HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart)
Subject: Re: Kiran and his sweetie
Organization: my opinions only
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 00:51:53 GMT

In article <lgfoglINN8el@news.bbn.com> dhardin@spcink.bbn.com
(Dawn Hardin) writes:
>To Kiran and his sweetie (you know who you are):
>
>If you don't stop being cute and happy and *gushing* in public (especially
>being cute and happy and gushing and *COY*) , then proper measures will 
>have to be taken.
>
>Proper measures do NOT involve maple syrup in any way.

You have no imagination.

Think ants.

Seth		sethb@fid.morgan.com
From: pdsmith@bbn.com (Peter D. Smith)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: girl/lady/female boy/guy/male
Date: 16 Nov 92 23:18:10 GMT
Reply-To: pdsmith@spca.bbn.com (Peter D. Smith)
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

In article <lgfnv3INN88r@news.bbn.com> dhardin@spcink.bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes:
>   >|> Better than dating a sculpture...
>
>You don't want to be accused of statuary rape.
>
>Dawn

Which, alas! happens all the time in Marblehead.


					Peter D. Smith
					Lame Jokes 'R' Us
From: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Are you a Young Brain Transplant?
Date: 19 Nov 92 03:14:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.1992Nov19.031408.1330
Distribution: na
Organization: Don't blame me, I voted for Bill 'n' Opus

In article <lglgrfINN2hp@news.bbn.com> dhardin@spcink.bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes:
>In article <1992Nov18.220541.27513@cbfsb.cb.att.com> jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) writes:
>>In article <BxxFB1.1nI@rice.edu> mmzn@rice.edu (Mark Mazina) writes:
>>>
>>>    /
>>>    |  obnoxious d(obnoxious)  =?   dawn  +  C
>>>    /
>> 
>>2.1
>
>I thought it was at least a 7.  Or am I just being easy because it had
>my name in it?

Well, uh, I don't want to accuse you of being easy, exactly, but I do
think that perhaps you're being just a might generous in this particular
instance.

Not that the lovely and talented Dawn could ever actually make a
mistake.
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

Trying to be happy is like trying to build a machine for which the only
specification is that it should run noiselessly.
From: tps@jptcs.COM (Tim Sailer)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: PRES DEBATE
Date: 17 Nov 92 05:24:24 GMT
Reply-To: tps@jptcs.com
Organization: JPT Computer Solutions, Port Jeff Station, NY
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Seth Breidbart (sethb@fid.morgan.com) wrote:
: >WHAT?!?!  Maple syrup's endangered?  Where are my Congresscritters' 
: >addresses?  This is dreadful!
: 
: I seem to recall reading about the production of maple syrup requiring
: boiling maple sap for a long time.  This takes mucho heat (energy).
: Anybody want to bet against the price curve of maple syrup tracking
: the price curve for general energy sources?

Ahhhhh fresh hot maple syrup! I used to make maple syrup upstate NY
with my grandfather. They would collect the buckets of raw sap and pour
it into a big pot/pan over a wood fire. (wood! A replenishable energy
source!) It takes about 7 gallons to make a gallon of 'A' grade
(light amber) syrup. As this boils, it forms a froth. This, when skimmed
off and poured on the clean snow makes the BEST maple sugar candy. So
sweet it'll crack your teeth! YUM! 

Anyway... the whole point behind this monologue was that the cost of
the energy stays the same, just the labor goes up. I guess that
commercial concerns make the syrup a different way, but then it's
not considered 'real' by our family! :)

Tim
-- 
Tim Sailer
JPT Computer Solutions - SCO Sales/Consulting/Administration and Mangling
Port Jefferson Station, NY
(516) 331-9001
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: dks@sr.com (Dave K. Sprow)
Subject: Re: What is attractive to women?
Reply-To: dks@srhqla.UUCP (Dave K. Sprow)
Organization: Silent Radio, Los Angeles
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:20:48 GMT

