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From: jpglori@srv.PacBell.COM (John P. Gloria)
Subject: Re: Spring Fever or what?
Organization: Pacific * Bell
Distribution: world,soc
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 07:41:58 GMT

In article <1992Apr10.215228.8676@u.washington.edu> intrigue@milton.u.washington.edu (Angelwing) writes:
>Okay, it finally happened.  I just went over the edge.  I made a
>puppet of my hand like that crazy old guy on Ed Sullivan used to do.
>She's got lovely and I mean *lovely* turquoise eyes and long black
>eyelashes and a sweet pink mouth.  Shall I name her?  Or just wash
>her off?  I mean I have *work* to do this afternoon!
>
>Angelwing - I seem to be possessed.
>
>*------------------------------------------------------------------*
>* Angelwing       |"Two things are wanted by a true man, danger and*
>* U. of Washington| play - therefore, he seeks woman as the most   *
>*                 | dangerous toy."       Friedrich Nietzsche      *
>*------------------------------------------------------------------*
Either you are possessed, delirious or just plain horny. Perhaps you 
should take another trip to the beach and this time don't wear any
stockings or underwear.  Put on a bright red sun dress, no bra and I
shouldn't have to give suggestions on what you could do with your
sweet pink mouth.  Oh, for heavan sakes, don't wash her off!  You
asked for a name, what about "Cotton Candy"?

-- 
        ********     John Gloria - jpglori@pacbell.com	********	
 "Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."
										- Henry David Thoreau

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: browns@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Stuart Brown)
Subject: Re: More Disc on Romantic Songs
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 16:22:53 GMT

>I still thing that Mettalica's 'Nothing Else Matters'
>is one heck of a beautiful song. So is Guns 'N' Roses's
>'Patience'. Then there is Heart's 'All I want to do is
>make love to you' which brings new meaning to 'artificial
>insemination' .
>
><<grin>>
>
>
>- Suzaina

Good call on that one.  I guess you *are* tough enough for soc.singles.
[Are you "Too sexy for your cat" ?]

		-Stu

-- 
Stuart M. Brown                               Postdocs rush in where wise men
U. of Manitoba, Dept. Plant Science, Canada       Fear to tread. 
browns@ccu.umanitoba.ca        
				Disclaimer?? Sure: "That Disc is Mine!"
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Male visual orientationREFRESH
Date: 9 Apr 92 16:49:30 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <65045@apple.Apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
>Read/watch erotica/pornography and experiment with what looks like fun
>to the two of you.

If you see PeeWee Herman while you`re at the theatre wave "HI" to him.
Use your left hand.

-- 
+=============================================================================+
| John Fereira                Al Bundy for President          
| johnf@auspex.com         "He's as good as the next guy"                     |
+=============================================================================+
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: S7985203@deimos.ucc.umass.edu ( )
Subject: CFV: soc.penpals
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 02:51:56 GMT
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@isis.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: want-sex(women) < want-sex(men)
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: Thu, 16 Apr 92 17:52:33 GMT

In article <1992Apr16.015057.21757@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> userisra@mts.ucs.ualberta.ca (Mark Israel) writes:
>In article <1992Apr15.184422.10973@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, tlode@isis.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
>
>> You know, I've been in a fairly lusty mood lately myself--I may just go
>> get a few more data points myself.
>
>   Yes, date appoints are a good whey to get data points.
>
>> Trygve    (How come, among the women I meet, counterexamples outnumber
>>           the examples twenty-to-one?) 
>
>(1) How old are the women you meet?  Do they even remember their first
>    sexual experience?

How old are the women I meet?  Most of them fall in the range of 19 to
upper thirties with a few outside that range on either side.

I think everybody I know remembers his or her first sexual experience--
for most people that seems like a difficult thing to forget, whether it
was good, bad, or even dull.  (Does anybody out there not remember his
or her first sexual experience?)

>(2) Do you think your own built-in sex drive is about average for men,
>    stronger than average, or weaker than average?  Why do you think so?

My guess is that it's stronger than average, but definitely well within
the typical range for such things.  I base this on what past lovers and
friends have told me--I don't claim that this is a particularly rigorous
study, but I figure that my sex drive is what it is and it doesn't really
matter that much to me how strong the sex drives of people I'm not going
to be sleeping with are.

