HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: snarf@access.digex.com (Sean Eustis)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: hugging back
Date: 25 Dec 1992 01:28:56 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com

In article <1992Dec23.190410.8265@data-io.com> li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus) writes:
>Liralen chuckles softly, "Almost makes me wish I were furry..."
     "Too, bad you're not. But if you want a hug or scratches, feel frre
to ask or accept."

>A 130 pound shaggily furred black dog, looking about twice as wide as he
>actually is with his winter coat in wanders over to the Dreamweaver and
>sits on Dreamweaver's feet while getting his ears scritched.  The little
>Newfoundland (well, Fezzik *is* little for a Newfie) leans happily against 
>the man and softly snorts his satisfaction at the scritch.   Eventually, he
>gets up and lets Joe's Bouviers take over... all five of 'em...
	"Oof! Boy, do I love dogs and cats." (busy scratching activity and
petting and playing until eventually Dreamweaver is in the middle of a
swirling pile of fur)
After playtime finally settles down, Dreamweaver finds a seat and pats his
lap. Its the feline patrons and familiars' turn.
	"Yes, that is another cat you smell. Two of them. Don't worry,
they won't get jealous. The names of my girls are Akasha and Scaflock. In
order, a blue-cream torty and a white-orange-black calico. Drinks on me to
the first ones who can guess the literary references."
					-The Dreamweaver



-- 
In VR -- The Dreamweaver		In RL -- Sean Eustis
						snarf@access.digex.com
"God never closed a door without
 first opening another."
From: HC61@lafibm.lafayette.edu (HC61)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Hats
Date: 21 Dec 92 04:38:59 GMT
Organization: Lafayette College
Originator: news@lafcol

In article <1992Dec20.143756.18719@husc3.harvard.edu> olson@husc9.Harvard.EDU (Charles Olson) writes:
>In article <19DEC92.18185573.0024@lafibm.lafayette.edu>, HC61@lafibm.lafayette.edu (HC61000) writes:
>
>|> I _Always_ tip my bicycle helmet when people let me pass. They usually
>|> smile.
>
>"I hadn't thought of doing that, but it's a neat idea."
>
>"Let's see, I love hats, but don't wear them much- even x-Large hats tend to
>be too small for my swollen head :-).  But I've a Bell V1-Pro bike helmet, a
>couple of ski hats (including one with braids coming off the earflaps and an
>extendable pom-pom on a string), and a brown felt fedora-ish hat that was given
>to me for Christmas some years ago, but is just a bit small for me so I don't
>wear it much.
>
>--
>-Chip Olson. | olson@husc.harvard.edu | ceo@{gnu.ai,silver.lcs}.mit.edu
>.
The reason my ski hat w\earflaps has no pom-pom is that I knitted it
thin enough to fit under my bike helmet.  It keeps my ears warm
and safe from windchill.
>.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: feath@agora.rain.com (Feather)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Re: Bi-bulb (was Re: Dalek has entered the building
Date: 4 Jan 93 03:29:54 GMT
Organization: Open Communications Forum

In article <brumby.725927936@nella7.cc.monash.edu.au> brumby@nella7.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen McNamara) writes:
>   The brumby can never resist a straight line.
>
>feath@agora.rain.com (Feather) writes:
>
>>"How many Callahaners does it take to change a Bi-Bulb?"
>
>   "Into what?"
>
Feather looks over her shoulder at the big gray stallion with a puzzled 
expression on her small avian face.

"Watt?"
"
From: me_s420@ceres (Chris Welch)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: An MIA returns! (-: AND Seasons Greetings
Date: 28 Dec 92 10:35:41 GMT
Organization: Kingston University
NNTP-Posting-Host: ceres.kingston.ac.uk
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

The Urban Spaceman, strewn in ivy and holly, delurks in a plume of snow 
(festive effects y'know) and approaches Toothpick

HUG !

"Welcome back. Seems a long time since Fallingwater, no ? Glad to hear that
 the singing is going well."

" Also, while I'm here, Seasonal Felicitations to all patrons, denizens and
  lurkers in the Place."


--
           |                      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: snuffy@netmbx.netmbx.de (R.J. Bartle)
Subject: DIDI!??
Organization: netmbx, Berlin, Germany
Distribution: alt
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 15:14:46 GMT
Keywords: Have heard DiDi in hospital!

Hi you folks turn arround from the bar a min and listen to a virtual stranger
who is worried about the DiDi sprite! i heard she was emergency admitted to a
French hospital this morning(night Sat/Sun) and have been able to get little
news since other than she is intensive care and the docs working to stablesise
her chemistry!  Can any of you DiDi pals get me up to date!??
Im Ron Bartle in Berlin:-
snuffy@netmbx.de
my other address is not functioning too well at the moment and maybee thats
why i havent had any more news!
If no luck with having a confirmation of e.mail from me maybee someone could
fax me on +49.30.6860053. or phone +49.30.6863546(voice!)

