From ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu Wed Nov  8 11:44:17 1989
From: ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu (Christopher Davis)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Welcome!
Date: 5 Nov 89 08:40:06 GMT
Reply-To: ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu (Christopher Davis)
Distribution: alt
Organization: Boston University School of Management
Status: RO

Here's hoping the newgroup got to your site before this message, otherwise
you'll be reading this in "junk"--if you read that.

Welcome to the net.callahan's.place!

And remember....

         The beauty of a pun is in the "Oy!" of the beholder...
-- 
 Christopher Davis, BU SMG '90  <ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu> <smghy6c@buacca.bitnet>
 "Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand."

From fargo@pawl.rpi.edu Wed Nov  8 11:44:33 1989
From: fargo@pawl.rpi.edu (Irwin M. Fargo)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Welcome!
Date: 5 Nov 89 20:19:19 GMT
Organization: Fargo HQ, Inc.
Status: O

Welcome!

For those of you who haven't been following news.groups, I recently proposed
a newsgroup called talk.troubles for the discussion of people's problems.  It
seems Chris beat me by making an alt group.

Why alt.callahans?  I proposed the newsgroup after just having finished
_Callahan's Crosstime Saloon_ and felt that the atmosphere was one of the
vital aspects.  So I said I'd like the newsgroup to be based on Callahan's
Place.

Well, anyways, let's get this thing going.  I would like, if possible, to
keep this oriented towards people.  If you have some really bad puns, or want
to talk about Spider Robinson's excellent works of fiction, you may go ahead
and post without incineration :).  But please!  Remember that I'd like this to
be about people, not puns or books.

And just to give things a small push...

What do you call two hot-headed people who make cartoons?

The Warmer Brothers. 

Seeya on Tuesday!  :)

-- 
Thank you and happy hunting!             Actually: Ethan M. Young
  ____ [> SB <]    "Travel IS life"      Internet: fargo@pawl.rpi.edu
 /__   -=>??<=-       - Irwin M. Fargo   Bitnet (??): usergac0@rpitsmts.bitnet
/   ARGO : 3000 years of regression from the year 4990

From livesey@solntze.Sun.COM Wed Nov  8 11:44:33 1989
From: livesey@solntze.Sun.COM (Jon Livesey)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Everything you wanted to know about Callahan's...
Date: 6 Nov 89 07:37:51 GMT
Distribution: alt
Status: O

In article <CKD.89Nov6015008@bass.bu.edu>, ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu (Christopher K Davis) writes:
> 
> * to tell Tall Tales and have Punday nights--
>   Punday Nights all have a theme [e.g. "electricity"] and all the puns have
>   to relate to it.  If you can't come up with a pun when it's your turn,
>   you lose.  The puns can be rather revolting at times--shocking,
>   really--but it's usually a current topic.  If you see watt I mean.

Ugh.  Revolting.

jon.

From gilly@bucsb.UUCP Wed Nov  8 11:44:34 1989
From: gilly@bucsb.UUCP (Gilly Rosenthol)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: A toast
Date: 6 Nov 89 17:29:58 GMT
Reply-To: gilly@bucsb.bu.edu (Gilly Rosenthol)
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci.
Status: O

Well, I'll forfeit my change, and throw the first glass.

To hugs! <crash>

And now, so's you won't need to pry, and so Fast Eddie won't have to use
that blackjack he's holding behind you, I'll explain.  I am, by nature,
a cuddly type person.  I need to be hugged and cuddled on a regular
basis.  Unfortunately, I have no boyfriend at the moment, and not many friends
around who also like physical contact.  So, this is a desperate request for
any hugs/backrugs/etc. that are not being used right now.  If anyone is
nearby enough, deliver them in person!  If not, email helps some, at least.

