HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,uk.misc
Subject: Re: Censorship in UK
Date: 28 Jan 93 11:00:29 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Strathclyde Univ., Glasgow, Scotland.
In-reply-to: ivan@spider.co.uk's message of 27 Jan 93 16:31:51 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.163151.8518@spider.co.uk> ivan@spider.co.uk (Ivan Reid) writes:

   Hi! I just discovered whilst reading uk.misc, that alt.personals and
   alt.personals.ads is not carried by the company who forward net news traffic
   (something like UKNet Ltd.) in the UK.

There are many companies supplying netnews in the UK and none of them
are called UKNet Ltd.

News providers are free to block or feed particular groups as they see
fit: you pays your money and takes your choice.

Commercial news providers (and intermediate feeds) may be obliged to
block or limit a news feed for all sorts of reasons: possible
illegality, potential breaches of network policy (cf acceptable usage
criteria on academic nets like JANET of NSFnet), or something more
mundane like availability of bandwidth or disk space.

Your site gets netnews from Edinburgh University. I can't speak for
them, but it may well be that they don't want to carry "sensitive"
newsgroups which might cause offence or bad publicity. I'm sure you
can imagine the sort of outcry that our tabloid newspapers could make
out of a story about a University, taxpayer's money and an electronic
lonely hearts column.

		Jim
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (dreas)
Subject: deWordikt (anon results)
Reply-To: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 03:56:40 GMT


There are three categories in the results of the anonymous
postings question: Aye, Nay, and Fence Sitters.

Ayes are all for anon. postings, Nays are completely against,
and fence sitters don't mind 'em as long as they are not 
personal ads that belong in another news group.

Ayes----------------------- 9

Nays---------------------- 17

Sitters-------------------- 3

It looks like the Nays have it.
I'll let you do a sadistical ANALysis on it if you wish.

I will communicate these results to the anon.sysadmin... 

dreas
From: dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Steve Martin no longer in vogue?
Date: 27 Jan 1993 19:18:23 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN)
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: spcink.bbn.com

In article <MARTINC.93Jan26174436@grover.cs.unc.edu> martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
>In article <lmb8j3INNa6n@news.bbn.com> dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes:
>
>	[ripped bleeding from context]
>
>    (Do people here really believe that there are 100,000 people reading
>   this shit?  Does that make us some sort of weird celebrities?)
>
>Yeah, think about it: our circulation compares favorably to _The
>Atlantic_.

Yeah, we've talked about this before.  I've been having this heated
debate with myself (it's really bad when I stoop to ad hominem arguements 
when I debate myself) about whether that makes this "real" writing or
not.  I also wonder how many of the 100,000 really are reading any
particular post, and how many of them actually give a rat's ass about
it.  I also wonder if I agree with Ed when he says that if you don't
get paid for your writing, it's masturbation (I know that's a paraphrase,
Ed, I hope it's not too far off) or whether that's a realistic idea with
the state of today's publishing or the number of people who actually read.

I guess this isn't the newsgroup for this discussion, but when I first
started posting here, I considered it very much performance art, with
the payoff in ego.  Now I usually don't bother as much to "perform", but
it seems like it's still an available option.

Dawn
-- 
"You have this adorable and misguided notion that death is something really
radical and cool but I still can't help being attracted to your fresh-faced
uncompromised tatoo-ed rebel stance and god damn, I'd like to help you
sing your tune."  "Folk Song..." by Bongwater
From: mns3h@Virginia.EDU ("Michelle Speir")
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Pickup Lines (Jan 26 93)
Date: 27 Jan 93 20:59:04 GMT
Organization: University of Virginia

Here's one that has been used on me TWICE, by two completely
different people and in two completely different settings.  I'm
caucasian, and both came from black men saying, "I've got
jungle fever tonight, baby, how 'bout you?"  Isn't that the
worst?????
--Shelbo
Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:46:37 EST
From: Graydon <SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Living alone and liking it
 <77121@apple.apple.COM> <1993Jan21.185205.2304@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
 <16557@auspex-gw.auspex.com>

