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From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
Subject: Re: E.W. - Weddings....
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 11:14:40 GMT

In article <ewillims.715878138@unix1.tcd.ie> ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:
>There is something about a wedding that makes complete strangers
>drop their normal reserve and talk to each other.  I made lots 
>of new friends, including more single unattached males than I've
>ever seen before in one place!  (Very unusual for Ireland where the
>ratio of females to males is 3:1 )

DUBLIN, Sept. 15 -- Aer Lingus officials today expressed surprise mixed with
delight over a sudden and unexpected upsurge in reservations for flights from
the United States to Eire.  When questioned, ticket agents reported a high
number of prospective passengers were males with pale skins, glasses, and
pocket protectors.  Some are presumed to be rocket scientists, as they were
heard to be muttering a countdown ("3-2-1").

DUBLIN, Jan. 9 -- The Irish Tourist Office this evening honored Emma Williams
of Trinity University for her successful campaign to boost tourism in Eire
during the previous year.

-- Herb Huston
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: hays@TECHNET.NM.ORG (Larry 'Purple' Hays)
Subject: Re: Can we can the suck-up bit?
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 23:19:26 GMT
Organization: New Mexico Technet   Albuquerque, NM
Reply-To: hays@TECHNET.NM.ORG

In article <14521@auspex-gw.auspex.com>, johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:

>We'll if Sheba keeps on rejecting your appreciative prose you can join
>Larry, Larry, James, and I for an evening of babe scamming.  

REFINED, RESPECTFUL babe scamming.

PuuuuuuhhhLEAZE!

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        "Findin' good lovin'   ...   ain't an easy thing to do
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From: bruce@supr.scm.liv.ac.uk (Bruce Stephens)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Lurkers...
Date: 4 Sep 92 11:31:13 GMT
Organization: Centre for Mathematical Software Research, Univ. Liverpool, UK

>>>>> On 1 Sep 92 21:08:35 GMT, wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien) said:

> Well, that's easy.  Get a dictionary.  Next time that someone sends you mail
> like that, reply.  Send "Aardvark".  Cross it off in the dictionary.  Next
> time, move down to the next work.  That should hold you for quite a while,
> as well as confuse them mightily.  Unless of course they saw this post, but
> that's the chance you take :-)

Or send back the message passed through rot13 | tac, or something
equally silly.

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Bruce Stephens          Jung n fvyyl vqrn!
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Can we can the suck-up bit?
Keywords: encourage friendship?
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 22:51:38 GMT

In article <14559@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
>In article <1992Sep10.173955.4294@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
>
>| Hmmmm...dunno 'bout that--I did have an
>|interesting time engaging in "babe scanning" a while ago, though--a
>|woman I know was getting a rather large tattoo on an area of her 
>|anatomy not generally exposed to the general public; she had the 
>|outline done first and was going to come back for the colors, but
>|hadn't made up her mind on what color scheme to use.  So, she dropped
>|by and I slowly ran a hand-held scanner over her body, printing out 
>|the results to a laser printer so that she could try several different
>|variations with colored pencils.
>
>Yet another example of how technology takes all the fun out of romance.
>I remember the good ole' days when a babe would get an outline of a
>tatoo on an area of here anatomy that was not generally exposed and we
>would use finger paints to try different color variations.
>
>Stay within the lines, stay within the lines...

You know, it's moments like this that make me realize all the stuff I
missed out on by being born so late.  Oh, well; maybe next time it 
happens, I'll have to remember this and prentend that my scanner is
broken.

Trygve  
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jam@cse.unl.edu (James Macfarlane)
Subject: Re: General topic to break the monotony
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 02:30:06 GMT

blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:

>This might sound cruel but....
>In Illinois yesterday, a plane carrying skydivers crashed.
>My only question is, why didn't they jump out?
>r.
 Hmmmmm, I don't remember hearing about that.  But as far as the question
goes, at what altitude were they flying when they went down?  I know that
that is worded funny, but I'm sure you get my idea.  Skydiving requires
a minimum altitude to jump, even daredevils won't jump below a certain
level.  That is my 2c worth....

James
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From: nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Losers of the world UNITE!!!
Keywords: Losers, World, People
Date: 8 Sep 92 16:09:48 GMT
Organization: AT&T

In article <1992Sep7.005247.3340@panix.com> jis@panix.com (Jack Szwergold) writes:
> 
>What do you find that you do differently when you are single as
>compared to when you have an SO?

I do the same in each case since right now I'm both.

