HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: brumby@nella7.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen McNamara)
Subject: Re: Impu-Sebek shows a gift, and makes a toast
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 04:50:26 GMT

   The brumby decides to steel himself and join in.

olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson) writes:
>In article <1idh84INNmbv@smurf.sti.com> alaric@sti.com (Alaric Tekiahyn) writes:
>>In article <C0EKzy.Dr5@hfglobe.intel.com>, hilp@hfglobe.intel.com (Robin Rosenbaum) writes:
>>] In article <ksP0uB2w164w@geloser.login.qc.ca> rider@geloser.login.qc.ca (Serge Ayotte) writes:
>>] >NEWS FLASH: Energizer Bunny Arrested!! Charged with battery...
>>] Ghostly voices are heard, as a lurker discusses this hot item with
>>] a colleague...
>>] "Can you *have* battery without assault?" asks one.
>>] "I didn't think so.  Don't you need something to make ions?" answers
>>] the other.
>>No, you can get them from most good department stores.  There's dry or
>>steam ions, and cordless ions too now...
>"I had my ion doing that particular pun, but I was detained by some pressing
>business."

   "Now that adds a new wrinkle to this thread."

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

      The grass is always greener on the other side of the network.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: Those Whom The Gods Love...
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 07:30:48 GMT

SEA writes:
>>C+ looks despondent.
>>"Dizzy Gillespsie and Rudolph Nureyev died yesterday. Two more stars
>>have faded in our pantheon, but may they perform forever in the Great
>>Carnegie Hall up there in the sky."
>>
>>"For Dizzy! Be-bop-be-lu-ba!"
>>
>><<< CRASH!!! >>>
>>
>>"For Rudolph! Now Dance, DANCE, against the dying of the Light!!"
>>
>><<< CRASH!!! >>>
>>
>SEA pops up from where she has been lurking and looks very sad.  Joining
>C+ at the line in front of the fireplace (after paying for an A&W diet
>rootbeer) she says:  "I had the pleasure of seeing Nureyev dance 2
>years ago in San Jose...I was awed and inspired by the man's performance.
>We have truly lost 2 great artists.  What C+ says goes for me too."
>
><<CRASH>>>
>
>SEA

   <<<Crash !!>>> Jim.

-- 
         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 !'
From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Thyra & Jason)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: purple
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Date: 12 Jan 1993 20:44:25 GMT
Organization: the Polyhedron Group
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aaa.uoregon.edu

In article <106870@bu.edu>, schweppe@acs.bu.edu (Edmund Schweppe) wrote:
> Suddenly, Merlinvin has a vision.
> 
> He imagines Joe College, UIUC freshman extraordinaire, flushed with pride
> after having finally finished his first term paper.  Unfortunately, he
> forgot to renew one of the references that contributed to his scholastic
> success and it is now two days overdue.  Being, after all, a fine and
> upstanding young man, he is the first one in line when the library opens,
> ready to pay his fine...
> 
> Then the librarian comes out from the back room.
> 
> Kitten.
> 
> The purple haired, leather skirted, studded collared, whip wielding,
> electro-cuty, Biker Punk Librarian Wench From Hell.
> 
> "This book was due WHEN?"  
> 
> And Joe College goes screaming into the back racks...
> 
> While Merlinvin dissolves into helpless giggles... and offers kitten a big
> hug and earscritch once he recovers.

Jason and Thyra share the image, and both crack up in a giggle-fit. 

Thyra recovers first. "Oh! -That- would be quite a sight." <Giggle> And she
too goes over to the Places' favorite feline to offer a hug.

Hugs and Purrs,
Jason and Thyra
From: keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Splash!)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Definition of "monogamy"?
Date: 5 Jan 1993 07:49:28 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au

mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk (Alan Ralph) writes:

>"Your story was most moving. I hope that coming here and telling it to us has
>helped lift some of the darkness. Would you care to join me in a drink?"

Splash pipes up from the corner in which he's been lurking for the last
... 2 weeks? (not very well, mind you)  "It must be one hell of a drink to
fit the two of you ... if it's big enough, can I join in?  My shout. 
Welcome Tanais ... I'm one of the Australian contingent, and yes, we are
behind the rest of the world - at least, as far as netnews goes."