In article <16557@auspex-gw.auspex.com>, johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) says:
>
>In article <1993Jan21.185205.2304@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jwall@nyx.cs.du.edu    f
>(Jef
>Wall) writes:
>>In article <77121@apple.apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
>|>blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
>|>
>|>>So what do you look like in latex? :)
>|>
>|>Like Garfield.
>|
>|Garfield is absolutely adorable!!  (Not to mention humerous)
>
>Yea, but have you ever seen him in Latex?
>

It's the thought of gettng a sweaty corpulent cat *out* of
latex - all that fur getting caught, ick.

Getting Stef out of latex might be an entirely worthwhile project,
though; even in so prosaic a fashion as exhausting the local
supply.

Graydon
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
saundrsg@               "Praise then Darkness and Creation unfinished"
   qucdn.queensu.ca                   - U. K. LeGuin
Newsgroups: soc.singles,talk.bizarre
From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Subject: Re: Mushy_O_Phobic v. CloseAirSupport_O_Phobics
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 09:41:28 GMT

martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
>martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
>>You mean to tell me you consider the pleasant bird-like tootling
>>recorder not a real instrument but the duck-like squacking of the
>>kazoo-with-a-gland-condition crumhorn to *be* A real instrument?

>>Next thing you'll be urging people to play the schaum.

>Well, I urge em to leave those boring melodious instruments behind
>entirely and try the rackett, 

>technically, that's "raise a rackett"

Raise a great base rackett even.  

>the vielle a roue or hurdy-gurdy, the

>I've got to say I like the hurdy-gurdy a lot.  If I weren't terminally
>instrumentally-challenged I'd get one.

I like it a lot myself.  I think it'd make a great zydeco instrument.

>bombarde, and the schryari.  Though I must say, shawms are kinda cool.  
>   (I don't think a schryari [sp?] is actually known to have existed.
>    I think Noah Greenberg reconstructed one from an illustration.)

>The *what*?

Schryari.  It translates as "shriek."  If you want to hear one, look
for Greenberg's old LP with the New York Pro Musica "The Renaissance Band."

-- 
"It is possible that Debussy did not intend to call it 'La Mer,' but
'Le Mal de Mer,'... The first movement is 'Headache.'  The second is
'Doubt,' picturing moments of dread suspense, whether or no!  The third
 movement, with its explosions and rumblings, has now a self-evident
 purpose.  The hero is endeavoring to throw up his boot-heels!"

 .............Louis Elston, Boston _Daily Advertiser_, April 22, 1907,
 quoted in _Lexicon of Musical Invective_ edited by Nicolas Slonimsky.
-- 

Kiran Wagle                           <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
From: stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Flirting How To Guide
Date: 27 Jan 93 23:41:02 GMT
Distribution: soc
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

nomi@cgl.ucsf.edu (Nomi L. Harris) writes:

>I know a lot of guys think they should ask before initiating any physical
>contact.  Don't ask; just try something subtle and see what happens.
>If a guy I'm interested in puts his arm on my shoulder, I'll [...]

Agreed that this usually works fairly well. But some people who are
interested don't respond to an initial contact; some people do want
to be asked (it can be done subtly - "hug?" is a favorite among people
I know), and some people don't feel comfortable touching someone without
asking. (Like me.)

If a guy you'd recently met did ask you whether he could touch you, would
the pleasant anticipation be spoiled?

Stef
stef@apple.com
--
...me and David were slow dancing. The odors of his brut cologne was 
blowing my mind away and the feeling of his fingers on my back. You 
know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That 
was my whole body.                                     -- Lynda Barry
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci)
Subject: Re: Most Pressing Social concern
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:06:34 GMT

In article <16580@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
>barry@netcom.com (Kenn Barry) writes:
>| In article <1993Jan19.233424.17088@wetware.com> drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:
>| 	Not me, guy. I sold out. Every Man hath his Price, and the
>| Konspiracy bought me long ago. Cheap. For a Penny, one might say :-).
>Makes cents to *me*.

