HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jmd@bear.com (Josh Diamond)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Females have it easy!
Date: 28 Dec 92 16:15:14 GMT
	<oneil.725199192@cwis> <1hiaj3INN5n9@uwm.edu>
Organization: Bear, Stearns & Co. - FAST
In-reply-to: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu's message of 26 Dec 92 19:08:19 GMT


In article <1hiaj3INN5n9@uwm.edu> markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:

   I think it's time to let you in on a few secrets.  Men don't consider Christie
   Brinkley attractive.  One, she's married (last I heard).  Two, she looks too
   much like a TV spokesmodel, family-oriented platonic beauty in all its
   blandness.  Three, women are the only ones I ever hear referring to her as
   attractive, which just goes to prove that you really have to be a man to know
   what turns on a man.

Right.  Christy Brinkley looks like a piece of plastic.  So perfect as
to be boring.  Same holds for Cindy Crawford.  Another bland barbie
doll, manufactured to fit the ideals of as many people as possible.
Yuck.

And what is it with the blonds?  :-) ;-) ;-O

Ducking the rotten fruit...

Spidey!!!



					
--
You don't hunt ducks with a turnip! 

 /\ \  / /\  Josh Diamond                                          jmd@bear.com
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: liz@vfl.paramax.com (Liz Loquacious)
Subject: Re: Why there might be a need for a (Pre-Sex Contract)
Followup-To: soc.singles
Organization: Paramax Systems
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:36:19 GMT

In article <MARTINC.92Dec19143232@hatteras.cs.unc.edu>, martinc@hatteras.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
|> In article <1992Dec18.163211.14140@gvl.unisys.com> liz@vfl.paramax.com (Liz Loquacious) writes:
|> 
|> But Liz -- if he's got $10M in the bank, he's probably making less than
|> her Mom.  Let's say it's just even -- is the girl *really* and *truly*

Charhhhlie, Charhhhlie, everything you told me on the river was a lie...
oh nevermind

Don't sweat it...mom spent ooogles on the girl.  The expenses are real.
Why should the daughter be entitled to live in the same "style" as the
parents?  Why not?  I mean some of this is grossly excessive but my point
was that both parents are responsible and they could both easily afford to
keep her spending that much so what's the big deal.  Noone was being taken
to the poor house.  Like I said they might have spent like that before the
divorce.  I think it only made it in the paper because the figures are so
shockingly revolting to most of us but not because mom was able to take
dad to the cleaners yet it was written as though she was doing some horrible
thing.

|> trouble.  It doesn't sound as if the girl's life style was in any
|> reasonable way impeded by having to live only on her mother's $800K
|> income plus her own $24K support payments.  (Hell, I wish *I* got $24K a
|> year from *my* folks!)

Well me too but that was most of my dad's salary.  This guy probably won't 
even feel it. 

Liz Loquacious
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Minimal apparel and packing (was Re: Size 8?)
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 17:43:38 GMT

In article <1992Dec23.022900.3251@netcom.com> cocoa@netcom.com writes:
>In article <1992Dec22.001756.12068@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
>>In article <1992Dec16.205253.5718@netcom.com> cocoa@netcom.com writes:
>
>>>Hey Charlie!  Whatcha going around telling secrets for?  Besides, Trygve has
>>>already declined an invitation to be out of arms reach with me.  As for my
>>>minimal apparel, it's only due to the fact that I'm moving and everything
>>>is all packed (now, where *did* I put those whips?).
>>
>>Moi?  I thought it was you who cancelled plans to be within arms reach.
>>
>>Trygve   (As long as you're already packed....)
>
>Ah, well, I had to cancel plans due to lack of funds (I won't be going to
>Australia either, btw) <sob>.  But I invited you to visit me in the Bay
>Area and you said you never visited here.
>
>So, "you started it."

Hey, I didn't start it--back when I used to work up at Livermore, I used
to live not all that far from the bay area, and you never visted me then.
(Oh, well; at least I can attempt to console myself with the fact that
the lab had some of the better garage sales.)

Trygve   (I just haven't visited there for a long time.)

