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From: cl2g+@andrew.cmu.edu (Charles Anthony Leone)
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: Re: Who cut the Cheese? the 70's file
Date: 14 Apr 92 04:02:54 GMT
Organization: Senior, Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Yeah,

There were a FEW things about the 70's that I remember fondly...

************************
The Incredible Hulk ( the music at the end of 
that show was so sad)
************************

I recorded it (poorly). It always made me cry.

**************************
The Land of the Lost--AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhhhhhhhhhhh!!!Splash!  Chaka 
and the Sleestaks, eh?
****************************

I wish they'd replay that, even on USA. The sleestak were just too cool
to live. The best, though, were those energy focusing pylons with the
neato crystal controls inside.

*****************************
Battlestar Galactica--cool show, Steven Speilberg ripped it off
anyone remember the episode where Apollo got stranded on a deserted planet 
with a Cylon and they hated each other and then they experienced cultural 
understanding and loved each other?  And then the Cylon ran out of juice or 
something and keeled over and I just cried.  Seriously, I was sad for 2 or 
3 days.
*******************************

That was the last episode of "Galactica 1980," actually aired in 1979.
It was actually Starbuck who was trapped with the Cylon and a mysterious
goddess whose name I forget, who was there to help them understand one
another. I recall that one vividly myself.

You forgot two other things:

1. Micronauts: the space people whose things turned into other things.
At my height I had all of them avaialble, then my youngest sister was
born (with medical defects) and my family had to forgo Christmas for a
few years. 

2. Ditto for Star Wars figures. My mom got me and my older sister a set
of Luke, Leia, Chewbacca, and R2-D2 back when they first came out. I
still have my original Chewbacca, but some of my collection were chewed
to bits by various sisters and cats.


It wasn't bad being a kid in the 70's. Really.

________________
Tony L.

8^\)
________________
Newsgroups: alt.romance
From: aatresa@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (Teresa Kline)
Subject: Re: Ed and Teresa (Carp ????)
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Yeah, *right* !
Date: 16 Apr 1992 17:43 EST  

In article <16APR199217200968@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov>, afdenis@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (Stephen Dennison) writes...
>In article <16APR199217102696@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov>, aatresa@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (Teresa Kline) writes...
>>In article <16APR199216563964@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov>, afdenis@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (Stephen Dennison) writes...
>>>In article <16APR199216271974@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov>, aatresa@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (Teresa Kline) writes...

>>>>...if you want it, Stephen.
>>> 
>>>... was it *nasty* of me to break this line out of context ? :-) :-)
>> 
>>Not to mention not saying if you want it... :)
> 
>Want it ? Heck, after all this time I'd be luck to recognize it. :-)
> 
Well....I *could* buy you a book?????

-- Teresa

		Life -- just for the FUN of it!!!!
From: kochmar@sei.cmu.edu (John Kochmar)
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: Re: JUST WHEN *DID* ROMANCE DIE?  Was(Re: More helpful Hints)
Date: 16 Apr 92 15:59:24 GMT
Organization: The Software Engineering Institute


In article <1992Apr15.230630.14977@tigger.jvnc.net>, richh@tigger.jvnc.net (RICHH) writes:
|> In article <1992Apr15.213903.17555@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> lisad@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (Lisa Dominique) writes:
|> 
|> <stuff>
|> 
|> So, we were trying to pin down just when romance actually died.  This is
|> what we came up with:
|> 
|> AT AUSCHWITZ
|> 
|> AT BUCHENWALD
|> 
|> AT TREBLINKA
|> 
|> AT DACHAU
|> 
|> RICHH
|> --Wilkommen.

Romance has not died.  Cynics try to kill it and pessimists boo hoo that
it has died, but optimists know it is out there, and romantics nurture
it in their hearts and sow it where it will grow and bloom.

As long as there is chocolate to consume, flowers to smell, sunlight,
music, children at play, romantics and optimists, romance will survive.

I predict a resurgence of good, solid romance in the 90's.

chocolate john

P.S.	The original follow-up was to alt.romance.chat -- I don't read
	there, so I made my follow-up here.  Posters responding to the
	original should check the newsgroup they are posting to before
	posting (and I should head my own advice ;^)



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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thursday, 9 Apr 1992 12:53:39 EDT
From: <RJD118@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: Re: LOVE sucks. No question about it.
Distribution: usa
 <2_jj6#q.tyger@netcom.com> <1992Apr2.044615.10658@leland.Stanford.EDU>
 <6trjt+#.tyger@netcom.com>

>TYGER: still on the line (I never claimed perfection)
Keeping on that line between good and evil seems pretty damn perfect to ME,
tyg. Course, maybe I am biased...I got no sense of balance....
So...I know this ain't the hate mail you asked for....maybe I oughta remedy
that one...

HATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATE!!!

There we go!!!

(Sorry, I can't be serious...I am too happy to be serious....)
      (Yes, that means I am in LOVE, true believers!)
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I\***********************/I                     and Woodgatherer of the
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Newsgroups: alt.romance
From: puter@no1home.nashvil.ingr.com (Software Dude)
Subject: a question
Organization: WHAT?
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 15:31:48 GMT

>What exactly constitutes cheating on someone

	Uh, if you told your date "I'll only date you!", then date someone
else. If your going to bed, and you tell your bed partner "I'll only go
to bed with you!". Etc...

> but I call a spade a spade, to
>continue your earlier card thread.....
>
	I'd really like to find a diamond of a heart in this
club of spades. <ar-ar-ar> Card thread continued...
--
Puter		puter@no1home.nashvil.ingr.com		Go UofL Cardinals!
Newsgroups: alt.romance,alt.romance.chat
From: zaidioa@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU (Omar A. Zaidi)
Subject: Re: Is this a common thing?
Reply-To: zaidioa@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 18:53:07 GMT

In article <92104.092434RJD118@psuvm.psu.edu>, RJD118@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>I was talking to the gf for many hours on the phone last night...and she had a
>question for me that pretty much floored me. I was speechless (not a common
>thing, let me tell you...) and just...well, I couldn't understand.
>Here's the question: "If, in the possible occurance of an 'oops', [as in
>unwanted/unexpected pregnancy] what would happen to 'us'? Would you share
>the financial burden, or what?"
>Okay...there is a reason for this. There was an evening last week where we...
>well, 'unprotected sex' occured. I know, bad idea. She isn't pregnant (thank
>God...I am not ready to be a father) and we decided that we gotta tone down
>the physical aspect of the relationship for now...too much too soon, you see.
>But she was worried about my reaction to it...She isn't a fan of abortion,
>but sees it as a viable option...she is NOT a fan of adoption...
>All this she told me while I was trying to get my brain under control.
>She was afraid that, IF she got pregnant, I would help out financially,
>whatever she decided to do, but the relationship would basically be over.
>She says that most of the guys she knows feel this way.
>I can't understand this attitude, in anybody.
>I told her that "If I love you enough to make love to you, my feelings aren't
>going to change because of a pregnancy. Of course I would help out financially,
>it's as much my responsibility as yours, but I wouldn't otherwise abandon
>you because of a problem like that."
>
>Ladies, is this a common worry?
>Guys, do you feel the way I do, or the other way around?
>I just want some answers....
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>I_________________________I         Redneck!    The Official Lumberjack
>I\***********************/I                     and Woodgatherer of the
>                                                          RFA
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Well,
	I'm a guy, a virgin too, but I will not make love to someone unless my
feelings for her come from my soul. If an unexpected pregnancy came up, I would
share as much of the burden as possible. The decision as to whether to have an
abortion or not would be hers. I would under no circumstances abandon her
because the depth of my feelings for her would prevent that from ever happening.
Furthermore, I would tend to belive that our relationship would endure because
of the feelings involved. To me sex is something a female has to earn the right
to do with me and so far only two females I've met have been worthy of that.


Just my 2 cents worth...

  
Chap

zaidioa@rosevc.rose-hulman.edu
From: magnus@solaris.astro.uu.se (Magnus Selhammar)
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: Re: Romantic Ideas For Everyday Use
Keywords: Ideas
Date: 14 Apr 92 16:16:50 GMT
Organization: UDAC, Uppsala, Sweden

In article <1992Apr12.044115.24877@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>, koenigp@tramp.Colorado.EDU (KOENIG PAUL M) writes:
|> ...
|> 
|> I had her over for Chinese food and at the end of dinner I brought
|> out fortune cookies.  Some of them you can get the fortune out with 
|> a pair of tweezers and insert your own 'special' fortune.  
|>
|> ...
|>  
|> She blushed five shades of red.
|> 
|> Any other ideas?
|> 
But come on, what did you write?