-Nance
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Can we can the suck-up bit?
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 18:04:41 GMT

In article <18maakINN15e@peponi.wcc.govt.nz> parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>
>And for all the discussion (drooling) over breast size, I find that although I
>get a lot of comments (mostly silly words like "gazongas") most guys I've
>heard talking and talked to don't like huge breasts (in NZ, anyway).  They seem
>to have no use other than novelty value.

Well, I wouldn't say that--having been involved with women who have been
nearly flat-chested to taking an F-cup, I have to say at this point that
there's a lot to like about every size I've ever seen (and no shortage of
things that can be done with them).  Now, if I were female, I think I'd
definitely prefer to be towards the smaller end of that range, having
gotten some familliarity with the physical difficulties that tend to
accompany, ah, huge tracts of land.

But anyway, the upshot is that they definitely do have uses other than
mere novelty value, but I would be hard-pressed to have to come up with
a strong preference for one size over another.

Trygve 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.)
Subject: General topic to break the monotony
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 92 12:04:02 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

This might sound cruel but....
In Illinois yesterday, a plane carrying skydivers crashed.
My only question is, why didn't they jump out?
r.
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Tallllll women....
Date: 8 Sep 92 23:15:18 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Sep7.022547.29338@peponi.wcc.govt.nz>, parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz writes:
|
|It would appear that all the tall men in the world live in the US.
|

Nope.  When a tall women complains about not enough tall men you're going
to see a lot of postings to soc.singles by tall men.


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From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Tallllll women....
Date: 11 Sep 92 23:18:50 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Sep11.220627.9995@fid.morgan.com> sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart) writes:
>In article <1992Sep10.150027.12199@gvl.unisys.com> liz@prc.unisys.com
>(Liz Loquacious) writes:
>
>>  For dresses and skirts I don't seem to have a problem although it sure 
>>looks like a lot of leg sticking out beneath some of my minis sometimes!  

I have that problem too.  'Cept that isn't my leg.

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| johnf@auspex.com | Santa Clara CA |  So Why am I still working here?"    |
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From: jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Tallllll women....
Date: 9 Sep 92 19:45:41 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University


taina@cs.Helsinki.FI (Juha Taina) writes:
>>>If I remember right there was/is a 5'7" - 5'9" basketball player in
>>>NBA.  Anyone remember him?

markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:
>>Yes, I do.  I even know his name and the team he played for (Kanses City
>>Kings).  :)

Nate "Tiny" Archibald. Also Calvin Murphy, Hoston Rockets, 5-9.

dfair@octel.com (Donald Fair) writes:
>       How about Muggsy in Charlotte NC. (Hornets)

Tyrone "Muggsy" Bogues, 5-3.

>       How about the Duke player.

??????????

Addenda of Note

Anthony "Spud" Webb, Atanta, 5-7
Michael Adams, Denver, 5-9
Tim Hardaway, Sacramento, 5-10

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From: andrew@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Andrew Walker)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Desperation (was Re: Commitment--The C-word?)
Date: 9 Sep 92 15:57:14 GMT
Organization: Glasgow University Computing Science Dept.

ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:

> andrew@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Andrew Walker) writes:

>>I used to know a guy at school who shaved his legs, he claimed that it would
>>help him his race times when he swam competitively. The girls didn't believe
>>him and teased him mercilessly. He got a lot of attention from them...


>	Actually, he had a very good point. I do know a guy who used to
>shave his head in order to make a faster time in swim races.
>Mind you I do think that maybe shaving leg hair for that reason is a bit
>silly as human hair naturally grows in whorls on the body which would
>not trap air when swimming .  At least that is what Desmond Morris says
>in his book Manwatching where he states that that is yet another reason
>why humans were once aquatic primates.  Our hair grows the same way that
>dolphin hair does too.  (I'm only quoting someone else here!)
> 

Ah, well he claimed it was friction between the water and his body would
slow him down by approx 0.05 second. I think though that shaving his head
would have gotten him more attention, though i'm not sure vanity would
allow it though!

>>Damn I was jealous! (of the attention that is..:-)

>	Well, did his legs look good too?  I have been told by a source in
>the advertising business that they sometimes use men's legs (shaven) for 
>advertising hosiery as they are generally longer! (*GRIN*)
> 

This is news to me. Boy are they weird in advertising!!

Andrew

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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: shannah@netcom.com (Teri Miller)
Subject: Re: Las Vegas Revisited
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 18:58:46 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: na
Keywords: Ick, yuk, ptooie

In article <5277@news.duke.edu> diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams) writes:
>In article <1992Sep11.190637.2284@u.washington.edu> intrigue@milton.u.washington.edu (Angelwing) writes:
>>He's at it again!  Anybody else get another email from Veeeeegas?
>>
>>Angelwing - why me?
>
>Yup.  I did.
>
>			--Diamond
>
Where is the Cosmique Muffin when you need her?  She's the kind of woman
I suspect "Mr. Vegas" needs as a pen pal.  Heck, just one email exchange
would probably be enough to keep him busy for several months....

