HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: epperson@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Mary Epperson)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: TygerBoink
Date: 27 Aug 92 22:13:27 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Statistics Department

Hi everyone!  I am back to posting (at the moment).  Mainly I am
posting about the TygerBoink.  We are only gathering 
information at the moment, and wanting to let people know when it is, and 
where so that people can start saving money for tickets, if they want to come.

Information:

When:   December 12-13 (Saturday/Sunday)
Where:  Bay Area, California (San Francisco, Wine Country, San Jose) 

If you are interesting in coming, or interesting in being kept up to
date on the information, please send email to Mary, CaliChat Sex'y
(epperson@pop.stat.purdue.edu) before November 15th.  I will post one
last notice at that time listing who I have down, and repeating that
is the last post.  At that point, all information will go to email.
To relieve some of the stress, (this was kinda my idea after all!), I
(tyger@netcom.com) will also answer any questions, as well as passing my
info on to our lovely and talented sex'retary.

I also want to thank Tyger, Diana and Lari, who have given me some
support, and helped out: Thanks ladies!!

One last note: if you live in L.A. and would like to share a ride with
someone, let me know and I'll try to coordinate the rides from there.
I'll do what I can to help out!!

Mary
TygerBoink Sex'retary

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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max)
Subject: Re: Commitment--The C-word?
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 15:59:37 GMT

In article <1696@necis.UUCP> dlyons@necis.UUCP (Dave Lyons) writes:
>In article <1992Aug24.203448.27761@news.acns.nwu.edu>, drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max) wrote:
>> 
>> "Rescuing women" must be some kind of male need or something. When I was
>
>That sounds awfully generalistic coming from you Max.

You are right, let me amend that to - I have noticed that some men seem to
have a need to rescue women- better?

>
>> way take over the job of finishing my house for me. Of course they all
>> thought that since they had a Y chromosome that they just had to know a
>> better way to do the job than I did, never mind that I designed the house
>> in the first place. Sheesh
>
>I have a house that is in desperate need of finishing out here in the
>So. NH countryside.  Trust me, even with my Y chromosome, I'd be more than 
>happy to let you do anything you wanted to it without kibitzing of any kind.
>.                                       -- Dave --
>-- 

Didn't I just post something to the effect that just cause someone has the
tools and skills for the job in no way implies that they might actually
have any desire to do the job? Besides I might just have a house in NJ to
work on in the near future. 

I don't mind kibitzing either - it was the assumption that because they
were male they automatically knew more about building houses than I did.
The ones that actually did know something about building houses never took
on that superior attitude.


>***************************************************************************
>DaveJ Lyons       DoD #0633         dlyons@necis.nec.com  (603)878-2567 BBS
>Opinions expressed are mine. My company doesn't even know I'm here (Shhhh!)
>***************************************************************************


Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Re: Newspaper ads - code words?
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 19:54:48 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.182601.738@walter.bellcore.com> nobody writes:
>In article <DMASON.92Aug26131409@plg.waterloo.edu> dmason@waterloo.edu (Dave Mason) writes:
>>
>> I have a friend who wanted to place a newspaper ad to the effect:
>>	Attractive woman likes sex. call 555-5555
>>
>> I suggested that:
>>	a) the paper probably wouldn't accept it (conservative area)
>>	b) she'd probably mostly get people who weren't what she wanted
>>
>> Any suggestions on how to phrase this?
>
>Attractive woman, children not always the goal, call 555-5555
>
>>
>> For background, she is moderately conservative: she's dated 5-8 men
>>in the last 2 years, some of them 10 or more times and hasn't had sex
>>with any of them (she is quite prepared to have sex with one of them,
>>but he's not available for that).  She is a very attractive,
>>wonderful, professional, 35 year old, wants to get married & have kids
>>but has had trouble meeting men of a similar mind.
>
>Does she have a sister for Brother james?
>
>						Walter
>
>What disclaimer?
 