--
      Hi!  I'm Ralph Hariston, coming to you live from the Don King gymnasium
here at the Montana School of Combat Hairdressing where we're about to start
the semi-finals of Television Announcer Olympic Lifting.  The Peruvian
contender Jacques Marigolde has just stepped out onto the stage; he's chalking
up his hands, obviously psyching himself up for what could be the most
important lift in his career.  He's about to make his move, he's getting ready
to make the lift, and...aaaaiiiigghhhh!
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: dheisler@CERIS.Purdue.EDU (Dave Heisler)
Subject: Giving up good girls, looking for "bad" ones
Organization: Center for Environmental and Regulatory Information Systems, Purdue University
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:35:09 GMT

Hi,

after fairly dismal luck in meeting good women and
converting them to SO's, i'm considering chasing
"bad" ones.

Does anyone have some good hints ?

dave,
nice guy, but willing to change :-)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: cocoa@netcom.com
Subject: Re: Fetishes?
Organization: Bourbon Street
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:09:26 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.184244.902@cbfsb.cb.att.com> sms@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (steven.m.stein) writes:
>>(My 3 year old nephew Andrew has really cute, round shoulders :)
>>
>I think you're just plain wierd.
>(Guess there's no reason now for us to meet on my next trip out West)

You bwoke my widdle heart. :(

Just me,

little 'e'

- -
Where's the kaboom?  There was supposed to be an earthshattering kaboom.


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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: daniel@clsi.COM (Daniel S. Barclay)
Subject: Re: Females have it easy!
Organization: CAD Language Systems Inc.
	<75808@apple.apple.COM> <DANIEL.92Dec23145224@algol.clsi.COM>
	<75961@apple.apple.COM>
Date: 28 Dec 92 14:51:01

stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
> daniel@clsi.COM (Daniel S. Barclay) writes:
> >stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
> >> Although
> >> there are fewer women than men on the net, and so you might expect the men
> >>                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >> to pursue all the more vigorously and the women to be even more passive, in
> >> fact what you find is that the women take the initiative more frequently 
> >> than apparently they do in society at large.
> 
> >Why? (Did I miss something?  I mean something regarding this post. :-) )
> 
> What kind of pursuit behavior would *you* expect in such a situation?

Never mind.  I get it now (strangely enough, from (my perception of) the tone 
of your response).

(Unconsciously projecting my fatalism on others, the behavior I expect_ed_ was
less pursuit because of less chance of success.)

--
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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CAD Language Systems, Inc.           signature, not liking any of his recent
Suite 101, 5457 Twin Knolls Rd.      feeble attempts to improve on the whiny:
Columbia, MD  21045  USA             Why can't _I_ think of a good signature?
From: eaken@unssun.nevada.edu (Marsha Eaken)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: SWF 24 Looking for PenPals
Date: 23 Dec 92 00:07:24 GMT
Reply-To: eaken@unssun.nevada.edu (Marsha Eaken)
Organization: University of Nevada, Reno

This is in regards to all the responses I received.......


I will need to have your internet addresses in order to
e-mail!!!!!!!

Thank you,

Marsha     
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: daniel@clsi.COM (Daniel S. Barclay)
Subject: Re: Picking up the Tab (was: Re: What is gold-digging?)
Organization: CAD Language Systems Inc.
	<1992Dec19.224000.28895@netcom.com>
	<1992Dec20.003840.24916@cs.ucla.edu>
	<DANIEL.92Dec23135856@algol.clsi.COM>
Date: 23 Dec 92 16:46:51

gds@york.cs.ucla.edu (Greg Skinner) writes:
> >Overall, I think that if two people are getting together on a Date, the
> >default assumption should be that the asker will pay --
> 
> Why?
> 
> I have yet to see one logical reason in this thread (or any other on
> this subject) why there should be one default rule on "Dates".

You need a default at least for whether it's acceptable to negotiate.  (I.e.,
<INSERT "if" HERE.  Thank you for your attention.>
it were considered rude to negotiate, and there was no default for who paid,
how would anyone know what to do?)  Okay.  Sorry.  Too technical a point.

