HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: Jawara@Applelink.Apple.COM (Ron Drake)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Oxymorons, and other important trivia
Date: 8 Jan 93 19:59:31 GMT
Followup-To: ba.singles
Distribution: ca
Organization: Me, The Whole Me and Nothing But

In article <16220@auspex-gw.auspex.com>, johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
wrote:
> 
> In article <Jawara-040193124340@jawara.apple.com> Jawara@Applelink.Apple.COM (Ron Drake) writes:

> |In article <16148@auspex-gw.auspex.com>, johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
> |There's hardly anyone normal at PJ's on Wednesdays or any other day. Try
> |Cheers on El Camino in S'vale for "normal".
> 
> I suppose that all depends on what each persons idea of "normal" is.  What
> kind of place is Cheers?  Would one be likely to find real, down to earth
> people there, or is this just another dance/pick-em-up place? 

I inadvertently left off Le Winking Smiley ;-). Cheers is a 'pick-em-up/
dance' place. PJ's is a "dance if you can pick yourself up" place. The
Black
Angus on El Camino in Sunnyvale...well...

Seriously, Cheers is popular with a younger crowd, plays rock and roll al-
most exclusively and is doing business hand-over-fist. They almost always
have a cover charge after 8 or 9 p.m. PJ Mulligan's is a Top 40/Hip-Hop
place with a more varied clientele and no cover charge. It's smaller,
darker
and more smoky than Cheers and, although it's trying to emulate Cheers's
success (Rock 'n' Roll Sundays w/99 cent drinks), it's doing much less
business on the weekdays. They're both crowded to the gunwhales on
weekends,
so it pays to be early. I'm an old coot of forty so I prefer PJ's music.
I'd never get to do the "Electric Slide" if I always went to Cheers ;-)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
From: desiree@netcom.com (Desiree Champagne)
Subject: Cars and Other Fun Stuff (wasRe: Turning 30!!)
Summary: *YOU* gave me the idea in the first place
Organization: Sidewinders
Distribution: ba
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:59:01 GMT

In the original article, somewhere, someplace, I don't know, Ed Carp
whines:

[comments about Miata's etc. deleted]

>|How true.  But I don't currently have an SO to help me show it off!  :(
>|Any volunteers??  :) :)

	This is rather amusing Eddddiiiiieeeee.  

	Didn't you recently post some whiny article about how you
got really irritated because society sees single people as having
no validity?  Or something to that effect?

	(Note:  This is an actual attempt to draw you into an actual
*discussion* Ed -- let's see if you can do it...)


Golly jeepers,

Desiree
From: DeadHead@cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Chicks 'n Dudes '93 - "The List"
Date: Fri,  8 Jan 93 13:04:53 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: ba

> I have received a lot of requests for the RSVP list for
> Chicks 'n Dudes '93 - The Boink.
>I have also received a lot of requests to NOT tell people
>that certain individuals are coming.
>
>So I'm going to play it safe and not give out the list or 
>any attendee information to anybody.
>I didn't get this old by being stupid, ya know!
>
>I hope you all understand.

	This is kind of a tangent -- but I hate it when I throw a party
and some people (often they are single)  I invite [go see The Crying Game] ask
me, "So who will be there?"  I always feel like saying, "What do you mean who 
will be there? Arent I [go see The Crying Game] enough of a reason for you to 
be here?" 

	[Ahem. Dont answer that. ;-) ]

	And it's always a good idea not to publish attendee list. That way,
people who come to your party are the ones [go see The Crying Game] who really 
want to be there. It already takes a lot of initiative and effort to throw a 
party, invite people, [made it to my top 10 all time favorite movies list]
make sure everybody is comfortable with everything, etc.; the organizer 
shouldnt have to be obligated to tell people who will be there. There really
isnt a reason to have to ask for 'understanding' from the people being invited
for not publishing the [go see The Crying Game] attendee list. If they dont 
like it, tough. If they plan to be at the party only if so-and-so will be 
there, [go see the Crying Game] then they should throw their own party and 
invite the person.