To explain for any who don't know Callahan's:
There's a big fireplace in the room.  All drinks in the house are $0.50.  When
you buy a drink, you must pay with a single dollar bill.  You then have the 
option of throwing your glass into the fireplace and making a toast, or
collecting your fifty cents change from a cigar box of quarters on the bar.
If you do make a toast, it's up to you whether or not you explain - no
prying is allowed.  But if you do care to explain, wonder of wonders,
PEOPLE LISTEN.  And they care.  And that's what's so special about Callahan's
Place.  Oh- Fast Eddie is the runty little piano player who's sitting at the 
old upright over there.  Think Brooklynese, and you've got it.  Anyone else
care to introduce the regulars, like Doc, Micky Finn, Long Drink, and Jake, 
and, of course, Mike?
If we choose personas, I think I'd like to be Josie Bauer.  And if not, well,
I'm Gilly.  Nice to meet you all!

-- 
+--------------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| Gilly Rosenthol    |"Don't dream it, be it" -The Rocky Horror Picture Show |
| gilly@bucsb.bu.edu |"On ne voit bien qu'avec le couer.                     |
|		     |"L'essentiel est invisible aux yeux." -Le Petit Prince |
+--------------------+-------------------------------------------------------+

From ckd@bucsb.UUCP Wed Nov  8 11:44:35 1989
From: ckd@bucsb.UUCP (Christopher Davis)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Everything you wanted to know about Callahan's...
Date: 6 Nov 89 17:39:47 GMT
Distribution: bu
Organization: Boston University School of Management
Status: O

[This doesn't appear to have made it to BU; reposting with a BU distribution]

This is the "official" welcome posting, now that the newgroup should have
reached most sites [at least, I know it got to decwrl, and lll-winken, and
osu-cis, and some others...]

What is Callahan's Place?

It's the stfnal bar that is the site of the stories in Spider Robinson's
_Callahan's Crosstime Saloon_, _Time Travelers Strictly Cash_ (a good
portion of it, anyway), and _Callahan's Secret_.  I believe the stories
have also been collected in an omnibus edition called _Callahan and
Company_, but I haven't seen this one on shelves yet.

There's also another book set in the same universe, _Callahan's Lady_,
which takes place *before* _Callahan's Secret_ but is, IMHO, better read
after _Secret_.

What's Callahan's Place like, and why a newsgroup?

It's "a merry place," full of puns, dart games, "fireplace toasts" (more on
these later) and lots of people willing to listen.  Oh, and tall tales,
talking dogs, alien invaders, time travelers...

Why a newsgroup?  Several reasons, really... 

* to discuss Spider and his works--
  (including the rather hard-to-find _Antinomy_, which was just being
  published when Dell decided to drop SF completely, and which I managed to
  find a copy of--after a while);

* to tell Tall Tales and have Punday nights--
  Punday Nights all have a theme [e.g. "electricity"] and all the puns have
  to relate to it.  If you can't come up with a pun when it's your turn,
  you lose.  The puns can be rather revolting at times--shocking,
  really--but it's usually a current topic.  If you see watt I mean.

* to act as a temporary "talk.troubles"--
  Callahan's is a place full of listeners; "in some bars, the bartender
  will listen to your troubles; here, we all share the load."  The First
  Law of Callahan's Place is that shared pain is lessened, but shared joy
  is increased.

* to have fireplace toasts (told you I'd get back to these!)--
  The drinks at Callahan's Place are all fifty cents.  You pay a dollar,
  and if you give your glass back you get a fifty-cent refund... or you can
  "toast the fireplace."  There's a throwing line, and you stand there,
  recite your toast, then hurl the glass into the fireplace.  Works
  wonders, sometimes.

* and to give the alt.net something a little better than the latest rash of
  alt.frivolous-froups [alt.sex.carasso?  Give me a *break*!].

  Time--and the altnet sysadmins--will tell me if I've done the job.

Enjoy.  Post in good health.  And remember, once again...

