HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: superman
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 11:59:08 GMT

kitten, who has added a black armband to her green and white t-shirt
(and i was surprised when no one  quoted the ERA at me)

[equality of rights under the law shall not be abridged or denied by the united
states or by any state on account of sex]

"NOBODY has mentioned a very important death which occurred earlier
this week...superman has met his match...he died in lois's arms.

rest in peace, superman...

you gave me many hours of joy when i was younger."

<crash>  her glass hits the fireplace.


--
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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: brumby@zikzak.apana.org.au (Stephen McNamara)
Subject: News and storms
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:58:14 GMT
Organization: Zikzak public access UNIX, Melbourne Australia


   The brumby appears by the bar, looking rather dazed from lack of sleep.

   "I hope this post gets out, I've spent the past 5 hours delving into
the intricacies of C-News and NNTP to try and let news get out of Zikzak,
as well as in. But you can't mail me here yet, we tried to install a new
mail program and in retaliation the disk died and deleted the old one
before we discovered that the new one doesn't work."

   The brumby sighs.

   "Anyway, I also want to thank those people who mailed me on my
birthday. I _finally_ got around to answering all my email this evening,
(yesterday evening?) and after replying to the first one, the network
locked up. So all of us in that lab sat and admired the wild spring storm
going on outside and waited for the net to come back up until we realised
that the noise we could hear was the fire alarm in the next building. The
one with the machine room. So we wandered over to have a look, and met the
fire brigade racing in, and someone being chased out who told us that the
alarm was set off by the water on the floor. The floor that has 415 volt
cables in it for the Vaxes. Hmmm. I don't know whether Monash is back
online yet, or whether it will be for some time if that is true. So all my
email will have to wait until then I suppose."

   The brumby blinks and flicks his ears.

   "There's no real point to my rambling like this, other than that it's
3am (ignore whatever time is on the post, the same disk crash wiped out the
timezones file) and I feel like posting to something other than a test
group. And I haven't had the time to post here for a while."

   Thebrumby peers back through an X-window to a lounge room that contains
two sleeping figures, and one typing one. Two terminals sit by the
fireplace, Zik asleep in a chair in front of one, and the brumby's RL self
busy typing away at the other. Robyn is curled up on the couch.

   "I suppose I should wake people and go home. Zik has just started to
stir."

   "See people later."



-- 

       The Silver Brumby of             brumby@zikzak.apana.org.au
        the Silicon Plain               brumby@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Cyber (was Introduction was Eh?)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 02:08:11 GMT



>In article <memo.762483@cix.compulink.co.uk> maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>> In-Reply-To: <1992Nov20.224220.23434@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> walker@superboy.jsc.nasa.gov (Cybernetic Samurai)

>[People looking for a Madeline L'Engle title 'bout a book about
>Tesserects deleted].

>> Oh please, put me out of my misery someone! 

>_A Swiftly Tilting Planet_, perhaps?

"no, bill, that was the 3rd of the 5 (6?) books in the murry/o'keefe trilogy"

kitten hugs bill...
--
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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: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jay Brandt (Jason))
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Rejoice, and Velvet reels
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Date: 19 Nov 1992 16:37:33 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon, Architecture
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aaa.uoregon.edu

In article <OLSON.92Nov19084817@husc8.harvard.edu>, olson@husc8.harvard.edu
(Chip Olson@somewhere.out.there) wrote:
> 
> In article <1992Nov18.171704.14309@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> mfbertke@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Mary Bertke....Gwen MacThaidhg) writes:
> 
> [reintroduction deleted]
> 
> >     Who else out there likes Celtic music?
> 
> "In a *BIG* way... Hi, I'm Castellan, showed up here almost a year ago (eek!),
> probably in your absence since I don't recognize you. Welcome back!"

Over at one of the smaller tables a decker wearing a black leather jacket
and a black Greek Fisherman's hat is tapping away on the keyboard of his
cyberdeck, watching three-dimensional graphs appear in the holographic
display. He looks up from his deck, and nods to a woman seated across from
him, who appears to be part cat and part human woman. At least she has the
ears, whiskers and tail one would expect in a housecat. She also has a
soft, downy golden fur. "Your turn, Thyra. Let's see what I can whip up
while you introduce us."

