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Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:48:10 EST
From: K. Roper <ROPERK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: FLIRTING AS AN OLYMPIC DEMONSTRATION SPORT


  DEEEElightful, my dear Psycho.

  Innuendo at 20 paces, anyone?


  *wink*


  and with a swish of my longjohns, I'm off into the night .... Kim
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: bacon@mtu.edu (Jeff Bacon)
Subject: Re: Her mother wants to kill me
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 18:26:19 GMT

In article <C0Kv7L.Jpw@portal.hq.videocart.com> dfuller@portal.hq.videocart.com (Dave Fuller) writes:
>  That christian part scares me. Especially born-again. For all they claim
>to be, christians are the most judgemental people i know. My sister, her
>husband, their friends, 2 of my ex-friends, and a co-worker are all
>hypocritical enough to make me sick. The forgiving they speak of seems to 
>only be relevant for themselves. They are cynical about non-christians also.
>I'd like to meet a christian who claims to only have faith . . . not TRUTH.
>Of course, it is the ONLY TRUTH at that. Id also like to find 1 that wasn't
>trying to make my life "better" by enlightening me.  

wait. I resent that.
Not all of us are hypocritical.

I believe. I try to practice what I believe. If you ask me, I'll talk
about my faith. I ain't gonna force it on you. Did Jesus force Himself
on anyone? Not that I noticed. Who am I to do that which He would not?

Unfortunately, many Christians are stubborn people. As with many other
religions. Perhaps Christianity promotes a stronger breed of stubbornness
than, say, Hinduism or Islam. That is not a point I can say anything about.
But all throughout history, people have debated, argued, warred, fought,
died for religions. Not just Christianity. 

Probably the reason we in America point the finger at Christianity is
because Christianity is the most prevalent religion in America.

Yes, I realize there are probably religions that don't really have this
problem. Buddhism perhaps. The followers of the Dalai Lama. I'd say
they're exceptions to the rule.

All this is however beside the point. My point is simply, don't look
at the religion. Look at the PERSON. For it is the PERSON who is
interpreting the religion into their actions.

I have found my own truth. It is not necessarily yours. Or anyone else's.

I rather hate having to talk about it in public, really. But I cannot
stand by and let this pass without saying something either.

-bacon
From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Meeting guys
Date: 11 Jan 93 23:29:41 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: AT&T

In article <1isq5t$mr2@agate.berkeley.edu> monaghn@garnet.berkeley.edu (Mara Monaghan) writes:
>
>-Mara
>
>(and if it's any consolation to you
>Charlie, I'd take a mildly geeky middle
>aged over-intellectual white boy over
>a seedling-middle-age-crisis-whiner 
>any day).

Female value  = 4
Blatant value = 2
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From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Any Available Jewish Men Out There??
Date: 9 Jan 1993 19:14:03 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com

In article <1993Jan8.223312.20621@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
}Well, I'm glad you can quantify physical attractiveness so easilly; I
}find it very hard to quantify--first of all, none of the women I've 
}been most attracted to in the past were particularly close to the
}"cultural ideal" as seen on TV, nor have any of them looked particularly
}like any of the others.  They've been tall, short, thin, rubinesque,
}etc., etc., etc.  I still haven't figured out any obvious physical
}characteristics they had in common beyond, say, being female and having
}the same number of limbs.  Worse yet, this sort of assessment is even
}more difficult because it keeps changing--women who may or may not have
}struck me as being especially attractive at first tend to get more and
}more attractive the longer I spend with them.

I think you need to start checking lengths of middle fingers and interocular
distances.

}Trygve   (I wonder if I could borrow Herb's device for measuring 
}          ocular separation and middle finger length; perhaps that
}          would make the whole issue of physical attraction make
}          much more sense.)

For measuring interocular distances use a pair of opera glasses or
binoculars.  After she has borrowed and returned them, just trace the
eyepieces on paper before adjusting them back for your own use.  As for
measuring middle finger lengths, I use an inexpensive plastic ruler that
I bought at a Paris department store more than 20 years ago; it has the
advantage of being metric.

This is low-tech science on a budget, but then Nobel Prizes have been
awarded for displaying balloons to newly hatched goslings, painting red
dots on white cardboard for herring gull chicks, and placing out pans of
sugared water for honeybees.

-- Herb Huston
-- huston@access.digex.com
From: dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Any Available Jewish Men Out There??
Date: 8 Jan 1993 21:02:01 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

In article <ewright.726520300@convex.convex.com>, ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
> In <1993Jan7.234145.4875@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
> 
> >Sorry 'bout that--are you suggesting that a Tasco or Bushnell telescope
> >can't be used by an adult?  (And, since Dawn has already said that she'd
> >be happy with such a telescope and I owned a Bushnell telescope until 
> >recently when I transferred it to someone who wanted it more, does that
> >mean that Dawn and I aren't adults?)
> 
> Since you've already confessed to being below the male age of
> maturity (30), isn't that question rather pointless?

