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From: mzank@shell.portal.com (matthew c zank)
Subject: Re: Upper Midwest
Organization: Portal Communications Company
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 08:17:39 GMT

k206027@smog.DKRZ-Hamburg.DE (Bakayaroo Banzai) writes:

>In article <C0H9vA.G0o@unix.portal.com> mzank@shell.portal.com (matthew c zank) writes:
>>Does anyone know why the upper midwest is so awful for meeting
>>anyone? like i mean there is just no one here.
>>--
>>Matthew Zank * Eau Claire, Wisconsin
>>------------------------------------

>Matt, Matt, Matt...

>I would have figured that you got all of this whining out of your system
>over in alt.personals by now... 

>One more time:

>UW Eau Claire has a very high female to male ratio due to the schools
>of Nursing and Elem. Ed. programs. Go hang out on Water St. 

>If you want drunk, overweight, and desperate go to Shenanigan's...

>If you want drunk, upwardly mobile, and disdainful go to Cameraderie or
>Hooligan's...

>If you want drunk, artsy, and dressed in black spandex go to the Joynt...

>If you want drunk, athletic, Good Ol' Girls go to Wagners 53 1/2
>Lanes...

>If you want sober, responsible, lifetime companions stop wallowing
>in self-pity and develop a personality that attracts members of the
>opposite sex (honesty, respect, sense of humor, etc...)


As I SAY for the last time, the bars are USELESS VERY USELESS, I have
snice it was lawful for me to step in a bar, have tryed bars, i have
stoped about this time last year, because I have no luck witn, and now
I have this outlook. AS far I see bars are noting but meat markets where
if you are not mr atlas, women will not give you the time of day.
The whole thing is bars are the only place to meet anyone here in wisconsin.
So have have better thing to waste 10 ro so bucks.
--
Matthew Zank * Eau Claire, Wisconsin
------------------------------------
mzank@shell.portal.com
MZANK@MCIMAIL.COM 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tedwards@wam.umd.edu (technopagan priest)
Subject: Re: Oh God, they're back....
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 06:31:28 GMT

In article <1993Jan04.100158.11917@microsoft.com> jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer) writes:
>In article <1992Dec30.112758.13385@wetware.com> drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:
>>cs151kx@lamar.ColoState.EDU () writes:
>>"want to come up to my terminal room and
>>see the neat new cobol program I am writing?"
>COBOL????

Yuck!  What a turn off!

You should try...
   
   "Hey, would ya like to see my NeXT?"

(has worked ;)

-Thomas
 resident technoshaman


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From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.sex
Subject: Re: The Classiest Pickup Lines
Date: 10 Jan 1993 18:22:39 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

In article <1993Jan8.012714.18701@borland.com> eomiya@borland.com (Elliot Omiya) writes:
>My line was "Hi, gorgeous"
>
>(Hey, it worked, you gotta consider it in context!)

What you do is you walk up to a group of female friends and say that, without
looking specifically at any one of them.  This is like fishing with a net.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
Subject: Re: Any Available Jewish Men Out There??
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 04:36:33 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 <1993Jan8.222334.20157@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:

>] Having one or more friends who belong to an unusual group does not guarantee
>] that they have lots of friends belonging to that group.
> 
>No argument there.  However, if the group in question is defined or
>characterized by common interests and attitudes, then the correlation
>will be much, much higher.

Well, I once knew someone whose hobby was collecting road-killed
animals.  To the best of my knowledge, *none* of her friends shared
that interest.  Strange?


>Not exactly; developing your physical and mental powers (or, for that
>matter, just about any other abilities) takes an investment in effort and
>dedication. 

Well, if that's the case, energy and dedication being finite quantities,
the more you invest in developing your muscles, the less you have left
to develop your mind.  But Trygve Lode, Charlie Martin, and Company are
pretty vehement in denying that is true.


>] If athletes are better physically, and just as good mentally, as
>] "nerds," it certainly sounds like they're better over all.
> 
>On average, there is such a trend; as far as individuals go, you can
>make no such assumption.  

