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From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jason)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Sauerkraut Pizza
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Date: 22 Jan 1993 20:52:16 GMT
Organization: the Polyhedron Group
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aaa.uoregon.edu

In article <9301181852.AA15258@cipric>,
kksys!cipric!jmh%uum1.UUCP@CS.YALE.EDU (Janet Huss) wrote:
> 
> 
> The Grey Lady looks up with delight and interest upon hearing Mishael 
> expound on the virtues of pineapple and canadian bacon pizza.  "Welcome
> back, Mishael, and I'll split one of those with you, if you'd like.  I'm 
> also a devotee of that combination.
> 
> "I suppose I'll have less luck persuading anyone to share a sauerkraut
> and canadian bacon pizza with me.  I had one in Fargo, North Dakota, once,
> and enjoyed it immensely, much to my own surprise!"

Jason looks up. "Actually, I'd be willing to split that one with you. I
-like- sauerkraut. Comes from being half german, I guess."

The Grey lady looks to see who spoke. She sees a man in his late 20's to
mid 30's. His beard and hair are both dark brown. His hair is caught back
into a short pony-tail, revealing a cybernetic implant interface, or
Cyberlink, just under the base of the ponytail. A 5mm black cable connects
that interface jack with a futuristic laptop-sized computer that sits
before him. The display of the computer is a holographic cube, floating
over the cyberdeck. He seems to be able to operate the computer without
touching it. The man is wearing a black leather jacket, dark jeans, and a
black Greek Fisherman's hat.

He continues speaking "By the way, I was having newsreader difficulties
when you and the Bard returned, and I don't believe I properly introduced
either myself or my companion."

He gestures to a woman seated at his table. Like him, she is about six feet
tall. But she has a downy, golden-brown pelt of short, sleek fur, and the
ears, whiskers and tail of a domestic cat. She'a wearing a black velvet
mini-dress, and a matching inch-wide velvet choker, set with a single
sapphire. It matches her eyes. Her shoulder-length hair is at the moment
dyed cyan blue, with white highlights, and the fur on her face is marked
with an inverted triangle of blue surrounding each eye. The Grey lady
raises one eyebrow, just slightly.

The man says "This is Thyra. She's a shapeshifter. Don't let the color of
her hair get to you. Her hair is normally medium brown, but she and Kitten
have been playing games with their hair color lately." The feline woman
extends her hand in greeting. "Purrrfectly pleased to meet you, my Lady.
And your fine friend, the Bard as well. Welcome home. The gentleman who
just introduced us, neglecting to mention his own name, is Jason. He's a
Decker. He works in cyberspace, locating and manipulating information for
his clients. He also happens to write Cyberpunk style science fiction, and
filksongs on just about any topic."

Jason clears his throat. "Ahem. Yes. Well, Grey Lady, can we buy a drink
for yourself and the Bard? We're certainly glad to meet new friends."

Hugs and Purrs,
Jason & Thyra
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl Siewert)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Group hugs
Date: 24 Jan 1993 02:08:41 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu



>  "Sure!  Lets add some squirrels, sprites, ogres, avians, squi- uh, mice
>(but you already have), purple slashsplats, assorted humanoids and even a
>feline or five!"  Grabbing Ekho and anyone else within range, Amanda shouts,
>"GERBIL PILE!!!"

<HOWZABOUT YER BASIC TIME DISPLACED, EX HIPPIE, CYBERNETICALLY ENHANCED, 
NEARLY IMMORTAL, WANTED IN TEN STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS, ACCIDENTALLY 
TELEPORTING, AMAZINGLY EMPATHIC, ROMANTICALLY CONFUSED, VERY ENTHUSIASTIC, 
MAGE/NINJA/MARKSMAN/BASS PLAYER/BARTENDER/BOY GENIUS/DEFENDER OF THE REALM/
INTELLIGENCE EXPERT/ WORLD TRAVELER/ CASUAL HERO TYPE A GUYS.  

with that the Polish gentleman in the hat leaps over Rie's shoulders, 
swings into the rafters, barely missing a xenomorph, kicks off the ceiling, 
and passes thru the hug and the floorboards, only to remerge dead center 
in the gerbil pile.

<GOD, I LOVE YOU PEOPLE.  ESPECIALLY YOU DOUGIE-WOUGIE...

