HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: catcher@netcom.com (Paul W. Francisco)
Subject: Re: Boink Blues
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 19:55:00 GMT
Organization: The Vampyre's Lair

In article <1992Aug12.153837.4529@muppet.bt.co.uk> bart@muppet.bt.co.uk writes:
>>	BOINK = soc.singles gathering [etc., etc.]
>
> Do these ever happen beoynd the american continent ? (sorry canadians, that 
>means you too).

Actually there was one in the UK, I think last year.  If it was last
year, it was the only boink held last year.  It's good to see them going
again.

-- 
From the Vampyre's Lair, 	    The thirst from a vampire bite
Paul W. Francisco        	    fills the emptiness inside...
catcher@netcom.com                      - Siouxsie and the Banshees
From: lairdpg@lub001.lamar.edu
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: FINNS - Nice description, Juha!
Date: 15 Aug 92 23:37:36 +1700
Organization: Lamar University - Beaumont

In article <28998@hydra.Helsinki.FI>, taina@cs.Helsinki.FI (Juha Taina) writes:
> In <1992Aug13.182230.1433@lub001.lamar.edu> lairdpg@lub001.lamar.edu writes:
>>What do the finnish women look like (  Are they foxes, babes, should I jump
>>like a frog?  Is it hammer time (
> 
> Well... A typical Finnish woman is about 5'5" blonde, short/medium
> straight hair and perhaps wears glasses.  Most of them are about the
> right weight, although quite a lot of them think that they are too
> fat.  She is pretty attractive, I think.
> 
> Juha
> -- 
> Juha Taina | taina@cs.helsinki.fi | Phone: +358-0-708-4247

Juha, most of the european women I know around here and have met in the past
seem real nice.  When I was working in the middle east, I got the chance to
go vacation in Europe and I really enjoyed that.  I met a Dutch Gal, beautiful
blue eyed brunette and we had a lot of fun while I was vacationing there.  She
was so helpful and showed me around the place.  I didn't feel like such a
stranger then.  Thanks for the description!  Sounds like you guys have a hard
time choosing amongst them!  
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: mir2@po.CWRU.Edu (Michael I. Rosenberg)
Subject: Something to Ramble About
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 20:41:48 GMT


While reading the discourse in the topic "various ramblings",
I got a few ideas which I thought that I should mention to
(I don't know your name) the analytically oriented individual.
     I was once myself very analytically oriented, and found
it a lifestyle to be somewhat detrimental to the care-free
spontaneous lifestyle which I wished to achieve.  At the time,
I was living at home with my older brother, and he offered me
a very simple solution ( at least it seemed).  He told me
that I must learn to trust my intuition, and after that I 
would not continuously observe myself, and thereby being
nonanalytical concerning my own behavior.
     After some time, I had some practice, and have found this 
to be the most enjoyable, and successful way to live.
     Also, someone with your level of intellect should have
no problem not trusting his intuition, because you have an
enormous amount of stored experiences in your head waiting 
to be put onto use.
     I say don't waste anymore time being analytical, you 
will still observe things in your environment and 
probably be more correct about them than the "scientific"
approach

---Mike
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max)
Subject: Re: Las Vegas
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 13:06:04 GMT

In article <58_nstl@lynx.unm.edu> hays@TECHNET.NM.ORG writes:
>In article <1992Aug21.213353.1705@news.acns.nwu.edu>, drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max) writes:
>>
>>Anyone else getting what appears to be an email form letter come-on that
>>starts something like, I read one of your posts and thought it was
>>interesting....  ?  Just curious.
>>
>>Max
>
>Dear _MAX_:
>
>I read one of your posts and thought it was interesting.  It was the one
>about _EMAIL FORM LETTER COME-ON_.  I thought you made some very good
>points (especially what you said about _JUST CURIOUS_) and I wonder if
>you'd like to get together and discuss it in person?  I'd really like
>to buy you dinner and get to know you, because I can tell by your posts
>that we'd be very compatible because you are _INTERESTING_, _ARTICULATE_
>and _FEMALE_.  Talk to you soon.
>
>
>
>:write | strip_source_article | convert -upcasetolow > net.babe
>:send -mail net.babe -subj="Hi there" -address=drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
>:exit
>ZZ
>
>
>( Couldn't resist  :-)
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Larry 'Purple' Hays                                     hays@technet.nm.org
>

Well what was even funnier was that I got a second letter from the same guy
which started out the same but had "improvements" later on. Guess he
thought the first one didn't have enough pazazz.