--
		Splash!		*To love is to LIVE!*
   (aka Mike van Keulen -- e-mail: keulen@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus)
Subject: Re: Snowball
Organization: Data I/O Corporation
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 22:20:55 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.200924.29301@crc.ricoh.com> rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove) writes:
>Gypsy looks up at her friend's voice, but when she understands
>the request she shudders. <There are a lot of things that I am
>willing to try in VR that I don't in RL, but the idea of voluntarily
>going out into the snow is *not* among them!>
>
><I'll keep the kettle on so that those who want a cuppa when
>they come in, are welcome to come join me.  I'll whip up some
>hot treats as well.>

Blammor slips out of a shadow and smiles at the Gypsy.  "May I please have 
a mug of keeman?"  And upon receiving the heavy, dark brown filled mug he
smiles his small smile and pours a dallop of milk and a spoonful of sugar
in and stirs.  He takes a sip of the sweet smoothness of it and his eyes
close at the hot, smooth texture of it going down his throat, warming his
innards.

"Ahhh," he says with feeling.  The small cresent of a smile again.  "It
has been in the teens out here in Seattle, and the John Fellow keeps
wanting for it to snow again."  Blammor shakes his Dark head, "I can't
stand the cold.  A couple deep lungfuls and my bronchitus seizes up my
breathing for a while."  He shrugs, "I'm glad that you did this."

As one of Joe's Bouviers comes in out of the snow, Blammor cocks his head,
trying to recognize her; but can't real well.  So, instead, he just reaches
down and rubs her grey head and striches her behind her ears.
-- 
Blammor	                | "The giant Rok hit his single eye on a stone.
a.k.a. Phyllis Rostykus |  The eye turned inwards, and he died of what he
li@inigo.Data-IO.com    |  saw there."  _The Forgotten Beasts of Eld_
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: One quick question
From: olson@husc9.Harvard.EDU (Charles Olson)
Date: 7 Jan 93 20:51:38 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.

In article <JBrandt-070193123212@aaa.uoregon.edu>, JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jason) writes:
|> In article <1993Jan7.181831.25818@netcom.com>, randolph@netcom.com
|> (Randolph Fritz) wrote:
|> > 
|> > "Then again, disk storage has gotten pretty cheap.  Maybe the
|> > convention is out of date and modest amounts of compressed graphics
|> > would be ok.  Might be time to discuss it on one of the sysops
|> > groups.  Also a good time to find out who can display color.  Hmmm."
|> 
|> Well, two out of the three systems I regularly use can display 8-bit color.
|> And if I really want to, I can print 8-bit color at 300 DPI, on up to 11" x
|> 17" paper. 

"I can do 24-bit color, which is the standard for JPEG-format graphics files-
that's 16.7 million colors.  That's much more data, of course, but the JPEG
format is more highly compressed than GIF, so the files aren't that much
bigger than a 256-color GIF file.  There's advantages to working for a
manufacturer of high-resolution graphics boards. :-)"

-- 
-Chip Olson. | olson@husc.harvard.edu | ceo@{gnu.ai,silver.lcs}.mit.edu
"If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down?
Maybe we would if they screamed all the time for no good reason." -J. Handey

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: amanda@wam.umd.edu (Me again)
Subject: Re: Search for Stan, conclusion
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:34:39 GMT

In relief and delight, Nick Chopper writes: 

>"EGGS! STAN! YOU ARE A MOMMY!" Nick is beside himself! He wants to grab
>Stan and scream in delight. But Stan still hisses at him. He grabs the
>giggle kitten instead. "And I am a daddy! Whoopee! Where are the cigars!
>Drinks for the house! Let us celebrate!" He dances madly with the
>helplessly laughing feline. 

>"Skweeepunk ssssstit!" she replies. Nick slowly goes after the remaining
>screws. Vax allows this. The cover comes off Vax's control box. There,
>nestled in warm circuitry, are 4 tiny eggs, 2 blue, 2 green. Stan looks
>infinitely pleased with herself.

YEAYYY!

