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From: clever@sequent.com (Cathy Cleverley)
Subject: Re: SM ISO MAIL
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems (Canada) Ltd.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:08:08 GMT

johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:

>In article <JMD.93Jan21112023@lion.bear.com> jmd@bear.com (Josh Diamond) writes:
>
>
>|Doesn't anyone actually read this group (soc.singles) before posting here?

>No, only a fraction of what appears here is real.  Actually an archive is
>taken at regular intervals and is distributed to literally thousands of
>machines around the world.  These articles are then reformated, reworded,
>and automatically posted as article from new authors by these machines every
>day.

(the rest deleted to save space)~

Call me naive, but is this true?
--
Cathy Cleverley                                 clever@sequent.com
Sequent Computer Systems (Canada) Ltd.          +1 416 629-4000
"An expert is anyone more than 100 miles~
from home with a set of slides"
Xref: sparky soc.singles:37713 alt.sex:43025
From: drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.sex
Subject: More What Drieux has to Say about this
Date: 24 Jan 93 07:28:17 GMT
Organization: Castle WetWare Philosopher and Sniper

martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
] In article <1993Jan21.083334.9968@netcom.com> rohwerwd@netcom.com (W. David Rohwer) writes:
] 
]    >Just Say NO! to Hetro!
]    >its cureable you know.
] 
] 	Just Say YES to Homo!
] 	I don't think so because it is yucky, yucky, yucky.
] 
] Nah, homos are just heteros in drag.  It those damn orgasms that are the
] real problem.  Give up on orgasms and the whole question's moot.


Close, Just BassEndAkWard.

Hetro's are Homo's in Drag!


You will notice that the Average Hetro will try
to convince persons that they really are Only
doing this to Procreate, when in reality what
they really want to do is have a Gay Old Time of it all
and NOT have any children!

Ever Notice all of the contraceptive methods sold
every year to Hetro's who Would Rather be Having
a Gay Old Time Of It all!!!!!


HUM.......

ciao
drieux

ps: Who'd dragging Whom Now, Bud!


pps: YES ORGAMS ARE ADDICTIVE!!! STOP BEFORE YOU TOO
ARE SUCKED INTO THEIR MORAL MORASS!!!!!!!


-- 
MajorModernDayProblems: 

sometimes, a thing will happen after another thing, 
and they may not be connected.....
Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:25:21 EST
From: Graydon <SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Zen and the art of refrig upkeep (Re: Living alone)
 <1993Jan21.235330.27895@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
 <1993Jan22.132003.20433@netcom.com>
 <1993Jan23.011412.15583@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>

In article <1993Jan23.011412.15583@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>,
mel@niblick.ecn.purdue.edu (Meloney D Cregor) says:
>In article <1993Jan22.132003.20433@netcom.com> aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green
>Dancing Machine) writes:
>>9.6 on the Broad-Band-Come-On scale
>Ahwww, come on Aahz!  I'm just getting back into flirting stride.  My
>flirter got broken and it has just been awful getting it fixed. What with
>not being able to find a manual and then getting parts and you just can't
>imagine the difficulty trying to find someone to fix these things.  It was
>just awful, I tell you.  And I still have to work all the 'kinks' out of it.
>
>There.  Do I get extra points for pleading?

I think you ought to lose points for taking the kinks out, myself.

Posting the source address for flirter parts, on the other hand, would
be worth a 12 at least.

Graydon
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
saundrsg@               "Praise then Darkness and Creation unfinished"
   qucdn.queensu.ca                   - U. K. LeGuin
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Pick Up Lines
From: rohwerwd@netcom.com (W. David Rohwer)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 08:30:01 GMT
Organization: The Tickle Palace - Moonyvale, CA

In article <C15zKs.GBD@cs.psu.edu> bandell@redviolet.crayola.cs.psu.edu (Aaron R Bandell) writes:
>I am trying to compile an extensive list of pick up lines, and would greatly appreciate your help.  If you have any, please mail them to me, reagardless of how sweet or tasteless.
>	Eventually I will make a posting regarding the completion of this list, and will send out copies to those who want them.
>		Thank you for your help,
>			Aaron  'Elvis'
> 
>mail to   bandell@crayola.cs.psu.edu

     You just missed the thread on pick-up lines.  Maybe if you wait
for an unspecified period of time, then the pick-up line thread will
come back.

