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Subject: Re: Rejoice, and Velvet reels
From: DPERRY@eagle.wesleyan.edu (DAVID M. PERRY)
Date: 21 Nov 92 13:38:47 EDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Wesleyan University
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In <1992Nov18.171704.14309@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> mfbertke@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu 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

........

> reclaiming my time.  I play Guitar, bodhran, and mandolin.  Oh, and I'm a
> Christian, though apparently one of the 'quiet' kind, from what little I
> "heard" of the conversation. 

...

>      Who else out there likes Celtic music?


"Velvet!!!  Great to see you."  Jack Crow comes bounding out of his booth. 
"It's me, Raven.  remember.  I go by Jack now, by the way.  Great to see you
again."  

**HUG**

Jack listens to Jason talk about 'Lannigan's Ball'  He goes back to his booth
and gets his guitar, tunes it, and starts to play. 

	"If Velvet would strike up a beat on the bodhran, we could do a mean
'Lannigan's Ball' right now.  Is there a piper in the house?  Jason, do you
know the words?"


One of Jack's Crows.




> 
>                               -Velvet
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: wyang@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William D Yang)
Subject: Re: Cyber (was Introduction was Eh?)
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:16:34 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?

	-Bill
--
William D. Yang         wyang@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu         Yang.25@osu.edu
Technical Assistant to North Area Computing Sites at The Ohio State University.
It's my opinion, but if you really want it, you can have it for a nominal fee.
ObPhilosophy:  One's mind should always reach further than one's overbite.
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From: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe)
Subject: Re: Invisible Feathers
Reply-To: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:48:00 +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: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: DJ re-joins the other Callahaners... Maybe...
Organization: Yale CS Mail/News Gateway
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 14:31:26 GMT


{ Due to email problams on the CP6, and a dead cable over at the site in
  Louisiana that I use as a gateway to Internet from my Bitnet account,
  this might show up again. But maybe not... }

    The wind wakes Jim up...

    "Huh ? " Jim.

    The room is empty and bare for all except window curtains. No furniture
 no cosy fireplace. Its the room I entered some time ago.

   The door opens and ...

   "DJ ! Are you going to eat and what are you doing on the floor ?" Didi.

   Jim scratches his mustache and says, "I must have slipped and fell down
and knocked myself out. Yes, I am hungry. OUCH ! Now I have a headache.
Whoosh. I just hope this isn't another dream !" Jim.

  Jim walks down stairs with Didi and they re-join the other Callahaners in
the evening meal, puns, and even a filk or two, or three...



    Ever so faintly can be heard someone using a breathing mask...

   { To be Continued }

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From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: God and Science:  The Ramblings of The Nightstalker
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:35:02 GMT

[ stuff deleted for bandwidth ]

>/*, holding his (3rd? 4th?) grape crush, turns.

   "Well put, " DJ.

-- 
 Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM - Gulf Park Campus 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
                     "Kill the Wabbit ! " Elmer Fudd. 
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From: pope@physics.su.OZ.AU (The Nightstalker)
Subject: The Nightstalker speaks out
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 00:20:04 GMT

The Nightstalker looks pensive.  He kneels down on the floor of the bar
and speaks.

"This is instead of getting up on a soapbox.  Let me state, that this
is not meant to be a flame, but a comment that I have to make to Stm.
I want you to say what it is you feel you have to say, but not to say
what you think I have said.  You put words in my mouth in replies to
my posts.  I never said 'evil scum', you put that into my mouth.  I 
never said that freedom of speech for you is censoring me, you said
that.  What freedom of speech for you seems to be, is to be nasty
and hurtful, to not only state disagreements, but to be spiteful.  I
am not the only one to recieve such treatment either.  Why are you
so nasty?  Is Carl like that in RL?  Just because we are only connected
by some VR link, does that give you any right to be rude?  I don't dislike
you, but the Stm I know is just a wall of hate, that is all I see.

