HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci)
Subject: Re: (LONG) Re: Living alone and liking it
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:01:21 GMT

In article <ewright.728168374@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
>
>What you don't understand is that the Laws of Housekeeping
>work differently for women than they do for men.  Consider
>laundry, for example:

(I'm gonna be sick)

<Ed tells of things he thinks are unique to people with prostate glands>
>
>Law #1:  Never do laundry until you have a full basket.  It's
>         easier that way.
>Law #2:  Never do laundry when you have more than a full basket.
>         It's too much.
>Law #3:  If you ignore the laundry long enough, maybe some of 
>         it will go away.
>Law #4:  If it doesn't go away, don't worry about.  Once an item
>         of laundry has been ignored long enough, it becomes
>         officially clean again.
>Now, you may be unfamiliar with these laws because a) they only
>for men, and b) only when there are no women living in the house.

Yes, this would be funny if you were describing housekeeping habits
of the terminal procrastinators, or the blithely intelligent, or
the profoundly clever ... but to give the credit to MEN?  Sit down.
You're about to be ashamed.

  **NANCY COLUCCI'S RULES OF HOUSEKEEPING**     here goes:

1.  Never do anything that you will have to do over again in less
    than two weeks.  Do it then.

2.  Never fix anything that can be fixed by the next people who
    live there.

3.  NEVER shovel snow.  If you wait long enough it will melt.

4.  Always shower before putting your contacts in because then you
    can't see the mildew and mold and hairs and if you don't know
    they're there, they don't exist.

5.  As for yardwork, only do it when the sun is shining and you're
    slathered in Coppertone wearing as little as possible.  Then it
    serves as a workout AND a sunbathe AND the neighbor's goats
    will stop grazing at your house.

6.  Skip every other trash collection so it takes that much less time to
    biodegrade in a landfill.  (Wow, all this and she's at one with the
    environment too!)

7.  Paper plates.  I don't have to explain this one do I?

8.  You know that little gross area between the toilet tank and the seat
    where you hope your towel never touches?  And you know how after you
    blow your nose you wish you could do just "one more" thing with that
    Kleenex?  Think ... think ....

Huh.  And you thought MEN had all the ideas?  Think again buck-o.

-- 
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Nance Colucci                                      att!ihlpl!colucci
"In the next life, I should like to come back as your trousers."-BPC
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From: diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Credibility...
Date: 24 Jan 93 18:33:32 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

In article <ewright.727854345@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:

>Single means "one."
>
>Not single means "more than one."

Hmm.  I guess I am and have always been single, then, because while I'll
admit that I'm a little bit overweight, I'm certainly not more than one.

			--Diamond


diamond@acpub.duke.edu| "All of my sins
Elizabeth S. Abrams   |  Are outnumbered by all of my chins
		      |  I could audition for the Doublemint Twins
                      |  I can hardly believe I'm fat as I am."  --Bette Midler
From: smithrud@advtech.uswest.com
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: SM ISO MAIL
Date: 26 Jan 93 20:12:33 GMT
Organization: U S WEST Advanced Technologies

In article <1k2ce2INNnt4@lynx.unm.edu> blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
>In article <1993Jan25.233030.3036@cbnews.cb.att.com> eleanor@cbnews.cb.att.com (Piglet) writes:
>>>"If you want to look for fish, best not to look in desert."
>>Well, actually that's probably the best place to look for fish.  If you
>>want to *find* fish, that's another story....altogether..."that's another
>>story"...
>
>Well, Albuquerque ain't ocean front property, ya know. :)
>Yep, fishies in the desert, and nocturnal, too.
>Too bad nobody's been fishing out this way lately :(
>r.

Oh, Ron, not true.  I go fishing in Albuquerque about every 6 weeks
and in November one actually made it to the shore (whatever a shore
in the desert would be).  He didn't choke on the hook and he was
still kicking and breathing.

