HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: aaron@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Guten Tag!
Date: 22 Jan 93 10:26:19 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England

Johan Thole (thole@cs.rulimburg.nl) wrote:
: aaron@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
: >I thought the Dutch got there first (45% German, 45% English, 10% Double)
: 
: I don't think so!

Damn I forgot to put one of these :-) in.
 
: BTW, do you know the origin of the following words?
: 
: wentletrap		(wenteltrap)
: steenbok		(steenbok)
: 

No, I just don't know these words...
From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Rampant Sexist Exploitation
Date: 24 Jan 93 18:43:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: grover.MARTINC.93Jan24104309
Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
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In-reply-to: drieux@wetware.com's message of 24 Jan 93 07:39:07 GMT

In article <1993Jan24.073907.1360@wetware.com> drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:


   ] What I need to do is find some sweet young thing who'd like to work out
   ] his rent.....I'm very negotiable.


   Oh Sure!!!!!

   "Hey Honey, Want to make Dinner, in exchange for
   next weeks part of the Rent... and When You are
   Finished getting Your Bisquits in the Oven....."

   Like, Really, I mean How DUMB do You think Guys ARE!!!!

I don't know, I was considering her offer.
--
		Charles R. Martin/(Charlie)/martinc@cs.unc.edu
     Dept. of Computer Science/CB #3175 UNC-CH/Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175
	    3611 University Dr #13M/Durham, NC 27707/(919) 419 1754
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      to resist the temptation to laugh uncontrollably.  Amen." -- Rob T
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jwall@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jeff Wall)
Subject: Re: Favorite Groups
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: Mon, 25 Jan 93 22:05:34 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.051125.217@sol.UVic.CA> atovorni@engr.UVic.CA writes:
>In article 2336@netcom.com, rohwerwd@netcom.com (W. David Rohwer) writes:
>>
>>In article <1993Jan21.113151.16829@infodev.cam.ac.uk> gdb15@cl.cam.ac.uk writes:
>>>In article <1jlmqkINNfsm@lynx.unm.edu> blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
>>>>In article <1993Jan20.192729.4226@netcom.com> aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine) writes:
>>>>>>All together now:
>>>>>>"We met at nine..." "we met at eight..." "I was on time..." "no, you
>>>>>>were late..." "Ah yes, I remember it well."
>>>>>For the totally clueless out there, this is from _Gigi_.
>>>>
>>>>And for those under 30, "Gigi" was a broadway musical from long back. :)
>>>>r.
>>>
>>>I'm under 30, and I posted the original quote.  Doesn't anyone listen
>>>to any decent music any more?
>>>
>>
>>     Sure and by the way I am 30.  I like, in alphabetical order:
>
>[Pap and puffery deleted]
>
>Now that we know everything about your taste in music, we can clearly
>see that you have yet to come out of a thing called adolescence.

That's fine with me.  I plan on being the world oldest teenager.  I don't
ever want to be old and stuffy.  So there, Na, Na, Na-Na-Na.

No seriously I think there is some thing to be said for someone (and I'm
not saying David is this person) who has the ability to change with the
times and adapt to what essentially amounts
to new cultures.  I guess I get bored with the status quo.  

 [drivel deleted]

Cheers,

Jeff Wall
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
Subject: Re: Credibility...
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:16:43 GMT
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
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              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In <1993Jan26.083707.7300@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:


>>>Trygve   (I'm trying very, very hard not to make any "Mister Ed" jokes
>>>          here.  I hope you're proud of me.) >
>>
>>Well, it's a start, but doesn't quite make up for bringing America
>>all those Gilligan's Island reruns.

>Awww, gee.  Well, lucky for you, we here in the cable TV business are
>working even now on ways to make sure you don't have to watch "Gilligan's
>Island" reruns or even episodes of the upcoming series, "Gilligan's
>Island, the Next Generation."  Later this year, we'll be unveiling the
>new 24-hour "Leave it to Beaver" channel, 

The scary thing is, Trygve, I'm not sure you're joking.

