HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: liz@prc.unisys.com (Liz Loquacious)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Can we can the suck-up bit?
Keywords: encourage friendship?
Date: 9 Sep 92 19:40:40 GMT
Followup-To: soc.singles
Organization: Paramax Systems

In article <14521@auspex-gw.auspex.com>, johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
|>  
|> If you do, I also have some videos recently taken from a tree near a freshly
|> mowed lawn.  Perhaps we can discuss a trade. 
|> 

I hear the camera slipped out of the tree when John climbed down to check
out the babe in my shaven-legged-ex's car and all that was filmed were the
couple of squirrels who were more or less engaged... Don't trade Trygve!

Liz Loquacious
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: probst@selkirk.sfu.ca (Scott Probst)
Subject: Re: Where the best posts come from
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 00:10:32 GMT

In article <MARTINC.92Sep15095249@grover.cs.unc.edu> martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
>In article <kiran.716523177@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
>>
>>   *laugh*  Great sentiment.
>>
>>   A friend sells "Yuggoth Saves" bumper stickers at cons.  
>>   He says they go real well in the southland.
>
>
>"Jesus Saves.
> Moses Invests.
> Mongols Hoard.
> ... and Cthulu calls it 'leftovers'."

shouldn't that be:

"Jesus saves - but Marradonna scores off the rebound!" ?

well?

scott
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Which is worse??
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 22:49:40 GMT

In article <rawdon.716330422@cs.wisc.edu> rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu writes:
>
>First of all, many things in our society are designed for relatively tall
>people (5'6" and above).  Clothing, for instance.  I hear from many of my
>short friends (including a 5'2" male friend of mine and my 5'0" ex-girlfriend)
>that it is difficult to find good clothing in any variety for people their
>height.  Many cars are designed for tall people (especially luxury cars;
>compacts are usually better about that.  However, I have only ever found *one*
>car which was too small for me, and none that were too big.  Not surprisingly,
>the small one was owned by my 5'2" friend).

Now waitamomenthere--except for some of the larger pickup trucks, hardly
any automobiles built these days are designed for normal-sized people.
I borrowed a huge van from a friend of mine (had to haul some foam for
the bedroom) and even if was designed for a dwarf.  The other day I tried
sitting in the driver's seat of a Saturn and, with the sunroof open, the
top surface of the car was right at about eye level--it would  have been
possible to drive that way, but I think it would have worried the other
people on the road.

Clothes are nearly as bad--many shoe stores don't carry anything above
size twelve, things like rollerblades aren't even made in my size, most
watchbands are too small to go all the way around a normal-sized wrist
like my own, the few pairs of pants that are designed to fit people with
normal-length legs are still sized for someone with legs that come in a
diameter more appropriate for someone's arms, even something as simple
as dress shirts in my size are stocked at a total one one store in all
of Colorado.

See, it's actually a global conspiracy of dwarves--first cars and clothes,
then airplane seats placed closer together than the length of a normal-
sized person's thigh, and who knows what they'll miniaturize tomorrow.
I'd be really annoyed if it weren't for the comforting fact that greater
height correlates with greater income more than does higher education,
IQ, grades in college, etc.  

Trygve 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: smith@comm.mot.com (Jeff Smith)
Subject: Re: Desperation (was Re: Commitment--The C-word?)
Organization: Gagging Sloth Records
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 20:11:06 GMT

In article <5122@news.duke.edu>, diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams) writes:
|> In article <1992Sep3.225538.7374@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> smith@comm.mot.com (Jeff Smith) writes:
|> >What?! You are at Duke, according to your address. There are only two guys 
|> >in your year?! WHY THE HELL DIDN'T I GO TO SCHOOL THERE?!
|> 
|> 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.

Oh.  (*whew*) I was in a bad mood for the remainder of the day when I
read that! 

jds

***************************************************************************
                               * Health and knowledge and wealth and power,
Jeff Smith                     * Passion and poems and sex
smith@fl08-g.comm.mot.com      * I wear a smile like a leather glove,
                               * I won't shut my mouth for less.
                                                - shriekback
***************************************************************************
From: hays@TECHNET.NM.ORG (Larry 'Purple' Hays)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Tallllll women....
Date: 8 Sep 92 19:08:41 GMT
Reply-To: hays@TECHNET.NM.ORG
Organization: New Mexico Technet   Albuquerque, NM

In article <1992Sep7.023328.29476@peponi.wcc.govt.nz>, parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>I fantasize about being able to wear heels and not feel like saskwatch
>(remember him?)

Uhhh, I'm pretty sure he usually didn't wear heels.  I'm not totally certain,
since I've never actually *MET* him; I'm basing my guess on the pictures of
his footprints that I've seen.

