HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: mapmh@gdr.bath.ac.uk (M Hagger)
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Re: PENFRIEND SOUGHT FROM U.K
Date: 11 Jan 93 15:29:13 GMT
Organization: School of Mathematics, University of Bath, UK

In the referenced article, clg151@vaxa.strath.ac.uk writes:
>In article <93005.143449X29KB@CUNYVM.BITNET>, Phantom <X29KB@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
>> stuff about some poor english person in the USA feeling nostalgic
>you actually get nostalgic about bolton? If i were you, i'd stay away from this
>country.
Now where did you get the idea 'Phantom' was talking about Bolton?  Clearly
he/she was walking about England in general (this is obvious to anyone who
has ever been to (or near) Bolton).  I was in the states for a few weeks
once and I got very nostalgic about England (ie about things like beer,
people who didn't assume I was from London, speed limits above tortoise speed
etc etc).

England is great and anyone who says different can, errrr, leave.  The Poll
Tax is dead, long live the Poll tax!

Mark
From: hbtnn@usno06.nor.chevron.com (Brian Tanner)
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Re: Snail-mail penpal wanted for my wacko SF friend
Date: 5 Jan 93 22:10:19 GMT
Organization: Chevron

In article <2B49C453.377@news.service.uci.edu>, eaeu282@orion.oac.uci.edu (Ching-I Chen) writes:
|> schizo, it just means I'm an unsavory personality who steals friends'
|> accounts for her own personal gain!!!!  (Rachel: don't use "steals" use
|> borrows)

Grace Hopper prefered 'liberate.'
From: clg151@vaxa.strath.ac.uk
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Re: supercalafragalisticexpialadocious
Date: 6 Jan 93 13:40:37 GMT
Organization: Strathclyde University VAX Cluster

In article <Pine.3.05.9301051211.B7145-a100000@helen.bush.edu>, patrick@helen.bush.edu (Red) writes:
> Hello everyone!  My name is adeola and I'm a sophomore at the University
> of Washington.  I'm interested in bungi jumping and velcro jumping.  I
> have very pretty eyes and you can't see my pupils 'cause my eyes ar
> really, really dark.  I always have my hair braided in interesting
> patterns because I like the wind on my scalp and when my hair is down,
> it's too hot.  I don't have any favorite music but I don't like heavy
> metal, country, alternative or grunge. I don't like wearing dresses, and I
> like to play soccer and basketball but I hate golf and fishing because
> they're boring.  I don't have my own address, so it may take a while to
> write back, but send letters to patrick@helen.bush.edu.
> 
what's wrong with dresses?
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 23:41:51 EST
From: <ASOLOMO@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Gringo busca "penpal" hispanohablante

   Hola,
       Quisiera encontrar un amigo hispanohablante, mejor en Latinoamerica,
   para corresponder y traducir palabras y frases mutualmente. He trabajado
   en Latinoamerica y tambien ensenado "el ingles como idioma segunda". Ahora
   estudio para ser doctor de filosofia en psicologia. (Por favor, disculpame
   por mis errores de gramatica). Bueno, si quieres practicar para escribir
   ingles como nativo, pues, yo quiero practicar mi espanol. Nos reunemos
   pronto, entonces!
                     Gracias.  --  Ari   Escribame a: ASOLOMO@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
From: ciszek@acsu.buffalo.edu (Matthew P. Ciszek)
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Looking for Penpals
Date: 11 Jan 93 16:15:06 GMT
Organization: UB



Hello to all you potential penpals out there.......

I am looking for LOTS of penpals from all over the place....I am a SWM 21 years old and like all kinds of sports.  Race, sex, or any of that stuff does not
matter....just looking for some people to talk to.....

