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
Date: 11 Nov 89 16:25:10 GMT
Reply-To: scott@csusac.UUCP (L. Scott Emmons)
Organization: California State University, Sacramento
Status: O

In article <11001@csli.Stanford.EDU> cphoenix@csli.stanford.edu (Chris Phoenix) writes:
>To intimacy!  <shatter>

"AMEN!" [CRASH]

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

From scott@csusac.csus.edu Mon Nov 13 11:27:35 1989
From: scott@csusac.csus.edu (L. Scott Emmons)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Spider's Callahan books
Date: 11 Nov 89 16:28:38 GMT
Reply-To: scott@csusac.UUCP (L. Scott Emmons)
Organization: California State University, Sacramento
Status: O

In article <OTTO.89Nov11100936@tukki.jyu.fi> otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) writes:
>........................  One british edition by Legend/Arrow: Callahan's
>Crazy Crosstime Bar.

Never heard of this one...is it a foriegn version of "Callahan's Secret"
perhaps?

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

From rls@onondaga.steinmetz.ge.com Mon Nov 13 11:27:35 1989
From: rls@onondaga.steinmetz.ge.com (Roderick Sprattling)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: All these begging cats make me music....
Date: 11 Nov 89 20:31:25 GMT
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.50.6 of Mon Feb 29 1988 on sprite (berkeley-unix)
Status: O

Cello there, barkeep; measure out two fingers of gin and fiddle a dash of
bitters into the glass, will ya? Here's a greenbach- no, wait <rip!>, make
that a half-note. Can't be that expensive, hmm?

Nice to know there's a place you can go for a sweet, simple time.

Rod
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From hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM Mon Nov 13 11:27:35 1989
From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Callahan's posting convention proposal
Date: 11 Nov 89 02:19:02 GMT
Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath)
Organization: The Cat Factory
Status: O

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

There's a minor problem with this.  If you want to avoid puns, or
whatever, with a kill, rn has to scan the entire header instead of just
the Subject: line of each article. (There's no way to scan just the
Keywords: line).  That adds considerable overhead and delay (I hate
waiting for kills to finish -- that's why I almost never use them).

Not a big deal, really, but something to consider.

-- 
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 cerebus@bucsf.bu.edu Mon Nov 13 11:27:36 1989
From: cerebus@bucsf.bu.edu (Tim Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: <PUN ALERT> Music
Date: 12 Nov 89 05:58:43 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Boston University
Status: O


	This kind of of punning really Styx in my craw.  Of course, I
engage in it too; I just have Too Much Time on My Hands.  Sitting here with
nothing better to do, I start to feel like A Man in the Wilderness.  No
human contact, so I turn to the net for company....

	Of course, this place isn't Paradise.  You won't find Miss America
here.  Gritty reality and strange fantasy, that's what this place is all
about.  Callahan's....<sip>.

	But maybe it's all one Grand Illusion; could you all be Fooling
Yourself, and me with you?  I shudder to think that.  

					Timothy J. Miller
					cerebus@bucsf.bu.edu

                   
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From jefyoung@pawl.rpi.edu Mon Nov 13 11:27:37 1989
From: jefyoung@pawl.rpi.edu (Jeffrey Young)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Intimacy? Hmm...
Date: 12 Nov 89 08:43:08 GMT
Organization: The Unicorn Grove, Somewhere In The Mists (c/o RPI)
Status: O


 The Unicorn in the corner shimmers slightly, and becomes a youthful
looking Oriental male dressed in blue and grey, and a grey floppy hat.

  "Nah, I haven't been enchanted or anything like that, just sometimes
I like my human form better.  (I am a Piers Anthony Fan..)"

  "Intimacy... perhaps that's the word I'm looking for.  I guess
you might say I'm a tad lonely for someone to be really close to,
who doesn't mind curling up with a naiive little unicorn stuck in
human form.  To be closer than a normal friendship would go, yet not
actually be lovers unless the thing turns into a working relationship.
Guess you might say I am a creature of myth, whiich is true, and 
I'd like to believe in the  myth that you should only find true
love once. So I am waiting for the one who will seek me out, because
I am a Unicorn."
 
