HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: panda@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca (Elizabeth Holden)
Subject: Re: genetics & sexual orientation
Organization: M.B. Cormier INC.
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 08:24:44 EST

un032230@wvnvms.wvnet.edu writes:

> In article <BywGqu.146@kathunk.phaedrav.on.ca>, nigel@kathunk.phaedrav.on.ca 
> > 
> > For all those that can't get here for Christmas cookies and home-made
> > beer, here's my gift to all of you - a new thread!  Someone (sorry, I
> > forget who) inspired this by being curious as to possibility of a
> > genetic link to sexual orientation.  I realize that there is yet no

Genetics is a complex question..... and I think the answer is that we are 
all far more complex genetically than anyone can grapple with at this 
time.

It might not be a gene-link trait, but it may be that there are 
combinations of genes that lead to, say, a certain brain chemistry if 
other conditions are met.

> > definitive answer but there are certainly some interesting arguements

As with much speculation into various areas of research, especially 
bio-sociological research.  (By which I mean, the links between human 
behaviour, genetics, and cuture.)

> > Assumption 4.  I should really post this to soc.motss but can't stand
> > 		the traffic.  The intelligent post:flame ratio (S/N) is
> > 		so much higher here.  The friendly index is over the top.
> > 		I'm flattering all of you so that you'll answer this
> > 		carefully.

Well done.  Everyone should try that.
> 
> If there were a gayness gene, it could be a recessive trait, in which case 
> it would not be expressed, or not be fully expressed in anything other than 
> the homozygous recessive.  The heterozygus individuals in the population

And what about the "bi-ness" gene?  Is it differerent?  A combination of 
genes?  A separate category?

My inclination is to think we are barking up the wrong three here.

> On the other hand, the gayness coding could come from a genetic mistake
> occuring in a high percentage of embryos.  Since the mistake doesn't impose 

Mistake?  Wrong word.  In genetic terms, traits either survive or 
disappear - you don't get mistakes.


Hugs, 
Elizabeth
From: jcarroll@bach.udel.edu (James Carroll)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: De-muffinning
Date: 18 Dec 92 19:43:16 GMT
Organization: CNS User Services, University of Delaware

In article <BzGsHu.LCx@ibmpcug.co.uk> shelly@rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk (Shelly DelVeccio) writes:
>Hi everyone. This is it! You're not gonna believe this, but I've been
>reading this group since January and this is the first time I've had the
>courage to post. I guess there comes a time when you just gotta do
>self-indulgent, incredibly short-sighted things...;-)
>

I believe it.  I started reading this group the day it began (was that 14
or 18 months ago :-) ) and first posted only a couple of months ago!

>So here I am, hug me, quick!

*quick hug* *little bit longer hug* *long lasting squeeze*

>
>Oh, and I just have one question: Ciaran is the moderator here, right?
>(Teasing, just teasing!)
>
>-sh
>

-James

-- 
I'm feeling kinda loose, I'm feeling kinda mean       | First I was a murderer
I've been feeling kinda wild since I turned seventeen | Then I was a saint
- Melissa Etheridge, "Ain't It Heavy"                 | -The Glove,
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-jcarroll@brahms.udel.edu-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-| "Like An Animal"
Newsgroups: soc.bi
From: gothick@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Gothick)
Subject: De-muffining?? (was Re: A question about Stephen M. Conley)
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 17:05:05 GMT

idx009@cck.coventry.ac.uk (the Crisco Kid) writes:

>In article <1992Dec11.104107.24400@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> gothick@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Matthew B. M. Gibson) writes:
>>gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:
>>>Monster Raving Loony Party.  They don't want to be in power.
>>Which is a great shame - They're possibly the only party I really trust... ;-)

>MATT! It's YOU!  YAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!

>Decided to demuffin, eh?  Me first, folks...

Woahhh, boy!  Let's all have a vote on this - does the simple act of posting
to this group constitute de-muffining, folks?  *grin*

>*hug**hug**hug**hug**hug**hug**hug**hug**hug**hug**hug**hug**hug**hug*

And

*hug*snuggle**hug*snuggle**hug*snuggle**hug*snuggle**hug*snuggle**hug*

back...  But *I* don't think I de-muffined, m'dear...  I'm not too sure which
way(s) I lean myself yet ;-)

>				Kay

>PS: we really must have that drink in the Union sometime.  Next term,
>earlyish?