(Especially after what I've heard about the "Sci-fi Channel.")
From: weaver@jetsun.weitek.COM (Michael Gordon Weaver)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Audrey Hepburn (was: *How* did you meet your SO)
Date: 22 Jan 93 18:56:50 GMT
Organization: WEITEK Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

In article <1993Jan21.173136.11109@netcom.com> cocoa@netcom.com writes:
>I read in the paper this morning that Audrey Hepburn died.  I loved most of
>her musicals and movies.  I'll miss her.
>
>My SO was telling his parents that I should talk to them because I like old
>movies and know of actors and actresses he's never heard of.  I watch current
>television shows and movies on occasion, but they don't seem nearly as
>interesting on average as old movies do.  Anyone else have this same feeling?
>
>Just me,
>
>little 'e'
>
>(Who sat up *way* past her bedtime watching Katherine Hepburn last night)
>
Me for one. 

Michael.

Who watch 'Roberta' three times this week at his local theater, the
Stanford, near the school of the same name.  (Fred Astair and Ginger
Rodgers dance, Irene Dunne sings 'Smoke Gets in Your Eyes'.  Not to be
missed.)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: walter (Walter Lego)
Subject: Re: Mocsny?
Followup-To: soc.singles
Reply-To: nobody
Organization: Twisted Pair Inc.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 14:13:27 GMT

In article <1993Jan28.110606.23210@news.acns.nwu.edu> drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max) writes:
>In article <1993Jan28.013452.26669@netcom.com> aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine) writes:
>>Gee, now that Walter Lego and Mark Israel are posting again....
>
>Weird coincidence that - both of them coming back on the same day - What if
>they are really the same person !! I mean has anyone seen them together?
>

Alas. I have been found out.

Yes, it is true that Mark Israel is my narcissistic, pit-bull-phobic alter ego
that emerges periodically to annoy the denizens of soc.singles. Treat him
kindly since his fragile sense of humor may be irrevocably damaged otherwise.

						Walter

What disclaimer?
From: dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: getting along with ex in-laws?
Date: 21 Jan 1993 20:53:22 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN)
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: spcink.bbn.com

Do any of you single parents out there have words of wisdom for getting
along with your ex in-laws?  I'm sure most divorced people just lose
touch as quickly as possible, but since their grandchild is involved, 
I'm not sure that's a good idea.  My ex has no visitation, so any contact
would have to be through me.  They've never seen the baby (sixteen months
old) and have told me that they won't seek any contact if I ask them not
to.  I haven't had the heart to tell them to go away, but I also haven't
had the heart to answer any of their letters.  Attempts at talking on the
telephone haven't gone well.  And so this is just dragging on in limbo
for months and months.  Any single parents manage to foster a good 
relationship between their kids and the grandparents?

Dawn
-- 
"You have this adorable and misguided notion that death is something really
radical and cool but I still can't help being attracted to your fresh-faced
uncompromised tatoo-ed rebel stance and god damn, I'd like to help you
sing your tune."  "Folk Song..." by Bongwater
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: mel@niblick.ecn.purdue.edu (Meloney D Cregor)
Subject: Re: Rampant Sexist Exploitation
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 16:50:29 GMT

In article <1993Jan24.073907.1360@wetware.com> drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:

>"Hey Honey, Want to make Dinner, in exchange for
>next weeks part of the Rent... and When You are
>Finished getting Your Bisquits in the Oven....."

I'd be happy to help him knead his buns...

>Like, Really, I mean How DUMB do You think Guys ARE!!!!

Drieux, darlin', how dumb I think they are is entirely immaterial to
how dumb they really are.