>I lived with a guy for a year who was 6'4", but he was a total shithead.  I've
>decided that tall isn't *that* important - nice, but not vital.

Really!  There's plenty of other people out there, just out there WAITING to
meet you, who although they might not be as tall as he, or as geographically
convenient, are every bit as much of a shithead as he was.

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Larry 'Purple' Hays                                       hays@technet.nm.org

   This would be a perfect place for a cute quote from "Harry and the
     Hendersons", but sadly, I never saw the film.  I realize such
      cultural ignorance is apalling and I apologize for my lack.

                            I'm so ashamed.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark)
Subject: Re: Believe in youself, dammit! (was: Re: Singles Bar)
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 18:56:24 GMT

In article <JMD.92Sep15124234@lion.bear.com> jmd@bear.com (Josh Diamond) writes:
>
>   Sample set of 1 => Not very useful premises on which to base your data.
>   (Besides which, I disagree with your assertion that "chances are that twin
>   A will get a higher score than twin B."  Can you support this?)
>
>Surely you jest.  True, I should have said that this is a hypothetical
>example.  But surely you don't believe that math (or foreign language,
>or C programming, or relationship ) skills are genetically determined!

Yes.  There are genetic factors involved.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark)
Subject: Re: E.W. - Weddings....
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 11:27:48 GMT

>In <1992Sep10.160004.15330@maths.tcd.ie> pmoloney@maths.tcd.ie (Paul Moloney) writes:
>				OK, so I was born in England, but
>my parents were Irish, I lived most of my early life surrounded by
>Irish ex-pats, and the moved to Ireland when I was seven. I certainly don't
>feel English

In article <ewillims.716207557@unix1.tcd.ie> ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:
>	It's irrelevant that you were born in England!  (For that matter,
>so was I ).

A likely story.  Come on, admit it!  You're born and bred Celt.  (Probably you
were born in Wales or Scotland).
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
Subject: Re: Tallllll women....
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 15:13:02 GMT

In article <1992Sep4.022040.2024@panix.com> jis@panix.com (Jack Szwergold) writes:
>In <tvkn3!c@lynx.unm.edu> blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
>
>>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!'
>
>Well, that may be your problem, but I have my own (sorta).  I'm 5'8",
>taller than most women I know, or have dated.  Yet some consider me short
>when compared to other guys?  I hate this double standard!!! Arrrgggghhh...

The technical term for the non-reproductive differences between the sexes 
of a species is sexual dimorphism.  This is of more than passing interest
to zoologists, who are able to draw some conclusions about an animal's
lifestyle from measuring aspects of sexual dimorphism.

Here are some numbers.  By the age of 18, humans have reached their adult
height and weight although growth is usually not completed until the age of
25.  For males the average height is 5'9" and average weight is 162 pounds;
for females the figures are 5'4" and 135 pounds.  These are world-wide
averages; figures for North Americans might be higher, but this is an inter-
national news group.

For most animals females are bigger than males.  That's because there are
so many species of insects.  However, the greatest size difference is 
among a species of angler fish where females weigh half-a-million times
as much as males.  Among mammals female blue whales are larger than males,
so the largest animal that has ever lived on this planet is a female.

As for primates, e.g., us, males are often, though not always, larger.  While
male gorillas are about twice the size of females, male and female gibbons
are of about equal size (in fact, the only way that I can tell the white-
cheeked gibbons apart at a distance is by hair color; adult males are 
always brunettes, and adult females are always blondes).  As for lifestyles,
gorillas are polygynous while gibbons are quite monogamous (as far as has
been observed; I haven't heard about any DNA fingerprintings).

To end with a controversial conclusion, sexual dimorphism indicates to
a zoologist that humans are mildly polygynous.

-- Herb Huston
From: jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Desperation (was Re: Commitment--The C-word?)
Date: 4 Sep 92 20:24:11 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University



diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams) writes:
>wouldn't quite know how to make a pass at a professor anyway.  (It's not
>the age difference I'd have a problem with, but the rank difference).

This isn't really much of an issue. Trust me.

[...]

>Yeah, but it's difficult to make dinner-table conversation with *myself*.

Don't sweat it. Start worrying when it gets easy.
-- 
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jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu  |  I seek to reach the men of the intellect - wherever
      "N.I.N.A."        |  such may still be found."                [Ayn Rand]
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From: dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Singles Bar (Why would you want one?)
Date: 14 Sep 92 16:19:10 GMT
Reply-To: dhardin@spcink.bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

In article <gHVXqB1w164w@depsych.Gwinnett.COM> dy@depsych.Gwinnett.COM (Dr. Yes) writes:
>
>I've tried political campaigns.  All that happens is that you find
>yourself doing unpaid work and interacting superficially with
>people who are oriented only toward the task at hand.