Only if you're talking about logic.  You're overlooking a more common
human quality called "prejudice."  Once someone has decided that's
true, on average, he (or she) is likely to start looking for preferentially
for athletes.  If he meets a nerd, the burden of proof is on her to
prove she is an exception.  But, while it may be easy to see whether 
or not she is a weightlifter or runner during a 5-minute conversation
at a cocktail party, discussing the results of her Master's thesis may
take quite a while longer.  With someone who has already decided he
isn't interested, this is likely to be impossible.

And the fitness movement, whose motto is "exercise is for everybody,"
reinforces this prejudice.  When was the last time you saw a postitive
image of a "nerd" in the movies, television, or other media?


>You cannot, however, extend these very general observations to
>individuals any more than you can note "tall people, on the average,
>weigh more than short people" and conclude from this "any given tall
>person is heavier than any given short person."

Yet people make assumptions like that all the time.
From: blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Facial hair
Date: 11 Jan 1993 06:15:03 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
NNTP-Posting-Host: carina.unm.edu

In article <thurlow.726690280@convex.convex.com> thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:
>almost two weeks and c) it was colder than a witches' tit up in
>Edmonton (-40C == -40F; I shoveled the walk at -35C one day) that

This really has nothing to do with facial hair, but its somethings that's
bothered me for several years now.
I've dated several witches, and there tits are definatly >not< cold :)
Just wanted to clear that up.
r.
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From: drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux)
Subject: Dangerous Self refutint Post there rON
Organization: Castle WetWare Philosopher and Sniper
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 01:26:17 GMT

blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
] 
] My problem is her attitude towards relationships- she is none to keen about
] having 'yet another man tell her what to do, where to go and how to raise my
] son'. 
] Now, I'm not looking to move in with this woman, I'm just looking for the
] casual sort of relationship- someone to hang with, take to see movies that
] one really shouldn't see alone, get the female type perspective, perhaps
] even the sex thing, you know, normal relationship sort of stuff.
] My question is how to persue this without making her afraid that I'm going
] to be trouncing her independence...I'm thinking casual persistance, an ever
] helpful dose of ego-boosting and, of course, patience.

There is the problem....

If one is Interested in getting involved with a person,
one has, perforce to the intention, designs on messing
with their liberty and independence.

Right Now, there are all sorts of Problems at Castle Wetware
now that my HouseMates have fallen victims of HeteroSexuality.

No More happy free time sitting around redisgning the file
layout, fun with symbolic links, and NFS crossmountings,
 or considering neat, untried, esoteric networking
solutions and configurations.... 

why, the Silly Victims of HeteroSexuality are squandering
their Valuable free time engaging in Flagrant HeteroSexuality!!!!!

Nope! Nope! Nope! rON if you are seriously willing to
be supportive of this woman's desire to not be dragged
down again into the Mire of HeteroSexuality, you should
consider Other Things all together.....

ciao
drieux

ps: I would be at liberty to go into depth with this
discussion, but my ProblemOlderWoman wants to drag me
off the net, and take advantage of my innocence and youth....



-- 
MajorModernDayProblems: "Olivia Newton-John is the grand-daughter 
of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Sir Edmund Newton-John." --Frank

Clear Proof Of Genetic Superiority, eh No????
From: bart@muppet.bt.co.uk (Tim)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Ankle bracelets
Date: 11 Jan 93 13:22:16 GMT
Reply-To: bart@muppet.bt.co.uk
Organization: British Telecom
NNTP-Posting-Host: dibble.muppet.bt.co.uk


>Bathsheba.Grossman@launchpad.unc.edu (Bathsheba Grossman) writes:
>>labia.  The Thing Itself has little vascular hydraulics which I don't
>>think one would want to rupture, quite aside from the innervation.  (I
>>don't offhand know how penis piercings are done; maybe they go between the
>>hydraulics.)
>
>>-Sheba
Well in the latest issue of Select Magazine here in the UK there's a bit about
body piercing and who in the music industry has what. Lots of queasy stories
about ears (well OK fine), noses, eyebrows, navels (!?), tougues, but basically
superceded by that Zodiac Mindwarp fella with his so called King Albert...