If interested please reply to : ciszek@lictor.cs.buffalo.edu

I look forward to "talking" to you :)

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Matthew P. Ciszek                 ciszek@lictor.cs.buffalo.edu
Xref: sparky soc.penpals:5224 soc.singles:36082
From: crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford)
Newsgroups: soc.penpals,soc.singles
Subject: Re: Bonjour!!!
Date: 11 Jan 93 17:18:21 GMT
Followup-To: soc.penpals
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <1993Jan11.090534.42477@datamark.co.nz> thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle) writes:

>Now, not counting the email address, what told me that this guy was a
>Canadian the instant I saw the message?

Eh?



-- 
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"
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Lauren Crawford  //  crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: rlittell@wizard.Berkeley.EDU (Rich Littell)
Subject: Looking for BRIDGET!
Reply-To: rlittell@1.com
Organization: Encore Computer Corp., Fort Lauderdale FL
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:40:51 GMT


Bridget in New Jersey -- I lost your mailing address!

Please e-mail me at rlittell@encore.com

Thankyou,

Rick
From: mffowler@zeus.calpoly.edu (Michael Francis Fowler)
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: postcards...
Date: 10 Jan 93 01:34:20 GMT
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

I am posting again for more postcards.  I am looking forward to
receiving postcards from all over the world.  Please send them to:

	Mike Fowler
	3190 Alicita Ct. #A
	San Luis Obispo,
	California   93405
		     USA

If you would like one from California E-Mail me your address for an
exchange.  Thanks to everyone in advance.

					mffowler@nike.calpoly.edu
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: yingtsui@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Ying Ying TSUI)
Subject: Holly Moley!!!!
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 05:31:23 GMT

Hello Folks,

Wow!!!!  That is my first reaction when I get into my mail box....Lots of replies from those kind people out there who like to be my e-mates....

In fact, I have a warning from my friend who gets me into this...
Anyway, I wasn't prepared for all these 40 something mails in a couple of days...OH well, I am very sorry folks who ever sent me mails...I think I need some time to reply accordingly...So please be patient with me...  :)

I also noticed that most of the mails are from Canada and US and Finland....what happen to those who are from other countries like UK or SE Asia...I was very surprised that none is from Australia, oh well...

Anyway, I am not racist and I will try my best to reply all the mail as soon as possible.  COOL!!!

Thanks alot people.
Bye now.

Peggy the clothes peg.
(yingtsui@mundil.cs.mu.oz.au)
From: KNIRI@EZINFO.VMSMAIL.ETHZ.CH (Stoessel, Marcel)
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Penpals
Date: 10 Jan 93 15:10:10 GMT
Organization: ETH ZUERICH
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

Hi!

If you are interessed in politics, philosophy, religion, writing, reading,
travelling, war, Eastern Europe, the United States, if you happen to live
in an interesting part of the world (anywhere except Western Europe that
is), if you think writing letters generally is a waste of time, or if you
happen to be a girl between 16 and 21  -----> WRITE ME, YOU MIGHT GET AN
ANSWER!

(If this was not arrogant, there is no such thing like arrogance...... :-) 

E-Mail Internet: kniri@pegasus.ch
Papernet:        Marcel Stoessel, Bergholzstr. 16, 9500 Wil, Switzerland

-Marcel
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: puter@orphan.nashvil.ingr.com (PuterDude)
Subject: Re: anyone
Organization: Intergraph
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 20:29:06 GMT

 paalders@mta.ca writes:

|This is Paul speaking.  Listen up!  This charming female would really like to
|hear from just about anyone, this includes good-looking studs.  

Well, listen up, Paul. My house is just FULL of virgin pine 2by4 studs
waitin' an' willin' to talk to you!

-- 
(Puter is a deranged individual at puter@orphan.nashvil.ingr.com)
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his
teacher.						-- Elbert Hubbard
Newsgroups: soc.penpals,talk.politics.soviet,soc.culture.soviet
From: Adam Lawrence Salter <adam@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: female soviet pen-pals
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 19:51:25 GMT
	<1993Jan5.165859.29728@cbfsb.cb.att.com>

  In article <1993Jan5.165859.29728@cbfsb.cb.att.com>,
  jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) writes:

