HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: epg@nature.Berkeley.EDU (little 'e' string)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: "Obviously THE TRUTH"
Date: 15 Sep 1992 04:33:29 GMT
Organization: Bourbon Street
NNTP-Posting-Host: nature.berkeley.edu

In article <5811@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> gswst@cislabs.pitt.edu (Gary S. Wachs) writes:
>In article <1992Sep13.194506.4811@csi.uottawa.ca> misrael@csi.uottawa.ca (Mark Israel) writes:
>>> As a wise woman friend of mine once said (meaning, "I can't remember
>>> her name"), "Being *nice* is not enough."  Okay, fine, you're *nice*.
>>> But you also need to be *interesting*.  


>WEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL I see we've once again dropped into the
>bottomless pit of oversimplified advice-giving...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>As if someone could read the above blurb and then think to himself or
>herself, "Oh!  That's what I'm doing wrong!  I should try to be more nice AND
>more interesting!  Gosh, why didn't someone point that out to me sooner??"
>
>No.  If a person is reading this newsgroup to get hints and tips on how to
>attract TOS and become a people-person, then there's really only one
                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>thing that person should do.
>
>Start taking some acting lessons. 
[blah, blah, blah and so forth deleted] 

>It might sound like bullshit, but the inescapable truth about it is that
                     ^^^^^^^^          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>if you set your mind to it and don't give up, there's no way it can fail.
                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

And the "Generalizers'R'Us" award goes to Gary S. Wachs for lie(fe)time
achievement! <Applause!>

More accurate and telling than the suck-up scale.  Coming soon to a 
newsgroup near you!

Just me,

little 'e'

(I *used* to be nice, but I grew out of it)

-- 
And he said "hey Baby, let's take a ride"
"We'll stand on the cliff's edge side by side."
"Got no time to smell the coffee."
"And anyway it's the rush that counts."  - little 'e'
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From: ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams)
Subject: Re: Name That Diamond!
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 09:18:48 GMT

In <thurlow.715665098@convex.convex.com> thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:

>In <1992Sep4.183431.25121@panix.com> pw@panix.com (Paul Wallich) writes:

>>Egad! Will everyone who was probably watching the Avengers while
>>Emma was conceived raise their hands?

	Well, thankfully, my parents weren't! :>
 

>>It's the odd comment like
>>this that makes one suddenly feel ancient. (At least we can hope
>>she knows who the Beatles were...)

>"Oh yeah!  Isn't that the band that Paul McCartney was in before Wings?"

	Paul McCartney???  Isn't he the one who once sang a duet with
Michael Jackson?  :->

>:-)

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From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
Subject: Re: Desperation (was Re: Commitment--The C-word?)
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 12:31:11 GMT

In article <716115377.15440@minster.york.ac.uk> aaron@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
>	When I see a woman in the company of
>        a man then I don't tend to find her as attractive, perhaps
>        because I see her a lost cause as I would not be able to compete
>        (I hate the idea of competing for mates like a orang-utan or
>        something) . Perhaps this has something to do with a supposed
>        difference between men and women - the latter seek mates who are able
>         to support them and offspring and the company of a woman suggests
>        that another woman has already determined that they are, and the
>        former see a woman who might already be carrying the offspring
>        of another man. (reducing it to its primordial origins). Seems
>        a little unromantic to me...

Wrong ape.  Orangs live solitary lives, except for mothers with infants, 
and males don't compete for access to females (they do, however, rape
females sometimes).  Gorillas would be a better example.  When a rival
displaces the ruling silverback, he acquires the silverback's harem.
(Elephant seals are an even more extreme example - bigger harem).

Humans, being mildly polygynous as evidenced by sexual dimorphism, are
going to exhibit male competition for females.  This does not have to
mean that males will fight.  Competition can take the form of elaborate
displays to attract the interest of females.  This is what keeps Porsche
dealers in business.

-- Herb Huston
From: stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Las Vegas Revisited
Date: 15 Sep 92 23:57:54 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

epg@nature.Berkeley.EDU (little 'e' string) writes:

>cfg@cray.com (Cindy Glass) writes:

>>Yes - "RANDY - Randy" has struck again - complete with details
>>of his relationship with his SO - problems of her divorce and 
>>a GIF!

>What is it with these women that they attract so much attention?
>Guess it's that "broad band come-on mode" again, eh maX?
>I didn't even recieve the first letter he sent out!

In this case, it is Randy who is doing the broad band thing - he is sending
out form letters to people whose addresses he downloaded at some point. I
tried to get him to tell me where he saw my name, and he said he couldn't
remember. Probably you didn't get a letter because your SO was keeping you
off the net during the time he was downloading addresses. (Consider
yourself lucky.)