I don't read your posts so I wont be inflamed or hurt by what you say.  I
only saw bits of what you had said in others posts.  I had to state that
you have hurt me often.  I turn the other cheek, but I had to say it.
I don't want callahans to be a battle ground with anyone, but this is a
public declaration that I think that you could be less agressive towards
this group.  You have had chance to pick me to bits, this is the only
comment I have to make in return."

The Nightstalker gets up, sighs, and disappears into a dark corner of
the bar.

--

Mick Pope,                                          I      "On Christ the
Sir Frank Packer Dept of Theoretical Physics,   ----+----   solid rock I
School of Physics, University of Sydney,            I       stand, all other
Sydney, Australia, 2006.  (02) 692 3241             I       ground is sinking
                                                    I       sand." - C. Wesley
                                                    I 

And the comment for today is:  

          
 As JFK once said: "I am a chocolate covered doughnut."
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From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: Pizza pty report
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 00:52:39 GMT

>"That's one of the fun things about supermarkets and a global economy - you
>can find just about anything from anywhere (but not Oreo Cookies in the UK!).
>Anyone willing to send a packet to Bath? You'll have two very grateful UK
>Callahanaians if you do!"
>The cartoon mouse grins, and snuggles back down again.
>Ignatz/Simon

   "Uhm. Ignatz, you do know what that filling in the Oreo is 
   don't you ? " Linda.

   "Lard as in it rhymes with hard{ing} arteries..." Robbie.

   "And something to which I am allergic. Gives me brain-dysfunction
  or something very close to it..." DJ.

-- 
 Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM - Gulf Park Campus 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
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From: wetmore@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Patrick J. Wetmore)
Subject: minor tragedies
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 05:17:30 GMT

A stranger pushed the door open, and slid onto a bar stool. That's always
the way it starts - there is no need for change. Or is there?

Strangers... a deluded dream-fancy of activity... a smile passes
briefly over a virtual face. He is breathing slowly, savoring each
breath as it passes through his lungs, grinning, smiling, his cells
afire with sensation... A transition: he sees things NOW, he is
firmly rooted in the PRESENT: the words he utters struggle to
escape smiling lips: "<gasp> A drink, <gasp>, barkeep..." He giggles
uncontrollably, and falls onto the floor, rolling around.

Mike is not fazed by this sort of behavior from the stranger: he lowers
a beer down next to the quivering, hysterical man. Keep him calm,
give him what he wants, and he'll just be happy for a few hours...
no need to disturb the other patrons with the stranger's paranoid
delusions.

*CRASH* The door falls inward - the street lamps outside show the
silhouettes of three tall, lanky men in fedoras. Each carries a
smart-looking leather briefcase. One leans over the stranger, and
whispers, "Bill? You gonna be all right?"

Bill grins feebly. "The bartender... his face... its MELTING!!! HA HA HA
HA HA HA!" Then, Bill's face takes a sour look as the patrons begin
to notice him. "STOP THEM ALL FROM LOOKING AT ME! MAKE THEM STOP!
DAMN YOU, YOU WORK FOR ME, MAKE THEM STOP!!!"

The three men with the briefcases step back uncertainly; but their
uncertainty gives way to decision, as they realize that this man will soon
be their commander, and have their lives in his hands. The briefcases
fall open without a sound, and each of the three has an Uzi in his hand.
They fire indiscriminately: Doug Quarnstrom, Mike the Bartender, two
Arabs, others: they fall to the ground, spouting blood from severed
arteries, lying still, still, so still...

The man called Bill rolls himself into a fetal position, gripping
his ears. "so loud," he whimpers, "so loud..."  The first of the
three men to enter escorts Bill out of the bar, flanked by the
other two.  A whisper of conversation is heard over startled sobs:
"Yes, Mr. President... Gore has some weed to help you calm down...
no, I don't think that it's wrong for the president-elect to enjoy
a tab of acid every now and then..."