The youth adjusts his glasses, pushes back his hair, and looks at the
others here. 
 
  "The age of great magics is dying my friends, and true love is a 
magic in and of itself.  I guess most people nowadays don't
believe in the magic long enough to find a love that will last.
Or in any magic at all, for that matter.  I'd like to find a person
whom I can feel really comfortable with, (which does include backrubs
and cuddling, incidentally--those are high on my list of "needs") 
but not feel uncomfortable if nothing happens if we fall asleep together
just curled up...for six months in a row or so.." (I am not making a rule 
here, just waxing theoretical..)     
 
  "The thing with todays society, I think, is that we are too pressured
to perform.   College is like that in all respects-- pressure to 
excel in grades, self , and in repsect to others.  When it comes to 
the opposite sex, well, it seems a trend is that if you've been tagged
as someone's boyfriend or girlfriend, everyone immediately thinks
that you've um.. (looking for n appropriate word) ..lost purity 
points together.   That's not love, my friends, that's lust.  Is 
love dead?  Not necessarily.. but you gotta remeber that love does not
necessarily mean sex (oops, I went out and said it..   -8P ) and
you can have a loving friend without anything ever happening. Somehow
that was lost in the transition, in the race to find a opposite and
fall in love with them.  Lightning relationships aren's too strong to
begin with-- it's the ones that are slow in developing that last best."
 
 The youth shrugs, and sighs.
 
 "Wishful thinking of a Unicorn in today's society, mayhap.  I often 
wonder if the platonic relationship went out with maidens in 
dresses sitting under pine trees in the woods."    

 "Aye, I suppose that I'm asking for too much.. just someone to 
hold onto and be held by, without a worry.. but then that's what 
Unicorns wish for, right?   Nay.. I think I'll end up dying alone,
and (don't snicker, folks) probably a virgin.  I have respect for myself,
and also for whomever I get intimate with.  I'd like to keep people's 
respect, rather than feel bad about losing it later because I read too
much into a friendly hug.*"
  
  The youth looks down, looks up, and turns back into the Unicorn again.

"A single point of light can never banish all the darkness.. I wait 
for a light to guide me out of the forest I have blundered into.
But until then, I have my own light to keep burning, and show to others
who cannot find their own."
 
With a flick of his head, the Unicorn sweeps another empty glass into
the fire..
  
  "To intimacy.. what he said.. and more.  May we all find someone to 
be intimate with."

  
Music Pun: The change of subject is worthy of note, but what is 
really required is some-sing more concerted as far as rules go.  
Like, I know how everyone likes to march to the beat of their own
drum, but we should reel (think Irish/Scottish to get that one)
ly show some contstraint.  Like one pun per person, or else
the person who thinks up the puns gets all the good ones.  We 
don't want solo acts here, folks... everyone has a part to play..
a duet is better than a solo any day.. so let's duet and duet!
       
RULE SUGGESTION: Keep a pun reply to one pun per person per post,
so everyone has a chance to play (  -8) ). Being a punster myself..
(or in my humble opinion, a pun-gent) I know it's hard to stop 
punning when you are on a roll, but it's not fair to come up with 
7 or 8 or more puns and then people can't reply.  As Rocky would 
say, "Gimme your best shot."  Pick your best pun-ch and throw it, 
and then worry about throwing the left (overs) after your turn comes
around again.  Nothing is worse than seeing the same pun thrown over and
over again. Like watching boxing matches for a living.
'Sides, the pun-around will last longer that way.
 
[Electric Pun]-- Guess we blew a fuse on that line..
[Shade Pun] -- Hmm.. no replies yet.. have I left everyone in the dark?
[Music Pun]--If you didn't catch all the ones I left above, then you
are definitely mis-sing something.
 
                                      -Taldin The Blue Unicorn
                                          Defender Of Light

P.S.  Hello Gayathri!  >>HUG<<
 
*Hugs are the best way to transfer positive energy.  Charge someone's
life today!
 (hey.. that would make a neat .sig...) 

