HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: rip@sequent.com (Paul T Taylor)
Subject: Re: Unlurking
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems Inc.
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 23:08:44 GMT

In article <1992Aug21.150631.21062@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> lisad@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (Lisa Dominique) writes:
>In article <1992Aug21.010411.24398@sequent.com> rip@sequent.com (Paul T Taylor) writes:
>>In article <Bt9zAs.28C@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au> coates@newton.physics.uq.oz.au (Tony Coates) writes:
>>>
>>>       Briefly (because there isn't much to say), my name is Tony Coates and I am a physics
>>>Ph.D. student, desperately trying to finish his thesis as I am due to take up a post-doctoral
>>>position in Paris in a couple of months.  I like talking (more than most people like
>>>listening :-) ).
>>>
>>>       This is a cute group - I like the feel of it.
>>                  ^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>>Hear that Blade?  This guy thinks we're 'cute'!  Think we ought to
>>show him what we ar *really* like?  Or do you think the other's can
>>handle it?
>>Brewhahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!
>>
>>ripomaniac
>
>Rip, you better behave or I'm gonna get Ma and tell her
>you're not being very nice to our new unlurker, Tony!
>Ya big meanie!!  Besides, Tony thinks us ladies are cute.
>:-)     Hi Tony!!   *wave*  *Welcome Hug*

Oh, sure!  Go run tell Ma!  Well,.....  Ma always liked you best!
*stamp*  Well, I'm sorry.  Here let me give you a big hug...  [Rip
walks up to his younger sister, seemingly to give her a hug and make
up, all the while taping a "KickMe" sign on her back] *snicker*


rip
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
From: jmalone@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Julie Malone)
Subject: Re: Right question to ask.
Organization: Salter, Inc.
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 18:02:08 GMT

rip@sequent.com (Paul T Taylor) shares: 

>In article <92238.222008U15479@uicvm.uic.edu> <U15479@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
>>I just started a new job last week and met a wonderful woman that I would 
>>like to get to know better.  But before I ask her out on a date I want to 
>>make sure she doesn't have a boyfriend.  What would be a good question to 
>>ask her without actually saing 'Do you have a boyfriend?'  It must be subtle.
>>         Thanks,
>>                Chris

>
>Ok, send her some cheap flowers and leave the card unsigned.  Then
>walk by her desk and ask if they are from her boyfriend...  When she
>says 'No', or 'I don't know', then ask if he is the type that would do
>something like that....

This is very good, Rip.  I would never had thought of that.....

I offer a different perspective to consider:

I suggest you just ask her out and don't worry if she is attached.  If she
is, she will say so.  If she is and doesn't say so, then she's cheating on
her SO and you don't need trouble like that.  You will find out soon enough.

Just my opinion....and I got a million of them....


&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
 Julie Malone...AKA...		}   "I don't know much.......
 Grasshopper 			}   but I know I love you.
 PR Agent for Blade		}   That may be, all there is....
 Member: Romantic Fire Assoc.	}   to know."
 FUTURE MRS. JULIE SALTER	}   
 "I will pledge my heart to you }		Email Welcome
 ....forever."			}	jmalone@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 11:13:51 EDT
From: <LMD5@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
Subject: Balloons

As I walked the earth alone
with my heart in my hands
I looked to the sky
To see if the would come down to land.
How I prayed and I prayed
That this would be the chance
I'd meet the love of my life
And my heart would again dance.
But the balloons kept on floating
Over and above me in the sky
Why don't they come to me
I can't figure out why.
Do they not realize that I'm here
Should I yell and give them a call
Are they afraid that I'd hurt them
If they should happen to fall.
I would never cause no harm
I would let them fall softly
If they would only land near me
I would handle them gently.
But the balloons keep on passing
They're fear is too great
I guess I'll go on with my life
With my soul filled with heartache.
I know that someday one will land
I meet someone who will show me love
But what shall I do until then
Keep an eye open on the sky above.


Lisa Marie Dibert...Official *SlightlyDeflated* Balloonist to the RFA.
Each time you see a balloon ... think of me.
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
From: coates@newton.physics.uq.oz.au (Tony Coates)
Subject: Re: Balloons
Organization: Physics Dept. The University of Queensland
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 01:03:06 GMT

In article <92242.111351LMD5@psuvm.psu.edu>, LMD5@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
|> [lovely poem deleted, but appreciated ...]
|> Lisa Marie Dibert...Official *SlightlyDeflated* Balloonist to the RFA.
|> Each time you see a balloon ... think of me.