"The beauty of a pun is in the 'Oy!' of the beholder."
-- 
 Christopher Davis, BU SMG '90  <ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu> <smghy6c@buacca.bitnet>
 "Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand."

From fargo@pawl.rpi.edu Wed Nov  8 11:44:35 1989
From: fargo@pawl.rpi.edu (Irwin M. Fargo)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Everything you wanted to know about Callahan's...
Date: 6 Nov 89 15:54:09 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Fargo HQ, Inc.
Status: O

In <127441@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> livesey@solntze.Sun.COM (Jon Livesey) writes:
>In article <CKD.89Nov6015008@bass.bu.edu>, ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu (Christopher K Davis) writes:
>> 
>> * to tell Tall Tales and have Punday nights--
>>   Punday Nights all have a theme [e.g. "electricity"] and all the puns have
>>   to relate to it.  If you can't come up with a pun when it's your turn,
>>   you lose.  The puns can be rather revolting at times--shocking,
>>   really--but it's usually a current topic.  If you see watt I mean.
>
>Ugh.  Revolting.
>
>jon.

I'm sorry to disagree, but I thought that pun was a real joule.

-- 
Thank you and happy hunting!             Actually: Ethan M. Young
  ____ [> SB <]    "Travel IS life"      Internet: fargo@pawl.rpi.edu
 /__   -=>??<=-       - Irwin M. Fargo   Bitnet (??): usergac0@rpitsmts.bitnet
/   ARGO : 3000 years of regression from the year 4990

From jde@unify.UUCP Wed Nov  8 11:44:36 1989
From: jde@unify.UUCP (Jeff Evarts)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Everything you wanted to know about Callahan's...
Date: 6 Nov 89 18:32:41 GMT
Reply-To: jde@unify.UUCP (Jeff Evarts)
Distribution: alt
Organization: Unify Corporation, Sacramento, CA, USA
Status: O

In article <1989Nov6.155409.13407@rpi.edu> fargo@pawl.rpi.edu (Irwin M. Fargo) writes:
>In <127441@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> livesey@solntze.Sun.COM (Jon Livesey) writes:
>>In article <CKD.89Nov6015008@bass.bu.edu>, ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu (Christopher K Davis) writes:
>>> 
>>> * to tell Tall Tales and have Punday nights--
>>>   Punday Nights all have a theme [e.g. "electricity"] and all the puns have
>>>   to relate to it.  If you can't come up with a pun when it's your turn,
>>>   you lose.  The puns can be rather revolting at times--shocking,
>>>   really--but it's usually a current topic.  If you see watt I mean.
>>
>>Ugh.  Revolting.
>>
>>jon.
>
>I'm sorry to disagree, but I thought that pun was a real joule.
>
>-- 
>Thank you and happy hunting!             Actually: Ethan M. Young
>  ____ [> SB <]    "Travel IS life"      Internet: fargo@pawl.rpi.edu
> /__   -=>??<=-       - Irwin M. Fargo   Bitnet (??): usergac0@rpitsmts.bitnet
>/   ARGO : 3000 years of regression from the year 4990

It was amp-le.

-Jeff Evarts
--jde@unify.UUCP
#include <std.disclaimer>

From alan@Apple.COM Wed Nov  8 11:44:36 1989
From: alan@Apple.COM (Alan Mimms)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Everything you wanted to know about Callahan's...
Date: 6 Nov 89 19:29:41 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
Status: O

In article <CKD.89Nov6015008@bass.bu.edu> ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu (Christopher K Davis) writes:
>
>Why a newsgroup?  Several reasons, really... 
>
>* to discuss Spider and his works--
>  (including the rather hard-to-find _Antinomy_, which was just being
>  published when Dell decided to drop SF completely, and which I managed to
>  find a copy of--after a while);

Is Spider on the net?  If not, can someone find him and give him access?
I believe he'd enjoy the techno-twist that netting adds to the Callahan's
idea.

