Path: mit-eddie!mintaka!think!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!xavier!news From: nap92@campus.swarthmore.edu Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Ok, ok, out of my corner.... Message-ID: Date: 7 Mar 90 02:46:48 GMT Sender: news@xavier.swarthmore.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Swarthmore College Lines: 34 -Message-Text-Follows- "All right, Hildebaby, if you insist! I admit to having lurked in Callahan's since its beginning! I admit to loving Spider Robinson's Books! I admit to being an inveterate punster! Here I am...........*gulp*." And out of the shadows comes a young woman, dressed in a grey fedora and cape, patchy jeans and hiking boots, and a grungy t-shirt..... "Mike, here's a buck. Can I have some root beer? Hant-ler carefully, ok? Root beer is deer to my hart....*grin*. Well, ok, now that I'm here, what do I say? I must admit there is something weighing on my mind at the moment, for all that I am mostly happy. I must confess to much self-doubt about my academic capabilities at the moment. (Getting a handy-dandy yellow slip in the mail will do that....particularly since a copy went to the registrar. Fortunately, one didn't go home to my parents.....) But I'm not sure how much it will help to talk about it. I've thrashed this subject to death on different occasions with loving friends and relations. And, in fact, talked it out this afternoon with my SO, with some success. (For instance, I am going to make it to class at 8:30 for the rest of the semester.....a good thing.)" She drinks her root beer, and steps to the line..... "To self-doubt! And to knowing that I can do something, but not KNOW it! And most importantly, to my friends (not least among them Hildebaby) who have kept, and will keep me going!" *CRASH!* (narrowly missing Nck Chopper...) "Hey! I thought Mike swept the fireplace out every night....but then, I guess we don't really have closing hours here, do we? Oh, one last thing....About books? I think I would be an Ursula K. LeGuin book (yes, Hildebaby knew THAT was coming). I don't really know which...._The Dispossessed_, perhaps, or her short stories, or _Eye of the Heron_. _Left Hand of Darkness_?...." And her voice mumbles off as she joins Alex at whichever table he is sitting at....... -Nao NAP92@campus.swarthmore.edu -or- NAP92@swarthmr.bitnet no .sig file yet, but soon..... Path: mit-eddie!rutgers!shelby!csli!cphoenix From: cphoenix@csli.Stanford.EDU (Chris Phoenix) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Re: soulmates Message-ID: <12570@csli.Stanford.EDU> Date: 7 Mar 90 03:29:45 GMT References: Sender: cphoenix@csli.Stanford.EDU (Chris Phoenix) Reply-To: cphoenix@csli.stanford.edu (Chris Phoenix) Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U. Lines: 20 In article haste+@andrew.cmu.edu (Dani Zweig) writes: >I wonder if specifying gender here doesn't cloud the issue. 95% of >*everybody* wants the other person to make the first move. Which means >that 90 (.25 :-) percent of the time you'll have two people waiting for >each other to say something -- or at best spiralling in on each other with >excruciating caution. Sometimes it's not even possible to make a move. I recently had a conversation with a friend. I had met someone who I liked and wanted to talk to more, but didn't see that often. I asked how I could tell her this, and my friend said there was no way to. She even said that if someone met her at a party, say, and wanted to spend time with her, there was no way he or she could tell her that without freaking her out. And this is a friend who doesn't subscribe to many of the social rules... -- Chris Phoenix | "I've spent the last nine years structuring my cphoenix@csli.Stanford.EDU | life so that this couldn't happen." ...And I only kiss your shadow, I cannot see your hand, you're a stranger now unto me, lost in the dangling conversation, and the superficial sighs... Path: mit-eddie!rutgers!apple!rdclark From: rdclark@Apple.COM (Richard Clark) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Re: Ok, ok, out of my corner.... Message-ID: <39261@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 7 Mar 90 06:44:48 GMT References: Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 13 In article nap92@campus.swarthmore.edu writes: >(Getting a handy-dandy yellow slip in the mail will do that) Hmmm...a little Clorox (TM) should restore that slip to a pristine whiteness. (Oh...you don't mean *that* kind of slip! Must have been Fruedian...) ...Richard -- -----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Richard Clark | "If you don't know where you're going, Instructor/Designer | don't go there" -- Sybalski's Law Apple Developer University +----------------------------------------------- AppleLink, GEnie, Delphi, MCI, Internet: rdclark CI$: 71401, 2071 Path: mit-eddie!snorkelwacker!apple!rdclark From: rdclark@Apple.COM (Richard Clark) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Re: A new topic, Fahrenheit 451 and YOU Message-ID: <39262@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 7 Mar 90 06:47:56 GMT References: <9003010705.AA20452@ccb.ucsf.EDU> <1990Mar1.194229.29371@granite.cr.bull.com> <90065.104010R84SI@CUNYVM.BITNET> Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 12 I'm amazed that nobody here has mentioned Theodore Sturgeon. (There's something fishy going on here...) -- -----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Richard Clark | "If you don't know where you're going, Instructor/Designer | don't go there" -- Sybalski's Law Apple Developer University +----------------------------------------------- AppleLink, GEnie, Delphi, MCI, Internet: rdclark CI$: 71401, 2071 Path: mit-eddie!bbn!granite!mandel From: mandel@granite.cr.bull.com (Mark Mandel) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Re: Author, author! Summary: You can't get there from here Message-ID: <1990Mar7.151155.15899@granite.cr.bull.com> Date: 7 Mar 90 15:11:55 GMT References: <9003021202.AA03519@fsdcupt.csd.mot.COM> <6752@cps3xx.UUCP> Reply-To: mandel@granite.cr.bull.com (Mark Mandel) Organization: Bull HN Information Systems Inc. Lines: 18 In article <6752@cps3xx.UUCP> frey@frith.UUCP (Zachary T. Frey) signs off as: >Zach Frey > >Papernet: Zachary Frey | frey@frith.egr.msu.edu | Usenet: the > 514 Virginia St. | frey@msuegr.BITNET | Bellman's > E. Lansing, MI 48823 | ...uunet!frith!frey | Paradise. ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Is this any relation to the Bellman's map, which was | "a perfect and absolute blank" | ?-------------------------+ -- -- Mark Mandel (InterNet: Mandel@granite.cr.bull.com) /* My employer is not responsible for anything I say, do, think, or eat. */ Path: mit-eddie!mintaka!yale!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!bbn!granite!mandel From: mandel@granite.cr.bull.com (Mark Mandel) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Re: Author, author! Summary: Coming home to Earthsea Message-ID: <1990Mar7.153338.19380@granite.cr.bull.com> Date: 7 Mar 90 15:33:38 GMT References: Reply-To: mandel@granite.cr.bull.com (Mark Mandel) Organization: Bull HN Information Systems Inc. Lines: 41 In article nap92@campus.swarthmore.edu writes: >Oh, one last thing....About books? I think I would be an Ursula K. >LeGuin book (yes, Hildebaby knew THAT was coming). I don't really >know which...._The Dispossessed_, perhaps, or her short stories, or >_Eye of the Heron_. _Left Hand of Darkness_?...." > ... >-Nao Ah, now I know. I hadn't been able to decide which of the N-tillions of books I've read, and the hundreds or thousands I've loved, I'd wish to carry on, but now, thanks to Nao, I know. Two/four/five by Little Bear Woman, also loved as Ursula K. LeGuin: _Always Coming Home_ and The Earthsea Trilogy: _A Wizard of Earthsea_ _The Tombs of Atuan_ _The Farthest Shore_ and a fourth Earthsea novel, coming out this spring, called something like _Tehara_ (?) (One of the many marvels and supports that my wife provides to my life is that she is a librarian.) (The side of the table opposite to Silverblack fades and is replaced by a desk. One side of it is piled with Young Adult novels and non-fiction waiting to be evaluated; the other side is, at first, vacant. Then a Cheshire Cat slowly appears, tail first. Her head appears last, fading in, and those nearby can hear the end of a sentence which is evidently the answer to a reference question asked by someone in the place the Cat is appearing from. The Cat gets up, stretches, takes a book off the top of the pile and begins to read, but is interrupted by the need to remind the young patrons faintly visible beyond the desk that this is a library, not a gym. The image fades out, and Callahan's is its normal (????!) self again.) -- -- Mark Mandel (InterNet: Mandel@granite.cr.bull.com) /* My employer is not responsible for anything I say, do, think, or eat. */ Path: mit-eddie!mintaka!think!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!apple.com!zardoz From: zardoz@apple.com (The One Eyed Man) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Re: Author, author! Message-ID: <7056@goofy.Apple.COM> Date: 7 Mar 90 17:11:33 GMT References: <9003021202.AA03519@fsdcupt.csd.mot.COM> Sender: usenet@Apple.COM Organization: Apple Computer, Inc. Lines: 21 In article <9003021202.AA03519@fsdcupt.csd.mot.COM> jane@fsdcupt.csd.mot.COM (Jane Beckman x4030) writes: > Jilara grins. "Well, actually, I was kind of hoping that someone > might come up with another alternative. I'd kind of like to remember > ME. (Okay, so my stuff is small potatoes now; I'm working on making > it bigger and better.) I just hope I can make it without Steele-ing > ideas. > > By the