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From: SADAGOPAN@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Sriram Sadagopan)
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: companionship needed
Date: 20 Aug 92 22:23:59 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University

hi!my name is Sriram Sadagopan.iam an indian male student
at Ohio State University,Columbus.i came from India a few
weeks ago.Iam very interested in friendship with MOTAS over
the net(preferably in person) and would appreciate it very
much if anyone out there responds to this message favourably.
    since this is my first visit to any foreign country,iam
fascinated by the American way of life and would like to
know more about the people here and the only way i could
think of that was by meeting and getting in touch with
people and hence this message.iam a very sensitive person
and a very good friend.as i come from a different culture
iam sure it will be an enriching experience to you too.

     get in touch and we might have a lot of things in
common.you could send me an E-mail at the following
address:sadagopan@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu.better still
if you are a resident of Columbus give me a ring at
(614)299-8639 after 9:00p.m.or just post a message on
this newsgroup.looking forward to hearing from someone.
thanks


sriram
From: pm3_norr@csd.brispoly.ac.uk (Paul Norris)
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: Re: WHAT IS LJBF???????!!!!!!
Keywords: Net acronyms
Date: 14 Aug 92 12:18:22 GMT
Distribution: alt.romance
Organization: Bristol Polytechnic, England

In article <92Aug14.063851.28011@acs.ucalgary.ca> panlilio@acs.ucalgary.ca (Victor P. Panlilio) writes:
}Okay, NetFolk, what is the meaning of MOTAS? Is that

It's usually "Member of the Appropriate Sex"

}Members of the Attractive Sex

But I think I like your version better  :)

}or what? I would like to know....

There's also MOTOS (Opposite) and MOTSS (Same)

Just my 1/6d

Paul


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Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: Re: AIDS: What the Government Isn't Telling You
From: steiner@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu (jason "Think!" steiner)
Date: 12 Aug 92 20:08:11 EST

jeff@tct.com (Jeff Witzer) writes:
> hoff@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Wildfire) writes:
> 
> >There is a lot of paranoia out there, but the only people who need be 
> >concerned are those who are promiscuous and/or have unprotected sex,
> >drug users, and those who need blood transfusions.  
> 
> Statements like this are contributing to the notion that many people, who do
> not engage in high risk activities, have.  Saying "It can't happen to me 
> because...  I'm not gay/I only have save sex (Monoxodil 9 & condom always)/
> I don't have anal sex/I don't do drugs/I'm not promiscuous" lulls you into
> complacency...a dangerous situation to be in.  If you don't think you could
> have it, you don't get tested.  Please get tested...EVERYONE.  It's easy and
> cheap...and you'll know for sure.  Everyone needs to be concerned (maybe
> aware is a better term), EVERYONE...monogomous heterosexuals, virgins, 
> everyone.  This is NOT a gay disease.  This is NOT a punishment for the 
> promiscuous.  This is a primarily heterosexual disease, worldwide.

y'know, i've heard the above paragraph dozens of times, but it still doesn't
make sense. if i'm doing all you can to keep from getting AIDS why -should-
i worry? if i get it there's nothing i could have done & if not there's no
use bothering. HIV couldn't care less what i know or how "aware" i am.
only my actions will affect my risk.

you're right. this is NOT a gay disease. it is NOT a punishment for being
promiscuous. it IS all too often a consequence for risky and promiscuous
sex. the reason it's a heterosexual disease worldwide is that people
worldwide engage in (::gasp::) risky and promiscuous sex.

so. can anyone explain to me what good worrying about AIDS is going to do?

wow that's simple. i think i'll go fix a sandwich.

jason "singing que sera sera" steiner

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From: mec@acsu.buffalo.edu (Marie E. Copertino)
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: Re: COMPUTER RELATIONSHIPS
Date: 19 Aug 92 22:19:55 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: UB

|In article <1992Aug13.202738.11162@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> lhartman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Lori L Hartman) writes:
|>For a couple of months now, I have been communicating with someone over the 
|>
|>We plan to meet for the first time Labor 
|>
|>NETWORK?  How did it turn out?  What was the meeting like?
|>
|>Lori

	Lori,

	Be CAREFUL!  One guy I met on the net and talked to for awhile turned
	out to be a  -jerk- in real life...  be careful!  Don't go out with
	him alone, at least at first, and make sure you meet some of his
	family and friends, or whatever.