Doesn't knock "fly" fishing,  ;)

Cari
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: amy@lloyd.Camex.COM (Amy Lindsay)
Subject: Re: Credibility...
Organization: Camex Inc., Boston MA
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:43:55 EST

In article <ewright.727573793@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
>In <5992@maserati.qsp.UUCP> danb@zx.qsp.UUCP (Daniel Benbenisty) writes:

>>So, please dispense with calling EVERY single person unhappy, and
>>calling them liars when they beg to differ.  
>
>There's a big difference between someone who is happy despite
>being single and someone who is happy being single.  Saying
>you're "happy being single" is about as credible as saying
>you're "happy having cancer."

I wasn't going to respond to this because I didn't think it would do any
good, but work is slow...

I have come to the conclusion that the reason Edward thinks there are no
happy single people is because most single people who are happy a> don't
talk about how happy they are, and 2> don't talk about being single... 

So, if the only people who are talking about being single are people who
are not happy about it, then, of course, Edward is getting the wrong idea
because he has NO IDEA that these (happy) people are single.

What Edward is REALLY saying is that HE is not happy being single, and that
he can't IMAGINE anyone not feeling the same.

      "Argue for your limitations, and, sure enough, they're yours."

Typography & Design Department ~ Camex, Inc. ~ Boston, MA (617-426-7550 x575)
A.G.Lindsay, PP-ASEL   *   Cloud Rental: Reasonable Rates   *   amy@camex.com
    "Bank... That which keeps most aircraft flying, depending upon the
			     interest rates."
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: ron@turing.toronto.edu (Ron Wessels)
Subject: Re: A hug for illiterate flamers
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
Date: 27 Jan 93 19:26:02 GMT

allisson@turing.toronto.edu (H. Allisson Roome) writes:
>Um, Ron, my ancient-friend (chronologically speaking that is),
>speaking as someone who knows where your POW sleeps, you might want to
>watch what you say...... We POWs can be a viscious lot.

Ahh, Allisson, my little cherub.  I'm counting on it!  Would that you
could see the look of anticipation in my eyes ...

-- 
Ron Wessels		University of Toronto		ron@turing.toronto.edu
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: rna@leland.Stanford.EDU (Robert Ashcroft)
Subject: Re: A hug for illiterate flamers
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 02:44:12 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.205422.5312@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> allisson@turing.toronto.edu (H. Allisson Roome) writes:
>Um, Ron, my ancient-friend (chronologically speaking that is),
>speaking as someone who knows where your POW sleeps, you might want to
>watch what you say...... We POWs can be a viscious lot.

You mean a viscous lot?  Sort of thick and gooey?  How so?

RNA
From: wtr@mitre.org (Bill Ralston)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Credibility...
Date: 23 Jan 93 00:26:53 GMT
Followup-To: soc.singles
Organization: MITRE

In article <ewright.727735009@convex.convex.com>, ewright@convex.com
(Edward V. Wright) wrote:
> 
> In <93020.213759SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA (Graydon) writes:
> 
> >Ed, whoa - why is being single a pathological condition?
> 
> Being single is not a pathological condition.  *Enjoying* 
> being single would be.  Evolution would have eliminating
> any such trait from the species long ago.

Enjoying being single does not preclude one from procreating.

-- Bill wtr@mitre.org (who would prefer not do any procreating and is
fortunate
to live in a time where birth control is widely available to single
individuals)

* If my employer knew what I was posting, I'd probaby be unemployed *
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jwall@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jeff Wall)
Subject: Re: Zen and the art of refrig upkeep (Re: Living alone)
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 16:16:58 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.235330.27895@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> mel@niblick.ecn.purdue.edu (Meloney D Cregor) writes:
>In article <1993Jan21.192100.27311@wetware.com> diana@wetware.com (CatWoman ) writes:
>
>>Or get involved with someone who lives with a
>>trained chef - and volunteer to help with the
>>cooking.
>
>It's that time thing again.  I don't have time to get involved.
>
>What I need to do is find some sweet young thing who'd like to work out
>his rent.....I'm very negotiable.

You're at Purdue right??  Hmmmm, I could go back to school.....