But actually, it seems quite equitable to me.  I know of an actual case
with reversed genders.  A friend of mine paid her rent  through college
this way.  She met a couple of guys who were the stereotypical bachelors.
Neither knew how to boil water and had no interest in learning and couldn't
keep house to save themselves.  So, they made an arrangement and she got
free room and split board in exchange for cooking and cleaning.  It worked
out great for all parties.  She is currently a chef in Chicago and those
boys ate like kings.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Flirting How To Guide/Backrubs
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 01:32:46 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.005833.29108@leland.Stanford.EDU> jones@samish.Stanford.EDU (Caren Jones) writes:
>In article <1993Jan24.220457.12422@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
>>
>>Perhaps it was a little presumptuous to assume that you felt that way, but
>>it isn't that unreasonable an assumption, given how often differing feelings
>>about physical contact cause friction (or, worse, not enough friction) in a
>>relationship.  Like Aahz, I would be unlikely to enjoy a romantic
>>relationship with someone who wasn't given to being physically affectionate--
>
>I wouldn't assume that Robert doesn't like sex or that he fails to
>please his partners (which you've implied, Trygve) just because 
>he doesn't like backrubs.

Eh?  That wasn't at all my intention and even going back and rereading
my original post, I still can't see where or how I might have implied
this. 

>Sheesh, it's an awfully big leap to say that somebody who doesn't 
>enjoy backrubs doesn't enjoy physical contact or affection.  I
>don't like people licking my ears, but that doesn't imply that I
>don't like backrubs, hugs, holding hands, foreplay, sex, or
>anything else.  

It's not that big a leap--I'd say there was a general trend for people
who don't like backrubs to be less likely to be very physically 
affectionate (and, as said before, this is affectionate as opposed to
sexual) than people who do like backrubs.  Certainly we're not talking
about a 100% correlation, but neither is it so negligible a correlation
for Francois' remark to be entirely from out in left field.

Trygve   (I'll keep the ear thing in mind, though.)
--
"If Milli Vanilli falls in a forest, does someone else make a sound?"
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: rohwerwd@netcom.com (W. David Rohwer)
Subject: Re: Living alone and liking it
Organization: The Tickle Palace - Moonyvale, CA
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 10:07:36 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.185205.2304@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jwall@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jeff Wall) writes:
>In article <77121@apple.apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
>>blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
>>
>>>So what do you look like in latex? :)
>>
>>Like Garfield.
>
>Garfield is absolutely adorable!!  (Not to mention humerous)
>

     I once gave a stuffed Garfield to a potential girlfriend when
I was 19.  I was trying to be romantic.

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From: jmd@bear.com (Josh Diamond)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Honesty, Your word, and Trust -- a crisis?
Date: 27 Jan 93 14:27:06 GMT
	<JMD.93Jan25144223@lion.bear.com> <77584@apple.apple.COM>
Organization: Bear, Stearns & Co. - FAST
In-reply-to: stef@Apple.COM's message of 26 Jan 93 15:32:30 GMT


In article <77584@apple.apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:

   >Yup.  Yet another breakdown in communication.  We are unwilling to
   >confront each other on even the smallest issues.  So the issues
   >aggregate, and snowball until they become a major issue.  The kind
   >that cause relationships to fail.  Even the kind that causes wars.

   I'm really annoyed at the self-righteous tone of this thread.

C'mon stef -- I'll give you an example.  The US gummint was unwilling
to confront Iraq on it's intransigence until it got so far out of hand
that military action was used.  Get it?

Also, I don't believe that I am any less responsible that anybody else
out there.  I've let stuff slide, and yeah there are times when I've
broken my word.  Unfortunate, but true.

   Hm... do you think that if I had decided not to post that, it might cause 
   a war someday? 

Hardly.



Spidey!!!
--
You don't hunt ducks with a turnip! 

 /\ \  / /\  Josh Diamond                                          jmd@bear.com
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Subject: Re: Credibility and Trueness
Organization: Indiana University
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 09:58:47 GMT

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

>jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) writes:
>>While you have it handy(as usual) look up acaulescent.