To some extent it also depends on what exactly you mean by built-in--
for example, I'm in good health, reasonably physically fit, and do a
fair amount of exercise, all of which probably increases my effective
sex drive over what it would be if I were unhealthy and lacking in
strenth and endurance.  Then, too, I have a relatively stress-free life,
can sleep as late as I feel like so I'm not too tired for amorous
pursuits, and can take a day or a week off to spend with someone anytime
I feel like it--so it can be a little hard to compare my sex drive with
the average person's, since I don't know how much I'd be interested in
sex if I had to deal with alarm clocks and the sorts of stresses that
much of the rest of the world is faced with.


>userisra@mts.ucs.ualberta.ca		Mark Israel
>Instinctive grammatical moralizer.

Trygve
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: Larry Margolis <margoli@watson.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: The "first" "move" (was Re: A R C )
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 19:51:57 GMT
Distribution: soc
Reply-To: margoli@watson.IBM.com
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: The Village Waterbed

In  <1992Apr13.094543.11657@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>  swt@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
> Women such as myself who find intelligence,
> creativity, and eccentricity appealing

Yoo hoo - over here!  :-)

Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: FA.TJM@forsythe.stanford.edu (thom mckean)
Subject: Re: want-sex(women) < want-sex(men)
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 20:41:11 GMT

In article <1992Apr15.064258.841@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> userisra@mts.ucs.ualberta.ca
(Mark Israel) writes:
>
>   My theory is that men have a greater BUILT-IN sex drive than women.
>(This doesn't prevent women from finding sex pleasurable and wanting to
>repeat the experience.)  Meloney Cregor and Valerie Maslak have offered
>themselves as counterexamples, but I would like to get some more data
>points.

Mel and Valerie have offered themselves as counterexamples?  What,
is this some strange tribal/diner ritual?

Thom
who likes counterexamples, though he finds bedexamples infinitely
more comfortable
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: userisra@mts.ucs.ualberta.ca (Mark Israel)
Subject: "hitting on"
Originator: lnds@zeus.biochem.ualberta.ca
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 06:27:40 GMT

In article <1992Apr14.185854.15398@midway.uchicago.edu>, pooh@group-w.uchicago.edu (Pooh @ the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen) writes:

> In article <p0xjklb.barry@netcom.com>, barry@netcom.com (Kenn Barry) writes:
>>> Why the term "hitting"?  I'd call it "dating".
>>
>> No, a date is what you do after you've hit on someone successfully.

   And if you date someone successfully, that's hitting it off.

>> The reason you meet lots of men at parties is that the men
>> are hitting on you.

   The reason I meet lots of men at parties is that most of the people
there are men.

>> Ah, women: I love 'em, but sometimes they don't have a clue :-).

   You only need clues to unravel mysteries.  To Pooh, men are not
mysteries.

> Men: I love 'em, but just because they have a hammer they think 
> everything is a nail ... ;-)

   Wasn't there a song about that in the '60s?  "If I had a hammer,
I'd probably hit my thumb."

   I don't seem to have the timing right on any of these jokes.  Help
me, Aahz.

userisra@mts.ucs.ualberta.ca		Mark Israel
Instinctive grammatical moralizer.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: intrigue@milton.u.washington.edu (Angelwing)
Subject: Re: lying to oneself (was Re: Sanctity of relationships)
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Distribution: world,soc
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 15:19:14 GMT

In article <1992Apr09.222806.13166@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.ibm.com writes:
>
>I might as well chime in here.  I had one girlfriend that went for a
>photo shoot.  I knew that she had fooled around with the photographer
>previously.  When I picked her up from his place, I asked her "Did you
>fuck him?"  She said "No."  Later that night, when I discovered that
>she had been lying, I asked her why she lied to me, and her response was
>that she wasn't lying, she didn't think I was asking seriously.

Oh but Larry, the *burning* question here ... what millions of people are
dying to know is just HOW did you discover she was lying?  

Angelwing - Curiosity never killed me ...YET

*------------------------------------------------------------------*
* Angelwing       |"Two things are wanted by a true man, danger and*
* U. of Washington| play - therefore, he seeks woman as the most   *
*                 | dangerous toy."       Friedrich Nietzsche      *
*------------------------------------------------------------------*
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Do You Remember - early '60s edition
Date: 9 Apr 92 23:50:37 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Apr9.210648.3377@cbfsb.cb.att.com> joni@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (joni.dunlap) writes:
 
|How about bird whistles, .....
... Mary Janes, 
    ^^^^^^^^^
Far out.  You really *are* from the sixties.  It usually was pluralized though.

