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From: howeird@hpl.hp.com (Howard Stateman)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Singles services - Together
Date: 13 Jan 93 01:17:02 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: State Home for the Mildly Amusing
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL7]

Marvin Raab (marv@netcom.com) wrote:
:    And pretty sophomoric. People want to meet others 'naturally'. One of 
: the best selling points of boinks and net.gatherings is that there's no
: pressure. You meet who you want to meet and don't meet those you're not 
: interested in meeting.
Maybe this is why we meet the wrong people, and are still single.

: Could you imagine the reaction of a lurker being forced into the limelight
: by these proposed antics?

It would serve 'em right! Maybe they'd get a life.
-howard
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From: Jawara@Applelink.Apple.COM (Ron Drake)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Oxymorons, and other important trivia
Date: 4 Jan 93 20:42:49 GMT
Followup-To: ba.singles
Distribution: ca
Organization: Me, The Whole Me and Nothing But

In article <16148@auspex-gw.auspex.com>, johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
wrote:
> 
> In article <1992Dec30.020025.5721@finch.scac.edu> jimmy@finch.scac.edu (Jimmy Tubbs) writes:
> >In article <16093@auspex-gw.auspex.com>, johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
> |>[...]  It said
> |>that "everyone goes to PJ's on Wednesdays".  Sounds to me like an invitation
> |>for ba.singles for HumpdayBoink at PJ's.
> |
> |Uh oh -- now the normal people are going
> |to have to find all new places to go to.

There's hardly anyone normal at PJ's on Wednesdays or any other day. Try
Cheers on El Camino in S'vale for "normal".
Newsgroups: ba.singles
From: bob@netcom.com (Bob Becker)
Subject: Re: Cars and Other Fun Stuff (wasRe: Turning 30!!)
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Distribution: ba
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 04:47:19 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.043014.22769@netcom.com> hjb@netcom.com (H. J. Bae) writes:
>
>true enuf... for the most part. for me it's not the advertising media
>or other types of evil external influence that ruins the deep
>satisfaction of being alone. more dangerous is the occasional internal
>animal yearning to just have some warm body next to talk to. a trivial
>event can set this reaction off -- simple things as raindrops leaking
>thru the ceiling in the dark, making strange but regular, repetitive,
>and finally pulsating noise -- all of a sudden one realizes that one is
>sitting alone in the dark, with a bottle of jack, in the middle of a
>cold warehouse one calls home, reading bukowski, __love is a dog from
>hell__.  once the realization hits, one is screwed for the rest of the
>night.  much gnashing of teeth follows, until various narcotic
>substances neutralize one's agonizing soul of semi-consciousness. dire
>events do happen if one decides to go out for a bit of human touch,
>looking like a junkie fresh out of meth. clinic. one can scare a
>homeless bum asking for spare change, which actually happened the other
>night, while walking down the grand in oakland. until you've scared
>someone that scares you, you don't know how far you've gone.
>i better shut up, this is no alt.angst.
>love
>hwajin

I'm stunned.  Who is this person?

My best guess would be a paranoid male in a drug induced stupor.
From: oleg@netcom.com (Oleg Kiselev)
Subject: Re: Duck and Jive (was Re: Pre-Sex Contract )
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Distribution: ba
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 10:31:12 GMT

In article <1ikis0INN9il@bang.hal.COM> landman@hal.COM (Howard Landman) writes:
>If not, I have this pin ...

But Howard, that's all that's keeping you together!  If you pull it out...
-- 
Oleg Kiselev at home			...use the header to find the path
Newsgroups: ba.singles
From: gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews)
Subject: Re: Gerg's a wimp, but Kaiser's a Doberman...
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Distribution: ba
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 05:55:24 GMT

erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp) writes:
>gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews) writes:
>>erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp) writes:
>>>
>>>Hah!  Dobies are sweet dogs - if you know how to handle them.  Besides, most
>>>animals love me...they usually have better taste than their "masters".  hehe
>
>>Perhaps you taste better than their masters do.
>
>Perhaps so.  My last SO certainly thought so.  :)
>

Er...uh...your last SO thought you tasted better than her master? 