What a great idea.
-- 

Alan Mimms                                      My opinions are generally
Communications Product Development Group        pretty worthless, but
Apple Computer                                  they *are* my own...
"The company has new jobs and Jobs has a new company" -- Harry Anderson

From livesey@solntze.Sun.COM Wed Nov  8 11:44:37 1989
From: livesey@solntze.Sun.COM (Jon Livesey)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Everything you wanted to know about Callahan's...
Date: 6 Nov 89 22:02:21 GMT
Distribution: alt
Status: O

In article <1989Nov6.155409.13407@rpi.edu>, fargo@pawl.rpi.edu (Irwin M. Fargo) writes:
> In <127441@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> livesey@solntze.Sun.COM (Jon Livesey) writes:
> >In article <CKD.89Nov6015008@bass.bu.edu>, ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu (Christopher K Davis) writes:
> >> 
> >> * to tell Tall Tales and have Punday nights--
> >>   Punday Nights all have a theme [e.g. "electricity"] and all the puns have
> >>   to relate to it.  If you can't come up with a pun when it's your turn,
> >>   you lose.  The puns can be rather revolting at times--shocking,
> >>   really--but it's usually a current topic.  If you see watt I mean.
> >
> >Ugh.  Revolting.
> >
> >jon.
> 
> I'm sorry to disagree, but I thought that pun was a real joule.

Ohmigod, flamed already.

jon.

From mellon@zayante.pa.dec.com Wed Nov  8 11:44:37 1989
From: mellon@zayante.pa.dec.com (Ted Lemon)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Everything you wanted to know about Callahan's...
Date: 6 Nov 89 21:30:51 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
In-reply-to: fargo@pawl.rpi.edu's message of 6 Nov 89 15:54:09 GMT
Status: O

In article <1989Nov6.155409.13407@rpi.edu> fargo@pawl.rpi.edu (Irwin M. Fargo) writes:

>Ugh.  Revolting.
>I'm sorry to disagree, but I thought that pun was a real joule.
Indeed.   One must have capacity for laughter to survive in our
society.   I'm glad Chris took the time to farad it out.

			       _MelloN_

From fargo@pawl.rpi.edu Wed Nov  8 11:44:38 1989
From: fargo@pawl.rpi.edu (Irwin M. Fargo)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Everything you wanted to know about Callahan's...
Date: 6 Nov 89 22:28:28 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Fargo HQ, Inc.
Status: O

In <1209@unify.UUCP> jde@unify.UUCP (Jeff Evarts) writes:
>In article <1989Nov6.155409.13407@rpi.edu> fargo@pawl.rpi.edu (Irwin M. Fargo) writes:
>>In <127441@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> livesey@solntze.Sun.COM (Jon Livesey) writes:
>>>In article <CKD.89Nov6015008@bass.bu.edu>, ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu (Christopher K Davis) writes:
>>>> 
>>>> * to tell Tall Tales and have Punday nights--
>>>>   Punday Nights all have a theme [e.g. "electricity"] and all the puns have
>>>>   to relate to it.  If you can't come up with a pun when it's your turn,
>>>>   you lose.  The puns can be rather revolting at times--shocking,
>>>>   really--but it's usually a current topic.  If you see watt I mean.
>>>
>>>Ugh.  Revolting.
>>>
>>
>>I'm sorry to disagree, but I thought that pun was a real joule.
>>
>
>It was amp-le.

Great!  Someone else to be inducted!

-- 
Thank you and happy hunting!             Actually: Ethan M. Young
  ____ [> SB <]    "Travel IS life"      Internet: fargo@pawl.rpi.edu
 /__   -=>??<=-       - Irwin M. Fargo   Bitnet (??): usergac0@rpitsmts.bitnet
/   ARGO : 3000 years of regression from the year 4990

From fargo@pawl.rpi.edu Wed Nov  8 11:44:38 1989
From: fargo@pawl.rpi.edu (Irwin M. Fargo)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Newsgroup advice
Date: 6 Nov 89 22:42:05 GMT
Organization: Fargo HQ, Inc.
Status: O

Not a real problem, but I would like some advice on newsgroup creation.