Well, if you can put up with an overweight, overlooked and oversexed (always
wanted that as the title for my autobiography...) gothy type, I'll see you
there...

Hugs to everyone out there... (And for those of you thinking of making your
first post - *go for it*!)

Matt

xxxxx

>-- 
>6'2", dark short hair, blue eyes, bisexual and horny as ....
>Kay Dekker, Dept of Industrial Design, Coventry University, Coventry UK
>37 Old Winnings Road, Keresley Village, Coventry   |B0 f t+ g++ k++! s+ e r p!
>Phone: +44 203 838668 (work) +44 203 337865 (home) |Deflowerer-of-innocents
-- 
 Matthew B. M. Gibson:
 gothick@dcs.warwick.ac.uk - mgibson@nyx.cs.du.edu -  csudo@csv.warwick.ac.uk
 "Great.  I'm a million miles from home, about to be killed, with a 
  gung-ho iguana who tells me to relax"
Newsgroups: soc.bi,soc.motss
From: panda@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca (Elizabeth Holden)
Subject: Re: Liberty (was something relevant about CO-2 long ago...)
Organization: M.B. Cormier INC.
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 08:17:16 EST

arodgers@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Angus H Rodgers) writes:

> In <1992Dec09.062212.8005@microsoft.com>
> leecr@microsoft.com (Lee Crocker) writes:
> 
> >place where the lowliest laborer doesn't have to salute any flag, or
> >pray to any god, or use the sweat of his brow to feed anyone but himself
> >and his family, free to live, work, and die on his own terms, and to
> >interact with others only by the mutual consent of _all_ involved.  It

One of my problems with Libertarian talk is that they tend to use phrases 
like "feeding himself and his family".   In other words, just about every 
Libertarian thinker seems to have been mascuine, patriarchal, and 
traditional in thinking.  (Ha!  Bet Libertarians aren't often accused of 
being "too traditional"!)

> >is an idealistic vision we admit; but funny thing--the more we work

No, it doesn't sound idealistic to me.  I don't like laws and governments 
either but Libertarians always sound to me like Social Darwinists - a 
point of view that terrifies me.  


Hugs,
Elizabeth


Newsgroups: soc.bi
From: Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (Albert Lunde)
Subject: Re: Attack of the Seperatists (was Re: Roy's "consenting" slave)
Followup-To: soc.bi
Originator: lunde@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
Reply-To: Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (Albert Lunde)
Organization: Ministry of Silly Walks
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 03:14:56 GMT

I'd like to put in a request that people take a deep breath and
count to ten or something like that.

I can find something to agree with with Vikki and Iseult and Roy and 
others, but I'm finding it hard to express this in ways that won't
inflame discussion futher.

On one hand I think using the term "seperatist" was unjustified
in the first place. On another, I'm a bit dubious about sweeping
statements about men at large. Both seem, in this context,
to be having the effect of interrupting communication more than
advancing it.

IMHO -- a dyed-in-the-wool seperatist wouldn't be posting to soc.bi,
and indeed none of the women who posts shows a striking 
resemblance to self-described separatists.

The original questions raised -- about the nature of consent and
about the value of women getting support from other women,
seem to me to be grounded in broader feminist discourse than
"seperatism".

At the same time, I like to think of myself as a feminist, and
would maintain the postion that it is not the case that men
*can't* understand women or feminism, but rather that we
usually don't have incentives to try very hard.

The implicit suggestion that men are congenitally clueless
annoys me, though I recognize it is grounded in anger about
substantial issues, and I try not to take it very personally.

(In theory this may be distinct from the proposition that
men's *socialization* is so screwed up that it is not worth
spending time on them.  In practice, they do sound a lot alike,
though this may distingush, say, Susan Griffin from Sally Miller
Gearheart.)

