HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: gardner@hale.ifa.hawaii.edu (Jonathan Gardner)
Subject: Re: Thyra assists Feather
Organization: Institute for Astronomy, Hawaii
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 09:53:25 GMT

In article <OLSON.92Sep27225221@husc8.harvard.edu> olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson@somewhere.out.there) writes:
>In article <1a4nmmINNf12@gap.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals) writes:
>
>>>I may be wiser to join the ACLU ...
>>
>>>What do people think of the ACLU?  Just curious!
>>
>>Seems like a worthwhile organization, for the most part.
>
>(for our overseas patrons: ACLU = American Civil Liberties Union)
>
>Agreed... although sometimes you end up supporting dubious causes.  A good
>example is when the KKK (or Ayran Nation, or some such outfit) was planning
>a march in some Midwestern town that had a very high percentage of Holocaust
>survivors... the authorities tried to prevent the march, and the ACLU came
>down on the side of the KKK-- which is entirely consistent with their pur-
>pose.  They and Amnesty International are among the only organizations doing
>any real work to abolish the death penalty (*please*, let's not start this
>argument again), and they've been instrumental in many free-speech and search-
>and-seizure cases.  I was hugely amused by George Bush's accusation in the
>1988 election that Mike Dukakis was "a card-carrying member of the ACLU"
>(to those of Bush's ilk, the ACLU is practically the definition of the weenie-
>do-gooder-far-left-liberal organization).  Membership in the ACLU skyrocketed
>following that remark. 
>

The Space Cadet gets up on a soapbox, and says, "Actually, I fully
support letting the KKK march. When they are prevented from marching,
the implication is that they are a vast, underground organization with
enough power and support to threaten the government. When they are
allowed to march, typically 20-30 KKK'ers show up, and 300-400
anti-KKK'ers show up, and they are revealed as what they are: an
extreme minority, reviled by the general population. The suppression of
bad ideas gives them more legitimacy than they deserve, the best
response is to laugh at them.  Of course, when the KKK crosses the line
of legality into violence, arson, trespass, etc., then they should be
prosecuted like any other thugs."

The Space Cadet thinks for a moment, "Then again, I am a weenie-do-
gooder-far-left-liberal." :->

>
>--
>-Chip Olson. | ceo@silver.lcs.mit.edu | ceo@gnu.ai.mit.edu 
>"I get drunk, drinking Guinness with Creme de Menthe in it. It's really
>bad for you."  -Shane MacGowan.

The Space Cadet
Durham, England
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Jon Gardner                                gardner@hale.ifa.hawaii.edu
Institute for Astronomy                           University of Hawaii
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From: keulen@possum.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Mike van Keulen)
Subject: W Oz. weather report
Summary: the weather here's great mate!
Keywords: weather, diving, wa
Organization: Murdoch University
Date: 15 Oct 92 07:03:47 GMT

Splash wanders into the Place, with big grins and hugs for all he encounters.
"Wow - look at all the soapboxes which have shown up in here ... a couple of
days offline, and see what happens, hey!  A Canadian Club and Coke thanks 
Mike!"  He takes the drink offered him, plops
the coin on the bar and strolls up to the chalk line.  "Gulp, gulp, glug!  To
the changing of the seasons!"  <<CRASH!!>>

"I went diving yesterday - the sun was shining brightly, the temperature was up
to the mid-twenties (70s F) and the sea was friendly.  We have had quite a
number of fine days lately (and the met bureau has almost caught up with the
weather!), and yesterday I actually managed to get out there and do some work.
My better half had a flexible day, and kept watch on me from the boat while
preparing lecture notes.  The sea was calm enough for her not to become
uncomfortable (24 weeks pregnant), and we had a thoroughly enjoyable day on the
water (and in it).  I managed to collect the samples I needed from my exposed
site ... the sheltered site is easier to work on, so I'll leave it till last.
It's the first work dive I've managed on my site since July!  The only thing
that stopped me from carrying on was my empty SCUBA tank.

"Even my boat performed well ... it hasn't been used since July (not even the
batteries charged) and it started straight off, and didn't hiccup once!  This
augers well for the upcoming work season, er, I mean summer.