-- 
+=============================================================================+
| John Fereira                Al Bundy for President          
| johnf@auspex.com         "He's as good as the next guy"                     |
+=============================================================================+
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@isis.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Could use a boost
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: Sun, 12 Apr 92 22:31:42 GMT

In article <1992Apr12.090321.1@vaxb.llnl.gov> solarski@vaxb.llnl.gov writes:
>I could use a little insight, helpful hints. I've been dating this wonderful
>gal for some time. I had been hurt badly before in a serious relationship and
>did not want to fall in love again. It happened. I told her how I felt and she
>became probably the coldest woman in the world. She's tearing me apart. I told
>her what she was doing to me. She said she was sorry, she has strong feelings
>for me as well and doesn't want to hurt me. This made me feel great until the
>next day when she started up her mind games again. I love her, but I don't know
>how long I can hurt before I can't take it. Is there anyone who has been
>through this, giving or receiving, could you pass me on some words-o-wisdom. I
>could really use it.

It's hard for me to make any concrete suggestions without knowing a lot
more about the situation (probably more than could be squeezed into a
message), but maybe the fact that I'm a former LLNL employee makes me
two or three iotas more qualified to comment on this situation.

My gut reaction is that, for the relationship to have a chance of working
in an enjoyable and satisfactory manner for either of you, you need to
promise yourself not to buy into any of the game-playing, even if that
means you need to pull back emotionally far enough to be able to handle
it.  You can't get through games while playing them--you have to get out
of them and then attempt to communicate honestly with her, not just about
your feelings for her, but also about how some of the things she does
make you feel.  (It probably goes without saying that this needs to be
done non-accusingly, laying the blame on her behaviors and your reactions
to them rather than on her.)

I think you have to be willing to do what it takes to make the relationship
work well, even if it means risking the relationship itself.

The only other word of advice I can come up with at the moment, and for all
I know, this may well already have been done, is to get rid of all the
TI Silent 700 thermal printers.

Trygve    (I never want to operate a Cray at 110 baud again.  Ever.)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@isis.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: More Disc on Romantic Songs
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, 10 Apr 92 06:39:01 GMT

In article <1992Apr9.211619.3913@morrow.stanford.edu> FA.TJM@forsythe.stanford.edu (thom mckean) writes:

>Why do people *like* such sappy love songs as...well, say, anything
>by Air Supply?
>
>Whenever I hear such songs, I get visions of Hello, Kitty and people
>in pink sweatshirts with frolicking teddy bears on them.
>
>They lack the raw emotion, the vibrant passion of what I consider to
>be love - I don't even feel particularly happy when hearing the
>songs.  I feel like someone's trying to delude me instead.
>
>Explanation, anyone?  Am I a freak?  Obviously, lotsa folks like
>this stuff, else they wouldn't be Top 40 hits.  I just wanna know
>WHY!

Well, I don't know if I'm qualified to say whether or not you're a freak,
but I can at least comment on your question.  

I don't think it's possible to capture the totality of the human condition
in a song (or a book or a movie or....) and I don't think it would 
necessarilly be desirable to stuff all aspects of even one emotion into
a song.  Love has its vibrant passion, its consuming longing, its hope
for the future, its moments of despair, and even its light and fluffy
moments where all is well with the world and it feels like that condition
could last forever.

Any given love song is likely to reflect only a little part of the 
emotions and depth that make up love--and the light and fluffy ones
are nice when you want to capture a bit of simple good feelings.

Now, I suppose I should interject here that I, personally, dislike pretty
much everything by Air Supply--not because they're light and fluffy, but
because they tend to come from a theme of "love me, because without you
I'm only so much worthless scum" which doesn't so much evoke caring
feelings in me as a vague sense of pity and nausea--but I still like
other light and fluffy songs, movies, etc.

I don't think there's anything wrong with you for not liking a particular
genre of love songs--not everything has to strike a positive chord in
you.