A really nice poem.  Sorry that you feel deflated though.
[he sends her a little *hug* ...]
Oh, what was that noise?  Gee, did one of us just deflate a bit? :-)
[he blushes and fans the surrounding air furiously, to no avail ...]
							Tony.
[Official ??? of the RFA]
From: 154s@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Mona Hatfield)
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
Subject: Re: Just wanted to say hi
Date: 4 Sep 92 18:03:12 GMT
Reply-To: 154s@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Mona Hatfield)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

In alt.romance.chat, hwyman@next05cville.wam.umd.edu (The Hwyman) writes:
>Hi ARC!!!  I'm back.  I hope everyone had a great summer.  Mines
>could've been better.
>Anyways, I'm looking forward to another year of fireplaces, chats,
>strawberries, etc....  Of course, I have to look thru these 500
>unread articles.  (I did have 6000+!!!!)

Hello Hwyman;

Good to *see* you again.  And,  yes, you were missed.

Mona
aka Lady Elaine
From: HJ46@lafibm.lafayette.edu (Carrot cake it is, then.  So be it.)
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
Subject: Please flood a mailbox (b-day message)
Date: 31 Aug 92 05:52:20 GMT
Organization: Lafayette College
Originator: news@lafcol

Can you all write to Jenn Beckley (beckley@vax.dickinson.edu) and wish
her a happy birthday?  It's on August 31, so sorry about the late notice
but I hope she gets lots of happy birthday messages.

Thanks.  :)

--J.
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From: roth@sitter.ips.id.ethz.ch (Martin Roth)
Subject: Re: Kein besonderes Thema (was Re: blondes)
Organization: ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 16:17:01 GMT

Tony: don't like this subject. I proposed another one.

The translation was not bad, I wonder if you get lesson two right...

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Martin Roth                  | "That was my Lo," she said, "and these are
email: roth@ips.id.ethz.ch   | my lilies."  "Yes", I said, "yes. They are
finger: roth@sitter.ethz.ch  | beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!"       vn
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[don't trust the "from:" line. I know it's wrong. Use the adr in the sig]
From: v076jy2p@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Cosmo Of The Cosmos)
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
Subject: sigh...
Date: 26 Aug 92 04:04:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

I'm getting too old.

	I'm way too nice.  I'm not as bitter as I should be.  I notice the
good things that happen too much.  When my roommate asks me to leave for 
an hour or two, I don't get angry and wish that was me.


	What happened to the cynical young boy I grew up as?  Teased alot,
beat up alot, hurt all the time.  No friends, no hope.  It was so comforable.
So easy to be bitter.  So easy not to care.  What happened?


	She happened.  Just thinking about her makes me smile.  I'm happy.


	She's leaving.  She's joined the army.  I'm here at colledge and she's
back home getting ready to leave.  We promised to stay together.  I asked
her to marry me.  We desided to wait until I graduate.  That's two years from
now.  Two years of occational visits  and letters and phone calls.


	I don't mind waiting.  I see it as a way to prove to her I'm willing to
do anything for her.  But she doesn't believe I love her.  She doubts my love.


	She gets angry with me.  Over nothing important most of the time.
She yells at me, insults me, says things she doesn't mean, trys to push
me away...


	Just to see if I'll stay.


	I'd die for her, she thinks it just words.


	She loves me, but she's been hurt before, she's told me about her
earlier boyfriends.  She says she's scared of losing me.  I tell her
she doesn't have to be.  I love her.


	I feel like I have no control.  Not like before.  Why can't she just
let me love her.


	I'm done.
From: ri0a+@andrew.cmu.edu (Richard Iswara)
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
Subject: Re: Missing Gypsy
Date: 2 Sep 92 15:25:35 GMT
Organization: Masters student, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

DaGypsy returns:
***a few lines deleted***
> to those of you who did notice i was gone... did you miss me? 
> hmmm? did you? (shameless plea for some form of affection i know
> but i have missed all of you... and even solicited affection is 
> welcome these days...)