--
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Daniel S. Barclay                    --who's still searching for a good 
CAD Language Systems, Inc.           signature, not liking any of his recent
Suite 101, 5457 Twin Knolls Rd.      feeble attempts to improve on the whiny:
Columbia, MD  21045  USA             Why can't _I_ think of a good signature?
From: stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Attraction -> Acquiantance or vice versa?
Date: 23 Dec 92 06:16:34 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

pooh@Apple.COM (Pooh) writes:

>mel@niblick.ecn.purdue.edu (Meloney D Cregor) writes:
>>The REAL test is can they write their name in the snow?
>>The beauty of the test is that it shows not only manhood, but
>>literacy and dexterity, as well.

>Actually, I think their names look better with MY handwriting ... ;-)

Are we reviving the Pissing With A Hard-On thread again?
-- 
Stef                Just as there are laws of Conservation of Matter and
stef@apple.com      Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of 
                    Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed.
                         But one can be converted into the other. 
                                                         --Spider Robinson
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Size 8? (Re: What is NOT attractive to "SINGLE" men)
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 00:17:56 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.205253.5718@netcom.com> cocoa@netcom.com writes:
>In article <MARTINC.92Dec16113439@hatteras.cs.unc.edu> martinc@hatteras.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
>>In article <1992Dec16.060045.8400@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
>>
>>   You know, I'm just not enjoying the direction this is going--surely the
>>   great net.minds out there can come up with ways to torture me that will
>>   be more enjoyable for all concerned.
>>
>>   Trygve   (If need be, I'm willing to negotiate these things in person.) 
>>
>>From what you said about your leg, I'd suggest la elise bonita in
>>minimal apparel, out of arms reach, saying "Hey Trygve, if you can catch
>>me you can have me."

No problem--just hang on a 'sec while I get this lasso ready.

(I knew there was a reason I kept a supply of soft, thick, cotton rope
near the bed.) 

>Hey Charlie!  Whatcha going around telling secrets for?  Besides, Trygve has
>already declined an invitation to be out of arms reach with me.  As for my
>minimal apparel, it's only due to the fact that I'm moving and everything
>is all packed (now, where *did* I put those whips?).

Moi?  I thought it was you who cancelled plans to be within arms reach.

Trygve   (As long as you're already packed....)

--
Gener:   Well, honeybunch, really I'd need a hyper-astronomical Krondoscope
         with the pocket gravity detector option, but the prop budget couldn't
         quite handle that.  So, lovechunks, I picked up this "Junior
         Scientist Infectious Disease Kit" at a garage sale--and since the
         previous owner had used it to infect his whole family with diptheria,
         they were willing to let it go real cheap.
Softa:   So, my little studmuffin, what you're telling me is that this is one
         of those moments when I need to exercise my "suspension of disbelief"
         abilities and pretend that you're actually making any sense at all.
Gener:   Right you are, my love guppy, because if you don't, I'll put the
         malaria culture into your Ben & Jerry's.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis)
Subject: Re: How Strong Should a Man Be?
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 03:07:15 GMT
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.16f by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: margoli@watson.IBM.com
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: The Village Waterbed

In <76045@apple.apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
>aep@world.std.com (Andrew E Page) writes:
>
>>Strong enough to keep two hearts from breaking.
>
>Strong enough to tie me at arm-wrestling.

Tie you?  What about beat you?  (Or does that come after he ties you?)
--
Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.romance
From: kevin@clsi.COM
Subject: Re: About Dating Outside One's Group....
Followup-To: soc.singles
Originator: kevin@dubhe
Reply-To: kevin@clsi.com
Organization: Deus Ex Machina
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 20:45:22 GMT


In article <ewright.725758900@convex.convex.com>, ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
> 
> Ah, come on, cut Jimmy a little slack.  He just managed
> to compose a complete, intelligible, grammatically correct
> sentence for the first time in his life.  We'll work on
> getting him to understand religion, tolerance, and other 
> abstract concepts, eventually, but for now let's just
> concentrate on getting his reading, writing, and math
> skills up to high-school level.

Tangentially:

Are religon and tolerance mutually exclusive ?

If I want to be judgemental, I'll go by the values a person exhibits not those
of whatever religon they profess to be.