Silence.



pat.
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From: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
Subject: Re: Where does the time go?
Organization: Don't blame me, I voted for Bill 'n' Opus
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 02:58:33 GMT

Well, if you time it right, you should be able to spend some time at a
"small" local SF convention, Baycon.  (Assuming, of course, that it even
flies anywhere....)
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

Trying to be happy is like trying to build a machine for which the only
specification is that it should run noiselessly.
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From: rcb33483@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (ArchTeryx)
Subject: Re: I'm Published!!!
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 14:59:41 GMT

ArchTeryx gives Goldy a big smile from his position where he is skritching the
ThunderKat, as he finally hears the news.  "Congradulations, my friend!  
I hope someday to mirror your success, though what I plan on publishing will
probably make no sense except to a fellow biochemist. :>"

ArchTeryx waits until Goldy passes him by, then reaches out and gives his
tailtip a squeeze, an affectionate gesture he uses with virutally all felinoid
friends.  "Good luck in the future, and congradulations again, my friend."

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email: rcb33483@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu       "But Sire, I...please..." 
       rcb33483@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu    "Stop snivelling and stand still!!"
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From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: Invisible Feathers
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:14:05 GMT

>Anybody notice an echo in here? I've just noticed my Off-Line Reader 
>that I use for compulink and as a link to usenet has posted some of 
>my conmments to conferences three times. Hope I haven't been shouting 
>like that in here. It's not my fault - technology made me do it ;-)
>seriously - apologies if my messages have come through several times
>mary looks rather sheepish
>
>mary apprentice potter

   Well, you can format the drive, load software onto it, connect the cables,
attach printers, setup configuration files, and the hardware will do what it
wanted to in the frst place ! Jim as himself... :-)

-- 
 Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM - Gulf Park Campus 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re:  Science and god:  Are they incompatible?  If so, why?
Date: 17 Nov 1992 20:24:13 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 <1992Nov17.050234.10394@midway.uchicago.edu>, mss2@quads.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer) writes:
[90 lines detailing what is known in science as an unfalsifiable hypothesis
deleted]

So, how long has that invisible 3 inch flying pink elephant been following you?
From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jay Brandt (Jason))
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: comment about fruit cake
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Date: 18 Nov 1992 16:17:44 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon, Architecture
Distribution: world
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In article <1992Nov18.150010.844@ra.msstate.edu>, jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu
(Jimmy Malcolm Pierce) wrote:
>    "Johnny Carson always said this time of year was when people took the
> fruitcake that they received last year gets re-wrapped and sent to someone
> else... 'There is only one fruit cake, we just send slices of it, uneaten,
> to our realtives and friends. Then the following year we send out the slices
> that somebody sent us !' A paraphrase, but fairly close I believe..." DJ.
> 
>      "Oh Mike, before I forget again, here's a payment on Phoenix's tab here
>   as I said I would pay it, " DJ.
> 
>    DJ places some ones in the cigar box.

Jason, who has ambled back over to his table with Thyra, gets a laugh out
of that. "Hey DJ! Here's another fruitcake tale for you, from a cartoon in
one of the SCA newsletters. Two ladies in 16th century costume are talking
at a cooking contest. One, holding a round fruitcake, says top the other 'I
don't see why my fruitcake wasn't the winner in the -most authentic-
category, it dates from the sixtenth century.' Her friend replies, 'Well,
did you give them a printed recipie?' Her reply - 'What recipie? This same
cake's been passed around since it was baked in 1566.' :-)"

Jason
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From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: dance for /*  was Re: God and Science:  The Ramblings of The Nightstalker
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 00:56:31 GMT

>/* smiles a purple smile, and then hears Linda in the background
>wanting a dance.  "Hi Linda!  I'm not the greatest dancer in the
>world, but I'm game if you are!"

      "/* are you certain you want to dance ???" DJ.

      "Do you have dancing shoes and how are you at acceleration ?" Linda.

      "And does your inner ear work okay ? " Robbie.

