HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: diana@wetware.com (CatWoman )
Subject: Re: Zen and the art of refrig upkeep (Re: Living alone)
Organization: Castle WetWare MouseCatcher
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:21:00 GMT

mel@niblick.ecn.purdue.edu (Meloney D Cregor) writes:

] jwall@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jeff Wall) writes:
] [green goo ]
] >Tell me about it (sigh).  This particular problem got so bad with me that
] >I eliminated the vegtable bin.  Now all my food is in plain sight not
] >hidden away in some drawer :-).

No, no!  The veggie bin is where you put the good champaign,
wine and beer!  You know - the stuff you keep for yourself?

] I eliminated it entirely.  I just buy frozen dinners now.
] 
] I love to cook. It's a bummer, but how the blazes does one find time??

Frozen dinner, take-out, restaurants...

Actually - schedule a day for cooking - or use
cooking as an excuse not to do housework.

Or get involved with someone who lives with a
trained chef - and volunteer to help with the
cooking.

Diana
Newsgroups: soc.singles,ba.music
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Favorite Groups
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 18:00:36 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.012943.5416@netcom.com> desiree@netcom.com (dmc) writes:
>In article <1993Jan24.091528.2336@netcom.com> rohwerwd@netcom.com (W. David
> Rohwer) once again proves that he is an alien life-form with:
>
>[Gigi quote and convo deleted]
>
>>Some dude in the UK sez:
>>>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:
>
>	[idiotic list deleted]
>
>	Jesus Christ Superstar, Rohwer!  You're a numbskull...  Nobody  
>gives a tinkersdamn what you like.  (Yea, I'm speaking on behalf of the
>world here...)

No, you're not--actually, I rather like knowing a little bit about the
tastes of the people I've gotten familiar with over the net; it's nice
to get a glimpse into their spirits from a slightly different angle
(even ones who claim not to be a net.personality).  (For that matter,
I rather like Jesus Christ Superstar as well, though I like the version
with the blue album cover better than the one with the brown album
cover.)

It's not as if the topic of music hasn't come up on soc.singles many 
times before (oddly enough without anyone leaping into personal attacks
on the people discussing the subject)--I've even been inspired by some
of the comments on the subject made by such notables as Rob Thurlow,
John Fereira, and Charlie Martin enough to go down to the local record
store and buy copies of albums they were discussing. 

[rest of personal attack deleted]

Trygve   (Have you considered switching to decaffeinated?)
--
"What do you get when you drop a piano down a mineshaft?
 A flat minor."
From: quirke_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: what is attractive ?
Date: 26 Jan 93 02:22:23 GMT
Organization: Welligton City Council, Public Access.
NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

souchay@CAM.ORG (Francois Souchay) writes:

> After watching friends eviscerate themselves in bad relationships,
> and the evidence that most of us repeat in love what we grew up seeing:

> Love happens when your neuroses match.

   At LAST !
   An explanation for my hideously long Mean-Time-Between-Relationships !

-- 
Tony Quirke, Wellington, New Zealand (Quirke_A@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz)
"Only the free have disposition to be truthful.
 Only the truthful have the interest to be just.
 Only the just possess the willpower to be free." - WH Auden.
From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Credibility...
Date: 25 Jan 93 23:29:01
Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
	<MARTINC.93Jan23124248@grover.cs.unc.edu>
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	<ewright.727988060@convex.convex.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: grover.cs.unc.edu
In-reply-to: ewright@convex.com's message of Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:54:20 GMT

In article <ewright.727988060@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:

   In <lm8bdaINN8tu@news.bbn.com> dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes:

   >1)  Would you consider a person who had one or two dates a month with people
   >that he/she never went out with again to be non-single?

   I would say that person was single most of the time, but non-single 
   once or twice a month.  

See, that's why I restated 'single' to fit what *I* understood you to
mean.  By your definition, I've been not-single twice this week already.
But I misdoubt that there was anyone who understood you to be saying
'not on a date at the current moment'.  However ...

