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From: ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Definition of "monogamy"?
Date: 24 Dec 1992 00:16:39 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: degas.wag.caltech.edu

>>                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
>>                             @netcom.com 

>>Virtual anniversary: 8 days and counting

/* notes:
>(Virtual congratulations!  Which anniversary is it?  The cathode
>anniversary?  The microchip anniversary?  I *never* know what
>to get people!!)

Abner grins.  "Why, for a virtual anniversary, you can get them virtually
anything, of course!"
From: schweppe@acs.bu.edu (Edmund Schweppe)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Definition of "monogamy"?
Date: 31 Dec 92 07:36:25 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

Tanais joins the Place, writing:

>The door opens gently and a nose snuffles through the crack made in
>the door. First a whisker pops through and then a snout -- it is now
>that anyone that has bothered to look in the direction of the door
>realises that Clive -- the ex-partner of Mary  -- is considering
>walking into the room.

[Tanais' tale sacrified to the Bandwidth Demons]

>    "One thing's for sure. I'm here now. It's taken three years to join
>you. but I'm here. And... and I have a life."
>
>   At this, Tanais finishes his jug of Tequila (don't worry, the adult
>vulpiform metabolism can handle at least three of these suckers before
>even 'feeling' drunk). He lifts it in the direction of Mary and Ignatz and
>says "to love", he makes a wide arc around the bar "...and to friendships"
>and hurls the jug into the fireplace.

<<crash!!>>

"Welcome, new friend!" says Merlinvin.  "I feel honored that you shared
your pain and joy with us.  Would you like a hug? A backrub?  A scritch
behind the ears?"

__________________________________________________________________________
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From: daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom)
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 07:27:07 GMT
Subject: Re: The world, and what it'd be like...
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: alt.callahans

In alt.callahans, dbriggs@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Daniel Briggs) writes:

> In article <122420167@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
>   daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom) writes:
> >
> >Callahans is a usenet news group.  Nothing more.
> 
> Let me see now, was that CIAGDH or CIAWOL?  I tend to view it more as the
> former, but I recognize that others may see it as more than that.

Diversity has a way of being different.

> 
> (For the acronym impared, the reference is to the perennial debate of
> Fandom Is A God Damned Hobby  vs.  Fandom Is A Way Of Life  that so often
> splits the fannish community.  It's been debated time and again, as has
> this issue been hashed over many times here.  Personally, I think that both
> sides are right, and leave it at that.)

Fandom is, of course, a foul and pernicious waste of the resources of
human intelligence granted by many years of evolution.  And NO,
the word "pernicious" is in no way assoctiated with Pern.


doug
From: ekho@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (amanda rothman)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Steamed Phoenix
Date: 24 Dec 92 15:51:59 GMT
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida

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

> Thyra shifts her shape to a metaloid cat form, because it is fireproof, and
> guides Phoenix to a fireproof chair and table that Mike had set up for her.
> Then she sits next to Phoenix for a while, eyes glowing bright blue, as she
> tries to drain the excess heat and energy from her brightly burning friend.

  Amanda and Ekho go to where Phoenix and Thyra are sitting in 
comfortable silence.  Amanda sighs, "I wish I could hug you right now, 
but you haven't cooled off enough yet."

  Ekho looks at her, then bends down to hug Phoenix and Thyra, "I have 
been known to be heat resistant.  That and my mono-molecular armor is 
helpful."  She gets back up, looking at the two of them with a small 
smile before turning to regard the rest of the crowd, "Of course, that 
hug was for Amanda, as they are not one of my normal habits."  Still 
steaming slightly from her contact with Phoenix and Thyra, she walks up 
to the bar, "Mike, some more Coke Classic for Phoenix.  With lots of 
ice."

  Amanda smiles sadly, "And what'll you have, Thyra?"

              Yours in Time and Space
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: hollombe@polymath.tti.com (The Polymath)
Subject: Re: Hats
Organization: The Cat Factory
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:22:08 GMT

In article <1gqrlmINN4e2@smurf.sti.com> alaric@sti.com (Alaric Tekiahyn) writes:

}"Six:  A British-cammo field cap.  It goes with the rest of my para cammo
} gear.  The last time it got worn was when we went caving in California
} Caverns - the downstream circuit.  My cammo mostly gets used as serious
} grubbies, these days.  Going crawling in the mud?  Out comes the cammo.
} It's seriously tough stuff, and if it gets filthy stinking dirty, who
} cares?

"I'm not a caving expert, but this does remind me of a friend's
misadventure.  Seems he had a cammo wallet to go with the rest of his
cammo hunting gear.  One day he dropped it in the woods.  Oops. (Never did
find it).