>In article <1993Jan2.010436.27709@zooid.guild.org> Adam Lawrence Salter <adam@zooid.guild.org> writes:
>>  In article <1993Jan1.173245.4742@vela.acs.oakland.edu>,
>>  dmbriggs@vela.acs.oakland.edu (BRIGGS DENNIS M) writes:
>>
>>>Sorry, Adam. Jim Dutton wins this round.
>>>
>>>-Mike Briggs
>>
>>
>>  Which round is that? Do you happen to know him ;->. Ya, I guess that "what
>>an airhead" crack of his was the death blow eh? ;->
>
>In the best soc.culture.austrian accent:
> 
>"You a loozer. Girly man".
> 
>================================================================================
> Steatopygias's 'R' Us.          doh#0000000005 That ain't no Hottentot.
> Sesquipedalian's 'R' Us. ZX-10. DoD#564. There ain't no more.
>================================================================================

  Oh god! Please stop!!! It's too painful! I give in!!!


                                                            adam
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: eab@msc.edu (Edward Bertsch)
Subject: pen-pals list/Gomes/what happened?
Organization: Minnesota Supercomputer Center, Minneapolis, MN
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 22:31:51 GMT


A guy named gomes used to keep a pen-pals list, and he would
post it here periodically.  Then he stopped.  Any news as
to what happened?

--

Edward A. Bertsch (eab@msc.edu)   Minnesota Supercomputer Center, Inc.
Operations/User Services          1200 Washington Avenue South
(612) 626-1888 work               Minneapolis, Minnesota  55415
(612) 645-0168 voice mail         [DISCLAIMER: MY OPINIONS; NOT MSCI'S]
Newsgroups: soc.couples
From: hays@TECHNET.NM.ORG (Larry 'Purple' Hays)
Subject: Re: How Strong Should a Man Be? and RESPECT!
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 93 00:55:40 GMT
Organization: New Mexico Technet   Albuquerque, NM
Reply-To: hays@TECHNET.NM.ORG

In article <76170@apple.apple.COM>, pooh@Apple.COM (Pooh) writes:
>>K. Roper <ROPERK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> writes:
>>>
>>>  Strong enough to admit that yes, women sweat, fart and belch.
>>>
>>
>
>Not only does my SO admit it, but he critiques each emission
>as being too wimpy.  I'm trying to work on it. ;-)

Pooh, what you need is a nice hard, unpadded wooden chair.  Remember those
desks in gradeschool?  Think RESONANCE.  This might not be the best way to
improve your belches, however, and as for sweating, you're TOTALLY on your
own.  Notice how nicely this paragraph is adjusted.

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Larry 'Purple' Hays                                    hays@technet.nm.org
                     Master of the 'one cheek sneak'
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From: anton@analsyn.gts.org (Anton J Aylward)
Newsgroups: soc.couples
Subject: Re: Showers with SOs
Date: 6 Jan 93 22:19:18 GMT
Reply-To: anton@lethe.gts.org
Organization: ASCI: UNIX Database and Communications
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

In article <1htc66INNn27@network.ucsd.edu> mbreen@sdacs.ucsd.edu (Michael Breen) writes:
>One of our plans for our "dream house" is a large bath with two shower heads,
>so we can enjoy the "growing closer" without the jockeying for position
>that occurs in our too-tiny single-shower-head bath.

If that is your criteria, I once saw a pulse shower (tempreture set by
varying pulse-width hot/code) which had four pipes, on in each coner of
the stall.  The pipes had holes in and the holes pointed towards the
middle of the shower, wtih some spread.  Water did not come 'from
overhead'.    Now that really would eliminate 'jockeing for position'.

