HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark)
Subject: Re: The Engaged Psychobitch from Hell Syndrome
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 11:38:07 GMT

In article <1992Sep15.005935.25638@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
>You meet this new girl.  A quick finger-scan for rings gives you an all-clear
>signal.

I never look at the hands anyway.

>You ask her out.  A real nice date or two.  Then right before
>things get too serious, she tells you she's engaged.

I'd probably say "break it off and come with me.  Or aren't you woman enough
to handle the intensity that you have to retreat back to a convenient relation
with a 'safe' guy?"

------------------------------------------------------------

"She lie there helpless, writhing as a powerful current of pleasure corased
through her body.  Wave after wave, and her cries grew louder. She struggled
to free herself from the controlling grasp of her lover. "
From: stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Tallllll women....
Date: 5 Sep 92 20:20:31 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:

>Another nice about being with a woman that you are the same height as is
>that your lips are both at the same altitude so that kiss on the first
>date is a little less awkward.  Should things progress a bit other strategic
>parts are within easy access while you are both are standing.  Imagine if
>you will, a 6'3" man trying to grab the butt of a 5'1" woman without going
>through major contortions.  

I guess that's why most of my first kisses/gropes with folks have taken
place while we were sitting down.

--
Stef                 Where am I going, and what am I doing in this handbasket?
stef@apple.com     
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: greg@netcom.com (Greg Bullough)
Subject: Re: E.W. - Musk, garlic, pizza and other smells....
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 15:02:10 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

In article <ewillims.716211647@unix1.tcd.ie> ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:
>like some of them (Fahrenheit makes me go weak at the knees and I 
>adore Tuscany or Eternity For Men) 

I could swear I just heard the sound of furious scribbling and note-taking
on university campuses and programming shops all across America. Naw. Must
have been my imagination.
 
Greg
 
"Cunnilingus is not an Irish airline" --- grafitti in "Stanley's Bar and Grill"
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: c71@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (David N)
Subject: Re: Romantic Love or a Cure for Cancer (was Re
Reply-To: c71@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 14:17:56 GMT


In article 715949040@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu, kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
misrael@csi.uottawa.ca (Mark Israel) asks Diamond:
>   Suppose you had a *choice* between finding a cure for cancer and 
>having a family.  Which would you choose?  

 Tricky question. If I already had a family, finding a cure for cancer would surely enrich my private and family life as well as the private lives of the rest of
humanity. I would feel great about my achievement (and my family would be proud of me for it). Or if I was single (I am) it would probably be so good for my personal image that getting in contact with nice women would not be a problem.  Not to mention the pleasures the title "The Guy Who Found a Cure for Cancer" would bring to the life of a single swinger. I will, however, disregard this last option since I beleive Mark's question aims at something different (even though it would be a permitted answer). It


 is the classical question of the choice between your own needs and the needs of others. 
The choice would not be very difficult if it weren't for the guilt aspect, in Mark's example withholding a cure for cancer. If the guilt-feelings make your personal life worth little, or nothing, you might as well go for pleasing others.

  Catholic priests sacrifice the possibility of having a family (our biological meaning of life). And they know that they won't be able to offer anything close to the cure of cancer. God knows who benefits from their sacrifice. Could it be that sacrifice itself gives a feeling of goodness and pureness? For many people it seems to work this way. This I see as egoism in it's most negative sense. Specially when they claim to live in asketism for MY sake. I never asked these guys to do it. I'd be much happier 


if they had great sex with their beloved and took their kids out fishing every weekend. Probably this type of life would actually be a great inspiration in the pursuit of, e.g., a cure for cancer.

This self-sacrifice stuff leads to back-projection of guilt. It is often applied by over-protective mothers (not very uncommon, actually).

So, at second thought I will choose NOT to disregard my first answer:
Find a cure for cancer, and then have a great and loving social single-life until you find yourself one morning eating breakfast with a really nice person who you would like to have more breakfasts with, and then you do that.