In article <1992Nov23.180428.9394@b8.b8.ingr.com> larry@b8.b8.ingr.com (Larry Billings) writes:
>> In article <7260@news.duke.edu>, diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams)
>> writes:
>> > In article <thurlow.722367772@convex.convex.com> thurlow@convex.com
>> >(Robert Thurlow) writes:
>> |>>I had a boss once, "Bob", who thought all "Robert"s liked to be called
>> |>>"Bob" the way he liked to be called "Bob", and he called me "Bob" every
>> |> 
>> |> Wow, sounds as bad as being named 'Elizabeth' in a decade in which popular
>> |> consensus has decreed that all Elizabeths be called 'Liz'.  I often
>> |> but this often backfires when someone decides
>> |> to call me Liz in attempt to sound friendly (and earns, instead, my
>> |> hostility).
>>  
>
>Yes, but have you ever had people argue with you about what your name is?
>My parents disliked nicknames and mostly named us kids short versions of a
>name or short names with no common nickname.  My birth certificate (yes I can
>prove I was not found under a rock) has Larry on it (my middle name is top 
>seceret info, but is similarly short) and people have refused to believe that
>I'm not turely a Lawerence.
>
>Larry (just Larry) Billings
   
Being a David, most people ask whether I prefer Dave or David. I say David,
except you see in the heading the my SysAmd *didn't* bother to ask!!  Grrr
And then there's only 1 person in the world who ever got away with calling
me Davey, but when *she* said it, well....

David (anybody else calls me Davey is dead meat) S.


Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: markr@mot.com (Mark)
Subject: Re: Question: How to increase the male sex drive ?
Reply-To: markr@mcil.comm.mot.com
Organization: MCIL
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 05:32:45 GMT

In article <1992Nov22.205453.3413@mtu.edu> bacon@mtu.edu (Jeff Bacon) writes:
>In article <1992Nov22.123018.18911@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> markr@mcil.comm.mot.com writes:
>>Definitely, I've been following the conventional wisdom of 'the Net'
>>which says that to increase my sex drive, I just gotta keep at it.
>>Well, after spending many hours each day for the past week at 'it',
>>the advice seems to be working very well. (We've been at it about
>>3-4 times a day since last Saturday night)
>
>when do you eat and sleep?

We do take breaks to shop and to cook (cooking together can be very
sensual . . .), not much sleeping going on, and I even made it to
work 3 days last week. (though not for my usual hours, came in to the
office much later than usual)

>>Don't ask me how it feels to be sore all the time, everywhere.
>>
>>Mark (who started this whole sex drive conversation after being
>>      celibate for a number of years and who has had more sex in
>>      the last week than in all his previous 28 years)
>
>please don't tell me you're complaining?

Absolutely not, I am extremely happy. (though a bit tired)

Actually, the nicest part of having this relationship is curling
up on the couch after dinner and holding Yael close to me.

Mark (who smiles a lot lately)
From: pdsmith@bbn.com (Peter D. Smith)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: What is attractive to women?
Date: 17 Nov 92 23:49:39 GMT
Reply-To: pdsmith@spca.bbn.com (Peter D. Smith)
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

In article <BxvtI7.LDy@access.digex.com> huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:
>Well, it was the only brush with criminality that I could find on my father's
>side of the family.  Among my mother's, though, two were arrested in 1730 on
>a charge of "traveling on Sunday."  However, they were able to get the
>Massachusetts General Assembly to quash the sentence and have the fine
>remitted.

Hah!  I can beat all of those -- *my* ancestor commited a crime >recorded
in real history books<!  He fought the first duel in Massachusetts, and had
to spend a day chained to his partner-in-crime.

ObSingle: the duel was over the hand of a fair maiden who married someone
else entirely.

				Peter D. Smith

(We also have our very own Library of Congress cataloging number)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu ( )
Subject: Re: Description of the Fetal Remains from an Abortion
Followup-To: soc.singles
Organization: North Carolina State University
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 00:29:11 GMT

In article <1992Nov20.081840.40252@watson.ibm.com> 
margoli@watson.IBM.com writes:

>jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) writes:

>>In article <1992Nov18.173151.4801@ncsu.edu> dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu ( ) writes:

>>>   a sack of blood and globs of tissue

>> You know dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu that was beautiful also. I think it would be
>> a little more appropriate and make more of an impact on
>> alt.romance.chat. Hey, it's a suggestion.

> Wouldn't rec.food.cooking be more appropriate?  :-)

Why don't you e-mail that suggestion to my system administrators,
in addition to the threatening e-mail you sent them today about
my post. 