But I think both sides in this debate here might consider
trying not to see this in the most sweeping, general terms of
"men" vs. "women" or "feminist" vs. "oppressor", and
trying to pay more attention to the personal details.

What kind of feminist is Iseult?; what sort of man is Roy?;
what is the substance of the relationship between Roy and Kerry?;
what's Muffy's favorite color ;) (things like that)

-- 
 Albert Lunde         | Interfaith  |     *Y*Y*      "A branch on the
 Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu |  Bisexual   |      *Y*        tree of life"
                      |  Feminist   |.......|.........................
From: winsor@geek.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (js)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: Coming Out: The Report (and hugs)
Date: 12 Dec 1992 02:50:54 GMT
Organization: Texas Instruments Incorporated, Austin
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: geek.teng.ppd.ti.com

Roy, you have a really good mom!

Congrats on the scene!

*HUG-aHUG-aHUG*
js
From: idx009@cck.coventry.ac.uk (the Crisco Kid)
Subject: Re: Introduction, or De-Muffining
Organization: Eris's Restaurant
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:04:32 GMT

In article <Bz8vLB.5KF@news.udel.edu> jcarroll@bach.udel.edu (Royal J Carroll) writes:
>-James, who just happens to be listening to _Thick_As_A_Brick right now

You know, I think I'm going to enjoy meeting this man.

				Kay
-- 
6'2", dark short hair, blue eyes, bisexual and horny as ....
Kay Dekker, Dept of Industrial Design, Coventry University, Coventry UK
37 Old Winnings Road, Keresley Village, Coventry   |B0 f t+ g++ k++! s+ e r p!
Phone: +44 203 838668 (work) +44 203 337865 (home) |Deflowerer-of-innocents
Newsgroups: soc.bi
From: wells@athena.cs.uga.edu (Scott Wells)
Subject: Re: Introduction, or De-Muffining
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 01:23:08 GMT


Says the Wells in Texas:

>>>6'2", dark short hair, blue eyes, bisexual and horny as ....
>>Okay . . . everytime I read this, I get curiouser and curioser.  You
>>don't happen to be planning on seeing Texas anytime soon, do you?
>
>Welll..... I *could* be... I think there's someone in Austin I may
>want to see...
>
>>*grin*
>
>*grin* back.
>
>>Darren

Says Kay:

>>(6'3", dark short hair, green eyes, bisexual and horny as ....)
>
>Oh, that clinches it!  I'll be coming.
>
>				Kay

Says the Wells in Georgia:

Dammit. It was my out-coming that started this string. *sniff*
And no-one is coming to *snuffled gasp, sniff* see me.

Scott

6'3", dark short hair, brown eyes, bisexual, and horny as ....
                       ^^^^^

And is everyone so tall around here ?

-- 
Scott Wells                        +  Get thee behind me Satan !
Internet: wells@athena.cs.uga.edu  + 
University of Georgia		   +  Looking for families: Wells, Fox (TN)
Athens, Georgia, USA               +  Coatney (TN), Wilvert (PA)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
From: jsb16@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Jennifer S Broekman)
Subject: Re: Roy's "consenting" slave
Reply-To: jsb16@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Jennifer S Broekman)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:47:26 GMT

In article <s882916.724315458@otto> s882916@otto (Vikki POLLARD) writes:
>You men just don't get it huh?

I happen to be female. I happen also to not agree with you. The right to
choose the form of our relationships does not imply that we may only choose
the way you would choose. The right to choose means the right to say 'yes'
as well as the right to say 'no'.

-jenneke

   Only Boys Accepting Feminism Get Kissed Meaningfully  -- Geoff Marcy
The only unnatural sexual act is that which you cannot perform. - Alfred Kinsey
		jenneke is: jsb16@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu
Xref: sparky soc.bi:16811 soc.motss:53010
From: litterst@pecan.cns.udel.edu (The Assasin's Guild)
Subject: Re: Introduction, or De-Muffining
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 00:53:27 GMT