You know I was gonna troll on that one but when I saw the crossposts
I didn't wanna get lost in the crowd. This can't be serious.
He's gonna get more email then a woman. Boggeling.

 
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: fulton@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Ben Fulton)
Subject: Re: Commitment--The C-word?
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 20:14:34 GMT

In <1992Aug25.025202.21482@cs.wisc.edu> rawdon@cabrales.cs.wisc.edu (Michael Rawdon) writes:

>>|> And there are people who are desperate for the right person.

>What if they decide that you *are* the one?  (I would agree that otherwise
>the quality of their desperation probably doesn't matter much.)

That's an easy one.  People like that are looking for an ideal, not a person.
There's next to no chance that you are the one (unless you *are* an ideal, I
suppose)

-- 
ben
fulton@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
"Get the hell out of my way!" - John Galt
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Re: I AM *NOT* AN AI (or a turing test). Yeah right.
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 15:30:44 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.110328.5850@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> allisson@turing.toronto.edu (H. Allisson Roome) writes:
>I am *NOT* an AI program gone rampant or an example of the turing test
>for intelligence or even someone else posting as me.  To prove it -
>I'll invoke my memory of things at the Boink in NYC (which Dawn, Paul,
>Piglet, and Larry will vouch for my presence there) and my dinner with
>Seth to prove. [Ron Wessels - I thought you were a nice person but
>this is beyond the pale - insinuating that I'm a program gone amok or
>that you're somehow responsible for me].
>
>Let's see -  	I borrowed Piglets blue sweater when it got colder -
>		that's still at Paul's with the Provence Books. Larry
 
 Why did you take your sweater off at Pauls?? ?? ??
 
>		was wearing a red "... Eat Me Raw" - Oyster shirt.
 
 Just as I'd pictured him. We gotta party Larry.
 
>		Dawn borrowed my green shirt on Sunday (AI programs
 
 Sniff, sniff. MEMMOOORriiiSSS, like the shadows of my....
 
>		don't need clothing). Alice and Josephine shared a
>		chip with salsa (Josephine got the salsa and Alice
>		got the chip).  Paul "played daddy" and lugged
 
Paul seems like a nice guy. Watch your back Paul.(Guy advise)(No girls allowed)
 
>		stroller and bag around.  Seth took me to dinner at
>		Seeda Thai on 50th not 80th street.
 
I love thai food(Just thinking out loud)
 
>
>That should do it.  Besides, how could I have pictures of me deep
>throating a banana if I wasn't real.
 
I'll bet it's a .gif
 
>
>Allisson
>

Boy those AI programs are really coming along. She almost seems real.
 
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From: tang@akofin.enet.dec.com (Gabe Tang)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: At Last.....I've caught up!!!
Date: 31 Aug 92 21:01:42 GMT
Organization: The VMS company


	Well, it's been a long time, even months, of going a few times per
	week trying to catch up on this and other newsgroups. The local 
	server is up to #76165 postings, I probably had to "kill" only a
	few thousands and maybe read a thousand to finish up!  8-}

	So, someone asked about "lurkers", I'll tell you, in my case the
	issue is "time". With hundreds and thousands to catch up, who can
	be bothered with replying when you don't know if someone has already
	posted a similar response. While the flaming of newbbies is a concern, 
	I should think it's not a big deal unless, of course, one posts
	something that bothers just 1 anal person out there. That's all it 
	takes to put a would-be non-lurker back into their shell. 
	
	But, on to other driblle. Since I'm mostly VMS-based, the usenet was 
	a foreign community until about 6 months or so ago. Besides, there's 
	plenty of internal activity and note/news passing going on in this 
	haven of electronic-messaging that we call home.

	As for the BBB, I'd be curious to see what one of these things is
	like. Since I live in Boston, it might just be an optimal way to
	experience the gathering of the s.s community and the pickle/bananna
	show.