"I bring this up because it occurs to me that wearing cammo isn't such a
good idea in a situation where your life might depend on someone else
being able to find you.  If I were engaged in serious caving, I think I'd
be more inclined to wear international orange, or maybe something that
glowed in the dark, just in case."

The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, M.A., CDP, aka: hollombe@polymath.tti.com)
Head Robot Wrangler at Citicorp                "If you can't stand solitude,
3100 Ocean Park Blvd.   (310) 450-9111, x2483  perhaps others find you boring
Santa Monica, CA  90405                        as well."  -- Mark Twain
From: me_s420@ceres (Chris Welch)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Martyr wakes up...!
Date: 23 Dec 1992 10:03:31 GMT
Organization: Kingston University
NNTP-Posting-Host: ceres.kingston.ac.uk
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4


: "Yes, well, the more important event of last week - and the one which
: more-or-less makes up for the troubles on Tuesday - was that I
: successfully defended my PhD thesis on Thursday afternoon and I am now
: (to all practical intents and purposes) Dr. Martyr (so to speak)!!"
: 
: "It's been four years of general unpleasantness and the viva seemed
: like two and a half hours of hell, but I have finally done it.  Just a
: few minor corrections to the thesis and I can submit the final
: copies."

The Urban Spaceman appears. "Congratulations, Martyr. You now join the ranks
of that exalted group the Virtual Doctors. These are poor benighted souls
who have done the thesis, had the viva, dotted the t's and crossed the i's 
etc. and are then condemned to limbo until the Graduation Ceremony when they
become Official Doctors. Fortunately, the period in limbo doesn't last more
than a year (or in my case a year less two weeks).

: "Er...Yippee is the correct term, I believe..."

"I say, steady on old man. No need to go overboard. Stiff upper lip." :-)


: P.S. I seem to be suffering some e-mail problems at the moment. If
: anyone is in touch with either of the Sprites (Didi or Kyla) or the
: Urban Spaceman, can they find out whether any of my recent e-mailings
: got through. Thanks!

"I haven't had any messages from you recently. Perhaps they are getting lost
 on the way. Remember it's *second* star on the right..."


--
           |                      Chris Welch - The Urban Spaceman     
_______   | |   _______                me_s420@uk.ac.kingston
| ooo |  /| |\  | ooo |      
| ooo | |/ ^ \| | ooo |  "Second star on the right, straight on till morning.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jpalmer@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (John D Palmer)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Unbe Awakens
Date: 22 Dec 92 22:25:59 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University


     Hmmm, I'll grant you this, but the whole statement 'science will FLOURISH 
and religion will DWINDLE' seems to imply 'science gets stronger (AS IT 
SHOULD!!!!!!!!!!) and religion not only loses some of what it covers, it 
SHRINKS WEAKENS DECAYS AT LAST WE ARE FREEE OF THAT HORRID OPPRESSIVE FORCE!'

(I'm sorry, Unbeliever, I don't mean to be mocking, I'm deliberately inflating 
your wordws, not to attack you but to make my point clearer.  ie, I'm no longer
quoting you, I'm taking an idea you mentioend to an illogical extreme.)

    One thing that drove this home to me was seeing a painting by Rockwell Kent
titled 'To The Stars'.  It was beautiful, and don't ask me why. . . and dont' 
ask a scientist why, either!  It just won't work. . . WHY it's beautiful. . . 
well, that's outside the realm of logic or science. . . it MAY be in the realm 
of 'religion', depending on your view of religion. . . likely Bill will jump in
with a plug for aesthetics and philosophy, however. . . sigh.


     Hmmm.  I think, as humanity gets wise, both religion (what *I* call 
religion, which is not what most people call religion) and science will 
flourish, but we will finally learn what each one has as a proper place in 
life.

                                                    John
"Anyway, that's why I objected. . . the word dwindle. . . "
-- 
"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: schweppe@acs.bu.edu (Edmund Schweppe)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Hullo...
Date: 2 Jan 93 13:46:56 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

Jim Pierce writes:
>Kitten writes:
>>(i have ALWAYS wanted to wear what eunice wore in _i will fear no evil_)
>
>      A good story, and kept me awake for several nights afterward.
>    Why ? I wanted her to be rescued by a certain family. Jim.

Hmmmm... Jim, if I remember correctly, _The Number of the Beast_ was written
**after** _I Will Fear No Evil_.  That certain family hadn't gotten into
that business, yet.  (Although that doesn't explain why RAH didn't have
anyone make pickup *later* in the sequence...)