	As sad as it may seem, people can make themselves to appear any way
	they want to, when the only form of communication is "talk" or tele-
	phone.  Hopefully everything will work out with you and your net-dude,
	but please be cautious until you are sure.

		Let us know what happens...

				*hug*

 
-- 
	 @_ @@@@			Marie Elena Copertino
       @@ o   o@@@ 
      @@@   ^   @@@		     
     @@@@@ `-' @@@@@    "Be excellent to yourself."
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: Re: Touch, is it important
From: dayrton@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Date: 13 Aug 92 21:36:42 EDT
Organization: Wesleyan University

In article <12463@ecs.soton.ac.uk>, lm89@ecs.soton.ac.uk (McIlhoney L) writes:
> 
> I just wanted to say:
> 
> An argument with an SO is not truly over until you can touch again!
> (Having just realised this was when my last argument ended!)
> 

Which explains why mine wouldn't let me touch her before she drove off into 
the moonlight last night...

Newsgroups: alt.romance
From: draudt@mzdmza.zdv.uni-mainz.de
Subject: Re: fantasies 
Reply-To: draudt@mzdmza.zdv.uni-mainz.de
Organization: Johannes-Gutenberg Univ. Mainz
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 09:25:06 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.141626.25092@walter.cray.com>, nelson@eastrg1.cray.com (Christine Nelson) writes:
>okay...
>
>what are some of your favourite fantasies?  (ie. unusual places 
>for making love, particular scenarios, etc...)
>
>c
>because everyone is always looking for 
>new ideas
>
>
>
>
>+===============================================================+
>Christine Nelson           Going out of my mind...   
>nelson@eastrg1                     ...back in 5 minutes.

I don't know whether my fantasies are that unusual, but I like making
love in nature (in parks, forests, at lakes,...).
Maybe it's the remaining rest to be seen by someone else (although the
probability is very low, if you choose the right place). 
I find, it's a great feeling to do it under a dark sky, when a soft breeze
ist touching the skin, with whispering trees around.

Tell me about your fantasies !

      Thomas  
Newsgroups: alt.romance
From: djd7889@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (Douglas J. Deutsch)
Subject: Re: Need advice...
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center / Cleveland, Ohio
Date: 12 Aug 1992 08:34 EST  

In article <wanless.713556707@mcl>, wanless@mcl.ucsb.edu (Paul Wanless) writes...
>Hi...
> 
>I've been reading this group for some time, and you people seem to know what 
>you are talking about, so here's my own situation:
> 
>I've been planning a vacation with my girlfriend for quite some time now
>(a number of months, in fact). Unfortunately, our relationship has kind of
>deteriorated during that time. Being close to graduating from college, 
>however, and this being the only time my girlfriend has to take off work,
>we both want to go on this vacation just for the sake of the vacation
>itself and not really for each other's company.  There has been some tension
>between us, naturally, but on the whole we still like each other well enough.
>However, we have decided, if and when we decide to go, to break up permanently
>after that.
>	There's another side of the coin...recently I met another woman over
>the net, and we've been talking for quite some time now, and she seems to
>believe in all the stuff I've been missing out on in my relationship with
>my girlfriend...I can tell this woman things I've told no one else...and
>we did start out as friends before it got a little heavier...anyway, if I
>decided not to take this planned vacation, I COULD go out to visit her
>instead...then again, I'm not sure it would be fair to my girlfriend if
>I told her flat out no, I don't want to take this vacation. As it is, she's
>not sure yet, and as for me, I'm not too sure what I want either...anyone
>have any insight? I'd appreciate the advice...
>--

My advice may not be the right way to go, but I can only tell you what I 
would do if it were me in your position.  I would go visit the woman you 
met over the net.  If you're planning on breaking up after your vacation,
then what difference does it make whether or not you and you current 
girlfriend go on vacation together?  She's allowed to go on vacation by 
herself, right?

