "That's it!  I gotta tell them all!  I may
have mentioned that I love Blakes 7.  Let me expound on that.  I have many
episodes on tape, both recorded from tv (naughty, arent I?) and purchased
(The tapes have been gradually released like Star Trek has)  I have also
been an avid fanzine buyer; they are stories written by fans, but I have
found that most of the stories are better than the ones officially in the
bookstores (for example: Afterlife by Tony Attwood)  There is also a B7
mailing list over the internet. Ask for the address, and ye shall receive;
intelligent discussion of the show abounds!"  Smiling in joyful glee (gee, I
believe a poet named Blake said that! ;) Amanda dances around the room (ah,
I might as well) piping a song (but not about a Lamb).  Stay Safe!

                     Yours in Time and Space
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jgoodric@dante.nmsu.edu (GOODRICH)
Subject: Re: Happy Chinese New Year!!!
Organization: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:45:08 GMT


	From a dusty corner, the figure of the Laughing Priest once
again animates, brushes off the cobwebs, and pays for a Bailey's and
Milk.
	"TO THE YEAR OF THE COCK!" he crows, drains his drink, 
D
and goes ofer to hug the Didi-Sprite.
	Later figuring that his typing skills have rusted
a good deal of ther last semester, he walks over to Jason 
and tries to get him to show the Priest how to use a 
cyberdeck.

	The Laughing Priest!   {Jgoodric@nmsu.edu}

"Laugh-a while you can, monkey-boy!"  -Lord John Whorfin
From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jason)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: RE: Sudden Silence
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Date: 21 Jan 1993 17:26:38 GMT
Organization: the Polyhedron Group
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aaa.uoregon.edu

Jason stops playing the blues, and starts rummaging around in his satchel.

"OK, I know you're in there somewhere. Come out!" There's a scurrying
sound, as if something alive is in the satchel, darting about and playfully
avoiding Jason's questing hand. Finally he shouts "Gotcha!" and hauls out a
rather distraught looking cyber-rat rigger remote.

The rat looks at him and says "What do you think you're doing? I work for
Argus, not for you." Jason smiles. "I'm sure he won't mind a bit. Argus has
plenty of rigger remotes, and I need one with broadcast capability. You're
drafted." He lays the rat on it's back on the table, and says "Now, this
won't hurt a bit."

After pressing a hidden switch, the cyber-rat stops struggling. A small
access door opens on it's tummy, and Jason makes a few adjustments to the
circuitry, using a small set of tools he had clipped to his belt. After
about a minute's fiddling, he seals the hatch, and reactivates the remote.

It rolls over and looks at Jason, then it looks around the room. Jason's
voice comes from the cyber-rat now. "There! That did it. I've set this
remote to relay sights and sounds to me via the Matrix. Now I can see at
least -some- of what's going on here!" The rat jumps off the table, and
scurries over to the bar. It says politely "Excuse me, pardon me miss, ah,
pardon me." as it navigates the crowded floor. It climbs right up the side
of the bar, and settles down quietly on one end, where it has a good view
of the room.

Jason sighs. "Well folx, I have a -partial- solution. Since I can post, but
can't see or hear your posts, I'm now reading the posts via a different
source. I can get read-only access to alt.callahans via the GOPHER server
at Michigan State University. I -think- I can access that from home too,
but I'll have to experiment tonight. There seems to be at least a one-day
time-lag doing it this way, and the interface is unfamiliar, but it works.
I'll catch up on the recent posts at lunch. See ya later!"

Hugs,
Jason
From: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: I/O, I/O, it's off to pun we go (was Re: Dan'l hits Australia)
Date: 25 Jan 93 17:01:59 GMT
Reply-To: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


Starknight spots a missed pun...

Rie (Karl Siewert) writes:
|>siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl Siewert) allows his friend to write:
|>><I'LL HAVE A FINGER SANDWICH, HOLD THE MOLD.  AND FOR MY FRIENDS, 
|>>TONGUE ON RIE.  BA DUMP BUMP>
|>><MARAUD <MERCIFULLY>OUT>
|>
|>Did I hear someone taking my name in vain??

"No, no, no...  Rie, it should have been...

"Did I ear someone taking my name in vein?"

Starknight
spr@abo.dec.com
Disclaimer:  Huh?  What'd I say?
From: snarf@access.digex.com (Sean Eustis)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Wolf-Attack-Hugs
Date: 28 Jan 1993 18:30:56 -0500
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com

In article <JBrandt-260193221940@fp1-dialin-1.uoregon.edu> JBrandt@AAA.Uoregon.EDU (Jason) writes:
>In article <93026.140429KZAHLLER@MIAMIU.BITNET>, <KZAHLLER@MIAMIU.BITNET>
>wrote:
>> "Brace yourself, Jason!  One Wolf Attack Hug coming up!
>> Anybody else want to jump in?"
>> Magda-(preparing to have the air squeezed out of her)Wolf
>"Wheee! Ready and waiting!"  Jason, with arms flung wide, and one leg back
>in high-dragon form to absorb the impact of the collision. <big grin>

	"RRAAAARRGGGHHH!H!", shouts Dreamweaver as he adds to the pile-up
that sandwiches Jason and Magda-Wolf and everybody else who gets in on this.



