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From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark)
Subject: Anthropological Insights (was: Re: Tallllll women....)
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 17:18:10 GMT

In article <6PT6JCH@netmbx.netmbx.de> rickk@netmbx.netmbx.de (Rick Kuhlbars) writes:
>>I found there to be a lot of tall women in Holland.  What I liked about
>>living there was being able to buy dress pants off the rack which weren't
>>already hemmed up above my calves or with the crotch between my knees!
>>I didn't mine paying for hemming (~$7); it was worth it to get the selection
>>finally!
>
>Having lived in both the US and Europe (German, were I currently reside) 
>I've found that in general woman are taller over here.  Meeting a woman that
>is 5'10" is no problem.  I myself prefer them around 6'2" ;-)

Technically, we recognize the existence of a subspecial consisting completely
of females residing in the vicinity of where you're currently at: the
Homo Sapiens Femurus Longalis -- not to be confused with the Homo Sapiens Cindy
Margolis (a different, though quite fascinating, subspecies).
From: liz@prc.unisys.com (Liz Loquacious)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Can you accept criticism ? (was Re: Why lurkers lurk ...)
Date: 11 Sep 92 14:50:31 GMT
Followup-To: soc.singles
Organization: Paramax Systems

In article <1992Sep10.202954.18946@mks.com>, fredw@mks.com (Fred Walter) writes:
|> liz@prc.unisys.com (Liz Loquacious) writes:
|> 
|> I'm getting indirectly hurt. Some people, who I know and like and who are
|> or were :-( friends of mine, have based their actions towards me not on
|> *me* but on what others have repeatedly *told* them about me, or what they
|> started thinking others must be saying about *them* because they were
|> associating with *me*.
|> 
|> Yes, I know, how can I call these people friends ? Tell me where I can find
|> people self-confident enough to trust their own judgement over that of others
|> that know nothing of what they are talking about, and strong-willed enough to
|> tell others when what they are saying is bullshit, and maybe I won't have to
|> call these people my friends. (I have found such people, but they are rare).
|> 

Well, in my experience it was frightening to accept the reality of many of
my friendships and it took some time (not eternities, but some) to start
developing better, more real, relationships.  But if I'm not willing to
protect myself by limiting relationships with people who I don't feel are
genuinely accepting of me how can I expect other people to think I deserve to 
be treated well.  I wouldn't even be doing it for myself.  You want to find people 
who trust their own judgement but you're willing to ignore yours when you see 
that these people turn from you yet you still consider tham friends.  I found it 
to be a relief to accept the fact that I'm not going to hit it off with everyone 
and that I'm not supposed to.
  
There's a lot that can't be controlled there but that's okay.  There really 
are people out there that will accept you as you are but I found it necessary
for me to really accept myself and change the way I was relating to others
also.

Liz Loquacious
From: kgorman@star-trek.bbn.com (Karen Gorman)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: General topic to break the monotony
Date: 9 Sep 1992 14:04:04 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
Distribution: na
Reply-To: kgorman@BBN.COM (Karen Gorman)
NNTP-Posting-Host: archive.bbn.com
Keywords: Kosher dills, half sours, dill dough.....

In article <1992Sep8.205554.13138@cbfsb.cb.att.com> jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com
(james.j.dutton) writes:
> 
>Bostonbabyboink would be just to painfull.
>*SNORK*
 

What's the matter James?  The thought of a pickle up your arse (words 
according to Dawn) scare little ol you?  Does the word CHICKEN mean 
anything to you?  You know what they say...Try it, you might like it!! ;-)

Karen
kg@bbn.com


PS:  Only two more days until the start of the BostonBabyBoink!!
From: stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: "want" vs "need"
Date: 9 Sep 92 04:03:42 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

misrael@csi.uottawa.ca (Mark Israel) writes:

>   Suppose you had a *choice* between finding a cure for cancer and 
>having a family.  Which would you choose?  If you knew for sure that you
>*could* find a cure for cancer, wouldn't choosing not to find it make 
>you unhappy?