--
Anton J Aylward						
	"The body politic is swerving from left to right and right to
	 left looking for quick fixes for systemic problems."
	   - Paul Palango, Journalist, ex The Globe and Mail
Newsgroups: soc.couples
From: sarinana@Ingres.COM (Linda - Contracts Admin. Assistant - Legal Dept. - x2817)
Subject: Re: Interracial Relationships
Summary: 
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Keywords: 
Organization: ASK Computer Systems, Ingres Product Division
Date: 5 Jan 93 21:15:44 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.130510.27410@athena.mit.edu>, rcmarab@athena.mit.edu (He Whose Name Is Not Spoken)                       writes...
>I would be interested in seeing people's experiences with interracial
>relationships, especially with how it affected interactions with parents,
>friends, etc.  
> 
>Email if posting makes you nervous.
> 
> 
>-- 
>            the government's responsible the government's responsible
> 	==================================================================
>	|           "There Ain't Nothin' Like Hip Hop Music...."         |
>	|								 |
>	| The ReaL RoD-MaN a.k.a. DJ Prime a.k.a. rcmarab@athena.mit.edu |
>        |                                                                |
>	| 		*Get Off Your Ass And Get Informed!*             |
>        |                                                                |
>	|   HE WHOSE NAME IS NOT SPOKEN speaks for noone but himself.    |
>	==================================================================
>             the government's responsible the government's responsible


I'm a 21 year old, half Mexican, half White female who is currently in an
interracial relationship.  Ever since I started dating (at 16) I've been
in interracial relationships.  I've been with the same guy for almost 3 years
now and we really haven't experienced any racial problems.  I guess maybe 
because it's so common around here (Oakland).  Of course, we sometimes get
those "looks" when we walk down the street together or show affection for
eachother in public, but we've never been approached by anyone who dissapproved
of our relationship.  

As far as my family goes....well, my dad didn't really approve of my dating
african-american males at first.   He use to have the attitude about having a 
lot of black friends, but when one got with his daughter, then it was a whole 
different situation.  I think maybe it had a little to do with the "types" of
guys I dated.  They didn't exactly treat me how I should've been treated, but
that goes for all races and my dad just couldn't see that.  He stereotyped
from the start.  Now, he's really changed his ideas about it.  He absolutely
loves my boyfriend, they get along great.  (sometimes, he even picks HIS side
if we have an argument!!)  I think he realized that I wasn't going to change
who I date just to make him happy, so there was nothing else he could do but
accept it.  The rest of my family never had a problem with my dating inter-
racially.  My boyfriend has met several relatives of mine and they all love
him.  



Linda
From: ce293@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Gail E. Brookhart)
Newsgroups: soc.couples
Subject: Able/Disabled Couples
Date: 4 Jan 1993 19:56:29 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ce293@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Gail E. Brookhart)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Hello, Fellow Netters,

I am hoping to get the benefit of our world-wide experience on the topic of
successful relationships where one member of the couple is able-bodied and
the other has a disability.

The handling of the special care needs of the disability is not what I am
after.  I am more interested in the day-to-day living and relationship
issues facing a couple in this situation.

To answer a few questions that are popping into heads as they read this:

Yes, strange as it may sound on this board (grin, after several posts), I
am writing for ME!  So go ahead and reply here or post to the address given
at the Cleveland Freenet.

No, I don't want to say a whole lot more yet about the relationship other
than it is a committed thing between two adults in their 30's.  I would
rather get the wildest ideas and sort down than restrict the thoughts with
too many details.  Does that make sense?

Sure, I will keep contributing to this discussion and keep a dialog going
so that, hopefully, we can all learn something from this one.

Post away!  I am all eyes or ears or whatever is appropriate here! 
<smile!>

Gail
ce293@cleveland.freenet.edu

Newsgroups: soc.couples
From: demetri@cgrg.ohio-state.edu (Demetrius Owens)
Subject: interracial marriage/romance
Organization: OSU Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 05:14:24 GMT

