From richardt@mica.Berkeley.EDU Fri Nov 10 19:08:25 1989
From: richardt@mica.Berkeley.EDU (Richard Threadgill)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Quoted postings to alt.callahan's
Date: 9 Nov 89 10:01:26 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: /usr/gypsum/anableps/richardt/.organization
Status: O

Alt Callahan's is a wonderful thing.  Please *DO NOT* include prior pun
postings in new puns, tho, because it gets very long and very tedious.
And fer god's sake, don't include the old 'From:' stuff.

RichardT
'I met this monk once, y'see...'

From hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM Fri Nov 10 19:08:26 1989
From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Callahan's posting convention proposal
Date: 9 Nov 89 01:46:52 GMT
Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath)
Organization: The Cat Factory
Status: O


I suggest that postings whose sole purpose is Punday Night competition be
so labeled in the Subject: line.  Some of us would just like to have a
quiet, heart to heart exchange in the corner, or respond to someone's
toast and explanation, and don't want to wade through screen after screen
of irrelevant wit to do it.  The 'n' key helps, but still takes more time
than it should.  If you put <PUN WARNING> on the subject line, the rest of
us can get on with other interests.  Likewise for riddles and other
Callahan's games.

I've got nothing against puns, per se, but the endlessly quoted repetitions
get old very quickly.

-- 
The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, hollombe@ttidca.tti.com)  Illegitimis non
Citicorp(+)TTI                                                 Carborundum
3100 Ocean Park Blvd.   (213) 452-9191, x2483
Santa Monica, CA  90405 {csun|philabs|psivax}!ttidca!hollombe

From usenet@cps3xx.UUCP Fri Nov 10 19:08:26 1989
From: usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Callahan's posting convention proposal
Date: 9 Nov 89 16:21:45 GMT
Reply-To: frey@frith.UUCP (Zachary T. Frey)
Organization: Michigan State University, College of Engineering
Status: O

In article <7536@ttidca.TTI.COM> hollombe@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath) writes:

>I suggest that postings whose sole purpose is Punday Night competition be
>so labeled in the Subject: line. [...] The 'n' key helps, but still takes 
>more time than it should.  If you put <PUN WARNING> on the subject line ...

Good idea.  I've got a slight counter-proposal.  Instead of using the
Subject: line for the labelings, how about using the Keywords: line?

I think all we should need is <PUN WARNING> for Punday Night and
<TALL TALE> for Tall Tales Night.  Maybe <ADMINISTRIVIA> for postings
like these, too.

>I've got nothing against puns, per se, but the endlessly quoted repetitions
>get old very quickly.

There're a lot of judgement calls to be made on how much to quote, because
it's the nature of a pun that it often needs a lead-in line.  Since
"to quote or not to quote", and how much, is the question, and since
it is a judgement call, people will make mistakes, and no one will ever
be perfectly satisfied.

Then again, brevity *is* the soul of wit.

Zach Frey

Papernet: Zachary Frey         | frey@frith.egr.msu.edu |  Usenet:  the
          514 Virginia St.     | frey@frith.BITNET      |    Bellman's
          E. Lansing, MI 48823 | ...uunet!frith!frey    |    Paradise.

From shoulson@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu Fri Nov 10 19:08:27 1989
From: shoulson@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Mark Shoulson)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Official hellos
Date: 9 Nov 89 16:20:48 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
Status: O

Well, I don't think we can each take Callahan personae.  There aren't
enough to go around, and everyone will want the big names.  But it would be
nice if we could sort of get to know each other on a first name basis on
this group, so as to form an electronic Callahan's.  I know it sounds
corny, but it would be an interesting thing to try.  So, this is my
official hello to alt.callahan land, and I hope we'll see lots of good
discussions, etc.

