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From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Hunk)
Subject: Re: How to not look smart (was Re: Various ramblings...
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 14:39:17 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.164633.7053@mks.com> fredw@mks.com (Fred Walter) writes:
>Anyway, Kevin wanted to know how to not appear as a smart alec, to not appear
>as if he's bragging. Trygve is not the person to talk to, because, at first
>glance, does appear to be bragging.
>
>And not in a subtle, understated "and it was only a couple of hundred
>dollars more, no big deal" way, but in a very blatent "I've got a porsche,
>I've got not one, but two companies, and I've got a million" way.

It ain't bragging if it's the truth.

Furthermore, it's very hard to respect someone who covers up their assets or
virtues in order to appease the taboos, superstitions that people try to
perpetuate in this society
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart)
Subject: Re: Exactly what I mean by "unattached"...
Organization: my opinions only
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 19:53:26 GMT

In article <a_5mt#r.aahz@netcom.com> aahz@netcom.com (Aahzmandius) writes:
>In article <1992Aug12.225544.29275@fid.morgan.com> sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart) writes:
>>In article <71111@apple.Apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
>>
>>>I don't know about 'normally,' but in my experience, the person who makes a
>>>move is the person whose turn it is.
>>
>>People don't "take turns" in real life.
>
>Oh, yeah?!?!

Yeah.  (your turn :-)

Seth		sethb@fid.morgan.com
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: purp@wixer.cactus.org (Jim Meyer)
Subject: Re: "Congratulations" and/or "Best Wishes"
Organization: Real/Time Communications
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 22:53:42 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.170942.11260@wetware.com> diana@wetware.com (CatWoman ) writes:
>pm3_norr@csd.brispoly.ac.uk (Paul Norris) writes:
>
>] 
>] }> ] dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen) writes:
>] }> ] >And Amy, congratulations on getting married. Or, as my 
>] }> ] >girlfriend keeps reminding me to say to women, best wishes.
>] 
>] }> dave@silver.sni.ca (Dave Till) writes:
>] }> ] I've always wondered  Years ago, I was told to say "best wishes"
>] }> ] to women, and "congratulations" to men. My question: is this 
>] }> ] still correct etiquette?
>] 
>] } diana@wetware.com (CatWoman ) writes:}> 
>] }> No no NO!!
>] }> The Proper wording for BOTH men AND women is, of course,
>] }> "CONDOLENCES"...
>] }> (Okay - after almost 9 years of separation, my divorce
>] }> is final in 5 days - so I HAD to say this...)
>] 
>] So.  Is the correct phrase on *this* occasion "Congratulations"?
>
>Yeyeas!!
>
>Diana


Or perhaps "Hallelujah" ?

--Purp, with experience.
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From: garyb@lclark.edu (Gary Bliefernich)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: men in their thirties who never dated
Date: 18 Aug 92 23:09:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: lclark.1992Aug18.230931.25198
Organization: Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR

>RE: men in thirty something groups ***
>
>is it possible that they are just shy?
>is it possible that they do not have the gift of gab?
>is it possible that most women now days expect too much
>from a man?
>
>what is your conclusion?

Yes.
Yes.
Possible.

There are mine./gb
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow)
Subject: Re: cooking newsgroups??
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 03:22:33 GMT
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In <1992Aug18.190942.5183@sfu.ca> probst@fraser.sfu.ca (Scott Probst) writes:

>oh - and i speak for the canadian prime minister...

Cool!  Do you collect responses for him as well?  }:-)

(An old sig dealt with comparisons of beliefs in Elvis and approval or B.M.)

Rob T
--
Rob Thurlow, thurlow@convex.com
The sun is gonna shine again / We're gonna make it 'round that bend
I'll walk another mile with you, 'cause you're my friend
The sun is gonna shine again.			- Graham Parker
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow)
Subject: Re: FINNS - Nice description, Juha!
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 03:49:39 GMT
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In <1992Aug16.160927.4604@access.digex.com> huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:

>And then there is Finland's greatest contribution to social life,
>indeed, to civilization itself, and also the second best sensual
>experience -- the Sauna.