>Ok, I looked it up.  What do I get??
>Piglet, acaulescent's-r-us

A place to put your tail?


-- 

Kiran Wagle                           <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Re: Credibility...
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:42:20 GMT

In article <MARTINC.93Jan23123842@grover.cs.unc.edu> martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
>In article <ewright.727734935@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
>
>   In <MARTINC.93Jan21101124@grover.cs.unc.edu> martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
>
>   >But he can't -- that would mean he had to admit that it is *possible* to
>   >be happy being single.  As with the working out thread, that would mean
>   >giving up the idea that something about himself may be why he's unhappy.
>
>   Whoo!  It's Psycho V -- The Return of Charlie Martin.
>
>   Run along now, Charles.  Mother's calling.
>
>Ed, a long time ago I figured out there were certain people and certain
>remarks for which the only intellectually honest response was "oh, fuck
>you." 
>

Hi Charlie.
 
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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:31:33 EST
From: Graydon <SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Credibility and Trueness
 <1993Jan27.004250.17453@sol.UVic.CA>  <ewright.728158167@convex.convex.com>
 <MARTINC.93Jan27144010@grover.cs.unc.edu>
 <ewright.728178797@convex.convex.com>

In article <ewright.728178797@convex.convex.com>, ewright@convex.com (Edward V.
Wright) says:

>Psychology denies the existance of free will because its very
>existance is incompatible with the concept.  Once you recognize
>that human beings have free will, you can explain any human
>behavior with one simple explanation: he chose to do it.  All
>the ids, egos, superegos, hobgoblins, and supernatural forces
>that fill psychology books become superfluous.  (And the writers
>of those books lose their source of income.)

Ed, when one is out picking berries, and walks round a corner
of this big tangled mess of bushes, and about 15 feet away
is a big boar bear, rearing up on his hind legs and making
that grunted bark/couch nosise that is bear-talk for 'who the
fuck are _you_?' with heavy undertones of 'these are *my* berries',
what has the little voice in the back of your head yelling 'RUN!'
got to do with free will?  (The alternative little voice that
goes 'bye!' just as you start to crumple up in a dead faint can
be substituted if you like.)

Graydon
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
Subject: Re: Credibility...
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 04:04:47 GMT
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In <1993Jan26.002537.21249@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:

>Remember, "happy being single" means "happy being single"--and
>doesn't in any respect necessarilly imply that they wish to avoid 
>being unsingle.  

Sorry, Trygve, but "I'm happy being single" originally appeared on
your list of reasons for not being married.  If being happy being
single does not imply a preference for being single, it was out of
place on your list.



>Trygve   (I'm trying very, very hard not to make any "Mister Ed" jokes
>          here.  I hope you're proud of me.) >

Well, it's a start, but doesn't quite make up for bringing America
all those Gilligan's Island reruns.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max)
Subject: Re: SWF in search of SWM or DWM
Keywords: single
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 10:57:29 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.180425.10294@iscsvax.uni.edu> mehrl4986@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
>
>I'm a single white female who is wondering if anyone does read these
things?

Obviously you don't or you would know better than to post a personal ad
to soc.singles. Even someone with the mentality of a guppy could figure out
by now that personal ads don't belong in s.s. So either you don't have the
brains of a guppy, you didn't bother to read this group before posting to
it, or you are so arrogant that you ignore even the minimal conventions
that this loosely knit gathering adheres to. Get ready, you are about to 
receive mail from every sweaty-palmed, pimple-faced geek with just enough 
of a clue (and not one whit more) to log onto this news group.


>
>I'm not into kinky sex.  

Oh well then maybe only half of all the geeks will write to you - the ones
that can't read and comprehend any better than you.