Not me.  I don't buy it at all.
-- 
-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+
Nance Colucci                                      att!ihlpl!colucci
  "And my son has a thyroid, so that must make me a glandparent."
-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+
From: aaron@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: MWF?
Date: 25 Jan 93 17:57:47 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England

Diane (SURGDM@mizzou1.missouri.edu) wrote:
: In article <1993Jan21.000419.7811@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
: mel@niblick.ecn.purdue.edu (Meloney D Cregor) writes:
:  
: >I work out on MWF's.  I have meetings on Tuesdays.  I have piano and
: >dance classes on Thursdays.
: >There just isn't time to cook.
:  
: Tell us more about these MWFs you 'work out' on. Depraved minds
: want to know...
:  
: Diane
: (who would be very disappointed if it meant Medium Weight Folders or something)
From: jmd@bear.com (Josh Diamond)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: LookingForSomePeople
Date: 25 Jan 93 20:48:19 GMT
Organization: Bear, Stearns & Co. - FAST
In-reply-to: zborowsk@alfred.carleton.ca's message of 23 Jan 93 00:23:20 GMT


In article <zborowsk.727748600@cunews> zborowsk@alfred.carleton.ca (Zbigniew Borowski) writes:

   HI!! Is anyone up there to respond this message ???  I'm an aerospace
   engineer looking for some interesting People, girls are preferred.

Aaaaaarrrrrrrrggggggghhhhhh!!!!

Spidey!!!


				    Bye
--
You don't hunt ducks with a turnip! 

 /\ \  / /\  Josh Diamond                                          jmd@bear.com
//\\ .. //\\ AKA Spidey!!!                        ...!ctr.columbia.edu!ursa!jmd
//\((  ))/\\
/  < `' >  \                                              Do whatever it takes.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jbulf@balsa.Berkeley.EDU (Jeff Bulf)
Subject: Re: Mocsny?
Reply-To: jbulf@balsa.Berkeley.EDU (Jeff Bulf)
Organization: Kubota Pacific Computers Inc.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 03:48:49 GMT

In article <1993Jan28.013452.26669@netcom.com>, aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine) writes:
|> Gee, now that Walter Lego and Mark Israel are posting again, is there
|> any chance that some *real* old-timers might show up?

How old is real old. I've been gone long enough not to even recognize
most of the names here now. Izzis old-timerdom or just senility setting
in:-)
-- 
	dr memory
	jbulf@kpc.com
From: reb@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com (Richard E. Barrier)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: The Classiest Pickup Lines
Date: 28 Jan 93 08:23:27 GMT
Organization: Chevron Oil Field Research, La Habra, CA.

In article <C10y7w.BDA@CAM.ORG> souchay@CAM.ORG (Francois Souchay) writes:
>In article <MARTINC.93Jan17111501@grover.cs.unc.edu> martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
>>In article <28034@sybase.sybase.com> mysti@sierra.sybase.com (Mysti Rubert) writes:
>>   Feel free to continue to communicate badly, if that is your goal,
>>   of course.  I just thought you might like to know...
>>Have you ever thought of moving to Canada?
>
>Hose off, eh. You hoser. What are you talkin about, eh? We can talk as good
>as anyone, so take off, eh. Yeah, take off.
>
>Francois.
8-) Francois - I heard that Canada was spelled...
8-) C eh N eh D eh
*******************************************************************************
These are my opinions/spellings - not Chevron's so don't ask
*******************************************************************************
From: souchay@CAM.ORG (Francois Souchay)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: The Classiest Pickup Lines
Date: 23 Jan 93 03:16:39 GMT
Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada

In article <1993Jan21.205533.14367@netcom.com> desiree@netcom.com (dmc) writes:
>In article <1993Jan21.175233.12195@bcars6a8.bnr.ca> csanoy@bcars689.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Cynthia Sanoy) writes:
>
>>        and c) typical (use of pseudo European characteristics to sell to 
>>        unsuspecting 'Mercans! (for those who don't see the humour... colour, in
>	And the correct french spelling of colour is couleur.  The french
>have adopted many americanisms as a marketing ploy.  Works for me...