"A Hatching, a Hatching, a firelizard Hatching!" <grin>  Amanda looks back
over her shoulder at two hazy forms, one green, one blue.  Too bad they're
not quite the same species....  (Biologists will tell you that any barrier
preventing two populations from mating, including geography, can make them 
different species.  News and MUSH are incompatible formats...) 

amanda@wam.umd.edu     -- Amanda without the Ekho...        Amanda Babcock
                         but with the firelizards :) --
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk (Clive Grace)
Subject: Re: Disney Videos
Reply-To: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:09:00 +0000


Back in his VR form (which isn't a whole bunch different from his RL 
persona), Tanais responds with warm Fox like purrs. Admiting Thyra's 
exquisite ears.

Please do! A dollar price will suffice
that would be very nice.
--
+-------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
| When I grow up, I want to give up being   |cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk|
| a Journalist and learn how to write...    |                          |
+-------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
|       Bisexual knitter of quality and distinction since 1992.        |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Wench
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 02:03:17 GMT

various people are picking on kitten :)

>>>   Personally, if that's going to be her moniker -- I'd like to
>>>apply to be the 'loose bolt".  After all, aren't wenches used to
>>>tighten  loose bolts?
>>>   And I figure a bar is a pretty good place to get tight.... ;-)
>>>  
>>>  "Outa my way -- I've got to duck those peanuts!"

>>Okay folks, do we shoot him now, or at dawn?

ed speaks up:

>Appropriate punnage, sir - Barb has SEVERAL nuts loose...

>We'll need a Congressional apprioriation to study the problem...any Republicans out there that can get us a grant?


"eddie, my large and obnoxious one...  

:)

you get a grant to study my loose screws and i will sic jerry
pournelle on you....he would toast you in the same way he has toasted
NASA. "  kitten giggles at ed....
--
***************************************************************************
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: bwinton@leibniz.uwaterloo.ca ()
Subject: Re: Airplane trip from HELL
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 04:41:54 GMT

"Nice trip,"
Says Blake, who has suffered from net.withdrawl for the past
3 weeks, but who is 'feeling much better now.' (quote from Buddy, on
Night Court) 
"but my grandmother has one which at least rivals it.
My grandmother was taking a trip to Los Angles, to visit some 
relatives, (and also to avoid the cold Winnipeg winters, which aren't
too good for her), and there was a stopover in Seattle (I think).
Well, at the end of the stopover, she gets on her plane, and finds out
that she's sitting in someone else's seat.  They both think that it's 
a computer error, so the other person sits in an empty seat somewhere 
else.  My grandmother starts talking to the man beside her, and finds
out that the plane is headed towards London, England.  Once she got 
there, she had to wait in the international part of the airport, 
because she didn't have her passport.  All in all, the trip ended up
being around 25 hours long (please correct me on this if you know the
flight times to various countries).  When my uncle heard the news, he
was driving to work, and he had to pull over 3 times, because he was
ROTFLHAO.  I always used to think that this sort of thing was a FOAF
story, but it actually happened to my grandmother."
From: narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: an idle observation
Date: 9 Jan 1993 09:58:09 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
NNTP-Posting-Host: casc.math.uh.edu

In article <C0KE07.45L@news.cso.uiuc.edu> trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:
(Cardy-Card-Har! Puns thrown to the suited winds)
>
>kitten whirls around....ready to club jammer.  but she refrains,
>because she understands what it means to be a diamond in the rough...
>his hearts are pure...kitten hands jammer a spade so he can clean up
>the nuts...
>--
>***************************************************************************
>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
>

Okay, that reminded me of a Penn and Teller trick :
Okay, I have a pack of cards. I want you to take a freely selected card out 
of the deck. Now look at it and show the rest of the place the card. 

(THE CARD IS THE THREE OF SPADES. REMEMBER THAT. THE _THREE_ OF _SPADES_.
WITHOUT THAT, THE TRICK FALLS FLAT ON IT'S FACE, AND I END UP HOSTING SOME
MIDMORNING TALK SHOW.) (no pressure!)

Okay, now lose the card in the deck... And now, I will pull the card from the 
top of the deck, having made it rise to the top. Wham-o (tm)! Is this your
card, the queen of diamonds? 

No? Oh, gee. Sorry. Well, maybe next time...

