HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: saari@chdasic.sps.mot.com (Jonathan Saari)
Subject: Re: Re : I'm Wealthy and looking for a female p
Reply-To: saari@chdasic.sps.mot.com
Organization: Motorola SPS ASIC, Chandler, AZ
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:53:19 GMT

In article 727701545@rau3.rau.ac.za, wjap@rau3.rau.ac.za (Mnr W Phoenix - magasyn) writes:
> 
>  Hi ,
> 
>  My name is Wolfgang (Wolfi).  I am 1.92m (6'2) tall, I have short 
>  brown/blond hair, Golden brown sun tan and deep blue eyes, and 
>  built like a gladiator (German decent).
> 
>  Enjoys outdoors, surfing, scuba Diving, Shark hunting (Great Whites) and 
>  my personal favourite is the solo ascent and  once at the top a paraglide 
>  to the bottom. 
>   
>  I Like Spoiling the fair sex ... .  if you think you are woman enough 
> 				     E-Mail me at the address below,  my 
> 				     butler James will forward your message 
> 				     to me any time of day or night.


GAG!!!! CHOKE!!!!! PUKE!!!!!

I guess I need a more varied sense of humor....

This guy can't be serious... can he????   :-)


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Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: bterry@mta.ca
Subject: Re: U2, D&D, Dylan Thomas, smoking, life, love, whatever..........
Reply-To: bterry@mta.ca
Organization: Mount Allison U, Sackville, N.B. Canada 
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 04:01:29 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.200203.6487@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>, ebell@mta.ca writes:
>Ok, Ok, I realize that all you people are probably pretty frustrated with
>some of the stuff coming out of Mount A, but give me a chance, please?  I am
>a 19-year-old political science student here in the depressing surroundings
>of the Tantramar marshes, and I'd really like to meet some new people through
>the net.  I'm in my second year here, and this scene is getting pretty stale.
>Enough whining already!!!!!  
>  My name is Emily Bell, I am 5"2' with long brown hair and blue eyes (I know
>that doesn't really matter, but it helps with the visualization process)  I
>am concentrating on International Relations.  I plan to eventually go on to
>study law, probably family law, but I would also love to go on to InternationlLaw or a career in Diplomacy.  
>  My main music interests are hard/classic rock, some alternative and industrial.  I hate country - although coming from a small town, I've tried to adjust!
>I am an avid reader - right now I am into science fiction in a big way, but 
>I also read historical, fantasy, and biographies - no trash!!!!  I love
>walking, poetry, and I'm an amateur pool shark - according to my friends.
>This is starting to sound like a resume or a computer dating service, so I'll
>stop the torture.  Hope to hear from you soon!
>                                        So Be It
>                                             Emily

   Thank you, Emily! At last, a posting with substance!!!

   Thanx for comin' out and showing everyone that there IS indeed intelligent
 life at Mt.A.
From: doug.hewko@synapse.org (Doug Hewko) 
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: ren and stimpy
Date: 24 Jan 93 09:56:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: SYNAPSE BBS - GATINEAU, QUEBEC - 819-561-4321
Reply-To: doug.hewko@synapse.org (Doug Hewko) 

From: doug.hewko@synapse.org



JW.From: jwootto4@mach1.wlu.ca (juanita wootton 9209 U)
JW.I'm an English major at WLU, and I like music, Ren and Stimpy, and writing


What is "Ren and Stimpy"????  Nobody over here has heard of them. 

               Doug
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Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: yhlee@descartes.uwaterloo.ca (yhlee)
Subject: Hello 
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:49:52 GMT

	Hello
	I posting this for the first time
	One of my friend wants to check how posting is going to work
	So this is a kind of testing

	Bye guys
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Re: WAT No Work?
From: engan@vax1.mankato.msus.edu
Date: 21 Jan 93 17:52:30 -0600
Distribution: soc.penpals
Organization: Mankato State University

In article <MADELEN.93Jan21152834@cantor.praxis.co.uk>, madelen@praxis.co.uk (Madelen Rea) writes:
> 
> Hi there, I've been reading this newsgroup on and off for sometime now
> and considering how many posting there always is, I was wondering....
> 
> ............Does anybody out there ever do any work? ;-)
> 
> --

Yes, sure, I work anyway!
I write e-mail about 2-3 hours everyday!
It's a dirty work, but someone's got to do it!