[ $1 on counter (imaginary money's *so* easy to spend. :-) ) ]

To Friendships Yet to Be!		/* SMASH! */

~mark
      o o     o   o             o o   o     o        o   o     o o          
              o                       o	o   o  	   o       o   	 o     	     
  o   o     o     o         o     o     o   o      o   	 o     o       	   

Mark Shoulson:  shoulson@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu   shoulson@cunixc.bitnet
                {...}!rutgers!columbia!cunixc!shoulson

From snoopy@fig.ucsb.edu Fri Nov 10 19:08:27 1989
From: snoopy@fig.ucsb.edu (Smith, Jamie Lynn)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Another Official hello
Date: 9 Nov 89 18:33:52 GMT
Reply-To: snoopy@fig.UUCP (Smith)
Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara
Status: O

The scene was a typical Callahans bar night.  Hushed talk permeated the room.
(Permeated?)
Well, anyway, in walked a short fellow almost no-one noticed at first-- he
dissappeared in the crowd and reappeared as he jumped up and stood upon a
bar stool.
His green helmet and red scarf were battered, suggesting he'd been in a
rough fight... but what sort of fight also coats a "person" with soot?
"Root Beer, Please", he said, slapping down his 1$ on the counter.  He took
up his mug, raised it in his thumbless paw, and said,
"To Beagles!"
He emptied the mug in one swallow, and sent it flying into the fireplace.
<crash>
He smiled, yawned, and promptly fell asleep upon the bar top. ;-)

Woof.

P.S.  I'm a girl, but I can't help identifying with WWI Flying Aces.  Just
thought I'd let you all know, since my first name isn't a good clue. :-)

----
****************** The World War One Flying Ace *************************
* "I'll get you some day, Red Baron!"  --- Snoopy    | Jamie Lynn Smith *
* "|!| !!! |!||! |||!!||!  ||!|!||!|"  --- Woodstock | CS ugrad at UCSB *
********************************* mail to snoopy@cornu.ucsb.edu *********

From jefyoung@pawl.rpi.edu Fri Nov 10 19:08:28 1989
From: jefyoung@pawl.rpi.edu (Jeffrey Young)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Another Official hello
Date: 9 Nov 89 20:05:40 GMT
Organization: The Unicorn Grove, Somewhere In The Mists
Status: O


 

   The door of the place opens of it's own accord, and a breeze
scented of spring meadows wafts throughout the room.  Though it is
dark outside, the one who just walked in gives the impression
he has been in a sunlit field for some time now.  He is not 
remotely human, but rather a creature of Magic and Wonder.

  The Unicorn dips his head low, his dark blue mane falling
over his eyes.   "Greetings, fellow Travellers.. Taldin 
The Blue Unicorn, at thy service."  The 'corn is indeed 
that color, ranging from sky blue hide to the dark blue 
mane, tail and "socks" on the hind legs.  "I azure you,
I am a friend..and a healer as well."
 
  The Unicorn walks slowly through the place, his hooves
making soft clip-clop (tm) sounds as he moves. 

 "I like it.  Reminds me of my Glade back home, but with 
alcohol."
 
[elecricity pun] - "This should be an en-lightning place.."
  (pardon if it was used, I didn't see it if it was)
 
  "..but isn't it time to alternate the subject? Oh, 
  I don't know.. how about 'Shade'.. beyond a SHADOW 
   of a doubt a topic in the BLACK when it comes to    
    unused puns."
  
The Unicorn fishes an empty glass on the end of his horn.
  "Not big enough.." , he is heard to mumble.  He flips
  the glass into the fire.  "To fighting off the Darkness."
 
  "Hmm.. about payment.. Fargo, my friend, can you cover for me?
I'll pay you back when we get back to the Flying Fox II."

He wanders over to a large rug on the floor near the wall, and lies
down on it.
  
  "On darkness:  The dark hides many things, most of them not
 too pleasant.  The dark is a weapon of despair, of fear. What
 one must remember is that each of us carries their own Light,
  to be used when you are in the dark.  Don't let the darkness
  get to you, for it will be your undoing...and you will join
  the creatures of the Night.. whom I am sworn enemy of.  Those
  who breed hate and death in their souls are no friends of mine."

  "What is this Light?  It is Hope, my friends, and Joy, 
   and Laughter.  It is remembered Happiness.  It is the
   light of the soul.."
  
