HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: mlb@CISCO.COM (Marcia Bednarcyk)
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: Re: LDR blues....
Date: 28 Aug 92 00:01:49 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.020510.24217@news.ysu.edu>, ae498@yfn.ysu.edu (Dawn Bott) writes:
|> so romantics of the net...what CAN i do to cheer him up?

First of all, you know what he likes much better than we do, so you ultimately
will know he'd like. But things I've done to remind people that even though
we're not geographically close, they are still a part of my life.

1. Send flowers. Many guys like them too, and you can enlist the help of his
   mother here :-).

2. Send a care package filled with little things...rubber balls, penny candy,
   post cards, trinkets and toys and the like. It's a lot of fun to get things
   like that, they are fun to play with, and often they are so silly you
   can't help but smile.
   
   If money really is no object, send one package per day for a week. Maybe
   with a piece of something in each, so it's whole at the end.

3. Make a cassette tape: play your favorite songs, his, songs you like and
   want him to hear, and talk some on it, too. Tell jokes. Read a play if
   there's a passage you want him to hear. It doesn't have to be good to 
   make someone smile.
 
   If there's a camcorder, and he has a VCR, make a tape. They can get VERY
   silly :-). 

4. Write a letter. A real letter, on good stationery, with an ink pen. Email
   is nice, but somehow carrying around the printout of some email is not the
   same as carrying around a love letter. I used to include some comics from
   the paper, especially funny ones that they haven't seen.

5. Don't know if you can do this with him so far away, but get a radio station
   to dedicate a song to him, and then tell him to listen to the station at
   that time.

As you can see, it's not the cost, it's that they know you're thinking about
them and want to help make them happy.

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Marcia Bednarcyk                                        ADDRESS: mlb@cisco.com
"Sweaty Snugglebunnies."
"... the meaning of life is to be happy, try not to hurt people, and hope
you fall in love."
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From: ins818e@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr Pratap Patnaikuni)
Subject: Redhead jokes
Organization: Monash University, Australia
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 12:09:17 GMT


If anyone has any redhead jokes, could they mail them my way?  Clean ones
please!  And no renamed-blonde-jokes either!  (-:

Here's one (an oldie, but hey...)
What's the difference between a redhead and a terrorist?
You can negotiate with a terrorist! (-:

I know this sounds like something which should go on rec.humor, but I'd rather
get the 'nicer' jokes, as they're going to be for a friend. (-: (-:

Hooroo!

-Pratap

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 Pratap Patnaikuni           email:  ins818e@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au
                                     pratap@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au 
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    Some may say that dreams are like the gold in a rainbow, but if we
        never took the time to dream we'd never find an answer.   
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Newsgroups: alt.romance
From: jason@grinch.txt.com (Jason in the Hood)
Subject: Re: Auction!! Get your tickets NOW!!
Reply-To: jason@grinch.txt.com (Jason in the Hood)
Organization: Textural Software, San Jose, CA.
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 21:18:58 GMT

T. ELIZABETH HARVEY almost gives away the game:
>Somehow, Spock's father Sarek ended up in ARC and bids for the Beautiful Prize:
>>(Jason in the Hood) writes:
>>>T. ELIZABETH HARVEY announces:
>>>>..  I'm also ARC-Librarian-in-training, and I'm totally single and available
>>>There you have it ARC'ers!  We have someone who is TOTALLY:
>>>           Single
>>>           Available[*]
>>>Jasonized - whatdayabidforaprimechoicewomanandprettyARC'er?
>HOLD IT! Wait one gosh-darned minute here!  I'm free, I'm Baptist, and I 
>plan on staying that way for a little while yet!

((Hey!!  Sssshhh!!! ya wanna blow your chance to make lots and lots of
goodies???  sssshshhhhh.. they'll hear you!!   Come on!!  I'm trying to
get you TOP PRICES here!  Give me a chance, I'll get the price up!!))

    It's ok folks... she's just a little nervous at this;  it's her first
time. <stepping back into Auctionier's voice(tm)):
    And that's a BONUS folks!   That's right!  This is her FIRST TIME!  What
a chance you have here!

>>I'll bid 10 <#include "LF.HUG">s, 20 chocolate cream pies, heavy on
>>the whipped cream, 30 pounds of Pad Thai, and 42 <*bump-GOOSE!*>s. :-)

I'm sure we can do better than _that_!  Come on, now...  Let's get the
bidding going higher and faster!  You, Sir... what would you bid?