Best wishes,

David
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: liz@prc.unisys.com (Liz Loquacious)
Subject: Re: Tallllll women....
Followup-To: soc.singles
Organization: Paramax Systems
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 13:59:52 GMT

In article <Bu7H2I.CKF@tik.vtt.fi>, pekka@tmt.tele.fi (Pekka Ahonen) writes:
|> 
|> PS
|> Someone asked if all the tall men are in US of A.
|> There are also tall men (and women!) in Finland. I think that I'm
|> about the average height (or perhaps a bit short) 183 cm.
|> 
|> - Brandon

I found there to be a lot of tall women in Holland.  What I liked about
living there was being able to buy dress pants off the rack which weren't
already hemmed up above my calves or with the crotch between my knees!
I didn't mine paying for hemming (~$7); it was worth it to get the selection
finally!

Long Legged Liz Loquacious
From: dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: E.W. - Musk, garlic, pizza and other smells....
Date: 11 Sep 92 15:16:20 GMT
Reply-To: dhardin@spcink.bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

In article <ewillims.716211647@unix1.tcd.ie> ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:
>
>Apropos of body fragrances, what do you think of men's aftershaves/
>fragrances?  Is the consensus for or against?  Personally, I do
>like some of them (Fahrenheit makes me go weak at the knees and I 
>adore Tuscany or Eternity For Men) but they obviously must be 
>used in small doses.  
>What about women's perfumes too?  I use Calyx by Prescriptives which
>is very light. I don't like the heavier muskier ones.

Yucch.  No colognes, no perfumes, none of that silly stuff.  Herbal or
floral essential oils.  They smell cleaner, purer, and less chemical than
any commercial cologne.  I buy mine at a wiccan supply shop where they
come complete with supposed magic properties, so I choose one to match
my mood for the day.  Sweet pea oil is to make friends and meet new people,
magnolia oil is to promote calmness, and the infamous orange blossom oil
is to wrap men around your little finger and turn them into love slaves.
The male equivalent to attract women is patchouli oil, I gather.  At
least my ex wore it and it always seemed to work for him.

Dawn
"Oh, Time!  Of all the dwellers here below 
You only elevate buffoons or fools,
Or him whose anus as an inkstand serves."
The Perfumed Garden of the Shaykh Nefzawl, translated by Sir Richard F. Burton
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.)
Subject: Re: Tallllll women....
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 05:45:32 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <4210@moscom.UUCP> wjb@moscom.com writes:
>parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz wrote:
>: I suspect I'm more crazy *because* I'm tall - hey, if I'm going to get noticed
>: anyway ...
>That's it, you're taller, and consequently absorb more cosmic rays;  less
>atmosphere to screen 'em.  Must be it.

I like that theory.
(that and I've lived at high altitudes all my life, so lack of Oxygen might
be a contributing factor as well :)
r.
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Boston Boink - Highlights
Keywords: Hairless Wonder, Police, Bananas
Date: 15 Sep 92 19:59:26 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Sep15.162713.7107@cbfsb.cb.att.com> jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) writes:
|In article <1992Sep15.155935.20581@gvl.unisys.com> liz@prc.unisys.com (Liz Loquacious) writes:
|>
|>Friday I can't post about.  I didn't arrive until the wee hours
|>but one of the first things we did once we met up with Dawn and
| 
|Who's we? What time did you arrive?
|>
|>Saturday afternoon we listened to funky music and ate ethnic
|>food at the Cambridge River Festival.  We gaped at Dawn's hairless
|>wonder, 

That's nice, but what's her SO like?

|>but he was probably disappointed that the game ended since he certainly appeared
|>to be enthralled with the skirt on the cute blonde he was following around those 
| 
|Cute blonde?
  
Anyone we would like to know, and more importantly, does she have any
seesters?

|>chairs!  One of Boston's finest showed up at the door and we had
| 
|I keel him.
| 
Any boink that is wild enough that the cities finest shows up at has to
have something going for it.

|>to tone things down a bit but the party rolled on till almost three in the 
|>morning.  Allisson made it but held out on her banana tricks till Sunday!  Got
|>to meet Rob Thurlow (in from Dallas) and Bill Ralston and we won't talk
|>about Karen Gorman!  If I've left anything out please fill it in!
| 
|Karen Gorman??? Karen Gorman????????????
| 
Yea, that's no fair.  Why won't you talk about Karen Gorman?

|I promise as soon as I sell my house and move into a bigger house a Boink
|will occur.
  
