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From: brent.mason@uuworld.via.mind.ORG (Brent Mason) 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Motie? (Was:Re: Any A
Date: 20 Jan 93 09:51:00 GMT
Reply-To: brent.mason@uuworld.via.mind.ORG (Brent Mason) 
Distribution: world
Organization: Micro Exchange - Kenwood, CA - 707-833-4032

Q> From: quirke_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
 > Newsgroups: soc.singles
 > Subject: Re: Motie? (Was:Re: Any Available Jewish Men Out There??)
 > Message-ID: <1993Jan18.124834.1@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz>
 > Date: 18 Jan 93 12:48:34 NZST
 >
 > rohwerwd@netcom.com (W. David Rohwer) writes:
 >
 >    Niven's books are well worth the read is you haven't already. Just about
 > the finest writer of hard science fiction around (ignoring both his Ringworld
 > series as a seperate issue, and realising that the future is more likely to
 > resemble cyberpunk than hard science fiction).
 >
 > Tony Q.

 I second the issue...  Niven is one of the premier SF writers of our
day.  My personal favorite is The Integral Trees and the followup The
Smoke Ring (I think that's the name).  Talk about living in another world
in another time, well I just didn't ever want it to end...

Brent Mason
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Re: Eat my Shorts  (Was "Steve)
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:27:23 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.165256.5242@lzsc.lincroftnj.ncr.com> rjf@lzsc.lincroftnj.ncr.com (51351[efw]-Robert Feddeler(MT4799)T343) writes:
>In article <1993Jan25.143931.19022@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes:
>>In article <1jrs9qINNcit@usenet.pa.dec.com> ed@pa.dec.com writes:
>>>> Newsflash, Gary.  "Eat my Shorts" *is* from the '70s.
>>>Newsflash, Nance.  "Eat my Shorts" is from the *'60s.*
>>
>>I saw it in The National Lampoon in 1973.  What's your 60's source?
>>-- 
>
>In '71, my college roommate had adopted it as his generic response to
>virtually any situation...  For example:
>
>Me:			"Hey Rich, turn off the TV!"
>Rich:			"Eat my shorts!"
>Me:			"Come on, don't be a douche!"
>Rich:			"Eat my shorts!"
>Voice from hall:	"Rich, Barbara's on the phone."
>Rich:			"Tell her to eat my shorts!"
>
>
>He also referred to knit woolen hats as "Dildo Warmers", so he
>wasn't completely noncommunicative...

Seesters? I mean it this time.
 
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Could be worse (was:
From: quirke_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Date: 26 Jan 93 15:37:30 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:

>        Like when you meet that new friend who comes down on your real
> hard, only to find out that it was his/her sarcasim at work.  You guys
> came down on real hard in the first post... (long n loud!)

   So ? Do what I did, and read thru the friggin' backdated posts first !

   Sheesh ! You wanna swim with the sharks, don't complain about the teeth.

-- 
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: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
Subject: Re: Credibility...
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:04:40 GMT
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
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              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In <1993Jan21.194936.5318@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:

>I also know people who seem to have no interest in
>being in a relationship at all (one in particular has the problem that
>she's (by our current social standards) very attractive, intelligent, etc.,
>and keeps having people decide that she's their ideal woman and wanting
>to live the rest of their lives with her while her interest in even
>dating anybody is simply nonexistent).

Or so she says.  Bet you a hundred bucks she's married within
five years.


>What I do want to know is why you feel so certain about this pronouncement
>that it is impossible to be happy being single?  

The obvious insincerity (and, when you get beneath the surface,
unhappiness) of those who claim it is possible.


>I'm happy enjoying a hot fudge brownie sundae and I'm also happy enjoying
>a good pizza--how is enjoying being single and enjoying being not-single
>so different?

Let's see... a pizza is not the negation of a hot-fudge sundae?

Gosh, easiest test I ever took!


Newsgroups: soc.singles,scot.general,scot.announce,rec.music.folk
From: cabr01@vaxa.strath.ac.uk
Subject: Highland Annual Ceilidh
Organization: Strathclyde University VAX Cluster
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:48:08 GMT

An Comunn Ceilteach           Edinburgh University
Oilthigh Dhu Eideann          Highland Society.   
 
            Proudly Present the

              HIGHLAND ANNUAL 

on the 12th February in Chamber St House, Edinburgh, 
from 8pm to 3am.

The  Herculean Ceilidh Band amd
The Sandy Brechin Band will provide the Ceilidh music.
In addition to this there will be a number of other singers and
musicians appearing elsewhere in Chamber St House.



Tickets are priced 5 pounds to non-members, 
                   3 pounds to members and 
membership is      2 pounds.

