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From: fredw@mks.com (Fred Walter)
Subject: Re: "want" vs "need"
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 19:39:15 GMT

diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams) writes:
>A group marriage or whatever would be okay too- I just think
>it's less likely.

They most certainly are more work. No, I'm not in one, but I have friends
that are working at one. It was all theory until recently, when they (5 of
them) bought a house together to see how they'd work together in reality.
It'll be interesting to see, with this group, with such different income
levels and interests and desires and levels of common sense and practicality
and personal hygiene, how long they stay together when they finally start
having major conflicts (like having limited resources (money) and needing
to try and put the group needs ahead of individual wants). I hope they can
do it; they're a fun bunch of people.

There's a mailing list ('triples') for people who are interested in these
sort of relationships.

>misrael@csi.uottawa.ca	(Mark Israel) writes:
>>   Suppose you didn't have an SO, because you were in a (hypothetical)
>>society where people never went steady.  But any time you wanted, you 
>>could enjoy the company of a desirable MOTAS.  Would you be happy?

So, any time I wanted, I could enjoy the company of a desirable MOTAS, eh ?
Just not necessarily the same one... I don't know if I'd be happiest, but
I would be happier.

	fred
-- 
Disclaimer: everything I write is my *personal* opinion and does not represent
or reflect the opinion of the company which employs me.
From: morton@cali.rtp.dg.com
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Commitment--The C-word?
Date: 5 Sep 92 05:43:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: dg-rtp.1992Sep5.054350.26943
Organization: Data General Corporation, RTP, NC.

>>>>Seems that every woman you meet opens up along the lines of "mold me the way
>>>>you like."

So what planet are you from ?? If you ever get to earth , visit North Carolina,
but, in case it matters, you certainly won't find any of those !
From: v105l4lg@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (c pierre)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Singles Bar/Try somewhere else !!
Summary: Advice
Keywords: Ranch.
Date: 9 Sep 92 08:11:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <19920907101722IZZYFU9@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU>, IZZYFU9@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU writes...

>	Anyone have any recommendation to singles bar around Los Angeles or
>westwood area?

	Why the hell you want to visit a singles bar in L.A! If you're looking
 for a real eyeopener check out the 'Mustang Ranch' in Nevada. You would be a 
 change man after just one visit to that establishment. It's worth the trip !!

>Thanks in advance.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Desperation (was Re: Commitment--The C-word?)
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 22:30:37 GMT

In article <1992Sep12.174915.28091@uwm.edu> markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:
>
>The nicest looking Porsche still can't bring a woman to climax nor can the
>deliciously appealing visual form arouse an insatiable craving for male flesh
>coarsing throughout her body bringing her to knees in utter devastation.

You sure?  Though I must admit that I was under the impression that they
usually threw away the knees--not enough meat on 'em to be worth eating.

Trygve   (Actually, I did once have a guest who had a real thing for
          driving Porsches in the mountains who might dispute your first
          claim.  Personally, I thought it seemed rather uncomfortable,
          but, hey, at least the shift knob survived intact.)
From: wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Ring for sale (The ballad of a Guy & Girl)
Date: 11 Sep 92 23:35:44 GMT
Reply-To: wjb@moscom.com
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Sandra Loosemore (loosemore-sandra@CS.YALE.EDU) wrote:
: No, it doesn't take anything that weird.  My apparent absence recently
: was due to a dead news daemon that was refusing to pass on any articles
: I posted to the outside world.  No psychotic killer, no mysterious force!

Oh?  Then who killed the news daemon?  :-)
: 
: Uh-oh.  Have we lost poor Trygve?  :-(  This newsgroup just wouldn't be
: the same without him....