	Well, have to cut this short. other things to do......

ttfn,
From: mike.mcaulay@spacebbs.com (Mike Mcaulay)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: DESPERATION EXPLAINED
Date: 4 Sep 92 00:18:00 GMT
Reply-To: mike.mcaulay@spacebbs.com (Mike Mcaulay)
Organization: SPACE BBS - Menlo Park, CA - 10 Lines + 4gB - 415-323-4193

Bathsheba.Grossman@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bathsheba Grossman) writes:

-> "They do respect her, but...they love to watch her strut."--???

It's Bob Seger.  I've always suspected it's meant to be heard as "They
do respect her BUTT...they love to watch her strut" as well.

M.
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Mea Non Culpa
Keywords: Latin and Greek
Date: 4 Sep 92 01:20:52 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Sep3.204149.26880@nwnexus.WA.COM> enigma@halcyon.com (Matt Luders) writes:
|I wrote:
|
|>"Was this the face that launched a thousand ships,
|> and burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
|
|Trygve writes (to Stef):
|
|>perhaps your kisses just rate "Magma cum laude" ...
|>this thing about charring people's hip bones worries me just a bit.
|
| Very clever!  You have an impressive knowledge of anatomy Trygve,
| but Ilium is also the Latin name for Troy.
 
Yea, but somehow Steph's topless towers and hipbones seem a little more
interesting that the towers of Troy.  Although Steph might prefer Troy's
topless tower.  Hey, there's something for everybody.

-- 
+==========================================================================+
| John Fereira     | Auspex Systems | "Auspex does not share my opinions.  |
| johnf@auspex.com | Santa Clara CA |  So Why am I still working here?"    |
+==========================================================================+
From: wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Mea Non Culpa
Date: 3 Sep 92 02:08:38 GMT
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Stef Jones (stef@Apple.COM) wrote:
: >Perhaps soc.singles needs a FAQ to explain the "soc.single meaning" of words
: >like "boink" and "suckup"--words that have *very* different meanings to the
: >outside world.  Or would this remove all challenge?  :-)
: 
: Eek! But whom would we nominate to write the FAQ? 
How 'bout somebody whose jobs have mostly involved documentation? :-)
 
: >Had I *really* been trying to suck up to you, Stef, I would have posted
: >something like this:
: > "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships,
: >  and burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
: >  Sweet Stefanie, make me immortal with a kiss.
: >  Her lips suck forth my soul; see where it flies!"
: >     -- with apologies to Christopher Marlowe (1604)
: 
: **puzzlement** Like I said, it's getting more and more difficult to tell 
: apart suckups and insults around here. It sounds as if you are calling me a
: vampiric volcano. :-)

With topless towers, no less. :-)
 
: >P.S. I liked your Galileo quote*  Here's another:
: 
: >    "Facts which at first seem improbable will,
: >     even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them
: >     and stand forth in naked and simple beauty."
: 
: **suspicion** dropping cloaks? nakedness??? is that a quote or a come-on?
: I'm getting so confused. Should I hand you an encyclopedia or take off my 
: clothes?  :-)

Does the peanut gallery get a vote on that? :-)
: 
-- 
"Bless me, Father; I ate a lizard."
"Was it an abstinence day, and was it artificially prepared?"
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: wtr@mitre.org (Bill Ralston)
Subject: Re: How'd You Get Here?? (Was:Lurkers)
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 22:13:19 GMT

in article <JMD.92Aug27142757@lion.bear.com> jmd@bear.com (Josh Diamond) 
writes:

>I guess singles have this habit of ceasing to be
>single -- almost happened to me... :-)

Almost as common as marrieds turning back into singles... :)


Bill
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: schock@cpsc.UCalgary.ca (schock)
Subject: Re: Kiran Wagle
Organization: The University of Calgary
	<BtI43G.8D7@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> <1992Aug24.181020.10358@walter.cray.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 04:59:23 GMT