--
     
-- 
"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 shoulson@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu Mon Nov 13 11:27:37 1989
From: shoulson@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Mark Shoulson)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Spider's Callahan books
Date: 12 Nov 89 00:39:49 GMT
Reply-To: shoulson@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Mark Shoulson)
Organization: Columbia University
Status: O

In article <1989Nov11.162838.16076@csusac.csus.edu> scott@csusac.UUCP (L. Scott Emmons) writes:
>In article <OTTO.89Nov11100936@tukki.jyu.fi> otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) writes:
>>........................  One british edition by Legend/Arrow: Callahan's
>>Crazy Crosstime Bar.
>
>Never heard of this one...is it a foriegn version of "Callahan's Secret"
>perhaps?
>
>-- 
>			L. Scott Emmons
>			uucp: ...[!ucbvax]!ucdavis!csusac!scott

Well, I have Callahan's Crosstime Saloon, Time Travellers Strictly Cash,
and Callahan's Secret (*not* the same book) in the Callahan's series.  I've
never heard of Callahan's Lady.  Is it new?  I also have Melancholy
Elephants, an excellent book of short stories.  I've seen other books
floating around in bookstores, but haven't had the time to go and buy (and
read) them.

Ooops!  just realized I misread the quote.  I thought Scott (or Mr. Emmons
or whatever you like) thought that Time Traveller's Strictly Cash and
Callahan's Secret were the same book.  Gotta learn to read better.  Well,
the points were worth making anyway.

BTW, Re the rules suggestions:  I was going to try to make up a list of
rules, but I like the idea that there shouldn't be one better (how's that
for a sentence!)  I also agree that flames should be categorically
forbidden.

~mark 

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              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 hankins@cs.swarthmore.edu Mon Nov 13 11:27:38 1989
From: hankins@cs.swarthmore.edu (Luke Hankins)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: A toast....
Date: 12 Nov 89 08:58:03 GMT
Reply-To: hankins@swatsun.UUCP ()
Organization: CS Dept., Swarthmore College, PA
Keywords: Night greetings Toast butter jam eggs bacon
Status: O


	No one sees the door open, but it must have for the tall figure
in the dark cloak to have gotten inside... The hood of the cloak covers
his face and the only details visible are the softly glowing green eyes
that seem to peirce the soul.
His form seems to waver, as if doing its best to stay, but yearning to
let entropy take reign.  Walking, nay gliding, to the bar, he draws a
well worn bill from an inside pocket and places it down.  "The usual,
please", he says, which is funny, because no one has seen him before...  
	Raising the small vial of... something... high, he begins to
speak...

	"To the Night, whereever she may be.  To the friend of the lover and
	 the protector of the weak."
	"This flighty woman I call mistress is both friend and foe to all."
	"May you come to love her as I..."

	"To the Night."
	> T I N K L E <

			-shadow
-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Luke Hankins (alh92@swarthmr.bitnet)| "Ah, It's great being young and insane!"
alh92@campus.swarthmore.edu         | "She thought I was crazy, but I was just
I am, but I might not be.           |  growing old...."  --Steely Dan

From scott@csusac.csus.edu Mon Nov 13 11:27:38 1989
From: scott@csusac.csus.edu (L. Scott Emmons)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Spider's Callahan books
Date: 13 Nov 89 01:06:54 GMT
Reply-To: scott@csusac.UUCP (L. Scott Emmons)
Organization: California State University, Sacramento
Status: O

In article <2124@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu> shoulson@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Mark Shoulson) writes:
>never heard of Callahan's Lady.  Is it new?

"Callahan's Lady" is new, but I don't believe it's out in paperback yet, (I 
prefer the cost of paperbacks, so I purchase them.) only in hardback.
 
>..........................................  I thought Scott (or Mr. Emmons
>or whatever you like) [...]

Please call me Scott (this goes for _everyone_ out there, unless you wish to
flame (in which case my name is /dev/null))
 
>................  I also agree that flames should be categorically
>forbidden.

Yes! Yes! Yes! Callahan will throw anyone out who flames (At least he would,
but then, no-one in Callahan's place is low enough to do such a thing) If we
are to make _one_ rule, it should be one of common courtesy.

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

From jmoon@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU Mon Nov 13 11:27:39 1989
From: jmoon@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (Jonggu Moon [890911])
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: PUN WARNING: Music
Date: 13 Nov 89 03:54:13 GMT
Reply-To: jmoon@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (Jonggu Moon [890911])
Organization: CSEE Dept. Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
Status: O

In article <2934@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> estokien@jarthur.UUCP (Eric Stokien) writes:
>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.