Occur?  Occur?  If James has a Boink I'm sure it'll do more than just "occur".

-- 
+==========================================================================+
| John Fereira     | Auspex Systems | "Auspex does not share my opinions.  |
| johnf@auspex.com | Santa Clara CA |  So Why am I still working here?"    |
+==========================================================================+
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: richwing@leland.Stanford.EDU (Rich Wingerter)
Subject: Re: Flirting.
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 05:45:42 GMT

In article <26117@dog.ee.lbl.gov>, elliott@csa2.lbl.gov (JAMES ELLIOT) writes:
|> Okay, I'm no longer lurking (provided this actually posts this time).  What I
|> would like to do is start a discussion about flirting.  It's something that I
|> have not been able to get a real hadle on.  I'm not sure what it is exactly, 
|> what I'm supposed to do and when women are flirting with me.

"Flirting".  It's the name of a new movie that was just released.  I saw the
previews the other day.


--Rich Wingerter
From: tyger@netcom.com (Kitty in the Middle)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: A lurker goes to California
Keywords: Good luck !!
Date: 10 Sep 92 23:57:59 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Boogie Rats on Speed

In article <BuBpL7.5E4@acsu.buffalo.edu> lewocz@acsu.buffalo.edu (John S. Lewocz) writes:
>In article <ntsnctq.tyger@netcom.com> tyger@netcom.com (Kitty in the Middle) writes:
>>In article <BuB1sn.FpE@acsu.buffalo.edu> v105l4lg@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (c pierre) writes:
>>>	If you can, try and rent a car and buy a map in the process, because	
>>>that place is quite treacherous. Yes, in the blink of an eye you would be
>>>naked and broke around those folks. Party animals you see !!
>>That's a flaming lie! We only want his money! :)
>
>You'll be sorely disappointed!!!  :-)

Oh sure, you expect me to believe that? I didn't just fall off a surfboard
yesterday, you know...(actually it was about a week ago...)

>>>				 Good luck with your job interview!
>>Now that I can agree with...:)
>
>Thanks.

No problem...:)

>--John

  Tyger
-- 
      Kristen Kohlbecker    And I would choose to be with you
      tyger@netcom.com      That's if the choice were mine to make   
                            But you can make decisions too
      A Tyger and a Lady    And you can have this heart to break
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Diamonds
Date: 8 Sep 92 18:10:06 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <15mn!sd@lynx.unm.edu> hays@TECHNET.NM.ORG writes:
>In article <14449@auspex-gw.auspex.com>, johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
|>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
|
|Well, I've caught the show a few times, personally - It looks kinda fun.

I've never seen the show but I used to work for a guy whose sister was a 
regular on AG.  I don't remember her stage name but she was the one from
Los Gatos.

|It was a lot of fun to watch,
|and I think it would have been loads of fun to compete except that I would
|have been clobbered and gasping within seconds.
 
One thing for sure, they are all in great shape.
	
-- 
+==========================================================================+
| John Fereira     | Auspex Systems | "Auspex does not share my opinions.  |
| johnf@auspex.com | Santa Clara CA |  So Why am I still working here?"    |
+==========================================================================+
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart)
Subject: Re: chemistry / love at first sight : fact or fiction?
Organization: my opinions only
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 01:56:11 GMT

In article <4201@moscom.UUCP> wjb@moscom.com writes:
>Emma Williams (ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie) wrote:
>: Well, do you guys feel the same way?  Do you hate it if the woman makes
>: it too obvious that she can't live without you?  Actually, I'm sure you
>: probably do...I have heard men complain before about "clingy" women!
>
>Well, I'd find this a bit flattering, but I'd worry about anyone who really
>felt as if they couldn't live without someone else.  And if the someone else
>was me, it'd probably scare the daylights out of me.

I've found that relationships work best when both people are at
approximately the same level of feeling for each other, whether that
is "we like to get together every month or so for a chat" or "people
think we're permanently joined at the hips".  They don't work so well
when the people involved are at different ends of that spectrum (been
there, done that, speak from unhappy experience).