     For future reference, to make your upcoming posts more readable, you
may want to sprinkle in a <RETURN> at the end of each text line.

     Have a good day in your "Red Polyester Gloves".

-- 
    Reggie elected into Hall of Fame!    +---------------------------------+
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 /   //  W. David Rohwer     // Amiga ++---------------------------------+
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From: diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Credibility...
Date: 26 Jan 93 02:28:59 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

In article <ewright.727988060@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:

>Most people who say they are happy being single do not mean they are
>happy having no interaction with the opposite sex (assuming they are
>heterosexual). 

Ed, I don't think anyone who's said that they're happy being single has
meant that he or she is happy having no interaction with the opposite sex.
In fact, I think Trygve listed the opportunity to interact with many 
members of the opposite sex as an *advantage* of being single.  (Correct
me if I'm wrong, Trygve.)

>Hm.  Well, I think there's a distinction here.  I go out with groups
>of friends as often as I like, but there's a difference (for me, at 
>least) between doing something with a group and doing something with
>an individual.  There's also a distinction between doing something 
>with someone, where the activity is the specific focus, and doing 
>something where the individual is the focus and the activity is secondary.

Does it matter if the focus is on the individual in a romantic way?  I
have several male friends with whom I do things because I want to see one
of them, not because I desperately want to participate in whatever activity
we've thought up, but I don't think these evenings render me non-single.

>Many, probably most, of the women I know participate in group activities
>with male friends but feel it is "inappropriate" to meet a man in
>an individual situation (especially one that is person-focused
>rather than activity-focused) unless they are officially "dating."
>I don't quite understand this, since none of them would hesitate to 
>meet a female friend under similar circumstances, but that's the way 
>it is.  

I'd have to say that I don't understand it either.  Have they ever 
explained why they feel that this is inappropriate?  I guess I could 
envision a reluctance to interact with a male friend on a one-on-one
basis if I felt that it would *lead* to an unwanted romantic interaction,
but that's not very common.  Can you give examples of person-based and
activity-based situations?

				--Diamond

diamond@acpub.duke.edu| We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn
Elizabeth S. Abrams   | them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress 
		      | but the memory of the smell of smoke, and the  
                      | presumption that once our eyes watered. -Tom Stoppard
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Re: getting along with ex in-laws?
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:03:25 GMT

In article <llu3a2INNdp3@news.bbn.com> dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes:
>Do any of you single parents out there have words of wisdom for getting
>along with your ex in-laws?  I'm sure most divorced people just lose
>touch as quickly as possible, but since their grandchild is involved, 
>I'm not sure that's a good idea.  My ex has no visitation, so any contact
>would have to be through me.  They've never seen the baby (sixteen months
>old) and have told me that they won't seek any contact if I ask them not
>to.  I haven't had the heart to tell them to go away, but I also haven't
>had the heart to answer any of their letters.  Attempts at talking on the
>telephone haven't gone well.  And so this is just dragging on in limbo
>for months and months.  Any single parents manage to foster a good 
>relationship between their kids and the grandparents?
>
>Dawn

Hark tis it the wind?
 
Tis I Reginald. What light through yonder window breaks. Prance, prance,
flutter step, twirl, curtsy. 
 
*tee hee*
 
Anyways, in my case, just because she can't see em and IMHO most of her family
is as big a looser as she is(I'll be back)(which is why she is totally irrespo
nsible in the first place) I just drop em off so they can know their cousins.
Not that they have ever picked em up or dropped em off. That would require
getting up off their ass. Shit for brains is usually there when I pick em
up knowing I'm not going to make a scene in front of the kids. She still
hasn't paid a dime of child support and never shows up in court
evidently knowing the court is utterly powerless but I suspect disinterested
in doing a damn thing about it. In fact they just sent me a letter yesterday
informing me if there is an order of support forthcoming they'll notify me.
I've had an order of support for three fucking years.