France is a weird place. On one side, we have cynicism masquerading as 
amusement at the innocent naivete of Americans. On the other, all kinds 
of truly strange pop culture gets imported & goggled over. I mean,
how many people on this news group have sat through an _entire_ Jerry
Lewis movie? 

Even Bruce, that most American of pop stars, sold out the Olympia for four
shows. Yet Parisians are incredibly snotty to Statesiders. Then again,
Parisians are snotty to other French folk too....

Francois.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
Subject: Re: (LONG) Re: Living alone and liking it
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 03:43:52 GMT
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In <1993Jan28.012329.24871@netcom.com> aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine) writes:

>I don't see how anyone can stand parsnips.

On the flat end, of course.

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow)
Subject: Re: Thanksgiving to Valentine's Day
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:50:18 GMT
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In <1993Jan19.144027.23101@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes:

>Well there are other uses for Valentine's Day ...

>7.  An excuse to put twelve new CDs on your Visa card

Do I have to restrict myself to just twelve?  :-)

Rob T
--
Rob Thurlow, thurlow@convex.com
"Shouldn't I have this, shouldn't I have this, shouldn't I have all of this,
 and, passionate kisses, passionate kisses, passionate kisses, from you?"
- "Passionate Kisses" Lucinda Williams
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Subject: Re: Honesty, Your word, and Trust -- a crisis?
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 03:42:32 GMT

aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine) wonders:
>ron@turing.toronto.edu (Ron Wessels) writes:
>>ZZ
>>:wq
>>^[

>Wassamatta?  Get stuck in emacs by mistake?

Maybe he asked Alice to post this for him.
-- 

Kiran Wagle                           <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
From: allisson@turing.toronto.edu (H. Allisson Roome)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: A hug for illiterate flamers
Date: 27 Jan 93 01:54:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: jarvis.1993Jan26.205422.5312
Organization: Net.Gypsy/ROM

In article <1993Jan26.163352.24574@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> ron@turing.toronto.edu (Ron Wessels) writes:
>julie@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (Julie Wright) responds to "HUGS" with a
>brilliant masterpiece entitled:
>>	   GAG
>>	by J.R. Wright
>
>Julie ... forget your seesters.  Will you marry me?

Um, Ron, my ancient-friend (chronologically speaking that is),
speaking as someone who knows where your POW sleeps, you might want to
watch what you say...... We POWs can be a viscious lot.


Allisson
-- 
"Desire itself is movement not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving,
only the cause and end of movement, timeless and undesiring except in the 
aspect of time caught in the form of limitation between un-being and being."
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (dreas)
Subject: Re: SM ISO MAIL
Reply-To: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 04:01:31 GMT

In article 10561@ringer.cs.utsa.edu, sgokhale@lonestar.utsa.edu (Shashank S. Gokhale) writes:

>hey you yes you. why do you make fun of people like this?

I will attempt to answer your question because you are the only one in
history to reply to one of these very volatile flames. Man, do you have
guts! 

Essentially, soc.singles is a discussion group where regulars go around
exchanging ideas about any topic that comes to mind. I would have blasted you
no matter what you wrote because what you wrote was a PERSONAL AD!!!!

I am giving you a clue: soc.singles regulars like myself get extremely
PISSED OFF when they see personal ads. If you go into a pub and scream out
"HEY! ALL YOU GIRLS OVER THERE! I'M LOOKING FOR WOMEN! I WANT TO TALK TO YOU!!!"
What do you think their reaction would be?

Understand me on this: I was not being a racist or anything, I was blasting
your approach. You made yourself look stupid posting an ad in this newsgroup.
  
>were you not seeking a SO at anytime?