The feline human woman walks over to the newly returned patron as Irish
music starts resonating from Jason's cyberdeck, and then from the bar's
sound system. Penny-whistles, hand drums, bones and a hammer dulcimer can
all be heard, in a lively welcoming song. The holographic display above
Jason's cyberdeck is displaying a fourteen-track studio session, tracking
all the instruments as they play through the MIDI interface and into the
bar's sound system. He lowers the volume as the tall feline woman gets
near.

She says. "Hi! I'm Thyra, and my friend over there with the cyberdeck is
Jason." He smiles and jacks out, removing the 5mm black cable that was
plugged into his Cyberlink just under the short, brown pony-tail of his
hair. Leaving the cyberdeck to play music, he walks over to join them. "We
heard you like Celtic music." he says "Great! Thyra and I do as well, and
so does my wife, Pegasus. The three of us are new here since August or so,
and always glad to meet new friends here, and others who are returning. I'm
afraid I didn't catch your name clearly. Do you go by Velvet, or Gwen, or
something else? Anyway, welcome back. Care for a hug sandwich?" She nods
and finds herself in the middle of a warm and friendly hug between Jason
and Thyra.

Jason notes that the music has stopped, and stares at the cyberdeck. The
display re-arranges itself and starts a series of drinking songs by the
Clancy Brothers. He taps his head and says "Built-in cellular modem. Slower
than a direct link, but handy at times. Care for a welcome-home drink? Oh,
we also do backrubs."

Jason and Thyra
.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: dgreen@jarthur.claremont.edu (David Green)
Subject: Re:  Science and god:  Are they incompatible?  If so, why?
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:39:53 GMT

In article <1edn7hINNrsm@gap.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
->In article <1992Nov18.043643.16303@muddcs.claremont.edu>, dgreen@jarthur.claremont.edu (David Green) writes:
->=->Then again, why does believing in a deity or being a Christian, make you 
->=->more moral than anyone else?  Especially when empirical evidence doesn't
->=->show a clear cut difference.
->
->=Because I happened to draw my moral code from the teachings of the Bible.  If
->=I didn't have the Bible, things might be different.
->
->That means that if someone behaves exactly like a Christian (except he doesn't
->go to church), then he's STILL less moral than the Christian?  Who was it who
->said something like "By their fruits shall ye know them"?

This person's attendance of church says absolutely nothing about his belief.
That's the important part.

->=I don't follow this point at all.  I consider atheism and agnosticism to be
->=religions in that they are a series of beliefs about God.
->
->"I don't know" is now a belief?

To answer a question with a question: How would an agnostic respond if I
were to ask, "What do you believe about God?"
-- 
dgreen@jarthur.claremont.edu		        	   David "Mishael" Green
		    Have you scritched your local Furry today? 
************************Who ordered the muon? -- I. I. Rabi*********************
  I have not been appointed Judge, Jury, or Executioner by God.  Just witness.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe)
Subject: Re: Invisible Feathers
Reply-To: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:04:00 +0000


> If I recall correctly, it's newsgroup_name@ucb.berkeley.edu, replacing 
> the .'s in the name with _'s, so in our case, alt_callahans@ucb.berkeley.edu
> would get here.

From this side of the pond the syntax was:

alt-callahans@ucbvax.berkeley.edu

I dunno what happened but last month it started bouncing messages 
back so I moved to a more... uh.... "local" service (as you can see 
from my mail path).



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From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: An Introduction
Date: 23 Nov 1992 20:36:41 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 <1992Nov22.220000.8756@data-io.com>, li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus) writes:
=In article <20NOV199200171179@romeo.caltech.edu> dkrum@romeo.caltech.edu (Krum, David Michael) writes:
=>The crowd has hushed a bit.  Dave looks around for some kind of response.
=>
=>"Dad," he whispers to Boss Troll, "What is this place anyway?  Did I touch on
=>some cultural taboo here?  Is this a bar?  Is this virtual reality?  Is this
=>cyberspace?  Is this the holodeck or 10-forward?"
=
="All the above and then some." says a rather plain looking Asian woman,
=about 5'10" tall, in black sweatpants, khaki green sweatshirt, neon *PINK*
=hightops, and a bit big for her lettermens jacket that has a big orange
=calTech on it.  "Hi, I'm Liralen Li, a Lloydie of '85."  She grins,
="Dan'l's around here, somewhere, too, he's of my House and class.  My
=hubby's John Rostykus, Lloydie, '86, who was roommate to Dave Gallup, one
=of the few Lloydies who were also initiated as a Page Boy due to social
=ties.  I was also a social Flem in my time."
=
=She grins at all the baffled looks from everyone else.  "First thing every
=Techer asks another Techer is 'What House?'."