Tickets are available from :-
The Hebrides Bar, Market St, Edinburgh,,
The West End Hotel, Edinburgh,
Steven Heddle Rm 4315 JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh,
Micheal Davies, Celtic Dept, George Sq, Edinburgh,
and Potterow Shop, Edinburgh.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow)
Subject: Re: SM ISO MAIL
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 02:56:17 GMT
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
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              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In <MARTINC.93Jan24190505@grover.cs.unc.edu> martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:

>Rob, you pretty strongly suggested that he cut it out, on more than one
>occasion now.  All I said was that he doesn't appear to care if he has
>your approval.  But you seem to care if he has your approval.  If thy
>post offends thee, 'n' it out.

Oh horsecrap.  I'm quite glad 'dreas posts, because he has a knack for
stories (even if he does emulate Mr. Hampe's style, which makes me eyes
hurt at times :-)  The group would be poorer without him.

But I don't like one vector his postings take, and I happened to find
that a good time to say so.  (And yes, there have been others, but I
wouldn't exactly think I took on dreas's "reeducation" the way you
jumped on Ed Wright.)  The extra motivation to comment this time came
from the fact that he was flipping off everyone who commented that they
weren't nuts about his posts.  I'd prefer a statement like "Well, I
hear you but I disagree" in that case.  Something that said that he had
taken the time to think about the issues raised, and rejected them for
his own reasons.  I'd do that, and I don't see how asking him to do that
was something you'd even care to comment on.

So given that you're pretty much telling me what I may not post, what's
your excuse?  What was it that motivated you to follow up?

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: danb@zx.qsp.UUCP (Daniel Benbenisty)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: what is attractive ?
Date: 26 Jan 93 00:21:53 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Quality Software Products, LA, CA

In article <ewright.727736220@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
>
>In that case, "physiology" must change very rapidly indeed.  Even
>a brief study of history will show that there are enormous changes
>in what is considered physically attractive.  During the Italian 
>Rennaissance, the ideal woman was quite rotund by today's standards.
>In China, up until the beginning of this century, women bound their
>feet to make them appear smaller and more attractive.  In the United 
>States, just 20 years ago, it was generally accepted that women should
>be soft, rather than the "hard bodies" popular today.  Muscles on women
>were considered unattractive.

I read somewhere that there is a group of South Pacific islanders (?)
who consider it attractive to have no teeth - they knock them all out!

Actually, I imagine those chicks give pretty good blow jobs.

Perhaps, in general, attractiveness is defined by whatever the wealthiest
people happen to look like.  Or perhaps attractiveness is defined by whatever
conforms to peoples' notions of what a healthy person should look like.
For example, during the Renaissance, getting enough food to even GET fat 
was probably dependent on more wealth than many people had; also, in an era
of starvation and plagues which wasted away the body, being plump looked
"healthy."  Today, being lean and muscular may be a sign of adequate leisure 
time to exercise, and/or adequate funds for a health club membership; also,
it seems to conform to the modern notion of health.

>>>===Pan-Handle-Dan===>	danb@qsp.com
Daniel Benbenisty		Guitarist for EARWURM
From: pm3_norr@csd.uwe.ac.uk (Paul Norris)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Zen and the art of refrig upkeep (Re: Living alone)
Date: 26 Jan 93 22:51:25 GMT
Organization: University of the West of England, Bristol


Mel has cooking time problems:
}I love to cook. It's a bummer, but how the blazes does one find time??
}
}I work out on MWF's.  I have meetings on Tuesdays.  I have piano and
}dance classes on Thursdays. 
}
}I still have to deal with house cleaning, laundry, 3 cats and a dog, work,
}and time to read.  And somewhere in there, I have to eat and sleep. 
}There just isn't time to cook.

There's always time to cook and cat if you look for it.

How about opening the all the doors through to the stereo - hell *move*
the stereo into the kitchen, and dance/work out on the MWF while you get
on with the cooking.   Five minutes to prepare the veg and chuck it in the
pan.  Ten minutes dancing with the occasional stir or heat adjustment.

Paul
Mind you, you do need a fairly roomy kitchen....


-- 
"Rick, what are you doing in that dog?"            Northern Exposure
"I missed you..."                                  Animals R Us
From: souchay@CAM.ORG (Francois Souchay)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Could be worse (was:
Date: 24 Jan 93 00:07:13 GMT
Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada

In article <MARTINC.93Jan23130522@grover.cs.unc.edu> martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
>In article <lm0l0hINN5oc@news.bbn.com> pdsmith@bbn.com (Peter D. Smith) writes:
>
>   They're also just about the only country in either of the Americas whom
>   we haven't managed to invade (succesfully).  We took half of Mexico,
>   we partitioned Columbia, landed marines just about everywhere, and even
>   controlled Cuba, but we've never managed to do anything to Canada.
>                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>You can't make the ocean more wet.