-- 
:::::::::::::::::::  Greg Andrews  gerg@netcom.com  :::::::::::::::::::
ObGuindon:  Roger Blunt has been saving newspapers most of his life.
            Later on, he figures to make some trees.
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Newsgroups: ba.singles
From: desiree@netcom.com (Desiree Champagne)
Subject: Re: Oxymorons, and other important trivia
Summary: Damn, it's raining again
Organization: Oh Sigh.
Distribution: ba
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 00:13:22 GMT

In article <76134@apple.apple.COM> erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp) tries to be
cute with:

>Either that, or Des has her X-Y chromosones mixed up. 

	Nope. 

> Or she has permanent PMS. 

	Puny Men Syndrome?  Yes, one could say that.  I have this deep
aversion to them.

	
Desiree
Newsgroups: ba.singles
From: mpollak@oracle.uucp (Maximilian Pollak)
Subject: Re: Having a good day...can you?
Organization: Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores CA
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 21:13:06 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user
              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.
From: mcole@sub-40 (Mary Cole)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: No negative content!
Date: 12 Jan 93 18:37:54 GMT
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

Well, THIS will probably have some kind of negative reaction from the  
jaded folks in this group, but here's something I wanted to pass along in  
hopes to those with a more positive attitude! Anything wrong with that???

		PROMISE YOURSELF

Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of  
mind.

To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.

To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.

To think only of the best.

To work only for the best, and expect only the best.

To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are your  
own.

To forget the mistake of the past and press on to the greater achievements  
of the future.

To wear a cheerful counternance at all times, and give every living  
creature you meet a smile.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time  
to criticize others.

To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear and  
too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

Author Unknown
From: erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Oxymorons, and other important trivia
Date: 5 Jan 93 22:24:12 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Bleeding Edge Technologies - 'Sliding Down The Razor Blade Of Life...'

In article <72872@cup.portal.com> DeadHead@cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong) writes:

>	Oh well. I thought hostility was a guy thang, and goils often were
>the providers of harmonizing energy in this world.  Tsk Tsk. My naivete.
>I suppose I should re-read the Helen of Troy myth ;-)

Either that, or Des has her X-Y chromosones mixed up.  Or she has permanent
PMS.  Or ... or ... or ...  :) :)
-- 
Ed Carp, N7EKG                    erc@apple.com                   801/538-0177
"This is the final task I will ever give you, and it  goes  on  forever.   Act
happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love,
and do what you will."           -- Dan Millman, "Way Of The Peaceful Warrior"
From: alpope@skids.Eng.Sun.COM (Alan L. Pope)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: No negative content!
Date: 12 Jan 1993 22:52:04 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: alpope@skids.Eng.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: skids

Unfortunately,


In article 15178@informix.com, mcole@sub-40 (Mary Cole) writes:
>Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of  
>mind.

Too single minded to be disturbed.

>To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.

So they think are wacko.

>To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.

B.S., specifically.

>To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.

The sunnyside of total blackness and   the ultimate in pessimism.

>To think only of the best.

Though that is none too good.

>To work only for the best, and expect only the best.

Prima Donnas.

>To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are your  
>own.

And since your own is total failure....

>To forget the mistake of the past and press on to the greater achievements  
>of the future.

Constantly forgetting mistakes and repeating them.

>To wear a cheerful counternance at all times, and give every living  
>creature you meet a smile.

More a look of bewildered amusement.

>To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time  
>to criticize others.

And the method of ``self-improvement'' is to belittle everyone around.

>To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear and  
>too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

Grossly overweight tot he point where any of the above emotions would
directly cause a coronary.