>>"Going once...."

Excuse me, Sir, but I belive that is my job.  Are you going to bid again?

>What?  No peanut-butter?  No strawberries?  I'm not going with this dude!  
>No way!  Not even to do his windows!

((Don't worry!! I said I would get it higher!!  You'll get what you want,
but just give me a chance, ok?))

Hey, let's go Folks!   We can't have the Lady standing here all day!!

>>Official Diver of the RFA, 'Chelle's TwinSib, and Donna's OneTrueLove
>Besides, he's already taken ... get me down off this auction block!

It's ok Folks!  Honest!   It's just her nerves.  Don't worry, they will
straighten out quickly.  ((Psst!  Stop that!!  Ya wanna crab the whole deal??
Don't you want lots of chocolate and strawberries and stuff??))

   Ok, we have one bid.  Now we can't have an auction on just one bid.  Who'll
add 6 crates of strawberries to the bid?

Jasonzied - I'lladdtothebid1caseofpeanutbutterand100bannaners

-- 
|Official Wandering Archer of the RFA
|
|UUCP  jpw@grinch.txt.com                   Who wills, Can.
|VOICE (408) 321-6509                         Who tries, Does.
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From: afdenis@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (Stephen Dennison)
Subject: Re: Wow.
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Ancient Souls Inc.
Date: 25 Aug 1992 16:04 EST  

In article <1992Aug24.231419.8568@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, ted5@po.CWRU.Edu (Thomas E. Davidson) writes...
>	Anyway, my question: I basically dumped my girlfriend BEFORE this
>one for the one I'm currently gushing about; is this moral?
> 
>				Go for brevity,
>					Tom

Ok... nope!


.. oh, alright, I'll elaborate ! :-) Actually, it's not a question of 
morality, Tom, but what's right for *you*. If you think you would have been 
doing your *old* girlfriend a favor by passing up something you thought was 
more suited to you and just suffering on in silence, think again. 

`Settling' for less than what you want can make you a bitter person and a 
real pain in the keester to be around... she may never have known why, but 
she would have sensed any resentment you harbored towards her for `costing' 
you that other, potentially *better* relationship. 

If I can offer any *useful* advice, I'd say pay the *personal* price 
required to level with her as to *why* you moved on. The only pain you *can* 
spare her is the pain of never knowing *why* ... from personal experience, 
*that* is a pain that cuts very deep.

-- Stephen

	The smallest light offered in total darkness is a blinding
	beacon of hope.
Newsgroups: alt.romance
From: caldwem@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Twiggs)
Subject: Re: Friends First or Not?
Organization: Computer Science Outreach Services - Oregon State University
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 05:07:41 GMT


I think become friends is very important, If you hope to become,
more then just friends, Getting to know each other is a good,
begining to Long Lasting Love ,
Getting to know the little things about a person helps,
you can't say Geez i wish i had know this befor, I think,
Going from friends into Love is very nice we all have little things
about us that is sometime hidening for awhile if you think,
you may be in Love, Michael and i became very close and dear friends
for sometimes he got to know the little things about me because i 
am a open person and he is still my best friend, I can always,
Count on him to listen as a Good freind, Careing one and we,
and Very happy in love so I not only have someone I love but
he is *my* best freind ..... I thinks start as friends frist
and if it moves forward to love then you to will get a bouns as 
I have a wonderful person you love and share with and your ,
best friend ...

root and Twiggs are a wonderful tree (tm) root and Twiggs :)

Good luck and hope you find your best friend to 

Mary  "Twiggs"

:wq

Newsgroups: alt.romance,alt.romance.chat
From: jlane@Ingres.COM (Judi Lane)
Subject: Re: Part Two of "Dryads' Dailiness"
Keywords: Nymphette	
Reply-To: jlane@Ingres.COM (Judi Lane)
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501
Date: 28 Aug 92 13:50:08 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.032238.21755@sequent.com> rip@sequent.com (Paul T Taylor) writes:
>In article <Bto7Ct.CHx@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au> coates@newton.physics.uq.oz.au (Tony Coates) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug27.022244.4403@sequent.com>, rip@sequent.com (Paul T Taylor) writes:
>>|> >How about 'Official Nymph of the RFA' ?????
>>|>
>>|> Would that be 'Nymphette', or 'Nympho'?
>>|>
>>|> Dirty minds want to know....
>>|>
>>|> rip
>>
>>Nymph? Oh!!  Didn't think of that one (rip - 1, Tony - 0).
>>
>>Anyway, maybe we should just vote on it :-)
>>                                               Tony.
>
>I vote Nymphette... *leer*
>

  ---> Well, there goes my last chance at innocence! 8^)


>rip

  ---> Does "rip" stand for "Reputations Incinerated Publicly"?? 