BWAH HA HA HA HAAAAAAAHHHHH COUGH COUGH COUGH>

IN SERIOUS NEED OF SLEEP
MARAUD OUT>
-- 
/               James Riekar, barhopping yoyist, at your service              \
Impersonated at Fort Hays State by Karl G. Siewert, pretending to be at K-State
\                      address=siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu                       /
 \           Never underestimate the power of the truly eccentric.           /
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: jpalmer@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (John D Palmer)
Subject: Re: Didi's ill, again : -(
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:37:18 GMT

In article <C16Gw9.CKr@news.cso.uiuc.edu> trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:
>
>>"Hi!  I'm over here!  Red-nose, watery red-eyes and all!  Don't come
>>any closer!  I have the flu and conjunctivitis.  Yick!  I just wanted
>
>
>"didi, get BACK into bed...and have some soup...or some icecream and
>7-up.... put a hot water bottle on your toes and vicks on your
>nose...and here are some sunglasses."  kitten tries to look stern and
>fails miserably....

     "now, now, Kitten lady, like, you gots to understand, like, that's not a
realsville type sprite, like that's just a magical projection of our most
spriteous one. . . so be cool, Kitty-kit; we're all worried, but, like, we're
all caring too. . . you know?"

                                                 Personality 42, who seems to
have taken control of my brain.
"Like, man, I would never do something so hocus as, like, subsume someone's
personality. . ."
"Ah, shaddup."
"Now, man, don't let your worry over 'Sprite warp your karma man. . . "
*sigh* 

-- 
"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: ekho@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (amanda rothman)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Book search
Date: 24 Jan 93 01:15:14 GMT
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida


  Immediately after hearing kitten mention that the folks room has paperback
books in it, Amanda dashes in with a hopeful shout of glee.  A minute passes
amidst various muffled exclamations and the sound of magazines being looked
through, and then she re-emerges with a pout on her face.  "I'd hoped I
might find a copy there; after all, Mike has everything, does he not? (grin)
Well, has anyone the whereabouts of a copy of Tanith Lee's "Kill the Dead"? 
I've been looking for it in all the new and used bookstores around my RL
area.  I also heard that the story appears in a book by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
entitled "Sometimes After Sunset".  I would not mind sending postage, etc.
as long as I could get it soon!  It's just one of those terrrrrible urges of
mine; I've been attempting to get it under control, but you can see how it
is now..."  She grins evilly.

              Yours in Time and Space
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: daq@fc.hp.com (Doug Quarnstrom)
Subject: Re: A sign?
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:18:08 GMT
Organization: SPUGE
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.8 PL6]

Jim Eikner (parakeet@wixer.cactus.org) wrote:
: 
: 
: Parakeet looks puzzled and tells his tale to the patrons...
: 
: "It was the oddest damn thing. The weather on the Back 40 has been pretty
: much piss-poor since New Years. Tuesday it was cold and rainy. Then on
: Wednesday, at almost exactly the same time Clinton was taking the oath, the
: sun comes out, the sky is blue, the birds are singing and gets up to almost
: 70 degrees... "

You can safely assume that these two events are completely unrelated.
Were the weather making a comment on a political party in 
fin de siecle America, I am sure it would have arranged for
a bland, blue-grey sky and a mildly cold drizzle.

If the weather you report is is in any way a comment on the inaugeration,
I am sure that it was merely nature having an ironic conversation wit
tax collectors.

doug
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: mss2@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer)
Subject: Re: An early toast
Reply-To: mss2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 02:43:52 GMT

In article <1jk92kINNan7@menudo.uh.edu> narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon) writes:
>The Urban Spaceman says :
>>  "This toast is actually a week early, but I'm going to be away from
>> the net 
>>   at the proper time, so I thought I had better do it now." 

>>  "Chaffee, Grissom, White, Jarvis, McAuliffe, McNair, Onizuka,
>> Resnik, Scobee, 
>>   Smith. Gone, but not forgotten." 

>>  ***CRASH***

>Thank you for reminding us.