Heh. When the Blue Jays won the pennant ( at one of the games when the flag
was displayed right side up ), one of the local anchors opened up the news
with "Well, it happened. Our Americans are better than their Americans."

We _are_ different, it just takes a discerning eye to notice. (That, and an
understanding of health plans...) Besides, we like having Americans around.
Where else could we send our homicidal maniacs disguised as hockey players?

Francois.

"Americans are benignly ignorant of Canada, while Canadians are malevolently
well-informed on America"  Stephen Leacock?
From: danb@zx.qsp.UUCP (Daniel Benbenisty)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Audrey Hepburn (was: *How* did you meet your SO)
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:10:15 GMT
Organization: Quality Software Products, LA, CA

In article <1993Jan21.173136.11109@netcom.com> cocoa@netcom.com writes:
>
>My SO was telling his parents that I should talk to them because I like old
>movies and know of actors and actresses he's never heard of.  I watch current
>television shows and movies on occasion, but they don't seem nearly as
>interesting on average as old movies do.  Anyone else have this same feeling?

See, this is the same effect as the music nostalgia!

The better old movies get more broadcast time in relation to the mediocre 
old movies than they used to ("broadcast time" meaning box office play or 
TV play).  Current movies don't have the benefit of this 'filtering' effect,
so we're inundated with more 'bad' new movies than 'bad' old movies.  

You just have to hunt out the good new movies, that's all.

>>>===Pan-Handle-Dan===>	danb@qsp.com
Daniel Benbenisty		Guitarist for EARWURM		
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: eleanor@cbnews.cb.att.com (Piglet)
Subject: Re: Credibility and Trueness
Organization: the house on the corner
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:43:17 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.192016.3925@cbfsb.cb.att.com> jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) writes:
>While you have it handy(as usual) look up acaulescent.

Ok, I looked it up.  What do I get??


Piglet, acaulescent's-r-us
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: boop@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (joseph.a.lapenta)
Subject: Re: Facing an SO-less Valentine's Day?
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:04:00 GMT
Keywords: Love isn't just for breakfast anymore

In article <1993Jan15.150210.1908@cbnewsd.cb.att.com>
nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes: 
>
>Anyway, with my parents' anniversary coming up, I'm not likely to find
>a card in a rack that expresses thanks to parents who risked a long
>journey to a new country after a world war to start a new life together
>and learn a new language and all that so they could raise their children
>HERE.  So I'll write one ....
>

Now that's really nice.  More of us should be so thoughfull.
From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Could be worse (was:
Date: 23 Jan 93 13:05:22
Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
NNTP-Posting-Host: grover.cs.unc.edu
In-reply-to: pdsmith@bbn.com's message of 22 Jan 93 20:07:45 GMT

By god it happened again.  I swear I don't like kidding Canadians near
as much as I like watching the humor impared come out of the woodwoork.

In article <lm0l0hINN5oc@news.bbn.com> pdsmith@bbn.com (Peter D. Smith) writes:


   They're also just about the only country in either of the Americas whom
   we haven't managed to invade (succesfully).  We took half of Mexico,
   we partitioned Columbia, landed marines just about everywhere, and even
   controlled Cuba, but we've never managed to do anything to Canada.
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

You can't make the ocean more wet.
--
		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: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
Subject: Re: Credibility and Trueness
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:03:50 GMT
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
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In <MARTINC.93Jan26103259@grover.cs.unc.edu> martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:

>Now, Ed, let's see.  I've been a successful engineer, 

Meaning you're no longer successful or you're no longer an 
engineer?  (Did Dr. Feelgood use a little too much voltage?)

>I'm now a quite successful consultant, and I'm about to finish a PhD.  

Congratulations.

>I've got publications in literary criticism, computer science, and history; 

Good start.  Before you know it, you'll have to add a second shelf. 

>I've also published fiction and won national "new writer" awards.  

Mainly consolation prizes for those who can't get money for their 
work, but at least they will impress the lit-crit crowd.


>I've had maybe a half dozen Relationships before that, and in the 
>same 18 months that you have been bitching about not being able to 
>get a date I've dated at least a dozen women -- even though by the 
>standards of the fitness mavens you rave about I'm between 20 and 60 lbs 
>overweight.  

You mean you weigh 20-60 pounds more than Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Lou Ferigno, Hulk Hogan, or "Refrigerator?"  That is impressive,
if true.

However, I doubt you would ever be satisfied with your body
no matter what it looked like.  You could be Mr. Fitness himself,
and you'd probably still moan about how you "should be" doing more.

Especially while you keep going back to those head-doctors.
They'll reinforce your feelings of inadequacy because, as 
long as you feel you "need help," you'll keep coming back
for more $50 an hour "treatments."


>And yet I'm in therapy and you're not.

>Do you see any pattern here?

