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- From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (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 <1992Nov22.220000.8756@data-io.com>, li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus) writes:
- =In article <20NOV199200171179@romeo.caltech.edu> dkrum@romeo.caltech.edu (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.
-