HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: gklein@uoft02.utoledo.edu (Gary Klein, bear at heart)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: astrology and YOU
Date: 3 Oct 92 18:52:05 EST
Organization: Carlson Library, Univ of Toledo

In article <1992Oct1.181458.9229@spdcc.com>, rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue) 
   writes:
> 
> 	Where's the bear shit?
> 
> 	I *hate* telling people my profession.  If it isn't that
> it's the "instant meganerd alert" like with that career I couldn't
> *possibly* be interesting.  Most fo the time I tell people "I
> do a lot of owrk with computers" which is marginally true and
> tends to keep people around for 15 seconds longer...

     If you were handy with knots, and carried some rope on you, you might be
able to hold them in place a bit longer than 15 seconds.

     Would anyone like me to explain why I still have a unopened package of
bungee cords still sitting in the trunk of my car?
--
                                               "Librarian, Leather bound"
Gary Klein,   Business Librarian,  (Univ of Toledo)           * * * * 
PO Box 12650                  Toledo OH  43606-0250            *   *   
(w): 419-537-2629      fac2813@uoft01                            *   
(h): 419-243-2740      fac2813@uoft01.utoledo.edu         B4 t+ w- g s+ k
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: frankm@microsoft.com (Frank R.A.J. Maloney)
Subject: Re: Not the only one!
Date: 02 Oct 92 18:41:20 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Windows/DOS Users Ed Group

In article <1992Oct1.161302.26698@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
>
>In article <69587@hydra.gatech.EDU> vbsupdi@prism.gatech.EDU
>(DANNY INGRAM) writes:
[deletions]
>
>And here *you* are, as though sent to illustrate the point.
>Naturally, therefore, I welcome you doubly!
>

Life imitates Usenet.

-- 
Frank Richard Aloysius Jude Maloney
	"Well, I'm a little muddled." -- Glinda
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: glp@fig.citib.com (Greg Parkinson)
Subject: Re: TERMS OF ENDEARMENT
Originator: glp@merlin
Organization: Citibank IBISM
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 13:41:22 GMT


In article <1992Sep29.131305.26146@panix.com>, mara@panix.com (Mara Chibnik) writes:
|> dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer), out of sympathy for Greg Parkinson, writes:
|>  >My aunt (my mother's sister), and no one else, used to call me "Pookie".
|>  >I never figured out why,
|> 
|> Why she did or why nobody else did?

I've just been informed by e-mail (lots and lots of
mail supporting my cause!  agreeing with ME! 

Oh, sorry.)
that Pookie (or Pookie Bear) was the name of
Garfield's teddy. So of course I just rang up
Dave and he said he didn't ever read it.

Who's to know?

I prefer it when the noise he makes when he's
around me is "mmmmppphhhhhhhssssssssssllllllrrrpp".

-- 
Greg Parkinson                  Phone: 212-657-7814  Fax: 212-825-8607
Citibank,111 Wall Street        E-Mail: glp@fig.citib.com
New York, New York  10043
The opinions expressed are my own and not those of the big 'ol bank.
From: gklein@uoft02.utoledo.edu (Gary Klein, bear at heart)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Ah, Fashion.
Date: 6 Oct 92 02:18:27 GMT
Organization: Carlson Library, Univ of Toledo

In article <67145@cup.portal.com>, Furr@cup.portal.com (George Dalton Madison)
   writes:

> Thank goodness I received furry genes from both sides of
> my family.

     In my family, it became obvious that NONE of us inherited my father's
genes for furry chests.  In fact, BOTH of my sisters-in-laws have complained
about the conspciuous absence of fur in their respective husbands.

     At least, they each enjoy the beards on their respective hubbies.

     Now if I could only find a partner who enjoys mine.
--
                                               "Librarian, Leather bound"
Gary Klein,   Business Librarian,  (Univ of Toledo)           * * * * 
PO Box 12650                  Toledo OH  43606-0250            *   *   
(w): 419-537-2629      fac2813@uoft01                            *   
(h): 419-243-2740      fac2813@uoft01.utoledo.edu         B4 t+ w- g s+ k
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Subject: Re: Faggots
Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 18:18:02 GMT


In article <72934@apple.Apple.COM> mattm@Apple.COM (Matthew
Melmon) writes:

>To *die* for.  They are all to *die* for...

Make it so.