Trygve    (Besides, it could be worse--Air Supply could decide to switch
           over to country-western music.)
From: willimsa@unix1.tcd.ie (Gavin Williams)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Newspaper personals phenomena
Date: 12 Apr 92 22:23:42 GMT
Distribution: soc
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin


So, who here has read the book (I think it is by Mary Higgins), "Loves music,
loves to dance.)
It is about a psycho killer who murders girls he meets through the newspaper
personals columns.  Makes you think, hein?
--
         ______________________________________________________________
	|  A.G. Williams          |        Plus qu'il n'en faut.       |    
	|  willimsa@unix1.tcd.ie  |                                    |
	|_________________________|____________________________________|
From: intrigue@milton.u.washington.edu (Angelwing)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re:      Broward's Wrong.
Date: 9 Apr 92 15:41:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Apr9.154118.29466
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

In article <9204090136.AA14899@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com> GCTHORNE@idbsu.idbsu.edu writes:
>
>      Angelwing. Angelwing. Still mad about me keeping my virginity, huh?
>      Eh, you HAD your chance. :)

Oh but in the *restaurant*?!?  They really frown on that, dontcha know.

>      1) The conflict here is the definition of AGGRESSIVE. And after
>         tonight, I'm willing to let you win *this* argument.
>         You're absolutely right. Women define aggressiveness
>         differently.

Okay, that's a definite possibility.  There are certainly degress of
aggressiveness. 

>     2) I win. I SAID I was deceived, didn't I? Invalidates anything I say.
>        Abstract thinking and all. :)

Oh man ....Broward pal, I want some of those drugs you're taking.  They
must be *real* good.

>          0 to 4 in 3 weeks.

I take it this means you asked these babes out and they turned you down? 
What did you suggest?  The tractor pull?

>        ( notice how I'm using incomplete sentences. More than ever.
>          You are my only competition. I *need* my advantages :)

Yeah I notice but your thinking is still quite abstract.  What *are* you
on, anyway?

Angelwing - Take all the advantages you want.

*------------------------------------------------------------------*
* Angelwing       |"Two things are wanted by a true man, danger and*
* U. of Washington| play - therefore, he seeks woman as the most   *
*                 | dangerous toy."       Friedrich Nietzsche      *
*------------------------------------------------------------------*
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: pooh@group-w.uchicago.edu (Pooh @ the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen)
Subject: Re: Sanctity of relationships
Organization: Medieval England, Iowa
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 20:00:24 GMT


Personally, I refuse to get involved with someone unless his
SO specifically invites me to do so.

Works pretty well most of the time.

Sex is a very, very messy business and it strikes irrational emotional
chords in people.  I firmly believe in not interfering with a
monogamous relationship.  For one thing, I'm too stinkin' proud
to compete: if it's a case of her or me, I'll duck out REAL fast
no matter whether I was the first one there or not.  For another,
I will not do my part to help hurt an innocent partner who was
counting on fidelity.  

Pooh
      pooh@group-w.uchicago.edu

Newsgroups: soc.singles,sci.med,misc.consumers,misc.kids
From: young@sasquatch.serum.kodak.com (Rich Young (x37176))
Subject: Re: Business cards
Organization: Clinical Products Division, Eastman Kodak Company
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 15:49:27 GMT

rcf@pnet01.cts.com (Bob Forsythe) writes:

[...]

>     Locally, Von's Supermarkets does a program each year where they
>contribute so much toward a computer for a school for each cashier's ticket
>the school collects.  It gets them publicity and people are aware that
>shopping at Von's helps schools.  May be the same thing with the pop-tops. 
>There's more to these charity gimics than the intrinsic value of the item
>being collected.

   The local Wegman's supermarket chain did a similar thing in this area
   a few months back, so it's clear that Bob is right, here.  I must admit,
   however, that there are SO many urban legends which surround this sort
   of thing that a check on any story's veracity is mandatory.


-Rich (young@serum.kodak.com)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: aahz@netcom.com (Aahzmandius)
Subject: Re: Spring Fever or what?
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 04:25:28 GMT
Organization: Bill 'n' Opus for Prez
Distribution: world,soc

In article <1992Apr12.210223.16246@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.IBM.com writes:
>In  <1992Apr11.174437.5520@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>  tlode@isis.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
>>>
>>>Angelwing - I seem to be possessed.
>>
>> Let's see, how about "Demonica"?  She could represent and speak for
>> your, ah, less angelic side.
>
>But I thought that "de-Monica" was closer to an *exorcism* of demons...  :-)

No, "de Monica" *is* a demon -- although she's been a goody-goody
two-shoes lately......
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

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