--
*******************************************************************           
* Noah Ramon - The Bi-Bulb     * Your only limitation is your own *
* Mail to : narxtc@math.uh.edu * imagination - Beans Barton       *
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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Those Whom The Gods Love...
From: olson@husc9.Harvard.EDU (Charles Olson)
Date: 7 Jan 93 20:52:30 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.

In article <1ihngsINN57j@agate.berkeley.edu>, chuahl@ocf.berkeley.edu (Chua HakLien) writes:
|> C+ looks despondent.
|> "Dizzy Gillespsie and Rudolph Nureyev died yesterday. Two more stars
|> have faded in our pantheon, but may they perform forever in the Great
|> Carnegie Hall up there in the sky."
|> 
|> "For Dizzy! Be-bop-be-lu-ba!"
|> 
|> <<< CRASH!!! >>>
|> 
|> "For Rudolph! Now Dance, DANCE, against the dying of the Light!!"
|> 
|> <<< CRASH!!! >>>

<CRASH!>

-- 
-Chip Olson. | olson@husc.harvard.edu | ceo@{gnu.ai,silver.lcs}.mit.edu
"If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down?
Maybe we would if they screamed all the time for no good reason." -J. Handey

From: daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom)
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 21:29:12 GMT
Subject: Re: The world, and what it'd be like...
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: alt.callahans

In alt.callahans, jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman) writes:

> 
> Some of us appreciate you for a degree of leaven that you
> bring to the Place.  (No, leaven has no relationship to
> levity, other than the linguistic one.)

Yes, by the way, one need only eat unleavened bread to
have a very great appreciation for the technology of
leavening.

doug
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Subject: Re: Snarking late February in Pittsburgh and LA
Keywords: n
Reply-To: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 20:55:26 GMT


(Michael D. McAfee) writes:
[Michaels rehi to Snark deleted... greetings are irrelevant.]
|>
|>		Speaking of Callahan's stories, John Ockerbloom's
|>	oeuvre was wonderful.  I was waiting for a "Rudolf the Red
|>	knows reine, dear" pun, but considering what he gave us, I don't
|>	feel rooked at all.

Starknight checks his ears.  "Chess puns?  You must think we're pawns for you
to push around, Michael..."
From: jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Look, ma!  Portholes!
Date: 6 Jan 93 23:57:16 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc., San Jose, CA

>I guess Paris is known for sewer rats and
>phantoms."
>
Jilara looks up from rummaging in her collection of Chris de
Burgh tapes, where she is looking for the song where *he* made
reference to the "Werewolves in London" references...  "Of
course Paris is known for vampires!  Or has everyone here
*forgotten* Le Compte de Saint Germain and Hotel Translvania?"
she scolds.

"But it's best known for its infamous sewers.  And Madwomen."
And for a moment, her shape is fleetingly overlaid by her
Secret Alter-Ego, that of Countess Auralia of Chailot.  "Paris
is old, you know," Auralia gloats, tossing one of her trailing
scarves over one shoulder.  "Paris is very old."

--
  Jilara   [jane@swdc.stratus.com]

"Every now and then, a big rock falls out of the sky, and everyone has 
a *very bad* day."  --from the PBS "Dinosaurs" special.
From: carrot@bear.stonemarche.org (Little red-headed girl)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Callahan's Filk
Distribution: world
Date: 8 Jan 93 18:45:11 EST

	Rachel claps as the Space Cadet finishes his song. "That was
great! Much better than the 'straight' cover of 'Mrs Robinson'
currently being played on the 'classic' stations in Boston. (I don't
remember the group who does this cover- sorry, I didn't find them
memorable.) I think we should send it to the author himself!"

--
+--------------------------+----------------------------------------------+
|	carrot		   |	carrot@bear.stonemarche.org               |
+--------------------------+----------------------------------------------+ 
|   "Feel what might be. See what I see. Again and again and again and    |
| again say you don't. You say you don't, but you will.                   |
|   "How can you be so near and not see?" -"If You Intend"-10,000 Maniacs |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar)
Subject: Imminent contact
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 22:34:54 GMT

Danger Mouse/Squid checks himself...