-- 
Jess Anderson <> Madison Academic Computing Center <> University of Wisconsin
Internet: anderson@macc.wisc.edu <-best, UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson
NeXTmail w/attachments: anderson@yak.macc.wisc.edu  Bitnet: anderson@wiscmacc
Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone 608/262-5888
From: mike@batpad.lgb.ca.us (mike batchelor)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: "TAKE IT OUT" DAY: October 13th [Action against BANK of AMERICA]
Date: 4 Oct 92 16:26:46 GMT
Organization: The Batchelor Pad

buckmr@rpi.edu (Ron Buckmire) writes:
>
> Chad Jones writes:
> 
> "Take It Out" Day
>   [...]
>   And a personal aside, as a satisfied Wells Fargo customer, their service is
>   much better (and less expensive!) than B of A or Security Pathetic.
> 
>   Chad Jones
>   UCLA Department of Physiological Science
>   cjones@physci.ucla.edu

Amen!  I've been banking with WF for five years or more, and they are
the best!  24 hours a day, you can get a live person on the phone.  A
couple of weeks ago, I tried to pull out $40 from a 1st Interstate
teller machine.  Instead of two 20's, I got two 1's.  Not only did Wells
Fargo credit me back the missing $38, they refunded the service charge
that resulted from the checks that bounced when I took out $40 from
another ATM, since I needed the cash.  They also replenished my
savings account, which had been emptied in an attempt to pay the
bounced checks and service charges.  The funny thing about all this
was that I didn't really even have $40 in my checking account - my
balance was off by about $5!  The 1st Interstate ATM should have
refused to complete the transaction.

Not only will switching to Wells Fargo get you some political
satisfation, you will also get the best banking service in the
Southwest USA!  They are unfailingly helpful, friendly, courteous,
kind, cheerful, thrifty...

...you know the rest.



[] ---
[] Mike Batchelor <> Long Beach, California
[] mike@batpad.lgb.ca.us <or> mikebat@qdeck.com
From: mdrayton@sr.hp.com (Mike Drayton)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: WILSON SIGNS BILL: Calif. gets gay rights law
Date: 29 Sep 92 17:10:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: scd.BvCnow.LI5
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Clara Division
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1.1 PL5

Rod Williams (rjwill6@PacBell.COM) wrote:

> [Jose Sarria] left town, by hot-air
> balloon some years ago, and now lives, I believe, in retirement
> somewhere in the Midwest...
> -- 
I heard he was in Bisbee, Arizona as of a year or so ago.  From the
usual unreliable sources.    

Mike Drayton      mdrayton@sr.hp.com       Hewlett-Packard Co.
                                           Santa Rosa, California
From: wood@siemens.com. (Jim Wood)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: "Marines go to war over sexy AIDS ad"
Date: 2 Oct 92 12:28:01 GMT

celd@stiatl.salestech.com (Charles LeDuc) writes:

>>Jack Hamilton (jfh@netcom.com) quotes from 
>>the San Francisco Examiner [Monday, September 28, 1992]:
>>>    ... the Marine Corps, where homosexuality is grounds for immediate 
>>>    discharge.

>MMMM, I can't wait to see the poster - "grounds for immediate discharge"
>indeed.

Continuing the string of double entendres ... I always loved the saying
"a good man is hard to find," but even better is

		A HARD MAN IS GOOD TO FIND

--
Jim Wood [jwood@siemens.siemens.com] (609) 734-3643
"Rise up on the wings of eagles, and two step among the stars.
 You are not forgotten.  Your smile will echo forever."
   -- Ryerson Schwark, to our friend Rob Bernardo.
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: daniel@nstn.ns.ca (Daniel MacKay)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: gay science fiction
Date: 5 Oct 92 01:36:01 GMT
Organization: NSTN Network Operations Centre, Nova Scotia, Canada

>The correct listing should be:

Whups!  sorry, today's the thinking-brain dog's day off.  and to think I
had the book in my hand when I wrote that!
--
Daniel MacKay					daniel@nstn.ns.ca
Homo habilis					Nova Scotia, Canada
From: j66@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Tim Dixon)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: FJ!! & Amsterdam
Date: 4 Oct 92 23:34:47 GMT
Reply-To: j66@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Tim Dixon)
Distribution: world
Organization: Nikhef-H, Amsterdam (the Netherlands).


FJ!! has asked me to post a message to the group to forestall anxious
queries about his health following the major aircrash over the Bijlmer 
district of Amsterdam. 

