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From: nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci)
Subject: The Chocolate Urgies
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 14:50:41 GMT

In article <714991539.16551@minster.york.ac.uk> aaron@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
>Emma Williams (ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie) wrote:
>
>	Certainly 
>	chocolate is very necessary - I can't survive for long without
>	it (luckily York is the chocolate capital of Northern England)

In this area (the Midwest) we have a store called Waccamaw (formerly
called Waccamaw Pottery) that has the coolest imported food section
and the best selection of imported chocolates I've come across recently.

The Swiss, Dutch, and Belgian chocolates are by far my favorite.  Viennese
is heavenly.  German is OK.  Pass on the Czech.  Our Hershey's and Nestle's
and Fannie May's are fine, but just not that "I've died and gone to
Switzerland" chocolate.  Not even Cadbury gets close.  :-)

I've never had chocolate from York.  Want my address Emma??  :-)

-Nance
"If wearer is found depressed, administer chocolate immediately."  -a button.
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: Larry Margolis <margoli@watson.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Exactly what I mean by "unattached"...
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 23:12:18 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  <1992Aug26.043451.8080@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>  tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
> People (and beavers, for that matter) have
> been changing the courses of rivers for eons to make them more useful or
> to prevent them from causing harm to their lives or property.

"Dammed if you do and damned if you don't", huh?

> I get the feeling that many people find it very important that their
> feelings be uncontrollable and fundamentally incomprehensible and
> illogical; why, I'm not quite sure,

I don't know why either, but I suspect that it's fundamentally incomprehensible
and illogical.

> (After all, my friendships are among the very most
> important things to me--I'm not going to damage the most important one
> of those on a dare.)

How about if he double-dares you?

Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow)
Subject: Re: Moctezuma's Fantasy
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 20:36:45 GMT
Distribution: na
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 <BtMMAM.Iwr@iat.holonet.net> cocoa@iat.holonet.net (little 'e') writes:

>In article <1992Aug26.223614.25162@linus.mitre.org> wtr@mitre.org (Bill Ralston) writes:

>>  In addition, the Mole sauce has seemed to have an 
>>aphrodisiac effect on the ladies I've taken there. Heh heh heh...

>Does this mean "If I cook it, they will come!"?

What did I just say about straight lines?  :-)

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
From: wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Diamonds
Date: 3 Sep 92 00:04:43 GMT
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Scott Probst (probst@fraser.sfu.ca) wrote:
: or 'diamond lives' (sade), or 'diamonds on the soles of his feet', or...
: 'om mani padme hum' (lit: 'the jewel in the lotus'). oops, went a little
: sideways on that one. sorry.

Or, to mangle one of Stef's .sigs, Carpe Diamond?
-- 
"Bless me, Father; I ate a lizard."
"Was it an abstinence day, and was it artificially prepared?"
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jam@cse.unl.edu (James Macfarlane)
Subject: Re: Kiran Wagle
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 03:31:32 GMT

kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
>
>Survey time! Hey lurkers, why do you lurk? 
>
Because it takes something like this to get an answer from me.  I generally
don't have the time to answer to many of the postings. there: my .02 $ worth.
James

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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: allisson@turing.toronto.edu (H. Allisson Roome)
Subject: Re: Bill Ralston
Organization: Some and growing
Date: 26 Aug 92 15:30:33 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.164620.29868@linus.mitre.org> wtr@mitre.org (Bill Ralston) writes:
>in article <71609@apple.Apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
>
>>Hey, Bill, *we're coming to get you*...
>>
>>PS. Welcome to soc.singles. Anyone who can suck-up as well as you can 
>should
>>fit right in.
>
>You got me.  I wasn't going to post a reply thinking that posting a 
>response with my own name as the subject line was just a little too 
>egotistical and all... but what the hey, it seems appropriate.
>
>P.S. Now I know why American Airlines serves only *green* (and I mean 
>green) bananas for breakfast.  All ripe bananas in the country have been 
>snarfed up by boinkers!

Well, Bill, welcome to the club!  Personally, I like bananas that are on
the green side - they're nice and hard that way (easier to do party tricks
with - too).

Allisson

Angelwing - Oh, the bannana was about a good 7-8 inches long, gentle
curve, and inch - inch and a half in diameter.  It was older too - so I had
to be careful not to have it fall apart on me too soon.
-- 
allisson@turing.toronto.edu (new address)       H. Allisson Roome
"Teach only love, and learn that love is yours and you are love."(A.C.I.M/p.92)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: morton@rtpnet06.rtp.dg.com (John R. Morton)
Subject: Re: Commitment--The C-word?
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 10:29:27 GMT
Organization: Data General Corporation, RTP, NC.