"On a further up note, I found a job advert in the paper which sounds like it's
been tailor-made for me, even to the point where they don't specifically
require a PhD, but postgrad experience is adequate!  Keep your fingers crossed,
everyone!

"Happy days are here again ... !  Once spring/summer gets going over here in
the west (of Oz) it really gets cooking ... ahhhh!"  Splash looks through the
X-window into his street towards the park at the end of the road, squinting his
eyes slightly at the bright sunshine (I'm avoiding work for a couple of days
... the boss has just come back from sabbatical - he always comes up with these
half-baked schemes for new work which I could squeeze into my project somewhere
...  :-/ ).  "Just thought I'd share some of my joy, and good weather happy
vibes with you all for a change."

Splash!


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***************************** Michael van Keulen *************************** 
* Snail: School of BES - Biology         e-mail: keulen@murdoch.edu.au     *
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*************************** "To Love is to _LIVE_!" ************************
From: sjane@bmers248.bnr.ca (sjs)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Potstickers
Keywords: recipe?
Date: 7 Oct 92 10:58:16 GMT
Distribution: alt.callahans
Organization: Irrelevant, Ottawa, Canada

"People periodically post about purportedly palatable potstickers...
 These posts have provoked me
 I pine for a recipe...
 Please?"

*grin*
--
It's not irrelevant; it's a hippopotamus.   sjane@BNR.CA
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Cristobal Colon
Date: 13 Oct 1992 21:50:13 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <1992Oct13.172000.18088@midway.uchicago.edu>, mss2@quads.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer) writes:
>	"In any case, though, we give credit to discoverors as much
>for disseminating information as for learning it.  Before Columbus,
>the European mainstream was unaware of the American continents.
>Afterwards, it was.  It was an accidental discovery, but so were
>penicillin and vulcanized rubber-- we give credit to accidental
>discovery as well.

Penicillin is an especially good example, since it had been "discovered" some
20 years before Fleming happened across it.  It's just that the prior discovery
remained obscure.

>Portuguese decision was defensible, certainly, but hardly proof of
>their foresight or willingness to take calculated risks.  It was,
>after all, a fairly cheap thing to try-- at worst, you lose a crazy
>captain and a scum-of-the-earth crew."

And don't forget the fact that there were certainly some (admittedly tenuous)
indications that there WAS land out there somewhere considerably closer than
Asia.
Organization: Sophomore, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 12:33:20 -0400 
From: Mark Beirne Lively <ml5a+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Redheads
	<1biqi3INNqkf@gap.caltech.edu>

>>>>   Now, Now, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Don't you know ? :-)
>>>
>>>Are they?
>>Is this going to turn into a cascade?
>
>Shouldn't you have asked, "How many ways will this thread split before we lose
>all control of it?"
Should I apologize for not reading the entire thread first?

ML5A@ANDREW.CMU.EDU
"I haven't failed I have discovered 10,000 ways not to make a lightbulb"
                                        -T Edison.

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: fsjac3@richard.acf-lab.alaska.edu (Jennifer A Cabbage)
Subject: Re:  great land
Organization: University of Alaska Computer Network
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 04:10:35 GMT

Patch returns the Didi-Sprite's hug before retiring to her pile of bean  
bags against the wall.
       "Anybody care to pull up a bag or two and indulge in a back-rub  
fest ?"
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jpalmer@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (John D Palmer)
Subject: Re: Failure
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 00:55:18 GMT

     Hmmmm.  What do you do when you hurt someone more than you can ever know, 
so much that they can never trust you again?

     I think it depends on the hurt, and the reason. . . and the people.

     Some people are really good at forgetting hurts done to them. . . the hurt
was THEN, this is NOW.  Some people aren't.  (Some people try to make value 
judgements on people who can or can't put hurts in the past. . . that's pretty 
silly.  Until you know how deep a person's fear of being hurt is, how can you 
say that they should or should not still be feeling its effects, eh?)

     There's one thing I've learned for sure. . . the past is past, and you 
can't change it.  You can only look ahead. . . but if you look ahead without 
thinking about what has gone before, well, shoot, you're gonna reinvent the 
wheel every time you go out driving, you know?