Yes, we noticed that you were gone rather abruptly. But we understand.
After all, you are the ARCGypsy. Would be rather unnatural to have a 
Gypsy that didn't wander around. And as for that plea for affection,
*BIG WELCOME BACK HUG*

*******lotsa lines deleted in sacrifice to BandWidthGhod***********
> *hugs* to all
> 
> Andi 
> Official Gypsy of the RFA
> recovering from a recent game of 78 pickup...
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^
Must be some huge field there!

Richard
Official RoadRunner of RFA
From: lisad@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (Lisa Dominique)
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
Subject: Re: kids
Date: 31 Aug 92 15:19:53 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <92241.19272632BWQQP@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> <32BWQQP@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> writes:
>Lisa G. Dominique responds:
>
>>>Is this a problem? Should I move on to soc.singles? Will my kids need braces?
>>>Do I have kids?!?!?!?
>>Heck, I dunno, do you have kids?
>If you say so... search me...

Search You?   Okay, Stand up against this car, spread those 
legs, come on.... get with it....Put your hands behind your
back....that's it.... The GRW places the handcuffs on his wrists.

>>I don't think I do....
>
>I think you were sleeping (snif, sob, you're just like all the rest)...

Hmmmmmmm, Funny, No man has EVER said that to ME before.
Course, how would you know about me anyway?  HAH!

>>Did we have kids together?
>
>Ummm, uhhh... I want to speak to my attorney... except I'm TOO POOR
>for an attorney.

Thank goodness I can!  

>>What a minute.... Duhhhhhhhhhh!!
>
>Must be a blonde...
>
>DAVID MARTIN                          | For the fourth time

Damn right I'm a blonde.... The Good Romantic Witch
glares at David...."Got a problem with that?"  

Lis, The Good Romantic Witch
President of the Romantic Fire Association
Like a Diamond, Her Life has Many Facets

p.s.  Heaven is a *Hug* and a *Smile*
      the Joy of Music and the Beauty of Silence
From: pm3_norr@csd.brispoly.ac.uk (Paul Norris)
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
Subject: Re: Role Call Now!!!!!!!
Date: 28 Aug 92 17:50:13 GMT
Organization: Bristol Polytechnic, England

Previously on "You the Jury":
}>}rip(honest officer, I was just pushing that sheep down the road!)
}>
}>"Tell it to the judge, son.  He'll want to know what you were pushing it
}>with.  And the answer had better be good..."

Rip defends his honour (muahahahahahahhahaha..)
}Why a wheelbarrow of course!  What did you *think* I was using?

Aha!  But what were you pushing the wheelbarrow with?  Hmmm?

Paul
Official Snoopy to the RFA
Joe cOOl,  PR Agent to 'Chelle
==============================
"California here I come!"
-- 
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
                                            --  Charlie Brown
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
From: jpw@octel.com (Jason in the Hood)
Subject: Re: Bacchus???
Keywords: Gilligan
Organization: Octel Communications Inc., Milpitas Ca.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 17:16:52 GMT

regan1016@bestsd.sdsu.edu (T. ELIZABETH HARVEY) mythologically pens...
>
>>Oh Liz!  I am mortally wounded!  *I* with the body of a *God*, well,
>>Ok, Bacchus, (you know, the rolly-polly guy with the wine?).
>
>I never knew Bacchus was roly-poly ... oh, wait ... I'm thinking about 
>Dionysus (let's face it, those Greek gods were in such good shape ...).

Ahhhhh... obviously you have never seen Fantashia!  Shame on you!!
Shame on you!!  Guess you'll HAVE to come to CaliChat... see Fantashia
on tape, sitting in front of a nice fire... :}

Jasonzied - okwhereismyfirestarter?