In article <1992Aug24.181020.10358@walter.cray.com> cfg@cray.com (Cindy Glass) writes:
>   I wrote:
>   >Hmmmm, maybe lurking is like being a voyeur.  There must be some "Lurker's  
>   >Anonymous" group somewhere :-)

>   This would probably be a highly veiwed - but slightly posted to group.
>   Otherwise, they wouldn't be "Lurker's"!  :)

Hmmmm... alt.lurkers.rehabilitation.  Perhaps there is some kind hearted moderator
who posts some freudian-like questions to get lurkers out into the open :-)

Maybe alt.lurkers.advocacy.  A place where lurkers don't post messages about the 
benefits of being a lurker.

>   Similar to the 'Procrastinators Group' that nobody gets around to joining....

Yeah... I wanted to join that group but I kept putting it off... 

>   Cindy :)

Craig :-)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Kiran Wagle
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 05:10:06 GMT

In article <386@asylum.UUCP> pbreton@asylum.UUCP (Peter Breton) writes:
>
>   Now why in hell did that get everyone so riled? Who out there is
>actually liscensed to give out advice, anyway?

Well, I am.

Trygve   (And I do weddings too.)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: allisson@turing.toronto.edu (H. Allisson Roome)
Subject: I AM *NOT* AN AI (or a turing test)
Organization: Some and growing
Date: 26 Aug 92 15:03:29 GMT

I am *NOT* an AI program gone rampant or an example of the turing test
for intelligence or even someone else posting as me.  To prove it -
I'll invoke my memory of things at the Boink in NYC (which Dawn, Paul,
Piglet, and Larry will vouch for my presence there) and my dinner with
Seth to prove. [Ron Wessels - I thought you were a nice person but
this is beyond the pale - insinuating that I'm a program gone amok or
that you're somehow responsible for me].

Let's see -  	I borrowed Piglets blue sweater when it got colder -
		that's still at Paul's with the Provence Books. Larry
		was wearing a red "... Eat Me Raw" - Oyster shirt.
		Dawn borrowed my green shirt on Sunday (AI programs
		don't need clothing). Alice and Josephine shared a
		chip with salsa (Josephine got the salsa and Alice
		got the chip).  Paul "played daddy" and lugged
		stroller and bag around.  Seth took me to dinner at
		Seeda Thai on 50th not 80th street.

That should do it.  Besides, how could I have pictures of me deep
throating a banana if I wasn't real.

Allisson





-- 
allisson@turing.toronto.edu (new address)       H. Allisson Roome
"Teach only love, and learn that love is yours and you are love."(A.C.I.M/p.92)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: wtr@mitre.org (Bill Ralston)
Subject: Re: Desperation (was Re: Commitment--The C-word?)
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 01:00:34 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.175115.20378@news.acns.nwu.edu>, 
drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max) writes:
> I guess I differentiate between needing and wanting. I can want my lover's
> attention like mad, but still not need it. Just because something is not
> needed does not make it unimportant. 

in article <1992Sep1.203238.22431@odin.corp.sgi.com>, 
lana@magenta.corp.sgi.com (Lana Mountford) writes:
>I tend to feel the same way.  "Need" implies (to me, anyway) a *lack* of
>something.  I'd rather feel that I'm spending time with someone (and he
>with me) because we *want* to be together, and that we add something to
>each others lives.

I also feel this way, but was counseled by several people during the 
breakup of my marriage that I needed to show my wife that I *needed* her.  
I said very much the same things as quoted above; although I did not 
_need_ my wife, I _wanted_ her, and that is an important difference.  A 
major issue was that my wife did not feel as though I _needed_ her, which 
was true since I was (and am) self sufficient/reliant.  On the other hand, 
my wife was rather dependent on me (both financially and emotionally), and 
thus felt that she _needed_ me.  It seems clear to me that the real 
problem was the inequality in the relationship caused by this difference 
in needs, but I find it interesting that so many people seemed to feel 
there should be mutual _need_ for each other.  I am refreshed to hear some 
opinions to the contrary.