>For explorers...
>*CRASH*

Indeed.  It's time to put this back in my .plan file:

--
Ave atque vale:

______________________________________________________________________________
Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee
(Apollo I capsule fire, 1/27/67)
______________________________________________________________________________
Francis R. Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Ronald E. McNair, Ellison S. Onizuka,
Judith A. Resnik, Gregory B. Jarvis, Sharon Christa McAuliffe
(Space Shuttle _Challenger_, 1/28/86)

"We will never forget them nor the last time we saw them... as they
prepared for their journey, and waved goodbye, and slipped the surly
bonds of Earth to touch the face of God."

-- President Ronald Wilson Reagan, January 28, 1986.
_______________________________________________________________________________

Per aspera ad astra.

--

*** CRASH ***

Michael


-- 
Michael S. Schiffer, LHN, FCS	"I decline utterly to be impartial
mss2@midway.uchicago.edu	 as between the fire brigade and the fire."
mike.schiffer@um.cc.umich.edu	 -- Winston Churchill, July 7, 1926
mschiffer@aal.itd.umich.edu
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk (Clive Grace)
Subject: Re: Didi's ill, again :-(
Reply-To: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:39:00 +0000


>         Rachel's glass follows Merlinvin's (and probably others). "Maybe
> I should give her a call," she says worriedly. "kitten, help!"

Tanais pauses from playing his fiddle. As he sits contemplating the 
news of Didi's influenza and conjunctivitis, he sighs. "Take care 
Didi" he quckly applies rosin some more to his bow and then strikes 
up something soothing and gentle -- gentle enough to put a fevered 
sprite to sleep and to rest the body and eyes.



+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
|  ..    "When I grow up, I want to stop being a computer journalist|
| .OO.    and learn how to write."                                  |
| O/\O                                                              |
|  --                              Tanais - friend to all furkindred|
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
|cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk | Bisexual knitter of quality since 1992|
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+


Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: aaron@atlantis.uucp
Subject: Re: Culinary Peculiarity (was Re: Dan'l hits Australia)
Organization: Atlantis Communications, Edmonton, AB, Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 05:24:57 GMT

Marc Sammartano (kksys!cipric!mes%uum1.UUCP@CS.YALE.EDU) wrote:
: "Its not that I like eggs all that much.  I'm mildly allergic to them (or
: so I'm told).  When I do make a custom burger at Fuddrucker's (a restaurnt
: chain, I don't know how wide-spread, but not nearly as exotic as some of
: the Places mentioned in this Place), it usually includes a pepper cheese
: sauce and sauerkraut.  A burger version of the Polish Troll's godawful?"

Alfvaen nods.  "We have Fuddruckers' in Edmonton, at least.  So they must be
fairly widespread.  I usually go for fairly boring burger toppings there, but
there you >do< get the see the raw meat that gets made into your burger, at
least.  I really should go there more often."

-- 
---Alfvaen(Still looking for "October's Baby")
"I tell everyone a different story...that way nothing's ever boring."              ---Jane Siberry
Current Album--Henry Lee Summer:I've Got Everything
Current Read--Dave Duncan:The Reaver Road
From: cei@casc.math.uh.edu (Chuck Ivy)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Sheep Films
Date: 26 Jan 1993 18:05:31 GMT
Organization: UH Dept of Math
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: casc.math.uh.edu

>>   Amanda tries to stop giggling, but can't. She gives the Bi-Bulb a
>> sheepish grin instead.
>
>Baaa!
>
>I'm sorry, but those films really griped my ears! (correct idiom?) I
>got to the point where I'd see one, mention "sheep film", and people would
>wonder what I ment, until the baaa-lasted things came on screen. After that,
>thay began to reach for the record-paus button on the VCR. It's on record
>somewhere - I don't need it! :-) 

What. You didn't like Silence of the Lambs? Ewe Light Up My Life should
be your favorite! Almost Ewe; or was that Another Ewe? And it wouldn't be
the record-paws button. It would be the record-hoof button...

(Malik pawses to reflect on that (looking in a mirror with the word that
behind him...))



