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From: lbrother@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Larry Brothers)
Subject: a.p success story
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 05:56:02 GMT


Gentlemen, I'm living proof of the fact that there are women who read
this newsgroup.  I've posted personals twice, giving very little
information about myself except my age, 37, and a tag line like
'working nights' or 'on the rebound' and have gotten responses.  Then,
last night, I jumped in on the flame-fest of Hassan (yep, I'm *that*
Larry Brothers :-) and received a couple of direct responses - from
women. So, guys, don't lament that there are no postings by women.
Just go ahead and post anyhow; they're out there, lurking, but out
there.  (I had a playground analogy of raucous, attention-getting
little boys and shy, demur girls forming, but...)

But that's not what this post is about (see subject line).  'Success',
as used here, does not mean that we got together, fell madly in love,
jumped in the sack and plan to marry in the Spring and you're all
invited, rather that we exchanged almost-daily messages, got to know
about each other and flirted with mutual fantasies.

The 'affair' was also successful in that it ended with mutual respect
- and remorse.  In her real world, 'Jane' re-kindled an old romance
and found that there was no room for me.  So be it.  I wished her all
the best and hoped that something of what we were building could be
useful in realspace.

She insisted on keeping it in e-mail.  I jumped the gun and asked if
we could at least hear each other's voices.  She was *very* tempted,
but the 'anticipation' and 'mystery' were more important to her.  I
realized my mistake and got things back on track.

Alas, (great word!) it was all over all too soon.  I was actually in
the process of composing that day's steamy dish when I just 'happened'
to check my mail and found the "Dear John".  I hollered "Wait!" in the
next paragraph, didn't hear anything for a couple of days, then got a
very thoughtful "Sorry..."

I realize how lucky I am to have had this happen.  And how much I'm
going to miss her...

Larry
lbrother@banshee.vla.nrao.edu
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From: puter@orphan.nashvil.ingr.com (PuterDude)
Subject: Re: GIFS FOUND
Organization: Intergraph
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:18:52 GMT

 nc313060@wvnvms.wvnet.edu bubbles cryptically...

>   we just thought we would repost so you would be happy!!!
>
>   RU?

SIM!!!

And while we're at it...

MR PUPPIES
MR NOT PUPPIES
OSAR
CMPN

And my favorite...

CUL8R

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From: 901461b@ace.acadiau.ca (GEORGE BRENT BARTLETT)
Subject: some one special
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 13:22:14 GMT

Hi there 
I am a student at Acadia university. I am studding Business administration. 
My hobbies include fishing, photographey, and debating.
I am 25,  6'1" weigh about 200Lbs.  I would like to meet someone who is 
romantic thoughtfull and very pationate. 
Preferably the individual I am seeking should live Between Halifax and the 
Anapolis Valley. 
Right Said Fred
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From: catherin@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Catherine Manry)
Subject: Re: Election 92
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:02:16 GMT

In article <92314.144455TAM131@psuvm.psu.edu>, <TAM131@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
> This is in response to Fuzzy at Sage about if Catherine new those 6 easy questi
> ons.  I know the answers to them, but on a higher level of observation I
> noticed that they all are either jackasses or groups of jackasses.  Anyone else
>  come to this conclusion???
> 
> 
>                            Todd
> 

Oooooohhhhhhh.....what an attempt at flaming.....better go get some
water...



Catherine



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From: rks@cscns.com (Island's Child)
Subject: Re: REASON no Girls
Organization: Community_News_Service
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 03:00:38 GMT

martinas@nixon.cs.umr.edu (Martina Schollmeyer) writes:
: But most men can't think and can only see, so all they want are some hot babes
: to screw. If you want a serious relationship then that is not enough. Or
: maybe you are so shallow that this would be enough for you. If I were you
: I'd better hide before all those hideously looking non-liberal arts women
: come and kick your butt..

        YAY, Tina!!!!!
: 
: And, BTW, how about calling us "women" instead of girls ? Or do you want to
: be called a "boy" ? 

        DOUBLE-ya, Tina!!!!