Response to Recent Thread:
Everybody ignores people who don't assert themselves. This is not a
female thing.. it's a human thing ! It's a "nature" thing.
Remember though, not being found, or extreme aloneness, brings one to
the height of their self importance...,
It deserves at least "some" attention!
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Desperation (was Re: Commitment--The C-word?)
Date: 2 Sep 92 18:05:26 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <5049@news.duke.edu> diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams) writes:
|In article <1992Sep1.171709.19079@walter.bellcore.com> nobody writes:
|>Hmm... "Hungry, broke female looking for a dinner companion". Not quite the
|>same ring. It is all in the phrasing, I guess.
|
|If someone around here knew of a good place for wings, I'd probably hock
|one of my parrots and buy some!  I'm broke, but I'm also awfully tired 
|of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.  (And of eating alone)!

We'll why don't you ask someone out.  Wait,  you already did that didn't
you?  Eating alone sucks doesn't it.  Especially for someone that likes
to cook.  

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| John Fereira            "Is that all you ever think about?"                |
| johnf@auspex.com                                                           |
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From: dy@depsych.Gwinnett.COM (Dr. Yes)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Kiran Wagle
Date: 2 Sep 92 19:47:47 GMT

schock@cpsc.UCalgary.ca (schock) writes:

> In article <1992Aug24.181020.10358@walter.cray.com> cfg@cray.com (Cindy Glass
> >   I wrote:
> >   >Hmmmm, maybe lurking is like being a voyeur.  There must be some "Lurker
> >   >Anonymous" group somewhere :-)
> 
> >   This would probably be a highly veiwed - but slightly posted to group.
> >   Otherwise, they wouldn't be "Lurker's"!  :)
> 
> Hmmmm... alt.lurkers.rehabilitation.  Perhaps there is some kind hearted mode
> who posts some freudian-like questions to get lurkers out into the open :-)
> 
> Maybe alt.lurkers.advocacy.  A place where lurkers don't post messages about 
> benefits of being a lurker.

Isn't there probably a difference between someone lurking in
sci.physics, where there is a real body of knowledge presupposed,
or even alt.postmodern -- a poster should at least know who
Jacques Derrida is before posting in that Newsgroup -- and someone
lurking in soc.singles?  Nobody has made a science out of picking
up MOTAS and there is no internationally or nationally recognized
expert -- back in the 60s it used to be Trini Lopez but he never
published his tips, tricks and secrets.

As a newcomer the thing that intrigues me about this Newsgroup is
that it contains a bunch of clearly intelligent people discussing
this perplexing and fascinating issue.  My take is that there are
now enough non-neurotic, generally desirable people who lack
skills in this area that anyone who really was an expert and had
real knowledge could make a good living as a social consultant --
probably call h/erself a "counselor" or even a "therapist" or
possibly a "human growth trainer" or something like that.  (I
don't mean a "sex therapist," which is illegal now anyway, as was
discussed in that thread.  I'm talking about people who know how
to do it but can't find anybody who wants to do it with them that
they like well enough to do it with more than once or twice.)

--
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                            | NewWorld -- one great menage a
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: buick@belay (Patrick D. Buick)
Subject: Re: Why do the lurkers / so furiously lurk together?
Keywords: Lurking, Posting
Organization: Belay Enterprises Inc. Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 23:40:18 GMT

In article <kiran.714733478@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
>kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Me) apparently alleged:
>>>I must also say I am bothered by the notion that invisible people can
>>>read without ever mentioning their presence.  If they are not willing
>>>to even introduce themselves, why should I try to entertain them?

Aah, the entertainment is not so much in the reading as the posting.

>wtr@mitre.org (Bill Ralston) seems to claim:
>>Greetings Kiran, from yet another Lurker and but occasional Poster.  
>>Consider yourself introduced. :)
>
>*laugh* _Former_ lurker.  
>Far as I'm concerned, anyone who posts is a lurker no more.

Post, Post.. there, I'm no longer a lurker.

>>>Survey time! Hey lurkers, why do you lurk? 

So many groups, so little time.  Besides, I haven't the wit
(yet) to contribute to the group.. :-)

>>-suckup on-  Because you soc.singles folks are (generally) an interesting and 
>>intelligent group to eavesdrop on -suckup off-

I'll vote for interesting...

>>I guess Lurkers are kind of like quail.  You have to beat the bushes to 
>>flush them out. (Oooh, lot's of potential for nasty one-liners there!! I 
>>better go back into hiding.)