  "It was easy to shrug off an aborted pregnancy as nothing more than
   a sack of blood and globs of tissue--as many pro-choice activists
   did--if one never saw fetal remains, or products of conception (POC),
   as they were known in medical circles.  But the nurses, medical
   assistants, and doctors who worked inside procedure rooms knew
   that while an eight-week POC was indeed a sack of blood and
   globs of tissue, an eleven-week POC harbored tiny arms and legs
   and feet with toes.  At twelve weeks, those tiny hands had tiny
   nails.  Although the fetal head was too small at that stage to
   withstand the evacuation machine's suction, pieces of face--a nose
   and a mouth, or a black eye (all fetal eyes are black in the
   first trimester) the size of a pea--were sometimes found in
   the aftermath.

   Later abortions spawned even more gruesome fetal remains.  Between
   the twelfth and the sixteenth week, early in the second trimester,
   the fetus almost doubled in length as its body caught up to its
   large head, and it filled out to the point where it looked like
   a human baby for the first time.  Since the fetal skull was 
   still soft, the head did not come out whole during the evacuation,
   but the legs and arms and rib cage made it through intact.  The
   hand of a second trimester fetus, as a Preterm doctor described
   it, seemed big enough to shake.

   Most of Preterm's abortion staff didn't volunteer to work ``seconds''.
   Late first trimester POCs were hard enough.  The counselor/medical
   assistants (CMAs) met regularly to discuss their feelings about
   their work, and often the discussion focused on the POC.  Inside
   a procedure room, facing the contents of the uterus, there was
   no denying what abortion was." 

   Sue Hertz, _Caught in the Crossfire: A Year on Abortion's Front Line_,
   Prentice Hall Press, 1991, pg. 104.

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (dreas)
Subject: Re: Why do women
Reply-To: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 20:52:28 GMT

In article C72@news.cso.uiuc.edu, jlamb@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Jeffrey Richard Lamb) writes:
>atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (dreas) writes:
>
>>In article D6C@unix.portal.com, mzank@shell.portal.com (matthew c zank) writes:
>>>Why do women just go for men with big muscle and lots of hair,
>>>and for any man who does not have any of this "too bad"?
>>>for that matter why do women have such narrow minds when
>>>it comes to views on men.
>> 
>>I guess your problem includes mostly the women in Eau Claire.
>
>>Women here in Vicky are a little more BROAD MINDED! :+)
>                                       ^^^^^
>
>The correct term is woman or female. The terms "dame" "broad" etc are
>not considered politically correct. I think you should be more considerate
>when you post. Remember there are those out there who will take your
>every word as an indication of sexism, raceism, or whatever. You flaggrant
>misuse of these offensive terms just show that you are a narrow-minded
>slob. Consider yourself flamed.
>
>(for the humorless) :-)
>
>(Just a joke, but if your ego needs a boost and you think it will help,
>feel free to flame me. I just think that when tensions run high it is
>important to rememebr that people can have bad days and say things they
>haven't thought out very well. I certainly don't know what's happening
>in the person-who-started-this-thread's life, but it's possible he just
>passed up for a guy with bulging muscles and lots of hair and he made an
>unwarrented generalization about women in general. Cut him a break.I can
>safely say either he's got the message or no amount of additional writing
>will get the message to him.)


(Click!)...(Whoosh!)

In order to relieve the burden from your mind, I understand your point.
I should have left out the CAPITALIZED LETTERS for the SATIRE deprived. You
seem to have misunderstood my post:

There is a huge Lesbian community here in Victoria.

Most folks here look at life with an open mind and many women 
prefer women to men. Now(for the SATIRELESS), before flaming
one of my intentionally ludicrous posts, email me to find out
exactly what my intentions were. Understand that this[:+)] 
means that I was NOT being serious!!!!  

(Ssssssssssssss!)

dreas
Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:00:59 EST
From: K. Roper <ROPERK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: PRES DEBATE
 <92316.215155SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
 <JULIE.92Nov12182406@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu>
 <1992Nov16.231239.29795@fid.morgan.com>

In article <1992Nov16.231239.29795@fid.morgan.com>, sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth
Breidbart) says:
>
>I seem to recall reading about the production of maple syrup requiring
>boiling maple sap for a long time.  This takes mucho heat (energy).
>Anybody want to bet against the price curve of maple syrup tracking
>the price curve for general energy sources?
>
>Seth            sethb@fid.morgan.com

*sigh*

Most of the water (~70%) is removed from maple sap by reverse osmosis,
   not boiling, eh?