Seth		sethb@fid.morgan.com
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Tallllll women....
From: parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz
Date: 10 Sep 1992 00:08:16 GMT
Reply-To: parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz
 <1992Sep7.022547.29338@peponi.wcc.govt.nz> <gzrnvk-@lynx.unm.edu>,<14509@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
Organization: Wellington City Council, Wgtn, NZ
NNTP-Posting-Host: blade.wcc.govt.nz

In article <14509@auspex-gw.auspex.com>, johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:

>|It would appear that all the tall men in the world live in the US.

>Nope.  When a tall women complains about not enough tall men you're going
>to see a lot of postings to soc.singles by tall men.


Duh!  I didn't think of that!







Rachel

"Supergoof"

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Rachel

"Supergoof"

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From: kramersc@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Scott C. Kramer)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: General topic to break the monotony
Date: 8 Sep 92 16:47:09 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

In article <1992Sep8.152104.24662@cbfsb.cb.att.com> jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) writes:
>In article <flrn61f@lynx.unm.edu> blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
>>This might sound cruel but....
>>In Illinois yesterday, a plane carrying skydivers crashed.
>>My only question is, why didn't they jump out?
>>r.
> 
>ron, yes that was cruel.
>Da plane never cleared forty feet.
>The skydivers needed to clear 500 ft to jump.
>P.S. Glad I'm slow taking up skydiving. Thats where I'll be. Hinckley.
>
> 
>================================================================================
> Sesquipedalian's 'R' Us. ZX-10. DoD#564. There ain't no more.
>================================================================================

 I would like to add my .02.  That was definitely a sad event...
but I hope they find out what happened to the plane.....




Scotto

kramersc@expert.cc.purdue.edu

"Born an Illini,
 Boilermaker by the grace of God"
:
From: swann@acsu.buffalo.edu (Stephen Swann)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Believe in youself, dammit!
Date: 14 Sep 92 01:23:03 GMT
Organization: UB

In article <1992Sep13.213227.1867@samba.oit.unc.edu> Bathsheba.Grossman@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bathsheba Grossman) writes:
>kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
>>I have no trouble initiating conversations with strangers.  After all,
>
>....
>"Making" someone, for me, is like shooting the curl or free-climbing, in
>that the terror and risk enable me to read signals and produce conversation
>with what seems in retrospect like supernatural awesomeness.

And she -is- an unholy terror in person.  Errr, what I mean is she can 
really unleash the devil of a conversation.  :)

>The awkwardness won't go away is my guess, but with a little experience,
>when you feel that the subject is worth going balls-out for, it may finally
>be useful.  I think this sort of 'hyperspace personality' (s2s) is a fringe
>benefit of being alienated: if I were comfortable with humans it would
>never happen.

Her methods and manners are so incredibly blunt that at close range
they could easily be mistaken for being "smooth".  Also, she is able
to be somewhat outrageously direct with complete strangers, because I
think that being outrageous has passed beyond her ability to turn on
and off at will.  This at least has the benefit of getting an instant
positive or negative reaction, which will be true for all time, rather
than the typical and often misleading "first impression" that most
people convey.

-- 
Steve Swann                 |    Speak to me in many voices; make
swann@acsu.buffalo.edu      |      them all sound like one...  -BOC
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: smith@comm.mot.com (Jeff Smith)
Subject: Re: Tallllll women....
Organization: Gagging Sloth Records
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 13:13:14 GMT

In article <1992Sep7.022547.29338@peponi.wcc.govt.nz>, parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz writes:
> 
|> It would appear that all the tall men in the world live in the US.
|> 
|> Anybody giving away 'plane tickets from NZ => US ???

Only if you promise to bring along some sheep...I hear you've got plenty! :-)

jds - 3'2"

OK, so I lied...