As some to most of you may know, I recently proposed a newsgroup.  This is
the second time that I've ever proposed a newsgroup and had it fly.  The first
time just kinda died off.

So I'd like to ask the advice of all the newsgroup gurus out there about some
things to do to ease such tasks as vote collection, the actual newsgroup
creation itself (the newgroup command), etc.

I think it would be a good idea if the replies were posted publically as I'm
sure there are other people out there who are or are going to propose news-
groups and might need some help.
   Thanks.

-- 
Thank you and happy hunting!             Actually: Ethan M. Young
  ____ [> SB <]    "Travel IS life"      Internet: fargo@pawl.rpi.edu
 /__   -=>??<=-       - Irwin M. Fargo   Bitnet (??): usergac0@rpitsmts.bitnet
/   ARGO : 3000 years of regression from the year 4990

From gerber@av8or.enet.dec.com Wed Nov  8 11:44:39 1989
From: gerber@av8or.enet.dec.com (Robert M. Gerber)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Hello, and a pun.
Date: 6 Nov 89 20:53:28 GMT
Reply-To: gerber@av8or.enet.dec.com (Robert M. Gerber)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Status: O

This newsgroup sounds like it could be a lot of fun.  You do realize
that at closing
time that Mike had tp make like a shepard and get the flock out of there.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------
Robert M. Gerber		  UUCP:	...!decwrl!av8or.dec!gerber
				  INET:	gerber@av8or.enet.dec.com

Any opinions represented here are definetly not those of my employer.
Come to think of it, they may not be mine either!

From nyles@cyberspace.Sun.COM Wed Nov  8 11:44:39 1989
From: nyles@cyberspace.Sun.COM (Nyles Nettleton)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Everything you wanted to know about Callahan's...
Date: 7 Nov 89 00:16:23 GMT
Reply-To: nyles@sun.UUCP (Nyles Nettleton)
Distribution: alt
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View
Status: O

>>>>> * to tell Tall Tales and have Punday nights--
>>>>>   Punday Nights all have a theme [e.g. "electricity"] and all the puns
>>>>>   have to relate to it.  If you can't come up with a pun when it's your
>>>>>   turn, you lose.  The puns can be rather revolting at times--shocking,
>>>>>   really--but it's usually a current topic.  If you see watt I mean.
>>>>
>>>>Ugh.  Revolting.
>>>
>>>I'm sorry to disagree, but I thought that pun was a real joule.
>>
>>It was amp-le.
>
>Great!  Someone else to be inducted!
>
Arc!  I tried to resist, but I find myself charging in...  Maybe we should
hold an electron to decide on the wurst (sorry, no food jokes allowed) or
best pun.  Well, ta ta, grid bias, sayonara, oscillator...

					Nyles Nettleton
					...sun!cyberspace!nyles

From davek@lakesys.lakesys.com Wed Nov  8 11:44:40 1989
From: davek@lakesys.lakesys.com (Dave Kraft)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Hello there
Date: 7 Nov 89 04:05:55 GMT
Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Keywords: hi
Status: O

Hi,
Well, after reading the first few messages of this newsgroup, it looks like
I'll have a good time.. (haven't read the book).