-- 
 Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM - Gulf Park Campus 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
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 1992 15:34:34 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Distribution: world
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
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In article <pmpusbob.722074983@vincent1.iastate.edu>, pmpusbob@iastate.edu (Christian M Charlebois) writes:
=	"BTW, about summing up Christianity into one description, of course its
=possible.  There has to be one decribing characteristic that defines a 
=Christian.  Something with which we can say "he's a Christian and he's not".
=For me it is the acceptance of Jesus Christ as savior.  I think a lot of
=Christians would agree with me."

StM points out, "And a lot wouldn't.  For example, those who try to dissociate
their religion from the Crusades or the Inquisition with the claim, "But they
weren't REAL Christians."
From: s903040@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Christopher Francis Anderson)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: More humor
Date: 17 Nov 1992 04:38:32 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
NNTP-Posting-Host: minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au

lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals) writes:

>From the .plan file of one of the scientists associated with the Wide
>Field/Planetary Camera of the Hubble Space Telescope:

>        The Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been
>        specifically  designed  to  help  people develop a relaxed attitude to
>        danger.  At the first hint of trouble they turn totally black and thus
>        prevent you from seeing anything that might alarm you.

>                          - HST User's Guide  a.k.a
>                            The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

>Apparently in reference to HST "safe modes."  Any time the HST loses track of
>where it's pointing or decides it's pointing too close to the sun, there's this
>big flap that slams down to cover the aperture (should the spacecraft ever
>point at the sun with the aperture open, we're talking about a 100-inch solar
>furnace;  we'd rather leave the migrogravity metallurgical experiments to the
>Space Shuttle).  It slams down hard enough to set the rest of the spacecraft to
>jiggling which further confuses it, and causes it to "safe" other instruments
>on the craft.  It can take up to a week to coax it into opening up again and
>returning the instruments to normal operating conditions.

This is absolutely brilliant.

Why didn't I think of that first?


-- 
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."
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From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: UK Realspace
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 11:45:47 GMT

and albert.....hi albert....and now he is out west....with the western callahanians....


--
***************************************************************************
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: tje3@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu
Subject: Re: Lamplighter's Re-Introduction (and SF, and other things)
Originator: tje3@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu
Reply-To: tje3@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Tammy Jo Eckhart)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:40:56 GMT

Michael J M Holmes writes:

>"Yup, purple hugs are here for the asking!  Want another?"

	A smiling Lamplighter gladly stretches his arms out, wondering
meanwhile what color of hugs his are.  "Hmm, my first science fiction book
was either Asimov's _Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter_ or Alexander Key's
_The Forgotten Door_.  I'm not sure which."

	A shortish, gnarled individual with green skin and pointed ears pokes
at the Lamplighter with her walking stick.  "How you doin', youngster?" she
asks him.

	The Lamplighter looks over his shoulder, sees who it is, and turns
around.  "Carol!" says he, obviously glad to see whoever this is.  "How's the
water under the bridge?"

	"Gettin' pretty cold this time-a year," she answers.  "Plenty of it,
though."

	"Oh, where are my manners?" the Lamplighter interrupts.  "Everybody,
may I introduce somebody I only see around the end of the year?"  He gestures
toward the rag-clad figure, and says, "This is Carol, the ancient Yuletide
troll."

	Both of them duck justifiably-thrown peanuts for several minutes.

-         -    -  - -=---------=----=--=-=#=========#====#==#=#*#########*####*
The Lamplighter             |"There's only so many times you can type 'Pat
(Tom Lee)                   | Buchanan' into a word processor before the
tje3@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu | system crashes."                    -- Love & War
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From: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe)
Subject: No subject 
Reply-To: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 11:35:52 +0000

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 ?)

mary
apprentice potter
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From: keulen@possum.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Mike van Keulen)
Subject: Re: Silly Sayings
Organization: Murdoch University
Date: 22 Nov 92 03:23:40 GMT

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


>>"I tease my ptoplants by watering them with ice cubes"
>             ^^^^^^^^^

>what kind of plants are those...?

Aren't they the ones that grow in the spaces between your toes?


>>Now onto the exam front I only have two left Tuesday morning and friday afternoon.

>good luck."

Ditto!

Splash!

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