Well, *I've* been 30 for a whole week now, so it isn't pointless for
me.  Living in Boston, a better telescope would be completely wasted
on me anyway, because the light pollution sucks so bad.  And there's
just a couple of things that I'd like to check out now and again.
I suppose that one would need a pretty decent telescope to track
stars to get that kind of photograph, but then the photos where the
stars track across the sky are neat too.  Since I've never actually
done any serious star gazing I wouldn't want to spend >$400 until I
knew I was going to be into it deep enough to warrant it.  I went
shopping for a telescope once, but when I found out how expensive 
they were I gave up on the idea.

Dawn
"What if I had PMS all my life, and told you you looked just like Barney Fife,
What if I twisted it in like a knife, Until it made you cry? Until it made
you lie? Would you still love me?"
"What If..." by Bongwater
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
Subject: Re: Any Available Jewish Men Out There??
Organization: Don't blame me, I voted for Bill 'n' Opus
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 19:56:29 GMT

In article <g9vr2=+@lynx.unm.edu> blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
>
>This, to me, sounded like bemoaning her fate, especially in light of
>her other personal ad (ill placed- ignorance is no excuse, this is not
>the newsgroup for personal ads or your private mail messages to people),
>sounds a whole lot like somebody who is quicker to blame ones environment
>rather than oneself. Des Moines and surrounding area has a population of
>probably close to 300,000 people. I find it >really< hard to believe that
>one can't find a single jewish man in a city of 300,000 people.

Fine, so flame her for politically incorrect posting, but please, let's
leave the criteria out of it.  Would you have flamed someone in Salt
Lake City who wanted to find a non-Mormon?

Second, it *can* be incredibly difficult to find people.  I live in the
San Francisco Bay Area, with a fairly extensive Jewish population.
However, there's very little support for someone in their early 20s who
wants to restrict themselves to Jewish people.
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

Virtual anniversary: 4 days ago
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder)
Subject: Re: Ankle bracelets
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 21:58:08 GMT

In article <282@cnmhnet.UUCP> keithg@cnmhnet.UUCP (keith garrard) writes:

>I've a 
>couple of examples where females would get their nipples
>pierced and have nipple rings installed.  These rings are
>then connected by a loose chain that hangs between the breasts.
>However, another variation on this "theme", is to have the 
>nipple rings connected to a chain around the waist, which, in turn,
>is connected to an ankle bracelet.  This provides some intriguing
>stares when people see a chain connected to an ankle bracelet running
>up a leg and under a skirt to "who knows where".  A great conversation
>piece.   Just to finish this thread with another example, I've
>also seen where females will pierce their nipples, and their
>"clits", and connect all three with a chain.  Quite painful to
>look at, IMO.  

I imagine that in order to have one's clitoris pierced, unconciousness
is a prerequisite.  Maybe it's just me, I dunno.


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From: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (dreas)
Subject: Re: Mongrel Ethnic Purity (had stopped  be
Reply-To: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 03:44:52 GMT

In article 1ih99pINN5qc@mirror.digex.com, huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:
>In article <1993Jan7.072337.4760@sol.UVic.CA> atovorni@engr.UVic.CA writes:
>}In article 26545@julian.uwo.ca, jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll) writes:
>}>	Would each PNG highland community count as a separate ethnicity?
>}
>}Maybe. There are countries in which the gene pool is not very diverse.
>}Inbreeding is a danger because of centuries of isolation in some parts of 
>}the world.
>
>Papua New Guinea (PNG) was James' example.
>
>I'm very slightly inbred.  One of my great-great-grandfathers married the
>daughter of one of his first cousins.

Incest is best? 
Never tried it, but it could be fun. </.)

>}           The new global conception of humanity instead of ethnic cliquish
>}practices will decrease inbreeding and actually strengthen the gene pool
>}for everyone eventually.
>
>Actually this has been going on for quite some time.  As someone pointed out,
>humans are afflicted with perpetual wanderlust and rampant sexuality.
>
>}Mongrels are a good thing, IMO.
>
>It's called hybrid vigor.

Whatever it's called, I'm glad I have it. </.Q
                                              \
             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

>}                                Bastards are cool, too.
>
>William the Conqueror, Leonardo da Vinci, and Alexander Hamilton would all
>probably agree.
>
>}If not for a long line of bastards, I wouldn't be here!
>
>Well, each and every one of us is descended from a long line of microscopic
>tadpoles, all of whom were champion swimmers.  (Apologies to Kurt Vonnegut,
>Jr.)