Kim
From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: How to explain?
Date: 16 Nov 1992 18:08:00 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

In article <1992Nov14.235511.2900@csi.uottawa.ca> misrael@csi.uottawa.ca (Mark Israel) writes:
>   When I cross the Canada-U.S. border, and a U.S. immigration official
>asks me the purpose of my visit, how can I explain that I'm going to a
>Boink in a manner that will minimize the number of followup questions?

I'd like to explore the beauty of your great country, and to interact with some
of its wonderful people.

Oops, just noticed your net address.  You're going *into* the US??
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: eleanor@cbnews.cb.att.com (eleanor.j.evans)
Subject: Re: Do you remember 1970 to 1980?
Organization: that's what my organizer's for....
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 22:16:35 GMT

In article <MARTINC.92Nov18222158@hatteras.cs.unc.edu> martinc@hatteras.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
>
>How are we supposed to take you seriously when you were born after the
>Beatles broke up?


Huh?  *Oh*  You mean that group Paul McCartney was in before "Wings"?


Piglet <ducks fast...>
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: dtasman@NMSU.edu (Dan Tasman)
Subject: Re: Where to meet women?
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 00:37:09 GMT

malak@grebyn.com (Michael Malak) writes:

: I understand from my friends who live there, and from my brief visits
: there, that the West abounds with women in their 20's.

I wish that was the the case. It's certainly not true in the Las Cruces/ El  
Paso area.  We've got many male-dominated employers such as White Sands Missile  
Range, NASA, Fort Bliss and a host of other military and research  
organizations.  In addition, people in this part of the country tend to get  
married at a _very_ young age (about 18-20). I've taken to looking at ring  
fingers, and it's a rare sight when I see one without a rock on it.  

Maybe it's a better situation on bigger cities like Phoenix and Los Angeles.   
Can someone enlighten me? 

--
   Dan Tasman                                       dtasman@dante.nmsu.edu
                                                     molson@rever.nmsu.edu
   -----------------------------------------------------------------------
   "I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree
    Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all."
                                                                Ogden Nash
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: marcia@netcom.com (Marcia)
Subject: Re: Seriousness.
Organization: The Dolphin Conspiracy, Phase II
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 07:42:33 GMT


When are two people serious? When they decide they are.

If that's two general, I tend to consider things are pretty serious when
both partners are making joint decisions that affect both their futures
profoundly. This also includes major long term life planning.
-- 
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Marcia Bednarcyk                                  ADDRESSES: marcia@netcom.com
"Sweaty Snugglebunnies."                                     mlb@cisco.com
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
Subject: Re: Question: How to increase the male sex drive ?
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 18:40:31 GMT

In article <1992Nov22.123018.18911@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> markr@mcil.comm.mot.com writes:
>Definitely, I've been following the conventional wisdom of 'the Net'
>which says that to increase my sex drive, I just gotta keep at it.
>Well, after spending many hours each day for the past week at 'it',
>the advice seems to be working very well. (We've been at it about
>3-4 times a day since last Saturday night)
>
>Don't ask me how it feels to be sore all the time, everywhere.

Don't sports trainers recommend some warming-up exercises before beginning
an intensive workout?

>Mark (who started this whole sex drive conversation after being
>      celibate for a number of years and who has had more sex in
>      the last week than in all the previous 28 years)

Well, you might want to think about King Mongkut of Siam (Yul Brynner won an
Oscar for playing him in a movie) who practiced celibacy for about 25 years
as a Buddhist monk before suddenly finding himself a king with hundreds of
wives and concubines.

