HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart)
Subject: Re: Net.Women
Keywords: good looking cute beautiful etc.
Organization: my opinions only
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 01:07:30 GMT

In article <1992Aug11.155758.26930@newstand.syr.edu>
haroome@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allisson Roome) writes:

>I suppose I can vouch for Seth since I did have dinner with him and
>all; however, since I did get put in the catagory of not.bad.looking
>net.women by Seth I may be somewhat biased in my reaction.

Is that the only reason you'd be biased?  I'm very disappointed.

Seth		sethb@fid.morgan.com
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Re: Chinese single woman seeks caucasian single men
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 13:24:30 GMT

In article <1992Aug21.001426.4006@samba.oit.unc.edu> Bathsheba.Grossman@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bathsheba Grossman) writes:
>>I'll tell ya' though, there are some beautiful babes out here!!!
>
>What did I tell you.  This I needed to hear?
>
>-Sheba

 SNORK. BWAHAAAA.
 
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: morton@rtpnet06.rtp.dg.com (John R. Morton)
Subject: Re: Married Men and Single Women
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 08:18:34 GMT
Organization: Data General Corporation, RTP, NC.
Keywords: Why are married men more attractive than single men?

>>In article <l8g5atINN7fu@news.bbn.com> kgorman@BBN.COM (Karen Gorman) writes:
>>>Here are three more traits *often* found in married men (in random order):
>>>
>>>		 Broke
>>>		 henpecked
>>>		 miserable

	Based purely on the numbers, there is evidence to suggest that there
	is something worthwhile there in B,h, and m land. Or , maybe
	that's just what white boys do when there's no war to fight.
	Besides, it's not  married thing, the single guys are 
	Broke, miserable , and socio-pecked,    what's worse.
From: margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Various ramblings...
Date: 19 Aug 92 16:19:26 GMT
Reply-To: margoli@watson.ibm.com
Organization: The Village Waterbed
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM

In  <1992Aug19.040520.21700@menudo.uh.edu>  kevin@nuchat.sccsi.com (Kevin Brown) writes:
>
> >>>Unless you're only into super models, the amount of money you make is no
> >>>excuse.
>
> Fair enough, but you've failed to answer the question: *why* does the
> amount of money make a difference to supermodels but not to other women?

One possible explanation:  Unless you've got money, you're unlikely to
be any place that you'd meet one of them.

> >Ever passed out?  If not then you can breathe well enough.  The reason
> >you don't go Jazz clubs is that you don't want to, not that you can't.
>
> In other words, I should just deal with it.

It depends on just how bad it is.  If it's very smoky, I wouldn't.

> Hmm...anyone know of a good jazz bar here in Houston?

I don't, but maybe a post to alt.personals might help:
   Anyone know of a good jazz bar here in Houston?  Preferably,
   not smoke-filled.  Anyone want to join me?  (Women in particular...)

Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: graydon@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Graydon)
Subject: Re: Various ramblings...
Organization: M.B. Cormier INC.
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 10:31:47 EDT

Greetings!

Have (as a sudden thought creeps up on me) any of you 'can't get
started in a relationship' fellows ever paused to think that the
people conditioning you into believing you aren't attractive tend
to be _other guys_?  It's a pretty good strategy on their part to
get you to take yourself out of competition, particularly since you
may end up ahead of them in several competitive categories, like
income and income stability.

just a thought...

Graydon

        Graydon the Curious         /graydon@micor.ocunix.on.ca
  Skraeling Althing, EAldormere, MK / "Nihil est quin obsisti possit"
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow)
Subject: Re: talking in stores (was: Re: Finding Romantic Partners (long))
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 15:26:28 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 <1992Aug12.071832.19538@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:

>Well, though I've lived in Denver for the last 22 years (except for a
>brief stint in California), I've done a lot of travelling in the past
>decade and, as far as I can tell, people all over the world seem quite
>eager to start up conversations with random strangers on the street or
>in the shops--the only time I went out today was to a record store
>(thought I'd pick up the Mary Black CD that John Fereira suggested)
>and as soon as I managed to pick up a CD out of the bin, a woman in
>the next aisle started talking to me about how much she liked that
>album.