Max
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: aahz@netcom.com (Aahzmandius)
Subject: Re: men in their thirties who never dated
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 18:20:27 GMT
Organization: Bill 'n' Opus for Prez

In article <1TJPPB1w162w@micor.ocunix.on.ca> graydon@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Graydon) writes:
>
>The common characteristic I have noticed about men in their thirties
>who have never dated is that they want to be attached to someone
>less than they want to not make a fool of themselves.
>
>Anyone able to decide you're perfect from distant observation and
>decide you're the one and then be able to pay the whole initiation
>costs of a relationship is not all that sane or stable.
>
>Relationships *cost* - time and sleep and the pain of changing your
>mind.  If you're in a state of mind that wants to minimize risks,
>you're not going to find one.

To these words of wisdom, I can add only one: amen.
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

"I 'got a life'.  Now what?"
From: swann@acsu.buffalo.edu (Stephen Swann)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Various ramblings...
Date: 16 Aug 92 16:13:05 GMT
Organization: UB

In article <1992Aug15.224506.42573@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.IBM.com writes:
>> either--I think it was Fran Leibowitz who observed that few people would
>> be self-conscious at all if they knew just how little attention everyone
>> else was paying to them--
>
>That's how I finally started dancing a few years back.  I figured that
>whatever I did couldn't possibly look more ridiculous than what some of
>the people on the dance floor were doing, and nobody was laughing at *them*.
>(I suppose a few drinks had helped as well.)  So, I tried it - and I had FUN!

Ditto, pretty much.  Although the very first time, I had to be bodily
dragged onto the dance floor by some determined friends.  Jeez, I'm
glad they did - It's been great fun since then...  :-)  [And yeah, a
couple of drinks does cushion the blow a bit when you're just getting
the hang of it.  ;-) ]

-- 
Steve Swann                 |    Speak to me in many voices; make
swann@acsu.buffalo.edu      |      them all sound like one...  -BOC
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: haroome@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allisson Roome)
Subject: Windows, Bananas, and Boinks - Oh My! 
Organization: Me? Nah ... now where did I refile that message?
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 22:39:58 EDT

In article <1992Aug11.170031.13795@wixer.cactus.org> purp@wixer.cactus.org 
(Jim Meyer) writes:
>In article <BssFC5.5xE@acsu.buffalo.edu> swann@acsu.buffalo.edu 
(Stephen Swann) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug10.121743.7942@newstand.syr.edu> haroome@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allisson Roome) writes:
>>> ... While I have promised someone the unedited collection of
>>>photos - those photos are *not*, I hope, being turned into GIFs
>>                                    ^^^^
>>Allison is not, I hope, correct.  :-)
>>
You'll have to ask the person to whom I send the pictures, now won't you.

>>>(Private showings, however, may be arranged).
>>
>>Woo woo.  :-)
>
Thank you ...

>Anyone for a slide show?
>
Hmm, maybe I should just have them turned into a video ....

>>>Allisson - [I still don't have a job and don't know where I'm living -
>>>	    suggestions welcome]
>>
>>I must be crazy to pass up a straight line like that.
>
>You are. Yo, Allisson! Do you do windows?
>
Yes, OS/2, MS-Dos, UNIX .... need I add more. Really, You think you could 
provide a better not-straight line than that.

Allisson
--
| H.  Allisson Roome - haroome@rodan.acs.syr.edu 
 "The only way to have peace is to teach peace ... Teach only love, and learn
  that love is yours and you are love." (A.C.I.M. p. 92)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci)
Subject: Re: FLAME ON, STAND BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Organization: AT&T
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 12:56:44 GMT

In article <92227.182423U15479@uicvm.uic.edu> <U15479@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
>You take this group much too seriously to post an article such as yours.  Seems
>as though I struck a cord......
>CHRIS GRUMBOSKI                      GRUMBY STRIKES AGAIN!
>
>                "WELL..........WE'RE WAITING!!!"

I think if we all just ignored this little attention-grabber he'd
eventually either go away or start exhibiting some inkling of a
personality.

I happens.  It really happens.

-Nance

-- 
Nance Colucci  *^*^*^*^*^*    o__    *^*^*^*^*  |  Work that body!
att!ihlpk!colucci            _.>/               | Stay fit for life.
                            (_) \(_)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Exactly what I mean by "unattached"...
From: wallich@NCD.COM (Kenneth Wallich)
Date: 14 Aug 92 00:54:44 GMT


(Marcia Bednarcyk) writes:

  Why is ambiguity bad? Long ago, a part of courting behavior was flirting, 
  where ambiguity and nuance was the name of the game. 

sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart) writes:

 The trick is to find someone who is so complex and has so many
 different parts that you can't learn all about that person
 immediately.

 Yes, the obvious example applies.

For the socially housebound, he must be referring to John Lithgow in
"Raising Cain".


