HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: pooh@Apple.COM (Pooh)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Rob's beard (was Re: Facial hair)
Date: 11 Jan 93 16:19:11 GMT
Organization: Internet Refugee Camp

Rob, I've never met you, but even the scraggliest of facial
hair can manage to look cute.  Of course, if you want to look
ManlyPumpedFullOfTestosteroneAndSweatingPheromones, you would
probably not want the "cute beard."

My PSOM always claimed that he couldn't get enough hairs together to
manage a decent beard, but while we were apart for two weeks over
the holidays, he grew a beard as a Christmas present for me.
The poor thing put up with two lonely weeks of itchy-face just
to surprise me!  Now that it's grown in properly, I think it
makes him look like Lenin. :-)

Pooh
	pooh@apple.com
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Any Available Jewish Men Out There??
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 18:13:17 GMT

In article <c6yrdba@lynx.unm.edu> blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
>In article <1993Jan6.220416.17663@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
>>There's nothing wrong with being happy with a K-Mart weight set, a
>>broomstick, a K-Mart telescope, or half of a broken pair of binoculars
>>you found in your grandfather's attic--however, none of these are 
>>examples of "high-end" equipment that would be the choice of serious
>>and knowlegeable amateurs.  Ed's claim was that it was possible to get
>>"high-end" sports equipment in a K-Mart, but impossible to get "high-end"
>>scientific stuff. 
>
>Actually, no. Ed was saying its far easier to get >good quality< exercise
>equipment, and in a far greater quantity than scientific equipment. The
>only place that one can get true 'high end' equipment is at specialty places.

Well, I suppose it's just that we were using the term "high end" which
confused me into thinking we were talking about "high end" stuff.  
Seriously, though, have you ever tried shopping for good quality
exercise equipment?  Around here even the major sporting goods stores
don't carry anything that isn't flimsy and heading towards the awful 
side.  A few weeks ago I went shopping with one of my brothers for
weight equipment (he wants to set up a small home gym in his basement)
and we went only to the small number of specialty stores that sold just 
weight equipment and the only one that even carried equipment of the
quality that he wanted didn't stock it and would have to special-order
it. 

>And I'll agree with Ed (lord help me :) that more money is spent by your
>average everyday types (since that's what we're talking about here) on
>sporting equipment than on scientific equipment.
>Doesn't mean that there is >nobody< (of the 'potential Ed Wright SO' set)
>out there buying scientific equipment, just that they are harder to find
>than if the 'potential Ed Wright SO' set containted athletic women as well.

Unfortunately for Ed, this is true--the "science-oriented" women that I
know are more likely to have an interest in athletics than the general
public.  My guess is that people who are high in energy and drive tend
to express their energy and drive in several directions, both physical
and mental.  That's not to say there aren't scientifically-but-not-
atheletically inclined women out there (after all, I know some) or that
they can't be found by someone who demands a partner with no athletic
tendencies whatsoever, but it does reduce the pool somewhat.

Trygve   (So, one just has to try harder.)
--
"Heartbreak Between Floors by Hillary Jemcoate.  True story of romance,
 love, and betrayal in a stuck elevator.  120pp."
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: ashley@oasis.gtefsd.com (Bob Ashley)
Subject: Re: Too Young 2B single
Reply-To: ashley@oasis.gtefsd.com
Organization: GTE Federal Systems Division
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:23:54 GMT

In article 1itqlnINNt8g@lynx.unm.edu,  blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
>In article <1iihbuINNqiu@mirror.digex.com> alby@access.digex.com (Albatross) writes:
>>Lemme tell ya, it's hard ta meet a girl that's single and in her 20's
>>cause the one's I've run into all have boyfriends, or there FAT, or
>>they look ugly...  Just can't win either way,and I'm they type of
>>guy that wants a girl to love me, as well as show her off to people I know
>>						Albatross
>
>Gee, you wouldn't think a 'personality' would help, do you?
>Try dating >women<. They are, in general, much more interesting than the girls.
>r.


I'll concur with rON here, and add one word that seemed to jump out at me when
I read the original article:


			S H A L L O W


Bob

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From: loosemore-sandra@cs.yale.edu (Sandra Loosemore)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Seeking female companion
Date: 9 Jan 1993 08:43:57 -0500
Organization: staff hacker @ Yale Haskell project
NNTP-Posting-Host: functor.systemsz.cs.yale.edu
In-reply-to: an3936@anon.penet.fi's message of Thu, 7 Jan 1993 16:19:33 GMT

an3936@anon.penet.fi (Silly Question) writes:

   >Isn't this the second or third one of these anonymous posting service
   >messages to reach s.s.? Is there some way we can reach whoever is running
   >this thing and let them know that this is not the appropriate groupt to
   >post this stuff too?