Doubt we lost him;  where would he go for comic relief?
-- 
"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: buick@belay (Patrick D. Buick)
Subject: Re: Too Much of Anything is ...
Organization: Belay Enterprises Inc. Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 18:09:21 GMT

In article <thurlow.715711480@convex.convex.com> thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:
>In <1992Sep3.142709.25575@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes:
>
>>But take the scenario a step further.  You're IN that situation.  You've
>>gotten yourself into this monagamous commitment with someone and now
>>you find that their life revolves around sex.
>
>>I have to wonder about people who'd be happy in that situation, as opposed
>>to those who *think* they'd be happy in that situation.
>

Not that you said it Nance, but this applies to men, too... Look to my
ex-girlfriend (who wanted to get married) for an example.. no life besides
sex... aaaagghhh!!

>Coppedf rom an old Rolf Harris routine:
>
>Dear Ann Landers,
>
>	I am in terrible trouble because my husband appears to love me
>too much.  He loves me in the morning, during morning tea break, before
>and after lunch, in the afternoon, before and after the evening meal,
>while I am watching television and while I am polishing the floors.  My
>problem is, what am I to do about it?
>
>	PS, please excuse the jerky handwriting ...
>
>Rob T
>--
>Rob Thurlow, thurlow@convex.com
>Across the evening sky, all the birds are leaving
>But how can they know it's time for them to go?		- Sandy Denny

Good one... Love it Rob....
Patrick
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From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
Subject: Re: E.W. - Weddings....
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 18:33:55 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.115701.17818@uwm.edu> markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:
>In article <1992Sep11.114311.11898@access.digex.com> huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:
>>I'm sure this would have come as a great shock to the first President of
>>the Republic of Ireland, who was born in New York City.
>>
>>-- Herb Huston (1/64 Irish by descent from Jenny Fulton Bailey)
>
>Are you really, really, really sure?  Your other 63 ancestors could have been
>1/16, 1/64, 1/1024 part Irish too.  Your "Irish" ancestor could have been
>13/1024 parts Italian, 58/1024 parts Danish, 645/1024 parts Scottish, 11/1024
>parts West African, 2/1024 parts Iroquois (a couple Indians who visited
>Europe and stayed or something), 331/1024 parts Hungarian, 34/1024 parts
>Mongolian (intermarriage from when the Magyars lived in the steppe), and
>368/1024 parts Briton.

Not impressed by my being able to state the name of a great-great-great-great
grandmother, when most Americans can't name a great grandparent, eh?

All I can say is that I've tried to work with the data that's available to me.
As for true origins, I'll go with Africa, but since that would apply to all
living hominines, it's somewhat trivial.

-- Herb Huston
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Tallllll women....
From: parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz
Date: 10 Sep 1992 02:10:53 GMT
Reply-To: parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz
Organization: Wellington City Council, Wgtn, NZ
NNTP-Posting-Host: blade.wcc.govt.nz

In article <1992Sep9.183837.17973@javelin.sim.es.com>, gclapp@javelin.sim.es.com (Glenn Clapp) writes:
>>> >now no such limits.  I have found the average and even shorter women to
>>> >be much more fun (and more readilly available).  But... tall women...  
>>*sigh*

>>I would like to find a tall women to see if this is true but long legs are  
>>sexier (Love lurking)

>I sure don't mean to imply any sort of stereotype here.  I certainly haven't
>dated enough of either to establish any meaningful trends, I have just had
>more genuinely good times with the shorter women.  Maybe it is that the
>shorter women are used to being with taller men, whereas taller women are
>somewhat uncomfortable with someone taller or rather, MUCH taller.  I dunno.
>I think more experimentation is in order.

I think (IMHO) that's because there are _more_ shorter women.  
I suspect I'm more crazy *because* I'm tall - hey, if I'm going to get noticed
anyway ...









Rachel

"Supergoof"

   - -
   O O
    >
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Rachel

"Supergoof"

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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
Subject: Re: E.W. - Weddings....
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 11:43:11 GMT

In article <ewillims.716118452@unix1.tcd.ie> ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:
>Only people born and bred in
>Ireland are considered to be Irish.