--
Stef                 The truth will set you free,
stef@apple.com       but first it will piss you off for a while.
From: dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Believe in youself, dammit! (was: Re: Singles Bar)
Date: 14 Sep 92 16:24:50 GMT
Reply-To: dhardin@spcink.bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

In article <rawdon.716262195@cs.wisc.edu> rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu writes:
>
>This sounds to me a lot like saying, "The fact that you've done poorly at
>math before does not indicate that you'll do poorly in the future."  Sure,
>it doesn't mean conclusively that it won't, but, given a reasonable amount
>of experience with math (whatever "reasonable" is), it DOES indicate IMO
>that it is VERY, VERY UNLIKELY that you will do well at it in the future.

Back when I was teaching remedial math to non-traditional college students,
I used to see students all the time who would tell me on the first day of
class, "I'm very bad at math and I'll never be able to learn this," and
then tell me on the last day of class "Is this all there is to it?  Why
wasn't I getting A's all along?  This was easy."  Too many of them just
weren't properly motivated before, or they were told that they were stupid
and couldn't learn.  When they were in school voluntarily, and given a little
encouragement, they did a lot of things they wouldn't have thought possible.

Dawn
"Oh, Time!  Of all the dwellers here below 
You only elevate buffoons or fools,
Or him whose anus as an inkstand serves."
The Perfumed Garden of the Shaykh Nefzawl, translated by Sir Richard F. Burton
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Too Much of Anything is ...
Date: 10 Sep 92 21:00:28 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <BuDJrM.4or@belay> buick@belay (Patrick D. Buick) writes:
>
>Not that you said it Nance, but this applies to men, too... Look to my
>ex-girlfriend (who wanted to get married) for an example..

Don't mind if I do....Hmmmm, not bad.

> no life besides sex... aaaagghhh!!
 
Does she have any seesters?


-- 
+==========================================================================+
| John Fereira     | Auspex Systems | "Auspex does not share my opinions.  |
| johnf@auspex.com | Santa Clara CA |  So Why am I still working here?"    |
+==========================================================================+
From: mlb@CISCO.COM (Marcia Bednarcyk)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: soc.singles #64637 - Re: Desperation (was Re: Commitment--The C-word?)
Date: 5 Sep 92 00:58:33 GMT

In article <kiran.715453016@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>, kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
|> Do you think there's something wrong with people who feel that they
|> (or their lives) are not complete without a (happy) relationship?

Do you think there's something right with this?

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Marcia Bednarcyk                                        ADDRESS: mlb@cisco.com
"Sweaty Snugglebunnies."
"... the meaning of life is to be happy, try not to hurt people, and hope
you fall in love."
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From: Larry Margolis <margoli@watson.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Dill Dough
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 23:15:11 GMT
Distribution: na
Reply-To: margoli@watson.IBM.com
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: The Village Waterbed

In  <1992Sep12.173736.27111@uwm.edu>  markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:
> In article <1992Sep10.055933.24183@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.IBM.com writes
>
> >Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
>
> You hahf seester named Cindy, no?

You got American dollars?  I find you a seester...

Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
From: stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Mea Non Culpa
Keywords: innocent quotes
Date: 5 Sep 92 19:46:15 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

enigma@halcyon.com (Matt Luders) writes:

>Okay, here's one that can't *possibly* be misinterpreted (talk about tempting
>fate, not to mention the devilish minds of soc.singles):

> "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
>  Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
                                 ^^^^^^^^^
You have broken Rule #1 of Suckups: Know thy suckee. Or else you weren't 
around back when I brandished my Uzi and ordered trygve up against the wall.

>E pur si muove!

Much better. This time you have kept Rule #1 in mind and have posted a
suckup about a cat that purrs and wriggles.

Stef
stef@apple.com
--
Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.           --Mark Strand
From: wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Ring for sale (The ballad of a Guy & Girl)
Date: 11 Sep 92 23:37:40 GMT
Reply-To: wjb@moscom.com
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

trygve lode (tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu) wrote:
: Yeah, I know--it's like one moment they're posting up a storm and all
: of a sudden, just like that, they're gone.  Maybe there's some 
: psychotic killer or mysterious extradimensional force that is going
: after the contributors to soc.singles one by one.  Hmmm...could be a
: basis for a best-selling horror novel or hit movie--let's see, I wonder
: if I cou

This'd be better than the story someone brought in from the Enquirer a couple
years back about the guy who caught a virus from his computer, and it was
erasing his memory...
-- 
"Bless me, Father; I ate a lizard."
"Was it an abstinence day, and was it artificially prepared?"
-------------------------------------------------------------
Bill de Beaubien / wjb@moscom.com 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Tallllll women....
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 17:51:31 GMT

In article <18jfqiINNi0o@peponi.wcc.govt.nz> parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>
>I find, in NZ anyway, that larger sizes don't have longer legs - highly
>frustrating.  I've seen trousers with a waist circumference about twice the leg
>length - when will they realise that not everybody who shops in 'larger
>fitting' shops is round?  Admittedly I'm cuddly, but my leg length is certainly
>MUCH more than my waist measurement!!
>
>Why don't clothing manufacturers make allowance for tall people?  I know SO
>many short and average height women who complain that most clothes are too long
>- at least they can be taken up, there's never enough hem to let down!!