  Judi
  ("Don'tplaywithherTommy'cuzshedoesn'thavea.sig!")


Newsgroups: alt.romance
From: afdenis@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Stephen Dennison)
Subject: Re: Wow.
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Ancient Souls Inc.
Date: 26 Aug 1992 11:40 EST  

In article <1992Aug25.203059.5952@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov>, cfar@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov (Carol Farquhar) writes...
Oh, and I just noticed something else, Carol ... when you delete your .sig 
one line at a time, you can accidently end up with ...

>cfar@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov           =  animals."

Hmmmmmmmm. Freud woulda been proud ! :-)

-- Stephen "I Don't Hate My Mother Or My Father" Dennison


	The smallest light offered in total darkness is a blinding
	beacon of hope.
Newsgroups: alt.romance
From: jholtgra@afit.af.mil (Jeremy C. Holtgrave)
Subject: Re: Looking for help
Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 17:48:02 GMT

In article <1992Aug23.053820.11271@cs.tulane.edu> burger@convex1.tcs.tulane.edu (The Rodman) writes:
>In article <22669@sybase.sybase.com> ejs@sybase.com (gator fodder) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug19.073433.17786@rniwi.rni.sub.org> frank@rniwi.rni.sub.org (Frank Mogaddedi) writes:
>>>So tell me, what would be good ways to start?
>>>Or is the rumor right, that you'll never find anybody while you're
>>>looking? If that's the truth, I'm looking forward to a _really_ lonely
>>>future :-(
>>>
>>>So, dear netland, what are your opinions? How does one 'look without
>>>looking'?
>>
>>The rumor is true in my experience.  Whenever I went looking I was
>>invariably disappointed.  Eventually I gave up and decided to be happy on
>>my own, and I met someone almost immediately.
>>
>
>  This is not a personal flame, but I can't stand it when I hear adages like
>  this perpetuated as the absolute truth and often supported by a sample
>  size of 1.  Let's talk about base rates, people.  Let's talk about all

		[stuff deleted]

I think the original poster has an important point, which is it is
possible to try too hard.  While there's alot to be said for taking
matters into your own hands, sometimes the best thing to do is just relax
and not worry about it.  The trick is knowing the balance between the
two.

Jeremy

Newsgroups: alt.romance
From: eigenstr@cs.rose-hulman.edu (Todd R. Eigenschink)
Subject: Re: Flirting (was: Re: LJBF again)
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
	<1992Sep2.185040.23369@bnr.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 21:29:19 GMT

>I had a long debate about flirting with an ex-LJBF of mine. She wasn't a
>*terrible* flirt, but she did indulge and was popular partly because of it.
>Like Michael's case, she didn't pattern-match at all that flirting =
>come-on. We discussed this at length, pseudo-academically almost! Eventually
>I think she saw my point, and I saw hers:
>
>1. Flirting is a wondeful entertainment that helps to make life worth living.
>2. Flirting is a pain in the butt by giving confusing, ambiguous messages.
>
>These are interwoven, of course! But the main realisation between us was
>that flirting only works if you are *sure* it is *mutual*. Too many people
>don't put any thought into ensuring this -- which in any case, would take
>all the fun out of it of course!

I couldn't agree with any of that more, and as obvious as it may seem,
it took a small shade of genius to come up with two sentences like
that to describe something that's so much a part of many people's
lives.  (Including the misspelling :)

I had that experience last year--both flirting, and I was doing the
mis-interpreting.  We talked about it, and I realized I was being
stupid, and that was that.  Now it's just like it always was, 'cept
it's a heckuva lot more fun.  :)

--
Todd Eigenschink (eigenstr@CS.Rose-Hulman.Edu)
Psychopathic Peon System Administrator
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN
"I've seen it work before..." -- Stephen Smalley
Newsgroups: alt.romance,alt.romance.chat
From: rip@sequent.com (Paul T Taylor)
Subject: Re: Part Two of "Dryads' Dailiness"
Keywords: Nymphette, Nympho
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems Inc.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 01:37:09 GMT