I'm sure this would have come as a great shock to the first President of
the Republic of Ireland, who was born in New York City.

-- Herb Huston (1/64 Irish by descent from Jenny Fulton Bailey)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Re: Hair (was leg shaving)
Organization: AT&T
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 14:08:36 GMT

In article <337@blars.UUCP> blarson@usc.edu writes:
>In article <1992Sep10.173526.21275@cbfsb.cb.att.com> jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) writes:
>>Oh yea, I don't care. If I can't let my long blonde locks live
>>a corporate cuts a corporate cut.
>
>I know what you mean.  My curly blonde hair is as long as it has ever
>been -- a few inches lower than my sholders.  (My beard is getting
>there too, but that's only a littly over a years growth.)  I'm trying
>to decide how long to grow it -- the middle of my back seems about
>right.
>
>-- 
>blarson@usc.edu			usc!blarson			blarson@zog
>		C news and rn for os9/68k!
>I think I hear a scream.  A great many dramatic situations begin with a scream.
>							-- Barbarella
 
AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHYHHHHHHHH, ECHO, ECHo, Echo, echo.......
Give me my hair. Gawwwwd the humanity.

 
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From: smith@wesson.Eng.Sun.COM (Nina S. Smith - SunSoft Product Marketing)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Desperation (was Re: Commitment--The C-word?)
Date: 16 Sep 1992 04:31:06 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Distribution: world
Reply-To: smith@wesson.Eng.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: wesson

In article 14657@auspex-gw.auspex.com, johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:

>
>As long as were talking about Porsches...
>
>When My ex and I bought a 944 a few years ago she took it for a test drive
>with the salesmen.  Rather than your standard round the block a few times
>she hit the freeway and got off a few miles on a road that headed up into
>the hills.  Since we'd had a sports car prior to that she knew how to drive
>pretty well.  On the way back she had to stop at a gas station because the
>salesman had gotten car sick.
>
>"Men like women that know how to drive a stick."
>
>-- 
>+==========================================================================+
>| John Fereira     | Auspex Systems | "Auspex does not share my opinions.  |
>| johnf@auspex.com | Santa Clara CA |  So Why am I still working here?"    |
>+==========================================================================+

Damn!  I can only drive automatics!  I guess I'm doomed to blind dates with 
consultants toting black satchels!!!

-- Nina
From: gds@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Greg Skinner)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: nature of postings
Keywords: Pathetic, un-realistic, valueless
Date: 10 Sep 92 22:08:31 GMT
Reply-To: gds@cs.ucla.edu (Greg Skinner)
Organization: in your face!
Originator: gds@oahu.cs.ucla.edu

In article <BuDLyE.6s8@news.udel.edu> zagar@chester.cms.udel.edu writes:
>You know, I'd like to see this thread return to a practical discussion
>of actually 'Finding Romantic Partners'.  For a (very short) while, there
>was actually some useful discussion about attitudes (and methods) for
>expanding/improving one's social/romantic life.

>Considerable bandwidth might be saved if the innuendo currently being
>swapped around in this thread were delivered by e-mail.

It seems that the tendency in this newsgroup is to exchange lots of
one-liners, inside jokes, innuendo, and the like.  When I first
starting reading net.singles over 8 years ago, there was a lot more
"useful" discussion and less "chat".  However, there was much more
crossposting (particularly from/to high flame content groups) and much
more flaming.

On the other hand, maybe all those folks "usefully" discussing finding
romantic partners found some, and are otherwise occupied at the
moment. ;-)

--gregbo
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: Ross Ridge <ross@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: Name That Diamond!
Organization: ZOOiD BBS
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 08:50:55 GMT

kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
>Now Diana Rigg, there's an attractive woman.

Yah, in the Avengers for sure, but hosting Mystery not so much.
She's still cute, but she seems kind of snobbish with that accent.