  On cue, the Unicorn's horn seems to glow at it's tip, a 
blue-white light that illuminates a small area for 5 feet 
around him.  

   "However, there is often more darkness than light.  
  Back where I come from, I keep a Glade, a place of light,
   calm, and healing, where it is always afternoon, and
   strife is unheard of.. but it is an island of 
   pleasant meadow in a Forest of Darkness.  There is 
   much evil in the world, and too few Unicorns to 
   fight it.  I am one such.. and I am here for you."

                                 -Taldin The Blue Unicorn
                                     Defender Of Light



-- 
"You are blue, Unicorn.. the Blue of clear, cloudless days where
everything seems like it's going right and nothing could go wrong..
and the Blue of despair and lonliness." 
                                       jefyoung@pawl.rpi.edu

From usenet@rpi.edu Fri Nov 10 19:08:28 1989
From: usenet@rpi.edu (USENET Maint Acct)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Greetings
Date: 10 Nov 89 01:00:58 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
Keywords: Greetings all. Callahan's is a place that is not too far away from where I
Status: O

used to call home. In fact, if the description of the area is right, Ridge
LI, NY should be just a stone's throw away from the site...
  
*sigh* Pity I am STILL not old enough to go bar-hopping, but if I ever
found a place like that...
From: lupine@pawl.rpi.edu (Gayathri Kamath)
Path: lupine

      Greetings, all... My real name is Gayathri, but it is usually simpler
to call me by my nickname, Silver Wolf. I, myself, am terrible at puns,
but enjoy them immensly. I personally identify with Rosie Bauer, (I think that
is her whole name) She loves a man with a sense of humour...
         Why, Hello there Taldin...fancy meeting you here, outside the Glade...

Callahan, Bless me, for I have a thirst...
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
lupine@pawl.rpi.edu

peace love and chocolate
hedonism is the watchword (along with fireplaces and cuddles)

From scott@csusac.csus.edu Fri Nov 10 19:08:29 1989
From: scott@csusac.csus.edu (L. Scott Emmons)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Callahan's posting convention proposal
Date: 10 Nov 89 01:33:42 GMT
Reply-To: scott@csusac.UUCP (L. Scott Emmons)
Organization: California State University, Sacramento
Status: O

In article <5314@cps3xx.UUCP> frey@frith.UUCP (Zachary T. Frey) writes:
>Good idea.  I've got a slight counter-proposal.  Instead of using the
>Subject: line for the labelings, how about using the Keywords: line?

The only problem with this, is that (at least on _our_ news reader) we must
still read the article in order to find out whether or not it is a pun/etc.
posting.

-- 
			L. Scott Emmons
			uucp: ...[!ucbvax]!ucdavis!csusac!scott

From gilly@bucsb.UUCP Fri Nov 10 19:08:29 1989
From: gilly@bucsb.UUCP (Gilly Rosenthol)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: music
Date: 10 Nov 89 16:28:10 GMT
Reply-To: gilly@bucsb.bu.edu (Gilly Rosenthol)
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci.
Keywords: Pun warning
Status: O

Well, Zach and I have been following this line for a while, and bassed
on the latest few puns, we decided that it's time for the thread to
be cleff in two.  We guitared of seeing all these electrical jokes, and
we prefer music as a subject.  So all you musicians who think you can
Handel it, come out of Haydn and add to the Liszt!  We can Chopansies
like these who's better.  Come join the Frey!  But please, no violins -
this *is* Callahan's Place.  Besides, not to blow our own horns, but -
we'd lick you easily.  I can see you treble at the mere thought.  So
hold down the forte, and I'll be back soon!