   And why shouldn't people be able to post anonymously? [...]

   The anonymous postings I have seen are not less interesting or informative
   than those with names credited.

I don't think the objection was to anonymous posting per se, but to posting
personal ads to soc.singles.  There are groups like alt.personals.ads that
*are* appropriate places to post personal ads.  People who want to read
personal ads subscribe to those groups, and there's no reason to inflict
them upon people in soc.singles -- this is a discussion group.

The service that is allowing people to post personal ads anonymously
ought to direct them all to one of those groups, not to soc.singles.

-Sandra the cynic
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.romance
From: fsquared@eff.org (Fawn Fitter)
Subject: Re: Where did you meet your SO? 
Originator: fsquared@eff.org
Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 14:13:12 GMT

I have MultiMen<tm> right now...met one of them through, yes, a personal
ad! We've been seeing each other for almost 6 months now. Met the other 
online and have spent much of the last month in his presence; that's been
going on since September. Both great guys.

Where did I meet previous SO's?  
- in line at a York Steak House in a shopping mall
- introduced by a friend who was his co-worker
- via the university computer system, as a way of discussing a class project
- by accident (he was playing frisbee and ran into me, a total stranger)
- in a photography class
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: sitar@oosik.sprl.umich.edu (Robert J. Sitar)
Subject: Re: update on the mother wanting to kill me
Reply-To: sitar@pitts.sprl.umich.edu
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:43:11 GMT

 [ Intro deleted ]

> So you go to the florist and you get ten white long stemmer's and two
> red long stemmer's. Now you write on the card:
>  
> " Roses are red violets are blue, I didn't want to sleep with your  
daughter
> I only wanted you. 
>                       Your manly hunk of manlyhood
>                       *Wink Wink*
>                       *tee hee* "
>  
> Now this will assuage her feelings of being left alone in the cold dark
> reality of old age while at the same time assuring that you get a chance
> to dip your wick.  
>  

 [ remaining deleted ]

I honestly hope this is a joke.  If it is, it's in very poor taste.  If it  
isn't, I don't think that you fully understand the problem.

bob
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: kevin@clsi.COM (Kevin Cameron)
Subject: Re: Any Available Jewish Men Out There??
Originator: kevin@dubhe
Reply-To: kevin@clsi.com
Organization: CAD Language Systems Inc.
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 17:47:10 GMT


In article <46wr3cr@lynx.unm.edu>, blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
> ...
> Dunno- I still think that one can always find what one is looking for, given
> that one is willing to look hard enough.
> r.

Or is easily pleased ?

Kev.
--
I occasionally find what I'm looking for 
- but it usually belongs to someone else. :(
-- 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: mel@niblick.ecn.purdue.edu (Meloney D Cregor)
Subject: Re: rON bashing
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 00:40:27 GMT

In article <456uwB1w165w@iowegia.uucp> mine@iowegia.uucp (shelley kitsis) writes:

>I regret writing the post now...Blowfish and yourself seem to have 

I'm sure all of us regret you're writing it, dear.

>such closed minds, it almost seems to come across as _you_ are the 
>_only_ one who is _right_ and everyone else is beneath you! I 
>don't even feel sorry for either of you....you come across to me 
>that the world _owes_ you something, if not _everything_! People 

Well of course it does.  What a silly git.

>implied that I'm a _bitch_ or at the very least, that's all I can 

Please, don't insult the dog.

>do is go around _bitching_ all the time! That to me, I took as a 
>personal attack! (I don't think I'm alone on this subject....I 
>read all the posts, and quite a few individuals agreed that he had 
>_no_ rational reason for making such an accusation!)

As I said, child, that's YOUR problem. One among many, it would seem.
I would highly recommend therapy.

Just so you know the difference,  THIS is a personal attack;

GET YOUR GODDAMNED IMMATURE AIRHEAD OUT OF YOUR FUCKING ASS AND THINK ABOUT
WHAT YOU SAY!!!!!  

And while you are at it, as futile as it will be I'm sure, try thinking
about what OTHER people say and not the twisted, inane spin you put
on it.

Be gone, child.