FJ!! lives miles away and is unaffected (at least by current events :-)).
Although I generally expect less dramatic behaviour from the adherents of
soc.motss than I do from my mother (a train is derailed somewhere in England -
my mother calls to check I'm not dead), FJ!! obviously knows you better.
So, no need to worry. Unless an of your friends live in a high-rise in the
Bijlmer, of course. 200 people feared dead: one passenger on the plane. 
Makes you think...

Tim

PS: Apologies if this is a repost, a noisy line is getting the better of my
primitive communications arrangements.
From: Furr@cup.portal.com (George Dalton Madison)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: CABAL stuff
Date: Mon,  5 Oct 92 22:37:23 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1ao36tINN14n@mizar.usc.edu> <1992Oct5.164742.7553@panix.com>

r l reid writes:
>Regarding meat - some of us just don't like the fucking stuff.

That's my primary reason for avoiding the stuff, actually. It
tastes like blood -- or burned blood -- to me, which turns my
stomach.

 
() If you insist that you know what's right for a person,
() you are precious close to saying that their feelings aren't
() real, just because you don't understand them. The next
() stop after sentimentality is cruelty. 
()      -- John Fisher (jf@threel.co.uk)
-----
[> George D. Madison | NBCS: B8f+t+w-e+s+k+a!cv | Just say NO to razors! <]
[> It's a BEAR thing -- you wouldn't understand. <|> furr@cup.portal.com <]
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: michaelh@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Mike Hennahane)
Subject: Re: Ah, Fashion.
Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
Date:  2 Oct 92 22:18:29 GMT

rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue) writes:
[gasp, *all* of jess' excellent response deleted]

>	OK - there I think I can still agree with you.
>And I think there what I have been calling fashion and what you
>are calling fashion are different.  I'm thinking along with the
>more short-lived trendy stuff  What you're describing is much
>more long-lived, and in terms of "things that never go out of style"
>I think one can easily make the argument that for some functions
>you might want nicer clothes.

the only question that i have about this relates to the "things that
never go out of style" part. why are "conservative" or "timeless"
clothes any less susceptible to fashion trends? wouldn't it just be a
different set of people who are defining the trend? maybe it's just a
group of people with less imagination or with a motivation to preserve
the status quo? (this having nothing to say even about what clothes
are "nicer" or about what the trends are in business [think "wacky
ties" :-)] i'm also resisting wisecracking about how animal skins were
probably thought to be things that never go out of style once...).

--mike


Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: anthropo@carina.unm.edu (Dominick V. Zurlo)
Subject: Re: Toys 'r' Us
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 92 16:50:40 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Keywords: Whee!

In article <1992Oct1.174421.8022@spdcc.com> rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue) writes:
>anthropo@carina.unm.edu (Dominick V. Zurlo) writes:
>>thaaang@cwis.unomaha.edu (John Dorrance) writes:
>>>Do you have a favorite sex toy? Have you ever given a sex toy a nickname?
>>>What criterion do you use in choosing a sex toy (besides size, of course) -
>>>does color come into consideration? Heft? Smell? Have you ever used sex
>>>toys in your decorating?
>> Well, it depends.  Usually, I could care less about color, but heft does
>>indeed make a difference, if it's a heavier dildo, it's easier to use
>>usually in my expereinces, but lighter ones are more fun on other people, 
>
>Re: heft --- I once saw a butt plug SO LARGE (about 1 1/2' high and maybe
>0.8' thick), that my first though was "I could take a drill to
>that and with some epoxy and wiring turn it into an interesting table
>lamp..."  (It was blue by the way).
>
>
>Well it *was*.
>
>BBC
 Well, in the Leather Shoppe, we had one Butt plug that was made
of chrome.  It was definately heavy, and it was about 4" tall, and 
at the wide portion of the base the diameter was 1 1/2".  I always
thought it would make a nice fireplace mantlepiece.  It was real 
hefty, and if chilled would be neat.  My daughter, Misha, looked at 
it and asked, "Is that what they weighed Jimmy Hoffa down with when 
they threw him into the E. River????"  And think of the social faux
pas if it fell out during a dinner party??? *Clink* NOT *CLUNK*  
Bob?  What was that noise????

Flapjack
From: drp@dosbears.UUCP (David R. Preston)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Ah, Fashion.
Date: 2 Oct 92 09:11:18 GMT
Reply-To: drp@dosbears.uucp
Organization: DosBears

In article <1992Oct2.044952.15321@unlinfo.unl.edu> cbe@unlinfo.unl.edu (cbe) writes:
>rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue) writes:
>
>>	You don't *need* to wax to look good, sexy, interesting, etc.
>>You don't *need* to be thin, tan, blond, smooth, muscular, young
>>to have self-worth and to be found attractive by other people.
>
>I swear, we must be living in mutually exclusive gay universes.