I do hope and pray that DiDi will be amongst us again real soon in her normal
warm manner!


-- 
******************************************************************************
* Ron J. Bartle,                                                             *
* Onckenstr. 19.,       (Incoming Tourist Services-Bln.)                     *
* D-W-1000 Berlin 44.   - snuffy@netmbx.de  or snuffy@zelator.in-berlin.de   *
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Quantum (and untutored Zen) and Beliefs (was Re: Absolutes)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:13:30 GMT



>Liralen (aka Phyllis Rostykus) writes:
>> ... I'm talking more about situations like Schrodinger's Cat which is, in
>>essense, both there and not there at the same time, yes?  The example you give
>>is something which can be determined.  The questions I'm asking are things
>>which *cannot* be determined with any accuracy in any reportable manner.
>>
>>So like the cat, which may be there or not there at the same time, so with
>>beliefs which are unobservable and undocumentable.  Both true and false at
>>the same time.

bernard, the jedi squire in training, says:

>If everybody is bored to tears by this discussion, I offer my apologies in
>advance.  This is my first posting to alt.callahans and I ought to try to
>avoid offending people, after all...

>I just wanted to make a small observation about Schrodinger's Cat:
>We may not know if the cat is alive or dead.
>But, certainly, the _cat_ must have observed something!

"i don't know about bored....but the schrodinger's cat thing has
always made me nervous"  giggles kitten.  "welcome to callahans....we
are VERY hard to offend...."

--
***************************************************************************
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
From: mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar)
Subject: Re: Hats
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 03:50:13 GMT

>The Troll jumps in, to note that he has a genuine Australian
>akubra.  It was given to him by his late father.  Unfortunately,
>it has been 'tarted up' with a feather hatband, but that's how he
>got it, and he refuses to change it.

Danger Mouse points out, "Akubras are sold brand new with feathered
hatbands. If the band is thin leather, either a thong or a braid, with a
small, coloured feather in it, then it could be the original band.

"And while back on hats, I thought you'd like to know that Michael's
starting of this discussion prompted me to go out and buy myself a new
akubra. I did it yesterday, and found a good one on sale too!"

- Danger Mouse.
From: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: New Year Pizza Party
Date: 31 Dec 92 17:37:33 GMT
Reply-To: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

Starknight rises from where he's been sitting, and walks over to the VPM.
"Lets see...  triple cheese, double mushrooms, pineapple, italian sausage,
bermuda onions, green chile, jalapenos... should do it for me.  Oh, and
would you build me another hot buttered rum, Mike?"

"I have to say that this is what I like best about this place... you can
always get what you want or need, here.  That doesn't just limit itself to
food and drinks; no, here you can satisfy other cravings.  Such as the urge
to pun, which is something I don't think most people understand.  I wonder
if anyone has done any work on cross-referencing paranomastia with IQ, 'cause
it seems to me the ability to appreciate a pun might be on a par with other
linguistic skills.  Of course, I could be talking through my hat (which I
don't wear)."

Taking a bite of his pizza, Starknight flushes red; then his eyes start to
water.  "I like a pizza that bites back..."

"Well, I have some New Years resolutions, too:

	1)  Keep my temper.
	2)  Be a better person.
	3)  Top Gecko-boy et. al. at punning (tough one)"

That said, the black-clad Space Ranger shimmers, then transforms into a large,
black and silver starfish, who wanders around the place, giving five-armed
hugs to all and sundry.

P.S.  Dreamweaver, thanks for the email.  One of these days I might figure out
how to escape from my electronic prison... and email back.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jammer@eskimo.com (Lyle Harwood)
Subject: Coffee's Toast
Summary: The Chalk Line
Keywords: A Toast
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 01:14:04 GMT


Jammer orders a mocha, and walks to the line.
He says
"People, I give you Coffee's Toast.
I wrote it 17 years ago, when we toasted Sgt. Coffee, ourselves, and
those like us with 100 proof Wild Turkey, before heading down range.

It is now 1700 and dark on December 31, 1992 in the Republic of Korea.

First Sergeant, call the Roll!
Sergeant Coffee, overdue from patrol.
Dance of shadows,
Dance of fears.
Dance of battle,
Winter of Tears."

Jammer drinks, and throws his mug into the fire.
>CRASH<

Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: New Year Pizza Party
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 02:23:39 GMT

[    ] pizza party prelude deleted for bandwidth


>Danger Mouse emerges, dressed in what can only be described as a squid
>costume... lots of waving tentacles... but a grinning DM face looking
>out from amidst them. He walks (jets?) over to Mary Merrytail.