Jeff Wall (Who likes to try and cook, but just can't keep the fridge clean)


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From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.sex,alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Sometimes you just have to ask...
Date: 27 Jan 93 15:54:07 GMT
Followup-To: soc.singles
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1993Jan24.073009.1298@wetware.com> drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:
>johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
|]  
|] Nice hooters.
|
|Ok, are there Like, well, UnNice Hooters?
|
point taken. advantage drieux.
|
|ciao
|drieux
|
|ObPeeve: Attack Of the KillerHooters!
|
that sounds like a !peeve to me.


-- 
-john
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
Subject: Re: Honesty, Your word, and Trust -- a crisis?
Organization: Don't blame me, I voted for Bill 'n' Opus
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:26:07 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.160417.23368@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> ron@turing.toronto.edu (Ron Wessels) writes:
>ZZ
>:wq
>^[

Wassamatta?  Get stuck in emacs by mistake?
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

Kinky vanilla queer het
From: diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Meeting women in clubs
Date: 21 Jan 93 17:35:49 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

In article <JMD.93Jan20141137@lion.bear.com> jmd@bear.com (Josh Diamond) writes:
>When was the last time you saw a gorilla write a computer
>program?  For that matter, when was the last time you saw a gorilla
>start a war?

And when was the last time you gained breeding access to your next-door
neighbor by eating her young?

			--Diamond

diamond@acpub.duke.edu| We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn
Elizabeth S. Abrams   | them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress 
		      | but the memory of the smell of smoke, and the  
                      | presumption that once our eyes watered. -Tom Stoppard
From: pdsmith@bbn.com (Peter D. Smith)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Second Date
Summary: ... that's why you start with a full container of whipped cream.
Date: 28 Jan 93 18:49:04 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

In article <16652@auspex-gw.auspex.com>, johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
> 
> You go out to a dinner and a movie.  Afterwords you go back to your
> place and have really great sex.  In the morning you get up, shower
> together and then go out to breakfast.  The question is:  Who pays
> for breakfast?
> 
> -- 
> -john


If you start off the date with a full can of whipped cream, you should
have plenty left for breakfast...


				Peter D. Smith
				"yum!"

Miss Manners answered the perenial question, "do I have to send a thank-you
note after a one night stand?" with a resounding "No!"  
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From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,soc.penpals,alt.romance,alt.romance.chat
Subject: Re: SM ISO MAIL
Date: 22 Jan 93 23:05:27 GMT
Followup-To: soc.singles
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <JMD.93Jan21112023@lion.bear.com> jmd@bear.com (Josh Diamond) writes:
 
 
|Doesn't anyone actually read this group (soc.singles) before posting here?

No, only a fraction of what appears here is real.  Actually an archive is
taken at regular intervals and is distributed to literally thousands of
machines around the world.  These articles are then reformated, reworded,
and automatically posted as article from new authors by these machines every 
day.  This is primarily the reason that threads like "Why don't women
date Nice Guys(tm)" and "Send me your best Pickup Lines" reoccur with such
frequency and fool us into believing there is actually a discussion taking 
place.  Tina Martin is a result of this process.  Tina Martin is 
actually the combination for previous articles by Nina Smith and Charles 
Martin.  That isn't to say that the style would actually resemble the
original.  The words are just taken out and a new author is created.  
The programs have approached the sophistication that it is virtually
impossible to tell the difference between an original article and ones
created by these machines.  They even simulate spelling and grammatical 
errors.  Can you tell the difference between a person writing an article
with errors in and a computer simulating those errors? Isn't amazing what 
computers can do these days?  Do you really believe that someone named 
Desiree Champagne actually exists?

-- 
-john
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.sex,alt.peeves
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Sometimes you just have to ask...
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 01:15:52 GMT

In article <1993Jan24.073009.1298@wetware.com> drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:
>johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
>]  
>] Nice hooters.
>
>Ok, are there Like, well, UnNice Hooters?
>
>ObPeeve: Attack Of the KillerHooters!

Well, there was Stef's discussion a while back about alternative murder
weapons....