If people could see the future to this extent, we would behave 
think and feel very differently. Your choice refers to goals achieved, 
but people cannot know what goals they will achieve; they can only try 
for goals that they may or may not achieve. The process becomes more
important than the end product, and the best way to make a decision is to
consider what activities/environments suit one best and endeavour to
structure one's life so that one can pursue those activities in those
environments.

Someone who balanced looking-for-a-cure-for-cancer against
looking-for-an-SO might choose the former under either of these
circumstances: they don't much care about an SO and are much more
interested in studying cancer. Or they have decided that sacrificing the
possibility of an SO will motivate them more strongly in their study of
cancer.

Personally I dont understand the latter sort of mindset, but it has been 
a popular choice over the centuries and it probably is an effective
motivator.
 
Stef
stef@apple.com
--                    
The sin that most needs to be loved and forgiven is the state
of mind that sees human beings as sinners.
                    - Thaddeus Golas in "The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment"
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Subject: Re: Why do the early-music party animals / so furiously party together?
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 02:32:03 GMT

gds@LA.TIS.COM (Greg Skinner) writes:

>kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Me) writes:
>>Well, guess this makes four red-hot early-music party-animals 
>>who read this group...

>So, for the uninitiated (ie., me), what's an early-music party like?

Well, we bring delicious food and drink and chocolate desserts and
talk and play CDs and dance and make mouth sounds and goof off and
stay up too late. 

>How does this compare to a jazz or funk jam session?

Dunno.  Early musicians do have jam sessions, but I play only the
gramophone (a venerable early instrument I know.)  I am a red hot
early music party animal tho.  (But not the apotheosis of same.)

-- 
"It is possible that Debussy did not intend to call it "La Mer," but
"Le Mal de Mer,"... The first movement is "Headache."  The second is
"Doubt," picturing moments of dread suspense, whether or no!  The third
 movement, with its explosions and rumblings, has now a self-evident
 purpose.  The hero is endeavoring to throw up his boot-heels!"   
 ................Louis Elston, Boston _Daily Advertiser_, April 22 1907
 ..Quoted in _Lexicon of Musical Invective_ edited by Nicolas Slonimsky.
-- 
Kiran Wagle <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Re: leg shaving
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 17:35:26 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.160339.14585@gvl.unisys.com> liz@prc.unisys.com (Liz Loquacious) writes:
>In article <14540@auspex-gw.auspex.com>, johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
>|> In article <1992Sep9.213414.26756@gvl.unisys.com> liz@prc.unisys.com (Liz Loquacious) writes:
>|> |If only it was as simple as quantity of time....
>|>  
>|> I recall a different interpretation for an acronym for CB fanatics.  CB 
>|> actually stood for constantly broke.
>
>Well that applies both to the state of the relationship and to his uncanny
>ability to spend, spend, spend! 
>
>|> Hello, Liz.  Welcome "Friends and Family of Leg Shavers Support Group".  Sit
>|> down and make yourself comfortable.  James was about to introduce himself.
>|> James?
>|> 
>|> "Hello.  My name is James Dutton and I have a bad haircut".

Just for the record my current semiannual $6 haircut does suck.
Oh yea, I don't care. If I can't let my long blonde locks live
a corporate cuts a corporate cut.
 
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: richwing@leland.Stanford.EDU (Rich Wingerter)
Subject: Re: What knockers!  Crreak.
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 06:01:40 GMT

In article <18kf7uINNpap@agate.berkeley.edu>, jbecker@ocf.berkeley.edu (Jane Becker) writes:
[guys brush girls' tits discussion deleted]
|> Yes, guys do this to me occasionally too (in fact someone did it earlier
|> today...).  Although I've never been elbowed hard enough to consider
|> it painful, it is really annoying.  It's not the fact that they are
|> brushing against me that is bothersome: if a guy is such a loser that
|> elbow contact with by tits is a big thrill, then he's welcome to it.
|> What irritates me is that these guys do it so "accidentally."  Come on!
|> Who do you think you're fooling?  I hate that kind of pretense.  I think 
|> I'd almost prefer they just plant a hand on my breast and squeeze...
|> it would undoubtably be more enjoyable for the both of us... of course
|> they run a substantial risk of getting slapped though!  Seriously guys,
|> what are you thinking when you do this?  Enquiring minds (well, mind, at
|> least) want to know!