In article <Btrs9B.9BD@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au> coates@newton.physics.uq.oz.au (Tony Coates) writes:
>In article <1992Aug28.130217.4814@pony.Ingres.COM>, jlane@Ingres.COM (Judi Lane) writes:
>|> In article <Bto7Ct.CHx@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au> coates@newton.physics.uq.oz.au (Tony Coates) writes:
>|> >In article <1992Aug27.022244.4403@sequent.com>, rip@sequent.com (Paul T Taylor) writes:

**bunch of stuff deleted**

>Um ... er ... well, yes, we sort of did hijack you title a bit, didn't
>we (he says, trying to get 'rip' to take at least half of the blame).

Hey!  Don't drag my pristine reputation into this!  You can take all
this yourself!

rip
Newsgroups: alt.romance
From: petitc@lib111.its.rpi.edu (Christopher Jon Petit)
Subject: Re: A Piece of Advice
Reply-To: petitc@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 12:37:20 GMT

In article <chil.715511346@sfu.ca>, chil@fraser.sfu.ca (Keith Lim) writes:

|> ... Worst case scenario I can
|> envision is a LJBF reply, which means only that the relationship should
|> continue on as it had previously
 
  I hate to disagree with you, but friendships after LJBF are NEVER the same,
since the other person knows that you are interested.  Because she is not
interested in you, she will tend to be less trusting of you and such.  And,
don't forget that many times (in my life, at least), LJBF == "Get lost!"

-- 
Trust:  A very precious social commodity, due both to high value and terrible
scarcity.
MATWDTM:  Mothers Against Teenagers Who Drink Too Much (failed name for MADD)




Newsgroups: alt.romance
From: cadesjar@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Curtis Desjardins)
Subject: Re: A Piece of Advice
Keywords: and a warning
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 15:29:49 GMT

In article <Btw0AK.D4u@wpi.WPI.EDU> gryphon@wpi.WPI.EDU (The Emotional Yo Yo) writes:
>I have discovered, through practical and painful experience, that, should you
>wish to destroy a relationship utterly, there is no better way to do it than
>with three little words:
>
>I love you.

No. Wrong. 

Granted, those three words can change the outlook two people can have on
their relationship, and yes, SOMETIMES people are not emotionally ready
for that kind of change, but more often than not the relationship grows
into something special, whether that be as best friends or as lovers.

Take me, for instance. I'm not one to take those 3 words lightly. When
I say them I mean them. In my life, I've said 'I love you' to a total of
three women. Two resulted in the 2 best friends that I have today, and the
third is the love of my life (without whom I don't know what I'd do). 
(She's also the reason for my absence from the net and the RFA for the
past 2 months --- couldn't think of a better reason, either **snicker** )

Sure, saying 'I love you' can lead to the type of relationship you don't
want (ie. LJBF), but you can't let that kind of fear rule your life, or
you'll NEVER find anyone. BELIEVE ME, I lived this way for a long time!

And with that said I have just one thing left to say:

I love you Betty Boop! (you know who you are)
**sly mischievous wink**


========================= Fluffy the Wonder Bunny ============================
    Donkey Hodey of the RFA (nowadays the ARC Wallflower & Netnews Lurker) 
==============================================================================
  "A present from the heart: I'm not here because I'm supposed to be here,
    or because I'm trapped here, but because I'd rather be with you than
     anywhere in the world."   -- Richard Bach, "Bridge Across Forever"
================== cadesjardins@descartes.waterloo.edu =======================
 Hi! I am a .signature virus. Copy me into your .signature and join the fun!
Newsgroups: alt.romance
From: haywire@wpi.WPI.EDU (the Insane One)
Subject: Re: What is LOVE ?
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 17:17:07 GMT

In article <1992Aug29.204117.13445@afit.af.mil> jholtgra@afit.af.mil (Jeremy C. Holtgrave) writes:
>In article <1992Aug18.160707.9561@uoft02.utoledo.edu> steiner@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu (jason "Think!" steiner) writes:
>>ankolamb@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Guess Who ?) writes:
>>> 
>>> Just a question....
>>> 
>>> What is LOVE ??
>
>Just another four letter word...
>
No its the civilized excuse for long lasting animal lust for a single person