	I am sure Miss Manners would agree with me. [on both opinions 
expressed in this msg]

----
/bruce
Demetrius: Do I entice you? Do I speak you fair?
Or, rather, do I not in plainest truth
Tell you, I do not, nor I cannot love you?

Helena: And even for that do I love you the more.
I am your spaniel; and, Demetrius,
The more you beat me, I will fawn on you:
Use me but as your spaniel, spurn me, strike me,
Neglect me, lose me; only give me leave,
Unworthy as I am, to follow you.
What worser  place can I beg in your love, - 
And yet a place of high respect with me, -
Than to be used as you use your dog?		
		- Mid Summer Nights Dream-, Act II, sc I.

[PUKE]
Newsgroups: ba.singles
From: desiree@netcom.com (Desiree Champagne)
Subject: It's So Cute (was Re: Perfect Match (was-Re: If he bothers you...)
Summary: Use a barf bag
Organization: A-choo!
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 03:13:43 GMT


Ed "He's Really Trying" Carp, reaches for the stars with:

>I said (and not too badly, I will say...)

>>Earlier today, Eddie exposed himself with:
>>>$10 says that Des won't even acknowledge my presence. 

>	Of course I won't Carpy.  I have never done so in the past, why
>should I start now?

>*Then* she says this...

>>>I will smile at her and say hello.  

>>	Call it whatever you want.  I prefer to say that I just don't have
>>time to waste chit-chatting with people that bore me.  

>If you've never paid any attention to me, how do you know if I'm boring or
>not? 

	Because you have gotten in my face *consistently* at every party
I've seen you at.  Get a clue, kid.  If I wished to talk with you, I
would seek you out and do so. But I don't. Won't.  Can't.  

	Yet you seem to have this thing about seeking me out at parties
and making inane chit-chat.  You've interrupted *good* conversations I
was actually having to do so, as well. 

> But that's par for the course - insults
>and attempted put-downs are your style.  Logical, rational, reasoned comments
>aren't, obviously...

	Better than stupid, vapid, inane chatter that only the simpliest
minds can tolerate.

	Oh, but that's an insulting attempt at a put-down, isn't it?
Oh my.


Now Fuck Off,*

Desiree


*Stolen from Oleg without permission...
From: erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Singles services - Together
Date: 12 Jan 93 07:25:12 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Bleeding Edge Technologies - 'Sliding Down The Razor Blade Of Life...'

In article <1993Jan12.055346.17125@netcom.com> aldridge@netcom.com (Jacquelyn Aldridge) writes:

>	Have you noticed on the dating games on tv how often the audience
>is better at selecting the right potential date of three for the person
>interviewed. People can be very acute in judging whether two other people
>are likely to get along, at least on a date. 

Maybe we oughta do this at the next boink.  Pick some guy, then see who would
be the best date for him out of all the available women we know.  Could be
really fun - then again, it could get *real* embarassing...  :)
-- 
Ed Carp, N7EKG                    erc@apple.com                   801/538-0177
"This is the final task I will ever give you, and it  goes  on  forever.   Act
happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love,
and do what you will."           -- Dan Millman, "Way Of The Peaceful Warrior"
Newsgroups: ba.singles,soc.singles,soc.women,soc.men
From: jennings@chainsaw.fishkill.ibm.com ()
Subject: Re: The Never Ending Circle (was Re: Duck and Jive (was Re
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 93 21:22:27 GMT
Reply-To: jennings@chainsaw.fishkill.ibm.com ()
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

In article <1993Jan04.205125.38634@watson.ibm.com>,
margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis) writes:
> In <16201@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
> >In article <1993Jan4.090955.10640@eagercon.com> eager@eagercon.com writes:
> >|One of the charming traits of NetNews is that there is sometimes an
incredible
> >|delay between the last shot fired in a long and tedious debate, and
the final
> >|echo as someone logs on after a month's absence.
> >|
> >|It sort of like being asleep some hours after a large Thanksgiving
dinner and
> >|having a burp which gives some gastric distress.
> >
> >And about as useful.
> 
> At least the burp isn't shared with the rest of the world...

naw, just those who happen to be in the room with you...

bill the cat....                     ....at wrj@vnet.ibm.com

> --

> Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
From: erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Oxymorons, and other important trivia
Date: 6 Jan 93 01:59:36 GMT
Organization: Bleeding Edge Technologies - 'Sliding Down The Razor Blade Of Life...'

