NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/alt/callahan/14081

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From: [e-mail] (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: An Introduction
Date: 23 Nov 1992 20:36:41 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Phyllis Rostykus) writes:
=In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Krum, David Michael) writes:
=>The crowd has hushed a bit.  Dave looks around for some kind of response.
=>
=>"Dad," he whispers to Boss Troll, "What is this place anyway?  Did I touch on
=>some cultural taboo here?  Is this a bar?  Is this virtual reality?  Is this
=>cyberspace?  Is this the holodeck or 10-forward?"
=
="All the above and then some." says a rather plain looking Asian woman,
=about 5'10" tall, in black sweatpants, khaki green sweatshirt, neon *PINK*
=hightops, and a bit big for her lettermens jacket that has a big orange
=calTech on it.  "Hi, I'm Liralen Li, a Lloydie of '85."  She grins,
="Dan'l's around here, somewhere, too, he's of my House and class.  My
=hubby's John Rostykus, Lloydie, '86, who was roommate to Dave Gallup, one
=of the few Lloydies who were also initiated as a Page Boy due to social
=ties.  I was also a social Flem in my time."
=
=She grins at all the baffled looks from everyone else.  "First thing every
=Techer asks another Techer is 'What House?'."

StM 'fesses up, "Well, I was a Flem.  Then when I was a grad student, I tended
to hang out in Dabney quite a bit."  He then walks over to Liralen and produces
a stick of Trident from his pocket, and says "You claim to've been a Lloydie.
Prove it," and hands Liralen the stick of gum.  He gives Liralen the option of
explaining the joke.