--* squeamish warning *--




Which is a ring that goes through the Japs Eye and out the side. Apparently he was 
conscious during piercing but did have the benefit of a local anaesthetic. Said he
pisses like a watering can now, which IMHO it hardly worth all the effort. The things 
some people do for fashion. Flares maybe, deely-boppers at a stretch, but this....

forget it.

Tim

is it too late to understand
the writing that's on the walls
while we watch time slip through our hands
we're deaf to our own demands
when the eleventh hour calls				fw
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Subject: Re: Where did you meet your SO?
From: parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz
Date: 11 Jan 1993 23:54:18 GMT
Reply-To: parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz
Organization: Wellington City Council, Wgtn, NZ
NNTP-Posting-Host: blade.wcc.govt.nz

In article <rawdon.726367143@cs.wisc.edu>, rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu (Michael Rawdon) writes:
>In <1993Jan6.064348.26971@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> bss2p@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Brent S. Stone) writes:
>>As long as Heather got the ball rolling on the subject of meeting people,
>>where you meet your current partner?  Theorizing where to meet people is one
>>thing, what works is another.  So how about some info for the group?

Oh, and I also met some guys (though I didn't date any of them) at the
laundry room in the motor camp I was staying at over the christmas/new year
holiday.




Rachel                           "Supergoof!"
                                    -  -
                                    O  O
                                      >
                                     \_/
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: criteria
Date: 4 Jan 93 19:21:27 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1993Jan2.195012.1212@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> mel@niblick.ecn.purdue.edu (Meloney D Cregor) writes:
 
|Just because I may limit my selection to men who absolutely adore me, who
|have unusually high sexual drives, a sense of humor to entertain me
|endlessly, an intelligence to keep me alert and a physique that drives
|me wild with lust, doesn't mean I can't bemoan the lack thereof.

Aw shucks, Mel.  I didn't think you cared.

-- 
+==========================================================================+
| John Fereira        | Auspex Systems | "Ask me about my vow of silence." |
| johnf@auspex.com    | Santa Clara CA |                                   |
+==========================================================================+
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: R9S@ECL.PSU.EDU (Roberto G Sung)
Subject: Re: Females have it easy!
Organization: Penn State Engineering Computer Lab
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 17:01:36 GMT
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> In article <4362@novavax.UUCP> bramson@novavax.UUCP (Jennifer Bramson) writes:
>    markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:
> 
>    >In article <oneil.725199192@cwis> oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu (Sharon O'Neil) writes:
>    >blandness.  Three, women are the only ones I ever hear referring to her as
>    >attractive, which just goes to prove that you really have to be a man to know
>    >what turns on a man.
> 
>    Which is????????????????????????
> 
>    Jennifer Bramson
>    Center for Psychological Studies

call me old-fashioned, but i think most men get turned on by a Murphy
Brown shouting "strip" out of her cigar-stuffed mouth while brandishing
a loaded UZI. And the effect can be a sure fire if they happen to have
just spent 3 months at sea with an all-male crew.

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Breaking up is hard to do....
Date: 8 Jan 93 01:14:32 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1993Jan7.151138.2520@bnlux1.bnl.gov> schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder) writes:
>In article <1993Jan7.054337.22351@netcom.com> rohwerwd@netcom.com (W. David Rohwer) writes:
>
|>     In my last relationship, I told her that I did not see the
|>relationship as a long-term type and I would be happy with a
|>friendship with some physical aspects.  She did not like what I 
|>said that much. 
|
|Gee, I wonder why.  So, basically, what you told her was 'I don't want 
|to be emotionally involved with you, but is it okay if we fuck?'