In article <Bz43L1.21o@cck.coventry.ac.uk> idx009@cck.coventry.ac.uk (the Crisco Kid) writes:
>In article <Bz33x4.FI2@news.udel.edu> seamus@ravel.udel.edu (James G Dilmore) writes:
>>In article <1992Dec11.000518.3111@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> dwells@lonestar.utsa.edu (Darren . Wells) writes:
>>>Darren
>>>(6'3", dark short hair, green eyes, bisexual and horny as ....)
>>swoon.  Omy you aren't coming up The northeastern direction are you?
>>Green eyes? swoon again.
>
>
>Hmmmm... now, if I go to Texas before I get to Delaware, I could
>tell you all about it, couldn't I? *tease* *tease* *tease*
>
>				Kay

Of course, if you came through Del first we could all road-trip down to
Texas with you. *HINT*HINT*HINT*

Steve
(6'5", long blonde hair, blue-green eyes, unknown, not quite as horny as
  everyone else unfortunately)
-- 
| The Assasin's Guild           |  No matter how subtle the wizard...     |
| c/o Stephen C. Litterst       |   A knife between the shoulder blades   |
| kyraan@bach.udel.edu           \   will always cramp his style.         |
|_litterst@freezer.cns.udel.edu___\_____________Stephen Brust_____________|
Newsgroups: soc.bi
From: j_babylo@oz.plymouth.edu (Jessica L. Babylon)
Subject: Re: Help! I've been killfiled and I can't get out!
Followup-To: j_babylo@oz.plymouth.edu
Summary: Guess what i got...
Organization: Plymouth State College - Plymouth, NH.
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 06:19:04 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.155123.1971@cbnews.cb.att.com> eleanor@cbnews.cb.att.com (Piglet) writes:
>
>Piglet, still looking for a Piglet stamp...

guess what i found in my hometown, in the neatest little children's
store called Whirlygigs, a little Piglet, along with Pooh and Co,
stamp kit.Grin.reply through email if you like.

- Me
From: idx009@cck.coventry.ac.uk (the Crisco Kid)
Subject: Re: A question about Stephen M. Conley
Organization: Eris's Restaurant
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:33:03 GMT

In article <1992Dec11.104107.24400@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> gothick@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Matthew B. M. Gibson) writes:
>gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:
>>Monster Raving Loony Party.  They don't want to be in power.
>Which is a great shame - They're possibly the only party I really trust... ;-)

MATT! It's YOU!  YAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!

Decided to demuffin, eh?  Me first, folks...


*hug**hug**hug**hug**hug**hug**hug**hug**hug**hug**hug**hug**hug**hug*

				Kay

PS: we really must have that drink in the Union sometime.  Next term,
earlyish?


-- 
6'2", dark short hair, blue eyes, bisexual and horny as ....
Kay Dekker, Dept of Industrial Design, Coventry University, Coventry UK
37 Old Winnings Road, Keresley Village, Coventry   |B0 f t+ g++ k++! s+ e r p!
Phone: +44 203 838668 (work) +44 203 337865 (home) |Deflowerer-of-innocents
From: bjm@ceti.csustan.edu (Barb Moose)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: anti-bi's
Date: 13 Dec 92 20:09:33 GMT
Organization: CSU Stanislaus

I just read the post regarding the terrible reaction to a bi button.
I have found personally that I get it from both straights and les/gays.
I initially thought that I would be supported from lesbians and gays, but
NOOOOOOOOOO....   so, what is the reason?  I am confused.  I feel now
like I really don't fit in, and have to re-closet from everyone.

Any suggestions?


-- 
       ______
       \    /  bjm@ceti.csustan.edu
        \  /   Barb Moose
	 \/
Newsgroups: soc.bi
From: dwells@lonestar.utsa.edu (Darren . Wells)
Subject: Re: Introduction, or De-Muffining
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 02:39:45 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.174056.1527@athena.cs.uga.edu>
 wells@athena.cs.uga.edu (Scott Wells) writes:
>In article <29506@castle.ed.ac.uk>
 moragw@castle.ed.ac.uk (Alloy Serving Woman) writes:
>>RE: And is everyone so tall around here?
>>I don't know about the others but I'm 5'10 and I _love_ being tall (and
>>maybe its the only thing I'm not so insecure about...)
>
>But is 5'10" really tall ?
>
>Consider the the Scott (6'3") Wells Height-o-meter:
>
>Short:  up to 6'
>Average: 6'1" to 6'5"
>Mutant: over 6'5"

So I guess I am average, at least when the Scott Wells Height-o-meter
is invoked.  :)  It's nice to be an average height for a change.