Magnus
Xref: sparky alt.romance:6704 soc.singles:10550 soc.couples:1922
From: afdenis@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Stephen Dennison)
Newsgroups: alt.romance,soc.singles,soc.couples
Subject: Re: Sanctity of relationships
Date: 7 Apr 92 16:52:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: lims01.7APR199211524197
Distribution: world,soc
Organization: Lessee ... I had it here a minute ago ...
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Apr7.144159.25352@cbnewse.cb.att.com>, hjanssen@cbnewse.cb.att.com (hank janssen) writes...
>From article <1992Apr7.005929.11543@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>, by rnjx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu:
>> I put aside my usual role of nitpicker and general pain-in-the-ass to
>> solicit the opinion of anyone interested enough to reply.  Email is fine, or
>> a regular net-posting, as I think this topic bears enough of an ethical 
>> character to be germane to most readers' lives. 
>> 
>> The question is this.  Is it ever morally and/or ethically O.K. to actively
>> try to woo one member of an existing relationship from that relationship so
>> that you may start one with her/him?  Under what circumstances?  How about
>> pursuing someone who's engaged?  Where do you all draw the line?  If it isn't
>> O.K., would you still do it anyway?
> 
>NO, how ever you look at it it is morrally incorrect.

OK, Hank a quick scenerio ... you *think* that she's marrying someone 
because *you* two had an argument and she's *showing* you up by jumping 
into a marriage that you don't think is right for her. Despite the argument, 
*you* feel that you and her belong together ...   What do you do ??

>And if anybody is warped enough  to  do  it,  he  or  she  should  not
>complain if it is done back to him or her.

I don't know about the `warped' part, but I *have* to agree with the `Do 
Unto Others' part.


-- Stephen 

(The only two valid e-mail addresses from now on are ...)
afdenis@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov,  afdenis@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov
.. boring .sig follows, press n to skip it.

		Love shares at least *one* common trait with the Great
		White Shark. When it *stops* moving forward, it dies.
Xref: sparky alt.romance:6842 soc.singles:10823 soc.couples:2002
From: sms@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (steven.m.stein)
Newsgroups: alt.romance,soc.singles,soc.couples
Subject: Re: Sanctity of relationships
Date: 9 Apr 92 19:29:57 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: AT&T

In article <JIVE.92Apr9132451@spanky.ssc.gov> jive@spanky.ssc.gov (Jim Ivey) writes:
>
>In article <1992Apr9.153217.14011@cbnewse.cb.att.com> hjanssen@cbnewse.cb.att.com (hank janssen) writes:
>
>>   This is getting fun.
>
>     This is getting stupid.
>
>>   I guess you also don't hold Hitler responsible for  the  second  world
>>   war. Just imagine him saying, I am not responsible for anybody's elses
>>   actions. Only my own.
>>   B.llSh.t, without him there would not have been a second world war. 
>
>     This _is_ stupid.  Completely irrelevant.  Another case of using an
>unrelated story which has truth in it, but no bearing on the argument.
>
>>   Also  without you, the people would not have had a reason to brake up.
>>   So it damn well makes you (at least, partially) responsible.
>
>     If she is willing to consider going out with someone else, then she
>must already have a reason to break up.
>
>>   The above logic, It isn't my fault, they did it. Is a screamer.
>
>     The above isn't logic.  It's a bad comparison of two unrelated topics.
>
>>   So  you  also  don't  have  any  problem  if  i  would  take away your
>>   girlfriend/wife or whatever. You would not think anything off it.
>
>     Of course he would have a problem with it.  I would have a problem
>with it.  This time you're twisting his words and falsely extrapolating
>their intent (Geez..  I didn't mean for the words to be so big;-).  I would
>be _very_ hurt, if the person I love left me for someone else.  But it is
>_her_ decision.  The only thing I fear from a third party is forcing her to
>make a bad decision (i.e. seducing her while intoxicated, etc.).  If she
>loves me and is happy with our relationship, she wouldn't consider leaving
>me for someone else.  If she does, then it is _our_ fault, for not working
>more on our relationship (or perhaps, just having irreconsileable (sp?)
>differences).
>
>>   Sad, very sad.
>
>     These comments are generally worthless and irritating.  How can you
>judge someone else to be 'sad', when you aren't secure enough in your
>relationship to trust in your SO's (RP?;-) judgment?  She's just as much of
>an individual as you are, and shouldn't be forced or required to do
>anything.
>
>>   Sorry, but i just had to explode here. 
>>   (Ducking for flames now.)
>
>     Hope you've got a concrete bunker like the one I built after my last
>posts;-).  Seriously, the only reason I responded to this message at all is
>that you sound almost as arrogant as I came off as in my messages a few
>weeks ago;-).  Try to 1) not judge people so harshly, 2) leave out the
>absurdium examples, which only sway the casual reader, and 3) refrain from
>sticking in editorial comments like 'sad'.