Trygve   (I knew there was a reason why I practice increasing breath-
          holding time while swimming.)
--
If you're like most normal young women who watch TV a lot, you feel that your
breasts are too small and you often find yourself out on a date with someone
you don't really like, but after he spends a lot of money on (or at least
near) you, you feel a sense of social pressure that you ought to give him some
use of your body in return.  Well, fortunately for you, MEGO Industries
introduces new "Leah Press-On Breasts"--not only will they make you look
better endowed, but after an expensive dinner, you can leave them with your
date, eliminating any guilt feelings you might have over the cost of the
scampi that was too salty anyway.  Buy three pairs, and we'll include this
deluxe shipping box so he can mail them back to you when he's done.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Mating Genes..(was Credibility)
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 06:27:33 GMT

In article <16B5EDC84.SURGDM@mizzou1.missouri.edu> SURGDM@mizzou1.missouri.edu (Diane) writes:
>In article <ewright.727735009@convex.convex.com>
>ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
> 
>>In <93020.213759SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA (Graydon) writes:
>>
>>>Ed, whoa - why is being single a pathological condition?
>>
>>Being single is not a pathological condition.  *Enjoying*
>>being single would be.  Evolution would have eliminating
>>any such trait from the species long ago.

Well, I do have a few minor problems with this notion:  1)  this assumes
a genetic basis for people enjoying being single; 2) it assumes that 
enjoying being single precludes enjoying being coupled (which is patently
not true, since I quite enjoy both of these states and regions in between);
3) it assumes that people who enjoy being single do not reproduce (not a
valid assumption and, further, one might suspect that there would be some
survival advantage conferred by a tendency to produce genetically diverse
offspring (i.e. with several different women) before settling down.


>ObPersonal:
>Brunette would like to meet someone who has an expressive "happy-to-lavish
>jewells-and-electronics-on-brunettes" gene! ;) Zygote status unimportant.
>Must be dominent or willing to mutate.

Hmmmm...seems I had that gene for some time, but its expression appears 
to have gone into remission and now I'm just accumulating jewels and
electronics.  (Though I still occasionally lavish chainmail and other
odd creations on brunettes.)

Trygve
--
Up next:  Learn to dance the lambada in one afternoon--through surgery!
From: blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Favorite Groups
Date: 28 Jan 1993 08:17:28 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
NNTP-Posting-Host: carina.unm.edu

In article <1993Jan27.215803.24283@datamark.co.nz> thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle) writes:
>Could all the net.old.farts try to remember that just because they've
>been on the net since it was net.singles (or whatever) doesn't
>actually make their posts any clearer?

I think he just called a big lot of us 'old'. :)
Not all of us that have been reading since the Dawn of Time (no offense, Ms.
Hardin) of (yes it was) net.singles are 'old.farts'. :)
Hell, I'm not even close to 30 yet. (getting there, but not quite yet :)
r.
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Most Pressing Social concern
Date: 22 Jan 93 18:15:20 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

barry@netcom.com (Kenn Barry) writes:
| In article <1993Jan19.233424.17088@wetware.com> drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:
| >Ok Komrade Berry, We all want to KNOW,
| >Who was that Mysterious 'Ms Money Penny'
| 
| 	So, that's what clued you in! Not the thin cover story, not the
| pocket pager that played "Hail to the Chief", not the microphone in the
| corsage, but the _name_. We'll have to see about that.

| 	Not me, guy. I sold out. Every Man hath his Price, and the
| Konspiracy bought me long ago. Cheap. For a Penny, one might say :-).

Makes cents to *me*.


-- 
-john
From: desiree@netcom.com (dmc)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Favorite Groups
Summary: Nothing can summarize this...
Date: 26 Jan 93 20:49:24 GMT
Organization: Soap Opera Digest

In article <MARTINC.93Jan26101602@grover.cs.unc.edu> martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) imparts the sage advice:
>I said:
>   >{...} I don't know Charlie and I don't suck those I don't know.
>
>Oh, don't be such a stick in the mud, Des.

	Can't Charlie -- it's in my genes... 