Ay you pushed a button lassie.

 
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
Subject: Re: Favorite Groups
Organization: Don't blame me, I voted for Bill 'n' Opus
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:31:59 GMT

In article <1993Jan24.162538.29238@infodev.cam.ac.uk> gdb15@cl.cam.ac.uk writes:
>
>The question was intended as rhetorical, but let me rephrase it: are
>there other people born after 1960 who prefer listening to popular
>music from before 1960?

Yes.  Unlike Mr. Rohwer, I shall refrain from abusing your eyes with a
catalog.
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

Kinky vanilla queer het
Newsgroups: soc.singles,ba.music
From: desiree@netcom.com (dmc)
Subject: Re: Favorite Groups
Summary: You numbnut
Organization: I ingest Mustard Gas
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:29:43 GMT

In article <1993Jan24.091528.2336@netcom.com> rohwerwd@netcom.com (W. David
 Rohwer) once again proves that he is an alien life-form with:

[Gigi quote and convo deleted]

>Some dude in the UK sez:
>>I'm under 30, and I posted the original quote.  Doesn't anyone listen
>>to any decent music any more?

>     Sure and by the way I am 30.  I like, in alphabetical order:

	[idiotic list deleted]

	Jesus Christ Superstar, Rohwer!  You're a numbskull...  Nobody  
gives a tinkersdamn what you like.  (Yea, I'm speaking on behalf of the
world here...)

>     There are other artists and groups which I like that I may not
>listed.

	Yea, I'm sure there are -- but they ran you outta Tower Records
before you could write them all down, huh?

	Go write a contract or something, you're becoming really irritating.


Desiree

	
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: gdb15@grebe.cl.cam.ac.uk (Guy Barry)
Subject: Re: Favorite Groups
Reply-To: gdb15@cl.cam.ac.uk
Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:07:43 GMT

In lots of articles, lots of boring people write:

>[lots of flames I can't be bothered to quote]

Oh, shut up the lot of you!  I really couldn't care less what music
anyone listens to.  Now I remember why I unsubscribed to this group
years ago.

--
Guy Barry, University of Cambridge | Phone: +44 (0)223 334757 
Computer Laboratory                | Fax: +44 (0)223 334678
New Museums Site, Pembroke Street  | JANET: Guy.Barry@uk.ac.cam.cl 
Cambridge CB2 3QG, England, UK     | Internet: Guy.Barry@cl.cam.ac.uk 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: ted@cs.umn.edu (Ted Stockwell)
Subject: Re: Credibility and Trueness
Organization: Minnesota Hackers' Guild
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:49:39 GMT

In article <1993Jan23.005205.18771@sol.UVic.CA> atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (dreas) writes:
>   Somebody mentioned that Ed cannot imagine how anyone can
>   be happier outside of a relationship that within one 
>   BECAUSE he himself is so unhappy while not in one.
>
>   Get this: If you are unhappy while not in a relationship, what 
>   can make you so sure that you'd be happy in a relationship?

 Just because Ed is happier in a relationship than outside of one does
not mean that others will be.  However, just because you are happy
whether or not you are in a relationship does not mean that Ed or
anyone else will be.  Different people have different needs and we
will not all respond in the same way.

>   IMNSHO, happiness is not something derived exclusively from
>   the people around oneself, the relationship that one is involved
>   in, or one's surroundings.

true, but it helps to at least have one of the three going for you.

>   True happiness with anything has to come from within oneself.
>   When this is understood deeply, one can become happier by 
>   taking delight in the little things in life that most of us
>   ignore. Unfortunately, there are many unhappy people BECAUSE
>   they walk around through life with blinders on.

gee this makes sense.  "Today I lost my job, totalled my car, my
friends moved away and my cat just died, but that was a delightful
little flower that I just stepped on so I guess I'll be happy and
content!"

>   I believe that folks who are inherently content with life
>   are EQUALLY content within a relationship and without one.

Possibly true, but how do you become content in the first place,
regardless of what is actually happening in your life?  

>   I have been in both situations and have trained myself to be
>   happy on the whole BECAUSE it just feels better than self pity.