-- 
Ken Wallich
wallich@ncd.com  
ken@wallich.com
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Las Vegas
Date: 21 Aug 92 23:27:59 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <f7_nasf.tyger@netcom.com> tyger@netcom.com (Kitty in the Middle) writes:
>In article <1992Aug21.213353.1705@news.acns.nwu.edu> drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max) writes:
|>
|>Anyone else getting what appears to be an email form letter come-on that
|>starts something like, I read one of your posts and thought it was
|>interesting....  ?  Just curious.
|
|I did! Wonder if he is interested or just on the make...?
|Things that make ya go Hmmmmm.....

I got one too.  Hmmmmm???..

-- 
+============================================================================++
| John Fereira            "Is that all you ever think about?"                |
| johnf@auspex.com                                                           |
+============================================================================++
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Friday, 14 Aug 1992 18:24:22 CDT
From: <U15479@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: FLAME ON, STAND BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 <1992Aug13.180005.1430@lub001.lamar.edu>

You take this group much too seriously to post an article such as yours.  Seems
as though I struck a cord......
CHRIS GRUMBOSKI                      GRUMBY STRIKES AGAIN!

                "WELL..........WE'RE WAITING!!!"

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Subject: Re: Exactly what I mean by "unattached"...
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 09:11:36 GMT

aahz@netcom.com (Aahzmandius) writes:

>Yo, Kiran!  How long have you been on the Net?  You should know by now
>that the attribution line is outdented one character from the quote.
>Sheesh!

I'm aware of that, but not everybody reading it might be.
-- 
Kiran Wagle                             <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
P.O.Box 2083 Bloomington IN 47402-2083                  (812) 335-0420
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Hunk)
Subject: Re: Matchmaker Intl. Advice Sought
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 15:14:50 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.103148.9352@uoft02.utoledo.edu> rgasser@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:
>
>Advice/info. requested about professional matchmaker services....
>
>I just recently got some mail in my mailbox at home regarding joining
>Matchmaker International to meet a mate.  I just wondered if anyone
>has done this and how successful it was...

Go for it, if it doesn't cost too much.

>TOLEDO OHIO.........Home of:

the NFL's Toledo Maroons (1919, 1922, 1923 seasons)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams)
Subject: Re: Trygve Trolling
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 11:36:35 GMT

In <1992Aug20.135045.2475@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> allisson@turing.toronto.edu (H. Allisson Roome) writes:


>Allisson

	Excuse my ignorance Alisson, but what is "trolling"????
In Europe we take the word "troll" to mean a scandinavian
folkloric creature which is monstrous in shape, is large, hairy
and shaggy and likes eating human flesh.
	Um...I know that our Trygve is scandinavian but does he 
REALLY look like that? (*GRIN*)
 
    ____________________________________________________________________
    |   Emma Williams            | Dad, I guess you're wondering why   |
    |   ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie    | I'm ringing you..--Calvin & Hobbes  |
    |				 | (eller Steen og Stoffer :-> )       |
    |____________________________|_____________________________________|
From: lairdpg@lub001.lamar.edu
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: WAS re:men in their (A New DAWN!)
Date: 13 Aug 1992 01:15:35 GMT
Organization: Lamar University - Beaumont

In article <l8kqsbINNlij@news.bbn.com>, dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes:
> 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

Ohhh!  Dawn, please, please spare us any more 'bout this lady.  How about
writing her biography and sending it to TRUE DETECTIVE, NATIONAL ENQUIRER,
GLOBE, STAR, CHERRY MAGAZINE, ETC.....

Tell us about yourself - do you do the nasty?  Do you have a firm, round
butt?  Do they stick out when someone rubs them?  Enquiring minds want to
know!
From: bart@muppet.bt.co.uk (Tim)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: h lf  f ll
Date: 13 Aug 92 07:55:00 GMT
Reply-To: bart@muppet.bt.co.uk
Organization: British Telecom

Hey,

h wco e   o ly   ha f  of  m   m ss g s   g t  as  f r  as  t is
n ws ro p  ?

S me hi g   se ms  to  c t  h lf   th    t xt  out   b f re   t ey
are  p ste   !

Cen or  ip   !


T m
---
"everday's a new day, that what I been told
 try to hold your head high, the world runs hot and cold"

but my sigs are unaffected :-)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: finucane@camis.Stanford.EDU (Michael Finucane)
Subject: Re: Cooling things off...
Organization: Stanford School of Medicine
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 03:34:15 GMT

I don't remember picking up on it being a physically dangerous situation at the time, and unfortunately I didn't save a copy.  I remember it as being an extremely psychologically dangerous situation.  My point was that if he committed suicide, she would also be traumatised, and that just maybe she could make it a positive experience.  I also did not wish to downplay the risks involved, which are great.   If she does feel physically threatened, the best thing to do IMHHO is to tell him that she feels threat



ened, and also to tell the police, and to tell him that she has told them.  Yes, everybody has the right and duty to protect themselves.  I am also aware that I have a relatively casual attitude towards life and danger, and that this is probably exacerbated because I'm male, and never really had to worry.  For this reason I may not have picked up on the physical danger.
> Yes, it is rewarding to help people but I think this case is
different. As you say, it is dangerous.(Were you a Buttery or Pav person?:)
Neither.  Didn't I mention that I was from UCD? We just have the restaurant, which I tried to avoid as much as poss.  However the buttery pub in Hibernian Way I was in.  Very pretentious.  Much preferred Slattery's in Rathmines or Russel's in Rathmines. O'Neills is OK.  Actually this might be an interesting, less serious thread...These pubs apply to Dublin...Where do Netters recommend in Paris, Prague...?