--
     Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
                                   -- Napoleon
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: smith@comm.mot.com (Jeff Smith)
Subject: Re: Ankle bracelets
Organization: Gagging Sloth Records
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:18:43 GMT


|> In article <1992Dec24.022312.8061@netcom.com> stevek@netcom.com (Steve Kile) writes:
|> >I'd like to ask the ladies of the net (tm) to answer a question for me.  I
|> >frequent a couple of restaurants where the waitresses wear ankle bracelets
|> >(is that the correct terminology?)  These girls are mostly high school or
|> >college age.  I don't recall this type of jewelery being worn during my high
|> >school or college days.  Is this a new fad?  What is the significance of
|> >wearing it on the right versus left ankle?  Thanks.

They're sexy, aren't they??? I don't know why, but I *really* like ankle
bracelets on a woman. Odd little fetish, that, but there you have it.

jds

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From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Meeting women in clubs
Date: 6 Jan 93 11:21:01
Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
	<1993Jan6.064828.3221@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: grover.cs.unc.edu
In-reply-to: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu's message of Wed, 6 Jan 93 06:48:28 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.064828.3221@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:


   Trygve   (Next, we'll discuss proper bench-press spotting technique;
	     after that, we've got some films of improper technique....)

Tryg, having her spotting you from *that* position is *certain* to
interfere with proper breathing.
--
		Charles R. Martin/(Charlie)/martinc@cs.unc.edu
     Dept. of Computer Science/CB #3175 UNC-CH/Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175
	    3611 University Dr #13M/Durham, NC 27707/(919) 419 1754
     "Oh God, please help me be civil in tongue, pure in thought, and able
      to resist the temptation to laugh uncontrollably.  Amen." -- Rob T
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: sethb@panix.com (Seth Breidbart)
Subject: Re: How Strong Should a Man Be?
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 04:25:00 GMT
Organization: Society for the [etc.]

In article <76076@apple.apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
>Stef Jones writes
>> Strong enough to tie me at arm-wrestling.

>And Larry Margolis writes:
>>Tie you?  What about beat you?  (Or does that come after he ties you?)
>
>I think those would be considerably easier. I tend to assist, if not
>encourage....
>
>Now consider this -- it may take more strength to tie someone at arm-
>wrestling than to beat them.

Yup.  Beating someone only requires muscular strength; easy.  Not
beating someone can require emotional strength.
>stef@apple.com

Seth

>Try Softer
I always liked the one about the martial artist vs. the braggart
swordsman in a boat, myself.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Duck and Jive (was Re: Pre-Sex Contract )
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 06:40:51 GMT

In article <TJG01.93Jan5160303@thdhub.HomeDepot.COM> tjg01@thdhub.HomeDepot.COM (Terry Gardner) writes:
>
>   In <1993Jan4.011649.17077@zooid.guild.org> Will Steeves <goid@zooid.guild.org> writes:
>   >margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis) writes...
>   >
>   >>Please report to james dutton for sensitivity training.
>   >
>   >Who is James Dutton?
>
>And what is "sensitivity training"?

I can't claim to know how james does his classes, but when I'm conducting
a sensitivity training course, I first get my student to relax, usually
sitting directly in front of me, facing away, with my arms around her; then
we start with the experience of various ways of touching her hair and
later progress on to the neck, first with different applications of the
fingers, different touches and different speeds, then adding in lips, the
gentle application of the teeth, and the careful and judicious use of the
tongue in concert with all the above.  Then, we either continue with that
for a while or go on to more advanced techniques.

Trygve   (I'm very picky about who gets to be in my classes, but maybe
          james has some space left open in his.)
--
"What's purple and commutes?
  An Abelian grape."

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: probst@selkirk.sfu.ca (Scott Probst)
Subject: Re: The Classiest Pickup Lines
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 08:37:20 GMT

In article <27793@sybase.sybase.com> mysti@sierra.sybase.com (Mysti Rubert) writes:
>Am I the only one who thinks that speaking to a stranger for the
>sole purpose of engaging in sex is *inherently* unclassy?
>-- 
perhaps... i noticed your .sig, from Mae West, also. wasn't it she who said
that "you're only as old as the man that you feel"? ;-).


  "Remember, sooner or later, we all enter the
   food chain, and not always right at the top."         - Dr H. S. Thompson
From: pooh@Apple.COM (Pooh)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Meeting guys
Date: 12 Jan 93 09:16:11 GMT
Organization: Internet Refugee Camp

In the referenced article, monaghn@garnet.berkeley.edu (Mara Monaghan) writes:
>(and if it's any consolation to you
>Charlie, I'd take a mildly geeky middle
>aged over-intellectual white boy over
>a seedling-middle-age-crisis-whiner 
>any day).

Well, I wouldn't take just ANY MildlyGeekyMiddleAgedOverIntellectualWhiteBoy,
but I'd take Charlie any day ...