Is that such a bad thing?  It sounds to me like he was at least being 
honest with her.  I could have told "yes, I love you, now blow me" and
then leave anyway.
 
|> The major complicating factor was that the only way
|>that she would lose her virginity is if she knew that her lover truly
|>loved her and vice versa. 
|
|Imagine the nerve of the woman!  Demanding all that silly 'love' tripe
|before hopping in the sack with Mr. Wonderful.
 
He didn't say he was Mr. Wonderful, or even indicate he had any exeptional
lovemaking prowess.  He just didn't want to have a commitment with this
particular woman.  

|> It seemed as if she wanted some type of
|>commitment which I would not give her.  
|
|Obviously.  I sounds like you're genuinely confused by her response.
 
He didn't sound all that confused to me.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: rossi@mtu.edu (Rossi)
Subject: Re: Meeting women in clubs
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:23:35 GMT

In article <76176@apple.apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
>rossi@mtu.edu (Rossi) writes:
>
>>   Great!  I'd recently went out with someone, but when introduced
>>to her roommate I was more attracted to I had to figure out a way
>>to stop all of this from getting outta hand.  So I told the first
>>one how I felt and she has never called again.  The roommate had
>>no feelings towards me so it has all gone away into oblivion.  A
>>rare case of LJBF in reverse that fizzled too fast.
>
>I'm not surprised the roommate didn't go for you. Dropping someone the
>minute you find someone you're more attracted to is not particularly
>appealing behavior. She probably figured, "what would prevent him from 
>doing that to me later on?" 

   Wow!  I said "went out" and Stef you take it as "going out till
death do us partake".  I guess the stereotype bug bit me here.  I
did not know the girl I "went out with once to find out what she
was like other than hello" that well.  I met the roommate by 
accident BEFORE(but the same day) I "went out once" with the first.
After the "once" I knew from what we had talked about that I was
not going to go out with her anymore and LJBA was appropriate and
said so.  At that point I dropped the whole thing out of respect
for the first.  The roommate thing was only the initial expression
upon meeting her that I would be happy to see her around again.
No followup on her part (no suggestion of time or space) made it
easy to see that there was no mutual like.  So I never pressed it.

   Do you agree that it would be hurtful to go out with someone's
roommate knowing the other was mooning over you all the time?
Especially when you know the other's (feelings, ideas, hopes,
dreams) are for some prince charming that doesn't exist?

   There is a whole lot of background assumptions that you are making
here about me: (she did too, but my attempt at correcting them 
didn't work well, thus LJBA - in your case Stef I have hope :)


Stereo typists

 That I'm a traditional[tm] bird 
    (no)
  That I share my life with only one other bird 
   (don't)
That I was the chaser
 (wasn't)
   That we were part of each other's lives
(weren't)


   songbird - caught in the net
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: mel@niblick.ecn.purdue.edu (Meloney D Cregor)
Subject: Re: Facial hair
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 03:36:08 GMT

In article <thurlow.726690280@convex.convex.com> thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:

>1) What do you generally think of a well-trimmed beard?

Mmmm.

>2) For those of you who have met me, would you think a beard would
>   prompt a compliment or peals of laughter?

Mmmm. Very likely a compliment from this one.


--
                  You got to love me with a feeling,
                  Or you don't love me at all.
                                   -- ?
From: jis@panix.com (Jack Szwergold)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Meeting women in clubs
Date: 5 Jan 93 17:15:02 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Panix, NYC


Does anyone remember that Saturday Night Live with Sharon Stone?  The one
where two guys were trying to pick her up but didn't get anywhere......


Well, at the end of the bit John Lovitz (the liar guy himself) comes out
for a cameo appearance and comes up to Sharon Stone, and says....

"So....  How ya doing......"

She starts stuttering and stammering like the tow "winners" who tried to
pick her up before, and John then says.....

"Wanna go out with me?  I got a penis."


It doesn't get better than that.....


--
Jack
jis@panix.com
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From: crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.romance
Subject: Re: Where did you meet your SO?
Date: 6 Jan 93 14:57:39 GMT
Followup-To: soc.singles
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <1993Jan6.064348.26971@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> bss2p@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Brent S. Stone) writes:

>As long as Heather got the ball rolling on the 
>subject of meeting people, where you meet your
>current partner?  Theorizing where to meet
>people is one thing, what works is another.  
>So how about some info for the group?

