HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jgoodric@dante.nmsu.edu (GOODRICH)
Subject: sorry for the last message. . . 
Organization: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
Distribution: alt.callahans
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 16:21:50 GMT


Current Name:       The Laughing Priest!
Alter Egos:         John Goodrich, LatGoH the Cannibal
Birth Date:         6904.07 
Birthplace:         New Hampshire
Residence:          New Mexico
Gender:             Male
Sexual Orientation: Bent
Marital Status:     Blissfully married
Offspring:          Nope
Siblings:           Three sisters, one brother all older 
Blood type:         Positively O
Phobia:             
Hair:               That glorious shade of red that couldn't be 
		      bottled for a long time.
Eyes:               pale blue         
Height:             5'11"  
Dominant Brain Hemisphere:  Both at times
Physical Deformities:                  
Music Preferences:  Alternative, some industrial, much punk.
Favourite Books:    _Silverlock_ by John Myers Myers, _Beowulf_, _The Epic 
		      of Gilgamesh_ , _The Silmarillion_ 
Favourite Movies:   Lady Jane, The Dark Crystal, all 3 Alien films 
Least Favourite Activities:  Listening to weenies argue about what is cannon,
			       political arguments on NewsGroups, whining, 
			       observing stupidity.
Most Favourite Activities:  Stimulating discussion, learning, Playing RPG's with 
			      intelligent people who are based in the real world.
Quotes that can be attributed to me:  If you haven't heard them, you don't want
 	   				to.
Hobbies:  snarling, knocking Christians off their high horses, writing,archery 
Political affiliation:  Elder Party.
Allergies:   Stupidity, complacancy, smoking(redundant).                   
Occupation:  Graduate Student.  
Favourite Foods:  Well made Garlic Bread.
What I regret most: Being hit on the head with a brick.
Favourite TV shows: Red Dwarf, Mann and Machine, New Trek.
Parting words:  Hahahahahahahaaahaaaaaa!.

	The Laughing Priest!

"We've had a string of embezzlers, frauds,                
liars and Lunatics making a string of                
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: keulen@possum.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Mike van Keulen)
Subject: Re: Food, Glorious Food
Organization: Murdoch University
Date:  7 Sep 92 04:44:23 GMT

Splash peers over at the pile of steaming goodies and enquires "Is any of this
vegetarian?  I love Chinese/Asian food, but don't eat meat or fish ..."
--
***************************** Michael van Keulen *************************** 
* Snail: School of BES - Biology         e-mail: keulen@murdoch.edu.au     *
*        Murdoch University              phone:  ++ 61 (09) 360-2843 (work)*
*        Murdoch WA 6150  AUSTRALIA              ++ 61 (09) 417-3902 (home)*
*************************** "To Love is to _LIVE_!" ************************
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey)
Subject: Edmonton Apartments
Reply-To: aaron@space.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 17:31:45 GMT

"In response to somebody's(Jason's?)question about apartment and housing
configurations elsewhere besides Australia, I offer the example of Edmonton,
Alberta.

"Downtown Edmonton is mostly office towers, a couple of indoor malls, and a few
decayed bits in the process of being renovated.  Go west of that, and you get
more apartment buildings off the main drag(Jasper Ave.)and down into the river
valley.  I live two blocks north of Jasper, in a mixed residential area about
a dozen blocks west of downtown--but the houses are all being changed to
apartments and condominia, slowly but surely.

"Anyway--in the more outlying regions, like West Edmonton and Mill Woods, there
are mostly houses, a few condominia, and the odd apartment building.  In the
true suburbs, St. Albert and Sherwood park, I think it's mostly houses too, but
I won't swear to it since I haven't done a conclusive survey.

"As for businesses--there are malls, spread about the town.  Downtown, there's
a few fur shops and clothing stores, restaurants, etc., but most of the really
happening businesses are on the southside, on Whyte Avenue, south of the
University, in Old Strathcona.  This is where most of the cool bookstores,
craft shops, galleries, etc. are.  It's where I do a lot of my shopping--which
mostly consists of books.

"The 'lower-class' areas of the city are north of Downtown on 118th Ave., just
east of Downtown near Chinatown, and southeast of Whyte.  Between Mill Woods
and Whyte, and northeast of Downtown, are industrial parks.