--
 . _____________________________
/:|                    /  /  : =| Chapman Stick		Chuck Ivy
\:|___________________/__/___:_=| White Oak #240	cei@po.cwru.edu
                       ++				cei@math.uh.edu
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: parakeet@wixer.cactus.org (Jim Eikner)
Subject: Re: Dan'l hits Australia
Organization: Real/Time Communications
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 22:32:28 GMT

Noah Ramon (narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu) wrote:
: DJ Writes :
: > >Parakeet sets off in search of something to wash it down with... >
: >
: >     "Parakeet, I'll buy your next Pearl Beer, or would you like a
: > Lone
: >   Star ? " DJ.
:
: What, no Shiner Bock?
:
: (for someone who doesn't drink, i sure know too much about beer) :-)
: --
: *******************************************************************

: * Noah Ramon - The Bi-Bulb     * Your only limitation is your own *
: * Mail to : narxtc@math.uh.edu * imagination - Beans Barton       *
: *******************************************************************

Parakeet looks up and smiles...

"Gee, I don't want to hurt anybody's feelin's, so I guess I'll have one
of each... HEH!"



                                                  --- Parakeet ---

-- 

"...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in
 the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows
 and the storied wall."                                      --- RLS ---
From: eesshlgb@gdr.bath.ac.uk (S H L G Bisson)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Cyberpunk (was Re: One quick question)
Date: 26 Jan 93 10:08:49 GMT
Organization: School of Electrical Engineering, University of Bath, UK

Ignatz switches into Sf bibliophile mode, and turns to Jason.

"I'm afraid I have a fair bit of difficulty with what you just said about
the two modes of cyberpunk.

"To me the _Shadowrun_ sub-genre isn't even Science Fiction (the explicit
use of Science Fiction, rather than my usual Sf for Speculative fiction, is
deliberate). It's a Fantasy genre, that plays with some of the paradigms and
tropes of cyberpunk, whilst deliberately avoiding the themes - that science
and culture are Art.

"Larry McCaffery's _Storming The Reality Studio_, whilst flawed in many ways,
goes a long way to show this aspect of cyberpunk, an experimental, exploring
post-modern art-form, attemting to break down the barriers between high and
low art.

"Consider _Neuromancer_, with its Chandleresque prose, and its incredible
imagery, that wouldn't have been out of place in e.e. cummings or Thomas'
poetry.

"_Shadowrun_ is just high adventure in a vaguely cyberpunkish background. It
certainly isn't cyberpunk.

"But, now, the Movement is over. Gibson, Sterling et al have moved on. There
is no more Cheap Truth, no manifesto. And this *is* right. This *is* good.

"Sf must evolve, grow. And Cyberpunk was part of the growth, but it's over now.

"But, it is part of the history of Sf, and in the best post-modern tradition,
it is being recycled and reused, seasoning the works of new writers with new
things to say, people like Charlie Stross and Simon Ings, like Greg Egan and 
Paul McAuley.

"Cyberpunk is dead... long live Cyberpunk!"

With that final toast, the Acme Railgun Toaster fires once more, and at 6kps
a glass vapourises in the back of the fireplace. Ignatz blows the smoke from
tha barrel, and looks down at a small pile of soap boxes.

"Uh oh. How do I get down...."

---
Ignatz Mouse/Simon H Le G Bisson...net.jerriais...Reunite Pangaea!............
-----
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Laz does fun stuff.
Date: 25 Jan 1993 09:29:54 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Distribution: world
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <1jiso7INNpj8@shelley.u.washington.edu>, lazuli@stein.u.washington.edu (Fred Sloniker) writes:
=I wrote:
=>>Laz nods.  "Um, I don't drink tea.  Sorry.  But I wouldn't mind visiting,
=>>after I get my bearings."

StM hears this, and summons Carl.  Carl appears, holding in his hands a defunct
disk drive.  StM explains the situation, and Carl says "It was just a head
crash, so it ought to work."  He then proceeds to dismember the drive.  He
removes the spindle, carefully catching a few small bits of metal, and hands
the latter to StM.  StM carries them over to Laz, and says, "Well, I know these
aren't *YOUR* bearings, but Carl said to give them to you in case they'll help."
Only to discover that he's been beaten to the punch, as:

=>"Perhaps I can be of assistance.  Would these be what you were looking for?"
=>
=>Merlinvin holds out a palmful of polished, perfectly spherical stainless
=>steel balls...

=Laz, looking bemused, politely declines each, and turns to Thyra.  "What *is*
=this place?" he asks her, fixing on her as the one faintly familiar figure
=here.