;^)

---
					Alan Pope <alan.pope@Eng.Sun.COM>
From: paydayyt@mindbender.Eng.Sun.COM (Scott Cooke)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Cars and Other Fun Stuff (wasRe: Turnin
Date: 12 Jan 1993 19:03:19 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: paydayyt@mindbender.Eng.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: mindbender

In article ll633tINNr9j@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM, janiceg@marvin.Eng.Sun.COM (Janice Gelb) writes:
>>	Exactly.  Which brings about a question.  How many people out there
>>are happy being alone?  Just being alone. Doing things by yourself?
>>
>
>Depending on my mood, I can be happy alone, reading, watching TV, working 
>on the computer. However, going out alone is often a different story. I 
>don't enjoy going to movies, out to eat, etc. by myself -- it's too hard 
>to balance a book while trying to scarf up pasta!

I agree.  I like to spend some alone time myself.  I also like going out
with my friends.  I think we need both to balance our selves.  I've found
that I spent most of my "alone" time on slef-reflection.  If you determine
what your are happy and not happy with in your life, you are better
equipped to make yourself happy.  If you are happy, I believe that you
are much more appealing to others. 

>>>	The way I see it is if somebody is happy being alone, then they
>>>don't have a problem with being single either.  Thus, they are not
>>>influenced one way or another by the advertising media.  

>I don't agree with this statement: you can be happy with your own 
>company but that doesn't mean that you want to be alone ALL the 
>time. I think everyone needs companionship from time to time, 
>someone to share life's absurdities with. I don't think it's 
>healthy to NEED someone else all the time, any more than I think 
>it's healthy to live a hermit-like existence, always alone, never 
>needing or wanting the company of anyone else. Like so many other 
>things in life, balance is the key.

If your not happy with yourself and your own companionship, how do
you expect others to enjoy your company?  

>
>Let's hear it for self-confidence!
>
>
Self-confidence..The key to happiness???
Could be..

Scott 


Newsgroups: ba.singles
From: eager@eagercon.com (Michael J. Eager)
Subject: Re: Perfect Match (was-Re: If he bothers you...)
Reply-To: eager@eagercon.com
Organization: Eager Consulting
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 18:34:46 GMT

In article 531@netcom.com, desiree@netcom.com (Desiree Champagne) writes:
>In article <1993Jan5.031747.27629@netcom.com> bob@netcom.com (Bob Becker) 
>blabs:
>
>[junk about scores deleted -- we all know the score anyway]
>
>>Great!  Now if all these people will show up for....
>>
>>		Chicks 'n Dudes '93 - The Boink
>> 
>>We can all watch them battle it out in person.
>
>	Ummmmm.  Blatent advertisting on the net.  Tell us Bob, what
>is your take from all of this?  Besides the perverse pleasure you get
>out of watching the participants go at it on the mattress?

It might be more interesting on a water bed.


---
Michael J. Eager		Michael.Eager@eagercon.com
Eager Consulting		(415) 325-8077 
1960 Park Boulevard, Palo Alto, CA 94306-1141

Newsgroups: ba.singles
From: barry@netcom.com (Kenn Barry)
Subject: Re: Oxymorons, and other important trivia
Organization: QQQCLC
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 02:44:51 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.234231.21202@oracle.us.oracle.com> akao@.com
("Adam Kao") writes in a style old *.singles hands can't mistake.

	Hi, Diane! Haven't seen you around the net lately.

						Kayembee
From: DeadHead@cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Oxymorons, and other important trivia
Date: Wed,  6 Jan 93 17:22:06 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: ba
  <1993Jan5.071432.2792@netcom.com>
  <1993Jan5.234231.21202@oracle.us.oracle.com>
  <1993Jan6.093227.10014@netcom.com>

[Stuff deleted]
>
--
>
>	Bob "I've had it up to ^HERE^ with you people" O'Bob
>

	I am contemplating leaving, too... It's not worth my time to read
mindless flames.  I cant believe there are fights over small potato type of
things... If something is as dear to you as a matter of principle, then you
must defend it to death...

	But small petty potatoes? 