>  Raving Mad.  (This is not a FLAME)
> 
> E-Mail Address: madelen@praxis.co.uk
> Company: Praxis Systems plc
> Address: 20 Manvers St.
>          Bath BA1 1PX
>          AVON
>          ENGLAND.
> -- 
>  Raving Mad.

Tomas.
From: parth2@aol.com
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Penpal Req./artist1220@aol.com
Date: 24 Jan 1993 00:58:49 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

The earlier message from myself, for "artist1220@aol.com", forgot to mention
that she is mainly looking for penpals from outside the United States. :)

And please, folks, don't write to ME... write to her at that address -
artist1220@aol.com

Thanks!

Mike - AOL Internet Mail Gateway Discussion Board Host
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: a7657@mindlink.bc.ca (Stephen H. Kawamoto)
Subject: Re: Hello, I'd like some e-mail! :-)
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:57:35 GMT

Hi just saw your beg for email, Juanita, and decided to respond.

i'm japanese-canadian, 5'1", 100 lbs.

besides computers, my hobbies include reading and writing poetry and science
fiction, as well as occasionally playing my classical guitar (i'm more of a
strummer than an arpeggio adept).

i'd be willing to talk about almost anything, even unreasonable topics. my
musical likes include listening to Brave New Waves on CBC-FM, as well as
Kitaro, Ozone, Akiko Yano and Yoko Ono (very limited but I'm also a
Japanophile -- I even subscribe to Ferkel's JPOP mailing list, which I
collect).

So, drop me a reply...

Stephen

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Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: brea9430@mach1.wlu.ca (breadner ken u)
Subject: Re: I NEED A REAL MAN
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 01:55:26 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.170747.31261@eecs.nwu.edu> mack23@avalon.eecs.nwu.edu (Chris Walsh) writes:
>In article <1jm75sINN9so@mercury.kingston.ac.uk> ee_d375@king.ac.uk (Susan Slobodkin) writes:
>>
>
>
>You also need a REAL EDITOR, like vi.  

No, no, no, no, no. VI is an instrument of Satan. Anything that totally
disregards cursor keys cannot be termed a "real editor". VI has a myriad
of modes and it only needs two; it basically sucks large rhinoceros scrotum.

-- 
Ken Breadner	(brea9430@mach1.wlu.ca)	Wilfrid Laurier University
lunatic		(the BREADbox...) 	Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 
"If you have built your castles in the air, do not despair. That is where
they belong. Now put the foundations under them." --Thoreau
From: ward6034@mach1.wlu.ca (ward renee)
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Hiking Tips Needed...
Date: 26 Jan 93 20:11:50 GMT
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University

preparing to backpack with a friend through my home country of the good old
uk next year. any ideas? places to stay? any BUNAC locations that we should
contact... any suggested sights that i can show my friends besides the usual
historical stuff? (pleeaaasee... no suggestions on the north pier in
blackpool, okay?!) mail me : ward6034@mach1.wlu.ca  
Thanks ever so much!!!!!
From: mbb2001@andy.bgsu.edu (Mark B. Benintendi)
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: I'm lonely, please write me!
Date: 26 Jan 93 05:04:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: m248-102.mbb2001-260193000545
Followup-To: soc.penpals
Organization: Bowling Green State University

Hi!  My name is Mark and I am a freshman at BGSU.  I am majoring in
elementary education and minoring in psychology.  I am interesting in
corresponding with anyone who is willing just write!


                                       Thanks,  Mark
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: kilbride@brahms.udel.edu (Richard D Kilbride)
Subject: Harvard Law students (past or present)
Organization: University of Delaware
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:50:36 GMT


I realize that this is probably a long shot, but I was wondering if anyone      from Harvard Law school ever checks this newsgroups.  If you are at, or went
to Harvard Law School I would love to hear from you since I am thinking about   applying and thought it might help me make up my mind if I could ask a 
bone-fide student some questions (not to mention that smart penpals are nice to have anyway).

I am a 29 year old undergraduate at the University of Delaware; I spent the
first 25 years of my life in England, and decided when I got here to the 
States that I needed a degree. 

Do drop me a line if you fit the above description (though I would probably 
be civil enough to reply to anyone).