(sigh) Such memories!  The mystery is why the ski resorts have not
learned how wonderful they are and adopted them en masse.  I have
never known anything that will work the kinks out of a body better
than a good sauna.  I know people like hot tubs for apres-ski, but
the truth is harsh - hot tubs are only good for screwing (ask any
Californian).  To get your body _ready_ for the hot tub, you need
a sauna.  I guess I need to fire up the one at work sometime soon,
huh? (gloat :-)

I've never quite been able to acquire a taste for jumping into a
frozen lake or a snowbank afterwards, though :-)

Rob T
--
Rob Thurlow, thurlow@convex.com
The sun is gonna shine again / We're gonna make it 'round that bend
I'll walk another mile with you, 'cause you're my friend
The sun is gonna shine again.			- Graham Parker
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: zagar@chester.cms.udel.edu (Randy Zagar)
Subject: Re: Exactly what I mean by "unattached"..
Reply-To: zagar@chester.cms.udel.edu
Organization: Marine Studies, University of Delaware
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 00:35:12 GMT

In article 3190@cs.ucla.edu, gds@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Greg Skinner) writes:
>In article <1992Aug14.052503.29487@nuchat.sccsi.com> kevin@nuchat.sccsi.com (Kevin Brown) writes:
>>There seems to be *something* which distinguishes friendship and romance.
>>If this were not the case, then every friend one had which was of the
>>appropriate sex would be considered a romantic partner.  Since this is not
>>the case in Real Life (tm), the conclusion must be that friendship and
>>romance are different things (even if they overlap).
>
>romance = friendship + chemistry
>chemistry = when someone feels a strong attraction to a MOTAS and
>wants to do intimate/sexual things with them
>

NO! NO! NO! NO!

Most of the time

    friendship + chemistry => LJBF

unless, of course, things are going both ways.  A better 'formula' would be

    romance = friendship + chemistry + reciprocation.


-Randy

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From: bart@muppet.bt.co.uk (Tim)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: I mean *perfect*
Date: 14 Aug 92 16:02:40 GMT
Reply-To: bart@muppet.bt.co.uk
Organization: British Telecom


	E	Enigmatic  (keeps things interesting)
	P	Perceptive (so we can relate)
	S	Sensual    (most surely :-)

	... is what she'd be

	P	Presently
	S	Somewhere
	E	Else
	
	... is where she is

	E	Extra
	S	Sensory
	P	Perception

	... is apparently what I need to find her


Tim
---
"I find no absolution in my rational point of view
 maybe some things are instinctive, but there's one thing you could do
 You could try to understand me, I could try to understand you"
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: aahz@netcom.com (Aahzmandius)
Subject: Re: Finding Romantic Partners (long)
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 11:44:43 GMT
Organization: Bill 'n' Opus for Prez

In article <1992Aug20.183428.135449@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH) writes:
>stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
>
>>Since it seems that USENET is an environment where some of the women prefer
>>intelligent men, perhaps we can conclude that a man's chances of meeting a
>>woman by posting *intelligent* things to USENET are greater than 0%.
>
>I guess this is still purely hypothetical, though.

Nope.  Not hypothetical.  Definitely not..... Uh, excuse me, the
ProblemOlderWoman is calling.
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

"I 'got a life'.  Now what?"
From: sulli_t@equinox.unr.edu (Tim Sullivan)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Where is mhnadel?
Date: 18 Aug 92 23:33:23 GMT
Followup-To: soc.singles
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Nevada - Reno


Is Miraim Nadel still out there anyplace?

Thanks.