[steps up to bar and slaps a $1.00 bill down]

Here's my toast:

I would like to toast pseudoconversational CICS programs...  (explanation to
follow)
[throws glass into fireplace

Explanation:
I am taking a CICS (Customer Information Control Systems) class at school 
(Milwaukee Area Technical College), and I have been raking my brain on our
present program (an VSAM file update).  We are writing this on an IBM 4361
under VM/CMS..  Any hints/ideas??  If so, send 'em to me! [beg, beg]

Dave

-- 
davek@lakesys.lakesys.com <OR> uunet!marque!lakesys!davek
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"The computer is happy, you are happy, unhappiness is treason.  Treason is 
treason, treason is death, be happy"

From usenet@cps3xx.UUCP Wed Nov  8 11:44:41 1989
From: usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Everything you wanted to know about Callahan's...
Date: 7 Nov 89 03:33:20 GMT
Reply-To: stockton@frith.egr.msu.edu (Ronald G Stockton)
Distribution: alt
Organization: Engineering, Michigan State University, E. Lansing
Status: O

In article <127484@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> nyles@sun.UUCP (Nyles Nettleton) writes:
 >>>>>> * to tell Tall Tales and have Punday nights--
 >>>>>>   Punday Nights all have a theme [e.g. "electricity"] and all the puns
 >>>>>>   have to relate to it.  If you can't come up with a pun when it's your
 >>>>>>   turn, you lose.  The puns can be rather revolting at times--shocking,
 >>>>>>   really--but it's usually a current topic.  If you see watt I mean.
 >>>>>
 >>>>>Ugh.  Revolting.
 >>>>
 >>>>I'm sorry to disagree, but I thought that pun was a real joule.
 >>>
 >>>It was amp-le.
 >>
 >>Great!  Someone else to be inducted!
 >>
 >Arc!  I tried to resist, but I find myself charging in...  Maybe we should
 >hold an electron to decide on the wurst (sorry, no food jokes allowed) or
 >best pun.  Well, ta ta, grid bias, sayonara, oscillator...

 I don't want to sound like I'm on a power trip, but due to the recent
 battery of bad puns, I must ask that people reading this group to
 conduct themselves in a more mature fashion, since to do otherwise is 
 simply a waste of bandwidth. :-)

From franceee@image.soe!clutx.clarkson.edu Wed Nov  8 11:44:41 1989
From: franceee@image.soe!clutx.clarkson.edu (Eric France,,,)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Everything you wanted to know about Callahan's...
Date: 7 Nov 89 05:19:30 GMT
Reply-To: franceee@image.soe!clutx.clarkson.edu
Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY
Status: O

The breakdown is this:
We wouldn't want to impede the normal business of Internet with lots
of interference.  Newsposts should deal with current affairs of the real
domain, not imaginary subjects out of phase with events. 

Eric France
franceee@clutx.clarkson.edu 

From tom@ssd.harris.com Wed Nov  8 11:44:42 1989
From: tom@ssd.harris.com (Tom Horsley)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Archive
Date: 6 Nov 89 19:29:30 GMT
Organization: Harris Computer Systems Division
Status: O

So is anyone planning to archive this group and send monthly dumps
to Spider Robinson?
--
=====================================================================
    usenet: tahorsley@ssd.harris.com  USMail: Tom Horsley
compuserve: 76505,364                         511 Kingbird Circle
     genie: T.HORSLEY                         Delray Beach, FL  33444
======================== Aging: Just say no! ========================

From hildebrd@cs.swarthmore.edu Wed Nov  8 11:44:42 1989
From: hildebrd@cs.swarthmore.edu (Jeff Hildebrand)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Everything you wanted to know about Callahan's...
Date: 6 Nov 89 22:03:36 GMT
Reply-To: hildebrd@ilium (Jeff Hildebrand)
Distribution: alt
Organization: CS Dept., Swarthmore College, PA
Status: O

In article <CKD.89Nov6015008@bass.bu.edu> ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu (Christopher K 
Davis) writes:

> * to tell Tall Tales and have Punday nights--
>   Punday Nights all have a theme [e.g. "electricity"] and all the puns have
>   to relate to it.  If you can't come up with a pun when it's your turn,
>   you lose.  The puns can be rather revolting at times--shocking,
>   really--but it's usually a current topic.  If you see watt I mean.