Hey? No Losers? In that case, how can we explain some of those who post here?

dreas



Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.romance
From: smith@comm.mot.com (Jeff Smith)
Subject: Re: Where did you meet your SO? 
Organization: Gagging Sloth Records
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 08:17:31 GMT

In article <C0GAK9.6pu@mach1.wlu.ca>, macl6441@mach1.wlu.ca (macleod heather) writes:
|> 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?
|> >
|> >BS
|> >
|> >
|> >
|> Yes, absolutely!!  I'm getting hundreds of theories, let's hear some
|> reallife experiences!!

Well, quite frankly I rarely meet anyone when I'm actively trying to do
so. It seems to be far easier to do when it's the furthest thing from
your mind! Bizarre...

jds

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From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,ba.singles
Subject: Re: Colorado/Silicon Valley  (Was: Re: Timeless beauty)
Date: 11 Jan 93 20:51:29 GMT
Followup-To: soc.singles
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1993Jan10.030039.27117@netcom.com> rohwerwd@netcom.com (W. David Rohwer) writes:
>In article <1993Jan9.072536.12571@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
|>
|>Trygve   (Denver is a tough place to measure beauty, though--it seems to
|>          be a lot harder to launch ships out here.)
|>
|
|     I spent a week in Colorado from Dec 21 to Dec 27 with my family in
|the mountains in a town, about 8,000 feet high, called Grand Lake and in a
|suburb of Denver, Aurora.
|
|     My major observation is that the people in Colorado are a lot friendlier
|and helpful than the people here in Silicon Valley.  Some examples should
|suffice.

Like hell they will.  You're making a generalization that people in Colorado
(the state) are friendlier than people in silicon valley based on a couple
of examples after spending 1 week in a specific area.  

[examples deleted]
 
I can give just as many examples of friendly behavior here.  A few examples
doesn't prove anything.

|     My secondary observation is that the snow-covered mountains are
|very, very beautiful.
 
I've spent quite a bit of time in both the Sierra and the Rockies.  It's
a toss up.  Both are beautiful

|     P.S.  Are there any places in the Sierra Nevada that rent
|           snowmobiles?
 
Two that I know of.  Both are on golf courses.  One is near the airport
in South Lake Tahoe and the other is in Kings Beach (north shore).
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Any Available Jewish Men Out There??
From: quirke_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Date: 11 Jan 93 10:51:45 NZST
Distribution: world
Organization: Welligton City Council, Public Access.
NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

brad@optilink.COM (Brad Yearwood) whimpers pitifully:

> No, no, NO!  Please, don't say the m-phrase.  That damned Suzanne Vega tune's
> starting to buzz around in my ahead again - it took weeks to get rid of last
> time.

   The noise in your head, it's too much and it's no good... ?

Tony Q. (It'sa ringing in my ears, and I can't really hear you, and your words
don't sound too clear... - love that track ! 8-) )
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From: pa_ross@csd.uwe.ac.uk (Mr Rossy)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.romance
Subject: Re: Meeting guys
Date: 11 Jan 93 14:14:37 GMT
Organization: University of the West of England, Bristol

>   I've been reading a lot lately here about how men should go about meeting
>   women, but nobody seems to be giving many suggestions on how women can meet
>   men.  I ended a four year relationship a month ago, and I'm ready to meet
>   someone new, but I'm not really comfortable with the bar scene.  There are
>   guys in some of my classes, but I'm pretty shy.  Can someone give me some
>   advice?

Go to a gay bar, there are generally loads of men in them !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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From: falk@peregrine.Sun.COM (Ed Falk)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.romance
Subject: Re: Meeting guys
Date: 8 Jan 93 01:49:14 GMT
Organization: Sun
NNTP-Posting-Host: peregrine

In article <C0ELDC.21p@mach1.wlu.ca> macl6441@mach1.wlu.ca (macleod heather) writes:
>I've been reading a lot lately here about how men should go about meeting
>women, but nobody seems to be giving many suggestions on how women can meet
>men.  I ended a four year relationship a month ago, and I'm ready to meet
>someone new, but I'm not really comfortable with the bar scene.  There are
>guys in some of my classes, but I'm pretty shy.  Can someone give me some
>advice?
>Thanks!!

Move to Silicon Valley.

Failing that, try taking scuba diving or flying lessons.  Lots of fun
and plenty of men around.

I sometimes TA a scuba class at the local community college (to keep my
skills up), and the first term I was there, every woman in the class
was going out with one of the guys by the end of the course.  The
instructor is married to one of his students from six years ago.