  Tim Sullivan (sulli_t@equinox.unr.edu)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Re: Exactly what I mean by "unattached"...
Keywords: Newsgroup?
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 20:19:35 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.132111.26642@no1home.nashvil.ingr.com> puter@no1home.nashvil.ingr.com (PuterDude) writes:
> nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) squeezes tush...
>
>> jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) asks sexually...
>
>>> dhardin@spcink.bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) asks a question...
>
>>>>(Or am I not allowed to talk to you, james?)
>
>>> Of course you can talk to me my little cumquat.
>>> So anything about your new relationship you'd like to discuss, of
>>>a sexual nature?
>
>>Aw God, James James.  It's the green-eyed monster rearing it's ugly
>>head?  Yeah pumpkin, I've been there.  I know.  I know.  But don't
>>worry.
>>
>>There there, put your little head on my shoulder, yeah.  Consider this
>>a pat on your bottom.  *Whoops!*  Sorry about that squeeze ...
>
>Can you say....   Alt.Romance.Chat in Soc.Singles?   I knew you could!
>

 Ok pooperdude, alt.romance.chat, indeed. Allow me to show you the
subtle difference:

S.S.(Or am I not allowed to talk to you, james?)
a.r.c.(james may we converse of the moon the stars, the sun. Your eyes
are like limpid pools of blue saphire. Converse?)

S.S. Of course you can talk to me my little cumquat.
S.S. So anything about your new relationship you'd like to discuss, of
S.S. a sexual nature?
a.r.c. I exist for your very spoken breath oh darling of the goddess's.
a.r.c. I hate to speak of your betrothed's love but to become more
a.r.c. in touch as SENSITIVE feeling being's I feel we should transcend
a.r.c. our earthly bounds and melt into one distinct being.
 
S.S. Aw God, James James.  It's the green-eyed monster rearing it's ugly
S.S. head?  Yeah pumpkin, I've been there.  I know.  I know.  But don't
S.S. worry.
a.r.c. Aw God, James James. It is better to have loved and lost. Come 
aa.r.c. here pumkin head, for I have experienced such a loss and no
aa..c. it to be a far, far better thing. Fear not poor James there is glory.
 
S.S. There there, put your little head on my shoulder, yeah.  Consider this
S.S. a pat on your bottom.  *Whoops!*  Sorry about that squeeze ...
a.r.c. There there, place a lock of hair upon my loving shoulders. Hark
a.r.c. through yonder morn what light doth break. *SQUEEZE* ...
 
>
>Can you say....   Alt.Romance.Chat in Soc.Singles?   I knew you could!
>
 
================================================================================
 So you see, entirely different.
 Sesquipedalian's 'R' Us. ZX-10. DoD#564. There ain't no more.
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: aahz@netcom.com (Aahzmandius)
Subject: Re: Chinese single woman seeks caucasian single men
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 11:48:35 GMT
Organization: Bill 'n' Opus for Prez

In article <1992Aug21.001426.4006@samba.oit.unc.edu> Bathsheba.Grossman@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bathsheba Grossman) writes:
>In article <65@cnmhnet.UUCP> keithg@cnmhnet.UUCP (keith garrard) writes:
>>I can definitely state from personal experience that the 
>>grass *is* greener on the other side.  I am a caucasian
>>male, who dated and ended up marrying an asian female.
>>She happens to be of Phillipine background, and she has
>>been priceless.  I recently moved to California, and there
>>is a great preponderance of Caucasian male/Asian female
>>relationships.  [...]
>>I'll tell ya' though, there are some beautiful babes out here!!!
>
>What did I tell you.  This I needed to hear?