-- 
   	The Dreamweaver				Sean Eustis
			(snarf@access.digex.com)
       "...if only you could see what I've seen with your eyes."
From: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Commemorative toasts (Was: Re: An early toast)
Date: 22 Jan 93 15:53:03 GMT
Reply-To: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


Starknight stands up and collects three shots of 151 from Mike.  He steps to
the line.

"To those whose dream was to explore the new frontier, to the Apollo
crews...  Thank you for making the dream real."

>>DRASH!<<

"To those who boldly rode that dream, the Challenger 7...  Thank you for
showing that the road of dreams is paved with hardship, but courage will
see us through."

>>DRASH!!<<

"And finally, to those who show us their dreams for our pleasure...  Thank
you, Kate, for the many hours of thought you have given me...  The world is
poorer for your passing."

>>DRASH!!!<<

The sparkling fragments of a dream
Lay among the embers of life's fire
As long as the fragments can be seen
They will continue to inspire
				- Me (Sean Roberts)

Starknight
spr@abo.dec.com
Disclaimer:  Huh?  What'd I say?
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: xrjdm@twinpeaks.gsfc.nasa.gov (Joseph D. McMahon)
Subject: Re: Hi there!
Organization: NASA/GSFC NCCS
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:47:40 GMT
Reply-To: xrjdm@calvin.gsfc.nasa.gov 
X-Posted-From: twinpeaks.gsfc.nasa.gov
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <1k6l0oINN30m@menudo.uh.edu>, narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon) writes:
> 
> Welcome! I hope you enjoy yourself here... Can I spot you a drink? 
> 
I can! I can! There's one there, and another over there, and one there, and...

The <whrrrunch> of a peanut hail ensues...

 --- Joe M.
From: snarf@access.digex.com (Sean Eustis)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Danger Room Run (The Polymath)
Date: 25 Jan 1993 19:03:13 -0500
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com

>Rie sez "I'm sorry, I had no idea there was a weapons restriction.  Again, I'm
>used to the Taiwan."

>He steps to the bar and unseats his longbow and arrows.  He hands them to Mike 
>who conceals them behind the bar.  He then removes several concealed knives
>from his person, also handed to the bartender.  Finally, he steps back and of-
>fers himself to be frisked.  

Dreamweaver goes over to Rie, makes the motion for 'turn around', and pats
Rie under the arms and along the ribs lightly and then steps back.
	"Well, _I_ didn't find anything, but we trust you anyway. You're
just lucky I didn't goose you when I had the chance."<<smirk>>
	
>"Once again, gravest apologies."  Rie produces a bag of gold, which he hands to
>Mike.  He wieghs the pouch and then nods.
>"Drinks for everyone.  ON ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
>(maniacal laughter as he awaits the coming deluge)
 
	"You asked for it!", and Dreamweaver pours the rest of the large
glass of water on Rie.
<<<<<Splooosh!>>>>>
	"Mike, make my next drink a chocolate milk. Shaken, not stirred."



-- 
   	The Dreamweaver				Sean Eustis
			(snarf@access.digex.com)
       "...if only you could see what I've seen with your eyes."
From: djsnyder@husc10.harvard.edu (David Snyder)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Bearcats (was: T-Bear replies!)
Date: 21 Jan 93 18:17:11 GMT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

In article <1993Jan20.153729.2103@e2big.mko.dec.com> pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan) writes:
>
>In article <1993Jan20.043433.22457@netcom.com>, henry@netcom.com (Henry Polard) writes:
>|>In article <1993Jan19.220223.10504@ee.ryerson.ca> dspeck@ee.ryerson.ca (DOUGLAS SPECK) writes:
>|>>As for icons, _I_ worship icons, for I use Windows 3.1! :) Not to mention
>|>>Xwindows on this very Sun workstation!
>|>
>|>And when you've finished using virtual terminals on your Sun, do
>|>you get the Dalek to xterminate them?
>|>
>|>Ahh, that feels better! 
>
>"Unix puns, Henry?  Hmm... let's see if we can finger this man out... touch on
>a few subjects... and keep the grep-ing down to a minimum..."
>
>Starknight runs for cover...
foo fight
>
>--
>Starknight
>spr@abo.dec.com
>Disclaimer:  Huh?  What'd I say?
>
The Dalek