>"You almost gave the game away... mentioning the party before kitten
>and I were ready, but you're forgiven."

>DM demonstrates why he chose such an outlandish costume... ten arms with
>which to hug people!! He welcomes back Kateri and Toothpick in similar
>manner.

>"Okay, VPM, I'd like to start with a pizza with _everything_! The more
>toppings the better."

>He glides over to the VPM and starts munching a slice of his pizza.
>"Yum! C'mon folks, join in!"


kitten swims and bounces from patron to patron...taking drink and
pizza orders...

and sipping pink champagne and nibbling seaweed pizza in between...of
course, she occasionally interupts her waitress work to get a
tentacled hug from the octomouse...


--
***************************************************************************
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
From: ekho@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (amanda rothman)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Chess match
Date: 29 Dec 92 18:18:33 GMT
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida

ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz) writes:

> "Of course, I'm pretty bad at chess myself ...  My memory is bad enough that
> I generally forget my strategy half way through a set of moves, and have to
> improvise the rest ...  Not to mention forgetting that the opponent has certa
> pieces that have to be pinned down!"

  Amanda snickers, "Strategy?  What's that?  In Chess?  Never!"  Ekho 
just sighs and shakes her head mornfully...
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: mss2@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer)
Subject: Re: Unbe Awakens
Reply-To: mss2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 21:57:57 GMT

In article <1hard6INNalo@gap.caltech.edu> ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz) writes:
>Michael mentions:
>>believing one is _currently_ in error in one's beliefs would seem to be
>>a contradiction (conversely, believing one _cannot_ be in error in
>>one's beliefs would be arrogance bordering on insanity :-) ).
>
>Abner digests this thought, then counters, "Well, given that I am an imperfect
>person (which I think I've demonstrated adaquatly in at least *some* of my
>posts =8)  ), I believe quite strongly that at least some of my beliefs can
>be, must be, incorrect!  Of course, this belief might be incorrect, in which
>case all of beliefs must be correct, including the one above, which leads
>to a paradox!  Gee, I seem to have proven that I'm correct in believing that
>some of my beliefs are incorrect ..."

>"Flaws, Michael?"

	"All right, I'll amend my statement: Believing that any
particular belief which one currently holds is in error would seem to
be a contradiction.  Indeed, an obvious one, unless one can both hold
and not hold a belief-- which is the premise for 1984's doublethink
but a difficult _conscious_ process for most people.  (If it's
unconscious, the person won't _know_ they believe the opposite at the
time they make the contradictory assertion.)  Believing that one
is certainly or almost certainly in error in one or more of one's
beliefs, though one doesn't know which those are (or one presumably would
correct them), is only reasonable intellectual humility.  Does that
work?  (As a corollary, some fraction of my Usenet posts must be total
nonsense, but I'll never realize the fact until it's too late.
Perhaps this is one of them :-) )"

Michael
-- 
Michael S. Schiffer, LHN, FCS	"Indeed I tremble for my country
mss2@midway.uchicago.edu	 when I reflect that God is just."
mike.schiffer@um.cc.umich.edu	 -- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on
mschiffer@aal.itd.umich.edu	    Virginia (1784)
From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jason)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: harpy gnu ears
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Date: 4 Jan 1993 02:09:02 GMT
Organization: the Polyhedron Group
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aaa.uoregon.edu

In article <C06py2.F1n@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
(Barbara Trumpinski) wrote:
> 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...

Jason listens quietly, then goes over and hugs Kitten fiercely. "Kitten, I
know all too well what it's like to go through Chronic Depression. I had a
-very- nasty bout of it myself last winter, before I had net.access and
found the Place. I don't recall how lonk it's been since you went thru it,
so it's probably been a while, but if you ever want to chat with someone
else who's been down the 'CD' trail, well, I'm always here to listen."

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

"Here here!"

<<CRASH!!>>

Jason
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: Anti drink/drive campaign
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 08:10:44 GMT

>Danger Mouse sips a large mug of Prince of Wales tea.
>
>"I saw a very interesting new anti-drink-driving ad on TV yesterday."
[snip snip ]
>The X-window fades. Danger Mouse can tell that some patrons have been
>deeply affected. "Yes, it's extremely graphic, and pulls no punches.
>But I think it's rather good. It catches attention, makes you think, and
>reaches into your subconscious. If violence is going to be shown on
>television, then it deserves to be done like this."
>
>- Danger Mouse.

   "DM, kitten probably remembers,as I do, the movies they showed 
in high school back in the 50s and early 60s. The camera didn't 
stay in the corridor, it went into the operating room... It showed a
grainy film { B&W } of an operation... I'll leave it at that.
Suffice it to say some of the student 'hard cases' turned colors
and some even threw up... I believe the films were pulled in later
years as they were declared 'cruel and unusual punishment' ... " DJ.