   Most people who say they are happy being single do not mean they are
   happy having no interaction with the opposite sex (assuming they are
   heterosexual).  They mean either a) that they are unwilling to accept
   the additional responsibility and commitment required to move further
   toward the nonsingle end or b) that they do not want to give up something
   they think they would have to give up if they became permanently nonsingle.

But your logic is corrupt here.  First of all, what you say is that I
can't be happy right now, right where I'm sitting, with no one in the
room but the cats and me.  And I'm still happy as a clam.

Beyond that, I just spent 10 years married.  I struggled to try and
"make it work" right up to the day my ex told me she was taking the
money and leaving for Australia.  I defy you to responsibly say I was
unwilling to accept the responsibility and committment of being
non-single.  And by the way you contradict your own definition here,
since either "non-single" is as weak as "currently on a date" -- in
which case responsibility and committment aren't much of a requirement
-- or you mean something closer to a "committed relationship" which is
the definition I proposed and you ignored.





--
		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
     "Oh God, please help me be civil in tongue, pure in thought, and able
      to resist the temptation to laugh uncontrollably.  Amen." -- Rob T
From: julie@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (Julie Wright)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: A hug for illiterate flamers
Date: 26 Jan 93 18:08:30 GMT
Organization: Vituperative Verses

ag936@yfn.ysu.edu (Lance Durden) writes:

>		  HUGS
>	  R. H. Grenville

>Hugs are happy, healing things,
>Like a wraparound of angel wings;
>Like a mother's cradle when you're small,
>Like a lovely rose-embroidered shawl.

>Hugs can reach to distant places
>With loving heart and thought embraces.

>And in the peace that follows prayer,
>How often are we made aware
>Of the enfolding comfort of
>The everlasting arms of love?

	
	   GAG

	by J.R. Wright

Vomit falls upon the ground
With a little retching sound;
What inspireth me to puke?
Another posting from this kook.
The Valentine was not enough --
He must inflict us with this stuff.
Lance, a badly needed clue:
Alt.romance.chat's the place for you.

---Julie

-- 
* here you come again/ arms across a broken heart/ you want me to be free/
* i know what you mean/ but i am waiting for/ somebody to pull through 
* for me/ somebody's gonna have to be me              ---- The Roches
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: eleanor@cbnews.cb.att.com (Piglet)
Subject: Re: Flirting How To Guide
Organization: the house on the corner
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:44:26 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.013556.19548@panix.com> sethb@panix.com (Seth Breidbart) writes:
>Not really.  Try hugging, with your hands roaming over each other's
>backs.  It works.  (But then, I've had a hug from me compared to a
>visit to a chiropractor.  Some women are an inch taller by the time I
>put them down :-)

_That_ explains it!  I've always measured 5' 2.75" on a doctor's scale--
until my last visit (last month), when I measured 5' 4".  And there I
thought she was just doing it wrong.  It's all _your_ fault!


Piglet, relieved that she really isn't taller (but considering adopting
        the new "official" height for insurance chart purposes...)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Women write to me!!
From: quirke_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Date: 22 Jan 93 17:24:48 NZST
 <1993Jan20.143635.1@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz> <1993Jan21.210518.13084@torsqnt.tor.sequent.com>
Distribution: world
Organization: Welligton City Council, Public Access.
NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

 clever@sequent.com (Cathy Cleverley) writes:

> Thanks alot Tony.  I was laughing so hard when I read this that the
> phone rang (I answer the phones at work, among other things) and I
> couldn't stop laughing.  Luckily, it was a co-worker and not a
> customer :-)

   Drat ! Your boss told me you'd be sacked if you screwed up the customer
relations bit one more time, and that I could have your job. I guess I'm just
going to have to try again, Cathy, either that or wire your car with plastique.
   You're welcome. 