Cello !  Hey, lets put a rest to these  music puns. The reaction from the
public might proove to be violint. You may find yourself decapolated one 
fin at a time, or maybe hung high on a chord. And then 
what would happen to your mortems ? So much for the trill of victory.

^>*<^     ^>*<^     ^>*<^     ^>*<^     ^>*<^     ^>*<^     ^>*<^     ^>*<^
The  preceding has been made  possible by : "Blessed be the  man  who can
CRIMSON ROM (tm) PRODUCTIONS (c)MCMLXXXIX :  laugh at himself for he will
All rights reserved.                ^>*<^ :  be forever entertained." -Dit
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

From gh1g+@andrew.cmu.edu Mon Nov 13 11:27:46 1989
From: gh1g+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gregg Fielding Hinderstein)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: A toast
Date: 13 Nov 89 11:51:18 GMT
Organization: Class of '91, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Status: O

The door bursts open, to reveal a fairly tall figure with a wild black
mane of hair, wearing only a tee-shirt despite the cold night.  He is
shaking considerably.  A scotch please, he chokes out to the bartender. 
With what appears to be considerable difficulty, he forces it down.  He
walks over to the line and says:
"To conforming"
CRASH

The Cat in the Cradle

From mowgli@bat.cis.ohio-state.edu Thu Nov 16 06:16:32 1989
From: mowgli@bat.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mowgli Assor)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: music <PUN ALERT>
Date: 13 Nov 89 18:00:13 GMT
Reply-To: Mowgli Assor <mowgli@cis.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science
Keywords: Pun warning
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?
>---------------------------------------------------------------
>An idea is not responsible for  | Greg Stockton
>the people who believe in it.   | stockton@frith.egr.msu.edu
>---------------------------------------------------------------

Why, in decibells of course!
					<Mowgli>

-=-
Address: mowgli@puffer.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mowgli Assor in real life)
     Or: mowgli@cis.ohio-state.edu, mowgli@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu
The 2 precepts of Semi-Divinity:	(1) Mind Thine Own Business.
					(2) Don't Worry About It.

From MICHAEL@MAINE Thu Nov 16 06:16:46 1989
From: MICHAEL@MAINE
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: music <PUN ALERT>
Date: 13 Nov 89 16:07:14 GMT
Organization: University of Maine System
TO: NETNEWS@MAINE
Status: O

Before we beat this refrain flat, I have two minor tales to key in.

  At a gathering that I once attended, an individual was heard to pass gas.
  While this is normally not an event to be noted, upon this occasion another
  individual remarked:

     "Ah. A Bach Air, played on a broken wind instrument"

And, as a further cymbal of a trebled mind:

  A visitor to the city of Washington DC had occasion each morning to ride the
  subway. The first morning he was there, the visitor observed the usual chaos
  when a train would pull up to the platform and aspiring passengers jostled
  for position. But then, just before the doors opened, a short, bearded man
  walked to the head of the platform and proceeded to clap his hands in
  rythme. When the doors opened, the passengers filed on to the train in smart
  marching order, as though on parade! The visitor wondered at this. After
  observing this phenomenon for a few days, the visitor finally asked a ticket
  attendent who the little man was and why people seemed to obey him. To
  which the attendent replied:

     "Oh yeah, him. He's the Metro Gnome."

Michael Johnson                           "We are the Priests of the Temples
University of Maine System                 of Syrinx. Our great computers fill
Computing and Data Processing Services     the hallowed halls." - Neil Peart

From ez000691@vega.ucdavis.edu Thu Nov 16 06:16:47 1989
From: ez000691@vega.ucdavis.edu (0040;0000132915;0;530;352;)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Intimacy? Hmm...
Date: 13 Nov 89 19:57:46 GMT
Reply-To: ez000691@vega.ucdavis.edu (Shadow)
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Organization: University of California, Davis
Keywords: friendship, puns, duplicates, and other indoor sports
Summary: A thousand puns of light
Status: O


