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Callahan's January 2005 Bar Rag!

"To Callahan's Warmth
Wherever You May Be!"

In this issue:

Opening Toast - Manager's Corner
Conference News - Board News
Birthdays/Calliversaries
Joke - Pun - Poem - Pun
Closing Quote - Editor's Note


A New Year's Toast

"I'll raise a glass to those who can be happy,
and wish solace and better for those who cannot."

*** Smash! ***

- Chris EMETTMAN


Manager's Corner

"Reconciliation"

Hi all..

Reconciliation! What a powerful idea!

It implies much and covers ground in all aspects of the human condition. It is a word of hope. A suggestion that we can improve ourselves. And therefore our lives.

We have selected "Reconciliation" as our overall theme for Callahans in 2005. But that was the easy part. I suspect reconciliation may be, like tolerance and love, hard to do. Very hard.

Have you reconciled with a loved one? A parent? A friend?
Was it easy?

We're hoping to such share personal insights as well as global and geo-political perspectives this year.

Will Palestinians and Israelis ever live in peace?

Will Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. again remember that they are friends with shared cultural values?

But perhaps most importantly, have you attempted to reconcile warring factions within yourself?

I'm barely scratching the surface here. We'll be trying to discuss many of the various facets that attach themselves to the theme, "Reconciliation" all year long.

We begin with "Healing" in January.

Does reconciliation bring healing?

Can those hurt, disappointed or fearful of the outcome of the American election campaign be made happy and unafraid again?

You have some ideas. Share them with us..:)

Lou                


Message Board News

From Bits:

Chris (Emettman) posted this description of Telempathy:
The ability to feel the emotions, rather than the thoughts, of other people. Top-notch example: Callahan's secret, at the moment of the collective bar contacting the Master. It wasn't at first a conversation, it was a comprehension of a personality, a perspective, a feeling.

Anti-telempathy: Death's daughter explaining how she came to be adopted in Terry Pratchett's Mort:
"Perhaps he felt sorry for you?"
"He never feels anything. I don't mean that nastily.... no glands. He probably *thought* sorry for me."

Follow along as Cortland (KA5S), Mandy (INIONDIA), Mouser (greymaus1), and Bits (LBT1) add their perspectives.

Sylphidine Wordsmith (LibraryLion), in a message to Selena (SILLIEST), writes about people who say I know what you're going through when we really can't know... until we get the Telempathy going.

And I posed this question: So, I wonder, if it's possible to use lasers to move information between atoms, isn't it possible that Particles of Thought could also travel the same way?

And in the Humor Folder:

Dwarvenkind started us off on Holiday Punnery.... I cannot choose a favorite, do your self a favor and read the discussion.

Walt added to his Lessons from the Bird Feeder thread, fooling with red-tail hawks!

In Galaxy, Geeks, & Gadgets:

Cortland posted about a new addition to Gator adware, a prohibition to removing it using "unauthorized means"... such as Adaware or Spybot and Slap Law suits involving Radio Technicians in Austria.

Sylphidine sought advice about wireless Internet connections to use while riding on a train to the city; thanks to WoolyBeast (WizopArnie), TimInBC (THICKS15), Cortland (KA5S), and [PC][Ch]amsalot (CHAMSALOT) for their posts! We also watched meteors shower down and heavy rockets lift off.

And finally, DK (dwarvenkind) posted a link to the third installment in a series of articles about Quantum Astronomy


Birthdays Last Month

Birthday Greetings were heartily extended to:

T4M   TIME4MORETA   December 3
Cyber   CYBERRAPTO2   December 5
Mike   MIIRISH   December 6
Terry   TERRYBLETEL   December 7
Walt   WWW3   December 10
Larry   LATENIGHTLAR   December 13
Fred   FREDERIC13   December 14
Tim   BRUNOTIM   December 15
Matt   MATTBAKER   December 15
Ed   NICERGUY1   December 15
Tamza   TAMZA   December 16
Gaijin   GAIJIN   December 17
Maureen   VEGELADY   December 17
Gwen   PUNSTERGAL   December 18
Wes   WES86D   December 19
CSA   CSARODGERS   December 22
Limo   LIMODRIVER   December 23

Calliversaries Last Month

Maureen   VEGELADY   December 01, 2002
Kim   KGGODDARD   December 04, 2000
Selena   SILLIEST   December 05, 1997
Maus   GREYMAUS1   December 10, 2001
Carol   LADYLAUGHING   December 12, 1999
Moochas   MOOCHAS   December 15, 2002
Seli   SELIAH   December 15, 2001
Bits   LBT11   December 17, 1999
Laura   LAURA128   December 18, 1998
RW   ROADWITCH   December 20, 2003
Cane   CANEGURU   December 23, 2000
Gwen   PUNSTERGAL   December 23, 1998

Joke of The Month

Sue (SUEMO)'s A Humorous Approach led to several weather related puns beginning with:

Weather forecast for tonight: dark. ~George Carlin

- November 30, 2004


Pun of the Month

You needn't live in England to appreciate this post from Tim found in the Fun With Geography thread.

I dunno - I was in England:

My friend the horseman is at a farm in England. He's done fine with the mare, but the stallion is Buckinghamshire.

When Elmer Fudd was on that farm he was awakened each morning by a Worcester.

The nuns of Eastern England have vowed not to drink, swear, Norfolk.

The jellies aren't ready; only Somerset. Can Peterborough a cup of sugar?

If you go sailing in the winter, you will be Windsor.

I trust you, Deputy. Marshall Dillon says you're a good Manchester.

Do witches meet at Coventry?

Yes, we shut them out last week and I expect we'll be Nottingham again today.

The toilet broke and the cable went out just before the talk show. We had neither Bognor Regis.

I smuggled my girlfriend into my room at Oxford but the Doncaster out.

The paint wasn't gleaming yesterday but this morning I Gloucester.

I lost on the British version of Jeopardy because of my slow reflexes. In the deciding round I was Leighton Buzzard.

The founder of Pennsylvania was an orphan. For years, Penzance looked after him.

- TimInBC (THICKS15) December 31, 2004


Poem of the Month -
"Operation Butterball"

Wounds will heal
Scabs will form
Joy does not
Always follow

For some there may be
Another day
Does not mean brighter
Another way
May not be seen

For those who hide
Those who see no way

Out! Out!
Help is needed.
The bell has sounded
Many have heeded
The cries

Help! Help! Lonely souls
Tortured minds
Broken hearts
Only a lift
Only a light
Only a shoulder

Need! Need!
And so many gather
To give
To support
To listen.

That is Lou's place
Callahan's Purpose
And what Operation Butterball
Is all about.

-- Jennie JENNIELYN811 December 29, 2004


Closing Quote

"Go to bed in your fireplace, you'll sleep like a log."

- Ellen DeGeneres
- courtesy Sue (SUEMO) December 29, 2004


Editor's Note

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