-- 
+--------------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| 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 |
+--------------------+-------------------------------------------------------+

Hopefully, this only got posted once, but I have the sneaking suspicion 
I may have screwed up and posted it twice.  If so, I humbly apologize.
-- 
+--------------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| 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@bu-pub.bu.edu Fri Nov 10 19:08:30 1989
From: ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu (Christopher K Davis)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: PUN WARNING: Music
Date: 10 Nov 89 20:03:40 GMT
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Organization: Boston University School of Management
In-reply-to: gilly@bucsb.UUCP's message of 10 Nov 89 16:28:10 GMT
Status: O

I think we're likely to see a new wave of puns... but what wood(wind) you
expect?  I'm just glad someone had the brass to start a new string.

Now, I guess it's time to sound off--and start taking notes...
-- 
 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 woody@eos.UUCP Fri Nov 10 19:08:30 1989
From: woody@eos.UUCP (Wayne Wood)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: a toast to old friends
Date: 10 Nov 89 19:03:32 GMT
Reply-To: woody@eos.UUCP (Wayne Wood)
Distribution: usa
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.
Status: O

the door swings open and in strides a man, apparently down on his luck.

though he is wearing faded jeans, long hair and a beard, his back is
ramrod straight, and there is confidence in his walk.

he moves to the bar and pushes up a VA disability check, "Rum toddys for
everyone", he announces.

then he moves to the fire place, raises his glass, and says, " a toast!
To those who have gone before... for God, Corps, and Country... Semper
Fidelis!"  He downs his drink, and throws the glass into the blaze.  after
a moments silence, the denizens of Callahans do the same.

he moves to the bar, collects his change, and disappears into the night...


today is November 10th... the Marine Corps birthday.  tomorrow is November
11th... veterans day.  let's remember who they are, shall we?


/***   woody   ****************************************************************
*** ...tongue tied and twisted, just an earth bound misfit, I...            ***
*** -- David Gilmour, Pink Floyd                                            ***
****** woody@eos.arc.nasa.gov *** my opinions, like my mind, are my own ******/

From sra@lcs.mit.edu Fri Nov 10 19:08:31 1989
From: sra@lcs.mit.edu (Rob Austein)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: a toast to old friends
Date: 10 Nov 89 21:11:58 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: ITS Preservation Society
In-reply-to: woody@eos.UUCP's message of 10 Nov 89 19:03:32 GMT
Status: O

I don't think Callahan accepts anything but $1 bills.  Fortunately, I
have one with me, because I have a toast too.

To Armistice Day.  (SMASH)

Although many people have forgotten it, Veterans Day has another name,
older name, and that at least one group (the Society of Friends, aka
the "Quakers") still use the older name.  The date was chosen to
commemerate the end of the Great War, the War To End All War, WWI.

I will not argue against having a day in honor of veterans (I might
have, years ago, but not today), nor will I speculate on why the
government, in its wisdom, chose to appropriate the one secular peace
observance day this country has ever had for this purpose.  I will
simply ask that, when you hear the name "Veterans Day," you remember
the older name and purpose as well.

Shalom.

--Rob

From usenet@cps3xx.UUCP Fri Nov 10 19:08:32 1989
From: usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: music   <PUN WARNING>
Date: 10 Nov 89 20:37:02 GMT
Reply-To: frey@frith.UUCP (Zachary T. Frey)
Organization: Michigan State University, College of Engineering
Keywords: Pun warning
Status: O


I'm ready to go for baroque ...

	(and if it ain't baroque, don't fix it!)



Zach Frey

Papernet: Zachary Frey         | frey@frith.egr.msu.edu |  Usenet:  the
          514 Virginia St.     | frey@frith.BITNET      |    Bellman's
          E. Lansing, MI 48823 | ...uunet!frith!frey    |    Paradise.

From usenet@cps3xx.UUCP Fri Nov 10 19:09:10 1989
From: usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: music   <PUN ALERT!>
Date: 10 Nov 89 20:44:05 GMT
Reply-To: frey@frith.UUCP (Zachary T. Frey)
Organization: Michigan State University, College of Engineering
Keywords: Pun warning
Status: O

In article <73@bucsb.UUCP> gilly@bucsb.bu.edu (Gilly Rosenthol) writes:

>Come join the Frey! 
               ^^^^


Just a simple note here:  although I don't mind being joined, it's "Frey" 
as in "fry", not as in "fray".