>So you see, at 5'10", you really aren't tall.

I guess height, too, is in the eye of the beholder.  ;)

Darren
(sad that he has to borrow a friend's computer, since his doesn't have
a modem, so he ends up missing a lot of stuff as a result)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
From: safarj@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Jonah Emanuel Safar)
Subject: Re: See Roy?
Keywords: Here I am!
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 22:38:38 GMT

rsr@soda.berkeley.edu (Roy S. Rapoport) writes:

>In article <hxn22jb@rpi.edu> safarj@aix.rpi.edu (Jonah Emanuel Safar) writes:
>-> See Roy?  Here I am!
>-><Bounces up and down above the sea of people posting to soc.bi.>
>-> Told you I was in here somewhere, believe me now?

>Points! Yeay! Hey everyone, it's Points!

>*bearhug* *snuggle* *grin* Thanks for that first night!

>-roy
>-- 
>Roy S. Rapoport     internet: rsr@soda.berkeley.edu      bitnet: rsrsoda@ucbocf
>"What I used to think is me ... is just a faded memory ... " -NIN
>DISCLAIMER:  I speak for the University of California at Berkeley.  Rrrright.

Shush dear!  You want the whole world to know that I may be responsible for
bringing you here?  I'd never hear the end of it... But... Feh, yer welcome
anyhow. :) <Snuggle>  And, no, I'm _not_ telling what that first night is...
<Glares around and _dares_ anyone to try and make him....>

(One tired Dragon who's been up waaaay too long....)
-Points
-- 
________________________________________________________________________________
 If the President won't do it to his wife, he'll do it to his Country. -Unknown
________________________________________________________________________________
Jonah E. Safar             R.P.I., Troy, NY              EMail to:safarj@rpi.edu
Newsgroups: soc.bi
From: cjmchale@dsg.cs.tcd.ie (Ciaran McHale)
Subject: Re: Help! I've been killfiled and I can't get out!
Organization: DSG, Dept. of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 21:50:24 GMT

In <BzDF0o.GLE@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
dbshapco@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Brad Shapcott) writes:
>[Re: putting people in your killfile]
>I do think it is a dangerous practice to apply so broad a filter.
>People you do not like often have things to say as important as
>said by those people you do like.  Usually the 'n' and 'k' keys
>are powerful enough for me, and only used for subjects I have no
>interest in (not discussions where the main participant(s) irritates
>me).

You are generalising from your own experience and assuming that other
people feel (or should feel) similarly. Some of us don't. If/how one
uses a killfile or not is a personal choice and is not subject to your
approval.


Ciaran.
-- 
---- Ciaran McHale (cjmchale@dsg.cs.tcd.ie)
\bi/ Department of Computer Science, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland.
 \/  Telephone: +353-1-7021539 FAX: +353-1-6772204
Newsgroups: soc.bi
From: dwells@lonestar.utsa.edu (Darren . Wells)
Subject: Re: Introduction, or De-Muffining
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 18:28:42 GMT

In article <1gbkv6INNiag@cuda.add.itg.ti.com>
 winsor@geek.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (js) writes:
>In article <Bz33x4.FI2@news.udel.edu>,
 seamus@ravel.udel.edu (James G Dilmore) writes:
>|> In article <1992Dec11.000518.3111@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
 dwells@lonestar.utsa.edu (Darren . Wells) writes:
>|> >
>|> >Darren
>|> >(6'3", dark short hair, green eyes, bisexual and horny as ....)
>|>
>|> swoon.  Omy you aren't coming up The northeastern direction are you?
>|>
>|> Green eyes? swoon again.
>|>
>Hey!  He's closer to ME!  I get a fair chance, don't I?  Darren?
>PLEAD PLEAD PLEAD!
>
>js

Of course you do - if our schedules ever slow down enough to work it
out!  Work can be such a bothersome thing sometimes . . .