As near as I can tell, most clothing designers use mathematical models 
that have never been tested against actual human beings as the basis for
their designs (cf. the universal belief that women's feet are pointed in
the middle).  The model for men seems to assume that all males occupy a
constant volume--so that, for example, in all the 'big and tall' shops
in Denver but one, shirts with my sleeve length (38") are available with
necks going only up to 15-1/2" while shirts with my neck size (19") are
available only with sleeves up to 32" or so.  (It's also worth noting
that there appears to be a universal assumption that men's legs are
roughly cylindrical, their thighs being the same circumference as their
ankles, making it virtually impossible for a normal-sized person like
myself to purchase pants less than 10" too big around the waist that
will have thighs large enough that I can pull them up above my knees.)

Trygve   (Who was looking for a swimsuit earlier and tried on every
          single large and X-large pair that was in stock without
          being able to pull a single one of them more than four 
          inches above the knees.) 
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From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Can we can the suck-up bit?
Keywords: encourage friendship?
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 92 21:59:26 GMT

In article <thurlow.715613702@convex.convex.com> thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:
>
>The public nature of some of the compliments is kinda interesting
>to me, though.  When I want to send someone a compliment, I usually
>put it in e-mail.  Posting seems to sound like you're trying to
>impress lots of other people as well (at least in some pathological
>cases, naming no names, of course :-), and seems to counter what I
>want to do with a compliment.

Personally, I think the occasional public compliment is a good thing--
there's a natural tendency to reply mostly to messages that you happen
to disagree with; public compliments are (generally) much rarer and
help make the overall atmosphere more pleasant.

Still, the best compliments are paid in private (now if I can just get
Bathsheba and Stef in private for a few compliments...).

Trygve 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
Subject: Re: A lurker goes to California
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 09:37:57 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.223541.1@pomona.claremont.edu> greg@pomona.claremont.edu (Tigger) writes:
>In article <w7tngp+.tyger@netcom.com>, tyger@netcom.com (Kitty in the Middle) writes:
>> 
>> I am pretty sure it's spelled right, but it *could* be the wrong word, I
>> suppose. The IRS was involved in the demise of the aforementioned Ranch, 
>> but I didn't think the issue was tax *evasion*. I might be wrong, but I
>> hardly ever am...;)
>
>It was appropriated for nonpayment of backtaxes by the owner.  The IRS
>actually ran it for a few weeks until some right wing fundamentalists
>got wind of the fact that the government was in the prostitution business
>and forced them to shut it down.  It was eventually sold, and through a
>series of events that are not clear to me, I believe it is now open again
>and once again owned by the individual who owned it when all this started.

Joe Conforte, the owner, has reopened the Mustang Ranch.  The story I heard
is that he actually beat the IRS.  However, the bottom-line is "The Mustang
Ranch is open for business.  Y'all come!"

>And no, I've never been there.  But if anyone has and is willing to admit
>it, please e-mail me.  I've got a few questions about prices and such.

I've never been there.  A couple of weeks ago _Donahue_ was broadcast from
the Mustang Ranch, and Phil interviewed Conforte, three working girls, and
two regular customers in front of an audience of locals.  Most of the people
in the audience were supportive (it's a major business that pays lots of
local taxes, and Conforte contributes generously to local causes).  Phil
tried to bring up prices, but no one would get specific (you make your best
deal when you get there; many different options are available).  However,
the women emphasized that one rigid policy is "No condom, no service."

>Now, what the hell am I doing back in this group?

Damned if I know.

-- Herb Huston


Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
Subject: Re: 'What the hell kind of a world do we live in...'
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 19:51:36 GMT

In article <=mvn12g@lynx.unm.edu> blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
>
>Ever have one of those weeks?
>Two of my close friends, in just the past 2 weeks, have both been diagnosed
>with cancers. One with cervical, one with a cancerous mass in his Thyroid
>gland. 
>Prompted the one with cervical cancer to say 'What the hell kind of a world
>do we live in where 25 year olds get cancer?'
>Any answers? Didn't think so... (1/2 :)

You might want to find a copy of Stephen Jay Gould's _Bully for Brontosaurus_
and read the essay entitled "The Median Isn't the Message."  Gould was 
diagnosed with an abdominal cancer at the age of 40 and being an academic,
researched it.  He found a mortality curve which showed a median survival
from diagnosis of 8 months.  That was 10 years ago; his cancer is in remission.
This essay may be something you want to show your friends.