No, you're living in Lincoln, Nebraska. Perhaps if you were
in Boston or San Francisco this wouldn't seem such a radical
idea.

>>BBC, beautiful, sexy,
>>cuddly, unwaxed, not
>>blonde, not thin, and
>>without designer clothes,
>>tanning salons, designer
>>hair care products (unless
>>Head and Shoulders counts :-),
>>Soloflex, etc.
>
>but with mate?

I'm guessing his mate isn't thin, tan, blond, smooth....
If these Adonises are all dating each other, that leaves a lot
of normal people for us normal people to date.

--
         David R. Preston   drp@dosbears.uucp dosbears@netcom.com
              Information gladly given but safety requires
               the avoidance of unnecessary conversation.
            D. R. Preston 584 Castro St. #614 SF CA 94114 USA
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: rjwill6@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams)
Subject: Re: CABAL stuff
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Francisco
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 15:38:42 GMT

> foucault@netcom.com (Howard Arthur Faye) writes:

>                      ...I make a mean osso buco, and I use the
>marrow to make a sauce from lemon, porcini mushrooms and rosemary
>that I serve over polenta...

No fair, Howard -- I haven't even had *breakfast* yet... :-)
-- 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
rod williams -=- pacific bell -=- san francisco -=- rjwill6@pacbell.com
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From: jns@elea.umd.edu (J. N. Shaumeyer)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Madonna offers haven to Diana
Date: 1 Oct 92 06:24:04 GMT
Organization: Militant Homosexual Lobby, Gay Lifestyles, Inc.


Jack Hamilton (jfh@netcom.com) wrote:
 
> [...  But there aren't many occasions when wearing 
>  the Star of India wouldn't be overdressing.]

Been feeling a bit stay-at-home lately, Jack?

--jns
From: richard@Apple.COM (a flying squirrel)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Camille Paglia on fashion (was Re: Ah, Fashion.)
Date: 5 Oct 92 20:20:07 GMT
Organization: Xiola Blue

Melmothra:

>Mantras:

>  [...] 
>  American Express, don't leave home without it (but only if it's gold)

You may grovel at my feet the next time we lunch, dear.  Mine's platinum.
Whenever I want to look back fondly on the avarice-filled Eighties, I just
reach for my wallet and pull it out.  The glittery bits mesmerize me much
like a glass of Suze on a hot summer day.  
-- 
a flying squirrel is: richard@apple.com  Apple Computer Inc.

i'm your girl            friend
i'm your squirrel        friend
i'm your round the world friend

cruising: vidi, vici, veni.
From: dauber@tattoo.mti.sgi.com (Jeff Dauber)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: enough already.
Date: 29 Sep 92 20:09:35 GMT
Reply-To: dauber@tattoo.mti.sgi.com (Jeff Dauber)
Organization: sgi
NNTP-Posting-Host: tattoo.mti.sgi.com


 
|> 	Or significance.  I *tried* to, even *baited* him on some
|> occasions - just to see what would happen.  Either I had some
|> soft spot in his heart or he was always on to me... but he never
|> gave me the satisfaction... :-)


Gee, I was able to bait him quite well.  In fact, I was able to make
him sound completely irrational (everyone needs to get their thrills
somehow)...

 
|> 	All in all I miss Clay's presence.


That is an understatement.  However, when I last talked to him, he
did not miss soc.motss too much, so I wouldn't hold my breath for
his return.

FWA
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: akbar@cs.mcgill.ca (Alain BOUCHARD)
Subject: Re: Flu season is coming
Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 04:13:20 GMT

In article <1992Oct5.010549.13754@netcom.com> jfh@netcom.com (Jack Hamilton)
writes:
>A reminder: flu season is coming up.

Newsflash:  It been here for nearly a month now!  Of course, in some places
a few hours north, snow too has arrived (and melted right away thank god).

There is a particularly tough bug that is going around, it took me a good
week to get rid of it instead of the usual 2 - 3 days.  I don't have time
to be sick right now so I got my shot right after I recovered fully.