Richard Kilbride  (kilbride@brahms.udel.edu) 
-- 

  Richard Kilbride : University of Delaware : USA
  e-mail  kilbride@brahms.udel.edu          : (ex-Brit)
From: mcdermot9211@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy!
Date: 27 Jan 93 20:01:07 -0600
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

Hi!  I love Ren and Stimpy too.  My roomate and I have all of them on tape. 
Have you seen Son of Stimpy?  It's the greatest!
I'm bored--or is it space madness? 
Just WRITE!!
From: maci9154@mach1.wlu.ca (macivor dawna)
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Re: Dawna the flame thrower
Date: 27 Jan 93 22:07:12 GMT
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University

In article <C1J99q.HJH@mach1.wlu.ca> blac5789@mach1.wlu.ca (Robert Black u) writes:
>
>>
>Hey Dawna better watch it I haven't started getting even with. Besides you
>two started this flame war. Your time is coming.
>
>hugs and kisses
>Ward
>

You know I'm just teasing!  I just felt left out... no hard feelings, OK?
(Flame away if you like!)  

Luv & Snuggles,
  Dawna =)
happy happy joy joy!
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: wjap@rau3.rau.ac.za (Mnr W Phoenix - magasyn)
Subject: Re : I'm Wealthy an d looking for a female penfriend.
Organization: Rand Afrikaans University
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 10:24:08 GMT

Hi ,

My name is Wolfgang (Wolfi). I am 1.92m (6'2) tall , I have short 
brown/blonde hair, golden brown sun tan and deep blue eyes, and
Built like a Gladiator ( German decent).

I enjoy the outdooers, surfing, scuba diving, shark hunting(Great Whites) and
my personal favourite is the solo acent and once at the top paraglide to 
the bottom.

 I like to spoiling the fair sex .... if you think you are a woman enough
				      E-Mail me at the address below, If 
				      I'm not in my butler James will 
				      forward my message to me with the
				      Upmost urgency. !

				      WJAP@RAU3.RAU.AC.ZA

 Hoping to hear from all you wonderful prospects. !

 Wolfi
From: blac5789@mach1.wlu.ca (Robert Black u)
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Darrin Re: Walkies and Arctic Socks
Date: 27 Jan 93 20:53:48 GMT
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University

Darrin

		I don't know if you got my last message but my login has
changed. Since I can't be reached at the old e-mail address you had better
try me here. I found out how to post. Drop me a line and I'll explain it to
you.


			WARD
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: an7861@anon.penet.fi
Subject: My Name is Kyle. Guys, Wanna Dance?
Organization: Anonymous contact service
X-Anonymously-To: soc.penpals
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 00:18:36 GMT

     My name is Kyle Kramer and I am a freshman at Gettysburg College in
Pennsylvania.  I am a gay male and going to such a conservative school has
left me longing to communicate with those of my persuasion.  I love to dance
and listen to Sinead O'Connor.  Please be my friend, I'm ashamed to say it,
but I'm desperate.  I look forward to hearing from you.  All mail WILL be
responded to.
                                 Kyle
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From: S.R.Carlo@daresbury.ac.uk  (S.R. Carlo)
Subject: Re: For the guys...
Organization: SERC Daresbury Lab., Warrington, U.K.
Distribution: WORLD
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:39:18 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.184455.2939@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> h2xs@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (LANE  G) writes:
>OK Guys, listen up!  Check out this situation...
>
>I wake up this morning, and my girlfriend (for 2 months now) says: I think
>we should just be friends.  Many an occasion have I been tormented with 
>this phrase.  To even hear it makes my blood boil.  So I'd like to take a
>little survey:  How many of us (sorry girls) detest this as much as I?
>If any ladies would like to give their input, please feel free.  By the way,
>don't ever tell YOUR boyfriend that line.  It's stupid, and it's not fair.
>
>Please Append Name (and comments if desired):
>Glenn Lane (H2XS@CSDNOV3.UNB.CA)
>
Yep it's happened to me...but my question is:
"Why do you always do it when things are going well?"


Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: neil3475@mach1.wlu.ca (james neilson 9301 a)
Subject: lonely tonight (elvis)
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 04:33:14 GMT

somebody out there please send me something.  Anybody out there at Mt.
allison with nothing to do tonight.  A response is guaranteed.  Otherwise
I'm stuck doing paperwork and listening to all five cassettes of the Elvis
boxset.  A man can only take so much of "hunka-hunka-burnin' love"
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: hjanberg@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Hans-nicolas Kenneth Janberg)
Subject: Happy New Year in a 100 Languages
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 04:51:50 GMT

I don't know, but where I come from in France, we simply say:

	Bonne annee

That's all...