I don't understand the psychology.  As my friend DCL used to put it, "breast
were made for the entertainment of infants, thighs were made for the
entertainment of men."


--Rich Wingerter
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: Thu, 10 Sep 92 17:27:47 GMT

In article <72207@apple.Apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
>tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
>
>>In article <72095@apple.Apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
>>>
>>>trygve, what a courageous viking you are, to post this to a thread with the
>>>subject line 'Can we can the suck-up bit.'
>
>>But what have I to fear from being accused of sucking up?  
>
>If you advertise in this thread that you are particularly good at sucking 
>up, I fear that someone will arrive on your doorstep and attempt to can the 
>bit of your anatomy that you use for such activities.

Maybe so, but I'm sure it would be only a tongue-in-cheek attempt. 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: hunter@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Hunter Scales)
Subject: Re: Why do the lurkers / so furiously lurk together?
Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin, Texas
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 23:30:13 GMT

pbreton@asylum.UUCP (Peter Breton) writes:


>  If the figure of 100,000 readers of soc.singles per month is accurate,
>and less than 100 people post in any given month (can somebody check me 
>on this?), then it follows that 99.9% of soc.singlers are lurkers. So the 
>question should not be "why do the lurkers lurk?" but "why do the posters
>(gee, I guess that includes *me*) post?"

>  Peter

	I like to *watch*.  (Lurker since net.singles days).

-- 
Motorola Semiconductor Inc.             Hunter Scales
Austin, Texas                           hunter@prometheus.sps.mot.com
#include <disclaimer.h>
From: jmd@bear.com (Josh Diamond)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Believe in youself, dammit! (was: Re: Singles Bar)
Date: 16 Sep 92 01:10:24 GMT
	<JMD.92Sep15124234@lion.bear.com> <1992Sep15.185624.1286@uwm.edu>
Organization: Bear, Stearns & Co. - FAST
In-reply-to: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu's message of 15 Sep 92 18:56:24 GMT


In article <1992Sep15.185624.1286@uwm.edu> markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:

   In article <JMD.92Sep15124234@lion.bear.com>
   jmd@bear.com (Josh Diamond) writes:
   >Surely you jest.  True, I should have said that this is a hypothetical
   >example.  But surely you don't believe that math (or foreign language,
   >or C programming, or relationship ) skills are genetically determined!

   Yes.  There are genetic factors involved.

References, please.

					Spidey!!!

--
 /\ \  / /\  Josh Diamond                              		   jmd@bear.com
//\\ .. //\\ AKA Spidey!!!                        ...!ctr.columbia.edu!ursa!jmd
//\((  ))/\\
/  < `' >  \          Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. -- Michelangelo
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: loosemore-sandra@CS.YALE.EDU (Sandra Loosemore)
Subject: Re: "We're all normal here"
Organization: staff hacker @ Yale Haskell project
	<1992Sep15.042006.4392@csi.uottawa.ca> <dlzn=zp.aahz@netcom.com>
	<1992Sep15.144814.8944@cs.yale.edu>
	<MARTINC.92Sep15132337@grover.cs.unc.edu>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 14:21:37 GMT

martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:

   Oh, Sandra, you know all the angles.

Is that a complement?  I still have another trig up my sleeve too.
And, don't you like the divergence of this thread from its original
topic?