***************************************************************************
                               * Health and knowledge and wealth and power,
Jeff Smith                     * Passion and poems and sex
smith@fl08-g.comm.mot.com      * I wear a smile like a leather glove,
                               * I won't shut my mouth for less.
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: c71@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (David N)
Subject: Re: chemistry / love at first sight : fact
Reply-To: c71@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 12:18:54 GMT

In article 716118911@unix1.tcd.ie, ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:
>In <!mrnbrq.aahz@netcom.com> aahz@netcom.com (Aahzmandius) writes:
>
>>In article <1992Sep8.035506.24811@csi.uottawa.ca> misrael@csi.uottawa.ca (Mark Israel) writes:
>>>In article <1992Sep7.022243.29268@peponi.wcc.govt.nz>, parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz (Rachel) writes:
>>>
>>>> I'm beginning to think there *is* no such thing as love at first sight.
>>>
>>>   Would you *want* to love someone whom you knew nothing about?  Why?
>
>>Don't you believe in telepathy?
>
>	I heard a very interesting comment on Love at first sight last
>night which I thought was very clever.  The guy said that it was in fact
>a form of Narcissism. You can't possibly know what the object of your
>desires is *really* like so you project onto them all the qualities that
>you admire or lack in yourself.  The other person then becomes the 
>epitome of all you want them to be.  That made sense to me. How about
>you?
> 
 It surely makes sense! I beleive it is subconcious. When the romance is over you suddenly find out what it was all about. It can be a (painful) way of finding new parts of your own personality (I did not now I could paint before last summer). 
  
David

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: probst@fraser.sfu.ca (Scott Probst)
Subject: Re: Moose (was Re: Desperation)
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 22:32:55 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.200600.24593@uwm.edu> markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:
>In article <8lvna#d@lynx.unm.edu> blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
>>I had a sister once that was bit by a Moose....
>>No, really!
>
>Must have been a pretty horny moose.

some of us just do this to animals. they turn into, well, people, i guess.
i was bitten once by a kangaroo (invaded his turf), pecked on the head by
an emu (didn't give him a chocolate biscuit), and then there was the camel
that tried to eat my jacket (didn't wait for me to take it off). it's
all so sad.

scott
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: chemistry / love at first sight : fact or fiction?
From: parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz
Date: 10 Sep 1992 01:44:56 GMT
Reply-To: parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz
 <1992Sep7.022243.29268@peponi.wcc.govt.nz>,<1992Sep9.040523.8889@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
Organization: Wellington City Council, Wgtn, NZ
NNTP-Posting-Host: blade.wcc.govt.nz

In article <1992Sep9.040523.8889@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:

>Trygve  (6'4" -- who was just running a meeting earlier today in
>         which all of the programmers in the department are taller
>         than I am.) 

There IS a God!






Rachel

"Supergoof"

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Rachel

"Supergoof"

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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: liz@prc.unisys.com (Liz Loquacious)
Subject: Re: "try becoming obsessed with..."
Followup-To: soc.singles
Organization: Paramax Systems
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 21:05:13 GMT

In article <1992Sep15.190119.2065@uwm.edu>, markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:
|> 
|> >Liz Loquacious
|> 
|> What a nem! What a nem!  You hahf seesters nemmed Liz too, no?

Strange that you should ask...Mom got a little obsessed with this naming
stuff.  She's Elizabeth, I'm Elizabeth, then there's Alice Elizabeth,
and Mary Elizabeth.  Guess she likes her name.

Liz Loquacious - one of a kind nonetheless
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: ron@turing.toronto.edu (Ron Wessels)
Subject: Re: Various ramblings...
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
Date: 6 Sep 92 03:54:38 GMT

damond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams) writes:
>Hee hee.  Good point.  This reminds me a little bit of that fantastic 
>marketing ploy, "extra large" condoms.  Not everyone buys them, but I 
>bet lots of people *claim* to buy them.

johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) responds:
>I thought *nobody* actually bought them as they always seem be in stock when
>I go into to pick up a couple of boxes of "extra large" condoms.

Ross Ridge <ross@zooid.guild.org> rebuts:
>I thought *everybody* bought "extra large" condoms, so stores rarely stock
>"normal" condoms anymore.

This brings to mind one of the urban legends I remember hearing about
a while back.

It's the height of the Cold War.  The USSR (rip) decides to pull a
propaganda coup over the US.  They send an order for some large number
of condoms to Goodyear (or whoever) for the Russian Army.  With
specifications: length 14" and diameter 3".

The order is promptly filled and sent back to Russia.
In packages labelled "medium".

-- 
Ron Wessels		University of Toronto		ron@turing.toronto.edu