In article <1993Jan6.011213.23977@netcom.com> bob@netcom.com (Bob Becker) writes:
>In article <76145@apple.apple.COM> erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp) writes:
>>
>>Des, is to not degenerate into snide, nasty, ad hominium attacks but still
>                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^
>					Whuzzat mean?
>Somebody even said I did it once.

It's Latin for "attacks against the man".  Personal attacks, instead of
attacks against one's argument.  A logical, rational person seldom takes
potshots at another's personal style, dress, race, creed, color, or brand
of mouthwash - they stick to the issues being discussed.  It's a popular,
if irrational, type of attack.
-- 
Ed Carp, N7EKG                    erc@apple.com                   801/538-0177
"This is the final task I will ever give you, and it  goes  on  forever.   Act
happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love,
and do what you will."           -- Dan Millman, "Way Of The Peaceful Warrior"
Newsgroups: ba.singles
From: desiree@netcom.com (Desiree Champagne)
Subject: SuckUps Are Annoying (was Re: Oxymorons, and other important trivia)
Summary: You put yourself in the right spot...
Organization: Detachable Penis
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 02:24:17 GMT


In an amusing article, Ed "SuckUp" Carp, gives us all head with:

>Brilliant repartee, sir!

	Slurp.  This is known as an on-line blow job.  

[remainder of article about Oleg and I deleted...]

	Yoooo hooooo, Ed?  What planet are you lodged on?  Come down to
earth, will you?

	I don't know where you *ever* got the idea (!) that I believe
the net to be real life...but if you wish to continue to believe that,
by all means, please -- be my guest.

	Fishman, you're an unmitigated spud.  I don't hate you; I don't
dislike you.  You are a non-entity to me.  Just something to play with
and pass the time...  So don't be so thin-skinned and don't be so
shocked that I don't want you to cling to me in person.  

Waaaaa,

Desiree


N.B.  Kissy-kissy Eddddddddiiiiiiieeeeeee.

Newsgroups: ba.singles
From: oleg@netcom.com (Oleg Kiselev)
Subject: Re: Oxymorons, and other important trivia
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 07:14:32 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.190914.28635@netcom.com> desiree@netcom.com (Desiree Champagne) writes:
>>Wahahahahaha!  *plonk*
>	Oh, that was an intelligent and scathing reply...

That's about all he can come up with.  He probably thinks it's funny.

>	What's a *plonk* anyway?  You drop something?

"Plonk" is the sound of his brain rolling out of his ear and wettly
hitting the floor like a pea-sized gob of snot.
-- 
Oleg Kiselev at home			...use the header to find the path
Newsgroups: ba.singles
From: desiree@netcom.com (Desiree Champagne)
Subject: Re: Singles services - Together
Summary: It's a couch roden -- resurfaced
Organization: Convent of the Sacred Heart
Distribution: ba
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:04:22 GMT

In article <1993Jan10.210410.19155@informix.com> craigbr@informix.com
 (Craig Browning) writes:

>I bet there would be a lot of people interested in any experiences
>ba.singles members have had with singles matchmaking services.

	Oh lord, Craigster, please don't start that thread again...
	
>I can only comment from experience on one type, the 900-newspaper ads;
>I didn't get the best response, a handful of calls to an ad I placed,
>and usually no responses from calls to ads which I hear often get many
>dozens of calls.

	Craig, Craig, Craig, if you would stop breathing heavy into the
phone when you call them, perhaps that would better. And *not* listing
things about your food tastes, would help immensely.

[Company called "Together"]
>The justification for the cost is their claim to do compatibility matching
>on a number of personality issues and interests. They say they don't use
>computers at all, and that they have 8000 members in the bay area.

	Craig, how do they do the compatibility matching without a commputer?
How many questions do they have?  Three, four?  Seems to me with that
many people as subcribers of the service, they'd have to use a computer
to match people, or it would take forever.  Course, I'm assuming that
they use something a bit more sophisticated than pulling names of a
hat...