							Ross Ridge

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From: un030025@wvnvms.wvnet.edu
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Blind dates scare me!
Date: 13 Sep 92 18:41:33 GMT
Organization: West Virginia Network for Educational Telecomputing


	I got a point that I must make on this blind dating thing. I think that
it sucks! Every girl that I have ever met on a blind date has been psycho. Why
do we do this? If anyone know, let me know.
	The last one that I went on this summer was the worst. A girl named
Becky pulled a knife on me. That really can spoil an evening. I was just
driving along when I felt a knife on my arm. Scared the s#$t out of me! Also
she brought M-80's, potatos, a smaller knife, and a cammera.
	What ever happened to the good old American girl? If there are any that
are reading this, let me know. I just want to talk to someone I don't know who
is NORMAL!
	See ya later.

-*>bye<*-
From: jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Desperation (was Re: Commitment--The C-word?)
Date: 5 Sep 92 18:02:58 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams) write

>You forget, I don't have any furniture!  I would feel awkward inviting
>people to dinner, then saying "Oh, yeah, by the way, you all have to
>sit on the floor 'cause there are no chairs, and balance food on your
>laps 'cause there's no table... Don't mind the fleas, the bites stop
>itching in less than a week."

Hey, Diamond, the best dinner party - and one of the best parties - I ever had
was two days after moving into my old NYC apartment. My buddy and I had NO
furniture - we slept on the rugs - and had a spaghetti dinner party, approx 25
people. Everyone stood, or sat on the floor (funny because most of us came
right from work and were in suits etc). It lasted from about seven to about
two.

The lack of furniture was a real novelty and proved to be a real icebreaker
for scamming for us and our guests.

Don't rule it out.

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From: gal@endor.uucp (Gal Kaplan)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Tallllll women....
Keywords: Boston, Baby Boink, Pahty
Date: 15 Sep 92 16:10:57 GMT
Organization: Harvard University

In article <1992Sep14.183709.28194@cs.yale.edu> loosemore-sandra@CS.YALE.EDU (Sandra Loosemore) writes:
>wtr@mitre.org (Bill Ralston) writes:
>
>   Liz, you terrible tease, luring us drooling nerds to the Boink and then 
>   wearning pants all weekend!  :)
>
>Hey, speak for yourself, Bill!  I may be a nerd but I don't drool. :-)
>(Or at least not over Liz's legs....)