Bravo, Bravo......beautifully said.
Newsgroups: alt.romance
From: sean.casey@EMCB.CC.UTAH.EDU (SEAN THOMAS CASEY)
Subject: Romantic music list
Organization: University of Utah
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 22:19:58 GMT

	Okay, folks, here's a new concept for this net.  I've read a lot of 
complaints about how this has turned into a "bitch.net" about how men are 
assholes and women are bitches and nobody can get along with anyone and no 
one can get anyone else to be interested in them . . . . and this is 
supposed to be a net about romance.
	Well, here's something new to chew on for a while.  The songs listed 
here are ones which, I've found, tend to be really good for "setting the 
mood" on that special occasion.  Most of them, for me, have been used to ask 
that special someone to slowdance with me.
SCORPIONS:
	Still Loving You
	Holiday
	Lady Starlight
	Believe in Love
	Send Me An Angel
	Winds of Change
	When the Smoke Is Going Down

PAT BENATAR:
	We Belong
	Don't Let It Show
	Wuthering Heights

ASSORTED ARTISTS:
Tender Is the Night -- Jackson Browne
Alone Again -- Dokken
Patience -- Guns 'n' Roses
Pachelbel Canon in D Major -- Johann Pachelbel
This Night -- Billy Joel
Nothing Else Matters -- Metallica
I Can Stop the World -- Tony Cary
Shine On You Crazy Diamond -- Pink Floyd
On the Turning Away -- Pink Floyd
Send Her My Love -- Journey
Faithfully -- Journey
Don't Stop Believing -- Journey
Desperado -- Eagles
Stairway to Heavan -- Led Zeppelin
Hotel California -- Eagles
Tequila Sunrise -- Eagles
Loving on Borrowed Time -- (I don't recall the duo)
Bridge Over Troubled Water -- Simon & Garfunkel
Mandy -- Barry Mannilow (yes, the man does have some uses)

	anyways, that's the best I can do offhand and with limited time.  
Let's see what y'all can come up with.  C'mon . . . take your best shot!!

	Sepiriz of the Nihrain
            aka Sean.Casey@emcb.cc.utah.edu
From: rrosenberg@vax.clarku.edu
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: RE: C'mon, people....
Date: 11 Apr 92 00:37:53 GMT
Organization: Clark University

TOM,
SOMETHING ROMANTIC? LIKE WHAT?
REBECCA
From: aatresa@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (Teresa Kline)
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: Re: Ed and Teresa
Date: 9 Apr 92 13:34:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: lims02.9APR199208342801
Organization: Yeah, *right* !
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Apr9.022834.25112@leland.Stanford.EDU>, rna@leland.Stanford.EDU (Robert Ashcroft) writes...
> 
>Ed and Teresa flirt on the net.  Teresa finally calls Ed's bluff and
>tells him to ask her out.  Ed wimps out.  

That about covers it...:(

>Or is there something else going on here?
> 

No, darn it!! :(


-- Teresa

		Life -- just for the FUN of it!!!!
From: aatresa@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (Teresa Kline)
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: Re: Ed and Teresa (Carp ????)
Keywords: Let's mind our own business
Date: 15 Apr 92 17:23:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: lims02.15APR199212234244
Organization: Yeah, *right* !
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <15APR199212144202@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov>, afdenis@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (Stephen Dennison) writes...
>In article <kun9q4INN7kp@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>, erc@pogo.Corp.Sun.COM (Ed Carp) writes...
>>In article <1992Apr14.024027.10332@usho93.hou281.chevron.com> hrtcu@usho52.hou281.chevron.com (R.T.Cutler) writes:
>> 
>>>For GOD's sake, consumate this.  DO IT!!!!  And then maybe all of
>>>us can get some sleep.
>> 
>>Why?  That'd take all the fun out of it! :)
> 
>Ed's right ... 30-45 seconds of passion and it's all over. :-)

Is *that* all????  :(

> 
>Better to stretch the anticipation out over, say, 2-3 years. 
> 
>*NOT* !
> 
>C'mon, Ed, make the move ! I gotta get some work done over here. :-) :-)
> 

Oh.  Sorry to bother you.  <contrite look>

-- Teresa

		Life -- just for the FUN of it!!!!
Newsgroups: alt.romance,soc.singles,soc.couples
From: bicker@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (The Resource, Poet-Magician of Quality)
Subject: Re: Sanctity of relationships
Reply-To: Brian.C.Kohn@att.com (The Resource, Poet-Magician of Quality)
Organization: The Internet
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 13:18:27 GMT
Followup-To: alt.romance,soc.singles,soc.couples