Ohh.. no bushes here... sigh..
I do have a few plants though :-)

>PS my subject line is a musical reference, a wonderful air for bass
>from a well-known work.  Anybody recognise it?
>
>"Love, n., A temporary insanity curable by marriage....  This
> disease... is prevalent only among civilized races living under
> artificial conditions; barabarous nations breathing pure air and
> eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravaages."  
> ........................Ambrose Bierce, _The Devil's Dictionary_
>-- 
>Kiran Wagle     <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>     (812) 335-0420

Great quote... an insanity... now is the disease love or the marriage
cure?  :-))))
Patrick
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Diamonds
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 17:47:41 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.192150.7347@sfu.ca> probst@fraser.sfu.ca (Scott Probst) writes:
>In article <1992Sep2.181953.20637@beaver.cs.washington.edu> dbj@cs.washington.edu (Dave Johnson) writes:
>>In article <1992Sep2.073804.19451@zooid.guild.org> ross@zooid.guild.org (Ross Ridge) writes:
>>>diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams) writes:
>>>>change my userid to my last name.  Boring, but simple.
>>>
>>>I'd say keep the name and find a better song.  Maybe Pink Floyd's
>>>"Shine on you Crazy Diamond", or the Beatle's "Lucy in the Sky with
>>>Diamonds".
>>
>>Or how about David Bowie's "Diamond Dogs", or Joan Baez's 
>>"Diamonds and Rust"?  Whoops, getting a little depressing again.
>
>or 'diamond lives' (sade), or 'diamonds on the soles of his feet', or...
>'om mani padme hum' (lit: 'the jewel in the lotus'). oops, went a little
>sideways on that one. sorry.

       "A Diamond in the Buff?"

Trygve   (errr...sorry, I meant "Rough.")
From: eab@msc.edu (Edward Bertsch)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Tallllll women....
Date: 2 Sep 92 23:09:42 GMT
Organization: Minnesota Supercomputer Center, Minneapolis, MN

In article <tvkn3!c@lynx.unm.edu>, blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
|> Ahh, sigh.
|> Was watching one of the syndicated talk shows (Montel Williams). They was
|> talking to, sigh, tall women. There was one 6'9", one 6'3", and 2 6'2" women.
|> They was complaining they can't find good tall men. 
|> 
|> Me? I was screaming here on the other side of the screen 'YO! Over here!'
|> 
|> sigh.
|> r. (6'4", btw :)

Where were these women from?

(attended a wedding this past weekend and spent a good amount of time
 dancing with a 6' tall girl.  Was lots of fun)

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From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Lurkers...
Date: 26 Aug 92 20:50:55 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Aug26.192500.21837@cs.hw.ac.uk> neilp@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Postlethwaite) writes:
 
|Though one things that put off some lurkers I guess, many of the regulars
|or soc.singles 'old timers' (for want of a better word) seem to have their
|cliques and are always having their little digs back and forth and I guess
|people feel a little left out.

The thing is we were all once soc.singles.neophytes.  We all subscribed to
soc.singles at one point and saw the cliques and some chose to lurk and listen
while others decided to say, what the hell, and jumped into the fray as if
we belonged there all along.  That's what I did and I was promptly called an
ass.  Shit happens.

-- 
+============================================================================++
| John Fereira            "Is that all you ever think about?"                |
| johnf@auspex.com                                                           |
+============================================================================++
From: greg@netcom.com (Greg Bullough)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Mexican food in Boston?  Blecch!!!!
Date: 27 Aug 92 16:00:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.1tcnjxn.greg
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <l9pr67INNfr9@news.bbn.com> dhardin@spcink.bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes:
>In article <1992Aug26.223614.25162@linus.mitre.org> wtr@mitre.org (Bill Ralston) writes:
>>
>>It's called Mole sauce and it is *good*.  There's a southern mexican style 
>>restaurant here (Boston) that serves dishes with that and other 
>>Aztec-style dishes that is really good (perhaps an excuse in itself for a 
>>Boston-Boink).  In addition, the Mole sauce has seemed to have an 
>>aphrodisiac effect on the ladies I've taken there. Heh heh heh...
>
>While I'm pleased that there's *some* decent Mexican food in Boston (and 
>where is this restaurant?) only an idiot would come to Boston for the
>sole purpose of eating Mexican food, cause this just ain't the right place.
 
Yeah, but Boston is one of the best places in the world to get scrod.
 
(Isn't that the past pluperfect?)
 
Greg
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark)
Subject: Re: Can we can the suck-up bit?
Keywords: encourage friendship?
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 00:14:00 GMT

In article <14390@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
>Some men actually like to do nice things for people (even if they happen
>to be female) because they get enjoyment from doing nice things for people.
>Some men do nice things for women even though they are capable of doing 
>it themselves.  