   Tog go bog e ==============
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Oh no. Not my signature too!
From: petonic@hal.com (Michael A. Petonic)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Married Men and Single Women
Date: 12 Aug 92 20:06:00 GMT
Reply-To: petonic@hal.com (Michael A. Petonic)
Followup-To: soc.singles
Organization: Henry's Laughing Gas Co., Inc.

In article <1992Aug12.125711.6343@walter.bellcore.com> walter (Walter Lego) writes:
>In article <BsuK9o.FqJ@acsu.buffalo.edu> swann@acsu.buffalo.edu (Stephen Swann) writes:
>>My female friends say the following about it:
>>
>>The guy in question is more of a "good bet", if some other women
>>already consider him to be "acceptable" (enough to go out clubbing
>>with him, at any rate).
>>
>>It eases the problem of "how do I know he's not a psycho?".  If he has
>>friends, some of whom are women, that's not much of a worry.
>
>As long as they can judge the women that are his friends. But even then,
>a very large number of killers and rapists that you read about have had 
>live-in girlfriends when they were caught. Some endorsement.

Yeah, appearances are deceiving, aren't they?  In any case, I do believe
that Stephen hit the nail right on the head.  People aren't always
terribly logical in affairs of the heart or gonads (or ovaries or whatever).

-pet-
--
Michael A. Petonic	       petonic@hal.com		       +1-512-794-2855
        HaL Computer Systems International, Ltd. -- A Bermuda Corporation
                Director of Custodial Services and Entertainment
				 Austin, Texas
                          "No balls, no blue chip."
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: kevin@nuchat.sccsi.com (Kevin Brown)
Subject: Re: Exactly what I mean by "unattached"...
Organization: I can't see any in the immediate vicinity...
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 20:54:08 GMT

In article <1992Aug15.210021.20388@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
>In article <1992Aug14.004755.18955@cs.ucla.edu> gds@cs.ucla.edu (Greg Skinner) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug13.185702.28361@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
>>>I certainly don't post anything about myself that
>>>isn't true, but sometimes other people on soc.singles seem to react like
>>>I've posted something extraordinary when, really, I'm a fairly ordinary
>>>sort doing fairly ordinary things.
>>
>>Well, I guess that you consider these things ordinary, because you do
>>them all the time.  However, I would disagree that you are an ordinary
>>sort.  For one thing, you are independently wealthy, which makes you
>>extraordinary, if only in the sense that you are better equipped to
>>create the environment in which you live than others.  (This is not to
>>say that you aren't a down-to-earth person, or anything like that.)

Trygve, you're independently wealthy?

This explains a *great* deal.

Q:  How would you go about separating your success with women from your
    wealth?  That is, how do you figure out just how much your wealth has
    to do with your success with women?  (Looking for an objective answer
    to this one.  "Of course, how wealthy I am has *absolutely nothing* to
    do with my success with women" is an answer I would find very hard to
    believe without an explanation for *why* that were the case  :-).

>Well, it says that my priorities are a little different than most--
>namely that I valued my personal freedom enough to put in several
>years of 14-hour days starting in my teens to create my current
>situation.  

That you've obviously succeeded quite well is an excellent explanation
of your current self-confidence level.  This probably has a lot more
to do with your success with women than your wealth does.


-- 
				Kevin Brown

			    kevin@nuchat.sccsi.com
			    kevin@taronga.taronga.com
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: For real, help a kid
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 19:03:30 GMT

In article <kiran.714391758@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
>
>These line-by-line rebuttals have reminded me of the 
>vanished Dan Mocsny.  Does anyone know what happened to him?

Young Daniel Mocsny, a victim of terminal burnout (and some problems
caused by hardware reshuffling along his newsfeed) has made it his
dying wish to make it into the Guinness Book of World Records under
the category of most e-mail sent from around the world.  If you would
like to help this poor child achieve his last wish, you can e-mail him
at dmocsny@piglet.cincinnati.oh.us.

That address, once again, is

dmocsny@piglet.cincinnati.oh.us


Thank you for helping a poor child get his wish.

Trygve   (Now where'd Charlie get to?  I haven't seen much of him lately.)