-- 
Tony Quirke, Wellington, New Zealand (Quirke_A@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz)
"Only the free have disposition to be truthful.
 Only the truthful have the interest to be just.
 Only the just possess the willpower to be free." - WH Auden.
From: blowfish@centauri.unm.edu (rON.)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: rON bashing
Date: 22 Jan 1993 05:25:19 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
NNTP-Posting-Host: pioneer.unm.edu

In article <1993Jan21.194118.5480@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes:
>>>>Well, let me check the naughty bits....
>>>Brudders?
>>Yeah, but he's only 19. :)
>Sounds perfectly legal to me ....  :-)

I'll ask him :)
r.
From: dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Credibility and Trueness
Date: 26 Jan 93 15:00:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.lmakfgINN403
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN)
NNTP-Posting-Host: spcink.bbn.com

In article <JMD.93Jan25161441@lion.bear.com> jmd@bear.com (Josh Diamond) writes:
>
>
>In article <ewright.727932461@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
>
>   I may have said something along the lines of "The longest relationship
>   I've ever had a relationship lasted all of four dates."  I don't see how 
>   you could equate that with "never having had a relationship" unless you
>   graduated from the Charlie Martin School of Mathematics.
>
>4 dates does not a relationship make.
>
>Nuff said.

In the interest of fairness, I should mention that 4 dates *might* be a
relationship, depending on what was going on during and between those
dates.  Fer'instance in high school I "dated" someone for three months
where we only made it out of my parent's yard twice, because of lack of
money, too much stuff to do, and my parent's not wanting to let me go out
with him.  A long distance relationship could end up working the same
way for adults. 

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
Subject: THE MEN SONG
From: mkleczka@gacvx2.gac.edu
Date: 25 Jan 93 19:59:32 -0600
Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota

Here's a little song I learnt recently:

THE MEN SONG

Men, men, men, men,
Men are better than women.
Men are BIGGER! (emphasize bigger)
Men are STONGER! (emphasize stronger)
Men are better than women.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: SM ISO MAIL
From: quirke_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Date: 26 Jan 93 15:33:47 NZST
Distribution: world
Organization: Welligton City Council, Public Access.
NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

brent.mason@uuworld.via.mind.ORG (Brent Mason)  writes:
> - . From: ssalter@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (-=[SLS]=-)
> 
>   . 	I am a single caucasian male, 23, who is seeking one lady, two
>   . ladies, hell I don;t care, LOTS of ladies between the ages of 14 and
>   . 40 that want some good, dirty fun. I am lonely and horny and well
> 
>        14??  Grow up... you want a woman not a GIRL!

   Um, Brent, you may find that if you use the sequence :

Engage(brain);
Sarcasm_detection_mode(ON);
type(post);
followup(post,soc.singles);

   you'll get on a lot better...
-- 
Tony Quirke, Wellington, New Zealand (Quirke_A@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz)
"Only the free have disposition to be truthful.
 Only the truthful have the interest to be just.
 Only the just possess the willpower to be free." - WH Auden.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: dobbs@ast.saic.com (Lynn Dobbs)
Subject: Re: Chocolate, love, and mental "illness"
Organization: SAIC
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:29:11 GMT

In article <ewright.728251491@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
>
>So, Charlie believes that any behavior that has a biochemical
>basis is a mental "illness" that must be "cured" by psychiatric
>"treatment."
I don't think he said that.  I don't think anyone who thinks would
say that.  I think you are the only one who would say that.

>
>Researchers have found that the chemical beta-phenylethylamine
>is the responsible for many of the good feelings people experience
>when they are in love.
>
>The same chemical is found in chocolate.
>
>So, is love a mental illness?
>
>Is chocolate?
>
>  
You are an idiot.
--Lynn Bruce
From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: LookingForSomePeople
Date: 25 Jan 93 23:37:55
Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
	<1993Jan25.155357.1031@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: grover.cs.unc.edu
In-reply-to: ron@turing.toronto.edu's message of 25 Jan 93 20:53:57 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.155357.1031@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> ron@turing.toronto.edu (Ron Wessels) writes:

   martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
   >zborowsk@alfred.carleton.ca (Zbigniew Borowski) writes:
   >   HI!! Is anyone up there to respond this message ???  I'm an aerospace
   >   engineer looking for some interesting People, girls are preferred.
   >
   >Obviously, he's taking a Pole.

   Well, at least he knows enough to sit on the port side of the aircraft.
   After all, to be stable, all Poles have to be in the left half-plane.