-- Herb Huston
-- huston@access.digex.com
Organization: Sophomore, Architecture, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.polyamory,alt.sex
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:49:39 -0500 
From: Rebecca Ann Stallings <rs87+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: raising children
 <1992Nov4.130459.13474@latcs1.lat.oz.au> <sf03bq600VB2I_DkV=@andrew.cmu.edu>
	<1992Nov17.233938.52596@gmuvax.gmu.edu>

sparker writes:
>The children that frequent my convenience store are mostly
>fatherless ones. [...]
>The law in Virginia states that one must be 18 to purchase tobacco products.
>When you ask these little lovelies  for their I.D., you are told, 
>immediately, to fuck off. 
>  If they had any respect for their elders, they would act like 
>humans instead if animals.  
>This, you see, is the result of single parent homes.
    No, this is the result of being unwanted and treated that way.  I
know both single-parent kids who would never consider behaving that way
and double-parent kids who are angry at everyone in the world and show
it.  A lot of factors other than the number of parents are to blame for
hostile and disrespectful kids.
   As for acting "like humans instead of animals," (a) humans *are*
animals, and (b) if, say, an elephant came into your convenience store
and asked for cigarettes, you probably would be so surprised you'd
forget to ask for its I.D., and if it said "fuck off" to you, you
probably would be impressed that it could speak English.  At least, that
would be my reaction.
    
Scott Moir writes:
>The Poly people that I know seem to realize that you make your own family
>structure, it isn't dictated to you. In all honesty, the best thing for the
>kids is caring, and it doesn't really matter who gives it.
    Exactly.  A monogamous, heterosexual couple can be utterly dreadful
parents, and a gay uncle and a celibate grandmother can team up to do a
wonderful job of raising a kid.  It all depends on the individuals
involved.
    To some extent, it also depends on where they live and how their
family structure is viewed by others; obviously, it's a bit more
difficult to be happy if you're persecuted.  However, that doesn't mean
being different is always a bad idea, and in fact, a family can take
pride in being different.  Mine did.  (A standard nuclear family with
occasional other relatives hanging around for a few months . . . but we
were intellectuals, environmentalists, members of the "wrong" church,
and otherwise considered weird in a homogeneous small town.)
 
    
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
Subject: Re: What do you Am men think about Am wome
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 13:46:35 GMT

In article <1992Nov18.001055.254@sol.UVic.CA> atovorni@engr.UVic.CA writes:
>In article LC6@access.digex.com, huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:
>>Here are some numbers.  The average duration of human copulation is about
>>four minutes.  This compares quite favorably to our close cousins, the
>>chimpanzee and gorilla, who clock in at about one minute.  However, our
>>more distant cousin, the orangutan, manages about twenty minutes on average.
>>(Orangs also prefer to copulate in the trees rather than on the ground.)
>>Among mammals, though, the record-holder is some rodent at twelve hours!
>
>Four minutes? Only if you go like a rabbit.
>Slow down...Enjoy! :+)

Well, I knew the risks of posting an average (I suspect it was a median
rather than a mean) value.  The point to remember is that there is probably
no datum with a negative value and the highest value could be much higher
than four minutes.

-- Herb Huston
-- huston@access.digex.com
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jsmt@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Julia Smith)
Subject: Re: Why do women
Organization: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 20:38:04 GMT

In article <By3rI8.D6C@unix.portal.com> mzank@shell.portal.com (matthew c zank) writes:
>Why do women just go for men with big muscle and lots of hair,
>and for any man who does not have any of this "too bad"?
>for that matter why do women have such narrow minds when
>it comes to views on men.

It's basic survival - we really are interested in gorillas (occasionally
other apes) but we get funny looks if we hang around the zoo too much.
Then, too, there is that added attraction of being around a man who
dogs sniff in admiration - I mean, really, it's all just part of the
basic animal kingdom, right?
   I do admire a man who has been rejected by every single woman in
creation, though.  More power to you!!  Especially in your skill in
finding only primeval narrow-minded women to approach.  Perhaps *you*
are hanging around the monkey house too much?  The babes you pick up
there have, after all, already expressed their preferences.  


Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Re: girl/lady/female  boy/guy/male Don't call me surely.
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 13:50:34 GMT

In article <1e95jcINNt7o@mozz.unh.edu> rll1@kepler.unh.edu (Robert L Lamothe) writes:
>respect without earning it.  The point is some things are earned and not
>ascribed, any person who has earned respect from me will recieve the
>proper addressing.  Anyone else?  Well I guess it depends on whether I
>feel irascible or condescending.
>                                                        -Bob

Thats Mister to you Bub.
 
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