	I'll drink to that one. <SMASH> Hey, Mike, set me up again, would you?
	Perhaps I have particular reason to toast intimacy. It seems, among
other things, as if I have already been intimate enough with one individual to
share my persona with...him? It? Whatever. Confusion is bound to follow. A
heavy sigh escapes me...I dislike trouble.
	But shoving that onto the back burner for now, and to the point: One
of the reasons the Place exists, and is so special, is that people from all
walks of life meet and mingle, guzzle and guffaw, listen and learn, with no
more in common than a joy for life and a natural ability to join spirits with
others. Intimacy, in the Place, is more than just an ideal; it's practically
an admission stamp.
	This electronic emulation has an inherent distancing factor; but I
say we will overcome it. If the Cheerful Charlies can do it, so can we! I
don't think it's too early to toast an intimacy that will grow to include 
the regulars, the newcomers, the latecomers, and the eavesdroppers who never
say a word, but sure can listen good. My friends (and I trust I can call you
all that), to a new Place, a new Family, and a new Intimacy. <CRASH>
	How'd that soapbox get under my feet? Drat! Somebody get me down from
here, please. <whump> Thanks, Doc. Hey, what's everybody looking so sobered
for? I can fix that: a round for everybody! Err...<shuffle, shuffle>..make that
a round for the next 22 people who post, since after that I'll have to run
across the street to get some more singles. That ought to keep us from getting
too sober, no?
	Enjoy.

Shadow

Postscript:	Maybe the trouble with the electricity and music puns is that
		Spider has them in the books already. Anyone for gambling puns?
		Everyone, pull up a chair andante up! (Darn, that just slipped
		out...I see Mike's got the seltzer bottle, and Eddie's getting
		his poker ready...or is it a blackjack? This is as farad I can
		go...)

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

From susan@hpccc.HP.COM Thu Nov 16 06:16:47 1989
From: susan@hpccc.HP.COM (Susan Schuck)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Everything you wanted to know about Callahan's...
Date: 9 Nov 89 17:46:14 GMT
Organization: HP Corporate Computing Center
Status: RO


Now that I've become a wire of this group, I'm positively ex-static!



Susan(girls just wanna have puns)Schuck

From sartin@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM Thu Nov 16 06:16:48 1989
From: sartin@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Rob Sartin)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Another Official hello
Date: 10 Nov 89 01:43:42 GMT
Reply-To: sartin@hplabs.hp.com (Rob Sartin)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Software Technology Lab
Status: O

In article <2949@hub.UUCP> snoopy@fig.UUCP (Smith) writes:
>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.

Clearly, Jamie is actually Spider Robinson in disguise.  Cleverly
inserted in her story was the contradiction that appears in every (?)
Callahan's story.  As we all now, Callahan's has no bar stools.

Rob

From usenet@cps3xx.UUCP Thu Nov 16 06:16:48 1989
From: usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: <PUN ALERT> Music
Date: 14 Nov 89 02:42:10 GMT
Reply-To: stockton@frith.UUCP (Ronald G Stockton)
Distribution: alt
Organization: Engineering, Michigan State University, E. Lansing
Status: O

In article <42425@bu-cs.BU.EDU> cerebus@bucsf.bu.edu (Tim Miller) writes:
>
>	This kind of of punning really Styx in my craw.  Of course, I
>engage in it too; I just have Too Much Time on My Hands.  Sitting here with
>nothing better to do, I start to feel like A Man in the Wilderness.  No
>human contact, so I turn to the net for company....
>
Hey, DeYoung fellow is making puns out of one of my favorite groups.
Well, I'm going to Shaw him I appreciate the effort by making a toast
at the end of this posting. In the meantime, however, let's not let
this pun fest die down--after all, the night is still Young.

(BTW, I'll buy the next round for anyone who can fit the name "Panozzo"
 into a pun.)

 And now...the toast:
 To the great musicians everywhere, and to all the joy
 they bring to the people who listen.
 * CRASH *
---------------------------------------------------------------
An idea is not responsible for  | Greg Stockton
the people who believe in it.   | stockton@frith.egr.msu.edu
---------------------------------------------------------------

From greywolf@unisoft.UUCP Thu Nov 16 06:16:49 1989
From: greywolf@unisoft.UUCP (The Grey Wolf)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: a toast to old friends
Date: 13 Nov 89 22:10:15 GMT
Reply-To: greywolf@unisoft.UUCP (The Grey Wolf)
Distribution: usa
Status: O

In article <2983@hub.UUCP> snoopy@olive.UUCP (Smith) writes:
>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.