Oh my gawwwwd.
--
		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
     "Oh God, please help me be civil in tongue, pure in thought, and able
      to resist the temptation to laugh uncontrollably.  Amen." -- Rob T
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: gdb15@grebe.cl.cam.ac.uk (Guy Barry)
Subject: Re: Companion
Reply-To: gdb15@cl.cam.ac.uk
Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:44:38 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.023644.5026@leland.Stanford.EDU> rna@leland.Stanford.EDU (Robert Ashcroft) writes:
>
>But you are bad poster.  Personals go in alt.personals.  The purpose of
>soc.singles has never been divined, but if it were to be, it would immediately
>be replaced by something even more odd.

The purpose of soc.singles is quite clearly to provide an opportunity
for flaming people who post personal ads.  All ther threads are just
an irrelevant offshoot.

(Surely soc.singles has a charter somewhere?)





--
Guy Barry, University of Cambridge | Phone: +44 (0)223 334757 
Computer Laboratory                | Fax: +44 (0)223 334678
New Museums Site, Pembroke Street  | JANET: Guy.Barry@uk.ac.cam.cl 
Cambridge CB2 3QG, England, UK     | Internet: Guy.Barry@cl.cam.ac.uk
From: ez012344@chip.ucdavis.edu
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Could be worse (was: Re: Upper Midwest)
Date: 22 Jan 93 05:31:23 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Computing Services, UC Davis

In article <C0yoH5.2BJ@CAM.ORG> souchay@CAM.ORG (Francois Souchay) writes:
>
>Journalists:
>
>USA : Lightweights given to stories about Socks the cat & Millie the dog.
>Canada : Our journalists hired by American networks for news credibility.
>
Including Pat Robertson! He more than makes up for your pretty faces, the
heinous monster.
From: m2x092@rick.cs.ubc.ca (Hin Tuan Tan)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: testing
Date: 26 Jan 1993 02:48:09 -0800
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: bowen.rick.cs.ubc.ca


just testing.....
From: souchay@CAM.ORG (Francois Souchay)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Flirting How To Guide/Backrubs
Date: 23 Jan 93 23:35:35 GMT
Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada

In article <1993Jan23.155401.8134@netcom.com> aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine) writes:
>In article <1993Jan23.003333.18031@leland.Stanford.EDU> rna@leland.Stanford.EDU (Robert Ashcroft) writes:
>>Excellent.  Here I've been feeling inadequate, listening to Aahz and the
>>others extoll the virtues of backrubs.  I've disliked them ever since I
>>was a kid.  My brother loved it, but I'd just squirm out of the way.
>>I don't suppose I actively dislike it anymore.  Don't understand it is more
>>like it.
>>I'd like to come out as a take-it-or-leave-it-backrub sort of guy.

>Please note that in my original article, I said the following:
>"Would you like your feet rubbed?"  At this point, if she's completely
>uninterested, and doesn't offer any alternative, you're probably better
>off finding someone else (assuming your taste in physical contact is
>similar to mine).

Hear, hear. I gotta say I fully agree with Aahz on this one. The backrub
criterion does help to sort out the folks who want/need massage from those
that don't. Robert prefers to avoid them ( from what I can tell ), so he'd
rather choose someone who feels the same way.

Mind you, this does tend to limit his search space, since from my informal
survey the ratio of women who appreciate massage to those who couldn't
care less runs at least 5 to 1.

Francois.
From: brent.mason@uuworld.via.mind.ORG (Brent Mason) 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: SM ISO MAIL
Date: 24 Jan 93 18:12:00 GMT
Reply-To: brent.mason@uuworld.via.mind.ORG (Brent Mason) 
Distribution: world
Organization: Micro Exchange - Kenwood, CA - 707-833-4032

- . From: ssalter@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (-=[SLS]=-)

  . 	I am a single caucasian male, 23, who is seeking one lady, two
  . ladies, hell I don;t care, LOTS of ladies between the ages of 14 and
  . 40 that want some good, dirty fun. I am lonely and horny and well

       14??  Grow up... you want a woman not a GIRL!

