HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Yet Another Periodic Return...
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 01:11:28 GMT


kitten listens to unbeliever return to the Place...and then gets
totally confused when StM starts boiling....

>>standing, standing...  smiling at EVERYONE, even jerks (ESPECIALLY jerks),
>>looking for books, shelving books, taking orders, shelving books, ringing
>>sales, shelving books, cleaning up after invasions of 3-year-olds, SHELVING
>>BOOKS..."

>Withoug explanation, the poster does his best to insult Kitten, a
>professional librarian.  StM is *EXTREMELY* annoyed.  Kitten is his FRIEND!

>After a few paragraphs, StM realizes he's not insulting Kitten,. he'
>sympathizing.  StM decides the poster should be allowed to live.  For now.

"thank you, dear speaker, i'd hate to have a fellow callahanian's
death on my conscience (sp? no dictionary handy)...even if you are
defending me..."


>StM suddenly fades, and Carl appears: 


[more loud and confusing stuff from StM....]

kitten tries to calm her friend down...

>>although we may NEVER get married if neither of us ever
>>find a decent-paying job (I'm making more now than I did at Waldens, but THAT
>>AINT SAYING MUCH).

>And if your Covenent persona is an indication of how you deal with the rest of
>the world, you're being overpaid.

>>I still thank the merciful heavens daily for bringing her
>>into my life.  For now, we're just dreaming of having apartments within 10
>>miles of each other..."

>Oh, another fundie.  Praise god for all that's good, nad blame yourself for all

"carl...."  kitten tries to sooth...."i don't think that's what he
meant at all..."  she puts her arms around carl and tries to calm
him....not at all sure where all this is coming from (i never read the
thomas covenant stuff)


--
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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 
"perhaps _any_ universe becomes real in proportion 
to the number of people who believe in it and spend time there." s. robinson

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From: JMPIERCE%USMCP6.bitnet@VM.TCS.Tulane.EDU (JIM PIERCE)
Subject: For John D. Palmer re: Friends... Forever...
Organization: Yale CS Mail/News Gateway
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 20:26:15 GMT


  "Thanks John, I'll take one of those beers, "DJ.

  "Uhm, I thought you didn't drink beer, " John.

  "I don't, " DJ.

 <throw!>

   <kthump!> as it hits 'stranger' <- note, no upper-case. Makes 'it'
                                            less important, like it
                                            needs to be...

   "Dadgum, that 'stranger' thingie shore do bounce good don't it, " DJ
 says as he wears an almost Kzinti grin...

  "Mike, I'll buy John's next glass of ice water..." DJ.


  Later my friend John, from DJ.


* <JMPIERCE@USMCP6.BITNET> Jim "DJ." Pierce; Bach. Sci. in Appl. Comp. Sci.
* USM Academic Computing on the Gulf Park Campus. Disclaimer: Standard.
* "I'm tired out from a prolonged squawk !!" me simulating MPFC.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: se_schn@pavo.concordia.ca [ Ranfry ]
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Old Coots Test (was A grinning Nightstalker)
Date: 3 Oct 92 01:32:00 GMT
Organization: Concordia University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Sep30.003236.5751@ra.msstate.edu>, jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce) writes...
>   "My first such game was Tunnels and Trolls by Flying Buffalo, about 1977.
>After i got tired of the solo adventures,

	Hey, wild, I remember Tunnels and Trolls. Twas a very fun game. Simple
as sin, never seen a simpler game to play.  The solo adventures were well 
written, much better than some of the D&D type adventures.

	I picked up the game because of the solo adventures.  At the time I had 
no group to play with, so had to play by myself.  Then when I got back into a
gaming group I gave it up after playing with better ones, such as Role Master, 
Chivilary and Sorcery, etc.  Now I am working on my Game system, including the
magic.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Nicarra's travels
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 01:22:00 GMT

"hi nicarra, welcome back..." kitten waves at nicarra from her spot at
john's feet...