>         Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM 
>             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
>                   Video. Cher: Love and Understanding.
>          'Rush Limbaugh is the 'Chia Pet' of TV talk shows !'
                                  ^^^^^^^^
Does that mean that he'll shrivel up and die if I don't water the telly?

__________________________________________________________________________
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    (or for faster replies)   eschweppe%drcoa1.decnet@drcvax.af.mil
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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Christmas. . . and a Joyous Christmas to all!
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 15:20:48 GMT

john/crazyman:

>     Tommorrow I shall celebrate the birth of this man/god/whatever he was.
>And I hope that you will find joy on this day, regardless of your own beliefs.
>But even if you do not find happiness with the belief that this HAPPENED, I 
>hope you will find happiness in  the meaning. . .

>     May you all have a joyous Christmas. . .

>     And lots of love and happiness to you all, now and forever,

kitten hugs john...and kisses him on the nose..."thank you john, for
the love you share.  and may each of us be able to celebrate what we
believe with such joy...."
--
***************************************************************************
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: henry@netcom.com (Henry Polard)
Subject: Re: INTRODUCTION: Knight and day
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:51:04 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.062627.15036@ra.msstate.edu> jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce) writes:
>   "Certainamente ! <chuckle> Thats some garbled version of me saying
>'certainly' and I have no idea when I started saying it... Mike, I'll
>have my usual ice water, " DJ.

Callahan's is truly a wondrous Place - you can get real ice water.
Here in Silly Con Valley all you can get is heavy element tea, or
plasticized water in jugs.

May you have a cool Yule and a frantic First. And same to you who
are listening in!

 Henry Polard, | Your golden wine is sweet, my friend,   / from _Banished
  Wordslinger  | come fill my cup with amber.           / Immortal_
  Have Brains  | If we drink long enough together,      \ Visions of Li T'ai-Po
  Will Travel  | we'll drown the loneliness of strangers \ Tr. by Sam Hamill
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: amanda@wam.umd.edu (Me again)
Subject: Re: Analog (was Re: S.R. does it again)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 02:09:41 GMT

In article <1992Dec30.051543.9305@atlantis.uucp> aaron%atlantis@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca writes:
>"Well, I'll have to differ, here, at least about Analog being worth buying
>anyway...but that's just my personal taste.

>"Today I picked up the first issue of Senary, a local SF magazine that may
>have a promising future if they ever get organized.  One of the Editors,
>Derryl Murphy, had the following to say(and I quote):

>  You will notice one specific type of SF missing from these pages, although
>its absence may not become so glaring until a few more editions of this
>journal seep into the stores.  In our opinion, hard science SF is not a field
>that will grow much of a decent crop anymore, as any monoculture will tend to
>devastate the soil if not rotated often enough.
>
>"I wouldn't say that my opinion matches with Derryl's completely, but the first
>paragraph is spot-on.  I include the others just for purposes of discussion.
>An issue of Analog is almost too long an immersion in hard SF for me."

Funny... Amanda (without the Ekho) has just about the opposite reaction....

"I haven't read Analog or Asimov recently (too much school! :), but i 
 remember feeling that SF has got way too _diluted_ in recent years.  True,
 this is an observation mostly made in chain bookstores where i can't
 *find* the SF mixed in with all the fantasy... but even those last bastions
 of SF purity, the Animovs (or is that Asalogs?), are getting less and less
 well-defined."

Rather an extreme viewpoint, but then Amanda has a bit of a suspension-of-
disbelief problem....

"To Speculative Fiction, whatever the stripe!"   --<< CRASH >>--

amanda@wam.umd.edu      -- Aliens and Spaceships! --    Amanda Babcock
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: hello
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:58:20 GMT


> 

>Outside of the Place, a blond guy in a tattered jean-jacket with the
>'Death or Glory' skull and crossbones painted on the right shoulder and
>chevrons on the cuff walks to the small crowd gathered and pulls a large
>red candle out of one of the jacket pockets. Taking a Bic from another
>pocket, he speaks,

>	"Just wanted to add a little energy to the goodwill gathered here.
>I am the Dreamweaver, and I bid you all a good Solstice."
[  ]

>	"To life, and the memories that make it last forever."

>Smiling for the first time since entering Callahan's as he raises the
>whiskey to his lips, Dreamweaver drinks deeply of life and hurls the shot
>glass in to the fire.

kitten pitches her glass after dreamweaver's...."welcome,
dreamweaver...to LIFE!"