Maybe you should try a cause oriented political group instead of a candidate
oriented group.  Something that's geared for one campaign is going to have
a limited time frame in order to meet people, and the people you meet won't
necessarily have as much in common.  I used to act as a volunteer coordinator
for a political group, and the biggest problem I had was in keeping track
of the musical beds.  ("You can't put X on the same project as Y - Y is
sleeping with X's wife!")  Also, I'd just start to trust some really hard
working, talented individual, when he or she would meet some member of the
appropriate sex on one of the committees and then they'd both disappear.
So it was working for somebody.  (Not, of course, for the group :-( )

Dawn
"Oh, Time!  Of all the dwellers here below 
You only elevate buffoons or fools,
Or him whose anus as an inkstand serves."
The Perfumed Garden of the Shaykh Nefzawl, translated by Sir Richard F. Burton
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams)
Subject: Re: E.W. - Weddings....
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 16:38:08 GMT

In <1992Sep8.111440.18671@access.digex.com> huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:

>In article <ewillims.715878138@unix1.tcd.ie> ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:
>>There is something about a wedding that makes complete strangers
>>drop their normal reserve and talk to each other.  I made lots 
>>of new friends, including more single unattached males than I've
>>ever seen before in one place!  (Very unusual for Ireland where the
>>ratio of females to males is 3:1 )

>DUBLIN, Sept. 15 -- Aer Lingus officials today expressed surprise mixed with
>delight over a sudden and unexpected upsurge in reservations for flights from
>the United States to Eire.  When questioned, ticket agents reported a high
>number of prospective passengers were males with pale skins, glasses, and
>pocket protectors.  Some are presumed to be rocket scientists, as they were
>heard to be muttering a countdown ("3-2-1").

>DUBLIN, Jan. 9 -- The Irish Tourist Office this evening honored Emma Williams
>of Trinity University for her successful campaign to boost tourism in Eire
>during the previous year.

>-- Herb Huston

	(*laughter*)  Very cute, Herb!  And ironic too, as I have worked
on advertising campaigns to boost tourism over here!:>

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Subject: Re: Can we can the suck-up bit?
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 06:36:32 GMT

wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien) writes about my query as to the
origin of lime jello as a soc.singles legend:

>Get a lot of it;  put it in a bathtub;  invite your favorite MOTAS.  Several,
>if you've a large enough bathtub.  Jump in.  Have fun.  

>Old fannish tradition, rumour has it started by an aside comment by
>Joe Haldeman at Discon II, WheneverTheHellThatWas.  

Yes, I thought so.  I'm quite familiar with the fannish legend.  In
fact, a friend (and Wilcon host) was on the jello production committee.

>The song commemorating the event is in Westerfilk 1.

But what does it have to do with this group?

-- 
FUZZY PINK NIVEN'S LAW:  Never Waste Calories.  Potato chips, candy,
whipped cream, or hot fudge sundae consumption may involve you, your
dietician, your wardrobe, and other factors.  But Fuzzy Pink's Law
implies: Don't eat soggy potato chips, or cheap candy, or fake whipped
cream, or an inferior hot fudge sundae.
                Larry Niven, NIVEN'S LAWS, N-SPACE
-- 
Kiran Wagle <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: A lurker goes to California
Keywords: Good luck !!
Date: 11 Sep 92 19:12:28 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <6305@transfer.stratus.com> dennist@sw.stratus.com (Dennis Tetreault) writes:
|Actually, the IRS took over the Ranch because of tax problems. In fact, they
|also brought in a business expert who is running it (at a profit) to repay
|the taxes due. So the Fed Gov't is running a bordello.
|
|I was a lurker, now I'm a poster.

So, in this case it took the discussion of a bordello to bring a lurker out
of hiding.   

-- 
+==========================================================================+
| John Fereira     | Auspex Systems | "Auspex does not share my opinions.  |
| johnf@auspex.com | Santa Clara CA |  So Why am I still working here?"    |
+==========================================================================+
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Re: Where the best posts come from
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 12:43:18 GMT

In article <BuLE4G.3Kq@acsu.buffalo.edu> swann@acsu.buffalo.edu (Stephen Swann) writes:
>In article <lb9fp9INN5um@news.bbn.com> dhardin@spcink.bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes:
>>jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) writes:
>>> 
>>>Dawns happily married now. She's got it BAD.
>>
>>I'm WHAT!!!??!  Damn, I knew I should have been paying more attention when
>>my folks showed up with that shotgun.  Too bad -- I really wanted to meet
>>his parents before we made a commitment because there's a rumor going 
>>around that they're really cthulhu-descended lovecraftian monsters.  Today
>>it's hairlessness and weird fingernails -- tomorrow it's full blown scales
>>and tentacles.    
>
>Well, Alice better watch out about picking on any younger siblings
>that might come of this union.  I mean, being devoured by a formless
>monster from beyond space is probably not something that most big
>sisters have to worry about.  I think.