Well, if you're going to insist on doing something as brilliant and
wonderful as buying Mary Black's music, you will probably continue
to be deluged with approaches from people admiring your good taste.
I know the problems I've had doing things like that :-)

Rob T
--
Rob Thurlow, thurlow@convex.com
The sun is gonna shine again / We're gonna make it 'round that bend
I'll walk another mile with you, 'cause you're my friend
The sun is gonna shine again.			- Graham Parker
From: stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Criteria for friends and lovers
Date: 14 Aug 92 07:07:47 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

rudoff@mdd.comm.mot.com (Doug Rudoff) writes:

>How do the criteria that women have for friends and lovers differ?

They don't differ for me. What happens when I meet someone I like is that I
get a crush. Sometimes I wind up with a friend and sometimes with a lover.
Or sometimes they switch. Or sometimes they are in that in-between place. 
Although I do have a "list" and can articulate what I like and don't like
in people, usually all this is determined more by a seat-of-the-pants
approach: what does it feel like to spend time with this person?

Insofar as the criteria differ, the differences are boring and unhelpful,
such as: I want a lover not to have a large collection of characteristics 
that bug me; but this matters less with a friend. And I tend to get along 
better in the long run with people who have a lot in common with me (although 
I like getting to know people who are different from me).

--
Stef              
stef@apple.com   

In the 17th century, Kikaku, one of the ten disciples of the great Japanese
poet Basho, composed a haiku:
     Take a pair of wings
     From a dragonfly, you would
     Make a pepper-pod.
 
Basho told Kikaku: "That's not a haiku. You kill the dragonfly." Kikaku
recomposed the lines:
     Add a pair of wings
     To a pepper-pod, you would
     Make a dragonfly.
                                     --Amal Naj, PEPPERS
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Trygve Trolling
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 18:41:46 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.193805.15503@advtech.uswest.com> rray@lookout.it.uswc.uswest.com (Randy J. Ray) writes:
>
>As well it shouldn't. Nothing wrong with the guy. And he throws great parties.
>
>By the way, Trygve, when's the next one? Denver's getting a little dull as 
>Summer wanes... maybe I'm just spending too much time indoors...

Well, the next big one is going to be the Halloween party--you'll just have
to show up and see if we can out-do the goings-on last year, when you'll
no doubt remember the antics of the Matching Dom and Sub ensemble with
the Viking belly dancer (you know, I don't know if she ever managed to
get the handcuff keys off the cat-o-nine-tails) and the guy who won the
"most disgusting costume award" last year as "Little Bearded Peep" has
announced his intentions of coming up with something even more awful for
this year.

Trygve 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: graydon@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Graydon)
Subject: Re: Exactly what I mean by "unattached"...
Organization: M.B. Cormier INC.
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 11:10:42 EDT

kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:

> walter (Walter Lego) claims:
> 
> >Women are not born with the knowledge to determine the
> >characteristics that would ensure a long-term relationship (assuming
> >they were inclined to do so) anymore than men being born with a
> >capacity to assure it. 
> 
> Women are not born with much knowledge at all.  But they are born with
> the ability to _think_ and thus to determine what characterisitcs might
> help to maintain a relationship.  Whether they subsequently find these
> characteristics attractive in themselves, or simply want them as free
> bonuses when they select a mate based on some other criteria, is still
> the open question here.
> 
> -- 
> Kiran Wagle                             <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
> P.O.Box 2083 Bloomington IN 47402-2083      (812) 336-7478 [8p-1a EST]

Great Ghu's feathered, flaming testicles diced into the croutons!

Unless you want a relationship with a statistical entity (hah!),
it doesn't matter what <women in the abstract> want; it matters
what the one you want wants.

People can't be abstracted or simplified without losing completeness
of the representation.  Which means that one is to some extent stuck
with dealing with one's guesses about the person, no matter what one
does; for pity's sake, don't make it any harder by trying to filter
a person through a statistical abstration that doesn't apply to
one single person anyway.

Graydon

        Graydon the Curious         /graydon@micor.ocunix.on.ca
  Skraeling Althing, EAldormere, MK / "Nihil est quin obsisti possit"
From: lairdpg@lub001.lamar.edu
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Married Men and Single Women
Date: 12 Aug 92 23:05:20 +1700
Distribution: usa
Organization: Lamar University - Beaumont

In article <l8g5s8INN7j5@news.bbn.com>, dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes:
> In article <l8g5atINN7fu@news.bbn.com> kgorman@BBN.COM (Karen Gorman) writes:
>>
>>Here are three more traits *often* found in married men (in random order):
>>
>>		Broke
>>		henpecked
>>		miserable
> 
> Yeah, but there's also a better chance that he's housebroken and knows
> that dishes need to be WASHED before they're put back in the cupboards.
> 
> Dawn

Dawn, the more I hear from you, the more convinced I am that you just don't
live up to morals.  It is awful to think of such!  <<< SHAME ON YOU!! >>>
Now to think, a single gal chasing a married man???  If you were in his
wifes' shoes, would you mind sharing your husband?  Woudln't you have a few
names for her.... Like W*ore and B*tch and stuff?