	Ohm my! We're going to have to put up amp-le resistance to this. I
think someone should be charged to do something about it. It's out of my
field; I've really been out of the circuit recently. This is really a switch.
Wire we doing this anyway?

	This is probably the strangest way yet I've come up with to study for
my electricity and magnetism on Wednesday. :)

	Oh yeah! Three cheers for the creation of this newsgroup. A wonderful
idea!

> "The beauty of a pun is in the 'Oy!' of the beholder."
> -- 
>  Christopher Davis, BU SMG '90  <ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu> <smghy6c@buacca.bitnet>
>  "Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand."

-Jeff
*****************************************************************************
Jeff Hildebrand                      Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 19081
JDH92@campus.swarthmore.edu (prefered)      or     hildebrd@cs.swarthmore.edu
Would you trust a man who answers to Hildebaby?

From hugh@hoptoad.uucp Wed Nov  8 11:44:44 1989
From: hugh@hoptoad.uucp (Hugh Daniel)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Everything you wanted to know about Callahan's...
Date: 7 Nov 89 07:52:23 GMT
Reply-To: hugh@hoptoad.UUCP (Hugh Daniel)
Distribution: alt
Organization: Grasshopper Group | Project Xanadu
Status: O


  In some very real sence we are creating here a true Callahns Crosstime
Saloon, a place that is warm and bright as the rooms you are sitting in
now.  A place that is easy to get to but hard to find.  Where time is
skewed, and it seem that you hear conversations from the past.  A place
where anyone can just walk on in, sit down at the bar, look deep into
the screen at the end of the bar and say whats on their mind.

  Oh yes, please dont brood at the tables in the corner where its dark,
I just cant see you over there, type up!

  I wonder how many Aliens' will stop in here at Callahan's on the Net
and join us for a glass of brew for the Soul.

  I have been up to long to be reading NetNeWS, currently I am toaly
wired and have'ent a hope of refraning from the Punday night activites.

		||ugh

From jeffm@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu Wed Nov  8 11:44:45 1989
From: jeffm@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Jeff Medcalf)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: A nybble for a toast, and a story
Date: 7 Nov 89 10:27:58 GMT
Reply-To: jeffm@uokmax.UUCP (Jeff Medcalf)
Distribution: alt
Organization: No, it isn't really.  (University of Oklahoma, ECN)
Status: O


My extra four bits into the cigar box, and my toast:

To waking up with the one you love   /* smash */


And now, friends, I've a story...

In the Middle Ages, there was a small country in Europe ruled by an infamous
Count.  He was known for his greed and paranoia, and for the tyranny with
which he ruled his meager nation.

Among the impoverished peasants, there arose a strong and dedicated resistance
to the rule of the Count.  As the resistance gained in power, the Count thought
to cripple it by seizing its ablest leader, a cobbler named Mercia.  Mercia
was kidnapped by the Count's guards, and was thrown into a hidden place in the
depths of the dungeon.

Pushed passed their limits, the people overthrew and captured the Count.  They
put him in the dungeon, and demanded the location of Mercia.  The Count
refused, and the people were angered.  They tortured the Count for days, until
he was near death.  Still he would not tell them where Mercia was.  A search
for Mercia could not locate him.

Finally, the people threatened the Count with death by beheading.  Still he
refused.  They led the Count to the platform where the execution was to take
place, and still he refused.

They placed his head on the block, and asked if he had any last words.
"Though I die," said the evil count, "I die knowing that Mercia will never be
found, and will slowly rot of starvation and thirst.  This makes me content."

Hearing this, the executioner raised his blade, and let it fall.
When the blade was coming down, the Count said, "Wait!! Wait!!  I'll te...."

But it was too late.

So always remember, do not hatchet your Counts before they chicken.

:-)

Peace.


-- 
Jeff Medcalf	 jeffm@uokmax.uucp	jeffm@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu
!chinet!uokmax!jeffm	jeffm@invent_an_address (as reliable as the preceeding)
In 1869, the waffle iron was invented, thus solving the annoying tendency of
waffles to wrinkle in the dryer.