Pooh (No Smoking/No Spitting/No Whining)

	pooh@apple.com
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: mzank@shell.portal.com (matthew c zank)
Subject: Upper Midwest
Organization: Portal Communications Company
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 09:47:34 GMT

Does anyone know why the upper midwest is so awful for meeting
anyone? like i mean there is just no one here.
--
Matthew Zank * Eau Claire, Wisconsin
------------------------------------
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.)
Subject: Re: criteria
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 93 08:52:29 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <1993Jan2.195012.1212@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> mel@niblick.ecn.purdue.edu (Meloney D Cregor) writes:
>In article <-dtr5sq@lynx.unm.edu> blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
>>>Why is it any more of a close-minded criterium then any other criteria like
>>>intelligence, humor, physical characteristc, geographic location, level
>>>of education, lifestyle compatibility, sexual preference, etc?
>>This argument, and others like it, smack close to hypocracy- 
>Please be so kind as to point out where exactly this smacks of hypocracy?

IMO, when one complains about a lack of appropriate dating material on one
hand and on the other produces a very limited list of criteria that a
potential SO should meet, that is hypocritical. :)

r.
(I'm trying to keep these short, because there is a lot to respond to, and
I don't want to bore the entire universe with my twisted idealism :)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Any Available Jewish Men Out There??
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 17:36:29 GMT

In article <1in85rINN3m2@mirror.digex.com> huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:
>In article <1993Jan8.223312.20621@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
>}Well, I'm glad you can quantify physical attractiveness so easilly; I
>}find it very hard to quantify--first of all, none of the women I've 
>}been most attracted to in the past were particularly close to the
>}"cultural ideal" as seen on TV, nor have any of them looked particularly
>}like any of the others.
>
>I think you need to start checking lengths of middle fingers and interocular
>distances.
>
>For measuring interocular distances use a pair of opera glasses or
>binoculars.  After she has borrowed and returned them, just trace the
>eyepieces on paper before adjusting them back for your own use.  As for
>measuring middle finger lengths, I use an inexpensive plastic ruler that
>I bought at a Paris department store more than 20 years ago; it has the
>advantage of being metric.

Hmmmm..."Why, I'm flattered by your offer of a date--would you mind 
         taking a peek through these binoculars before I answer?"

Have to try that sometime--I'm sure most women are tired of being 
judged on unimportant, superficial qualities.  (Indeed, she might
respond by giving me a good look at the length of her middle 
finger.  :-)  )

Trygve  (Do I have to date different women depending on whether I'm
         wearing glasses or contacts?)
--
"Up next:  NBS exclusive--Man awaiting trial for cannibalism eats self
 in hideous suicide!"
From: dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Any Available Jewish Men Out There??
Date: 7 Jan 93 17:19:45 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

In article <1993Jan6.220912.17912@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
> 
> OK, I'll buy that--but I still argue that the small number of full-time
> SF authors isn't a good reason for why Edward can't get a date who
> isn't obsessed with physical fitness.

Obviously not.  I just hate to see threads turn into a rout where some
poor guy can't say the sky is blue without everybody asking for sources
and calling him an asshole.  Not to say that you were doing that, but
at this point if Ed said something perfectly reasonable and true, most
people would jump on him anyway.  And that automatic victim/monkey-in-
the-middle kind of thing really bugs me.  So when he said something that's
more or less true when taken literally, I just thought I'd back him up.

Dawn
"What if I had PMS all my life, and told you you looked just like Barney Fife,
What if I twisted it in like a knife, Until it made you cry? Until it made
you lie? Would you still love me?"
"What If..." by Bongwater
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: phantasm@iastate.edu ()
Subject: How strong...
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 19:13:13 GMT

Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness...

Stef Jones writes:

> Strong enough to tie me at arm-wrestling.
>
> Matt Valentine writes:
>> How about strong enough to wrestle you and tie you!!
>
> And Larry Margolis writes:
>> Tie you?  What about beat you?  (Or does that come after he ties you?)
>
> I think those would be considerably easier. I tend to assist, if not
> encourage....

Temptress...

`You oughtn't to yield to temptation.'
`Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.'

I liked Try Softer...

Until again...

phantasm

Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.romance,soc.penpals,alt.romance.chat
From: per@sparc1.mimer.se (Per Schroeder)
Subject: Re: Do you have a good pickup line?
Organization: MIMER Software AB, Uppsala, Sweden
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	<1992Dec31.172242.19688@swbatl.sbc.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 16:39:25 GMT

Wasn't it:
"What's a classy joint like that doing in a dame like you?"
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