Here are some comments from a "veteran":
My husband and I met 8 years ago while attending school in Chicago.  Far
from the "forbidden fruit" nonsense of "Jungle Fever", we were friends
first and discovered that we had a great deal in common.  Once we were
"officially" dating, my mother was very accepting and my father freaked.
Every time my mother or I mentioned Demetrius, he clammed up or changed the
subject.  This kind of surprised me, because if you looked past the color
difference, Demetrius and my father were alike in a lot of ways.  We were
engaged for a year before we told my parents (my brother knew, as did our
friends) and my dad's eyes bugged.  I don't recall that he said much at the
time.  The good news is that, as the wedding approached, he came to terms
with it, and we had a GORGEOUS wedding.  The two of them get along very
well and do "guy stuff" (usually car related) when we visit.  I think if
the parent/child relationship is basically solid, and the parents'
attitudes toward other groups are not too twisted, the parent will
eventually come around.  In my father's case, I think he was more worried
about his daughter having a "hard life" than anything else.  My mother's
family was always pretty accepting, but my father's brother feels this is a
major blot upon the family name and has kept it a secret from his adult
children.  My husband's family has also been accepting.

As far as our lives now, most of the time we do not even think about the
fact that there is something "different" about us.  We were even snubbed by
the Oprah Winfrey show--they were doing a show on "whether people should
marry their own kind" and rejected us because we didn't have enough
problems.  (But a Ukranian-Belgian couple apparently WAS interesting
enough!)

To add to the "lit review", there is a magazine called "Interrace" which is
available in some newsstands (or you can subscribe).  

I wonder if there is enough interest in this subject to start a
newsgroup...this is really the first place I have seen it mentioned.

One final note...I think the best proof of how supportive my parents have
become is their WONDERFUL reaction to the news that we are expecting our
first child in July

                                      Renee
Newsgroups: soc.couples
Subject: Remarrying Ex
From: dmelen@esther.la.asu.edu (Dave Melendrez)
Date: 7 Jan 93 23:54:09 GMT
Distribution: soc.couples
Organization: Mars Observer TES Project, ASU, Tempe AZ

I'm curious if anyone has either experience with or has heard
of anyone remarrying an ex-spouse.  Sounds crazy doesn't it?
Before our divorce became legal (and we were merely separated), my wife and I were
actually thinking about such a thing.  "So why get divorced?" you ask.
I asked the same thing but she said she *had* to get her head straightened out
and making a clean cut with a divorce was the only way she could start over. 
It would also prove to her how much I cared about her if I still wanted her 
back after the divorce.  Trouble is, she was so confused the last time I spoke
with her (now over a month ago) that she asked that I not call her again until
around the end of February.  So now I have serious doubts if such a thing like
remarrying is even possible - let alone desirable.

Anyway, again I'm just curious if anyone else has gone through a similar
situation.

                             -------------------
Linus:  I guess it's wrong always to be worrying about tomorrow.  Maybe
        we should think only about today.
Charlie Brown:
        No, that's giving up.  I'm still hoping that yesterday will get
        better.
                             ------------------

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Newsgroups: soc.couples
From: sosc1048@wc14.writer.yorku.ca (Joel Cohen)
Subject: how strong should a man be?
Organization: York University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:25:33 GMT


Strong enough for a woman but made for a man?!
From: michelle@sisters.cs.uoregon.edu (Michelle R. Thibault)
Newsgroups: soc.couples
Subject: Re: Remarrying Ex
Date: 8 Jan 93 15:38:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1993Jan8.153825.15599
Distribution: soc.couples
Organization: University of Oregon Computer and Information Sciences Dept.

In article <DMELEN.93Jan7165409@esther.la.asu.edu> dmelen@esther.la.asu.edu (Dave Melendrez) writes:
>I'm curious if anyone has either experience with or has heard
>of anyone remarrying an ex-spouse.  Sounds crazy doesn't it?

Well, no personal experience here, but a couple who are friends of my
parents are currently on their third (I think) marriage to each other.  It
does seem a little crazy, but I guess people have a hard time living 
together.  I think this couple is currently living in the upstairs/downstairs
of a house (i.e. he has dowstairs, she has upstairs or some such thing...).

Good luck on whatever happens with you.

Michelle

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Michelle R. Koblas             Internet: michelle.koblas@itek.norut.no
"The old theory was, marry an older man, they're more mature.  The new
theory is, men don't mature, marry a young one."   -- Unknown comedian
Newsgroups: soc.couples