DJD
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> 
>"GO SYNTHESIZE A COMPOUND"
From: grendel@canetoad.UUCP (Rage y Romance)
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: Re: fantasies
Distribution: world
Date: 19 Aug 92 22:45:29 EDT
Organization: The Satellite of Love

In article <1992Aug18.232626.1@acad3.alaska.edu> fsjm1@acad3.alaska.edu writes:
>Just because you asked . . .
>I would like to make love
>on the hood of a car
>at outside
>at night
>in a ragin' thunder and lightning storm
> 

I have met exactly one person from Alaska and he has been known to say things
that I believe to be fantasies that he has had and they are VERY similar.
For example, we work on Saturday in our office, alone and my shift ends
before his and invariably on Monday he will say to me, "You know what I did
after you left? I took off all my clothes and ran around naked!" There are
variations on this that involve his girlfriend all of a sudden showing up
when I leave.

Now I think there is a theme here with fantasies involving exhibitionism
But then again it could be an Alaskan thing.

Well after all that I should really type one of my own fantasies...
but that would be telling.:)

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 And I see him, the HIM in big impressive     | canetoad!grendel@uunet.uu.net
 letters. And he owns me, I mean the way      |
 pigeons own N.Y...damn I'm had again.        |
From: alti@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Thorsten Altenkirch)
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: Re: Romane..lost..Found???
Date: 17 Aug 92 15:55:09 GMT
	<1992Aug17.022811.23332@news.duc.auburn.edu>
Organization: LFCS, Edinburgh
In-reply-to: kuykerc@eng.auburn.edu's message of 17 Aug 92 02:28:11 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.022811.23332@news.duc.auburn.edu> kuykerc@eng.auburn.edu (Ritsuo C. Kuykendall) writes:

   Yes.. I know I misspelled Romance...

Maybe that's the problem... (Just a guess).

T.

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LFCS, Edinburgh
Scotland
Newsgroups: alt.romance
From: barry@geovision.gvc.com (Barry Comer)
Subject: fantasy thing
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 20:53:40 GMT

Here is one I always fancied with a special someone:

A weekend down south might go something like this:

 Friday:
    Head home to pack up the things that one takes on a short weekend hop.
    Jump on the plane and wave good-bye to the people we leave behind.
    Plane lands a few hours later and we check into a very ritzy hotel and
    spend the following few hours catching a late supper(plane food makes me
    sick).  From there we head out to the beach and watch the sun light up
		the sky as it sets for another day. After dark we head back to the hotel
		room and get ready for a little island nightlife.  We find this secluded
		place off of the main drag where people gather to spend quite time.
		We chat until the wee hours of the morning rediscovering some of the
		wonderful things that life has to share.


    etc.......

Fill in the rest as required

$0.02
Barry
From: wanless@mcl.ucsb.edu (Paul Wanless)
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: Re: RP vs. SO
Date: 18 Aug 92 16:20:38 GMT

In <1992Aug14.140008.24226@news.ysu.edu> ae498@yfn.ysu.edu (Dawn Bott) writes:



>>Hi folks!
>>Now, that I have the correct meanings of these abbreviations, I must say
>>I agree with the .sig I saw (who was it?) that says something like
>>"Stamp out SO" and suggesting we use RP instead. 
>>"Romantic Partner" does sound a bit more, well, romatic. :-)
>>
>>>RP	Romantic Partner
>>>SO	Significant Other
>>
>>

>i have to agree with Kjell on this one... =)

>Significant Other sounds too 70s...too "feminazi"  (with nods to
>Rush Limbaugh for that word.. ;).....I mean EVERYONE is
>significant...!   and if they aren't you..they are "other"...