-Sandra
From: keithg@cnmhnet.UUCP (keith garrard)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Tallllll women....
Date: 10 Sep 92 17:48:37 GMT
Organization: California-Nevada Methodist Homes

In article <29110@hydra.Helsinki.FI> taina@cs.Helsinki.FI (Juha Taina) writes:
>In <1992Sep4.022040.2024@panix.com> jis@panix.com (Jack Szwergold) writes:
>If I remember right there was/is a 5'7" - 5'9" basketball player in
>NBA.  Anyone remember him?
>Juha

 Remember him?  Of course!  He is still in the NBA!  He is Spud Webb,
and he plays for the Atlanta Hawks.  He played basketball for NC State
before joining the NBA.  Then there is also Mugsy Bogues, who is in the
NBA, after playing for Wake Forest University.  I'm not sure what team
he is with, although I think he plays for the Charlotte Hornets.
Both are in the 5'5"--5'7" range.  
--Keith

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: fredw@mks.com (Fred Walter)
Subject: Re: Can you accept criticism ? (was Re: Why lurkers lurk ...)
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 20:13:45 GMT

jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH) writes:
>fredw@mks.com (Fred Walter) writes:
>[regarding me]
>>I've had the 'being talked about' experience and
>>you, who believes that you'd rather be talked about (and disliked)... probably
>>have never had people that you don't know go out of their way to hurt you,
>>and/or hinder you.
>
>A rational conclusion, but an inaccurate one.

Yowza. You are very different from me then. What are the pluses of being talked
about when what's being said will hinder you in some way ? (IE. why would you
want to be talked about ?)

	fred
-- 
Disclaimer: everything I write is my *personal* opinion and does not represent
or reflect the opinion of the company which employs me.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow)
Subject: Re: Name That Diamond!
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 03:51:38 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 <1992Sep4.183431.25121@panix.com> pw@panix.com (Paul Wallich) writes:

>Egad! Will everyone who was probably watching the Avengers while
>Emma was conceived raise their hands?

Well, I may have conceivably been doing so, but I think my plea of
innocence based on my extreme youth and my being on the wrong continent
at the time will prevail :-)

>It's the odd comment like
>this that makes one suddenly feel ancient. (At least we can hope
>she knows who the Beatles were...)

"Oh yeah!  Isn't that the band that Paul McCartney was in before Wings?"

:-)

Rob T
--
Rob Thurlow, thurlow@convex.com
Across the evening sky, all the birds are leaving
But how can they know it's time for them to go?		- Sandy Denny
From: wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Where the best posts come from
Date: 11 Sep 92 23:58:18 GMT
Reply-To: wjb@moscom.com
Distribution: na
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

james.j.dutton (jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com) wrote:
:  Sorry I was up most of the night during a thunder storm because
: my 2 year old insisted a tomato was going to get her.
Did it?
-- 
"Bless me, Father; I ate a lizard."
"Was it an abstinence day, and was it artificially prepared?"
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Bill de Beaubien / wjb@moscom.com
From: rkf@wildrose.infoserv.com (Ray Fink)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Moose (was Re: Desperation)
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 22:43:52 MDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Wild Rose Refugee Camp

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

> In <1992Sep9.102845.4852@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> c71@ix.urz.uni-heidelber
> 
> >AHA! But Different animals have different pheromones! Does Yves Saint Lauren
> >moose-sex? Or could there be a flaw in the theory?
> 
> 
> 	According to the powers that be, moose pheronomes are the nearest
> to human ones....I'm just repeating what I've been told!  Personally, I 
> would have thought that another primate species would have been better....
>  
> >(As a true Swede, I enjoy eating moose, but it stays at that.)
> 	You eat moose??? (*Gasp*)  But, they are so cute!  Have you ever

Hey, I've eaten moose...it's good! Sweet and fine-grained, not gamy at
all. 

You are what you eat? and moose pheromones are the closest to human ones?
I'm trying to recall if we ended up in the sack after the moose dinner...
or was I just horny afterward?