--
***************************************************************************
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: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: The world, and what it'd be like...
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 02:46:08 GMT

>>kitten gives mary a hug and a drink..."yes...i agree.  this is where i
>>meet part of my chosen family...this is where i play.  my shrink told
>>me i might be spending too much time on the net...because i can't go
>>out for a real beer with didi....she is in paris.  so what?  real beer
>>is fattening and i talk to LOTS of people in real life...and have some
>>friends... but now that i am on the net, i won't give it up..."

>Didi 'fish-tails' over to Kitten and Mary Merrytail and gives them each
>a warm New Year's Eve *Hug*, then pipes up:  "Ha!  Shrinks don't know
>everything!  They are only people after all!  Kitkat!  Try imagining
>your shrink as a mermaid!  Tee-hee!  Do you like my tail?  Look at
>Bertie!  He's a seahorse!  Isn't he cute!?  I am in mid-New-Year's
>Eve Partyland!  In Paris!  Yay!  Max!  My glass is empty ... again!
>I love champagne!  I hope you are all having fun!"

>Didi undulates to the chalk-line, downs the mouthful or so of champagne
>in the bottom of her glass and intones:

>		   HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE!
>		   1993 has got to be better than 1992!
>		   I have spoken!


>And, sends her glass into the fireplace where it shatters into a million
>sparkling pieces.

>"Kitten.  I have decided ... I am no Arielle!  Help me with this thing,
>will you, puhleeze?  I have a Mouse to see about ambience!"

kitten sets aside her tray of pizza and offers didi an assist...

"i agree....1992 wasn't a BAD year....but it DOES seem like we have
gone from crisis to crisis...1993 WILL be better!"
--
***************************************************************************
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: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: harpy gnu ears
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 17:01:12 GMT

kitten, who has taken a break from delivering pizza and drinks of
choice to the crowd at callahans, is ready to toast the new year here...

"despite the subject line (thanks bloomy) this is a serious
toast...1992 -- 'what a long strange trip it's been'...last new year's
day i spent watching "wings" on the discovery channel...10 hours of
it in fact...because my house guest enjoys that sort of thing...my
house guest was a dear friend who flunked out of school and went away
for the semester and summer...and when he came back this fall he found
a new dear friend...so we are still friends, but he doesn't need me
any more...

the reason i spent one of the most important days of the year with
somebody else than my beloved t.c.....he was in texas for awhile...but
he didn't particularly like the supercollider folx and unfortunately
the feeling was mutual...so he came home ... and i am glad, because
this is home.

we had an unexpected addition to our family unit...a bouncy baby 15
year old... my youngest stepson, lee.  he got into trouble and for the
second time in 6 years his mother said that we either had to take him
or she was going to have him put away...since we should never have let
him go back the first time, we said okay...but this time it is
legal...the lawyer said he is ours...we paid the fee and she can't
have him back...no matter what she does!  and it's good....

i was diagnosed as clinically depressed after being sick (literally)
for a year...and we are working on getting that fixed.  it put lots of
things at risk (including my job) but things are more secure now...

i had a spiritual awakening when i went back to "the land" and spent a
week in the wilderness with women and music and myself...

i heard spider robinson sing...in person

here in the Place...people have come and people have gone...and i have
found some friends who are forever...we did some major
partying...didi's surprise party comes to mind...we all did that and
it inspired her to do nick chopper's birthday in oz.....she organized
it... from her bed in geneva where she nearly died...and i helped her
post it.

there has been lots of joy here....and some sadness...and lots and
lots of fun...and love.

and that brings me to my toast...'to US....to the spirit...to shared
pain and shared joy...to 1993!'"



<CRASH!!!!!!>

--
***************************************************************************
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: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe)
Subject: Re: New Year Pizza Party
Reply-To: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 16:20:00 +0000


Mary MerryTail is running in circles around the place dodging a carb 
throwing bathroom implements. Unfortunately, she's not really looking 
where she's going as she's laughing so much.... neiterh is 
MonTemplar, who is still scattering taps, baths, sinks and 
showerheads in his wake like a demented bathroom shop... seconds 
later, they both end up in the hot-tub

Mary MerryTail
+-------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
| Ommmmmm, said the lift                    |maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk |
| Organisation: Me? You're joking, right?   |maryb@cix.compulink.uucp  |
|I know I type "teh" for "the" My fingers have their own accent ;-)    |
+-------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
From: keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Did This Work ???
Date: 22 Dec 1992 19:54:02 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au

dgreen@jarthur.claremont.edu (David Green) writes:

>I think, from having seen other people at this site, that the address is
>"@eagle.wesleyan.edu"

Yup ... a finger to that address works for a David M. Perry ... is that
you Jack???

Splash!

--
		Splash!		*To love is to LIVE!*
   (aka Mike van Keulen -- e-mail: keulen@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au)