In my mind, need equates with dependency/codependency.  Mutual want/desire 
is ignites the passion in a relationship.

Bill
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From: liz@prc.unisys.com (Liz Loquacious)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Working at a Relationship
Date: 4 Sep 92 14:58:52 GMT
Followup-To: soc.singles
Organization: Paramax Systems

In article <1992Sep4.003025.17430@panix.com>, pw@panix.com (Paul Wallich) writes:
|> >
|> It's difficult, but it's not drudgery. That is, if you're doing it
|> right it isn't. If it seems like drudgery, you're probably tackling
|> the wrong things. The work on relationships is more like a high-wire
|> act -- difficult, requiring intense concentration, occasionally panic
|> inducing, sometimes painful, also often exhilarating.

Yes, I think it can often be exhilarating but that's not said as often as
I hear "hard work".  But to be fair that probably resonates dread in me
because the relationships I've seen in my family and my marriage were lacking
in anything resembling exhilaration.  It really irked me to listen to my
cousin justifying her commitment to her marriage by telling me how relationships 
take a lot of hard work while her husband had left her and was living with 
another woman.  Some people just don't know anything but the struggle and don't 
know when to let go.  

|> I remember, for example, learning to have arguments with my (now ex,
|> but that's another story, which some of you have heard and the rest
|> needn't bother) babe: the idea that one could fight without killing
|> the other person or else cutting them off completely was completely
|> new to me at the time, and learning it was an amazing experience, not
|> to mention inordinately conducive to survival...

I experienced this myself in a friendship just this year and it was an amazing 
experience.  Kind of like taking a leap of faith that we could argue and say 
something "bad" to each other but that we really would still be there and that our
friendship wasn't going to disappear.  Pretty scary but to be able to really
be honest and have the relationship survive was a freeing lesson to learn.

|> paul    just call me pollyanna

Okay, this is probably at least mildly amusing but I'm stumped!  What
does it mean?  Sorry! 

Liz Loquacious - it just takes me a while sometimes
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Diamonds
Date: 3 Sep 92 01:31:56 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Sep3.000258.13135@hpcvca.cv.hp.com> watson@hpcvcah.cv.hp.com (Jeffrey Watson) writes:
|diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams) writes:
|: 
|: ... and if I'm going to go to the trouble of choosing a creative 
|: userid it might as well be apt, right?  (I mean, I've never taken LSD.
|: so "Lucy... " can't be too appropriate, and I have NO IDEA what "Shine
|: On... " is about)!
|:  
|: 				Diamond  (What the hell.  I'll MAKE
|:                                           it mine. :-))
|
|If you've got the body of a female Arnold Schwartzeneggar then Diamond is
|appropriate (it is the name for one of the hulking females on American
|Gladiators). :^)

But of course you've only heard there was a hulking female named Diamond on
American Gladiators.  You haven't actually watched the show, right?  On
a similar note... During a pre-football season show last weekend they surveyed
many of the football players on a variety of questions.  When asked "who
would you most like to have play on your team" two people responded "Ice",
another hulking female on American Gladiators.

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| John Fereira            "Is that all you ever think about?"                |
| johnf@auspex.com                                                           |
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Re: Why do the lurkers / so furiously lurk together?
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:04:55 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.161300.10665@ncsu.edu> hillnr@hamlet.uncg.edu (Norman Hill) writes:
>>>Reading soc.singles without posting isn't eavesdropping; 
>>Then what is it?
>
>To equate lurking with eavesdropping is absurd.  It presumes that there
>is a private conversation - not a public discussion.
>

Public. PUBLIC. I take back all the shit.. I mean stuff (I said stuff)
I ever said.
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all you kind generous
people for putting up with the guy who's been sneaking onto (ontoward
in as much) my unattended terminal. Forewith heretofore cleaning
up my aforementioned exemplary attitude adjustment thingamabob.
Again Thank you.
Your too kind.
 
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