-- Ray
From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Blind dates scare me!
Date: 14 Sep 92 03:21:28 GMT
Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
In-reply-to: smith@wesson.Eng.Sun.COM's message of 14 Sep 92 02:11:45 GMT

Jeez -- my last blind date was just an endocrinologist who didn't feel
like it was really worth pursuing an acquaintance because she'd be
moving away from Durham in onbly another ten months....
--
Charles R. Martin/(Charlie)/martinc@cs.unc.edu/(ne crm@cs.duke.edu) 
O/Dept. of Computer Science/CB #3175 UNC-CH/Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175
H/3611 University Dr #13M/Durham, NC 27707/(919) 419 1754
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"I am he who walks the States with a barb'd tongue, questioning every
one I meet,/Who are you that wanted only to be told what you knew
before?/ Who are you that wanted only a book to join you in your
nonsense?"  _Leaves of Grass_ xxiii.4.
From: jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Desperation (was Re: Commitment--The C-word?)
Date: 11 Sep 92 18:03:46 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:

[On Perfume Ingredients]
>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.)

I've heard tales of great selflessness in the pursuit of knowledge, but this
has got to be a record.
-- 
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: greg@netcom.com (Greg Bullough)
Subject: Re: nature of postings
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 23:28:23 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Keywords: Pathetic, un-realistic, valueless

In article <1992Sep10.220831.26993@cs.ucla.edu> gds@cs.ucla.edu (Greg Skinner) writes:
>It seems that the tendency in this newsgroup is to exchange lots of
>one-liners,
 
Take this newsgroup, please.

>             inside jokes,
 
Well, if it's green and wiggles, wear it.

>                               innuendo,
 
Hey, let's save this discussion of orificial stimulation for alt.sex. Nudge
nudge say no more.
 
>                                           and the like.  When I first
>starting reading net.singles over 8 years ago, there was a lot more
>"useful" discussion and less "chat".
 
Yes indeed. Reeboks. Toilets flushing. Where not to meet people. Not to mention
we've been talking about "women preferring assholes," for a long time. And since
some things never change, September was always the same.
 
Then again, everything went through ihnp5, and during the winter the snow
would leak down the UUCP lines. Why, there were times when I had to trudge
through snow with holes in my shoes just to get to the terminal to post.
3 miles. Uphill. Both ways.

>  However, there was much more
>crossposting (particularly from/to high flame content groups) and much
>more flaming.

But then Oleg & Diane left the group (and each other).

Not to mention (I suspect) a higher frequency of really pleasant in-person
meetings (snuggles optional).

>On the other hand, maybe all those folks "usefully" discussing finding
>romantic partners found some, and are otherwise occupied at the
>moment. ;-)

Either that or we're all out shopping for walkers and corrective shoes.

>--gregbo

Greg (B not bo)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Re: Blind dates scare me!
Organization: AT&T
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 14:13:04 GMT

In article <lb7t71INN37u@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> smith@wesson.Eng.Sun.COM writes:
>In article 3611@wvnvms.wvnet.edu, un030025@wvnvms.wvnet.edu () writes:
>
>We met for coffee and decided to go on to dinner.  He says he'll 
>drive.  I get in his Beamer (no less!) which reeks of something 
>quite unpleasant :*(  We get to the first restaurant -- it's 
>closing; we walk to the next  -- it had burned to the ground!!  
>(Prior to this, he pulls out a black satchel from his car.  I 
>kiddlingly asked him if it contained his worldly possessions -- 
>"Just about!" he says.)  The third restaurant has gone out of 
>business.  Lovely!  It's nearly 10:00 p.m., I'm freezing, starving, 
>my date's lugging a black bag containing God-knows-what and doing 
>impersonations of the Church Lady, George Bush, Big Rick Stewart 
>and Steve Masters all rolled into one!!!
>
>Well, we finally find a restaurant that's open.  I ordered an OJ and 
>That was about about 11 months ago.  I had another blind date a few weeks ago.
>Nice guy!  We made plans to go to dinner and then to a play in Berkeley.  We 
>find a parking spot, he opens the back door of his car and pulls out . . . 
>yep! *a black satchel*!!!  ARRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>-- Nina

I'll bet they were doctors.
 
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