Are fewer woman atheists than men ? (anyone got statistics)

Kev.
-- 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Females have it easy!
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 22:54:06 GMT

In article <135@jptcs.COM> tps@jptcs.COM (Tim Sailer) writes:
>                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>WHOAWHOAWHOAWHOAWHOA!!!!! She's not attractive to men because she's MARRIED???
>What kind of crap is that? Since when do women become unattractive as soon
>as they say 'I do'??

Well, it depends on what the question was....

Trygve   ("Do you often accidentally kill or main your lovers during sex?")
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Newsgroups: soc.singles,soc.women,soc.men,ba.singles
From: drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux)
Subject: Did I get this Straight?
Organization: Castle WetWare Philosopher and Sniper
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 10:50:02 GMT

madhaus@netcom.com (Maddi Hausmann) writes:
] 
] This whole argument is akin to complaining that the ocean is wet.


so basically you agree then that it is 
a woman's right to get what ever monies
she can from a guy so that she can play mommy?

ciao
drieux


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Xref: sparky soc.singles:34842 talk.bizarre:42988
From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: More Answers to Dating Questions
Date: 28 Dec 1992 03:21:24 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
NNTP-Posting-Host: grissom.larc.nasa.gov

In article <1992Dec28.022139.18171@wetware.com> drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:
>1. IF the person you are planning to date is NOT
>cleared to the level of your current and potential
>clearance level, then there exists a CLEAR possibility
>that you may be engaging in a Breach of National Security,
>as it is possible that you may utter something which is not
>for dissemination at their level of clearance.

This is true enough, but clearance is not enough.  What if the person whom
you are planning to date doesn't have need to know?
--scott
From: ftlao@acad3.alaska.edu (OSSANDER LINDA A)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Women, Cats, & Chocolate
Date: 22 Dec 92 02:38:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: acad3.21DEC199218385626
Organization: University of Alaska - Fairbanks
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41.UAC

In article <MARTINC.92Dec21173635@grover.cs.unc.edu>, martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes...
>In article <21DEC199211532244@acad3.alaska.edu> ftlao@acad3.alaska.edu (OSSANDER LINDA A) writes:
> 
> 
>   I am a single and I WAS NOT flaming anyone! 
> 
>Why not?
>--


Because this is not alt.flame...  ;-)

                  -Linda-
From: quirke_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Fetishes?
Date: 21 Dec 92 17:16:04 NZST
Organization: Welligton City Council, Public Access.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

 keithg@cnmhnet.UUCP (keith garrard) writes:

: I'm so into small women's feet, that I don't think any fetish is weird
: anymore.  Give me a size 5-6 female foot, with nicely shaped toes, polished
: of course, and well-pedicured, and I am just as happy as I can be.

   Please note, if anyone does take Keith up on this, 20-1 I'd be willing to
take the rest of the poor female in question...


Tony Q. (Note, implicit smilie in there somewhere)
From: tps@jptcs.COM (Tim Sailer)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Picking up the Tab (was: Re: What is gold-digging?)
Date: 21 Dec 92 15:01:18 GMT
Organization: JPT Computer Solutions
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Meloney D Cregor (mel@niblick.ecn.purdue.edu) wrote:
: Oh, great, FINE!  Everybody else gets off with a kiss on the cheek and
: *I* have to cough up a blowjob.  You want air fare  -AND- a blowjob???!!!
: Boy, the greediness of some people.  All I gotta say is, it better
: damn well include dessert.
: 
: Glad we got these negotiations outta the way ahead of time.....  do
: we shake now?

Great... Ignore all of us on the East Coast... you won't have to 
pay for air fare... :)

-- 
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JPT Computer Solutions - SCO Sales/Consulting/Administration and Mangling
PO Box 423 Mt Sinai, NY 11766
(516) 331-9001
From: drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Foot Ornementation as Warning Signs.
Date: 30 Dec 92 10:49:05 GMT
Organization: Castle WetWare Philosopher and Sniper

taylor@ccrs.emr.ca (Trevor Taylor) writes:
] 
] Hmmm, ankle braclets.....  
] 
] 	It depends on the type of ankle bracelet ... thin gold chains
] are usually warning signs....
] 
] 	Anybody who disagrees , let me know


forgive me if I dissent.