"Well," StM explains, "it's a bar.  But like Klahd and Xanth, it seems to be
made mostly of puns."
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: parakeet@wixer.cactus.org (Jim Eikner)
Subject: A sign?
Organization: Real/Time Communications
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:45:47 GMT



Parakeet looks puzzled and tells his tale to the patrons...

"It was the oddest damn thing. The weather on the Back 40 has been pretty
much piss-poor since New Years. Tuesday it was cold and rainy. Then on
Wednesday, at almost exactly the same time Clinton was taking the oath, the
sun comes out, the sky is blue, the birds are singing and gets up to almost
70 degrees... "

Parakeet smiles and returns to his beer...




                                                   --- Parakeet ---


-- 

"...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in
 the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows
 and the storied wall."                                      --- RLS ---
From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jason)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Danger Room Run (The Polymath)
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Date: 24 Jan 1993 22:41:44 GMT
Organization: the Polyhedron Group
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aaa.uoregon.edu

In article <1jqgncINNt7e@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>, siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl
Siewert) wrote:
> 
> >"I don't think there's any formal weapons ban.  Certainly, there are
> >patrons who routinely carry swords and/or daggers -- and how in heck would
> >you disarm a dragon?  There are weapons mentioned in some of the original
> >stories, too.  Fast Eddie's blackjack is the most famous.  I never assume
> >any given patron is unarmed.
> 
> >"I was just trying to be courteous about fiddling in public with a
> >remote-acting deadly weapon that isn't obviously unloaded.  Crossbows
> >don't have the latter problem, so don't worry about it."

Jason considers a moment. "Well Magda, I think it's more the case that
injudicious -use- of a weapon here is what is considered uncool. There are
several Callahan's tales where a person had a weapon, and was allowed to
keep it, -after- they indicated that they could be trusted not to shoot or
'slice & dice' the other patrons in the bar. You don't even -want- to know
what kind of weaponry some of the other patrons here, myself included,
might be carrying. But you will note that you -rarely-, if ever, see any
indication that we have weapons at all. If you want to -play- with weapons,
that's what the Danger Room is for. It's also a matter of courtesy to
mention at the start of a violent post that the post -does- contain violent
material, so the more gentle-natured patrons here don't have to read
violent material if they don't want to. This is a place for relaxing and
healing, not one for fighting. If your weapons make you comfortable, by all
means keep them with you. And thank you for the courtesy of keeping the
blades peace-tied." 

(For those unfamiliar with a peace-tie, it is a cord or other strap that
prevents hasty drawing of a weapon from it's sheath, common at ren-fairs
and SCA events, and other places where the participants carry live steel in
crowds).

"Now, please sit back down, and tell me what you would like to drink. By
the way, I think your fur is quite nice, and I can see where it would be a
definite advantage to a werewolf to not have a tail. On the other hand,
Thyra would take -most- unkindly to the suggestion of losing her tail. But
when she changes shape, she can decide at will weather or not she has a
tail in the new form. Perhaps she can join us in discussing the pro's and
con's of shapeshifting?"

Hugs,
Jason

(about 4 Kg of weapons/armor at last count)
From: ablanch@physics.su.OZ.AU (Shonias)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Toast (and Re: Descriptions...)
Date: 27 Jan 93 06:20:29 GMT
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia

In article <1993Jan27.045812.17037@ucc.su.OZ.AU> mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar) writes:
>DM tosses a dollar coin to Mike and accepts a peppermint tea.
>"BTW folks, yesterday (26 Jan) was Australia Day. Much fun and merrymaking,

26th is *Australia Day*??? Gee, I thought it was a holiday celebrating
Eddie Van Halen's birthday... and we were so good and listened to *lots*
of Van Halen too...
By the way... never try to make a red guitar cake unless you have 
something better than red food colouring... you have never seen a Kramer
like the one we made a few years back...  hot pink is not Eddie's colour...
:)

>Just as he finishes, DM overhears Shonias' self-description:
>
>"I don't know," he comments, "I think that descripts you rather well..."
>
>He runs away to avoid an RL tickle in the ribs.

Possibly in RL but here... <begin deep echo> there's nowhere to hide
<end echo>... and Shonias pounces and doesn't let up until DM is
gasping for air... <evil grin>

Shonias Q'Tari

--
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He always thought that he could fly,
Until they shot him from the sky...
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