Yes, but never so bluntly. 
I might be looking for one today, 
but with a bit of finnesse, my friend.

dreas


Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jwall@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jeff Wall)
Subject: Re: *How* did you meet your SO (And do they know?)
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 15:31:15 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.121730.1@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz> quirke_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
>: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine) writes:
>:::All together now:
>:::"We met at nine..." "we met at eight..." "I was on time..." "no, you
>:::were late..." "Ah yes, I remember it well."
>
>::For the totally clueless out there, this is from _Gigi_.
>
>: And for those under 30, "Gigi" was a broadway musical from long back. :)
>
>What's a musical, Uncle rON ?

I'm not too sure, but I think he meant Music video.  They go a long way
back you knwo - all the way to the early eighties.

Gigi must have been a cult figure of sorts back then :-).

Cheers,

Jeff Wall
wall@hel4.brl.mil


Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: rohwerwd@netcom.com (W. David Rohwer)
Subject: Re: Favorite Groups
Organization: The Tickle Palace - Moonyvale, CA
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 23:50:11 GMT

In article <MARTINC.93Jan24104748@grover.cs.unc.edu> martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
>In article <1993Jan24.091528.2336@netcom.com> rohwerwd@netcom.com (W. David Rohwer) writes:
>
>   >I'm under 30, and I posted the original quote.  Doesn't anyone listen
>   >to any decent music any more?
>   >
>
>	Sure and by the way I am 30.  I like, in alphabetical order:
>
>   AC/DC;
>	.
>	.
>	.
>   Young, Neil.
>
>	There are other artists and groups which I like that I may not
>   listed.
>
>Jeez, I hope you have that on computer, and didn't have to go to all the
>effort of typing that in alphabetically to prove that you're humor-
>challenged and can't tell when someone is kidding you.
>--

     No, I did not have the list on my computer or anywhere else for
that matter.

     If you look at a follow-up article to my article, written by Guy
Barry, then you will see that he said, "The question was intended to
be rhetorical, but let me rephrase it: ...."  So, it seems that Guy
may have meant for his question to be non-humorous and that is how
I intrepreted it.  If you see it as humorous and I don't, then it is
not that big of a deal.  I am sure that I see some things that I
believe are humorous and you see the same things as non-humorous.  That
is just the way that life goes.

-- 
    Reggie elected into Hall of Fame!    +---------------------------------+
  +-----------------------------------+ /  Snowmobiling: Catch the fever! /
 /   //  W. David Rohwer     // Amiga ++---------------------------------+
|  \X/        Go A's       \X/  3000  /  Internet: rohwerwd@netcom.COM  /
+------------------------------------+---------------------------------+
From: brent.mason@uuworld.via.mind.ORG (Brent Mason) 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: doesn't it piss you o
Date: 19 Jan 93 17:54:00 GMT
Reply-To: brent.mason@uuworld.via.mind.ORG (Brent Mason) 
Distribution: world
Organization: Micro Exchange - Kenwood, CA - 707-833-4032

D > From: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (dreas)
  > Newsgroups: soc.singles
  > Subject: Re: doesn't it piss you off when.....
  > Message-ID: <1993Jan16.024658.1060@sol.UVic.CA>
  > Date: Sat, 16 Jan 93 02:46:58 GMT
  > Reply-To: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA
  >
  > julie@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (Julie Wright) writes:
  >
  >
  > >(Seriously, I don't think anyone's EVER bought me a drink, so it's
  > >a moot point how _I'd_ behave.  I look like a Nice Girl.  It's a
  > >terrible liability at times.)
  >
  > [Seriously, I don't think I've EVER bought you a drink, so it's just
  > about time I did... We can CHANGE that Nice Girl image, cut your hair
  > real short, and shave patterns into it. What you need then, is a ring
  > in your nose, and leather(or plastic) clothes. I can get you some NIFTY
  > CanadianArmySurplusKombatBoots(just like mine), a few strategic tattoos,
  > and we just mustn't forget the ornamentation of your genitalia IN PLATINUM!]
  >
  > Sheesh! We'll make a high-class whore out of you yet!!!! </.Q


  Come on now...  If she really wanted to be that kind of woman...
  Damn that's scary...  I perfer the nice girl image...

  You know what they say about nice girls behind closed doors!!

Brent Mason

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