-- 
|Official Wandering Archer of the RFA
|         
|UUCP  jpw@octel.com                         Who wills, Can.
|VOICE (408) 321-6509                         Who tries, Does.
|LOCAL Hey, Jason!                              Who loves, Lives.          o_.
|Disclaimer:  Not me! I didn't do *THAT!*                                 <|
|Local Disclaimer:  I'm not here!                   A. McCaffrey           4
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
From: coates@newton.physics.uq.oz.au (Tony Coates)
Subject: Re: Unlurking
Organization: Physics Dept. The University of Queensland
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 06:21:46 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.053136.23802@sequent.com>, rip@sequent.com (Paul T Taylor) writes:
|> >|> >
|> >|> >     oo
|> >|> >    /-_\ (picture of some *hugs*)
|> >|> >   /\  /\
|> 
|> >(p.s. I'm glad that you like the picture of the hugs, but in retrospect
|> > I think that it looks more like the Olympic symbol for Greco-Roman
|> > wrestling!!)
|> 
|> Actually when I first saw it, I thought it looked just like Francis...
|> The frog that sat on Blades face!  Brewhahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!
|> 
|> 
|> rip

Some people see a man and a woman, some people see a frog.
I suppose that we just see what we want to see :-)

Some people dream of princes and princesses,
some never get beyond feeling that they're kissing toads ...

Hey, what were the results of your last ink-blot test????!!!!

				Yours amphibiously,
							Tony.
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
From: Sarek@world.std.com (Garrett Fitzgerald)
Subject: Re: Alas, one more Candlelit poem...
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 00:02:06 GMT

In article <1SEP199214393336@zeus.tamu.edu> dwb4025@zeus.tamu.edu (BARTEK, DAVID WINFIELD) writes:
>--------Dave
>	Candlelit Eyes
>i promise i wont bother you with any more poetry.. *smile*

Dave, I sure hope that's a promise you don't intend to keep.... <*hug*>
--------------------
"Look at this life, I still don't know where it's goin'...."

Sarek of Vulcan
a.k.a. Garrett Fitzgerald `:-)
Official Diver of the RFA, 'Chelle's TwinSib, and Donna's OneTrueLove

Sarek@world.std.com

Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
From: lisad@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (Lisa Dominique)
Subject: Re: Cause I'm a blond ! B L O N aha!
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 14:28:25 GMT

In article <180njnINNhbh@rodan.UU.NET> dch@rodan.UU.NET (Dan C. Horner) writes:
>Julie expostulates:
>>Lis yodels:
>>>Damn right I'm a blonde.... The Good Romantic Witch
>>>glares at David...."Got a problem with that?"  
>>
>>Aught oh, Dave, I think you did a dumb thing....this is NOT a dumb blonde,
>>my friend.  And all she has to do is whisper the name of a couple of ladies
>>and you're history.....tst tst tst....they never learn, do they Madam Prez...

>She's NOT a dumb blond ? You mean I have been spending all
>these months constructing the PerfectDumbBlondTrap(tinamarie)
>for naught !???! 
>I have but one thing to say...
>		Shit...
>This changes everything... Now I have to make the smart
>version...Now, where in the hell am I going to get a
>Smart superbeefcake Guy ? 

The Good Romantic Witch whispers a name in XuierD's
ear....   "Oh Of course!!  Michael Bolton!!"   :-)~~~~

>And what am I going to do with
>this dumb one ?

I'm sure there's a dumb blonde out there somewhere that
would be overly bubbled about having this dumb one!
She wouldn't know the difference!  

>Life has so many odd problems to overcome...
>XuierD
>Just when you thought it was safe to go back to your sugar substitute.

Lis, The Good Romantic Witch
of the Romantic Fire Association
Like a Diamond, Her Life has Many Facets

p.s.  Heaven is a *Hug* and a *Smile*
      the Joy of Music and the Beauty of Silence
From: pjd@hpespjd.fc.hp.com (Paul Dorweiler)
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
Subject: Re: Re: Look through your window
Keywords: SKIING!!
Date: 30 Aug 92 05:47:14 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Fort Collins, CO

In article <49360007@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM> wjb@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Bill Buse) writes:
>davol@twinheadmeiko.co.uk (David Wilson) writes:
> >Why not lift your eyes from the screen. Is there a 
> >window in your room ? What can you see ? Tell us 
> >about it. 
>
>These past few days, whenever I look out any window that faces west
>I see the tall Rocky Mountains with a freah layer of white on the
>higher peaks.  The news people claim it is fresh snow that fell when
>the remains of Pacific hurricane Lester passed through, but I'm wondering
>if its a case of mistaken identity and it really was something that has
>a way of casting spells on people.   :-)  :-)   

...Or giving them an incredible urge to go skiing...!  :-)

 
Dohram
Official Hobbes of the RFA, Dennis Mukai gallery owner
  (and eternal bachelor...)

