Path: mit-eddie!mit-amt!snorkelwacker!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!lll-winken!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!convex!schumach@convex.com From: schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Re: Hello Message-ID: <4452@convex.UUCP> Date: 9 Jan 90 01:12:26 GMT References: <561@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> <12757@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Sender: usenet@convex.UUCP Lines: 8 Hi, Mike! Tea with plenty of milk and sugar. By the way, why is that called the traitorous way to have it? An astronomy professor of mine, a Scot, always said that if it didn't have enough sugar and milk so that a spoon would stand up in it, it wasn't fit to drink! ...aaah. Perfect. Thank you. Keep the change. [The Shoeless One saunters over to a booth to sip his tea.] Path: mit-eddie!mit-amt!snorkelwacker!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!vu-vlsi!nlp From: nlp@vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU (Nick Pine) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Re: Panama Keywords: tale, tall Message-ID: <2889@vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU> Date: 9 Jan 90 09:02:28 GMT References: <2883@vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU> <1099@swbatl.UUCP> Reply-To: nlp@vu-vlsi.UUCP (Nick Pine) Distribution: alt Organization: Villanova Univ. EE Dept. Lines: 16 Brian Gilstrap writes: >I seem to recall that Panama had declared war on the U.S. Is this true? I believe so. And we simply cannot tolerate this sort of agression. Why just last year I found a note in my mailbox from my neighbor, saying that he had declared war, so I went over and shot him, and installed a friend as head-of-family, and the neighborhood has been peaceful ever since. >If so, it would change the picture (in my opinion) somewhat. Agreed. Nick Path: mit-eddie!mit-amt!snorkelwacker!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!lll-winken!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!convex!schumach@convex.com From: schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Re: Hello Message-ID: <4452@convex.UUCP> Date: 9 Jan 90 01:12:26 GMT References: <561@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> <12757@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Sender: usenet@convex.UUCP Lines: 8 Hi, Mike! Tea with plenty of milk and sugar. By the way, why is that called the traitorous way to have it? An astronomy professor of mine, a Scot, always said that if it didn't have enough sugar and milk so that a spoon would stand up in it, it wasn't fit to drink! ...aaah. Perfect. Thank you. Keep the change. [The Shoeless One saunters over to a booth to sip his tea.] Path: mit-eddie!mit-amt!snorkelwacker!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!vu-vlsi!nlp From: nlp@vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU (Nick Pine) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Re: Panama Keywords: tale, tall Message-ID: <2889@vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU> Date: 9 Jan 90 09:02:28 GMT References: <2883@vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU> <1099@swbatl.UUCP> Reply-To: nlp@vu-vlsi.UUCP (Nick Pine) Distribution: alt Organization: Villanova Univ. EE Dept. Lines: 16 Brian Gilstrap writes: >I seem to recall that Panama had declared war on the U.S. Is this true? I believe so. And we simply cannot tolerate this sort of agression. Why just last year I found a note in my mailbox from my neighbor, saying that he had declared war, so I went over and shot him, and installed a friend as head-of-family, and the neighborhood has been peaceful ever since. >If so, it would change the picture (in my opinion) somewhat. Agreed. Nick Path: mit-eddie!mintaka!yale!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!sun-barr!lll-winken!decwrl!shelby!csli!cphoenix From: cphoenix@csli.Stanford.EDU (Chris Phoenix) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Leaving Message-ID: <11677@csli.Stanford.EDU> Date: 10 Jan 90 09:23:07 GMT Sender: news@csli.Stanford.EDU Reply-To: cphoenix@csli.stanford.edu (Chris Phoenix) Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U. Lines: 15 No, I'm not leaving, but a lot of other people are. This is a toast to them. In particular, to Snoopy, who asked me to toast for him since if he did he'd start posting again. To everyone who has to leave for some reason, grades, time, moving, no net access... May all of your problems be solved, and may you come back anyway! -- Chris Phoenix | A harp is a nude piano. cphoenix@csli.Stanford.EDU | "More input! More input!" Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules. Suffering makes people wise. Hit me till I smart! Path: mit-eddie!mintaka!oliveb!orc!decwrl!shelby!csli!cphoenix From: cphoenix@csli.Stanford.EDU (Chris Phoenix) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Re: Hello Message-ID: <11676@csli.Stanford.EDU> Date: 10 Jan 90 09:19:47 GMT References: <561@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> <12757@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <4605@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> Sender: news@csli.Stanford.EDU Reply-To: cphoenix@csli.stanford.edu (Chris Phoenix) Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U. Lines: 24 I know what you mean. I can remember, not too long ago (I'd been at Stanford for at least a year) hearing someone say (or maybe write) that he always crossed the street if he was walking behind a woman at night. I remember that it took me a while to figure out why he did that... Sometimes I hear about people being oversensitive to minority issues, and I'm tempted to get upset at them for it. But then I realize what causes it, and I am unable to blame them. So many times we majority people only hear one side of it. There are cases where people are only concerned about these issues when it will make them look good, and this disgusts me--but the more I hear, the more I realize that we deserve whatever suspicion we get. That doesn't make it any easier to deal with... It's so easy to concentrate on only one side of the issue, to distrust everything the majority does and feel like you have to fight to prevent total discrimination, or to distrust every effort for minority rights as being manipulative and overreacting. Most people, I think, fall into one of these two groups. Neither group, IMHO, has what we need to resolve the problem. What can we do? -- Chris Phoenix | A harp is a nude piano. cphoenix@csli.Stanford.EDU | "More input! More input!" Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules. Suffering makes people wise. Hit me till I smart! Path: mit-eddie!snorkelwacker!usc!ucsd!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hplabs!hplred!egly From: egly@hplred.HP.COM (Diana Egly) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Re: Life; and Masks Message-ID: <20940025@hplred.HP.COM> Date: 9 Jan 90 17:43:27 GMT References: <1990Jan9.073457.12286@agate.berkeley.edu> Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA Lines: 7 / hplred:alt.callahans / gwh@sandstorm.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert) / 11:34 pm Jan 8, 1990 / > [Hey, Mike, do we allow Plants in now? There's a Pine over in the corner, > arguing with Jilara, and i'm not sure whether to leaf it alone or not. > "Just don't needle it about it's kingdom."] If you do it might nick you. Path: mit-eddie!mit-amt!snorkelwacker!apple!bbn!granite!Mandel From: Mandel@granite.cr.bull.com (Mark Mandel) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Re: Life; and Masks Summary: Pine puns (pun pines) Message-ID: <1990Jan10.215736.1896@granite.cr.bull.com> Date: 10 Jan 90 21:57:36 GMT References: <1990Jan9.073457.12286@agate.berkeley.edu> <20940025@hplred.HP.COM> Reply-To: Mandel@granite.UUCP (Mark Mandel) Organization: Bull HN Information Systems Inc. Lines: 10 (foregoing deleted) The guy with 50/50 black and silver hair shakes his head sadly. "Sure are a lot of saps in here. And I'm not even counting Fast Eddie's!" -- -- Mark Mandel (InterNet: Mandel@granite.cr.bull.com) /* My employer is not responsible for anything I say, do, think, or eat. */ Path: mit-eddie!bbn!usc!rutgers!njin!princeton!phoenix!mfterman From: mfterman@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Mutant for Hire) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Re: Life; and Masks Message-ID: <12843@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Date: 10 Jan 90 19:12:04 GMT References: <1990Jan9.073457.12286@agate.berkeley.edu> <20940025@hplred.HP.COM> Reply-To: mfterman@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Mutant for Hire) Organization: Miskatonic Physics Department Lines: 17 / hplred:alt.callahans / gwh@sandstorm.