It's an easy mistake to make.  Not everyone successfully sightreads my name.


Zach "why doesn't *anybody* say my name right the first time" Frey

Papernet: Zachary Frey         | frey@frith.egr.msu.edu |  Usenet:  the
          514 Virginia St.     | frey@frith.BITNET      |    Bellman's
          E. Lansing, MI 48823 | ...uunet!frith!frey    |    Paradise.

From ez000691@vega.ucdavis.edu Fri Nov 10 19:09:20 1989
From: ez000691@vega.ucdavis.edu (0040;0000135524;0;530;352;)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Another Official hello
Date: 10 Nov 89 22:18:52 GMT
Reply-To: ez000691@vega.ucdavis.edu (Shadow)
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Organization: University of California, Davis
Keywords: pony up
Summary: Shadow stuff
Status: O


	Did someone mention my name?
	No? Well, I could've sworn...Anyway, now that I'm here, let me dust
the soot from my jacket and plunk down a bill for a shot of ice water, with
a twist of lime. Yes, I have a name, but I'd appreciate it if you all would
just call me Shadow. I've grown rather attached to that particular persona.
If you had to peg me, personality-wise, as one of the regulars, I'm probably
most like Tom Hauptmann (how you doing, Tom?), although I never was and never
will be a priest, and I do like a good pun every four or five minutes. In
other words, you won't find anyone like me around, unless it's me.
	I'm not much of a regular myself -- I may only be around once or
twice a week -- but I'd rather be here rarely than not at all. Step up to the
line, drain the glass (stop snickering!), and a toast...

	"To the light within the darkness."

	And damned glad to be here, let me tell you.

Shadow
--
>From the only slightly twisted mind of...	"In case we decide to
    ez000691@vega.ucdavis.edu			 surrender to them, Number One."

From GE.LJB@forsythe.stanford.edu Sat Nov 11 02:50:52 1989
From: GE.LJB@forsythe.stanford.edu (Louis J Bookbinder)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: greetings
Date: 10 Nov 89 22:33:58 GMT
Status: O

Greetings!!

This is great. The next best thing to the real (fictional?) thing.
I propose we have a set of rules to keep proceedings in the spirit of
Callahan's. Rule #1: Nobody lists the rules. If you think someone is out
of line - state a rule. If nobody objects, it stands. But nobody lists
any "complete" set of rules.

End of proposal.

Love the puns. Wish I were good at making them.

If real people out there have real problems they need to toast, write
the vignette (as several have done). What you read here may be real, or
it may be fiction, but it gets the same respect. Lets relegate the
flamage to other groups. (faint hope, I know, but it aint the SPIRIT of
Callahan's to flame!)

I second the notes on Armistice and Veterans. Here's to peace, and
here's to those of us who risked everything for the ideals of freedom
and dignity. May we never again have to give our lives for that ideal.

Booky - You Bet!  (What? me? opinions? Bo)  GE.LJB@Forsythe.stanford.edu

From snoopy@olive.ucsb.edu Sat Nov 11 02:51:02 1989
From: snoopy@olive.ucsb.edu (Smith, Jamie Lynn)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: a toast to old friends
Date: 11 Nov 89 01:12:01 GMT
Reply-To: snoopy@olive.UUCP (Smith)
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara
Status: O

In article <5553@eos.UUCP> woody@eos.UUCP (Wayne Wood) writes:
(stuff respectfully deleted)

>today is November 10th... the Marine Corps birthday.  tomorrow is November
>11th... veterans day.  let's remember who they are, shall we?

Amen.  Let us never forget.... Ever.
A toast to the Few and the Proud, to the men of great courage, to those
who gave their lives in defense of this country.  They deserve the deepest
respect.