SH*T happens, doesn'tit ??????
From: ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Bananas (was Re: Finding Romantic Partners
Date: 19 Aug 92 11:43:50 GMT
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin

In <1992Aug18.162306.6295@mks.com> fredw@mks.com (Fred Walter) writes:

>Bathsheba.Grossman@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bathsheba Grossman) writes:
>>Your words are before thousands of women Right Now, so...let's talk about
>>bananas instead of statistics - we estrogen-brained bubbleheads think
>>they're more fun.

>Testosterone-brained bubbleheads think they're more fun too. A plain banana
>by itself - yum.  Sliced up and put on your breakfast cereal - yum.
>Sliced in half, covered with ice cream, whipped cream, nuts, chocolate sauce,
>strawberry sauce ....  mmmm. In fact there's a Dairy Queen just up the street,
>and it's lunch time :-)

	Try baking a whole banana in the oven with a knob of butter,
some lemon juice and a LOT of brandy. Have it served with whipped
cream and experience ecstacy!:>

    ____________________________________________________________________
    |   Emma Williams            | Dad, I guess you're wondering why   |
    |   ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie    | I'm ringing you..--Calvin & Hobbes  |
    |				 | (eller Steen og Stoffer :-> )       |
    |____________________________|_____________________________________|
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: eleanor@cbnews.cb.att.com (eleanor.j.evans)
Subject: Re: Boink Blues
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:46:19 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.152600.8055@kpc.com> dennisp@kpc.com (Dennis Preston) writes:
>I'm new to this group, but I live in Denver and I'd love to do a boink.
>Preferably in Winter. dennisp@kpc.com


Gee, if I lived in Denver, I'd prefer to do a bunk in the winter.
Preferably to St. Thomas.

Piglet!
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From: swells@triton.unm.edu (Earth-daughter)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,soc.couples,soc.men,soc.women,soc.motss
Subject: Re: BOINK! BOINK! BALLOONBOINK IN ALBUQUERQUE!
Date: 14 Aug 92 22:37:48 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque


i can vouch for mr. larry and mr. ron:  it's really cool, i
am not kidding - even viewing it from other parts of the
city.

and in new mexico, EVERY sunset is a beautiful sunset.

i vote for breakfast at Fred's Bread and Bagel after
liftoff.  home of the Best Danishes I Have Ever Tasted.
and Great Coffee, too.

i think air fare to albuquerque on Southwest airlines
is generally pretty cheap (heh, they let their
steward/esses wear shorts, tell jokes, and they just
give you a coke and some crackers!  definitely a 
no-frills airline, but comfy!).

shannon
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From: rkf@wildrose.infoserv.com (Ray Fink)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,soc.couples,soc.men,soc.women,soc.motss
Subject: Re: BOINK! BOINK! BALLOONBOINK IN ALBUQUERQUE!
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 23:24:20 MDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Wild Rose Refugee Camp

johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:

> I can just see Ron and Larry meeting people at the airport...
> 
> "Welcome to Albuquerque, here`s your banana."

I've seen pictures from prior Balloon Festivals...some of the balloons
are not just traditional hot-air-balloon-shaped, I've seen dinosaurs,
Tony the Tiger, the Planters "Mr. Peanut", etc.

I was wondering if there will be one shaped like a banana.

-- Ray 

write root
help!! how do i cancel a news posting? (o)
hello? are you there (o)
(o-o)
^D								:-)

-- Ray

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart)
Subject: Re: Exactly what I mean by "unattached"...
Organization: my opinions only
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 00:31:25 GMT

In article <mm_n2w#.aahz@netcom.com> aahz@netcom.com (Aahzmandius)
writes:

>Well, yes, I know you know that, but you might try educating people
>instead of simply flaming.  "Give a man a fish, and he has a meal.
>Teach the man to fish, and he has dinner for life."