From jeffm@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu Wed Nov  8 11:44:46 1989
From: jeffm@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Jeff Medcalf)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Hi gilly!
Date: 7 Nov 89 10:56:58 GMT
Reply-To: jeffm@uokmax.UUCP (Jeff Medcalf)
Distribution: alt
Organization: No, it isn't really.  (University of Oklahoma, ECN)
Status: O


I tried to email, but my mailer couldn't seem to find you :-(

Anyway,  To hugs!

You can find one encoded in the following:

                                                  
              |                           |              | /     | 
              |    |                      |              |/     /  
              |    |                     /               /     /
              |   |                      |                    | 
              |    |                                    (    / 
             |           _______                 __         / 
             | |        /     oo\______         / /         |               
           __|         |    |        (_)       | |          |__ 
          /  \________//    |  _       /        \ \_________/  \ 
         /             |    |_-`------'    |     \              \     
         |             |    ||                   |               | 
         |              \___/                    |               | 
          \________  ______/         |            \______  _____/ 
           |      |  | |  |         /              |  | |  |  |
         _/ /   __|  | |  |__       |            __|  | |  |__ \_
        /      (((___) (___)))     /            (_____) (_____)  \


-- 
Jeff Medcalf	 jeffm@uokmax.uucp	jeffm@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu
!chinet!uokmax!jeffm	jeffm@invent_an_address (as reliable as the preceeding)
In 1869, the waffle iron was invented, thus solving the annoying tendency of
waffles to wrinkle in the dryer.

From rodneys@Apple.COM Wed Nov  8 11:44:47 1989
From: rodneys@Apple.COM (Rodney Somerstein)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Everything you wanted to know about Callahan's...
Date: 7 Nov 89 15:17:07 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
Status: O

Wire you people doing this to me?  This definitely the most shocking newsgroup
to be started in a long while.


I love it! :)

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Rodney Somerstein
rodneys@apple.com

From spl@mcnc.org Wed Nov  8 11:44:48 1989
From: spl@mcnc.org (Steve Lamont)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Everything you wanted to know about Callahan's...
Date: 7 Nov 89 15:28:31 GMT
Reply-To: spl@mcnc.org.UUCP (Steve Lamont)
Distribution: alt
Organization: Foo Bar Brewers Cooperative
Status: O

In article <1989Nov6.222828.1668@rpi.edu> fargo@pawl.rpi.edu (Irwin M. Fargo) writes:
<In <1209@unify.UUCP> jde@unify.UUCP (Jeff Evarts) writes:
<>In article <1989Nov6.155409.13407@rpi.edu> fargo@pawl.rpi.edu (Irwin M. Fargo) writes:
<>>In <127441@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> livesey@solntze.Sun.COM (Jon Livesey) writes:
<>>>In article <CKD.89Nov6015008@bass.bu.edu>, ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu (Christopher K Davis) writes:
<>>>> 
<>>>> * to tell Tall Tales and have Punday nights--
<>>>>   Punday Nights all have a theme [e.g. "electricity"] and all the puns have
<>>>>   to relate to it.  If you can't come up with a pun when it's your turn,
<>>>>   you lose.  The puns can be rather revolting at times--shocking,
<>>>>   really--but it's usually a current topic.  If you see watt I mean.
<>>>
<>>>Ugh.  Revolting.
<>>>
<>>
<>>I'm sorry to disagree, but I thought that pun was a real joule.
<>>
<>
<>It was amp-le.
<
<Great!  Someone else to be inducted!


.... we must resist this trend!

							spl (the p stands for
							pleased to find a
							group after my own
							heart...)
-- 
Steve Lamont, sciViGuy			EMail:	spl@ncsc.org
NCSC, Box 12732, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
"There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We
 don't believe this to be a coincidence." ||   - Jeremy S. Anderson