Didn't have the chance to post in time, but I had one heck of a birthday
for Armistice Day...I was born there.

Here's a dollar, Callahan...I know how you are about the Travellers of
Time...

To LIFE!  (sip...) [I'm a lightweight...] (gasp) (chug)...
	(KRASHtinkletinkletinkle)

It's really a sobering perspective to take on one's life when one looks
at one's family as a reference point...outside of the fact that my family
has pretty much disintegrated, and I've had the pleasure (?) of starting
>from ground zero, I seem to be "the kid with the pot of gold".

My Dad and my brother are both getting the fuzzy end of the lollipop
in their lives, don't hear from my mom much... but it's been one hell
of a disintegration.

I completely sympathise with those who are not so fortunate.
I turned 24, happy, healthy, fairly stable, with people to call friend.
My bus works, and I like my job.

I can think of worse states to be in.

So to life.  The next time anyone of you thinks you are unfortunate because
your SO refuses to move in with you, or because you're not getting paid
enough (or so you think) or because life moves too slow, stop and smell
the flowers, and pause to reflect that it could, in fact, be worse.
If you're reading this, you're fortunate.

To the Armistice, where we found some peace the first time.

To the Veterans, who struggled for peace the second time.  They found it;
we're still here.

And here's to never having to fight on such a large scale a third time.

<footsteps...door opens, wind comes in, snow comes in, door closes>

>>/***   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.
>---
 "
Roan Anderson
System Administrator

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


-- 
"Insane I may be.  I am not stupid."	Antryg Windrose <the mad wizard>

From greywolf@unisoft.UUCP Thu Nov 16 06:16:50 1989
From: greywolf@unisoft.UUCP (The Grey Wolf)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Another Official hello
Date: 13 Nov 89 22:38:44 GMT
Reply-To: greywolf@unisoft.UUCP (The Grey Wolf)
Organization: none.
Status: RO

The door opens, snow enters, and the door closes.  Ignorant of any
signs which might say "No Dogs Allowed", the snow-covered grey lupine
form trots into the bar, drops a somewhat ragged one-dollar bill
onto the bar, woofing once in request.  His eyes are green as emeralds.

Lapping up the shot eagerly, he finishes it off, barks and yips
briefly, then tosses the glass up in the air with his muzzle and,
with a paw, knocks it into the fireplace, where it is dashed to
pieces.

He howls, a low long howl, and a green light emanates from him, brilliantly
encompassing him until it is too much to look at.  When it subsides,
there is a young man standing there, long wavy brown hair, green eyes,
black beard and moustache, and of slight stature, almost of an Elfin nature.
He is clothed in a grey and green cloak, black corduroys, black boots and
a black shirt.

"Cretins and salivations, all," he begins.  "I am many people.  What I
am depends on what is needed or what is wanted.  In any case, I am a
defender, a Traveller of Time -- "  He grinned at the sight of the sign
reading "Time Travelers Strictly Cash" " -- and my services are for hire,
loan, or gift, depending on the circumstances and the phase of the moon.
I can see that this line on electricity puns has gone low.  I think per-
haps aqueous solutions would be better, even though they're just a drop
in the bucket.  Water we here for, anyway, if not to ensure, for just
a sleeting moment, that puns rain supreme?  I mean, what the hail...
Doesn't it ever get any more clouded in here?  'Snow WONDER it's hard
to find this place -- it's awful hard to sea.
"Well, I think I've pretty much let this stream drizzle out, so I'll
just head down the river...

If an elfin lady by the name of Roanne happens in here, tell her I'm look-
ing for her..."

					-- The Grey Wolf
					   Defender/Avenger for
					   Hire, Loan or Gift,
					Depending upon circumstance
					or the phase of the moon...

-- 
"Insane I may be.  I am not stupid."	Antryg Windrose <the mad wizard>