"Nice pattern, DM!" someone calls out, pointing to the alternating black
and white squares which now cover his body.

"Looks like a spot of bother."

"On the dot."

"Stop polka-ing fun at him!"

"Well, he's certainly in a bit of stripe."

"Would you like this small cake?"

"Are you quite finished?" asks DM.

"Um... yep. I've plaid my part."

"Gee, offer him a tartan what do you get?"

"Generosity never paisley."

As the patter-n dies down in the background, DM speaks. "Once again, I'm
hoping this makes it out to the world.

"I bring news. From a second-hand report, I now know that Dan'l has
arrived safely in Sydney. Right now he is probably only a few hundred
metres away, attending a conference (to which I am not going - not my
field (astronomy pun for those in the know)), although I haven't met
him yet. I expect he'll turn up here during a lunch break today or
tomorrow. I've sent mail to what I assume will be his e-address while in
Australia, and haven't received a bounce message yet, so I presume his
account has already been set up for him and he'll be back on-line soon.

"More news and RealSpace fun later..."

- Danger Mouse.
From: narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: New Year Pizza Party
Date: 11 Jan 1993 06:59:42 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
NNTP-Posting-Host: casc.math.uh.edu

You forgot :

And she could drink! I mean, she drink like a - she drank a lot...

Actually, the song is by Kip Adotta. They also did the famous "Life in the 
Slaw Lane"... "Wet Dream" is on the Dr. Demento 20th anniversary disc set, 
though. Imagine - that classic on CD!

Sorry...

--
*******************************************************************           
* Noah Ramon - The Bi-Bulb     * Your only limitation is your own *
* Mail to : narxtc@math.uh.edu * imagination - Beans Barton       *
*******************************************************************
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: bwinton@leibniz.uwaterloo.ca ()
Subject: Re: an idle observation
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 04:28:01 GMT


Jammer says,
:Yes, and he ought to be dealt with.
:A true shufflebrain.
:He should consider himself marked.
:When he needs a hand, he should just say so.
:I say this thread has gone to pot, and we're making enought noise
:to raise the dead.
:Someone's going to call the authourities.
:there's going to be a real showdown, and I'm not sticking around for it.
:I'll pass that responsibiliie on.
:If my ante where here, she'd be horiffied.
:I say we should throw him in solitare.
:And feed him fish.

Which prompts Blake's reply of
"You realize Jammer, that this means war.  (Sorry, I couldn't help myself.)"
From: alaric@sti.com (Alaric Tekiahyn)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Impu-Sebek shows a gift, and makes a toast
Date: 6 Jan 1993 02:47:32 GMT
Organization: Software Transformation, Inc.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: smurf.sti.com

In article <C0EKzy.Dr5@hfglobe.intel.com>, hilp@hfglobe.intel.com (Robin Rosenbaum) writes:
] In article <ksP0uB2w164w@geloser.login.qc.ca> rider@geloser.login.qc.ca (Serge Ayotte) writes:
] >
] >NEWS FLASH: Energizer Bunny Arrested!! Charged with battery...
] 
] Ghostly voices are heard, as a lurker discusses this hot item with
] a colleague...
] 
] "Can you *have* battery without assault?" asks one.
] "I didn't think so.  Don't you need something to make ions?" answers
] the other.

No, you can get them from most good department stores.  There's dry or
steam ions, and cordless ions too now...


-- 
      "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom."  --  Thomas Jefferson
    ......................................................................
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      PGP 2.0 - Freeware public-key data encryption.  Get it and use it!
           Finger alaric@sti.com for PGP 2.0 info and my public key
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Birthday
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 11:58:29 GMT



>Some patrons of the Place see the Didi-Sprite swimming about from patron to
>patron, whispering in their ears.  Those particularly observant may even note
>that the patrons' gaze flickers to Gypsy Woman and a few others only dimly
>seen.

>When it comes to Alfvaen's turn, he looks at his watch, pressing the button to
>display the date, and then mutters, "Oh, close enough.  What with propagation
>delay and time zones and such, it should be the 6th by the time they see this."


kitten, who is really bad at doing birthday wishes on time, says
"happy birthday all january babies....and 

HUG!

--
***************************************************************************
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