way, does not adhering to Darwin's Origin of the Species make > you a Lamarcked man?" Doesn't that depend on your genotype? Has anyone ever noticed that Darwin's Origin of the Species is DOS? ************************************* * When you do it to me, it's discrimination * When I do it to you, it's AA ************************************* -- These are my ideas. Oy vey, are they mine. -- zardoz Newsgroups: alt.callahans Path: mit-eddie!mintaka!chaos.cs.brandeis.edu!adam From: adam@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (David C. Kaplowitz) Subject: Re: A new topic, Fahrenheit 451 and YOU In-Reply-To: rdclark@Apple.COM's message of 7 Mar 90 06:47:56 GMT Message-ID: <1990Mar7.180507.24314@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> Organization: Brandeis University Computer Science Dept References: <9003010705.AA20452@ccb.ucsf.EDU> <1990Mar1.194229.29371@granite.cr.bull.com> <90065.104010R84SI@CUNYVM.BITNET> <39262@apple.Apple.COM> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 90 18:05:07 GMT Lines: 22 In article <39262@apple.Apple.COM> rdclark@Apple.COM (Richard Clark) writes: I'm amazed that nobody here has mentioned Theodore Sturgeon. (There's something fishy going on here...) "You have cod to be kidding. You are starting fishey puns? I get a haddoc just thinking about what lines people are going to sink into this ocean of speculation. I'd offer a fiver to Mike to protect me, but one of you would pipe up with 'I'm sorry doll-phins aren't accepted here' ..." Rapidly ducking the thrown peanuts, and looking around for the desk so he can return the book ... "Thanks to all for your comfort, it is good to know that people out there are dealing better with the latest slice." Traveler In Elephants Dave -- Path: mit-eddie!bu.edu!lll-winken!uwm.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!shelby!lindy!news From: GC.DCW@forsythe.stanford.edu (SPRING FEVER) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: Another new patron Message-ID: <8378@lindy.Stanford.EDU> Date: 7 Mar 90 19:07:34 GMT Sender: news@lindy.Stanford.EDU (News Service) Lines: 40 Another newcomer passes slothlike through the door, looks around, does a double-take, and giggles in delight. Finding a table away from the crowd, he rests his back-pack upon one of the chairs. He walks to the bar, looks at Mike and smiles. "Good morning, I've heard of your place, but never really expected to find it. If you have no great objection, I'll stay awhile, silently, to observe the nature of things, else I make a nuisance of myself. As for a drink, a Dr. Pepper would suit me well, for now." Mike narrowed his eyes slightly and said gruffly, "Well, if you've found the place, you know the rules. You're welcome to stay.... The stranger blushed and stammered, "My name is Spike, a fairly simple name for a pretty simple guy. Thanks for the drink, Mike." I slapped my dollar upon the table, and stepped quitely to the table. Looking in the backback, he finds a copy of 'Taltos' by Stephen Brust and several book by John D. MacDonald. "Hello all", he declaimed loudly, "my name is Spike and if I am to be the Protector of an author's work, well if no one claims Stephen Brust, then I would be glad to do so. However, because Travis McGee was my hero, still is, then I would like to claim John D. MacDonald as my own." Looking at his suddenly empty glass he hefts it in his hands and said: "To friendships Olde and New, and to the protection and nurturing of them. May they always be cherished and remembered fondly." With that and a small apology to Mr. N. Chopper he tossed his glass into the fireplace and slowly walked back to table. Spike ============================================= Doug White Telephone Console Operator Networking/Communication Services Forsythe Hall 180 Stanford University Path: mit-eddie!bu.edu!lll-winken!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!sunic!tut!ousrvr!news From: so-luru@stekt.oulu.fi (Ari Husa OH8NUP) Newsgroups: alt.callahans Subject: The redhead's goodbye Message-ID: Date: 6 Mar 90 20:35:22 GMT Sender: news@ousrvr.oulu.fi Distribution: alt Organization: United Lusers Against SO Prefix Lines: 24 Considering the dangerous atmosphere (flying axes, huh!) and the little amount of time I have for Callahan's nowadays, I decided to return back to the shadows I came from. Somehow I can feel the change in the air like Cynic. Thank you, it was fun as long as it lasted. To all of my friends I met here, I am still reachable by e-mail and/or IRC. Farewell. May the fireplace stay warm. *crash* The man turns and walks straight out of the door, leaving it open. Cold breath of wind blows over the Callahan's. The door closes. Everything returns in its seemingly normal state. Luru -- /// Ari Husa OH8NUP so-luru@stekt.oulu.fi o-o --... ...-- o Ham Radio Operators Do It In Higher Frequency