"And there you have the approximate layout of Edmonton."

--
---Alfvaen(Canadian SF Quasi-Activist)
"In the spaceship, the silver spaceship, the lion takes control..."
Current Album--They Might Be Giants:Apollo 18
Current Read--Robert Heinlein:The Past Through Tomorrow
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From: JMPIERCE%USMCP6.bitnet@VM.TCS.Tulane.EDU (JIM PIERCE)
Subject: job attitudes ( was re: Books Database )
Organization: Yale CS Mail/News Gateway
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 22:48:13 GMT


 "Gee Speaker, sounds like you and I have similar work ethics. I
don't care to work without some sleep though. Of course, insufficient
sleep and vacuum-tube technology is one way to die rather messily !
I do my job, but the present one leads to numerous interruptions from
my present supervisor and then he has the gall to ask me why I'm not
finished ! I remind him that he told me to do something and not accept
interruptions from anyone, and then 5 minutes later he does it himself.
<argh...> And yes, he gets upset when I remind him that he told me to
accept no interruptions ! He's okay I guess, although minimum wage is not
a good pay scale for what is called 'lab monitor' but more approximates
user support. Now that I work with computers, it would probably be safer
to spend long hours without sleep. I doubt if he will ever let anyone
who works for him become a full-time employee, because the University
says they can't afford to pay me $9,000 per year and I have seen plenty
of evidence to support the belief that he likes being the center of
attention. { If I went full-time, he wouldn't get the attention he
  seems to prefer. That seems to be his reasoning... }

   I don't mind working for long hours. if I'm getting paid to work
more than 19 hours per week, working for a competent supervisor, or
both for that matter. Actually, I am thinking of finding new work
somewhere else. I have been working on my resume. Later, I'm
looking for my dance partner, "DJ.


* <JMPIERCE@USMCP6.BITNET> Jim "DJ." Pierce; Bach. Sci. in Appl. Comp. Sci.
* USM Academic Computing on the Gulf Park Campus. Disclaimer: Standard.
* "I'm a computer operator and I'm Ok !" me.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: lunisea@netcom.com (Stephanie Alford)
Subject: Re: Food, Glorious Food
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 92 03:04:10 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

In article <Bu6nGA.xJ.2@cs.cmu.edu> spok+@cs.cmu.edu (John Ockerbloom) writes:
>CLANG!  rattle..... whup.. whup..whup.. <clank>
>
>As John walks toward the tables, he opens the lids of the various
>containers, announcing "I've got pork dumplings, spicy mussels, sesame
>bread, and --- hmm, looks like hot & sour soup.  And there's more
>stuff in Grapevine's cart," he says, gesturing over to a nearby table,
>where Grapevine has already removed the cover on a rice container.
>"And that tea" (he says, glacing over toward Mike) "should be ready
> pretty soon too."
>
>"Who'd like some?"

SEA grabs a plate and heads for the table.  "Dim Sum!  Yum, my favourite!
Thanks John and Grapevine for fixing up this veritable feast for us."
Putting a shiney dollar coin that has a phone on one side and says Product
Support on the other, she says "Mike, a caffeine free diet pepsi please."

Heading back to wherever she came from, SEA can be heard saying, "Boy
this stuff is great!"


Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: pope@physics.su.OZ.AU (The Nightstalker)
Subject: The Nightstalker returns (and delurks)
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 04:48:54 GMT

The doors of Callahans fly open, and a familiar figure in black leather
enters with a grin on his face.  The Nightstalker has returned!  He makes
his way to the bar and orders a VB (Australian beer).

"I just met another patron of the bar in RL!  Stumpy, who was over here
to visit DM and Shonias just popped his head into my office.  It was great
to see someone who previously was just ascii print on an old IBM monitor.
Anyway, I have returned to callahans, which might not impress some people,
being the fairly opinionated and upfront individual that I am.  I must admit
that for a while I was not coming back, and did not even lurk.  Somehow I
wasn't sure that Callahan's was my place anymore, if it had been my place at
all.  I wasn't sure I wanted to talk about my problems here, indeed I try not
to talk about them at all these days but be more interested in other peoples
problems."