Its  great if you can throw a mental switch and make yourself happy.
Not everyone can simply ignore painful situations.  What about
simple loneliness?

>   Ed, I wish you some real tough times so that you can have the
>   opportunity to learn how to laugh at life instead of whine
>   about it. 

Sometimes you come out stronger.  Sometimes simply damaged.  Just wish
that we all will become happier and more able to cope.
--
"It's not the bullet that kills you, it's the hole."  -- Laurie Anderson
Ted Stockwell                                             ted@cs.umn.edu
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Re: Flirting How To Guide/Backrubs
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:02:16 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.001552.23759@news.acns.nwu.edu> drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max) writes:
>In article <JMD.93Jan26142520@lion.bear.com> jmd@bear.com (Josh Diamond) writes:
>>
>>In article <1993Jan26.015338.6704@cbnews.cb.att.com> eleanor@cbnews.cb.att.com (Piglet) writes:
>>
>>   Piglet (who, btw, _doesn't_ have BigHair, _despite_ having moved to NJ)
>>
>>Piglet, trying to imagine you with BigHair is almost as difficult as
>>trying to imagine Jim Dutton wearing a tutu!
>>
>Well I can imagine jimmie in a tutu, and he'd be pretty cute too. Piglet
>with big hair, no - much harder (and less pleasant) to imagine. Hmmm Piglet
>in a tutu......yep that's imaginable, though something slinkly and long
>might be nicer.
 
You know this is eerie! I'm wearing a tattoo of a tutu on my Eddie as we speak.
You can even see a little of it when I sit down.

 
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From: brent.mason@uuworld.via.mind.ORG (Brent Mason) 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: The Nice Guy Syndrome
Date: 25 Jan 93 21:24:00 GMT
Reply-To: brent.mason@uuworld.via.mind.ORG (Brent Mason) 
Distribution: world
Organization: Micro Exchange - Kenwood, CA - 707-833-4032

ML. From: peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri)
  .
  . Such a good point I thought I'd paraphrase it.  The "nice guys"
  . get happily married and go out of circulation.  The "jerks" are still
  . out there dating.
  .

       Or if you go to CalTech.. you just don't have time!!

       Brent Mason

       P.S.   Is Blackard (sp?) still all black..  Coolest dorm I ever
       visited...
---
 . BABBLE v1.0 . OS/2 2.0 vs Widdows 3.1... There is no comparison!
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jwall@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jeff Wall)
Subject: Re: Trygve's shower
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 14:14:45 GMT

In article <9009@news.duke.edu> diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams) writes:
>>Trygve   (I'm still working on the plans for a bathroom built like a
>>          bathroom should be--great big tub with an enclosure built 
>>          around and above it (current plan is for cobalt blue tile)
>>          with three shower heads, recessed reading lights, a fold-out
>>          reading table, little shelves to put the candles on, a
>>          reasonable but mostly invisible stereo, and, well, other 
>>          stuff--maybe when that gets built it'll help my relative
>>          position.)
>
>Oh, my.
>
>I happen to have a weakness for well-designed bathing areas.  When you
>get it finished, let me know if you need someone to help scrub your 
>back.

Hmmmm, I would like to see this shower (Not in person, a drawing or plans
would suffice).  How are you going to keep the electronics and books dry
with three shower heads????  Inquiring minds want to know??

Cheers,

Jeff Wall


Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle)
Subject: Re: Credibility...
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 07:47:31 GMT
Organization: Datamark International Ltd.

In article <ewright.727573793@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
>>So, please dispense with calling EVERY single person unhappy, and
>>calling them liars when they beg to differ.  
>
>There's a big difference between someone who is happy despite
>being single and someone who is happy being single.  Saying
>you're "happy being single" is about as credible as saying
>you're "happy having cancer."

He's baaaaaaaaack!!!

Hey, I'm happy being single!

True, I was down a bit for the last week, but one week out 16 of 16
months is not exactly a trend.

I'm glad I've got friends, but I can't say I particularly miss having
a SO. 