-Nicolas
From: ee_d375@king.ac.uk (Susan Slobodkin)
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: RE: I NEED A REAL MAN
Date: 21 Jan 1993 18:37:37 GMT
Organization: Kingston University
NNTP-Posting-Host: ceres.kingston.ac.uk
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

The earlier mail was just a test but only two people replied!!
My name is Susan. But you can me Silky(my nickname).
I am 21 yr old. 
I like sports a lot especially swimming. I enjoy going out, dancing
and eating out.
I am looking for an intelligent, caring man.
I will be spending the next summer in my sister's home in Florida.
Friendship comes first before any intimacy.
Only serious men need reply.
 

--
 S.S
From: jirasak@ai05.elcom.nitech.ac.jp (Jirasak Tanpreeyachaya)
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Re: japanese girl wants foreign penpals
Date: 23 Jan 93 09:35:27 GMT
Distribution: soc.penpals
Organization: Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan


Hello!!
I'm Thai from Chiang Mai,Thailand.
I can use only simple English and Japanese.
I would like to be yours pal.
Douzo yorosiku onegaisimasu.......
bye
jirasak
From: misd2ccr@dct.ac.uk
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: ANTIOCH COLLEGE YELLOW SPRINGS,OHIO
Date: 25 Jan 93 10:33:33 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology


  HEY IF THIS IS SOME ONE IN 
                            "ANTIOCH  COLLEGE" YELLOW SPRINGS COULD YOU

DO ME A HUGE FAVOUR AND SEE IF YOU CAN FIND A GIRL CALLED  

             "JANE  RAGO" FROM ,WV 

SHE IS A FRESHMAN IF THATS WHAT YOU CALL IT

PLEASE HELP ME OUT 






















IF YOU GET IN CONTACT WITH HER I WOULD BE SO GRATEFULL

       THANK YOU
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: etbeteille@happy.colorado.edu
Subject: Two Females Seeking E-Mails
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: 21 Jan 93 17:13:34 MDT


Gentlemen --
Two of my female friends have asked me, since I was planning to log on
to soc.penpals this afternoon, to solicit e-penpals for them.

	1)  LAUSTIN@uccs.edu
	    Laura, 22, 5'4", is a communications graduate teaching
	    assistant, but don't let that scare you.  She is very
	    friendly and would like to hear from a wide variety of
	    folks.  After she's perused your e-mails with her BIG
	    enticing brown eyes, she's promised to "reply in kind."

	2)  HNGILBERT@uccs.edu
	    Holly is her friend, and would very much like to hear
	    from people "all over the place."  You can get other
	    specifications from her, if she finds your message
	    interesting enough.... ;-)

It is my humble belief that these correspondances will be well worth your
time.  If these two are as open and easy-going on e-mail as they are in
person, it will certainly be worth the trouble to write.  And they would
like to remind everyone that Valentine's Day is coming soon!.....

Eric.
From: ez012344@chip.ucdavis.edu
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Re: I want a penpal!!!!
Date: 23 Jan 93 05:24:11 GMT
Organization: Computing Services, UC Davis

In article <727612092.2252@minster.york.ac.uk> aaron@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
>cmwhite@mta.ca wrote:
>: Hi.  My name is Christine.  I am 5'7, I have cascading ebony hair,
>: deep captivating blue eyes, and I am 18 years old.  I am in my first
>If Christine can post from Mount Allison without caps lock why can't
>anyone else? Must be one of imponderables like why is the sku blue.
 
But the real question is the relationship between the blue sky and
the deep captivating blue of Christine's eyes.

Of course, the sky is more than 5'7" tall ...

I say anyone whose eyes can captivate can Key Cap-tivate all she wants.

Oh I'm so funnnnnnny ...

Dan
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Re:  what did you do today? *** *** ***
From: zoltar@glasgow.amigans.gen.nz (Grant Thoms)
Date: 22 Jan 93 21:40:43 PST
 <1993Jan13.015242.557@lugb.latrobe.edu.au> <1993Jan15.044143.14139@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <1993Jan15.063113.13577@wam.umd.edu>
Distribution: world
Organization: Home UUCP Node... Where there's hardly (If Any) Organisation..

In article <1993Jan15.063113.13577@wam.umd.edu> adam@wam.umd.edu (Adam L.
Greenberg) writes:

>>what is your best-like position? I am just curious.