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert) / 11:34 pm Jan 8, 1990 / > [Hey, Mike, do we allow Plants in now? There's a Pine over in the corner, > arguing with Jilara, and i'm not sure whether to leaf it alone or not. > "Just don't needle it about it's kingdom."] Its probably just pining away about trying to turn over a new leaf or knot. Besides, in my past experience around these creatures, one thing about your basic tree rings true: its bark is far worse.... -- Martin Terman, Mutant for Hire: No job too strange, no expenses too strange! The Physicist from Hell, SubPope and Antivirgin, Reformed Church of Satan mfterman@phoenix.princeton.edu MFTERMAN@PUCC.BITNET terman@portia.stanford.edu Disclaimer: These postings have been proven to cause cancer in US congressmen. Path: mit-eddie!mintaka!yale!umich!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!fsdcupt.csd.mot.COM!jane From: jane@fsdcupt.csd.mot.COM (Jane Beckman x2637) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Jilara intro's a Newcomer Message-ID: <9001101411.AA05666@fsdcupt.csd.mot.COM> Date: 10 Jan 90 22:11:25 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 55 Jilara has just gotten through holding forth on Cosmo, and notices the door to the Place open. >He pokes his head shyly through the swinging doors of Callahan's and spys a very >friendly looking woman sitting at one of the tables near the door. She looks >up from her conversation and over at the rather nicely-dressed young man and >says "yes?", with a smile on her face. She motions him over to her table. "Welcome to the Place. You are?" >"Uh...yes. *Ahem*! Excuse me, my name is Yuki, Yuki Hadeishi (although most >people call me Thelonious), and--well, I'm not exactly sure where I heard about >Callahan's, from somebody at RPI, that's all I remember, but I'd kind of like to >frequent this place some, in the future. Is anybody welcome, here? And how do >I post to this newsgroup? I'm a relative computer illiterate, I'm afraid to say >...anything you could tell me would be helpful and greatly appreciated. If you >have the time, of course, I don't mean to impose my ignorance upon you," he said >, with a sheepish look on his face. "It's just that...well, you looked like >such a nice woman..." He is now looking around the room, nervously, trying to >hide his embarrassment. She smiles and motions to him to sit down. "Hey, there's a lot of nice folks, here. Come on in, any time." She fills him in on the mission charter of Callahans, and gives him some posting tips. "Hey, we've got a new friend, here," she announces. "Hey, Callahan, bring this fellow what he wants, on me." She looks around and says, "Hey, I bet there's a whole roomful of people here who'd just love to make your acquaintance. Here, let me intro you around." She smiles. "Okay, your turn to tell us who you are and where you're reachable. Sharing computer knowledge is a great help, too. I'm sure these folks would love to help, and may give you more info than I did. You'll be swamped with instructive help!" >He smiles, wanly. "My e-address is >hadeishi@husc8.bitnet (I think), or maybe hadeishi@harvard.husc8.bitnet ... >In any case, if you, or whomever has access to the educational nets, or to ARPA >net, I think that @harvard.edu works (maybe @harvard.husc8.edu) and I'm almost >positive that hadeishi@harvard.ARPA works (please excuse my confused multi-line >meanderings about my compu address, as I said before, I'm rather new to all of >this...sorry!) Jilara shakes her head. "I also pulled an address off his header. It's hadeishi%husc8@harvard.harvard.edu and I don't know yet if it works. If it bounces, we'll just have to figure something else. Anyway, welcome to the place, and I hope lots of folks talk to you. A lot of folks were very helpful to me, in my early days when I couldn't get onto the Place, myself. ("Thanks Magyk, Polymath," she says, nodding to a couple of the multi-dimensional corners.) Callahan approaches to see what her new friend will have. ---Jilara the Exile (I hope.) "If I'm not home accepting what I cannot change, I'm out changing what I can't accept." ---Ashleigh Brilliant (alternate identity may be jane@fsdcupt.csd.mot.com---don't you love computers with identity crises?)