Teach him to fish without flaming, and he can eat sushi.

Seth		sethb@fid.morgan.com
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: dbj@cs.washington.edu (Dave Johnson)
Subject: Re: Finding Romantic Partners (on the net)
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 21:00:22 GMT

In article <14204@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
>In article <BtCCzo.1B8@iat.holonet.net> cocoa@iat.holonet.net (little 'e') writes:
>
>>And for those women who've been wondering if Kenn Barry is as cool as he
>>sounds/writes, well, he is.
> 
>I met Kenn and little e'.  Both of you are cool.
>

Mush.  Gurgle.  Aack.  Gag.

The Reverend James will now lead us in a song, as we all
hold hands: "We are the world, we are the putrid...."

Well I met Angelthing, and she's every bit the pain in the
butt you would guess from reading the net.  So there.
-- 
  Dave Johnson

"You're not too smart, are you?  I like that in a man."
    --Kathleen Turner in Body Heat
From: blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Trash pickup
Date: 20 Aug 92 02:28:09 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

>>>I didn't even know she was
>>>abnormal until I found out that she used to acquire half of her
>>>household goods from the garbage cans. 
>>Wait a minute -- why do you say that's abnormal?  Is there something I
>>haven't been told?  (Why are you looking at me that way?)
>Dawn:  she's lovely, talented, and cheap to feed.

Dawn is a raccoon?
r.
(gee, and I thought those rings were from lack of sleep... :)
From: kgorman@star-trek.bbn.com (Karen Gorman)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: men in their thirties who never dated
Date: 19 Aug 1992 13:36:44 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
Reply-To: kgorman@BBN.COM (Karen Gorman)
NNTP-Posting-Host: archive.bbn.com



In article <m70mw6l.barry@netcom.com> barry@netcom.com (Kenn Barry) writes:
>In article <92231.39304.6069870@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM> 6069870@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM writes:
>>RE: men in thirty something groups ***
>>
>>is it possible that they are just shy?
>
>	Yep.
>
>>is it possible that they do not have the gift of gab?
>
>	Yep.
>
>>is it possible that most women now days expect too much from a man?
>
>	Could be.
>
>>what is your conclusion?
>
>	I wanna be a woman next time around.





Why wait until next time around?  There is a surgical operation
(SRS Sexual Reassignment Surgery) that can accomplish it in this
lifetime for you.


Never say never. :-)





Karen

Kg@bbn.com
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Re: FINNS - They all look alike
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 13:28:41 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.173400.25024@mits.mdata.fi> jjj@mits.mdata.fi (Joni Jarvenkyla) writes:
>
>Liar!
>
>A typical Finnish woman is at least 30% overweigh unhygienic square head
>who only wonders about the polar bear fur fashion of next winter.
>Usually encountered in supermarkets with curlers in their hair, buying
>overpriced "young beauty" sellulite gels and reduced price household
>sausage.
>
>As there's nothing much to do here in the evenings they usually read
>wise saying from the Bible and sing folk songs.
>
>Trust me. I had one for a girlfriend. I didn't even know she was
>abnormal until I found out that she used to acquire half of her
>household goods from the garbage cans. Always wondered where she went
>at 4 am.
>

Does she have a sister?
 
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================================================================================
From: taina@cs.Helsinki.FI (Juha Taina)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Exactly what I mean by "unattached"...
Date: 14 Aug 92 13:23:50 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki, Finland

In <1992Aug13.233624.8543@cbnews.cb.att.com> eleanor@cbnews.cb.att.com (eleanor.j.evans) writes:

>In article <1992Aug13.193255.29765@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
>>
>>Yep, it's gotta be the language--must make it especially tough to date
>>a Scot.
>>
>>Trygve   (To say nothing about ordering in a German pancake restaurant.) 


>Oh, I don't know--dating a Scot was particularly enjoyable, as I
>recall.  Meow!  Now, if only I could find a Cajun in this neck of
>the woods.

What about dating a Scot when both of you use a language that sounds
like rattling in a roof?

Juha
-- 
Juha Taina | taina@cs.helsinki.fi | Phone: +358-0-708-4247
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford)
Subject: Re: Why Sex ?
Organization: Bill & Ted University.  Founded 2425.
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 03:58:41 GMT

(I would send this through email if the previous article had any
semblance of a return address in it!)