Max
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: rna@leland.Stanford.EDU (Robert Ashcroft)
Subject: Re: Flirting How To Guide/Backrubs
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 05:35:44 GMT

In article <C1D56J.HDE@CAM.ORG> souchay@CAM.ORG (Francois Souchay) writes:
>In article <1993Jan24.064613.29860@leland.Stanford.EDU> rna@leland.Stanford.EDU (Robert Ashcroft) writes:
>>Huh?  I don't like spinach much either.  Does this mean I avoid those who do?
>>Tell me: I'm dying to know what my preferences are, since you seem to know
>>so much more about me that I do.

{some stuff deleted}

>In the relationships I've seen and experienced, spinach is not as great an
>issue as the quality and frequency (or non-occurence) of backrubs.
>The comparison is weak, unfortunately. A better comparison would be to
>something which is on the order of a semi-weekly event, like maybe washing
>the dishes.

Semi weekly?  Egad, remind me never to have you as a housemate.

>For that matter, if your SO cooked a meal with spinach in it every week,
>I rather doubt you would let this pass uncommented, no?

Actually, I did.  It's not that I hate spinach, it's just not something that
I actively seek.  Actually, there are precious few things that I do
really and truely hate.

>Now, if you want nothing to do with backrubs, but you'll freely give and
>receive same from an SO who is a fan thereof, without a glimmer of
>resentment, then I apologize. You are the exception to _all_ the people
>I've spoken with on this subject.

Again, it's not that I want nothing to do with them, it's that I don't
see what the fuss is.  And there are plenty of things that don't do much
for me that I'd be willing to do for an SO.  There are things I have done
with/for an SO that didn't do much for me.  I don't see this as terribly
exceptional.

RNA

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: dobbs@ast.saic.com (Lynn Dobbs)
Subject: Re: Steve Martin no longer in vogue?
Organization: SAIC
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:18:36 GMT

In article <lmdnvvINN5c0@news.bbn.com> dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes:
>particular post, and how many of them actually give a rat's ass about
>it.  I also wonder if I agree with Ed when he says that if you don't

I want to know where people are getting all these rat's asses from.  Maybe
we have a new business idea here.  Some little plastic rat's all that 
people to hand out if they don't care about something!

--Lynn
From: infante@acpub.duke.edu (Andrew  Infante)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Credibility...
Date: 25 Jan 93 17:31:32 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

>
>>     Discounting others' experiences by calling them liars makes you
>>as credible as a convicted murderer on death row claiming that he/she
>>never committed the crime.
>
>So, what are you in for, pal?

So, you've never seen those TV shows (like current affair etc...)
that show these people who have been convicted, have been on death row,
have been executed, have shown their families grief stricken, have
found the true killer and have shown the prosecutor saying,
	"Yes, it's a shame, we have executed the wrong man.  
	 But crime doesn't pay, and ..."

Hm.

l.

andy
.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: (LONG) Re: Living alone and liking it
Date: 27 Jan 93 20:53:53 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN)
NNTP-Posting-Host: spcink.bbn.com

In article <77582@apple.apple.COM> pooh@Apple.COM (Wendy Nather) writes:
>
>A man will happily live
>in his own messy apartment, but not consider that someone
>else might want to walk without tripping over things.  

Whoops.

>He will
>only start thinking about dinner when HE is hungry, and only
>then will notice that there's nothing to eat in the house,
>complain about it, and then go get a beer and Doritos.  

Er, well, I do manage to remember the milk and Gerbers for her Majesty,
but otherwise, well, whoops.

>Men don't remember personal data relevant to anyone else
>(like birthdays, preferences, family issues, etc.).  Often
>they will give gifts when THEY feel like it and think of it,
>not when they think YOU would like it or need cheering up.

Damn.  I think I must really be a man.

Thanks Pooh, you just ruined my life.  I'm going to go commit suicide now.

Dawn
-- 
"You have this adorable and misguided notion that death is something really
radical and cool but I still can't help being attracted to your fresh-faced
uncompromised tatoo-ed rebel stance and god damn, I'd like to help you
sing your tune."  "Folk Song..." by Bongwater
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