     You know you can hurt her. . . so you will be careful, perhaps, not to do 
so in the future.  (But PLEASE don't be silly and spend all of your time 'not 
hurting' her. . . spend your time instead trying to make both of you happy.)
She knows you can hurt her. . . and now she will finally see you as the human 
being you are, not as some person who can do no wrong.

     Of all the ways a relationship can grow, that's one of the ugliest. . . 
but the bonds formed by learning you can love each other even when one of you 
hurts the other accidently are some of the strongest bonds of love you'll ever 
be able to find.

     Good luck, my friend; forgive yourself, and hope that she forgives you.  
This is one time, however, where time can heal the wounds.

                                                       John
"Just because I'm sounding solemn and full to bursting with cliche's doesn't 
mean I don't have NOTHING sensible to say."
-- 
"Love is cool; I mean, like, really cool.  Like, the coolest thing in
the universe, where, like, people open up inside and show the world how
they feel, and they ain't afraid someone's gonna laugh because they, like,
love themselves already!"  --Personality 42, a generic 60's philosopher
From: rider@geloser.login.qc.ca (Serge Ayotte)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: visiting LA at the end of February (was Re: In honor of...)
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 12:06:48 EDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Gentleman Loser System, Montreal/Qc/Cdn

jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce) writes:

>
>    "back when I went to Boot camp. I was given the choice of going to
> Lakes Boot Camp and shoveling snow or going to NTC at San Diego and st
> in the rain... I chose the rain, " DJ.
>

Stopping is hacking, Rider looks up ans says;
"Well, being form a place that as snow almost 8 months out of the year,
I can say that it's not the snow that is bad, I REALLY enjoy taking a
nice walk on a nice snowy day, what's the killer is the FREEZING
cold!!"

Just to make is point, he then goes back to his keyboard, and after a
few seconds of pecking a snow ball materialize itself over is head
and...   *SPLAT* it goes at the feet  of DJ... (i'm nice, I don't want
you to catch a cold...

Matrix RIder....

"A paperless office is about as usefull as a paperless bathroom"
-anonymous poster on another newsgroup
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Serge Ayotte                                  rider@geloser.login.qc.ca

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From: u906451@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (Damien Saunders)
Subject: Re: great land
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 10:21:41 GMT

fsjac3@richard.acf-lab.alaska.edu (Jennifer A Cabbage) writes:

>Patch returns the Didi-Sprite's hug before retiring to her pile of bean  
>bags against the wall.
>       "Anybody care to pull up a bag or two and indulge in a back-rub  
>fest ?"
Yes, i will join in with the back rub fest.

Damien.

BTW has anyone other than the Australians about been seeing my replies
to everyone's posts? I think I have been forgeting to change the distribution
from aus to world lately so I have been Missing via stupidity.

--
"The best defence against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off."
                British Army Journal 1949
Damien Saunders (Gunnar Njalsson SCA) Email:u906451@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: yho@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Yue-shun E. Ho)
Subject: Re: Grrr...
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 21:38:22 GMT

In article <1b37ecINN9a2@gap.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
>In article <1992Oct9.011300.6731@ucc.su.OZ.AU>, mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar) writes:
>=He looks up. "Oh, sorry. Just rebuilding my .newsrc file. I tried reading
>=news last night, not realising that the disk on this machine was full.
>=When I quit news, it tried to save the changes to my .newsrc, failed, and
>=for some reason erased the old version as well.
>
>StM points out, "Er, DM?  That's a *FEATURE*.  Really.  It's deeply imbedded in
>the specification of every single one of the unix filesystems.  When unix
>(including SunOS) tries to create a file, and there's already one of the same
>name there, the first step is to delete the old one.  The second step is to try
>to create the new one.  Now, if the disk is full when it gets to step two,
>you're completely out of luck.  Sorry, but that's the way it works, and that's
>the way it's SUPPOSED to work.  Just one of the many reasons I prefer VMS."

But VMS keeps all versions of the same file unless someone purges them.
  And the disk will become full much much quicker, which is not something
  DM wants either.  Maybe you would suggest CMS instead, eh?  

silly yue-shun

-- 
yue-shun.e.ho        yho@utcs.utoronto.ca (personal)      yho@bnr.ca (business)

"The net is expensive.  Don't stay too long."   - Me
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar)
Subject: Re: Cultural Exchange
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 01:56:04 GMT

> [Snark:]
>DM had a good question, why does a US football game with an hour on
>the clock last 2.5 hours?  Actually, it's more like 3 hours!