In article <1992Apr10.062723.24391@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@isis.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
>In article <1992Apr9.202525.25582@cbnewse.cb.att.com>
>            hjanssen@cbnewse.cb.att.com (hank janssen) writes:
>>On another note, we keep on saying that it is men wooing  women  away.
>>Is this our ego speaking. I would think it is  the  other  way  around
>>just as much.  Am i wrong.??
>I don't think you're wrong in this statement; I do think we can conclude
>from this that it seems to be a significant emotional issue for a lot
>more male contributors to soc.singles than female contributors.

I think this is because some *evil* men, like Mr. Stein, *do* actively
try to break up relationships in order to woo women, (j/k Steve! :-) )
whereas women do not do this.  Women are much more civilized than men.

>I get the impression that a number of men here have been burned by someone
>pursuing someone they were interested in or, failing that, are very
>insecure in their relationships...

Not me.  Never been burned, and very secure in my relationship.

-- 
Brian Charles Kohn             AT&T Bell Laboratories Quality Process Center
ISO Certified Lead Assessor    E-MAIL: att!hoqax!bicker  (bicker@hoqax.ATT.COM)
    'Hope, not fear, is the most positive advocate of action.' - S.R. Lawhead
                   Stamp Out "SO": "RP" = "Romantic Partner"
Newsgroups: alt.romance,soc.singles,soc.couples
From: bicker@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (The Resource, Poet-Magician of Quality)
Subject: Re: Sanctity of relationships
Reply-To: Brian.C.Kohn@att.com (The Resource, Poet-Magician of Quality)
Organization: The Internet
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 02:04:54 GMT
Followup-To: alt.romance,soc.singles,soc.couples

In article <1992Apr10.155721.19833@cbfsb.cb.att.com> sms@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (steven.m.stein) writes:
>In article <1992Apr10.131827.6746@cbnewsi.cb.att.com> Brian.C.Kohn@att.com (The Resource, Poet-Magician of Quality) writes:
>Being that I have never set out intentionally to break up a relationship
>totally invalidates your point.

No, not really.  You're simply asserting that there is at least one 
guy in the world who would not try to woo someone else's RP, which I
myself admitted in my article.

>I have however been persued by women
>who were dissatisfied with the relationship they were in and ended that
>relationship either prior to or at the beginning of a more fullfilling
>relationship with me.

Futhermore, you're asserting that there is a women who will activley
try to woo a guy away from his current RP.  I cannot agree more;  As a
matter of fact, the woman I discussed in my earlier article has done this
quite often since we broke up, according to reports.

>I think it's time that you self persecuted people stop blaming the
>"other guy" for the wrong you brought upon yourselves.
>>Not me.  Never been burned, and very secure in my relationship.
>I'm not convinced.  Otherwise you would not be sooooo worried about
>other guys "stealing" your SO away from you.

Who said I was worried about that?  Remember how I got into this thread
Steve: I was a guy who "woo'd" a woman away from her current RP.  What
I am worried about is confused people like the gentleman who originated
this thread making the same mistakes I made.  Anything I can do to
dissuade him, especially since he asked, I must do!  <zealot glance>
-- 
Brian Charles Kohn             AT&T Bell Laboratories Quality Process Center
ISO Certified Lead Assessor    E-MAIL: att!hoqax!bicker  (bicker@hoqax.ATT.COM)
    'Hope, not fear, is the most positive advocate of action.' - S.R. Lawhead
                   Stamp Out "SO": "RP" = "Romantic Partner"
Xref: sparky alt.romance:6877 soc.singles:10876 soc.couples:2018
From: jclark@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (John Clark)
Newsgroups: alt.romance,soc.singles,soc.couples
Subject: Re: Sanctity of relationships
Date: 10 Apr 92 05:59:29 GMT
Followup-To: alt.romance
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of California, San Diego

+In article <1992Apr9.153217.14011@cbnewse.cb.att.com> hjanssen@cbnewse.cb.att.com (hank janssen) writes:
+
+>So  you  also  don't  have  any  problem  if  i  would  take away your
+>girlfriend/wife or whatever. You would not think anything off it.

Boy I bet you've never heard the Henny Youngman line,
"Take my wife...", and after a poignant pause, "...Please".
-- 

John Clark
jclark@ucsd.edu