"For better or worse, I am back.  It is funny, I live (during the day that is),
on the floor under Shonias and DM but hardly see them these days.  Hi there
you two, how are things.  Hi Carole!  The woman with *the* most exciting dress
sense.  Where is my little Didi-sprite??  Hi there Stumpy, good to see you in
RL.  Hi everyone!"

The Nightstalker makes the old and worn path to the chalkline, and raises his
glass.

"To Callahan's, a little bit of home in the maze of VR!"

<crash>


--
The Nightstalker.....




"Everything that exceeds the consumer's requirements is held violently"
                                -Thomas Aquinas
From: jgoodric@dante.nmsu.edu (GOODRICH)
Subject: Guess who's come in for Dinner...
Organization: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 15:45:38 GMT
From: saiki@mpg.phys.hawaii.edu (L. Saiki)
Subject: Re: Libertarianism
Organization: University of Hawaii, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 17:14:22 GMT

In article <Btx664.7D5@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> yho@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Yue-shun E. Ho) writes:
>In article <tljn#bq.aahz@netcom.com> aahz@netcom.com (Aahzmandius) writes:

>>Vitamin A can be toxic in large doses, but the company selling vitamins
>>fails to disclose this information to you.  How to redress the problem?

>Many things done in "excess" can be harmful, including having sex and chewing
>  gum.  You probably don't want to take Vitamin A in the animal form in
>  excess of 10,000 IU; but Beta Carotene, the plant form of Vitamin A, has been
>  proved to be quite harmless, even up to 50,000 IU.  However, there is not
>  a common agreement of what the upper limits are.

Hey..which vitamin is the one where, if you take too much of it, your
skin turns some orange tint?

Spacey bubbles off...

-- 
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
     The end!					 L. Saiki	
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From: dasher@well.sf.ca.us (D Anton Sherwood)
Subject: Re: Cardinal Points
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 05:20:12 GMT

In article <1992Sep8.025151.23097@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> aaron@space.ualberta.ca writes:
>
>"Anyway--we've established Damien as the southernmost, in Tasmania.  And I'm
>farther north than anyone south of Manchester.  ;-}  But how do we define east
>and west?  Are we stopping at the International Date Line each way?"

Green Lion looks up from contemplating a Riemann surface and urges that the
biggest gap in longitude be determined and its midpoint be declared the
Calahanic Date Line -- that is, that the occupants of the endpoints of said
gap be declared Easternmost and Westernmost.

So, which is farther from Australia in longitude -- Essex or San Francisco?
(Apologies if I've missed someone in Europe or Alaska; you get the idea.)
I'd look it up myself but my maps are in, er, compressed storage.
-- 
Anton Sherwood *\\* dasher@well.sf.ca.us *\\* +1 415 664 2229
Libertarian candidate for California Assembly, 12th district
Opinions mine, but available for lease at easy terms.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: feath@agora.rain.com (Feather)
Subject: A P.S. from Feather
Organization: Open Communications Forum
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 16:03:05 GMT

I have just uploaded my first real message to alt.callahans, and am praying
that it shall work this time.  My lack of knowledge of vi probably won't
help.  If the message I have just now posted is as messed up as my first
initial try (the one a few days ago with no message after the headers),
I may just give up.  

In the meanwhile, I hereby send a smile to everyone, and say "Hello",
and to at least let everyone know that I love this Place...

-Feather



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:wq
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From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Libertarianism
Date: 6 Sep 92 17:43:18 GMT
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera

In article <1992Sep6.171422.14429@news.Hawaii.Edu>, saiki@mpg.phys.hawaii.edu (L. Saiki) writes:
>In article <Btx664.7D5@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> yho@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Yue-shun E. Ho) writes:
>>In article <tljn#bq.aahz@netcom.com> aahz@netcom.com (Aahzmandius) writes:
>
>>>Vitamin A can be toxic in large doses, but the company selling vitamins
>>>fails to disclose this information to you.  How to redress the problem?
>
>>Many things done in "excess" can be harmful, including having sex and chewing
>>  gum.  You probably don't want to take Vitamin A in the animal form in
>>  excess of 10,000 IU; but Beta Carotene, the plant form of Vitamin A, has been
>>  proved to be quite harmless, even up to 50,000 IU.  However, there is not
>>  a common agreement of what the upper limits are.
>
>Hey..which vitamin is the one where, if you take too much of it, your
>skin turns some orange tint?