Danger Mouse creaks back into life, but only slowly. His newsfeed is
receiving stuff, but all in the wrong order, so he is busy trying to
work out who posted what in what order...

"It wasn't so much a question, as an incredulous observation. As I've said
before, I do know most of the rules of US football, including that they
stop the clock for all those things you mentioned. I was just commenting
that it seemed strange to have so many interruptions to the play of the
game. The only time a clock is stopped in rugby is if a player is injured
badly enough to require medical assistance on the field."

>On the subject of rugby players vs. US footballers... I suspect those
>who felt that either team would win at its own game are correct.  If
>the ruggers would "win easily" at US football, they'd have tried it by
>now, you can bet.

"Reverence Pavane mailed me some stuff about an Australian team who went
over to the US to play some college football teams. I was hoping the
Bellman would post it, but I'll mention it now. (Pavane is having trouble
posting at the moment.) Apparently this team of Australians did manage to
hold their own in some games by using lots of lateral passes, but for the
most part they were soundly beaten. Still, I think winning the odd game or
two in a sport you haven't grown up playing is pretty good going!"

- Danger Mouse.
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Another Introduction
Date: 8 Oct 92 00:36:57 GMT
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi

In article <2ad35744.kf8nh@kf8nh.UUCP> "Brandon S. Allbery" <allbery@ncoast.org> writes:
>(P.S.  Not to mention that "nuclear" is pronounced the way it's spelled, and
>*I* sure as heck don't spell it "nucular".  ...sigh, now I'm started on
>linguistic flames.  When will I learn????)

  <chuckle> "Have you ever been to Texas ? Back when I was a Theatrical Design
Major, my theater voice instructor commented that she had heard people say such
things over the year as 'winder' for 'window' , but Texans instead of adding
a letter or two would add syllables !!! She told us that in Texas the word
s**t has three syllables ! Its a good thing I lost my Texas accent, well its
softened somewhat, otherwise most people would find my talking hard to
understand..." Dreamy Jim.
 
-- 
 Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science
 jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
  "Is it the weekend yet ?" me :-)
From: steve@Advansoft.COM (Steve Savitzky)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: A very temporary goodbye
Date: 15 Oct 92 21:20:12 GMT
Organization: Advansoft Research Corp, Santa Clara, CA

The Mandelbear walks in and puts a dollar on the bar.  "A 307 Ale,
please, Mike."  

"Are you sure you know what you're doing?"  At the bear's nod, Mike
pulls out something that looks like a Klein bottle with a power cord
attached to it, pulls out the yellow stopper labeled "Danger: Toxic
and Explosive", and pours a teflon-lined glass full of a fizzy,
greenish, glowing liquid.

"Ah," says the Mandelbear.  "Hyperbeer.  I've wanted to taste this
stuff ever since I heard Tom Smith's song.  It's brewed in a
tesseract, and it's 153.5% alcohol.  So they say."  He drinks it.

The most noticable effect is that the Mandelbear's fractal dimension
increases significantly, rendering him even fuzzier than usual.  He
steps up to the chalk line and says, "To New Ventures!" as he flings
the empty glass.  There is a small explosion of green sparks.

"The main reason I'm posting this is that I have a new job!  Starting
on October 26th I'll be at Ricoh California Research Center in Menlo
Park.  It's crc.ricoh.com but I don't know what my login will be yet.
The powers that be at advansoft.com will probably shut down my account
here considerably before then, so I'll be off the net for a week or
so.  Be seeing you!"
--
\ --Steve Savitzky--  \    343 Leigh Ave   \ Object-oriented software wizard
 \ steve@advansoft.COM \ San Jose, CA 95128 \ Moving to crc.ricoh.com 92/10/26
  \ arc!steve@apple.COM \   h:408-294-6492   \ 
   \__ steve@arc.UUCP _____ w:408-727-3357x246 (9am-6pm) _____________________
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From: rlm7337@tamsun.tamu.edu (Incarnadine)
Subject: Re: Liralin's Present...
Organization: Castle BBS
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 16:17:12 GMT