: 
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From: casey@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov (Sean Casey GSFC (301)286-4558)
Subject: Re: love
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Organization: NASA/GSFC-Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 18:17:00 GMT

In article <BxCpFu.BBz@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, catherin@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Catherine Manry) writes...
>In article <1992Nov5.172016.1@acme.claremont.edu>, greg@acme.claremont.edu (Tigger) writes:
>> In article <Bx9AAt.69B@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, catherin@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Catherine Manry) writes:
>> > In article <1992Nov4.111748.1@acme.claremont.edu>, greg@acme.claremont.edu (Tigger) writes:
>> >> 
>> >> Because the number of decent women left is so small that it might as
>> >> well be zero.
>> > 
>> > tsk..tsk...such a negative attitude....the same attitude can also hold
>> > for decent guys
>> 
>> Perhaps that's true.  Another person responded saying so.  But I personally
>> know only one woman who says the same thing about men.  Perhaps I don't
>> know the right women, which could also be why I feel the way I do.  But
>> I've just been reamed too many times in a row to believe any other way.
>> I'd love to find one of those three or four who are left, but what are the
>> odds?
> 
> 
>Just have to be patient...the right one will come along someday...enjoy
>life now while you still have the chance....we can be pretty demanding...
> 
>:)
> 
>Catherine
> 

The odds of finding the right women are pretty low (maybe 1:100). The
only way to beat those kind odds is to keep playing field. Get out there
and work the crowd! The more people you meet, the greater are your chances
of meeting the right one. What ever you do, don't wallow in self pity.
Action and resolve are the solutions. (And don't take anything too
seriously as well...)

SC (go team!)
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Subject: To anonymus+1620......
From: anonymus+3201@godiva.nectar.cs.cmu.edu
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 22:23:10 GMT
Organization: Anonymous contact service



Hi, I did get your email, but I haven't gotten anything in a while.  I will
keep trying to write to you and try to find out what the problem is.  
Please be patient.

Jasmine

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From: ap.5746@cupid.sai.com
Subject: SWM ISO SWF over 30
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Hi , My name is Jeff and I am looking for a friend and lover.  I live
in the bay area and would prefer someone who lives near me.  I am 42,
fat, a college instructor and a father who enjoys being a father.  

I am looking for a woman who likes talking about emoptional stuff, likes
men, and likes sex.  Seems sinmple but it isn't - or maybe it is and it
just doesn't seem so.  One of my students was waering a hirt that said
"men should come with instructions"  True.  And so should women.  But
neither of us do.  

I am divorced having had one real marriage in my early 20's which I
have largely recovered from.  I have also largely recovered from the
other relationshoips I have had since then - which is, I think, both
unusual and a good thing.  I was also celibate for 5 years while I
thought thoings over and I am not quite as sure I have recovered from
that.  

I generally dislike republicans, born again christians, and other
people who try to shove their neurosis on one as truth.  

I am not cynical.

I am somewhat erratic and lazy and messy.  Though the lazy is mixed
with sustained efort in directions in which I become interested.  I
am a lousy typist - but that is already obvious.  I am a good speller
which is probably not so obvious.

Well why don't you tell me about you?


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From: fuzzy@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Fuzzy)
Newsgroups: alt.personals
Subject: Re: Election '92
Date: 5 Nov 92 22:25:01 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

In article <Bx8yzn.8qy@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> catherin@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Catherine Manry) writes:
>> >GO, CLINTON, GO!!!!!
>> on the bandwagon....do you even know what he stands for, or are you just

(catherin's mindless babble deleted)

i'll restate my question, since you avoided answering...do you even know
what clinton stands for, or proposes? or even these easy questions?
1) who is clinton's wife?
2) his running mate?
3) what is his home state?
4) his running mate's home state?
5) their party affiliation?
6) their party's mascot? 
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From: na1cs181@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Peter Norton)
Newsgroups: alt.personals,soc.penpals,alt.personals.ads
Subject: Re: can you read?
Date: 9 Nov 92 10:50:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: galileo.1992Nov9.105019.16688
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

In <720950354.8231@zooid.guild.org> taralee@zooid.guild.org (tara lee) writes:

>From: mutation@dorsai.com (Florian Lengyel)
>>jonesco@ucbeh.san.uc.edu writes:

some stuff deleted

>>Now THIS may seem strange to you, airhead, but alt.personals is inteneded
>>for personal advertisements. Unless you are using your study as a pretex
>>for getting laid, I see no reason why you should be conducting it here.
>>
> 
>   *Ahem*
> 
>     Sir... Do the words Chill out and Get a life mean anything to you? I was
>under the impression that since this is a free world we are all entitled to
>freedom of speech. Even you sad as it seems to me. 
> 
>     You've got to wonder about some people... And then you've got to wonder
>why you bothered in the first place.. You pal need to get some lessons in
>manners and curtesey before you think about posting something like that again.
> 
> Taralee -- Not at all impressed by sheer ignorance

	No shit...
If you've got a stick that far up your ass, get a plumber's helper and get
off the net.  Good luck in getting laid by anyone on this newsgroup, Florian
(?!?).