That'd be carotene.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: mss2@quads.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer)
Subject: Re: Libertarianism
Reply-To: mss2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 05:46:51 GMT

In article <122420119@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom) writes:
>In alt.callahans, lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals) writes:

>> In article <122420117@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>, daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom) writes:

>> >Some more than others.  It is a common tactic of the american war
>> >machine to arrange things so that the poor fight and die to protect
>> >everyone.  Most notable are cases in the civil war where there
>> >was a draft, and people were allowed to pay $300 not to be
>> >drafted.  In VietNam, this was accomplished through college deferement.

>> Actually, what you're saying isn't that some reeive more of the benefits of
>> that defense than others, but that some bear more of the cost than others.

>Probably.  The distinction does not seem all that important to me.

	"No?  The distinction is the whole reason why the idea of a
public good is important.  There is nothing in the definition of a
public good which prevents it from being provided _by_ fewer than
everyone in a group or a geographic area, even by a tiny minority--
but it's not possible or practical to provide it _for_ fewer than
everyone.  Military defense has, historically, been provided by
everything from "all men of arms-bearing age" to tiny professional
forces backed by effective monopolies of military technologies-- but
it's not possible to be selective about the beneficiaries beyond a
certain point.  An abolitionist Unionist in South Carolina had no
choice about being defended by the Confederate army, nor did a
secessionist supporter of slavery in Pennsylvania have the option of
foregoing Union defense-- and, indeed, in conditions of war it would
be difficult or impossible for either to explain to the invaders that
he's one of them and deserves kinder treatment.  Or consider the
"nuclear free zones" so popular in the eighties.  I know of one inside
Chicago.  Now, is there a practical way for such an area to abjure
nuclear retaliation for an attack on "nuclear free" territory, short
of changing the defense policy of the nation as a whole, or of a
significant geographical subset thereof?  No, because any attack on
the nuclear free zone would also affect non-nuclear free zones.
Millions of people must live with retaliation or non-retaliation
policies, regardless of whether a significant fraction of them
disagree with whichever policy is implemented-- and regardless of the
fact that only a few technicians are actually involved in implementing
it."

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
mss2@usite-next.uchicago.edu     Virginia (1784)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Subject: Re: libertarianism
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Distribution: alt
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 15:15:31 GMT

In article <72186@apple.Apple.COM>, stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
>lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals) writes:
>
>>This guy really deserved to be put in a mental
>>institution.  [...]
>
>But keep in mind that it is cheaper to support him outside of a mental
>institution than inside it.

I didn't mean permanently.  Schizophrenia IS frequently treatable, but in his
case, he was far enough gone that outpatient treatment wasn't effective.  After
several years, he finally agreed to be admitted to a mental hospital.  Six
months later, his schizophrenia was under control.  Last I heard, he was back
in college and doing well.

>>	1)  This guy's not playing with a full deck, so we've got to support him
>>and
>>	2)  This guy's qualified to help decide public policy
>>Now, some of us see a bit of a problem with espousing both 1) and 2)
>>simultaneously.  Of course, those with a more socialist point of view claim
>>that people like me, who say that someone incompetent enough that I have to
>>support him is too incompetent to be allowed to vote, are social Darwinists and
>>evil.  
>
>So is your criterion that people who need to be financially supported 
>should not be allowed to vote? Or that people with recognizeable mental 
>disorders who need to be supported should not be allowed to vote?

My criteria is that nobody who receives more money from a particular level of
government than they pay in taxes to that level of government should be allowed
to vote in elections involving that level of government.  Now, before anybody
starts calling me a racist imperialist oppressor of the masses, let me point
out that, using my criteria, I wouldn't be allowed to vote in elections
involving the federal government, since I'm paid out of a NASA contract.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: keulen@possum.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Mike van Keulen)
Subject: Re: Gift Story
Organization: Murdoch University
Date: 15 Sep 92 03:48:07 GMT

aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey) writes:

>"Boy, those BSFUC guys.  They're so wacky."  He ignores the choruses of "Ooh!
>Sick!  Yuck!  Those guys should be locked away, is what."

Have you read a book called "Cinderfella" - I forget the author ... it's along
similar lines of wackiness.  I think the author wrote a number of books in a
similar vein.