--
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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 
"perhaps _any_ universe becomes real in proportion 
to the number of people who believe in it and spend time there." s. robinson

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From: gardner@hale.ifa.hawaii.edu (Jonathan Gardner)
Subject: Re: Cultural Exchange (was Re: Schooling)
Organization: Institute for Astronomy, Hawaii
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 16:31:05 GMT

In article <keulen.717912275@possum> keulen@possum.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Mike van Keulen) writes:
>li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus) writes:
>
>
>>"O.K." Liralen says in responce to Splash!'s question.  "'Sophmore: (Gk
>>sophos - wise + moros - foolish): a student in his second year at college
>>or secondary school.' I always liked that definition, someone that's wise
>>enough after the first year to actually start getting somewhere, but still
>>a fool.
>
>Shouldn't that be: foolish enough to think they're wise?  (I've taught a few at
>this level.)
>
>Splash!

Ray Bradbury once said,

"At 17 you think you know everything. If at 27 you still think you know
everything, then you're still 17."


The Space Cadet
Durham, England, but still posting from Hawaii.
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Jon Gardner                                gardner@hale.ifa.hawaii.edu
Institute for Astronomy                           University of Hawaii
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From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Callahan's is for everyone
Date: 3 Oct 92 00:26:55 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana



>Uhm... sorry if this rains on anyone's parade, but... piffle.

>Callahan's is a news group.

>It is *not* a bunch of people who have the professional know-how to 'help'
>everyone.  STM looks like he could use some help that *really* knows what
>its doing as opposed to a bunch of well-meaning, but rank amateurs.  Even
>the Polymath, who has a degree in mind-work, will not claim to be able to
>fix things for anyone here.

>We can give support, and, sometimes, a willing and accepting heart is enough.

>But, sometimes, it isn't.  

[  ]

>I have no magical power to 'fix' anyone's life.  I have no responsibility
>for anyone's choices.  They are theirs to make.

>It doesn't mean that I won't help when I can or when asked, but, sigh... as
>an example, if the guy that I talked to that one night decided to die now,
>I won't go around beating my breast and saying "If ONLY he'd called me."
>because I know that it wasn't ME that decided that he was going to live
>that next day.  It was him.  For his own reasons, and for his own goals.  I
>had not a damned thing to do with it.

[   ]
>My religion tells me that I should help those that need it WHEN I can
>afford it myself.  And I don't *have* the power or capability or the
>ownership of everyone's life to even pretend that I can fix them.

"what SHE said..."  kitten hugs liralen...a voice of reason....

"and i don't think you are really disagreeing with each other...."

kitten hugs liralen...trying not to get her sticky with caramel.

--
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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 
"perhaps _any_ universe becomes real in proportion 
to the number of people who believe in it and spend time there." s. robinson
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Old Coots Test (was A grinning Nightstalker)
Date: 27 Sep 1992 16:52:01 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <9209222129.AA12573@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM>, dgil@ipsaint.ipsa.reuter.com (Gillett, David) writes:
>Mandelbear suggests questions for computeroid Old Coots --
>
>o Ever use:
>x How about:
>  x A card punch.  Not a keypunch, an output device producing cards.

Yep.

>  x 800 bpi tape.  (560 bpi?)

Certainly.  Do you have one you'd like me to read for you?
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: EUCLID@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: favorite pun
Organization: C.C.S.O.
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 22:07:42 GMT

In article <brumby.717469998@nella11.cc.monash.edu.au>
brumby@nella11.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen McNamara) writes:
 
>
>   The brumby yawns and stretches. (Ever seen a horse stretch before?)
>
>EUCLID@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>>"Favorite pun", said Euclid, as she drowsily opened an eye and a naughty
>>grin spread across her face.  "My favorite?" WEeellll, it's this:
>>
>>   BEWARE OF GERMANS BEARING GIFTS!
>
>   The brumby sighs.
>   "I failed French as my obligatory language at school. I suppose I'll
>have to wait for an explaination."
>   "However, my own little entry is due to a certain flap going on at
>Monash about the legality of these pornographic picture files that a lot
>of computer students (and staff!) keep downloading to the graphics
>workstations. The point is, if you are offended by these sort of pictures,
>
>   "Beware of geeks bearing gifs!"
>
  Euclid turns to the brumby and answers:
     "Weeelll, i'll put it this way.  Lots of folks share their homes with
  rats. But they don't want to do this, they'd much rather have their homes
  to themselves.  So they give the rats a little going-away Gift of, say
  coumins or strychnine.  If the rats accept, they are indeed goners, which
  is generally what happens if you ever take enough of what a German calls a
  >>Gift<<."  Euclid throws peanuts at the brumby.
>   The brumby hasn't had to duck peanuts for far too long.
>
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: The Space Cadet gets to England
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 00:29:25 GMT