I met mine through my former roommate.  She had met him at church, thought
he was cute, and invited him over.  No sparks flew between them, but they
struck up a good friendship and I gradually became friends with him, too. 
And gradually became more than friends.  (Lest you feel sorry for my
roommate, her first wedding anniversary is coming up next week.)


-- 
The trick of reason is to get the imagination to seize the actual world --
if only from time to time.     -- Annie Dillard, "An American Childhood"
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lauren Crawford  //  crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu
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From: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (dreas)
Subject: Terminology
Reply-To: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 03:08:24 GMT

I wonder whether or not some posters are familiar
with the expression, PUTZ. Do you know who you are?

dreas
From: jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: How Strong Should a Man Be?
Date: 5 Jan 93 19:23:00 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

>>>>(Any more along this line?)

Strong enough to move the refrigerator in order to clean the floor beneath it.
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From: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (dreas)
Subject: Re: Ankle bracelets
Reply-To: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 02:42:15 GMT

In article 29724@samba.oit.unc.edu, Bathsheba.Grossman@launchpad.unc.edu (Bathsheba Grossman) writes:
>In article <1993Jan7.142838.10267@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes:
>>In article <1993Jan6.215808.17973@bnlux1.bnl.gov> schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder) writes:
>>>I imagine that in order to have one's clitoris pierced, unconciousness
>>>is a prerequisite.  Maybe it's just me, I dunno.
>
>It is my understanding, based on the wholly aesthetic observation of
>nude models and exotic dancers, that one doesn't get the actual Pearl on the
>Jade Step pierced, but rather the hood or upper juncture of the outer
>labia.  The Thing Itself has little vascular hydraulics which I don't
>think one would want to rupture, quite aside from the innervation.  (I
>don't offhand know how penis piercings are done; maybe they go between the
>hydraulics.)

Right you are, Shebadeba!

At least about the way the hood or upper juncture gets pierced.
This is an extreme turn-on, at least judging by the response it
gets from the audience downto TheRedFox at TheRedLionInn.

Judging by my hydraulics, it IS a greater turnon!

WRT penis piercings, I'd have to find out more since there are no
male dancers downto deFox. 

Warning: I suspect it would hurt.

dreas
  


Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (dreas)
Subject: Re: Facial hair
Reply-To: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 22:13:41 GMT

In article 726690280@convex.convex.com, thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:
>Hi all, I hope your Christmas/Hannukah/solstice went well.  I'm back
>and about half-caught-up (still owe mail to too many people!), but I
>thought it was time to post a couple of original threads for the New
>Year.
>
>The first is about facial hair.  I'm not sure it will stay yet, but
>I decided a couple of days into my holiday that since a) I hadn't been
>shaving anyway, b) I was going to be able to be away from work for
>almost two weeks and c) it was colder than a witches' tit up in
>Edmonton (-40C == -40F; I shoveled the walk at -35C one day) that
>I was going to just let the stuff grow.  All I'll say about the
>result is that it's a lot better than the last time I tried it in
>school, when I mostly had scraggly stuff under my jaw line.
>
>So my question today is a two-parter: 
>
>1) What do you generally think of a well-trimmed beard?

Having had beards on and off for about the last nine years, I keep
getting comments like, "You look better with a beard," when I have
one, and "You look better without a beard," when I'm clean-shaven.

My landlady keeps telling me to get rid of that GawdAwfulHat, but
she's an old tease, anyway. I suspect that she's a witch because
she cackles while she stirs the soup, but I digress.

>2) For those of you who have met me, would you think a beard would
>   prompt a compliment or peals of laughter?

Well, Rob, I have not had the experience of meeting you, but here's
a word of caution: *I* personally know a couple of witches or three,
and their tits are most certainly NOT cold.

Spreading VileGossip like that could lead to some HorrendousIncuntations!

dreas

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