>/***   woody   ****************************************************************
>*** ...tongue tied and twisted, just an earth bound misfit, I...            ***
>*** -- David Gilmour, Pink Floyd                                            ***
>****** woody@eos.arc.nasa.gov *** my opinions, like my mind, are my own ******/

Jamie.
---
****************** The World War One Flying Ace *************************
* "I'll get you some day, Red Baron!"  --- Snoopy    | Jamie Lynn Smith *
* "|!| !!! |!||! |||!!||!  ||!|!||!|"  --- Woodstock | CS ugrad at UCSB *
********************************* mail to snoopy@cornu.ucsb.edu *********

From usenet@cps3xx.UUCP Sat Nov 11 02:51:14 1989
From: usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: music <PUN ALERT>
Date: 11 Nov 89 01:03:13 GMT
Reply-To: stockton@frith.egr.msu.edu (Ronald G Stockton)
Organization: Engineering, Michigan State University, E. Lansing
Keywords: Pun warning
Status: O

In article <73@bucsb.UUCP> gilly@bucsb.bu.edu (Gilly Rosenthol) writes:
>Besides, not to blow our own horns, but -
>we'd lick you easily.  I can see you treble at the mere thought.  
>
Gilly, 
  I like the idea of a contest to see who can come up with the worst
music pun, but how would we measure the winner?
---------------------------------------------------------------
An idea is not responsible for  | Greg Stockton
the people who believe in it.   | stockton@frith.egr.msu.edu
---------------------------------------------------------------

From grimm@eecae.ee.msu.edu Sat Nov 11 02:51:14 1989
From: grimm@eecae.ee.msu.edu (Jerry Michael Grimm)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: music <PUN ALERT>
Date: 11 Nov 89 05:13:45 GMT
Reply-To: grimm@eecae.ee.msu.edu (Jerry Michael Grimm)
Organization: The Paratime Commission
Keywords: Pun warning
Summary: A resonse
Status: O

In article <5348@cps3xx.UUCP> stockton@frith.egr.msu.edu (Ronald G Stockton) writes:
>Gilly, 
>  I like the idea of a contest to see who can come up with the worst
>music pun, but how would we measure the winner?

Why, the answer is simple.  Use a meter stick.  Then sharpen it to a point, and you can
use it to forge the time signature.  Quite common.  Then use the same stick to PUNcture
their thought balloons until they're flat.

***************************************************************************************
*  Alas, Lady MacBeth exists no more.  ---  A comment on Jake's guitar.               *
***************************************************************************************

From scott@csusac.csus.edu Sat Nov 11 02:51:15 1989
From: scott@csusac.csus.edu (L. Scott Emmons)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: PUN WARNING: Music
Date: 11 Nov 89 06:06:32 GMT
Reply-To: scott@csusac.UUCP (L. Scott Emmons)
Organization: California State University, Sacramento
Status: RO


Hear comes treble, let us not Rush it unless you wish to face the music. This
whole newsgroup could go down The Tubes, or we could get Lynched.  Is there
a way to Fixx this?

-- 
			L. Scott Emmons
			uucp: ...[!ucbvax]!ucdavis!csusac!scott

From estokien@jarthur.Claremont.EDU Mon Nov 13 11:27:17 1989
From: estokien@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Eric Stokien)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: A toast
Date: 11 Nov 89 08:24:18 GMT
Reply-To: estokien@jarthur.UUCP (Eric Stokien)
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
Status: O

Well hello everyone my name's Eric, and it's good to find a nice friendly
newsgroup where puns are tolerated, nay encouraged.

My favorite story is the one where Lady MacBeth breaks for the first time.
I'm a great fan of the Princess Bride, and once he got in the disclaimer I
was ready to judge the story as such (Rather than blasphemy).  I have yet to
find a copy of Callahan's Lady and I am rather angry about it.  Spider just 
doesn't get enough respect as an author, and I can never find his stuff in 
book stores.

Enough bitching, just blowing off some steam, be back when I've got something
serious or funny to say.

From estokien@jarthur.Claremont.EDU Mon Nov 13 11:27:32 1989
From: estokien@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Eric Stokien)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: PUN WARNING: Music
Date: 11 Nov 89 08:33:37 GMT
Reply-To: estokien@jarthur.UUCP (Eric Stokien)
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
Status: O

I hate to treble everyone with a discordiant note but my coda honor requires
it.  I bass this interpretation on the variation in composition of the posts
to this ensemble.  Some is Fanfare for Spider, some original works, some 
could only be called punissimo.  Tantarata for now.