>Chief Executive Officer.  It beats Janitor hands down.

>;-)

>Campus Celebrity Gary Allen

Star FM Mid-Dawner... DJ extrodanaire... and Vampire in the training :-)

`Bright Light! Bright Light!'

Grant.

(P.S Hi Adam! why don't you write me? No sign of that PEZ Yet, I think the
post office has eaten them. :(  )

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Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: jhart@ee.ic.ac.uk (Joanna Hart)
Subject: Re: NZer looking for riot grrls
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 14:22:26 GMT

In article <zoltar.092k@glasgow.amigans.gen.nz> zoltar@glasgow.amigans.gen.nz (Grant Thoms) writes:
>In article <1993Jan15.015315.15276@massey.ac.nz> R.J.Patel@massey.ac.nz (R.
>Patel) writes:
>
>>G'day All
>
>`allo
>
>>I'd be interested in making some contacts with any Riot Grrls out there
>>in Net land.
>
>Riot Girls??? what are they?? Girls who cause a riot? :-)


Sorry to be obvious, but if you don't know what a Riot Grrl is then you aren't one!! (or else you don't read the NME- but shock! horror! EVERYONE reads the NME, it is the single most important publication in the English language, so it can't be that)

Jargon, jargon, jargon, dontcha love it.

Like the woman said " Riot harder grrls, it isn't working"
-- 
___________________________________________________________________
Jo Hart	 (jhart@ee.ic.ac.uk)	| "Alas, for I have wasted time,
Imperial College, London	|  and now does time waste me..."
___________________________________________________________________
From: dunger@crsa.bu.edu (David Unger)
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: crobertson
Date: 24 Jan 93 07:56:36 GMT
Organization: Boston University Center for Remote Sensing





If you hate america and it's obvious you do, take your opinions somewhere
else for you represent mount allison quite badly, just a little
advice dick.........


--DAVE
From: Mega_Tech_Consultants@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Re: penpal wanted...
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 20:15:31 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

contact me at 70743.300@compuserve.com
Randy Soard
14 Crescent Drive
Las Vegas, Nevada 89102
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: an7861@anon.penet.fi
Subject: R&B-loving SBF wanted!!!
Organization: Anonymous contact service
X-Anonymously-To: soc.penpals
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 04:14:37 GMT

Hello,
       My name is Marcus and I'm looking for a young SBF whose musical
interests coincide with my own.  That includes Keith Sweat, Johnny Gill,
Silk, Shai, or even Color Me Badd.  I attend a mostly white college and its
hard to find much other than Spin Doctors and Faith No More on people's
minds, even though I myself am white.  I just need to talk music once and a
while and this looks like a good way for me to do it.
       I look forward to hearing from you soon.  I promise to respond to
all.
                                      Marcus
                                      an7861@anon.penet.fi
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From: tjauhiai@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tommi Jauhiainen)
Subject: Re: Why can't I finger byu.edu ?
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:51:22 GMT

In <28JAN199312444604@venus.cc.hollandc.pe.ca> mcgrath@venus.cc.hollandc.pe.ca (178 McGrath, Jim P) writes:

>In article <93027.213544SXB134@psuvm.psu.edu>, <SXB134@psuvm.psu.edu> writes...
>>In article <1k71nuINNatf@news.gac.edu>, nbohlig@quince.gac.edu (Nathan M Bohlig)
>>says:
>>>
>>>I am confused, I have tried to mail someone, and I have tried to finger
>>>byu.edu  but I am always refused...have any ideas how I can get through?
>>>
>>Are you sure this is the complete address?  Try using findnode, or whatever
>>command they might have at your internet site.  "byu.edu" may not be the
>>complete address (in fact, it's probably not.)
>>                                                         Steve.

>You may be trying to connect to a system that is not compatible with FINGER. 
>Unix can't connect to a VMS system to check them out sometimes.  I know that I
>am on a VAX, and the university up the street (running unix) can't finger me,
>and we are only a few blocks away...

Or that other system just doesn't have finger-daemon running. So there
is nobody answering to your finger! And some systems don't have fixed
lines, they connect via dial-up lines. These systems you can't finger.

-- 
Tommi Jauhiainen, Paraistentie 17 D 61, 00280 Helsinki, Finland, +358-0-418294
tjauhiainen@cc.helsinki.fi, tjauhiainen@finuh.bitnet, looking for a life!