Newsgroups: alt.romance,alt.romance.chat
From: rip@sequent.com (Paul T Taylor)
Subject: Re: Part Two of "Dryads' Dailiness"
Keywords: Nymphette
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems Inc.
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 16:32:35 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.135008.12399@pony.Ingres.COM> jlane@Ingres.COM (Judi Lane) writes:
>In article <1992Aug28.032238.21755@sequent.com> rip@sequent.com (Paul T Taylor) writes:
>>In article <Bto7Ct.CHx@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au> coates@newton.physics.uq.oz.au (Tony Coates) writes:
>>>In article <1992Aug27.022244.4403@sequent.com>, rip@sequent.com (Paul T Taylor) writes:

**some deleted**

>>I vote Nymphette... *leer*
>>
>
>  ---> Well, there goes my last chance at innocence! 8^)

Yeah, right.  As if you *had* a chance here! :-)

>>rip
>
>  ---> Does "rip" stand for "Reputations Incinerated Publicly"??

Nope, stand for what rip is suppose to stand for...  haven't you seen
my .sig?

______________________________________________________________________
                                                      _____
Rip                                 rip@sequent.com  /     \
Official Palanquin Bearer                           /  rip  \
For the Secretaries                                 |xxx-xxx|
Of the RFA                                       ___|_______|___
And BigBro to LF, 'Chelle, HotDi,                    \~ ~~ ~\
Lis, Garrett, Michelle and GypsyII (whew!)            \~~ ~~~\
Help!  My karma ran over my dogma, and it can't get up!!
Newsgroups: alt.romance
From: j-grout@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (grout john robert)
Subject: Re: Flirting (was: Re: LJBF again)
Reply-To: j-grout@uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 14:38:19 GMT

ANNE@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Lee Anne) writes:

>In fact, this is the reason why many people who are already "taken" flirt.
>Because (in most cases) you can assume that if the person who's flirting with
>you already has someone else, then they are flirting for entertainment
>purposes only.  I suppose there are those cases where the taken person is
>looking for action on the side, but I suspect those are in the minority.

I plan to dance and flirt with women the rest of my life whether I'm "taken"
or not... it's lots of fun :-).

On a more serious note... IMHO, no one person can meet _all_ of one's needs...
and, if one has a really strong interest in the opposite sex (as I do... I
started flirting in kindergarten :-), he/she _needs_ to find a way of
expressing this side of themself between (or within) significant
relationships...  for me, dancing and flirting are good ways to do this... and
I think that this kind of expression makes it _less_ likely that I'd get
emotionally and physically involved outside a committed relationship... I feel
that most affairs happen because the participant's deep needs aren't getting
met.

-- 
John R. Grout			| INTERNET: j-grout@uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.romance,alt.romance.chat
From: smccoy@dw3g.ess.harris.com (Scott McCoy)
Subject: Re: The Shadowette....
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 21:31:48 GMT
Reply-To: smccoy@dw3g.ess.harris.com (Scott McCoy)
Organization: Harris Corporation Information Systems Division

Lana Mountford writes:
|>
|>Carl Kaufmann writes:
|>|> The Shadowette has challenged me to prove that cats are indeed
|>more romantic
|>|> than dogs.  To that end I would appreciate any help you and our
|>fellow 
|>|> net.felines could muster.  TIA
|>|> 
|>
|>Why, what could possibly be more romantic than a soft purr in your
|>lap? 
|>What is more romantic than the feel of *soft* fur against your
|>cheek, or
|>the sight of a sleek animal stretching languidly in a pool of
|>sunlight?
|>What about a soft nuzzle under the chin, with a corresponding
|>"chirp" to
|>let you know that you are indeed appreciated?  What more proof is
|>needed?
|>:-)
|>

*grin*  You'll get no argument from me!  :-)

(Sorry...that bit reminded of an ex-girlfriend of mine...
 *hubba*  *hubba*...especially the "sleek animal stretching 
 languidly in a pool of sunlight" part...Pant...Pant...
 Oh, well.  Now I have to go mop up the puddle of drool
 from under my desk! :->)

Hey, I just hope that Lana and LisaDi (our burning hot poet and
balloonist) don't get together.  I may have to get out of the
kitchen!

:-)

---
Cheshire Cat		   Official Back Scratcher of the RFA
 
"Chesire Puss, which way ought I to go from here?", asked Alice.
"That depends a good deal on where you want to go?", said the cat.
"I don't much care where...", said Alice.
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go.", said the Cat.
	(Alice in Wonderland)
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