In a footnote, Gould says that when he has seen his death reported prematurely
he fires off a letter demanding an immediate retraction.

-- Herb Huston
-- huston@access.digex.com
From: epg@nature.Berkeley.EDU (little 'e' string)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Las Vegas Revisited
Date: 16 Sep 1992 02:14:40 GMT
Organization: Bourbon Street
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: nature.berkeley.edu

In article <blzn4tp.aahz@netcom.com> aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine) writes:
>Yeah, you look like you've been beaten with an ugly stick.
>
>
>Mooommmmmyyyyy!  Do I *haveta* put in the smileys?!?!?!?!?!

At it again are we?

Just me,

little 'e'

(yes, I still wear lycra, it's just smaller now)

-- 
And he said "hey Baby, let's take a ride"
"We'll stand on the cliff's edge side by side."
"Got no time to smell the coffee."
"And anyway it's the rush that counts."  - little 'e'
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: pw@panix.com (Paul Wallich)
Subject: Re: Dill Dough
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 21:07:38 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Trivializers R Us
Keywords: Kosher dills, half sours, dill dough.....

In article <las8r8INN5uj@news.bbn.com> dhardin@spcink.bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes:
>  No, it's the incorrigible east coast types, the
>ones who were born and lived all their lives in New England, who behave
>as if they had pickles up their rears.

>...  While it's true that her majesty the baby was born in Boston,
>I intend for her to spend enough time in the midwest where people are
>sane that she'll escape this affliction.  No daughter of mine is going 
>to be too stuffy to drink Strawberry Hill on appropriate occasions.

The Midwest!?!? You mean the place where people still wear white
shirts and narrow ties and think it's about 1957? Where a good
time is watching cows sleep? Where people don't applaud a standup
comic but just smile and nod to each other at how funny that last
joke was? Pickles aren't even in the game.

No offense to Dawn, who after all had the wisdom to get out of
that vast cultural wasteland

paul   just another uptight easterner


Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jam@cse.unl.edu (James Macfarlane)
Subject: Re: What knockers! Crreak.
Keywords: Doors
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 00:29:40 GMT

Bathsheba.Grossman@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bathsheba Grossman) writes:

>Here's my 2c on the door question - it's time we heard from what is 
>usually referred to as the rabid-feminist perspective.

And now my $0.02 worth...but I am NOT a feminist.

>As with anything else, you can open doors nicely or smarmily.  Don't
>do it if you're going to stop and stand and look while I go through.  
>As often as not, a guy will open the door, put his back against it, and
>look me in the eye, smirking and waiting for me to brush my tits over
>them, knowing that I have to go through the damn door. I have about a
>half-acre of personal body-space, and if I want you near me I'll let you
>know.  So it makes me want to drop everything I'm carrying and spend
>about five minutes picking it up, so he'll have time to realize what an
>obnoxious move that is.  I try not to complain, because guys are all
>oversensitive about this one thing, but it totally bothers me.

>Just flip the door back and let me catch it, like you'd do for anyone who
>was a person instead of a woman.  And apply the principle broadly.

I apply the principle to everyone, male or female, in that if I'm
going through the door, and it is a few people (ie not crowded),
I will hold it open for the person following, especially if they
are carrying something.

>-Sheba

James

--

James A. MacFarlane    |  Some of God's greatest   | 2500 S. 10th St.  #30
jam@cse.unl.edu        |   gifts are unanswered    | Lincoln, NE  68502-3439
University of Nebraska |   prayers. - G. Brooks    | voice: (402)438-6632
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: buick@belay (Patrick D. Buick)
Subject: Re: Which is worse??
Organization: Belay Enterprises Inc. Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 17:49:36 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.222131.1@gallua.gallaudet.edu> 11jcollins@gallua.gallaudet.edu writes:
>
>Well, we've been hearing all this discussion about TALLLLL Women - so here's a
>question just to give the thread a new twist:
>
>Which is worse  A) being a tall woman? (..lets say around 6')
>                B) being a short man?  (..lets say around 5')
>
>                                    {Penguin}

Hmm.. I'm 5'3" and don't have too much of a problem with clothes (although
as mentioned before, they can be taken in, but there isn't enough of a
seam allowance in commercial clothing to let them out..), however shoes
is another thing... I have a men's size 5 (American..) or 5 1/2 feet.

Other than that, nada really... from my end.  Some taller women have a
dislike of shorter men for various reasons.... but I've found enough
shorter women to go around.. and enough taller ones that aren't against
short men.. now, if only I could get them beyond LJBF... heh.. heh.. hmm
plot plot.. plan plan.... snigger..

Patrick
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