	In response to the original question, though, I usually ignore it,
and if the sentance, paragraph, etc. makes no sense, then I look it up
immedeatly, otherwise, I find out what it means at a later date.
 	Hope your study or whatever goes well, whover you are, and that this 
helps.

	Florian, go somewhere else.
From: v104m9jm@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Creff)
Newsgroups: alt.personals
Subject: test
Date: 13 Nov 92 05:01:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

testing
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From: garnet@borland.com (Garnet Chaney)
Subject: Re: love
Originator: garnet@genghis.borland.com
Organization: Borland International
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 01:17:37 GMT

In article <7NOV199200195057@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov> casey@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov (Sean Casey GSFC (301)286-4558) writes:
>In article <BxBvyD.DrE@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, cjgg1584@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Cynthia J. Gibas) writes...
>>drj@dev-null.phys.psu.edu (Dan Jeuch) writes:
>> 
>>>Why is it always... well, ok, not ALWAYS, but MOST of the time, the guys
>>>responsibility to ask the woman out?  I personally would be shocked if
>>>someone asked me, and I ain't ugly! :-)
>> 
>>>-Dan
>> 
>>Why is it always... well, ok, not ALWAYS, but MOST of the time, that men
>>react as if I've stuck them with a hot poker if I ask them out...and then
>>say, 'uh, maybe some other time...'  I personally would be shocked if 
>>someone said yes, and I ain't ugly!  :-) :-)
>> 
>>Answer that question, and you'll know why men 'must' ask women out...the
>>traditional roles that most of us carry around without thinking about it make
>>it shocking and slightly improper if it happens the other way around...and
>>all but the most mellow of men seem to find a confident, 'forward' woman
>>unappealing...no matter what they SAY they want.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>
>Not to be sexist, but I don't think that women have the courage or ability
>to ask men out. Perhaps they are more often more comfortable than men at
>sitting at at home alone (or at the bar) rather than risk the uncertain
>acceptance or rejecion that awaits all attempted pickup lines. From day one,
>men have had to accept that fact that if something needs to be done, they
>themselves are going to have to do it - No one is going to do it for them.
>Women, on the other hand, have the easy option (that some men would also
>like to have) of waiting for someone else to take the initiative and get
>the job done. Women must not think of themselves as equals. (Whew! That's
>a loaded one...) If they did, we would see guys getting asked out as often
>as the gals. What's your opinion?
>
>- To Ugly to Know or Care..
>

Rather than agreeing with you, I'll start the flames by pedantically reminding
you that your name is spelled wrong. It should be "Too Ugly to Know or Care.."
From: dbt@cellar.org (Marquis de Freud)
Newsgroups: alt.personals
Subject: No Reasonable Gurls?
Date: 9 Nov 92 06:12:46 GMT
Organization: The Cellar BBS and public access system

To add my own 250 millibucks, I agree that there is a gender-ratio imbalance 
in most universities. Engineering and CompSci tend to be over-maled, and art 
and Sociology tend to be over-femaled.

This doesn't mean that these are exclusive realms of existance!

I have on ongoing "fight" with my libertarian friends. Most -- nay, ALL -- of 
them are males. The few female lib'ns I have ever met are "attached", and 
that is the general impression of many other male lib'ns.

On the OTHER hand, I have noticed that many of my unmarried, unattached 
libertarian male friends are so vociferously "anti-PC" and otherwise hostile 
toward women, that it is no wonder women stay away from libertarian politics 
and social activities. Who wants to hang around with a bunch of guys who 
compalain about women all the time? Even if some of the complaints are true, 
they certainly *aren't* true for *every* woman; not even *most*, I suspect.

I often make the suggestion that the lib'ns try to recruit more women rather 
than bemoan the lack of them, and to stop bashing "feminism" and work to 
introduce libertarian ideas into the feminist movement. Not only would it 
have the immediate effect of providing a more balanced gender (and probably, 
*dating*) ratio, but it could also perhaps double the number of anti-state 
activists and widen the scope of their criticism.

The last time I checked, Gloria Steinem had nothing to do with the low 
frequnecy of my sexual contacts. And the last time I *did* have a "sexual 
contact", it was in the absence of my complaining.

Sure -- I'd be thrilled to have a girlfriend with Big (Cerebral) Hemispheres, 
wit, similar ideas, and a hearty sexual appetite. And if you are a 
heterosexual male -- wouldn't YOU?