Uh-oh. Bill, whose legs do you think she was drooling over?

	~~~
	~~~ Gal			gal@das.harvard.edu
	~~~
From: infante@acpub.duke.edu (Andrew  Infante)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Desperation (was Re: Commitment--The C-word?)
Date: 9 Sep 92 16:11:39 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

In article <1992Sep5.082158.14351@zooid.guild.org> ross@zooid.guild.org (Ross Ridge) writes:
>diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams) writes:
>>Um, I meant there are only two guys in my year in my department.  There
>>are only seven of us in total, so the ratio's not alll *that* unreal.
>
>Which brings up the point that there are other years, other departments.
>
>							Ross Ridge
Hey, Liz, uh, Diamond, lurker here...

I've been around Duke for awhile now - maybe you'd like to get together
sometime?

I know what you mean about having no furniture, too - I just moved into
a new house and we went without for almost three months.

phew, now just gotta get rid of those fleas too. :-)

Sorry guys, that was just too easy ;)

later.

andy
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: aahz@netcom.com (Aahzmandius)
Subject: Re: BOINK! BalloonBoink, Coming soon!
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 18:32:32 GMT
Organization: Bill 'n' Opus for Prez

In article <1992Sep9.234922.28959@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> ron@turing.toronto.edu (Ron Wessels) writes:
>aahz@netcom.com (Aahzmandius) asks:
>>What is the sound of Sit happening?
>
>Perhaps the same sound as the Shuttle's toilet.  I believe it was Larry Niven
>who was examining the blueprints of the zero-g loo, and sent a copy to his
>publisher.  He outlined the "rotating blades designed to separate the solid
>and liquid wastes" and added a note
>
>    "Jim: as near as I can figure, the sh*t is >supposed< to hit the fan!"

Sorry, nope, it was Spider to Baen.
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

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From: diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: "want" vs "need"
Date: 10 Sep 92 13:25:38 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

In article <1992Sep10.040505.27947@csi.uottawa.ca> misrael@csi.uottawa.ca (Mark Israel) writes:

>> I never said that MOTAS that I don't love are inferior to those I 
>> love, I said that I enjoy sex more with persons I love.  How did 
>> omniscience get into the discussion?   
>
>   Our lack of omniscience limits those we love to those we know.  Now,
>how did *sex* get into the discussion? :-)

(Quick mental review of posts....)  Okay, yeah, you did say "enjoy the
company of".  Sorry.  (But if you *don't* mean sex, do you mean that to
you the ideal world would be one in which you could have a conversation with
an attractive stranger on demand?  My.  How peculiar. :-))  Anyway, I think
our point of disagreement lies in the meaning of 'superior'.  If you
just mean more lovable, I do think people I love are more lovable than
those I don't love.... but if you're suggesting that people shouldn't have
relationships because their lack of omniscience prevents them from locating
a potentially more lovable person than the one that's available, that's silly. 
(*Is* that what you're suggesting?  I think I've lost track of this 
discussion).

The Howard Family turns up in lots of books.... 'Time Enough For Love'
was the most fun, IMHO, but there are TONS of others.

>
>misrael@csi.uottawa.ca			Mark Israel
>Sunbeams brightly play, where Fancy's fair pavilion once is pight.


				--Diamond
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz
Subject: Re: Tallllll women....
Reply-To: parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz
Organization: Wellington City Council, Wgtn, NZ
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 02:50:28 GMT

In article <715596605.14890@minster.york.ac.uk>, aaron@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
>I find tall women in general more attractive than short (all other things
>being equal). I'm quite capable of finding shorter women cute but I tend
>to have an almost irresistable urge to pat them on the head.


Sorry, guys.  I just can't resist answering these tall thingies.

It would appear guys in NZ have a different idea about tall women; or else (I'm
beginning to think this is correct) they are all RUNTS themselves and can't
cope with a statuesque woman.  I'm heartily sick of (short) men burbling "big 
momma" as I walk past them, usually in a bar.  That's why I don't usually
bother going to bars any more - NZ men are a waste of time.  I'll stick to my
(female for the sickos) dog, thank you very much.



 
Rachel
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams)
Subject: Re: E.W. - Weddings....
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 11:30:50 GMT

In <1992Sep11.114311.11898@access.digex.com> huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:

>In article <ewillims.716118452@unix1.tcd.ie> ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:
>>Only people born and bred in
>>Ireland are considered to be Irish.

>I'm sure this would have come as a great shock to the first President of
>the Republic of Ireland, who was born in New York City.

	You mean de Valera who was referred to as the "spanish onion 
in the Irish stew"???  

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: buick@belay (Patrick D. Buick)
Subject: Re: Too Much of Anything is ...
Organization: Belay Enterprises Inc. Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 05:51:08 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.125124.29465@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes:
>In article <BuDJrM.4or@belay> buick@belay (Patrick D. Buick) writes:
>>>In <1992Sep3.142709.25575@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes:
>>>>But take the scenario a step further.  You're IN that situation.  You've
>>>>gotten yourself into this monagamous commitment with someone and now
>>>>you find that their life revolves around sex.
>>>>I have to wonder about people who'd be happy in that situation, as opposed
>>>>to those who *think* they'd be happy in that situation.
>>
>>Not that you said it Nance, but this applies to men, too...
>
>I was responding to a man.
>
>-Nance
>-- 
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>att!ihlpk!colucci            _.>/               | Stay fit for life.
>                            (_) \(_)                           

Oh.. oops..
umm.. I think I'll crawl back under my rock now..
Patrick
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