StM 'fesses up, "Well, I was a Flem.  Then when I was a grad student, I tended
to hang out in Dabney quite a bit."  He then walks over to Liralen and produces
a stick of Trident from his pocket, and says "You claim to've been a Lloydie. 
Prove it," and hands Liralen the stick of gum.  He gives Liralen the option of
explaining the joke.
From: randolph@cognito.ebay.Sun.COM (Randolph Fritz)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Science and god:  Are they incompatible?  If so, why?
Date: 17 Nov 92 02:16:07 GMT
	<1e6j38INN951@gap.caltech.edu>
Organization: St. Dismas Infirmary for the Incurably Informed
NNTP-Posting-Host: cognito.ebay.sun.com
In-reply-to: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU's message of 15 Nov 1992 22:31:04 GMT

Randolph sips his wine and says, "Speaker--my original comment about
scientists' rules and god's was a coan, or maybe just a jest.  Point
is, we can't tell the difference between god's rules & our own, so
science has to be viewed with skepticism.  All we ever know--all we
ever can know through science--are models; no-one ever knows the
territory--only maps.  Through much of the 19th century scientists
knew--accurately--that atoms were indivisible.  Now we
know--accurately--that atoms are not.  Our criteria of accuracy
changed along with our paradigms.  Scientists as a group reject as
erroneous data which contradicts current paradigms--there has to be a
new hypothesis before they are willing to change.

"What did you say that implied a fear of change?"  Sip.  "I'll answer
that one privately, I think."

__Randolph Fritz  sun!cognito.ebay!randolph || randolph@ebay.sun.com
From: ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Alibi of Steel
Date: 16 Nov 1992 06:04:35 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: seurat.wag.caltech.edu

Scene: a small-town school-house, the teacher's office, after class.

"Mr. Brown?  You asked me to stay after class?"

"Yes, Clark.  I want to talk to you about that assignment you turned in late."

"Oh ..."

"Yes.  That was an interesting excuse that you wrote on the top of the page.
'Had to recopy when the original burned up on re-entry.'"

"Mr. Brown, I can explain ..."

"No need, no need!"  Mr. Brown laughs.  "Quite an imagination you have there,
Clark.  Have you thought about going into journalism?"
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: nev@Turing.ORG (Niles E. VanDenburg)
Subject: Re: OOOOPS - Forgot
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:23:42 GMT

In article <1992Nov17.142925.5715@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU> s9000938@cumulus.csd.unsw.OZ.AU (Doormat)  writes:

>Forgot to mention - I've gotta use my flatmates account
>for the time being for News, which explains the .sig!
>--
>=======================================================================
>: Jacqui Quenell  s9000938@cumulus.csd.unsw.OZ.AU    Dept of Bio Tech :
>=======================================================================

Awwww shucks - just when you got my hopes up that another bio/bot
person had walked in - oh well - I guess the astro people still have
us outnumbered.

Mike - here's a couple dollars - set Doormat up with another beer and
I'll take my usual Coke (tm).

Feeling a bit strange I drain my Coke and propose a toast:

    "Here's to _Rhynchospora capitellata_ (Michaux) Vahl - the latest
addition to the `Flora of RT606'"

                        <<crash>>

-- 
Niles VanDenburg
nev@turing.org
niles_v@cho000.cho.ge.com
niles_v@cho000.dnet.ge.com
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe)
Subject: Re: OOOOPS - Forgot
Reply-To: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 22:09:00 +0000


 S.S.B.Glover@bradford.ac.uk (SSB GLOVER) (I think!) writes
>((come on! Are we all such good shots that we NEVER miss the fireplace?))