But I have often found it cause to pause
when the ankle bracelet is made out of:

	1. tungston steel

	2. wraught iron

but mileage may vary....

ciao
drieux


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From: jmd@bear.com (Josh Diamond)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Fetishes?
Date: 28 Dec 92 15:45:12 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Bear, Stearns & Co. - FAST
In-reply-to: root@serum.enet.dec.com's message of 25 Dec 92 03:08:47 GMT


In article <1992Dec25.031950.22773@ryn.mro4.dec.com> root@serum.enet.dec.com writes:

   Does anyone out there find braces sexy?  I think women with braces
   (especially metal ones) on their teeth are very sexy.

What about braces elsewhere?  Like back braces?  What about neck
braces and knee/ankle braces?  We need to know!!!


Spidey!!!



--
You don't hunt ducks with a turnip! 

 /\ \  / /\  Josh Diamond                                          jmd@bear.com
//\\ .. //\\ AKA Spidey!!!                        ...!ctr.columbia.edu!ursa!jmd
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Xref: sparky soc.singles:34585 soc.men:21631 soc.women:21795 alt.flame:17268
From: dallagata@fnala.fnal.gov (Michele Dall'Agata)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,soc.men,soc.women,alt.flame
Subject: Re: Duck and Jive (was Re: Pre-Sex Contract )
Date: 21 Dec 92 22:34:08 -0600
Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab
NNTP-Posting-Host: fnala.fnal.gov

In article <1992Dec21.235942.13722@cfctech.cfc.com>, kevin@cfctech.cfc.com (Kevin Darcy) writes:

> That may be their _intent_, but I suspect that the current laws are 
> encouraging the production of illegitimate children
> 		  ^^^^^^^^^^

*PRODUCTION* of children?!?!? Such a lovable word! Have you been producted, 
kevin? No wonder that you have the same name of Kevin Walsh...

I don't use to read a lot what you post, but if you call the creation of a 
new life "production", you have problems. Big problems.

	Michele

> 								- Kevin
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Females have it easy!
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 19:37:59 GMT

In article <JMD.92Dec30101311@lion.bear.com> jmd@bear.com (Josh Diamond) writes:
>
>
>In article <1992Dec29.223307.12173@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
>
>   Cory Everson is a several-time Ms. Olympia winner and is one of the best
>   female bodybuilders of all time; she's cute, but I wouldn't call her
>   perfection.  (She shares the unusual distinction with Tom Platz of having
>   thighs larger around than their waists.)
>
>Ugh!  How grotesque!
>
>Different strokes for different folks, eh?

Actually, I often find distinctive physical characteristics, ones that make
someone look different from the rest of the crowd, to be at least mildly 
appealing.  Plus, if you spend much time with someone who has a characteristic
that originally struck you as unappealing, you might be surprised at how
quickly it can become appealing.

Trygve
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll)
Subject: Re: Any Available Jewish Men Out There??
Organization: University of Western Ontario, London
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 00:00:23 GMT

In article <kR2LwB3w165w@iowegia.uucp> mine@iowegia.uucp (shelley kitsis) writes:
>					Maybe I don't know what it 
>feels like to be in love with someone, but I do know that there 
>are no "fireworks" with either of them!

	Judging by my last marriage, fireworks are not a sufficient
basis for a long term relationship. I am not sure that emotional
attachment to a spouse isn't more of a handicap than an asset.

>I do hope you realize that I didn't mean anything by the comment, 
>"I'm surrounded by Christians!" Thought I'd add a little bit of 
>light humor in at the end....Guess I wouldn't make a very good 
>comedian (sp?), would I <grin>. I apologize to all those that took 
>it offensively!  Actually, some of my close friends are either 
>catholic or Christian!

	?Huh?  My family has foraged for and absorbed spouses from
many  Christian factions and I never noticed  Catholics  being
classified as other than Christian.

	Aside: the notes in my g'grandfather's Calvinist bible (printed
150 years ago) regarding the  *Correct*  interpertation of  the 
song  of songs are screamingly hilarious.

							James Nicoll