Don't worry.  Just deep-throat a banana, and you'll stand out *anywhere*
you go.
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

"I 'got a life'.  Now what?"
From: dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: men in their thirties who never dated
Date: 13 Aug 92 14:02:51 GMT
Reply-To: dhardin@spcink.bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

In article <1992Aug12.200133.24951@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> smith@comm.mot.com (Jeff Smith) writes:
>In article <l8if21INNr0u@news.bbn.com>, dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes:
>
>|> She was a sexual surrogate.  That meant sometimes having sex with men
>|> who had sexual problems so she could teach them to overcome their 
>|> difficulties.  They always had to deal with the occasional police
>|> harrassment, but after the AIDS thing broke the AMA came down
>|> on their butts and said that it wasn't ethical for a counselor to have
>|> sex with a client no matter what the reason.
>
>I'm fascinated by this. Did your friend have any problems keeping "detached"
>from her clients?  Or more likely, did the clients ever become attached to
>her?  

Yeah, people getting attached to her was a big problem.  She speaks very
highly of how effective the counseling was in helping men start and keep
relationships, but from the way she talked about these men falling for her
I wonder how good it really was for them.

>It seems like this could be a very odd situation...we're talking about
>men who already have problems in this area! Also, wasn't this kind of
>hard on her own personal life? None of my business of course, but I am curious!

She told me once that she wished she still had the job because she had met
so many hopeless but rich men and she'd like to "give" me one of her graduates
because I could use a rich boyfriend.  Didn't sound like a great attitude
to me and I'm just as pleased she doesn't meet them anymore.  (Although I 
imagine her graduates might have appreciated being introduced to a "real" 
prospect when they started feeling more confident.)

Her husband didn't mind, but she did keep coming home with sub-clinical
diseases -- clients were all screened for syphilis etc, but she kept
catching undefined bugs -- and of course, he caught them all too.  She
describes this as the best job she ever had, but it sure doesn't sound
great to me. 

Dawn
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: talking in stores (was: Re: Finding Romantic Partners (long))
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 19:18:55 GMT

In article <4662@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> jgh1+@pitt.edu (John G Hardie) writes:
>--In response to my silly article, Trygve Lode writes:
>>Maybe you just look too scary or unapproachable or you're just holding
>>the banana the wrong way.
>
>I guess that's it.  I didn't know that there was a prescribed method
>for banana holding.  Is it like semaphore?  Can you send messages?

Well, it's not exactly like semaphore, but you certainly can send
messages.

Trygve   (I think I'll yield the floor to Allisson who can do a much
          better job of giving examples of communicating messages with
          a banana.)

P.S.  This reminds me of a conversation I had last night with a couple
      of women--at one point, one of them said to one of the others, 
      "I think I've figured out why you and I date such different men--
       I lick my ice cream cones and you bite them." 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
Subject: Re: Exactly what I mean by "unattached"...
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 14:29:36 GMT

In article <1992Aug15.210402.20554@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
>In article <1992Aug13.233624.8543@cbnews.cb.att.com> eleanor@cbnews.cb.att.com (eleanor.j.evans) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug13.193255.29765@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
>>>
>>>Yep, it's gotta be the language--must make it especially tough to date
>>>a Scot.
>>>
>>>Trygve   (To say nothing about ordering in a German pancake restaurant.) 
>>
>>Oh, I don't know--dating a Scot was particularly enjoyable, as I
>>recall.  Meow!  Now, if only I could find a Cajun in this neck of
>>the woods.
>
>Sorry, I was just thinking that the Finnish word for "no" sounded like
>both "Aye" and like the German word for "egg" and this could conceivably
>result in communication problems....

Such as walking into a barbershop in Helsinki and saying "Rakas!" to the
barber.

-- Herb Huston
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: mfriedma@uucp (Michael Friedman)
Subject: Re: Email of the Week
Organization: Oracle Corporation
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 00:17:18 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user
              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.

In article <1992Aug4.142558.20636@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes:

>>>GET A FUCKING LIFE YOU SLUT...I HATE YOU and by the way want to get
>>>together sometime....

>No, not a frog because I *like* frogs, but I did get one
>more message from him before I contacted his sysop.  It was
>longer, better, somewhat thought-out this time, in which
>he claims to have contacted my co-workers who all agree that I'm
>a snotty bitch with a chip on my shoulder and why don't I slit my
>wrists but first let him get a 6-pack so he can sit and watch.  I'll
>send a copy to anyone who requests it in email.