I've actually been pretty lucky over the last few months.  The majority
of the email I've gotten from guys I didn't know was very positive and
not pushy.  

If you find the guy objectionable, could you just bounce his email?
That might let him know that you aren't interested in being a pen pal
without having to get into a big discussion about it.  If his email is
truly obnoxious, or (heaven forbid) abusive, it's probably the perfect
solution.

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: fredw@mks.com (Fred Walter)
Subject: Re: Various ramblings...
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 22:59:31 GMT

Ross Ridge <ross@zooid.guild.org> writes:
>fredw@mks.com (Fred Walter) writes:
>>Or they are unemployed.
>
>johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
>>What does being employeed have to do with being intelligent or for resenting
>>someone that they may suspect was more intelligent.

>What he says.

John answered his question here :

>>Being unemployed does, however contribute to a persons self-esteem.

And a person's self-esteem (or their lack thereof) has something to do
with how much they will "resent[] someone that they may suspect was more
intelligent."

>>Have you ever been unemployeed?  I have.  It's no fun.

Luckily I've never been unemployeed; but I know people who are unemployeed and
I grew up really poor, so I know that having no money is no fun.

>>Being unemployed has nothing to do with intelligence nor job skills.

I disagree with the "nothing to do with ... job skills" part of this statement.

And I somewhat disagree with the "nothing to do with intelligence" part as
well. I sometimes chat with the people who own the cheap food places I like
to go to, and one complaint I've heard is that the more educated (which has
some correspondence to intelligence) people think the jobs that cheap food
places have to offer are beneath them. Mind you, these are very low paying jobs,
but a job-is-a-job-is-a-job-is-better-than-sponging-off-family-or-friends, or
so I like to think.

	fred
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or reflect the opinion of the company which employs me.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Subject: Re: Desperation (was Re: Commitment--The C-word?)
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 06:14:33 GMT

ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:
>kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
>>They had an exhibit of the principal sources of perfumes--musk,
>>ambergris, and a couple others. They smelled utterly foul.  

>>Afterwards we went to Sally's for a fresh tomato, basil, and
>>mozzarella pizza with white garlic sauce, baked in a wood-fired oven.

>	You're saying you'd like to have an SO who smells like a 
>freshly cooked pizza all the time? (*GRIN*)

Well let's just say that a freshly cooked pizza smells a lot better
than the hindquarters of a civet cat (from which musk is extracted.)
-- 
Kiran Wagle <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
From: liz@prc.unisys.com (Liz Loquacious)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Can you accept criticism ? (was Re: Why lurkers lurk ...)
Date: 9 Sep 92 18:25:49 GMT
Followup-To: soc.singles
Organization: Paramax Systems

In article <1992Sep4.190944.12747@mks.com>, fredw@mks.com (Fred Walter) writes:
|> 
|> A personal pet peeve of mine is gossip. Every so often I hear from friends
|> of mine what their friends (people who don't know me well, or, even more
|> amusing, people who don't know me at all, people who have never even met me)
|> say about me. Nameless people, because my friends won't tell me who is
|> spreading the bullshit about me, because they don't want to get in trouble
|> with those friends. And my friends are amazed (as am I) at how little truth
|> there is in the stories.  Is this common, or do the friends of my friends
|> contain a larger than normal percentage of gossiping liars ?

I have a friend who at one point was still pretty involved with my ex
husband's friends and on an occasion he repeated some comments to me that
really hurt.  I finally asked him to not repeat them to me.  I can't
control what those people say and what's the point in my hearing it?  I
haven't been bothered by it since.  

Liz Loquacious
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow)
Subject: Re: Cooking for 1!
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 03:41:11 GMT
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In <kiran.715585755@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:

>*laugh* The Galloping Gourmet used to say, A splash of wine for the
>pot, a swig for the cook and was quite drunk by the end of the
>taping.  He eventually, I think, developed a drinking problem.  So I
>hear anyway, this was before my time.  

Graham Kerr, the Galloping Gourmet, was a howl; it was one of the
coolest shows the CBC ever thought of putting on daytime TV, so we
could still get it in Saskatchewan.  That sonofabitch was _funny_!
I don't think my Mom gave a shit for his recipes when she tuned in.
The drinking problem may have been right, but he did get straight
and start a "Return Of ..." show a couple of years ago, I heard.