Yep.  You've decided, for some reason, that there's something
"wrong" with you -- your mind as well as your body -- and 
allowed a bunch of witch doctors and confidence men to prey
upon those feelings while they bleed your wallet.  The fact
is there is nothing wrong with you, that I can see, except
for a poor self-image because you will not accept yourself
the way you are (as opposed to the way your fitness books
say you should be).  


Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: gds@york.cs.ucla.edu (Greg Skinner)
Subject: Re: (LONG) Re: Living alone and liking it
Originator: gds@york.cs.ucla.edu
Reply-To: gds@cs.ucla.edu (Greg Skinner)
Organization: in your face!
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 08:52:08 GMT

In article <77582@apple.apple.COM> pooh@Apple.COM (Wendy Nather) writes:
>Seriously, I can relate to a lot of what you say.  The men
>I know just don't seem to spend as many CPU cycles being
>"other-oriented" as women do.  They do what THEY prefer and
>hope that we will put up with it. [and so on ...]

Too bad that 99.44% of the time, someone who one could get along with
is not someone one would want to be in a relationship with.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: Ross Ridge <ross@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: getting along with ex in-laws?
X-To: DAWN HARDIN
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:45:00 GMT

dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes:
>Do any of you single parents out there have words of wisdom for getting
>along with your ex in-laws?  I'm sure most divorced people just lose
>touch as quickly as possible, but since their grandchild is involved,
>I'm not sure that's a good idea.  My ex has no visitation, so any contact
>would have to be through me.  They've never seen the baby (sixteen months
>old) and have told me that they won't seek any contact if I ask them not
>to.  I haven't had the heart to tell them to go away, but I also haven't
>had the heart to answer any of their letters.  Attempts at talking on the
>telephone haven't gone well.  And so this is just dragging on in limbo
>for months and months.  Any single parents manage to foster a good
>relationship between their kids and the grandparents?

I'm not a single parent, but I can give some insight from being
on the other side of the fence.  My uncle, my father's bother, divorced 
his wife, but that didn't affect our families relationship with her 
or her children.  Instead what happened was my uncle was all but
disowned by our family.  I've only seen him once, and I was so
young then I can't remember it, but I seen my "ex-" Aunt and her
children (my cousins) serveral times.  So it's certanly possible
for you child have a good, even normal relationship with your
children.

My advice here, would be if you want to foster a good relationship
between your child [hmm... I've forgotten if it's a boy or girl],
and his/her grandparents you are going to need to have a good 
relationship with them too.  I think that it is mostly going to 
depend on what the grandparent's relationship with your ex-husband 
is like.   

                                                        Ross Ridge
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: desiree@netcom.com (dmc)
Subject: Re: The Classiest Pickup Lines
Summary: I'm tired of shit...
Organization: Clairol HairDye Labs and Test Rats
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:55:33 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.175233.12195@bcars6a8.bnr.ca> csanoy@bcars689.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Cynthia Sanoy) writes:

>ASIDE:  I saw an ad on American TV (Not CBC or CTV) last night that advertised
>        a hair colour product called Belle Color.  It claimed to be the foremost
>        (Parisian) French hair colouring product. Yet, the product is spelled
>        Belle Color (extra e, absent u).  I thought this was a) strange, b) amusing
>        and c) typical (use of pseudo European characteristics to sell to 
>        unsuspecting 'Mercans! (for those who don't see the humour... colour, in
>        French, is colour, not color.)

	Sorry Cyn...

	But Belle Color is available in most MonoPrixs in Paris.  It is
a pretty good brand, but lacks the availability of fun stuff -- so mixing
is required for unique, off-the-wall touches.

	And the correct french spelling of colour is couleur.  The french
have adopted many americanisms as a marketing ploy.  Works for me...

Whatever,

Desiree

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: fulton@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Ben Fulton)
Subject: Re: Women and steaks
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:42:16 GMT

In <1993Jan27.234334.5533@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> mel@niblick.ecn.purdue.edu (Meloney D Cregor) writes:

>other reasons.  Personally, I like meat and I apologize to no one
>for that preference and if it's gonna kill me, then by god I'll
>die happy and well-fed. 

There are advantages to being a vegetarian, though.  Primarily, it bugs
the hell out of people.


-- 
ben
fulton@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Bloomington, IN)
"Verbing weirds language" - Calvin
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
Subject: Re: Credibility and Trueness
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:39:07 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 <1993Jan27.005956.18358@sol.UVic.CA> atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (dreas) writes:

>    I, too, have had occasions in my life where I have had to fight
>    a mental illness 

Pick up a book called "The Myth of Mental Illness" by Thomas Sasz, 
and you may discover what "mad doctoring" is all about.

Hint: Drawing an anology between physical ailments and socially
disapproved behaviors does not make the analogy appropriate.



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