Darren
(gleefully spending hundreds if not thousands of dollars
to flirt worldwide)


Newsgroups: soc.bi
From: seamus@ravel.udel.edu (James G Dilmore)
Subject: Re: Australians (was Re: accidently out)
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 19:18:50 GMT

In article <9235021.17685@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> nsn@ee.mu.OZ.AU (Nick Nicholas) writes:
>
>prevalent to those that are miserable... Schadenelend? Ich glaube, dass
>wir ein neues Wort haben, Shaetzi! :)
>
Nicht Deutsch auch.  Du sprichst zu viele Sprachen, mein Freund.
Greek, German, some bizarre english-australian gemisch which I can 
barely fathom at times :) You are quite the cunning linguist.
;)

>non me tenent vincula, non me tenet clavis, % (nsn@munagin.ee.mu.oz.au)
>quaero mei similes et adjungor pravis.      % Nick Nicholas, striver, EE&CS,
>      --- Archipoeta, _Confessio_.          % Univ. of Melbourne, Australia
Jim who is very finsihed with finals.
-- 
Jim Dilmore - seamus@brahms.udel.edu    or    dilmore@che.udel.edu 
               SILENCE = DEATH      Safe sex doesn't mean no sex.          
Give me life, Give me pain,         It just means use your imagination. 
Give me myself again.  Tori Amos.            Billy Bragg
From: cjmchale@dsg.cs.tcd.ie (Ciaran McHale)
Subject: Re: Roy's "consenting" slave
Organization: DSG, Dept. of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 21:54:04 GMT

In <BzBA89.Jnu@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
dbshapco@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Brad Shapcott) writes:
>[...] The power of the master over the slave is mostly illusion, as
>the master has no more power than the slave will permit. If the master
>violates the implicit (or better yet, explicit) contract between the
>participants, they begin to exploit.
>
>Most clearly of all is the situation of rape, in which the sexual and social
>contract is clearly violated,
             ^^^^^^^
Not always. I know a woman who feels that she was raped by a man she
knew. Some time afterwards (I don't know was it days, months or years
later) she confronted him with it and he was honestly baffled: he
thought that she had been consenting.

In fact, this happened twice to her. "Brookside", a soap opera on
English TV, dealt with this subject matter a while back. (I don't watch
"Brookside" but I read about it in a newspaper.)

I don't know how (a)typical these data points are.


Ciaran.
-- 
---- Ciaran McHale (cjmchale@dsg.cs.tcd.ie)
\bi/ Department of Computer Science, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland.
 \/  Telephone: +353-1-7021539 FAX: +353-1-6772204
From: winsor@geek.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (js)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: Lurking Texans
Date: 12 Dec 1992 02:46:00 GMT
Organization: Texas Instruments Incorporated, Austin
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: geek.teng.ppd.ti.com

In article <Bz0Hvw.B78@ibmpcug.co.uk>, gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:
|> In article <29318@castle.ed.ac.uk> moragw@castle.ed.ac.uk (Alloy Serving Woman) writes:
|> >
|> >Re: Why is there such a *silent* Texas contingency on soc.bi?
|> >
|> >Well, I don't know about the rest of them but one of them is silently
|> >lurking through me.  She was here in E/burgh for a while but is
|> >currently in the states, en route to brandeis where she will (hopefully)
|> >LEAP out of the woodwork and hurl herself without restraint at us all. 
|> 
|> I have a Texas soc.bi muffin friend too, who asked me to post:
|> "Why do you *think* there is such a silent Texas contingency on soc.bi?"
|> 
|> (She wasn't very impressed by how out of touch some people are with the
|> shit bi's & queers in Texas have to put up with.  It seems pretty bad
|> down there.)
|> 
|> G
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Yea, but soc.bi is only *the hippest* newsgroup on the usenet!

Open invitation:
Any muffin of anywhere may write to me and be SAFE from exposure.
I promise.

I was a dreadfully timid muffin myself two months ago.

*supportive hugs* to all muffins
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