Note that the vaccine is not given to people that are allergic to eggs,
I believe albumine is used as a support media or something like that, ask
your doctor about it. (And don't forget those vitamin C supplements)

Alain (Who is chewing Fred Flinstone at the moment... munch munch)
______________________________________

On the lighter side:

In Quebecois slang, flu means diarrhea,  I always had a hard time 
understanding why anglophones were talking so casually about their 
defecation problems =8)  Of course, there was also that sh*t word
that came up all the time too...
From: mattm@Apple.COM (Matthew Melmon)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Phyllis Schaffly's son John . . . COMES OUT NATIONALLY!
Date: 29 Sep 92 18:25:48 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

charlie@isis.mit.edu (Charlie Fulton) writes:

>Neither should you dismiss the fact that without legislative
>mandate, your pleasant work environment is a revocable 
>largesse, and if you are willing to tie your right to earn a 
>living to the whims of market forces, you shouldn't be 
>so arrogant as to assume that my trite piece of crap won't 
>one day splat squarely on you.

>Corporate magnanimity is fickle and you are a fool if
>you risk your pocketbook on it.  

And a fool and his pocketbook are soon separated, oui?  Perhaps you
should consider that your 'legislative mandate' is a revocable
largesse.  Indeed, all rights are a revocable largesse.  You are
more than welcome to run around in circles, worrying about
when the other shoe is going to drop, and it most certainly will.
Who know when?  Nobody.  But I very seriously doubt we are at the
end of history, or anything thereabouts, and society will continue
to go through transformations.  Many for the worse.  

Melmothra
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: mls@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (mike.siemon)
Subject: Re: astrology and YOU
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 00:01:51 GMT
Summary: meaning
Keywords: Astrology, bear shit

In article <15803@umd5.umd.edu>, jns@elea.umd.edu (J. N. Shaumeyer) writes:
> 
> Daniel MacKay (daniel@nstn.ns.ca) sounds
> a cautionary note:
 
> > Y'know, I would have a *lot* more faith in things astrological, if
> > sometime during one of my (admittedly few) professional readings,
> > the reader had noticed that I was born during a total eclipse.  I
> > can't imagine a much more dramatc sky event during a much more
> > dramatic time of my life, and while I'm fairly openminded, having
> > a professional completely miss that little detail makes me somewhat
> > skeptical about the whole science.

Setting aside the learned divagations of H.P.D.Shaumeyer, I would note
-- donning my starry pointed hat -- that of coure the mean moon was NOT
eclipsing the mean sun at said nativity, and the meaning thereof (it
must follow as the night the day) is that D. MacKay is in opposition
to meanness, and eclipses the blue meanies [who inhabit the 7th house
of smurf astrology, of course.]

-- 
Michael L. Siemon		   "Oh, stand, stand at the window,
					As the tears scald and start;
mls@usl.com			   You shall love your crooked neighbor
standard disclaimer			With your crooked heart."
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: bcapps@agora.rain.com (Brent Capps)
Subject: Billy Graham, world-class phony
Summary: reprint of letter
Keywords: Clowns and charlatans
Organization: Open Communications Forum
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 14:42:19 GMT

From the Oregonian, Oct. 1 1992 (reprinted w/o permission):

   To the Editor: I write this letter with a very heavy heart
   upon hearing that the Rev. Billy Graham would not visit an
   AIDS hospice because doing so would send, in this time of
   Measure 9, the wrong message.  Since when is compassion the
   wrong message?

   Douglas L. Johnson
   North Portland

(Graham recently completed a way-overhyped "crusade" in Portland
 during which he refused to take a position on Measure 9, which
 he called a "political matter".  Who *were* Jesus' political
 handlers, anyway?)

-- 
Brent Capps           | 
bcapps@agora.rain.com | Know what to kiss, and when.
bcapps@atlastele.com  |
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
Subject: Re: gay science fiction
Organization: Amherst College, Amherst MA
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 04:27:19 GMT

In article <16056@borg.cs.unc.edu> harris@cezanne.cs.unc.edu (Trey Harris) writes:

>In article <BvK8oL.M5A@unix.amherst.edu> twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
>
>>I
>>cannot recall any female Heinlein character imbued with sexuality that
>>seemed any more two-dimensional than those in alt.sex.stories.
>
>"More" two-dimensional?  Don't you mean "less" two-dimensional?

Heh.  That I did.

>Or maybe more is right...

Most of them seemed worse.  In fact, some of the better pieces in
alt.sex.stories beat Heinlein for plot and characterization by a
mile...

-- 
____ Tim Pierce                / "You are just naive and repressed because
\  / twpierce@unix.amherst.edu /  penis envy is here and it's now and it's
 \/ (BITnet: TWPIERCE@AMHERST) /  all around you." -- Neal C. Wickham