>(i think..)

>So RPs of the world unite!  (at once?  hmm..... *grin*)

I have to agree...I've always been bugged by SO...

"significant other..." significant other what??

RP makes much more sense.
--
************Paul Wanless "vangy"******************

"GO SYNTHESIZE A COMPOUND"
Newsgroups: alt.romance
From: underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe)
Subject: Re: NEED ADVICE: Very good friend has cancer!
Organization: Miners for a Heart of Gold
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 23:49:16 GMT

In article <credo02291920717225544@fury.toppoint.de> credo@fury.toppoint.de
(Christian Meier) writes:
>Hi folks!
>
>I have a very good friend and we like each other but are not in love.
>Several weeks ago a doctor removed a lymph node surgically, but they 
>didn't really know, what that exactly was. 
>After long examinations did he tell her today, that it is a malignant
>cancer.
>It was clear that she broke down and I decided to drive to her to give
>her a few words of encouragement and to hold her close to me. 
>
>The problem was that I had only a few acpects to boost her courage. 
>So it would be very kind, if you have some ideas what I could tell her.

Here's a revolutionary idea.  Tell her the truth without lacing it
with lots of pleasantries that are just plain lies, which any rational
person can detect.

I assume that her condition is terminal.  Tell her that life is not
fair and that if she chooses to continue with it, then you'll help
her to the fullest extent of your ability to continue to enjoy
the remaining time in her life.  Be frank.  Be honest.  Don't present
false promises of hope; that will only lead to disappointment.

Many of us have to face the many unpleasant aspects of life.  It isn't
fair, and there's nothing that many of us can do about it.  We just
have to accept life as it is.

In any event, give her lots of hugs and respect any decision that she
makes for only herself.

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From: drburne@eos.ncsu.edu (DALE ROBERT BURNETT)
Subject: Re: Make the move?
Originator: drburne@c00456-313mn.eos.ncsu.edu
Reply-To: drburne@eos.ncsu.edu (DALE ROBERT BURNETT)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 21:22:26 GMT


i think you should call her.  if she values her privacy that much then her
number shouldnt be in the book.  thats what the phone book is for isnt it.
From: ekman@netcom.com (Crossly the Glad-Eyed Bear)
Subject: Re: NEED ADVICE: Very good friend has cancer!
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 04:33:25 GMT
Organization: Home for the Terminally Infirm

In article <credo02291920717225544@fury.toppoint.de> credo@fury.toppoint.de (Christian Meier) writes:
>Hi folks!
>
>I have a very good friend and we like each other but are not in love.
>Several weeks ago a doctor removed a lymph node surgically, but they 
>didn't really know, what that exactly was. 
>After long examinations did he tell her today, that it is a malignant
>cancer.
>It was clear that she broke down and I decided to drive to her to give
>her a few words of encouragement and to hold her close to me. 
>
>The problem was that I had only a few acpects to boost her courage. 
>So it would be very kind, if you have some ideas what I could tell her.

If you get alt groups at your site, you might want to post to
alt.support.cancer, a support group for cancer patients and their loved
ones.

A year ago I was diagnosed as having prostatic cancer, which has
metastasized to the lymph nodes.  It's inoperable, meaning that sooner
or later it's likely to cause serious problems.  There is very little
that anyone can tell me.  It's hard for friends and family of cancer
patients.  The fact that there is really nothing to do leaves them with
a feeling of helplessness.  But there is one thing that my friends and
family are doing for me.  They have closed in and have become very
supportive.  My fear was that they would shun me for want of knowing how
to deal with knowing that I have cancer and they can't do anything about
it.