       Brent Mason
---
 . BABBLE v1.0 . OS/2 2.0 vs Widdows 3.1... There is no comparison!
 . KMail 2.94  Micro Exchange
From: stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: what is attractive ?
Date: 23 Jan 93 17:32:06 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (Die Fledermaus) writes:

>dfuller@portal.hq.videocart.com (Dave Fuller) writes:
>>  Does anybody know why they are attracted to certain people ? This includes
>>only physical features: gender, eyes, body, hair, etc. etc.

>I see it as combination of all of the above AND attitude.

I've found that what I'm attracted to changes over time. I can't really pin
down the reasons for all the attraction factors, but one thing I've
noticed is that after I make a friend or lover I really like, the same
physical and personality traits in other people seem more attractive to me
than they did before. 

(For more information about this phenomenon, see the writings of Pavlov.)
                                            
--
Stef                Beware of Geeks bearing gifs. -- ST*
stef@apple.com
Xref: sparky soc.singles:37966 soc.penpals:5991 alt.romance:16409
From: quirke_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Newsgroups: soc.singles,soc.penpals,alt.romance
Subject: Re: SM ISO MAIL
Date: 26 Jan 93 13:20:42 NZST
Organization: Welligton City Council, Public Access.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

st92rcn@cen.ex.ac.uk writes:
> My name is rachel and I want your body

   I'm still using it. Go away.

-- 
Tony Quirke, Wellington, New Zealand (Quirke_A@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz)
"Only the free have disposition to be truthful.
 Only the truthful have the interest to be just.
 Only the just possess the willpower to be free." - WH Auden.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow)
Subject: Re: Anonymous Postings
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 06:03:18 GMT
Distribution: na
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 <1993Jan21.212416.9477@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jwall@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jeff Wall) writes:

>In article <1993Jan21.162839.15962@cbfsb.cb.att.com> jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) writes:

>>As they say in France..........FUCK NO.
>>Should we discuss ankle bracelets on Alt.Personals?

>What he said :-).  I personally like to try and figure out where people
>are from from the address and organization line.  I don't like anonymous
>postings.

Hey, is it the anonymity that's the problem?  FUCK NO - it's the fact
that they're posting off-topic things.  Let's just make sure they know
that their off-topic stuff isn't welcome.  I send canned e-mail to
each offender; I got a thank you from one, and no flames, so I have
to think most of the posters are just ignorant, not malicious.

Rob T
--
Rob Thurlow, thurlow@convex.com
"Shouldn't I have this, shouldn't I have this, shouldn't I have all of this,
 and, passionate kisses, passionate kisses, passionate kisses, from you?"
- "Passionate Kisses" Lucinda Williams
From: blowfish@centauri.unm.edu (rON.)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Any Available Jewish Men Out There??
Date: 22 Jan 1993 12:53:26 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
NNTP-Posting-Host: pioneer.unm.edu

In article <1joq2qINNi9k@mirror.digex.com> huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:
>Be prepared for failure, though.  Recently I've read about an interesting
>hypothesis that religious belief and behavior are biological traits of humans.
>They're not necessarily adaptive but could be side-effects of our neoteny
>and carnivory.

Some people call it 'past lives' :)
r.
From: souchay@CAM.ORG (Francois Souchay)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: The Classiest Pickup Lines
Date: 23 Jan 93 02:40:25 GMT
Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada

In article <1993Jan21.204248.73671@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH) writes:
>xanadu@t-bone.cs.unlv.edu (Thomas Wilson) writes:
>>Absolutely.  You should take a consenting unicorn someplace private
>>where it won't feel uncomfortable.   ]-)
>But suppose the unicorn and escort are paid entertainers for the evening?
>Anyway, if they're in a bar, only Jerks and Shameless Hussies, classless to
>the core,  will see them. BFD.

"...soon after the writing of a novel featuring dragons, small people with
furry feet and unicorns that responded to anyone who was _not_ a virgin.
'Tramp, slut unicorns,' Ellison said."

The Hour That Stretches, Harlan Ellison.

Francois.
Newsgroups: soc.singles