Michael Friedman, go find out what the word "clone" means before you
spout the junior science noises.

From: dpengra@hpmwtd.sr.hp.com (Dan Pengra)
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 22:10:05 GMT
Subject: Re: 'E' Tickets
Organization: HP Santa Rosa Site (NMD MTA MWTD)
Newsgroups: soc.singles

When Disneyland opened in the mid 50's the rides took different tickets
according to the desirability, excitement, and duration of the ride.
Dull rides like the Main St Trolley took an "A" Ticket, more exciting
rides like the Matterhorn took an "E" ticket. 

Tickets were sold in a book which included admission and if I remember
right about 10-15 tickets of different denominations: more A's, fewer
B's, etc.

Somewhere, in some obscure scrapbook in my parents attic I have an A
ticket. No kid would ever leave Disneyland 'til all the E tickets were
used up.
From: swann@acsu.buffalo.edu (Stephen Swann)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: REQUEST:  TOP 20 WAYS TO ASK A FRESHMAN GIRL OUT
Date: 21 Aug 92 19:14:16 GMT
Organization: UB

In article <14170@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
>In article <9208201553.AA05923@moe.optics.rochester.edu> ng@MOE.OPTICS.ROCHESTER.EDU (Baldwin Ng) writes:
>
>>However, you are right that women don't like guys that just want sex.
> 
>Unless she's a hooker.

Unless she just wants sex.

-- 
Steve Swann                 |    Speak to me in many voices; make
swann@acsu.buffalo.edu      |      them all sound like one...  -BOC
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: dbj@cs.washington.edu (Dave Johnson)
Subject: Re: Exactly what I mean by "unattached"...
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 16:58:48 GMT

In article <kiran.714230250@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
>dbj@cs.washington.edu (Dave Johnson) writes about dating expenses:
> 
>>Bullshit.  Almost every women I've dated in the last ten years has
>>offered (if not insisted) on paying her share, either by splitting
> 
>Yes, but.  
>
>In this case, the but is the notion that perhaps they do not _want_ to
>pay, and hope their offer will be refused. 

Note the parenthetical comment--several women INSISTED on paying,
even after I had said I would, or that no, they didn't have to pay.
Additionally, I've heard women describe guys as jerks (!) because
the guys insisted on paying even though the women had said they
wanted to pay half.
-- 
  Dave Johnson

"You're not too smart, are you?  I like that in a man."
    --Kathleen Turner in Body Heat
From: kgorman@star-trek.bbn.com (Karen Gorman)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Various ramblings...
Date: 18 Aug 92 18:55:31 GMT
Reply-To: kgorman@BBN.COM (Karen Gorman)
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: archive.bbn.com


In article <1992Aug16.185828.14804@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.IBM.com writes:
>In  <Bt33pt.80p@acsu.buffalo.edu>  swann@acsu.buffalo.edu (Stephen Swann) writes:
>>
>> [And yeah, a couple of drinks does cushion the blow a bit
>
>That's why alcohol and sex don't mix!  :-)


Did Mr. Happy tell you that?

And you said he doesn't talk :-/.  You really need to make him scream
once in a while ;-) to keep him really happy!

Karen
From: bart@muppet.bt.co.uk (Tim)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Boink Blues
Date: 12 Aug 92 15:38:37 GMT
Reply-To: bart@muppet.bt.co.uk
Organization: British Telecom

>
>For the 'boink impared' I quote from a posting: 
>
>	BOINK = soc.singles gathering where people, who've read and/or
>	^^^^^	post to soc.singles <from the hyper-active ala Larry Margolis
>		to your garden-variety lurker types>, congregate for a weekend
>		to meet and enjoy the company of other people from the
>		newsgroup.
>
 Do these ever happen beoynd the american continent ? (sorry canadians, that 
means you too).
	I guess not, seeing as there's only about 10 people not in that
criteria :-) 

And about half of the remainder are in Finland - too cold for me !

---
The harvest of life, the harvest of death	<-- bart@muppet.bt.co.uk -->
Resumes it's course each day			<--     Tim Fulcher      -->
It comes as if by schedule			<--  tel : 0473 648220   -->	
The harvester lives, with arms that are bent	
And toes that cross, and knees that jerk	<-- British Telecom Labs -->
And necks like swans that seem to turn
As if inclined to gasp for breath...	- Quicklime Girl - , BOC
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