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- From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: Descriptions...
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 10:05:53 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- Message-ID: <1k0e21INNsc9@gap.caltech.edu>
- References: <1993Jan22.190927.1314@ee.ryerson.ca>
- Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
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- In article <1993Jan22.190927.1314@ee.ryerson.ca>, dspeck@ee.ryerson.ca (DOUGLAS SPECK) writes:
- >
- >T-Bear stands up on a chair next to the bar, and shouts, "May I have
- >your attention, PLEASE!..........Thank you. Now, ladies, gents and
- >others ;), I have had an idea. Because I am relatively new here, I
- >haven't got a good vision of what all the regulars look like, much
- >less an idea of what all the newcomers look like. If everyone would
- >post a decent( but fairly short) description of their appearance,
- >I believe it would help everyone to `see' the Place better... I`ll
- >start. I am a Chinese Giant Panda, about six feet (180 cm) tall when
- >standing upright. My fur is the black and white pattern that you would
- >expect, I eat lots of bamboo shoots as my usual meal, and my favourite
- >drink is A&W Root Beer. My birthday is July 19, 1967, and my specialty
- >is the T-Bear Hug(tm). My usual place in the Bar is a nice warm spot
- >near the fireplace, out of line of fire of the incoming glasses. I hail
- >from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. There, see? It's easy. :)"
-
- OK, Speaker-to-Minerals (whose name comes from the fact that he performs a
- similar function for scientists in dealing with computers as that performed for
- Speaker-to-Animals did for the Kzinti in dealing with other sentient races) is
- a bit strange to describe. You see, when he first entered the place, he was a
- 5'11" human weighing about 210 pounds, with glasses, brown hair (balding) and a
- full beard and mustache (he could easily have been mistaken for Hank Williams,
- Jr.). On his right wrist he wore a watch, and on his left, a bracelet engraved
- with a snake coiling about a stick. He was, in other words, indistinguishable
- from his alter-ego, Carl J Lydick. In the 15 months he's been in the place,
- however, he seems to've been transmogrified into a Kzintosh of the same height
- and weight (in other words, short, but otherwise normally-proportioned for a
- Kzintosh). Carl, meanwhile, has lost even more hair (and what he's got is
- going grey, especially in the sideburns; If this keeps up, I'll trade in my
- brown frames for black, get rid of the beard and mustache, and start doing
- Isaac Asimov impersonations :-). The weight's remained about the same.
-