-- 
    Thomas Beagle | thomas@datamark.co.nz           Work: 64 4 233 8186
 Technical Writer | thomas@cavebbs.welly.gen.nz     Home: 64 4 499 3832
   Wellington, NZ | Yes, I do have long ears, a black nose, and a tail.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: das@emmapeel.ca.boeing.com (Deb Schwartz)
Subject: Re: reactions to a man in a mini-skirt?
Organization: Yet Another Graphics Project, Bellevue, WA
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 16:40:35 GMT

>In article <1993Jan20.163803.26895@cbfsb.cb.att.com> jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) writes:
>> 
>>At the Phillyboink Contra hoedown there was a guy, long black stringy
>>hair, wearing a tastefull folk singer mid calf skirt. While I thought
>>to myself what the Hal is going on, nobody else batted an eye.
>>Whatyagonnado?
>
There used to be 2 guys in the Seattle contra community who always wore
skirts to the dances.  One moved back east somewhere, although it's probably
not the same person you mention (he always had neatly groomed short light
hair).  Anyway, Dave is always happy to explain why he wears a skirt for
contra-dancing:  mainly because with the skirt whipping around all over
the place, it acts like a fan and keeps him cool.  He's even leaped up
on the stage during breaks, grabbed a mike and urged other guys to
try skirts.   He wears shorts (the outerwear kind) under the skirt,
and wears normal male clothing when not dancing.
------
Debbie Schwartz // das@voodoo.ca.boeing.com  // ....uw-beaver!bcsaic!voodoo!das

"Are you telling me there are dead people in my living room watching videos?!"
				- Nina in 'Truly, Madly, Deeply'

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From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,soc.penpals,alt.romance,alt.romance.chat
Subject: Re: SM ISO MAIL
Date: 28 Jan 93 20:31:52 GMT
Followup-To: soc.singles
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1993Jan28.141740.1@cc.curtin.edu.au> ssalimb01@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
>In article <C19GCo.DE7@cen.ex.ac.uk>, st92rcn@cen.ex.ac.uk writes:
|> My name is rachel and I want your body
|
|Sorry, but my body is one thing you can not have.

I'm sure a lot of people are going to be *really* disapointed.

-- 
-john
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (dreas)
Subject: Re: SM ISO MAIL
Reply-To: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 22:35:06 GMT

In article 4335@news.acns.nwu.edu, drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max) writes:
>In article <1993Jan23.021605.22785@sol.UVic.CA> atovorni@engr.UVic.CA writes:
>>
>>Whatever you say, Darling.
>> 
>>dreas (blows a kiss)
>>
>And the bat, once again in his efforts to be noticed and loved by all,
>manages to put his foot in his mouth.

I respect your opinion, but I disagree.

>It might have been better if he would have put that foot down on his typing 
>fingers but in this - oh so unfair - universe, not all wishes are fulfilled.

Never claimed to be perfect. I did, however understand his point. 
You see, Maxie, you misunderstood my contrition...

>Look drray ass, you overstepped the bounds of tasteful flaming.

I know this.

>John, very reasonably I might add, let you know that and you, unrepentant 
>to the end, seemed to entirely miss his point.

Yes, I seemed to. Unbeknownst to you, I was being satirical. You seem to
take things quite literally. Things are not always what they appear to be.
John posted something to that effect yesterday...

>Its perfectly fair and reasonable to insult someone on the net using every 
>bit of personal and specific information about them or their posts that you 
>have (well almost) especially if it is funny, but it is not okay to use racial >stereotypes to insult a single individual. 

Oh, well. Some folks enjoyed it and others didn't. I have nothing against the
guy who originally posted, but I get into rather evil moods at times. I was 
sick and tired of seeing those personal ads flashing onto my screen with the
frequency that they did. I do apologize for offending your sensibilities, but
my point about personal ads remains what it was.

Now, why is it that when I make fun of French people, Californians, Americans,
The British, or any other group, including Canadians from one end of this 
country (Canada, BTW), to the other, you remain silent? Then you jump on me 
when I joke about a visible minority. You are a tad inconsistent, there.

>It gets a big -10 on the broad-band mode.

I am indeed honored.

*hugs*

Andreas M. Tovornik