[    ]

>The Space Cadet looks down at the cuppa tea in his hand. "Oh yeah,
>the toast. Well the main reason why I decided to post here in the 
>first place 'way back in April, was so that when I moved over 10
>time zones I would be able to bring some of my friends with me.
>So, this toast isn't very original, but it is deeply felt,

>"To the Place."

><<Crash>>

>And to all those I haven't hugged in a while, <<HUG>>.

kitten grabs hold of the space cadet and pulls him into the group
hug...."welcome back...."

--
***************************************************************************
conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten           /\ /\  barbara ann 
"my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?"      {=.=}
                                              ~   trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu 
"perhaps _any_ universe becomes real in proportion 
to the number of people who believe in it and spend time there." s. robinson

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: rlm7337@tamsun.tamu.edu (Richard L. Mcmahon)
Subject: To Smoke (was: Friends Forever) 
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 02:04:13 GMT

Smoke:

My name is Richard McMahon, and I'm known around here as John Carney.  I don't
know it this will come out right, but I'm writing this because I am part        Cherokee/Chickisaw, and while I feel I have no right to claim a real part in
any tribe (my total blood count is a whopping 5/512) I do take pride in 
being even partly Cherokee. I want to extend my sympathies to you...I can see
-almost- how much this hurts everyone...I only wish I could share your pain.
I have no experience with death, it has never claimed anyone close to me.  But I
have had many friends who have lost their friends, and I can feel loss...I feel
everyone's loss now.  
The only good advice I have heard was passed from one friend to another, and it
was this:  The pain at first is great, but in time the only memories that remain
shall be the good ones...the happy ones.  I would like to pass this on to 
everyone here, and to express my regret that I will have no such memories of 
him.
I would also like to ask this (perhaps it will help): could those of you who 
knew the Artful Dodger post your fondest memory?  I would like to know what kind
of man he was...I already know from the friends he kept that he was a great one.


Sincerely, 
Richard McMahon
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From: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca  (The Didi-Sprite)
Subject: Our September 27th Birthday Boy!
Originator: braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 02:04:36 GMT

Hi, John Carney!

Today is a rather significant day in your life, is it not?  I rather
think that it is!  Yes!  It is ...

		     YOUR   BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!

And, you thought I forgot!

Not this Sprite!

Happy Birthday, John ... and many, many more.

Nick Chopper dropped something off to help you celebrate, and here it
is now!





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And, many, many more!

*Hugs*  and very best wishes!

----<--<@

The Didi-Sprite
Montreal * Canada

braley@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: John posts! Run! Run!
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 11:15:24 GMT



>John smiles, sitting back in her chair, stroking Em'ly's
>back as the cat, in turn, is purring.

[   ]carmel apple stuff deleted (but thanks for the warning...i
haven't tried a caramel apple with my new teeth :)

>Hmmms...  "Holiday coming up!  National Coming Out Day is
>the 11th of October!  A wonderful day to support various queers
>to become more visible in the world.  Personally, I'm about as
>queer as they come (*smile*), just in case someone missed it."

ANOTHER REASON TO CELEBRATE OCTOBER!!!!!!!!!!!!

>She slaps a buck down for Mike, receiving in return a frosty
>glass of cherry coke, and wanders off to talk to Lirilen.

>-john
>"Kiss me, I'm Irish"
>"Eat me, I'm Danish"

kitten giggles, semi-hysterically....and interupts lirilen(sorry) long
enough to salute john's irish part...."sorry....i can't enjoy the
danish part here in public..." kitten hugs john and, still
giggling...finishes her dark beer...tossing the glass into the
fireplace with a crash...