>He carefully edited out his company's name, but a little too late.
>I haven't heard from him since I contacted his sysop so I assume
>he's had his little wrist slapped and has scurried back into
>his chipmonk hamlet by now.

Nance, 

Given that you suggested blowinghis brains out (in jest, I assume, but
still...) do you really think it is reasonable to complain when you
get a reply in the same vein but more so?
-- 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Mr. Happy
Date: 20 Aug 92 17:21:36 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <l97bhjINNt7@news.bbn.com> kgorman@BBN.COM (Karen Gorman) writes:
 
|>|> >You'd throw up too if someone grabbed you by the neck and tried to jerk
|>|> >your head off.  There, there now Mr. Happy, no reason to get upset.
|>|> >
|>|> >Oh no, he's getting mad again.  His face is turning red.
|>|>
|>|> But he is so cute when he is mad. :-)
|>|
|>|You just like him because he stands up for you.  :-)
|>
|>And he likes her because she sucks up to him. :-)
|
|And who's Mr. Happy are you referring to here?
 
Mine?.....<duck>

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| johnf@auspex.com                                                           |
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Newsgroups: soc.singles,talk.bizarre,alt.sex.bondage
From: pdragon@world.std.com (pencil dragon)
Subject: Re: deformities and perversions
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 10:42:18 GMT

Pencildragon here,

Dan (Aahz) writes

> I break rule 6

To Quote Monty Python's Flying Circus

"There is not Rule 6"

HUGS

x
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: Ross Ridge <ross@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: men in their thirties who never dated
Organization: ZOOiD BBS
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 15:36:11 GMT

craig@kralizec.zeta.org.au (Craig Dewick) writes:
>All too often I feel as though I'd like to be holding an attractive
>woman in my arms and doing all the 'normal' things a couple does when they are
>in love, but this apparent 'fear' takes control and I lock up into a passive
>state.

nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes:
>A normal couple in love doesn't always consist of a man holding an
>attractive woman in his arms.

Attractive from the man's perspective or from a third person's?

							Ross Ridge

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From: aahz@netcom.com (Aahzmandius)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,talk.bizarre,alt.sex.bondage
Subject: Re: deformities and perversions
Date: 20 Aug 92 12:40:48 GMT
Organization: Bill 'n' Opus for Prez

[note: originally from soc.singles]


In article <d_#nppm@lynx.unm.edu> blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
>In article <1992Aug19.173816.25214@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> smith@mot.com (Jeff Smith) writes:
>>eleanor@cbnews.cb.att.com (eleanor.j.evans) writes:
>>> Of course, I find attractive almost anything on 2 legs with 
>>> a sense of humour and a huge dollop of intelligence.  Or, wait, didn't
>>> that just define what I like?  Hm....
>>Hey, does that mean those of us still on all fours are out of the running?
>>Damn, this discrimination sucks...
>
>Dunno- I believe there are a number of women around here who would love to 
>have you down on all fours :)
>r.
>('My own leash? Goody! A new toy!')

Now, now, let's not post nice things without including the other groups,
shall we?
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

"I 'got a life'.  Now what?"
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: Larry Margolis <margoli@watson.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Psychobabble
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 01:42:41 GMT
Reply-To: margoli@watson.IBM.com
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: The Village Waterbed

In article <hx3m44h.barry@netcom.com> barry@netcom.com (Kenn Barry) writes:
>[...] Could you love an automaton? No matter
>its behavior, if you _knew_ it wasn't self-aware, that there was
>no one home in there, could you love it, love it like a person loves
>a person, and not like one may love a fine car?

It depends - could you make it with the body of a 14-year old?  :-)

(Of *course* that's not meant to be ambiguous - what kind of a guy do you
think I am?)

Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
Newsgroups: soc.singles