Splash!

--
***************************** Michael van Keulen *************************** 
* Snail: School of BES - Biology         e-mail: keulen@murdoch.edu.au     *
*        Murdoch University              phone:  ++ 61 (09) 360-2843 (work)*
*        Murdoch WA 6150  AUSTRALIA              ++ 61 (09) 417-3902 (home)*
*************************** "To Love is to _LIVE_!" ************************
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: keulen@possum.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Mike van Keulen)
Subject: Re: I tried the magic(on)...
Organization: Murdoch University
Date: 15 Sep 92 03:27:06 GMT

/G=Rhodri/S=James/O=SJ-Research/ADMD=INTERSPAN/C=GB/@MHS-RELAY.AC.UK writes:

>  <<In the US, "cider" generally means apple juice,
>whereas in the UK, "cider" is what is often referred to as "applejack" in
>the States. This is fermented apple juice, one of the strongest undistilled
>alcoholic drinks; stronger than your average British beer, which in turn is
>considerably stronger than your average American beer.  For an additional
>complication, some States use "applejack" to refer to a distilled apple
>drink, which I think is apple brandy or "calvados" in the UK.

Yes - we have cider as an alcoholic apple drink here in Oz (and NZ too) too.
Apparently in Europe they have non-alcoholic cider, which reminds me of an
incident when I was a kid, on a camping holiday around the South Island of NZ
with my family.  My parents found a place which sold fresh apple cider, and at
the campsite that night opened a flagon and drank deeply, unaware of its
intoxicating qualities.  When they stood up to go to bed, they promptly fell
down in a heap, and wondered what on Earth had hit them!  From then on they
figured out that cider down-under isn't the same as the cider they had been
used to.  :-x

Splash!

--
***************************** Michael van Keulen *************************** 
* Snail: School of BES - Biology         e-mail: keulen@murdoch.edu.au     *
*        Murdoch University              phone:  ++ 61 (09) 360-2843 (work)*
*        Murdoch WA 6150  AUSTRALIA              ++ 61 (09) 417-3902 (home)*
*************************** "To Love is to _LIVE_!" ************************
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
Subject: Re: Y'all are so NICE
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 04:18:13 GMT
Organization: Bill 'n' Opus for Prez

In article <1992Sep11.170734.20804@cs.yale.edu> lower-tony@CS.YALE.EDU (Tony Lower) writes:
>In article <199209101725.AA16094@david.wheaton.edu> clhoerth@david.wheaton.EDU (Cathe L Hoerth) writes:
>>
>>  My name is
>>Ocelot, by the way, but I also answer to Minx or Kat or Hey You.  
>
>  Manx looks up from the corner where he has been brooding over pages
>and pages of code.  "You answer to Minx?  Oh God... this is sure to
>end in trouble..."

Just don't go to Pinsk.
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

IRWTFM -- and that ain't fun
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: ablanch@physics.su.OZ.AU (Shonias)
Subject: Re: An old friend finds his way back...
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 06:41:31 GMT

After chatting briefly with Frosty, Shonias leaves him for a moment
and asks Mike for a glass of champagne. Then she looks around the room,
and turns back to Mike, "No, make that a case..." and she puts a small
pouch of coins on the bar.

"The first glass is for Frosty, but there are many people in here that I
have been neglecting. I am very busy, so I apologise to those who I owe 
email, and birthday wishes.... There is a glass here for Abner... 
and one for Walker if he's back yet... if not, it will wait. There's one
for Chris, and for Thunderchild. I will be back to say Happy Birthday to 
those who I have shamefully neglected, but for now, help youself to
champaigne."

Shonias grabs a glass for herself and takes a sip as she goes to the
chalk line.

"Two toasts, the first to friends found, and the second, to those 
who have been, and still are putting up with me in this hell called 
Honours year. It will be over in a few months, and I wouldn't have made
it this far if it weren't for some of the people I have been leaning
on. Mostly my boy, Nick, whose name I shall be taking in less than 
seven months, but also many others, on the net and here in RL. Thankyou
all! I hope I have the time to thankyou properly when it is all over!"

There is a resounding <<<!!!CRASH!!!>>>, far too big for a champaigne 
glass, and Shonias disappears, vowing to return...

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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