"to october...thank whatever gods you  want it finally got here!"

[CRASH!!!!!!!!]



--
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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 
"perhaps _any_ universe becomes real in proportion 
to the number of people who believe in it and spend time there." s. robinson

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: rich@theophilus.msfc.nasa.gov (Rich Krum)
Subject: Re: Another Introduction
Reply-To: rich@theophilus.msfc.nasa.gov
Organization: Boeing Computer Support Services
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 13:28:57 GMT

O'course a First Phone would be scary, especially in my hands--especially since
I built and operated a full-scale broadcast TV system on a Navy aircraft carrier.

That's like a TV station IN an IFR airport, with a runway on the roof,
Bombs in the basement, and enough fuel being slopped around to toast the
world's biggest marshmallow instantly.  (Been there, done that------)

A more scary thought, two summers ago, my oldest son spent the summer ROTC
cruise driving a fully armed nuclear submarine from San Diego to Japan.  He
just barely got his driver's licence the summer before----

--rich AKA The Boss Troll

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From: keulen@possum.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Mike van Keulen)
Subject: Re: Thyra's reward from Feather
Organization: Murdoch University
Date: 29 Sep 92 06:33:24 GMT

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

>     I can't really enjoy this while our vegitarian friends have nothing to
>savor. Could you please fix up a reasonably large tossed salad and a
>vegatable plate with some ranch dressing, for them to share? 

Ah, thank you Thyra!  It's really nice to see a true carnivore not forgetting
the vegies.  And no, I don't have any problems with watching carnivores at
work ... different strokes for different ... umm, uhhh ... well, you know :-)

Splash takes a munch of the mess of salad, and mmmmmms appreciatively.


--
***************************** Michael van Keulen *************************** 
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*************************** "To Love is to _LIVE_!" ************************
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: re: Old Coots test
Date: 27 Sep 1992 00:09:04 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <920923.19300736.080024@USM.CP6>, JMPIERCE%USMCP6.bitnet@VM.TCS.Tulane.EDU (JIM PIERCE) writes:
>     Hmm. Lets see what else. I remember when Captain Kangaroo had
>to add coloring to his hair to make it white and when the Captain
>Kangaroo show was in B&W.

I remember the beginning of the first episode.

>  I'm sure there are lots of things we could be nostalgic about, but
>I'm glad a cure was found for polio, small pox, and several other
>things.

Just to be picky, no cure has been found for either polio nor smallpox, and
participation in vaccination programs for both has taken a nosedive in the last
15 years.  If there are still natural pockets of either, or if the lab samples
somehow get loose, we could be in *BIG* trouble.

>Unfortunately, it looks as if a cure for AIDS is going to take
>until we have a scientific breakthrough. Sigh.

Since there's no known cure for any viral infection (well, monoclonal
antibodies might marginally count as a cure, but of course they're not possible
for someone with AIDs), a cure will certainly require a major biomedical
breakthrough.  A vaccine MIGHT be possible without such a breakthrough, though.
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From: mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk (Alan Ralph)
ReplyTo: mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk
Subject: Re: Reminicing about alt.callahans past
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Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 00:54:25 +0000

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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: And in this corner...uh, where's the corner?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 00:49:49 GMT



>>>>-John Carney lists his favorite authors:  
>>>[stuff gone]
>>>>Mike, give this guy a drink on me...he's thinking too clearly :)
>>>
>>
>>Sorry...you gotta remember, I'm new here.  It'll take me awhile to catch up
>>to the running gags (pun intended..I know, it's cheap humor)
>>DP and OJ is fine, I take my DP straight tho...
>>

dreamy jim:

> Well, off the record. If someone says that the drinks are on
>them, they get drinks poured on them...
>-- 

kitten just hums "margaritaville" by jimmy buffet...as she tries to
figure out if this pun thread is going to wax musical or bath us in
alcohol puns...
--
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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 
"perhaps _any_ universe becomes real in proportion 
to the number of people who believe in it and spend time there." s. robinson

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