No no.  It's genes.  You see, the other day I helped an old lady across the
street, and then sometime later I gave all the money I had on me to a guy who
needed some bus money (I was too short on cash to buy food even before that).

   But I hate doing things for other people and derive no pleasure whatsoever
from it.
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: How'd You Get Here?? (Was:Lurkers)
Date: 31 Aug 92 20:37:35 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Aug31.192923.18464@cs.wisc.edu> rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu writes:
>In <14378@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
|>|I read about 70 newsgroups, though only a few in any depth.  I'm also an
|>|advocate of the "better newsreaders solves newsgroup volume problems,
|>|splitting the group does not" philosophy.
|
|>We could use you over in the rec.music groups.

|I was a very vocal opponent of rec.music.rush (which was defeated on its first
|vote, but for all I know there may have been a second by now).  I was also a
|vocal opponent of alt.music.rush, which was created over many loud
|objections, and I refuse to read or post to the group.
 
Where were you during the rec.music.phish, rec.music.enya debates?

|But I sadly don't read either rec.music.misc or alt.rock-n-roll deeply
|enough any more to get embroiled in many of the split flamewars there...
 
Too bad.  You're missing the "Prog rockers are isolationist" thread because
someone created alt.fan.peter.hamill.  

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| John Fereira            "Is that all you ever think about?"                |
| johnf@auspex.com                                                           |
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: ron@turing.toronto.edu (Ron Wessels)
Subject: Re: I AM *NOT* AN AI (or a turing test)
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
Date: 27 Aug 92 02:20:21 GMT

allisson@turing.toronto.edu (H. Allisson Roome) writes:
>I am *NOT* an AI program gone rampant or an example of the turing test
>for intelligence or even someone else posting as me.  ...
>... [Ron Wessels - I thought you were a nice person but
>this is beyond the pale - insinuating that I'm a program gone amok or
>that you're somehow responsible for me].

For those of you who have not read my article that prompted this (I have
cancelled it), I had posted what I thought was an obviously humourous
innuendo that I was responsible for Allisson's postings, and/or that her
postings were some sort of fancy artificial intelligence program.  My
judgement on the matter was, apparently, lacking.

For the record:

allisson@turing.toronto.edu is, in fact, the real Allisson Roome, formerly
known as haroome@rodan.acs.syr.edu .  Being (among other duties) system
administrator on these machines, I gave Allisson an account on our system
when her other account disappeared.  I have never either posted or emailed
in any name other than my own.

As for the AI insinuation (based upon our system name), the name is derived
from the computer language developed by the UofT group that I am a member
of.  It is named after and in honour of Alan Turing, who, coincidentally,
is also of "Turing Test" fame.  However, we are not directly affiliated with
the artifical intelligence group at UofT.


I would like to take this apportunity to publically apologize to Allisson
for offending her with my posting.  It was certainly not my intent.

-- 
Ron Wessels		University of Toronto		ron@turing.toronto.edu
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: peram@cs.tamu.edu (Suresh B Peram)
Subject: Stupid Newsgroup
Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 22:22:01 GMT

Hi,

	This newsgroup has become really stupid,
	and mundane.  It used to be that you would 
	find gems of advice here, no more.

	Hope you people think before you post your
	junk.

Suresh  (lurker)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max)
Subject: Re: Desperation (was Re: Commitment--The C-word?)
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 17:51:15 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.171709.19079@walter.bellcore.com> nobody writes:
>
>You must differentiate the self-sufficiency while initiating mating rituals
>from self-sufficiency after successful mating. Seems like reasonable neediness
>is tolerated and encouraged at the latter stage while discouraged at the
>former stage. I think single men and women are victims of their own rules.
>
>						Walter
>
I guess I differentiate between needing and wanting. I can want my lover's
attention like mad, but still not need it. Just because something is not
needed does not make it unimportant. I don't need a mate to feel like my
life is worthwhile but the mate in my life is very important to me. I like
to reduce my needs to a minimum, gives me that much more time to enjoy the
things that I want.

I am leery of men who "need" to have a girlfriend, any girlfriend and value
men who want to be with me. So is this some artificial distinction or does
this make sense to anyone else.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: Ross Ridge <ross@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: Can we can the suck-up bit?
Organization: ZOOiD BBS
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 07:42:17 GMT

dbj@cs.washington.edu (Dave Johnson) writes:
>Aha!  No wonder the excrutiatingly sensitive James got LJBF'd!
>Liz found a lawn-mowing SLUT!
>
>(And I wasn't even around for that thread--it's just such a part
>of s.s tradition)

Gawd.  *I* remember that thread.  It's become that infamous has it?

							Ross Ridge

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