Remember, that many of those "missing women" are either UNAWARE of USENET, or 
are just unwilling to hang out in an electronic agora populated with whiners 
and misogynists. This is the #1 complaintI hear from women who DO have a 
modem and know how to use it. I suspect that a few hours invested in showing 
some of those women in Art and Soc and other "womanly" areas of academe, how 
to use a computer and terminal software will be paid off in a better 
cyberspace, and maybe a little bit of biological I/O.

        MdF. But you can call me "Dave".

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From: v069qryr@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Aaron T. Breen)
Newsgroups: alt.personals
Subject: Re: Aauggh!!!!  Redheads!!!
Date: 11 Nov 92 04:58:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
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In article <19099@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, ez005392@hamlet.ucdavis.edu (Mo) writes...
>v069qryr@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Aaron T. Breen) writes:
>:        (No, I've never experienced a redhead before...but I definately
>:         want to (hopefully in the near future!).)
>: 
>Dammed traitor!!!!
> 
>                                       Mo

 Wait a cotton-picking minute, here! Why am I a traitor? I was just telling the
 truth.........or are you trying to tell me something? If you are, let me know
 'cuz I'm lost on this one.....

+------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
|     Aaron Trevor Breen       | "I took the money, I spiked your drink,     |
|       "The  Dazzler"         |  You miss too much these days if you stop   |
|------------------------------+  to think.                                  |
|V069QRYR@UBVMS.CC.BUFFALO.EDU |  You led me on with those innocent eyes,    |
+------------------------------+  And you know I love the element of         |
                               |  surprise.                                  |
                               |  And in the garden I was playing the tart,  |
                               |  I kissed your lips and broke your heart.   |
                               |  You, you were acting like it was the end   |
                               |  of the world."                             |
                               |         "Until The End Of The World"- U2    |
                               +---------------------------------------------+ 
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From: petitc@nuge110.its.rpi.edu (Christopher Jon Petit)
Subject: Re: SWM needs REDHEAD!
Reply-To: petitc@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 13:22:07 GMT

In article <9NOV199201445524@ducvax.auburn.edu>, cpearson@ducvax.auburn.edu (MISTYEYES) writes:

|> I went and got the marbles exchanged for cotton balls, 
|> much better now ;)

  Gee, no wonder you're so 'mushy'.  ;&)

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From: ap.6286@cupid.sai.com
Subject: Attention: PSU Women
Followup-To: alt.personals
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 15:16:52 GMT
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Hi,
   I am a 20 year-old SAM(Asian-Indian) student at Penn State, looking for
someone who:

-Enjoys company
-Smiles
-Cares
-Has Fun
                ......


   I am 5'10", 130 lbs. and described as fairly good looking.  Also, I guess
I am kind of shy, and have been a bit lost up here in the crowd(at least
relationships-wise)  after my high-school years.  I'd like to just spend some
time with someone, hanging out in town, going to a movie or play, eating  out
and so on--and then we'll see how it goes from there.  (It would be great if
you also like going to watch PSU sports!)   Anyhow, if this sounds interesting,
do reply.



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From: jmmst53+@pitt.edu (Jason M. Mccloskey)
Newsgroups: alt.personals
Subject: SLIGHTLY OVERWEIGHT GIRLS
Date: 11 Nov 92 16:06:51 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

i
I'm interested in meeting girls near my home in Pittsburgh, or within
250 miles.  Mostly, as you can tell from my listing, I am intersted mostly in
girls who are less than slim.

People have asked why this is, why I like these types of girls.  I don't know,
I just find it very arousing... 

If you fit the above descriptions, I would be mot interested in hearing from youPlease e-mail any responses and I will re-mail further information.

Jason
   
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From: anonymus+2526@godiva.nectar.cs.cmu.edu
Subject: Looking for Chris at UIUC
Organization: Anonymous contact service
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 00:44:30 GMT



Chris,
	Do me a favor and send me your email address.  Thanks.
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From: wix@eskimo.celestial.com (Dennis Wicks)
Subject: Re: Using the alt.personals EZ-Intro Contact Service (ECS)
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Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 18:47:51 GMT

In article <BxAs47.JB1@news.cso.uiuc.edu> doc@uiuc.edu writes:
>admin@sai.com writes:
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>>2.  No posting from marrieds, common-law, or in a relationship.
>
>Who the hell are you to stick you morals down other people's throats??
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>
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