>I do not know any way to confirm that. They claim to be more oriented towards
>matching for relationships than Great Expectations, which they paint as a
>dating service (and members of GE I've talked to agree).

	Ask them for references. If they won't give them, wonder.  
Check them out with the BBB.  Seems to me if you can't find out more
about them, don't do it.  Just give me the money and I'll hook you up
with five dates...  (Oh Julie!!!)

>Would anyone like to tell about their experience with this or anuother
>introduction service?

	Go on Love Connection, or better yet Studs.  

	At least then we could watch you on TV and giggle.

L&K,

Desiree

Newsgroups: ba.singles
From: ala@fico.uucp
Subject: Re: Gerg's a wimp, but Kaiser's a Doberman...
Reply-To: ala@fico.UUCP (Adryenn Ashley)
Organization: The Fair, Isaac Companies, San Rafael, California
Distribution: ba
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 23:06:20 GMT

> gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews) writes:
>erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp) writes:
>>gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews) writes:
>>>erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp) writes:
>>>>Hah!  Dobies are sweet dogs - if you know how to handle them.  Besides, most
>>>>animals love me...they usually have better taste than their "masters".  hehe
>>
>>>Perhaps you taste better than their masters do.
>>
>>Perhaps so.  My last SO certainly thought so.  :)
>
>Er...uh...your last SO thought you tasted better than her master? 

You know, I was wondering about that too!  But you have clarified everything.
His last SO was a DOG!  I get it!  hehe

Adryenn
From: erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Turning 30!!
Date: 7 Jan 93 00:35:58 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Bleeding Edge Technologies - 'Sliding Down The Razor Blade Of Life...'

In article <C0GHJK.16x@amd.com> jmw@angelo.amd.com (John Wincn) writes:

>Aaayyyy!   ...its ol' "Toilet Face" Carp!  Geeze, I haven't seen anything
>out of you in ages!  I'm also a bit surprised to see that you're still
>alive.  I noticed that you're drooling after Desiree a lot lately.  Does 
>this mean that you're looking to be *her* piss slave now?

What the hell are you talking about?  And if you think I'm drooling after
Des, I'm sorry to inform you that you are sadly mistaken.

>After all, Diane isn't on the net anymore -- or is she...

Who's Diane?

>>Drool, drool.  I've always wanted a Miata.  Red.  <sigh>

>Always?  ...you mean like, even before Mazda made them, or perhaps even

No ... ever since I saw one, and got a ride in one.

>before you were born?  So now you've switched from piss to crankcase
>oil.  Geeze, you are one wierd puppy, eddie.  

Thank you, but I don't ever recall being "into" piss.  What drugs have *you*
been using?

>--
>J. M. Wincn                           jmw@angelo.amd.com (408) YUP-BEER 
>               Standard DISCLAIMER available on request. 


-- 
Ed Carp, N7EKG                    erc@apple.com                   801/538-0177
"This is the final task I will ever give you, and it  goes  on  forever.   Act
happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love,
and do what you will."           -- Dan Millman, "Way Of The Peaceful Warrior"
From: weaver@jetsun.weitek.COM (Michael Gordon Weaver)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Needing help greeting 30!!
Date: 4 Jan 93 17:33:36 GMT
Organization: WEITEK Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

In article <1992Dec28.234553.17500@odin.corp.sgi.com> joselyn@clio.asd.sgi.com (Trish Joselyn) writes:
>
>Hi, I've been reading this net for a few months and have never needed the
>support you all obviously have for each other in a crisis.  Is there any
>chance as a new poster, that I could get some advice getting over this
>hump?  I'm having a hard time turning 30.  Not *so* much from me, mostly
>from family, i.e., I'm not married, I'm childless, {it's okay mom!!!} and
>I'm very independent of men.  Any friendly advice would be most welcome!!!
>
You know best what is good for you. Cultivate the attitude that while
your family means well, they don't have a clue about your life.
Communicate this attitude to them whenever they start implying they
know better.  If your parents (or friends, or siblings) married young,
it should be easy to convince them that someone who is single at 30
knows something they don't.

Convince yourself first. If you are convinced, it will be easier to 
convince others, and easier to ignore them if they persist in not
believing you.