The best I can suggest is that you continue to be a friend to her, offer
encouragement when it seems appropriate, sympathy if it's wanted, and
understanding as she goes through the common stages of denial, anger,
grief, and acceptance.  Share her joys when she's up, and stand by her
when she's down.  I'm not afraid of the cancer, but I'm frightened at
the prospect of being abandoned.  That I haven't been has made an
enormous difference in my ability to cope.
-- 
Crossly the Glad-Eyed Bear              ekman@netcom.com
Home for the Terminally Infirm, Redwood City, California
Newsgroups: alt.romance



Most Romantic?


I just returned from a quick visit to Florence, Italy. Incredibly romantic.

My Italian and British friends told me Florence is their choice as well. My
only regret is I was on business and my wife was not there. 

Incredibly frustrating ;-)


Ron

Newsgroups: alt.romance
From: libbie@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Libbie Counselman)
Subject: Re: WHAT IS LJBF???????!!!!!!
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:00:37 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.144847.18277@kth.se> kjell@elixir.e.kth.se (Kjell Rilbe) writes:
>
>Yes, while we're at it, I have a few questions on these abbreviations, too.
>This is what (I think) I have figured out:
>IMHO - In My Honest Opinion

Well, almost.  I believe the translation is:
IMHO - In My Humble Opinion,
  and, correspondingly:
IMNSHO - In My Not-so-Humble Opinion


-Libbie C.
From: lana@magenta.corp.sgi.com (Lana Mountford)
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: Re: Wedding ceremony music suggestions?
Date: 17 Aug 92 16:20:34 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

In article <1992Aug15.174623.19913@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, ac220@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Rich Szabo) writes:
|> Anyone have some suggestions for good wedding ceremony music?
|> I would like to solicit your ideas.  The ceremony is a Catholic
|> mass and I am slated to appear as the groom....

Hi, Rich!
 
I've always liked the Peter, Paul and Mary "Wedding Song" ("There is Love").

"All I Ask of You" from Andrew Lloyd Weber's "Phantom of the Opera" might be
a nice choice as well.  How "progressive" is the church?

A woman in our local community chorus recently sang "The Wind Beneath My 
Wings" for her father's (!) marriage, in a Catholic ceremony.

There are *tons* of classical selections for weddings -- a local music store
should have published collections of these.  (Frankly, I've always dreamed
of having something by Gilbert & Sullivan for my next wedding, should that
unlikely event ever occur. :-))

Cheers!

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Newsgroups: alt.romance,alt.romance.chat
From: mcarey@eng.auburn.edu (Martin T Carey)
Subject: View
Organization: Auburn University Engineering
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 15:48:05 GMT

Hello fellow ARCers.

     It's just me the Shadow, delurking just long enough to
tell you about the view from my window.   As I look outside the window, I can
see an overcast sky, although you can still the sun is there because of the 
almost blinding glare which the clouds give off.  There is a parking lot with 
only ten or eleven cars in it.  Someone is walking down the street which runs
down an incline on my right.  There are no cars on the street because, the 
street has been blocked off, to allow students to walk freely back and forth
to classes.  There is also the back of a building to my right.  This building,
like many others on campus, is composed of brick and cement.  The cement is 
aged which gives a kind of taupe color.
     In front of me I can see the back of the student union.  On the other
side of the student union, in the distance is the top of Samford Hall, which
is one of the oldest buildings on campus.  Samford Hall has a bell tower with
a clock (what I find quite humorous about that building is that we really
do have bats in our belfry _two_  species, I think).  Just to the left
of Samford is the top of Ross Hall, which also looks like a steeple.  Then to
the left of all this, there is very old incinerator stack, which is no longer
used (environmentally and politically correct?).  The rest of the view is
obscured by the rest of this building.  I am not actually sitting in my office
because of course they would never give us graduate students our own computer.

                 "Je sais que c'est mouille'
                  Et que le soleil ne veut pas briller,
                  Mais on peut avoir des tas d'amusemente
                  Que soient amusants!" ...Guess Who?

                        'I lurk therefore I am...'
                                The Shadow...........

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