It's not that far! says Mary. Actually I think it's because this is 
the Place. I can barely throw and catch over here but that's not 
something I want to bring to the Place. Similarly, I'd hate to be in 
a smokey pub in real life, but anyone can *virtually* smoke in here 
and my only reaction is to hope it doesn't make them ill (in real 
life it makes me ill). You can bring in what you want and leave 
behind what you want.
*grin* someone's bound to tell me what I've left behind


Art = applied sociology? grrrrrrr! Or am I being unfair to sociology. 
More like art = applied philosophy, psychology and *observation*

mary
apprentice potter
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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe)
Subject: Re: Black Death Birthdays (Recipe Included)
Reply-To: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:17:00 +0000


"a tube pan, I think, is a cake tin with a tube in the middle so the 
cake comes out as a ring, not solid. A torus?" Mary looks for a 
mathematician around to check with." Ignatz? A torus is a donut 
*without* the jam, isn't it? I don't have one, I find a cake tin with 
an empty baked bean tin in the middle and pouring the mix in 
carefully works fine. Angel's food cake is a very light fluffy cakes 
- use 90% cornflour to get the texture"
Mary looks round confused. "Starting to look like rec.food.recipes in 
here! Any muffin recipes floating round? Callahans' recipes sound a 
good idea, Danger Mouse. But what I wonder is - does anyone collect 
Callahans filks? In particular I remember a recent-ish (3 months?) 
post about a fibre-optic network cable being severed (sound of 
silence) and a great one about Alt-Sigma-Tilda from 2 years ago"
Mary starts whistling out of tune
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From: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (The Didi-Sprite)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Rejoice, and Velvet reels
Date: 22 Nov 92 13:06:57 GMT
Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada
Originator: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca

In article <1992Nov18.171704.14309@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> mfbertke@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Mary Bertke....Gwen MacThaidhg) writes:
>The door slams open and of form familiar to some comes rushing in, the bouncing
>stride of her run taking her several feet into the air with each stride.  Her
>paisley skirt tries to carry her on as she comes to a stop, but she manages to
>hold, 

[    ]

>     Who else out there likes Celtic music?

The Didi-Sprite peeks around the kitchen door and calls out:
"Hi, Velvet!  Welcome back!  I'm rustling up some healthful waffles for
breakfast ... I'll pour out some more for you, if you like?  Lord
Galdrin and I *adore* Celtic music!  Ummm ... I am curious ... what is
a bohdran? (? sp.)"

Didi looks over at Kitten, and in a loud stage whisper, remarks:  "Good
grief, another 'bouncer'!"

The Didi-Sprite
Montreal * Canada

braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
From: mjmh@crsa.bu.edu (Michael J M Holmes)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: A Little Light
Date: 23 Nov 92 17:27:42 GMT
Organization: Boston University Center for Remote Sensing

/*'s eyes begin to focus back on the fire, in the Place.
He has a very happy look on his face, mixed in with a great
deal of serenity.

"Thanks, DM, for that wonderful 'trip!'  I've never been so
lucky as to actually go to Australia, but it has always been
one of my favorite places to dream about travelling to..."

"Back a few years ago, when my life seemed pretty grim, and I
was a *lot* less capable of handling the random problems of
life, I had a Plan to Escape.  If it got too rough, I was going
to sell everything I owned, quit school, and Move To Australia
To Start My Life Over.  I must have dreamed about the Plan
every other day for a while - pretty dramatic, I must admit."

"So Australia represents escape and new beginnings to me, even
if it was never necessary in RL.  Eventually I do hope to visit,
for less dramatic reasons, of course!"

"But your description was a very pleasant interlude in my day!
Thanks again!"


-- 
========================================================================
Mike Holmes       mjmh@crsa.bu.edu           "Happiness Will Prevail!"
Boston University Department of Geography (a truly GREAT place to work!)
========================================================================
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: I need some help with a spell for Didi.
From: DPERRY@eagle.wesleyan.edu (DAVID M. PERRY)
Date: 21 Nov 92 14:04:09 EDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Wesleyan University
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20In-Reply-To: gryphon@openage.openage.com's message of Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:21:30 GMTLines: 14

In <1992Nov20.162130.7192@openage.openage.com> gryphon@openage.openage.com writes:

Gryphon, I want to help.

I tried to email you but am not sure if it is going to get through.

Can you email me?

dperry@eagle.wesleyan.edu

I am Wiccan/empath/dancer/singer/musician/friend and want to help

One of Jack's Crows.
From: ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re:  Science and god:  Are they incompatible?  If so, why?
Date: 19 Nov 1992 03:20:51 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: degas.wag.caltech.edu

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?"