Michael.
From: mwoo@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Margaret Woo)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Turning 30!!
Date: 6 Jan 93 00:11:50 GMT
Reply-To: mwoo@pyrnova.pyramid.com.pyramid.com (Margaret Woo)
Distribution: ba
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corporation

In article <76133@apple.apple.COM> erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp) writes:
>In article <72871@cup.portal.com> DeadHead@cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong) writes:
>
>>	What kind is your convertible? I have always wanted one, too! But the
>>thing is they dont make much money sense because they are always financial
>>liabilities (until you pay the whole thing off) and they depreciate quickly.
>>Financially it's a lousy deal -- but it's just so much fun! I want a red 
>>little miata, I am still debating if I should do that or not.
Do it!  Do it!  I did, and I *LOVE* mine...

>
>Drool, drool.  I've always wanted a Miata.  Red.  <sigh>
Do it!  Do it!  Do it!  

Red is *the* color for a little roadster...

Margaret


     -m------- Margaret Woo                   -------------------------
   ---mmm-----  Pyramid Technology Corporation  --------------------------
 -----mmmmm---   pyramid!mwoo or mwoo@pyramid.com  --------------------------
------mmmmmm--    (408) 428-8088                      --------------------------
Newsgroups: ba.singles
From: bob@netcom.com (Bob Becker)
Subject: Re: PMS
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Distribution: ba
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 17:18:11 GMT

In article <1if0noINNig1@morrow.stanford.edu> HF.HLA@forsythe.stanford.edu (Lisa A. Haupt) writes:
>Hi Kids,
>
>I teach a class on Monday nights and my students want to know about PMS and its
>effects from a male and female point of view.
>
>Any comments?

No.  I don't think so.


Newsgroups: ba.singles
From: desiree@netcom.com (Desiree Champagne)
Subject: Re: Cars and Other Fun Stuff (wasRe: Turning 30!!)
Summary: I'm a bulemic.  I post and then puke...
Organization: United Nations Security Council, East Bay Chapter
Distribution: ba
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 06:08:58 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.043014.22769@netcom.com> hjb@netcom.com (H. J. Bae)
ponders life, the world and leaky ceilings in cold and drafty lofts with:
>I stand on my soapbox with:
>>	Exactly.  Which brings about a question.  How many people out there
>>are happy being alone?  Just being alone. Doing things by yourself?
>
>well it has its ups and downs. one can reasonably stay content for the most 
>part.

	SE, I was asking about being happy -- not content.  One can be
content, at the moment, but still be deeply unhappy. 

>i better shut up, this is no alt.angst.

	True.  And you, me pal, are in quite the poetic mode... 


L&K,

Desiree
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Chicks 'n Dudes '93 - "The List"
Date: 8 Jan 93 17:16:19 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <76233@apple.apple.COM> erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp) writes:
>In article <1993Jan8.075421.11223@netcom.com> marv@netcom.com (Marvin Raab) writes:
|>In article <1993Jan7.192525.17926@netcom.com> shannah@netcom.com (Teri Miller) writes:
|>>I think it would be amusing to have folks do their own, if they like.
|>>Marvin provided tags and pens at the Boink at John Dough's, as I recall,
|>>and those who wished to wear a tag were welcome to do so.  I met an
|>>interesting lurker via his tag, which read "Johnny".
|
|>  I think about half the people did and half didn't. Personally, I dislike
|>nametags and won't wear one...
|
|I usually wear mine upside-down.  Non-conformist to the hilt, you see... :)

One of the better nametags that I have seen was worn by a stewar...flight
attendent.  It read:    O. Miss
From: charleen@net.bio.net (Charleen Bunjiovianna)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Chick 'n Dudes '93 - The Boink
Date: 4 Jan 93 21:14:31 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Biology

In article <1993Jan4.205812.10479@netcom.com> bob@netcom.com (Bob Becker) writes:
>
>Now all we gotta do is get people to show up.  There have been lots
>of new names appearing on many of the messages so if we can 
>encourage the new names to show up, we can attach faces to names.

Oww!  I'll come, but you have to promise not to use the staplegun
like you did last time.

Charleen