Desiree

N.B.  Don't worry net.folken if you don't get it -- you have to know
      me to understand.
From: diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: The Nice Guy Syndrome (was: Re: Male Men Bashers)
Date: 27 Jan 93 16:50:10 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

In article <1993Jan26.233106.7778@netcom.com> marcia@netcom.com (Marcia) writes:

>I've found that myself: sure, the numbers were GREAT in engineering school,
>but I had almost no dates. Why? Because I wasn't interested in them, nor they
>in me. 

I've always been grateful for this sort of attitude... it means that those
of us who *are* interested in engineers and who think computer programming
is actually a sexy thing to do (or EE, or physics, or whatever) have the
field virtually to ourselves.  It's wonderful.

				--Diamond

diamond@acpub.duke.edu| We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn
Elizabeth S. Abrams   | them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress 
		      | but the memory of the smell of smoke, and the  
                      | presumption that once our eyes watered. -Tom Stoppard
From: brent.mason@uuworld.via.mind.ORG (Brent Mason) 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Trust
Date: 25 Jan 93 10:44:00 GMT
Reply-To: brent.mason@uuworld.via.mind.ORG (Brent Mason) 
Distribution: world
Organization: Micro Exchange - Kenwood, CA - 707-833-4032

O> From: olsonsr@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
 > I would find it intriguing if I could believe it...  I think too many people
 > this newsgroup live to far out in their own little fantasy world  where noone
 > can call your bluff on something... a
 > any trust taken without a grain of salt is a blind trust an unthinking trust.
 > A trojan horse trust that is NOT what we need in this country or world...
 > We need trust where trust is due, and skepticism and doubt where neccessary(s
 >
 > olsonsr

       Trust with verification is one thing if were talking about Nuclear
Warheads, but quite another when we talk about our and others feelings.
Who is anyone to say "how" I feel.

       They all have OPINIONS about how I express what I feel inside, but
none should judge.  They may judge my actions (or here on the net my
expressions), but to judge otherwise would be quite prejudice on the part
of myself and others.  Yes, yes, I know we are all guilty of this.  I
claim no innocence here.

       Brent Mason
---
 . BABBLE v1.0 . There is someone imperfect out there for everyone!!
 . KMail 2.94  Micro Exchange
From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Subject: Re: Any Available Jewish Men Out There??
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 08:57:03 GMT

eleanor@cbnews.cb.att.com (Piglet) writes:

>julie@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (Julie Wright) writes:
>>d) Believe it.  If you find this impossible, try believing it before
>>   breakfast with 5 other impossible things.  (Read much Lewis Carroll?)

>Lewis Carroll?!?  Lewis Carroll??!!!!???  No, no, no--DOUGLAS ADAMS!!
>And I just love breakfast at Milliway's.

Hee.  Today's youth.  
They just haven't learned about any of the important things in life.

(Speaking of youth, I was reminded of my own today.  I found a Real
Find, a book of Jeff MacNelly's first editorial cartoons, which won
him the Pulitzer prize at his first job, seventeen months out of
college.  The subjects were, among other things, the New Economic
Policy (wage and price controls,) Ed Muskie (a wonderful image of a 
musk-ox in a Peking zoo--anyone recognise that refererence?) and the
discovery of the Tasaday, a stone-age tribe about to be visited by its
first contingent of Welfare and Poverty Bureaucrats. 

When I heard about the Tasaday they were already historical--I saw
them in a movie.  Makes you feel young.

But what was that Muskie ox doing in China???
-- 

Kiran Wagle                           <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Valentine's Day Personal Ad
Date: 27 Jan 93 16:59:30 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <106459@netnews.upenn.edu> crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
>
|Hi.  I'm not too young, not too old, with long blond hair.  Unless you
|prefer dark brown hair, in which case it's dark brown.  Sometimes it's
|short.  And red.  My eyes are sweet baby blue ... except when they're
|deep, mysterious brown.  Or green.  Hazel.  Whatever.

Lauren, where have you been all my life?  I've been looking for someone
just like you forever.  There's just one thing I need to know.  How do
you feel about moonlight walks on the beach?

-- 
-john
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