	Maybe one man's sack of small petty potatoes is another man's caviar...
---
/bruce	"Okay. I've made up my mind.... it's been real."
From: bob@netcom.com (Bob Becker)
Subject: Chicks 'n Dudes '93 - "The List"
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: ba
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 21:47:29 GMT

 I have received a lot of requests for the RSVP list for
 Chicks 'n Dudes '93 - The Boink.
I have also received a lot of requests to NOT tell people
that certain individuals are coming.

So I'm going to play it safe and not give out the list or 
any attendee information to anybody.
I didn't get this old by being stupid, ya know!

I hope you all understand.
From: john.lechmanik@uttsbbs.uucp (John Lechmanik) 
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Needing help greeting
Date: 3 Jan 93 19:04:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Transfer Station BBS, Danville, CA - 510-837-4610/837-5591
Reply-To: john.lechmanik@uttsbbs.uucp (John Lechmanik) 


BM>	Well. A month or so ago I reached my 30th bday. A great friend 
sent
BM>me a really wonderful birthday card. So I thought I would share the ca
BM>you and wish you a happy bday:
BM>
BM>
BM>	[Cover of the card]
BM>
BM>	Rumor has it that great minds don't reach their full 
BM>	potential until 40.  
BM>

        Reminds me of a note that Ted Danzen(sp) wrote on my sisters 40th 
birthday card (I just happened to be in the right time at the right place 
to get his autograph on her birthday card.

Quote:  "So your 40?  Now you're finally worth talking to."

        This was something that somebody wrote on his 40th birthday card. 
 Maybe there is some truth to this???


        John


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From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Oxymorons, and other important trivia
Date: 6 Jan 93 17:38:58 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <76153@apple.apple.COM> erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp) writes:
>In article <1993Jan6.011213.23977@netcom.com> bob@netcom.com (Bob Becker) writes:
|>In article <76145@apple.apple.COM> erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp) writes:
|>>
|>>Des, is to not degenerate into snide, nasty, ad hominium attacks but still
|>                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^
|>					Whuzzat mean?
|>Somebody even said I did it once.
|
|It's Latin for "attacks against the man".  Personal attacks, instead of
|attacks against one's argument.  A logical, rational person seldom takes
|potshots at another's personal style, dress, race, creed, color, or brand
|of mouthwash - they stick to the issues being discussed.  It's a popular,
|if irrational, type of attack.

It's sort of like talking about someones ability to flame someone else and
making a big fucking deal about how they're not living up to some flaming
standards as if the whole purpose of Usenet was how well someone could
flame someone else and not dealing with a topic rationally.  It's like
claiming that someones net.personna is the same in real life for *everyone*
(HINT: just because someone doesn't treat you well doesn't mean the person
is incapable of actually being quite charming).
From: veklerov@spindle.ee.lbl.gov (eugene veklerov)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Oxymorons, and other important trivia
Date: 6 Jan 1993 02:36:52 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Reply-To: veklerov@spindle.ee.lbl.gov (eugene veklerov)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.112.82

In article <76153@apple.apple.COM> erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp) writes:
|In article <1993Jan6.011213.23977@netcom.com> bob@netcom.com (Bob Becker) writes:
||In article <76145@apple.apple.COM> erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp) writes:
|||
|||Des, is to not degenerate into snide, nasty, ad hominium attacks but still
||                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^
||					Whuzzat mean?
||Somebody even said I did it once.
|
|It's Latin for "attacks against the man".  Personal attacks, instead of
|attacks against one's argument.  A logical, rational person seldom takes
|potshots at another's personal style, dress, race, creed, color, or brand
|of mouthwash - they stick to the issues being discussed.  It's a popular,
|if irrational, type of attack.

Pig Latin ?
Newsgroups: ba.singles
From: howeird@hpl.hp.com (Howard Stateman)
Subject: Re: Cars and Other Fun Stuff (wasRe: Turning 30!!)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 00:40:41 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: State Home for the Mildly Amusing
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL7]

Rick Shrum (shrum@eos.arc.nasa.gov) wrote:
: 
: Can't we all just get along??!
: 

No! Now get back down on the pavement...we aren't done kicking you yet.