Stupid missed oportunity story:  Many years ago, when I was SO-less and
very lonely, I was in the habit of driving up to San Francisco for
Dim-Sum on Sunday mornings.

At this particular restraunt, there was a 20-40 minute wait for a table
if you wanted your own table, or no wait at all if you wanted to go upstairs
and share one of the big communal tables.  I hate waiting in lines and
I figured if I was going to be alone, I might as well not look like I'm
alone*; so I always opted for the communal tables.

One day, while I'm sitting there minding my own business, the waiter seats
a solo woman down next to me.

Now one thing about Dim-Sum is that it's best when shared.  That way, you
get more variety.  So I ask this woman if she'd like to share the meal.
She says yes, and we have a very nice 2-hour brunch, talking about the
city, music, and things in general.

We finish the meal, pay the bill and leave.  On the way out the door,
I comment on how much nicer it was to share the meal.  She says
"maybe we'll run into each other here again."  I say "Yeah, maybe
we will"; get in my car and drive off.

A few minutes later, I realize the equation  me == shmuck.  All I
had to do was say "Shall we arrange to run into each other again?".
Even if nothing had developed, I'd have at least had some more nice
lunches.

The moral of the story:  Sometimes inability to get a date is more
attributable to cluelessness than to lack of women.


-----------
*Lily Tomlin suggests that we take all the people in New York who wander
 around on the streets talking to themselves, and pair them up so they
 look like they're having conversations.

		-ed falk, sun microsystems
		 sun!falk, falk@sun.com
To be loyal to rags, to shout for rags, to worship rags, to die for rags 
-- that is a loyalty of unreason, it is pure animal (Mark Twain).
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From: kytan@mantra.fia.dmg.ml.com (Kok-Yong Tan)
Subject: Re: Where did you meet your SO? 
Organization: Organised?  Here?  Hahahahahahahaha.....
	<1993Jan6.064348.26971@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 13:51:58 GMT

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 the girl I'm currently with in Narita Airport.  Actually, I spotted her
there but didn't gather up the guts to talk to her until the plane got to San
Francisco International.  It was the most cliched pickup line of all but it
seems to have worked: "Would you like help with your luggage?"  :-)





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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (dreas)
Subject: Re: ISO Babes
Reply-To: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 03:30:24 GMT

In article 76115@apple.apple.COM, stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
>atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (dreas) writes:
>
>>OK, so I'm a bit of a male slut, and if you were to call me that, I'd
>>reply with a sincere "Thank You."
>
>Slut is a gender-neutral pronoun. Therefore, dreas, you are not a "male
>slut." You are just a slut.

Semanitcs, semantics...You know what *I* mean.

>Now say "Thank you."

I will even better that:

Such a compliment, coming from anyone that I hold in the
stratosphere of esteem and respect, such as yourself, is 
to be the recipient of the highest form of gratitude from
Yours Truly as witnessed by *this* August Company. </.Q
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FAIR ENOUGH ?

dreas
From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: rON bashing
Date: 8 Jan 93 11:55:50
Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
	<a6wrylk@lynx.unm.edu> <1993Jan8.041742.11530@panix.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: grover.cs.unc.edu
In-reply-to: sethb@panix.com's message of Fri, 8 Jan 1993 04:17:42 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.041742.11530@panix.com> sethb@panix.com (Seth Breidbart) writes:

   Gee, you gave up even before I had to bring up the Model 33 running at
   110 baud; that also has the advantage of being so noisy that you can't
   sleep anywhere near it.

   Seth		[and I remember when that was considered _good_]

It's hell getting old, isn't it?


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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
Subject: Re: Desperate Girl...
Organization: Don't blame me, I voted for Bill 'n' Opus
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 05:48:29 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.162755.4899@memstvx1.memst.edu> mcsweinberg@memstvx1.memst.edu (*R*A*I*) writes:
>
>I was wondering.... If any one of you are planning to come through Memphis, TN,
>How about giving me a ring or something.  Nothing permanent, just a purely
>temporary fling will suffice!!

Hmmmmmm......broad-band wanna-fuck......
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

Virtual anniversary: 6 days ago
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From: helie@bach.udel.edu (Ray Helie)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.romance
Subject: Re: Where did you meet your SO?
Date: 7 Jan 93 23:16:08 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware

eagle@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Daniel L'Hommedieu) writes:

: I'm sure some of you have heard, but I'll tell again anyway.  I love
: this story. 
: ...

  [Fatastic story deleted]
 
That was an /excellent/ story!  I'm /really/ happy for you, and I
hope things go just the way you want them to!  8-)


Ray

*  Ray Helie         8-)                   University Of Delaware   *
*  [helie@bach.udel.edu]                   Newark, DE               *
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