-- 
         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 !'
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: second thoughts about a friendship
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 12:17:30 GMT




>Liralen, you're going to kill me for this....

>  ("The Moonlight Eyes That Grace Us Here.." 
>              -by Jeffrey 'Taldin' Young
>   --with extreme apologies to Longfellow and Paul Revere..

>Taldin recites softly, with echoes of the real poem from the
>fourth grade in his ears...


>-------------
>   Listen my friends and you will hear  
>    Of the Patron Saint who we all revere  


[   ]

kitten giggles delightly and hugs taldin...."that was WONDERFUL...the
perfect way to start my morning."


--
***************************************************************************
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
Subject: Moving Right Along
From: dapetersen@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Toothpick (-:)
Date: 2 Jan 93 12:15:41 -0500
Organization: Petersen's Homestead

As the undersea party goes on around her, TOothpick sits in her beanbag chair
by the fire, a drink in hand (thank you, Jammer (-:), and Warrior on guard
by her feet.

After some indefinite time of contemplation, the sadness has leached itself
out of her expression to be replaced by a look of peace.  The book of life
lies open at her left hand, but the chapter she'd been reading has moved to
its proper place in the volume.  The book now lies open to a mostly blank
page with just a bit of writing at the top.

Still gazing into the fire, Toothpick sips the last of her hot chocolate
just as Tux hops up onto her lap.  Warrior looks not a bit surprised - 
he knew she was there, though why he didn't frighten her is anyone's guess.

The hint of a smile touches Toothpick's face as she strokes her cuddly
little friend.  There's an unusual glow around her, comprised, one may
guess, of peace, contentment, and a deep unmovable happiness.  This seems
puzzling, at first, given the last few days...

But in time, everything becomes clear.

Eventually, Tux hops down to go make friends with the firelizards and to try
to beg some veggie pizza from someone.

Toothpick's gaze wanders toward Warrior and they lock eyes.  Trueto his purpose,
no one has come near her - even the noises of the undersea party seem far
distant.  She smiles again - that strange strange smile - and carefully puts
the now-empty hot chocolate mug on the little table to her left, next to the
book of life.

She slowly moves off the chair and kneels on the floor next to the great
panther, hands on her knees.  The great cat dwarfs the woman, but she slowly
leans down and buries her face in his fur for a time, wrapping her arms
around him. 

After a time, she untangles herself from his fur, ruffles his head, and
whispers in his ear.Warrior looks at her for a long moment before slowly
rising and padding back toward Jammer.

Toothpick retrieves her hot chocolate mug from the table, staying close
to the fire.  She stands there, as if considering her words carefully.
For the first time in her life, she can't find the words.  

Thisplace has seen its share of strangeness and coincidence, but nothing
like what Toothpick has gone through these past few days!

She says nothing, but the emotinos that play over her face would really 
puzzle anyone who happened to be watching her.  But ever present is that
glow of happiness and...love?  

Finally, she casts her mug into the fire,saying nothing.

But she gazes into the darkness of a distant corner where a particular
lurker dwells.  And her gaze speaks volumes to he who can interpret.

Toothpick, glowing, smiles.

"To 1993, which will be the best year of my life."

***
Toothpick
aka Debbie Petersen
dapetersen@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
216-467-3055
***
-- 
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
Subject: Re: Sunglasses (was Re: Hats)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 14:25:08 GMT



castellan:

>>>>"I am also among the myopic, and I have a pair of prescription sunglasses,
>>>>and they work really well for me. 

>>>"Gee, does that mean that we have to refer to you as a Myopic-American?"

>>"That being the new, Politically Correct equivalent of "Four-Eyes", I suppose?"

abner:

>"Exactly!  (Gee, that has to be one of the cornea jokes I've told ...)"


kitten:

"eye karumba!" her own baby blues cross at the pun.
--
***************************************************************************
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: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk (Clive Grace)
Subject: Re: harpy gnu ears
Reply-To: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 18:00:00 +0000


> "Hey Emmet, you made my stick a few years back! Mine is #167, you 
> made it out of polished Oak and it sounds beautiful. 

Emmett looks confused. "Hold on.. you're the Fox" That one is number 
116... I don't remember all of them, but that one I do..."

Tanais looks in his satchel and realises Emmett was right. "My 
apologies sir, you're quite right... It's 116. I noticed that today 
when playing it this afternoon". 
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| When I grow up, I want to give up being   |cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk|
| a Journalist and learn how to write...    |                          |
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|       Bisexual knitter of quality and distinction since 1992.        |
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