From cphoenix@csli.Stanford.EDU Mon Nov 13 11:27:33 1989
From: cphoenix@csli.Stanford.EDU (Chris Phoenix)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: A toast
Date: 11 Nov 89 08:43:31 GMT
Reply-To: cphoenix@csli.stanford.edu (Chris Phoenix)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
Status: O

This toast was inspired by Gilly.  Thanks!

To intimacy!  <shatter>

I don't mean just physical intimacy, although that's a big part of what I'd
like to see more of.  Intimacy includes being able to talk with people about
things that are important to both of you.  It includes being able to sit down
next to someone without making them feel like you've just violated their 
personal space.  It includes being able to ask people to go out of their
way sometimes, because they know you're willing to do the same thing--without
strings attached.  And it includes being able to be friendly to a girl 
just because you like her sense of humor, without her thinking that you're
hitting on her and telling you to stay away after only a few hours.
This kind of mutual trust is extremely rare around here, and I really 
miss it...
By the way, if anyone anywhere near Stanford feels the same way Ginny does,
please let me know, cause I do too!  (For those who came in after she did,
she was saying that she needs backrubs and cuddling and can't find anyone
to share them with.)
-- 
Chris Phoenix              | A harp is a nude piano.
cphoenix@csli.Stanford.EDU | "More input!  More input!"
For every idiot-proof system, a new improved idiot will arise to overcome it.
Disclaimer:  I want a kinder, gentler net with a thousand pints of lite.

From estokien@jarthur.Claremont.EDU Mon Nov 13 11:27:33 1989
From: estokien@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Eric Stokien)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Greetings
Date: 11 Nov 89 08:50:40 GMT
Reply-To: estokien@jarthur.UUCP (Eric Stokien)
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
Keywords: Greetings all.
Status: O

A man dressed in flashy colors and wearing a sword at his side swaggers into 
the room.  His stride is calculated his eyes are shrewd, this is a man who
knows who he is.  Callahan greets him, his eyebrow cocked and asks him to 
introduce himself.  My friends, my name is Inigo Montoya I was once the world's
greatest swordsman, but I have finished my mission and now wish only to be in
a place among friends.
With that he picks up the tonic water that Callahan had placed on the counter
top and sits down.  As an afterthought he flips a dollar coin into the basket,
winks at Callahan and picks up a conversation with an interesting looking 
woman next to him.

From otto@tukki.jyu.fi Mon Nov 13 11:27:34 1989
From: otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Spider's Callahan books
Date: 11 Nov 89 08:09:36 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Justice HQ, Mega-City One
Status: O

I have three books on Callahan's...
Two American editions by Ace books: Callahan's Crosstime Saloon and Time
Travelers Strictly Cash.  One british edition by Legend/Arrow: Callahan's
Crazy Crosstime Bar.
Have other collections appeared ?
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From scott@csusac.csus.edu Mon Nov 13 11:27:34 1989
From: scott@csusac.csus.edu (L. Scott Emmons)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: A toast (really about books)
Date: 11 Nov 89 16:22:43 GMT
Reply-To: scott@csusac.UUCP (L. Scott Emmons)
Organization: California State University, Sacramento
Status: O

In article <2933@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> estokien@jarthur.UUCP (Eric Stokien) writes:
>was ready to judge the story as such (Rather than blasphemy).  I have yet to
>find a copy of Callahan's Lady and I am rather angry about it.  Spider just 
>doesn't get enough respect as an author, and I can never find his stuff in 
>book stores.

My book outlet (Tower Books) carries 6 Spider titles, if there is one
nearby you...Callahan's Lady is still in hardback...does anyone know if it
will be in softback soon?

-- 
			L. Scott Emmons
			uucp: ...[!ucbvax]!ucdavis!csusac!scott