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Paul Dorweiler  (Dohram) | Hobbes: "I don't know.  What did it sound like?"
pjd@hpespjd.fc.hp.com    | Calvin: "Sort of like breathing and drooling and
Hewlett-Packard Company  |          ripping the meat off human bones!"    
Fort Collins, CO         | Both:   "YAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!"         
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
From: coates@newton.physics.uq.oz.au (Tony Coates)
Subject: Re: Introductions
Keywords: hi hello
Organization: Physics Dept. The University of Queensland
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 01:51:50 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.070523.9296@cs.uow.edu.au>, u9042385@cs.uow.edu.au (Benjamin Marcus Askins) writes:
|> Hi all,
|> 
|> Now that i've learned to post to this group correctly i'll introduce myself.
|> My name is Benjamin Marcus Askins (benj to friends), I live in the most
|> boring town in the universe, I was born in england (i want to go back),
|> I luv music, i am 20 years old (and i hope to make to 21), i love hugs,
|> and what i would really like to know is how to put a little bit of romance
|> back into my relationship with my girlfriend.
|> 
|> Please help.
|> 
|> *HUGE HUGS*
|> 
|> Benj.

Dear Benj,
	Gidday!  By the way, I'm sure that I could give you some better
suggestions for 'most boring town in the Universe', though I haven't yet
been to Wollongong to compare.  It's flattering that you should ask this
group for a bit of romantic inspiration, but you're making it a tad
difficult by leaving out almost all possible details :-)
	What do you think is lacking in your relationship?  And why?  Or
would you rather just have generic suggestions.  It's up to you, really.

	!!!Bone-crunching Aussie handshake!!!
							Tony.
From: jlane@Ingres.COM (Judi Lane)
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
Subject: Re: Prez Nominates (Re: Prez of the RFA Resigns)
Date: 2 Sep 92 20:26:39 GMT
Reply-To: jlane@Ingres.COM (Judi Lane)
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501

In article <BtyoJA.3qs@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> epperson@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Mary Epperson) writes:
>>>Well, I appreciate the applause and am quite honored that you would consider
>>>me, Madam President.  The question is....how does everyone else feel?
>>>Perhaps we should take a vote.  
>>>'Chelle, you still got that list of RFA members and titles?
>
>Well, I know that Blade seconded it already, and Liz added her's in,
>but I'd like to add mine too:
>
>
>YES! YES! YES!
>
>
>(I think you've got it, Julie!!)


   YES!  I vote for Julie, too! 
   JULIE FOR PRESIDENT!! 8^)


>Mary
>Official RFA Sexretary to the Chat Hosts
>
>%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>|  ,____                                 |   Mary Epperson
>| /     )                                |   epperson@pop.stat.purdue.edu
>|(   ____    ____   __      __   (\___   |   Purdue University
>|(   \   )  (____) (  \)  (/  )  (    \) |   a.k.a. GEMR/Maiden Mary
>| \_____/)_/(______/    \/    )__/       |   Official RFA Sexretary
>|                                        |       to the Chat Hosts    
>|"I know I have faults...being wrong is *not* one of them!"
>%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%


	Judi
	The Official Dryad of the RFA
	(JulieBeWelcomeInMyForestAnyDayWayToGoNewPrez!!)
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
From: searthro@nyx.cs.du.edu (Simon Earthrowl)
Subject: Re: You're gonna hate me for this, but I just gotta...
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 18:59:48 GMT

Ender encrypts:-
>In the spirit of recent posts, here's a poem.  Not just an ORDINARY poem,
>but a poem partially inspired by the poems posted lately AND the deadly
>run-on nosensical sentences...
>
>Good luck...  you'll need it...
>
>
>^ ^ =) \ 4
>% ! * [ _
>/ $ _ = 10
>| * < # )
>! < > ! < * #
>& | ' ~ . PANIC REBOOT

It had to be asked - What the **** does it mean ?

-SimonE(ConfusedWhoMe?)
Unofficial apprentice to the RFA
Oh yea, writing - uh its in the post....
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