================================================================ 
Howard Stateman    howeird@hpl.HP.COM  [Not an HP spokesman]
"I have the heart of a little child, and the brain of a genius
                     -- and I keep them in a jar under my bed"
================================================================ 
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From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: The Ultimate Condom
Date: 13 Jan 93 01:38:57 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1iv6nbINN100@morrow.stanford.edu> HF.HLA@forsythe.stanford.edu (Lisa A. Haupt) writes:
|Can anyone tell me why they don't make padded condoms?
 
If women would have invented them they would be.  BTW, that's an old joke
from an article titled "If Women Invented Condoms".  It also contained such
lines such as "I've got a condom in my purse and I'm not afraid to use it."
From: erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Perfect Match (was-Re: If he bothers you...)
Date: 5 Jan 93 22:33:15 GMT
Organization: Bleeding Edge Technologies - 'Sliding Down The Razor Blade Of Life...'

In article <1993Jan5.034958.531@netcom.com> desiree@netcom.com (Desiree Champagne) writes:
>In article <1993Jan5.031747.27629@netcom.com> bob@netcom.com (Bob Becker) 
>blabs:
>
>[junk about scores deleted -- we all know the score anyway]
>
>>Great!  Now if all these people will show up for....
>>
>>		Chicks 'n Dudes '93 - The Boink
>> 
>>We can all watch them battle it out in person.
>
>	Ummmmm.  Blatent advertisting on the net.  Tell us Bob, what
>is your take from all of this?  Besides the perverse pleasure you get
>out of watching the participants go at it on the mattress?

Oooh, *baby*!  Someone could make a *fortune* selling tickets to this
one!  :) :)
-- 
Ed Carp, N7EKG                    erc@apple.com                   801/538-0177
"This is the final task I will ever give you, and it  goes  on  forever.   Act
happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love,
and do what you will."           -- Dan Millman, "Way Of The Peaceful Warrior"
Newsgroups: ba.singles,soc.singles,soc.women,soc.men
From: obrien@netcom.com (No parking EXCEPT FOR BOB)
Subject: Re: The Never Ending Circle (was Re: Duck and Jive (was Re
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 09:45:36 GMT

In article <1993Jan05.231316.26553@Veritas.COM> oleg@veritas.com (Oleg Kiselev) writes:
>margoli@watson.IBM.com writes:
>>When I log on after an absence, I generally check ahead before posting,
>
>When I log on after an absence, I generally just hit the 'C' key.  If
>there was anything important that I missed, it will come back around in
>3-4 months, as every subject and idea on the NET always does.

I think you've missed something, all right.  The stuff that keeps coming
back around is NOT the important or interesting stuff, but the chaff and
the crap.  *that* is what you'd really want to skip.

When I log on after an absence, I generally read every message that
does not have "Re:" in the subject line.  Since nearly everything
goes tangent right away, I still miss stuff, but such is life.
Newsgroups: ba.singles
From: marv@netcom.com (Marvin Raab)
Subject: Re: Singles services - Together
Organization: user of Netcom Public Access Unix, SF Bay Area
Distribution: ba
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 20:35:27 GMT

In article <76518@apple.apple.COM> erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp) writes:
>
>Maybe we oughta do this at the next boink.  Pick some guy, then see who would
>be the best date for him out of all the available women we know.  Could be
>really fun - then again, it could get *real* embarassing...  :)


   And pretty sophomoric. People want to meet others 'naturally'. One of 
the best selling points of boinks and net.gatherings is that there's no
pressure. You meet who you want to meet and don't meet those you're not 
interested in meeting.

Could you imagine the reaction of a lurker being forced into the limelight
by these proposed antics?


               -marvin


-- 
Marvin Raab                                  
marv@netcom.com                              Mountain View, CA 94040
apple.com!netcom.com!marv                    415-961-6501 (h)