*SNORK* Bwahaaaaahaaaa. Ugh.
Sorry.
He's a fine young man and a credit to the community.
Sorry about that meat crack.
Emotions and all that.
 
================================================================================
 Sesquipedalian's 'R' Us. ZX-10. DoD#564. There ain't no more.
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
Subject: Re: Which is worse??
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 92 02:46:09 GMT
Organization: Bill 'n' Opus for Prez

In article <1992Sep15.224940.27255@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
>
>I'd be really annoyed if it weren't for the comforting fact that greater
>height correlates with greater income more than does higher education,
>IQ, grades in college, etc.  

I'm just glad that statistics correlate very poorly with the Real
World [tm].
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

IRWTFM -- and that ain't fun
From: diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Las Vegas Revisited
Keywords: Ick, yuk, ptooie
Date: 12 Sep 92 18:12:11 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

In article <1992Sep11.190637.2284@u.washington.edu> intrigue@milton.u.washington.edu (Angelwing) writes:
>He's at it again!  Anybody else get another email from Veeeeegas?
>
>Angelwing - why me?

Yup.  I did.

(Hey, everybody, like my .sig?)

			--Diamond

diamond@acpub.duke.edu |  "*Think* before you ask these questions, Mitch."
Elizabeth S. Abrams    |                         --Chris Knight
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: fredw@mks.com (Fred Walter)
Subject: Re: Various ramblings...
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 19:49:49 GMT

Ross Ridge <ross@zooid.guild.org> writes:
>fredw@mks.com (Fred Walter) writes:
>>[deleted]
>Too low paying for an "educated" person, presumably this means a college
>educated person, as cheap food places only want hire teenagers, their
>mininum wage is lower.

The place I have in mind is Gino's pizza, right beside the University of
Waterloo. And the guy there was referring to university students, who chose to
*not* work rather than work for him (and what ever he was willing to pay)
while they continued looking for a better/more suitable job.

>>but a job-is-a-job-is-a-job-is-better-than-sponging-off-family-or-friends, or
>>so I like to think.
>
>Ah... now I see why you followed up to my article rather than John's.

I followed up to your article rather than John's because I saw your article
first, and when I tried to find his, it wasn't on the system. People with
real jobs and real lives sometimes miss the occasional article in soc.singles.

	fred
-- 
Disclaimer: everything I write is my *personal* opinion and does not represent
or reflect the opinion of the company which employs me.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams)
Subject: Re: Irish ways
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 11:33:26 GMT

In <29135@hydra.Helsinki.FI> taina@cs.Helsinki.FI (Juha Taina) writes:

>In <ewillims.716118452@unix1.tcd.ie> ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:
>>Gabe writes:
>>>	Hmmmm, seems like you've been hanging around the wrong type of
>>>	Irishmen. Almost all the ones I know of, just-over-on-the-boat,
>>>	and most 1st/2nd generation Americans seem to have a certain affinity
>>>	to the game. 

>>	Hey, they don't count as Irish!  Only people born and bred in
>>Ireland are considered to be Irish.  They are Americans who just happen
>>to have Irish ancestry!

>How about telling us about Ireland and the Irish ways?  I'm sure that
>a lot of people are interested.

	Sure!  What do you want to know exactly?

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams)
Subject: Re: chemistry / love at first sight : fact or fiction?
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 11:08:40 GMT

In <1992Sep11.225901.23925@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:

>In article <ewillims.716209493@unix1.tcd.ie> ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:
>>In <1992Sep10.180948.5527@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
>>
>>>In article <ewillims.716139856@unix1.tcd.ie> ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:
>>>>
>>>>	You mean we'd only get brief sensations out of it, Trygve????
>>>>	Ahhhh!  Too bad!  How disappointing!;>
>>
>>>Well, I suppose that all would depend on whether or not you were able to
>>>persuade me to take off my briefs. 
>>
>>	"Persuade"????  Surely you jest?:>

>Not into mere persuasion?  You're more the dominatrix type? 

	No, no!  I meant I wouldn't *have* to persuade you as you 
would be only too eager to fall out of them! :)
 

>>>Trygve   (Normally it's just the sensation of uncertainty that's brief--
>>>          there are many others that last much longer.) 
>>
>>	Uncertainty?  Ahhh!  Poor baby, don't you know what to do?
>>	Here I am...disappointed again! :(

>Well, I'm sure this sensation of disappointment will be short-lived as well.

>Trygve   (It's not so much that I don't know what to do as it is that 
>          you don't know what I'm going to do--not until it's too late,
>          anyway.) 

 	You mean it happens so fast I miss it?:>