Rob T
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But how can they know it's time for them to go?		- Sandy Denny
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tang@akofin.enet.dec.com (Gabe Tang)
Subject: Re: E.W. - Weddings....
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 16:37:07 GMT


re: (Emma Williams) ...

>>>	Dart Boards?? I've never yet met an Irishman who plays darts!
>>>Are you sure you're not thinking of English men?  It's a national
>>>pastime in Britain!
> 
>Gabe writes:
>>	Hmmmm, seems like you've been hanging around the wrong type of
>>	Irishmen. Almost all the ones I know of, just-over-on-the-boat,
>>	and most 1st/2nd generation Americans seem to have a certain affinity
>>	to the game. 
> 
>	Hey, they don't count as Irish!  Only people born and bred in
>Ireland are considered to be Irish.  They are Americans who just happen
>to have Irish ancestry!

	Whaddayamean......just-over-on-the-boat doesn't count as being Irish??
	Many of them have stayed years past their visitor's visas and are
	working unofficially, they are still Irish citizens. One, who was on 
	one of my teams, was from Dublin and I had great difficulty in
	understanding him when he spoke quickly. :-}

	He is considered a very good darter and wins a nice bit of money
	in the local small tournaments. 

>	 I think it goes hand-in-hand with being in a pub with
>>	a pint in one hand to off-set the weight of the darts in the other
>>	hand. :-)  
> 
>	Nope, the pint in one hand is offset by the weight of the pint
>in the other hand, not by the darts! (*GRIN*)

	Welllll, I thought of that later on. Still, over there, you can't
	be drinking as much if they close the pubs early. In the US, things 
	go much later into the night. Of course, the beer is lower in alcohol 
	content, but we drink twice as much to make up for that!  8^*

>>        Hmmmmmm, on second thought, maybe the ones you've met weren't thinking
>>	about darts when they saw you! ;^)
> 
>	True, very true! (*laughter*)

	Yup, they were thinking about how to get the next pint and who was
	going to be targetted to buy it for them!  ;^)
	Maybe they were looking at you and hoping you'd volunteer to pay
	for the next round! :-p 

	Tell you what, if you ever visit, I'll buy, I'd like to see what you
	look like with a pint in each hand.......wouldn't be able to slap
	my free hand....ah, er, I mean dart hand.  :-)))
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Subject: Re: soc.singles #64637 - Re: Desperation (was Re: Commitment--The C-word?)
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 11:14:35 GMT

>kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
>> Do you think there's something wrong with people who feel that they
>> (or their lives) are not complete without a (happy) relationship?

mlb@CISCO.COM (Marcia Bednarcyk) writes:
>Do you think there's something right with this?

I think there is certainly nothing wrong with a person's feeling that
his or her life is not complete without a happy romantic relationship.

Do you think people who feel this way have something wrong with them?

(Note that our society has a work ethic that suggests to people that
they should work even if they have enough money to live comfortably.)

-- 
"Puddle Ducks just wander around... Commercial Ducks have modern
 ideas.  The Long Island Duckling is a big success at the age of three
 months, with applesauce.  The Canvasback feeds on wild celery in the
 Chesapeake Bay region, thus improving his flavor and raising his price
 in the market.  Pretty smart for a Duck."
 ................................Will Cuppy, _How to Attract the Wombat_
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Kiran Wagle <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
From: epg@nature.Berkeley.EDU (little 'e' string)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: uh oh...
Date: 16 Sep 1992 02:08:32 GMT
Organization: Bourbon Street
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: nature.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Sep16.002433.9394@fid.morgan.com> sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart) writes:
>In article <1992Sep15.225917.27819@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
>tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
>>In article <kiran.716380822@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
>
>>>Pull the other one.  Everybody knows women never ask men out.
>>
>>Come on, Kiran, I take it you've never actually had female friends?  
>>I find that, in most of my conversations with available female friends,
>>the subject of who they've asked out lately and what happened and who
>>they're thinking of asking out comes up very frequently. 
>
>Trygve, we know you live in a different universe.  In fact, I think
>Kiran even mentioned that in a recent posting.

Well, women ask men out in my universe all the time too, so perhaps it is
Kiran who lives in a different universe.  Or do I just live in the same
universe as Trygve?  (And does that mean I can ask him out?)
 
>Now where can I get a ticket...

Well, I could send you a little 'e' ticket, but I'm not sure if you can use
it in your universe. :)

Just me,

little 'e'

"She's got a ticket to ride." - The Beatles

-- 
And he said "hey Baby, let's take a ride"
"We'll stand on the cliff's edge side by side."
"Got no time to smell the coffee."
"And anyway it's the rush that counts."  - little 'e'
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