In article <1992Oct9.185627.28216@data-io.com> li@Data-IO.COM (Liralen Li) writes:
>In article <1992Oct7.025220.29179@tamsun.tamu.edu> rlm7337@tamsun.tamu.edu (Incarnadine) writes:
>>[Inky produces a small grey box, about a foot on each side.  It is tied
>>with a fat grey ribbon.  Inside, Liralen finds a beautiful crystal fish bowl,
>>which has an engraving around the rim, only visible when held to the light.
>>If one attempts to chime the bowl, it responds with a haunting resonasence     
>>which is very pleasing to the ear]
>
>She holds it up to the light to take a better look at the engraving, and
>then tings is lightly and smiles.  "Thank you, Inky." she says.  And fills
>the bowl with water for any of the more water oriented denizens of the
>Place to do with as they like...
>--
>Liralen Li
>li@inigo.Data-IO.com

[As Liralen holds the bowl up, she notices these words engraved on the rim:
	So long, and thanks...
]

You very welcome.. :)


{yeah, I know..but it's hard to find a gift at the last minute!}
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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Another Introduction
From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson@somewhere.out.there)
Date: 13 Oct 92 23:36:44
 5710.24268@ttinews.tti.com><1992Oct13.131203.19691@ra.msstate.edu>
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.
In-reply-to: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu's message of Tue, 13 Oct 1992 13:12:03 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.131203.19691@ra.msstate.edu> jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce) writes:

>        DJ starts to smile, then chuckle, then laughs, then starts to
>laugh so hard he falls to the floor and starts laughing even harder !
>"Yup, Texans talk like that ! One of the things I was asked while I was
> in the Navy was: 'You're from Texas, what hell is he saying anyway ?'
> We were watching then Pres. Lyndon Baines Johnson give a speech. My reply:
> 'I don't know what he is saying as he is from the Perdanales area of
> Texas and they have word patterns all their own !' " 

Castellan, imitating DJ's dulcet tones (?!), comments "Well, when I've done
several tech-support calls in a row with Texans, *I* start talking like
this... and I'm a native-born New Englander.  Must be infectious.

"While we're dumping on Texans, I recently heard that the Texas state legi-
slature banned the sale of Dixie Blackened Voodoo Lager beer in Texas on
the grounds that the label promoted Satanism-- it's a swamp scene with glow-
ing eyes peering out and spooky lettering-- like this, thanks Mike" holding
up the bottle Mike had just handed him.  The Louisiana state legislature
(which is where it's made (in the state of LA, not in the legislature)) re-
taliated by banning the sale of Lone Star beer in LA on the grounds that it
"promoted Texanism".  TX immediately repealed its ban, and LA followed suit.
Mike, got a bottle of Old Nick? I wonder what the TX lawmakers would think
of this label...", and he holds up a bottle of Old Nick Barleywine Style
Ale, with a fiery depiction of Lucifer himself on the label.
--
-Chip Olson. | olson@husc.harvard.edu | ceo@{gnu.ai,silver.lcs}.mit.edu 
"Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, silhouetted
by the sea, circled by the circus sands, with all memory and fate driven deep 
beneath the waves; let me forget about today until tomorrow"  -Bob Dylan.
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: BAH! HUMBUG!
Date: 15 Oct 92 22:35:57 GMT
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <1bkgasINNdpv@gap.caltech.edu>, ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz) writes:
=Abner, who has been unable to post or send email (except for a few bits that
=got out - the connection to the server crashes every five to ten minutes)
=decides to try yet again ...
=
=Sayeth the grinning green demon:
=>Deck the halls with bulbs of garlic! falalalala, lalalala
=>For the vampire soon will frolic! falalalala, lalalala
=>Don we now our silver crosses! falala, lalala, lalala
=>So we'll cut down on our losses! falalalala, lalalala
=
=Silent knight, holey knight,
=Completely dead, not so bright
=His wife widowed, an orphaned child,
=His castle falls, his lands become wild
=Feudalism sti-inks!  Feudalism stinks!

Or, to quote one of my favorite comic strip characters (I *THINK* I've got the
lyrics right:
	Deck us all with Boston Charlie
	Walla Walla Washington and Kalamazoo!
Organization: Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA