HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: lynx@terapin.com (Debbie Caraway)
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
Subject: Re: I shoulda just done it...
Date: 31 Dec 92 11:17:28 PST
Organization: BBS

In article <85992@ut-emx.uucp>, miles@emx.cc.utexas.edu (Miles Abernathy)
writes:
>I think we are talking about one of the most debilitating syndromes in
>the world...shyness. Sooo many good opportunities for love, prosperity
>and happiness are lost due to reticence.
>
>Fortunately, speaking as a reformed shy person myself, I can verify that
>it is treatable. There are helpful books at the library. Good luck.


***

I don't think it's something that needs to be treated.  That implies that
there's something wrong.  Sometimes shyness protects people from situations
that they are not ready for.  Some people find shyness cute and attractive. 
Different people grow at different times with different things; that's okay. 
If a baby isn't ready to walk yet, it doesn't mean in most cases that anything
needs to be treated.  I don't know if what is being described here is shyness
as much aslearning to communicate with the opposite sex when you're temporarily
distravted in stun mode and thinking later, I could have said .... It makes
life a set of exciting adventures.  Don't get on your case for it, just enjoy
the posibilities and be honest with yourself and others.  Some works of art
take time ;)
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: New year, old memories..
X-To: ALL
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 02:33:00 GMT

    The smell of fresh vomit..
    The new year is here..


    Actually, the vomit isn't from alcohol.  My parents invited some
families over, and one of the kids just threw up by my computer.  Great.
And I have to sleep down here tonight..


    I called up one of my friends today.

    "So, what are you doing tonight?"
    "Ohh... Partying."
    "Really."
    "Yeah.  I'm going to 6 house parties, and then to Nathan Philip's
Square."
    "Oh.  Have fun."
    "What are you doing?"
    "Staying at home and being a loser."
    "Oh.."

    I think last year was the first year I actually went out and did
something, and I probly wouldn't have even done that unless my friends came
by and picked me up.

    Ever notice how vomit is sorta like a surapy (sp?) substance?  I guess
it's because of all that acid breaking down the food.  Just thought I'd
point that out.


    I don't think I'll even stay up till the new year tonight.  I need to
get some sleep for tomorow.  Skiing time, hopefully.  If I'm over this cold,
I'll go.

    Bleh.  This smell is rotting out my nose...

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Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: sjk6119@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Sgt. Kleper)
Subject: Re: New year, old memories..
Reply-To: sjk6119@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 05:36:34 GMT

When it's 2 degrees and you're stuck outside with frostbite, snow
kinda loses something.
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Spew
X-To: ALL
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 01:16:00 GMT

    You know.. those days..

    Those days where you wake up, and you don't know why you're alive
because you have nothing to look forward to and nothing to do, except
homework.. and more homework... and essay's... and reading books....
    And you get all depressed, although you shouldn't be.  I mean, it's just
schoolwork.  If you got it done, it would be over with, right?  Nevermind
that it would take two days work and you only have.. uh.. 4 days left of the
holidays - two of which are going to be spent on the slopes.
    And you realize that you've spent your whole fuckin holidays on the
computer, and you haven't once gone out and partied or seen any of your
friends.

    Well, today was a break from the usual.  I went and saw a movie.

    TOYS!

    Neat movie - 30 minutes of shitty camerawork


    I called my ex-girlfriend to see if she could go since I hadn't done
something with her in a while, but she wasn't home.  Then I phoned up my
friend, and he wasn't home either.  So I went and saw it with my family with
no breakfast or lunch.  I had an A&W hamberger on an empty stomach, and I
nearly threw up.  It's like having a chocalate bar or beer first thing in the
morning.  It just hits you.

    So.  That was today, I guess.  It's 8:30, and I still feel like crap.  I
still have to read 1984 and Catcher In The Rye.  Damn.  uhhh....

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Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Bleh
X-To: ALL
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 23:03:00 GMT

    Homework time.


    "7. For each parabola state:
        i) coordinates of vertex;   ii) axis of symmetry;
      iii) direction of opening;    iv) y-intercept."



    What?

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Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: I shoulda just done it...
X-To: DEBBIE CARAWAY
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:50:00 GMT

From lynx@terapin.com (Debbie Caraway)
>Andrew, dear lad, I'm sure there is some local BBS where if ya made a post you
>could get her number, address and how many pets if ya wanted.

    Nah.  I can't be bothered.  That's the trouble.

>You could always stare at her feet and then look at her and say, "Well, if ya
>ever need your shoe rescued again, or any other article of clothing, I'd be
>happy to help.  So, does this kinda thing happen to ya often?"

    Hey.... That's an idea... hmmm...

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Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: READ THIS!!!
X-To: SGT. KLEPER
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 01:08:00 GMT

From sjk6119@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Sgt. Kleper)
>Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org> writes:
>>I don't think that we have
>enough interesting people here.
>
>We may not have a lot of people, but the ones who are here are
>definitely pretty interesting. How about that kid who runs his
>own computer consulting firm?

    Yeah.  He seems pretty interesting.


    But, I'm into scocializing.  That, and poor spelling. (A small
trademark)  Not talking about comptuers, or trying to find a job.  Just
talking about what you did that day.  What's on your mind.  Who's the
girl/guy of the week.  Y'know.

    Although, to some, talking about comptuers all day makes for an
interesting person.


    But, we need more people here.  We need more posts.  My posts tend to be
about my life/hell, so I don't know if their suited to this group.  I've
made my home in one piticular conference on another network.   I could
cross-post some, if there is some interest.  Just some things to read.

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Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: sjk6119@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Sgt. Kleper)
Subject: Re: Bleh
Reply-To: sjk6119@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 04:42:48 GMT

Oh God, we're doing that shit too! Wait to you get to hyperbolas!
They're a real pain in the ass. Ellipses are cool though, and 
circles can be your friends. Also, I never me a conic section I
didn't like unless it had more than one asymptote. Don't ask...
It's late and I'm very confused. There's not school tomorrow -
I'm in denial.

-Scott J. Kleper
"Sgt. kleper"   - like Sgt. Pepper, you know the Beatles? Get it?
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: READ THIS!!!
X-To: BRIDGET INGHAM
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 23:43:00 GMT

From biddy@ping.actrix.gen.nz (Bridget Ingham)
>    I saw this map of the world and it was upside-down. It had some words sayin
>
>    "NEW ZEALAND - NO LONGER DOWN UNDER"
>
>    So what about that, then??????

    Sounds messed.

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Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: sjk6119@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Sgt. Kleper)
Subject: Re: READ THIS!!!
Reply-To: sjk6119@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 16:30:20 GMT

Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org> writes:
>I don't think that we have
enough interesting people here.    

We may not have a lot of people, but the ones who are here are
definitely pretty interesting. How about that kid who runs his
own computer consulting firm? 

Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: READ THIS!!!
X-To: GABE.P.TOROK
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 03:33:00 GMT

From gpt@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (gabe.p.torok)
>        How many people are in this newsgroup???
>Please respond-I really want to know.  Thanks!

    I do.  This group is very dead, actually.  I don't think that we have
enough interesting people here.

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From: U56597@uicvm.uic.edu
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
Subject: Hi!
Date: 31 Dec 92 15:30:46 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago

My name is Adrianne Armour and I'm a 16-year-old high school junior in Chicago
Illinois.  I'm using my sister's university account to write this.  :)  My
musical interests are Metallica, Guns-N-Roses (isn't Axl *cute*?), Slaughter
and Extreme (I really liked "More Than Words"  on their Pornograffitti album).
I'm also a Nintendohead.  :)  I sometimes volunteer at the hospital and at an
AIDS support group for women and children.  I'm a really active person but I'm
just giving you a hint of myself because:  a)  I don't want to wear your
eyeballs out with a letter all about me.  b)  If I told everything in this
letter, we wouldn't have anything to talk about in our future letters.  :)

Wanna write me?  I'll write back (I promise).  Here's my address:


                Ms. Adrianne Armour
                10147 S. St. Lawrence Ave.
                Chicago IL 60628


P.S.  People who love Trolls are more than welcome to write!
From: xbaquero@ecnet.ec
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
Subject: Hi from South America
Date: 3 Jan 1993 02:21:21 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu



Hi everybody!!!

My name is Alegria and I'm from Quito - Ecuador in South America.
I have 15 years old and I'm in 9th grade.
I'm not very tall, I have light brown hair and black eyes.
I like to watch TV a lot (who doesn't), and I love to play Nintendo.
I have piano clases since I was 7, and I ride horses after school too, 
I really love horses and I hope my dad would buy me one when I learn to 
jump well in the shool horse.
I just read all the messages in the news group. I'm using my dad's Internet
account.
I will soon have my own account, because there will be Internet access
for kids here in Ecuador.
Here we have had a very hot Christmas. Last year I felt the cold snow melting
in my hands, because I spent Christmas with my older brother Xavier in New
York.

It's four o'clock in the morning and I'm still awake, can you believe that!!!

Write back!  

bye "amigos"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


                  Alegria
From: lynx@terapin.com (Debbie Caraway)
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
Subject: E-mail lost
Date: 30 Dec 92 08:59:04 GMT
Organization: BBS

I just wanted to say that a couple of weeks ago the BBS here deleted my saved
net e-mail.  There were some people I never had a chance to contact.  So, if
you sent me e-mail and I never returned a reply or contacted you, please drop
me another note.  Thanks.
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: I shoulda just done it...
X-To: ALL
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 05:33:00 GMT

    Grr.

    There's this girl at school who has brown hair and brown eyes.  Really
cute.  Really slim.
    About a month ago she bounced up to me and started talking to me.
Really friendly.  Just out of the blue.  She wanted me to get her shoe out
of the boy's washroom (One of her friends, I guess, tossed it in.).  So I
went in, and I flushed a toilet.  I waited.  I could hear her asking her
friend what I was doing, but like she knew.  After a bit, I came out and
lobbed the shoe to her.  She went on this big thank-you trip, and as I was
walking back to class (That's right.  The famous "washroom break".) she
added "By the way;  My name's Marsha.", and I replied "Hi.  I'm Andrew." and
then walked off.



    Boy.  That was dumb.


    I should have stayed and talked a bit.  Screw the teacher.  I'd get a
better one out here.  I had actually had my eye on her for a bit.  Not
anythying serious though.  Just considering.  Thinking.
    And then, Pop.  She just comes out and starts talking to me.  And I
screwed it up!  I could have talked with her more!  I could have developed
this relationship into something beyond just the duty of a Shoe Saver!  I
could have been a knight in shining armour!
    But nooOOOOooo..  I just had to walk away and fuck my chance up!

    Oh well.  Not the end of the world.

    I decided that I would talk to her the next day, but it turns out that
the next few weeks were going to be difficult in the way of that.  She's
always with her friends.  I dunno.  It's wierd when you walk up to a group
of people and just start talking to one person.  You get that whole group
involved, like it or not.  I guess it's fear of gossip.

    Then the week before the holidays.  I gotta get her number.. I gotta get
her number....

    But, I never did.  I didn't see her much the last week, since I was busy
with all the shows and things going on.  I should have just gone up and
talked to her.  I just......


    Bah.  Holidays are never fun for me.  Too much regret.

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Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: sjk6119@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Sgt. Kleper)
Subject: Re: I shoulda just done it...
Reply-To: sjk6119@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 21:19:22 GMT

Well, I could always get a friend to throw her shoe in the
guy's bathroom so that I could be a hero and....just kidding.

-Scott
From: apb.4819@nd.edu (voluptua love)
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
Subject: Re: READ THIS!!!
Date: 27 Dec 92 04:41:55 GMT
Distribution: alt.kids-talk
Organization: University of Notre Dame

In article <1992Dec26.014949.5754@zooid.guild.org> Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org> writes:
>From: Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org>
>Subject: Re: READ THIS!!!
>Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 01:08:00 GMT

>From sjk6119@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Sgt. Kleper)
>>Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org> writes:
>>>I don't think that we have
>>enough interesting people here.
>>
>>We may not have a lot of people, but the ones who are here are
>>definitely pretty interesting. How about that kid who runs his
>>own computer consulting firm?

>    Yeah.  He seems pretty interesting.


>    But, I'm into scocializing.  That, and poor spelling. (A small
>trademark)  Not talking about comptuers, or trying to find a job.  Just
>talking about what you did that day.  What's on your mind.  Who's the
>girl/guy of the week.  Y'know.

>    Although, to some, talking about comptuers all day makes for an
>interesting person.


>    But, we need more people here.  We need more posts.  My posts tend to be
>about my life/hell, so I don't know if their suited to this group.  I've
>made my home in one piticular conference on another network.   I could
>cross-post some, if there is some interest.  Just some things to read.

>---
>    .sig's are neat,                   | Andrew McCallum
>    .sig's are fun,                     \ andrewm@zooid.guild.org
>    .sig's tell where to flame someone.  |andrewm@terranet.cts.com




any group with a 15 year old girl in it has some hope.
after all i was once 15 and look at me now...
my name is no misnomer... and i am no geek...

what you and i need to do... and lord knows i'm ready...
is to let our inmost feelings out, show who and what
we are... and people will flood into this group...
we are as real as they are, and if they get the news
no telling what we'll end up replicating.

that girl could have denied her age and sex--
"hi... i'm some anonymous faceless being you'll
never see, with no characteristics... let's talk!"

but she didn't... and the rest is history,
history now deeply imbedded in your fantasy world.
it's up to you to make that world more real...

and while you mull this over,

remember me, little me, who wants so so badly
to be yours forever and forever,
to give you and you alone all she has...

*voluptua love*
 
------------------------------------------
voluptua love
University of Notre Dame
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: I'm free!
X-To: SGT. KLEPER
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 02:22:00 GMT

From sjk6119@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Sgt. Kleper)
>Maybe you got your cold from Andrew. A computer virus? Runtime
>bug? Sorry, don't mind me - had to say it.

    No problem.  Just spew.

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Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Somebody
X-To: ALL
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 23:04:00 GMT

    Ever notice that everybody has a little story to tell about "Somebody"
by Depeche Mode?  It's just one of those songs...

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From: cornpop@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Natas)
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
Subject: Re: How can teen make money
Date: 28 Dec 92 07:28:09 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
NNTP-Posting-Host: glia.biostr.washington.edu

In <1992Dec22.055257.12314@pegasus.com> tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan) writes:

>sjk6119@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:

>>Maybe you forgot what it's like to be a kid, or maybe you just 
>>don't understand the situation.

>Scott: I think you're misinterpreting my reason for writing and I
>don't want "to flame" you at all.  I also have not forgotten what
>it is like to be a kid... I will suggest that you don't know what
>it is like to be "an adult" (not a flame) just relax the system
>doesn't get any easier.

>You didn't say so, but if you imagine that things just get easier as
>you get older you're in for a shock.  It gets worse, if you don't
>have a job when you're an adult you (and your kids) are on the
>street.  You don't get to choose the computer store you want to
>work at.

>We can wrap it up for now since that last thing I intended to do was
>upset you.

>Your volunteer work and your advanced studies are admirable, as I posted
>in the original reply, talent alone is not the reason that one person
>gets hired over another.  I can surely sell a game in a computer store
>but I can also program an application in C.  The reason that I most
>likely wouldn't get the job at a computer store (regardless of what
>amount of money I was willing to work for) is the manager would see
>that I was ill-suited.  Too much talent for the job, clearly I would
>quit as soon as something more closely related to my real talents
>showed up.

>I was fired from a computer store and felt badly but immediately started
>my own consulting firm... that was in 1981.  Maybe working in a computer
>store isn't the best use of your talents, you may have been done a favor
>and just don't realize it yet.

>tom

That's exactly awhat I did.  Well, almost.  I never started out at a 
computer store.  I never got fired.  I just started out straight with
the consulting firm.  I also do systems design, and if you know how,
and you're good at what you do, it shouldn't matter how opd you are.

I am 14.  I just picked up a systems design job setting up a point-of-sale
system for a guy's company.  Just go out and talk to people.  Let them
know how much you really know.  That'll get you in.

Here's what I did.  I made business cards.  I made letterheads.  That's
all you need.  Then go out and talk to people.  Do a few jobs for free
then get your word-of-mouth advertising going, then start charging.  I 
charge $50 and hour, and I think that very reasonable, since I have friends
in the computer industry who charge $300-1000 an hour.

Dan Lieberman
DBL Computing
(206)364-7776
cornpop@glia.biostr.washington.edu

Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: New year, old memories..
X-To: JOHN C. BARTHELMES
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 23:50:00 GMT

From jcbarthe@rodan.acs.syr.edu (John C. Barthelmes)
>I always thought it looked more like chunky chicken soup... but thats
>just my opinion...

    Hey yeah.  It does look like chunky soup.


    FORK?  SPOON?  TOWEL?  BUCKET?  SPONGE?  aww fuckit...

>Its FINALLY snowing here! Its been raining for the last 4 days. We even
>had a GREEN Christmas. So Im quite excited about this snow stuff.

    Yeah.  Snow's nice, and profitable.

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Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: READ THIS!!!
X-To: BRIDGET INGHAM
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 01:06:00 GMT

From biddy@ping.actrix.gen.nz (Bridget Ingham)
>> From gpt@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (gabe.p.torok)
>> >        How many people are in this newsgroup???
>> >Please respond-I really want to know.  Thanks!
>>
>>     I do.  This group is very dead, actually.  I don't think that we have
>> enough interesting people here.
>
>You wanna know some interesting people? Look at me!!!!!

    Can't.  Present yourself.

>    Lower Hutt,  New Zealand

    Zealand, eh?  Funkey.

                                                  Andrew

Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: gpt@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (gabe.p.torok)
Subject: READ THIS!!!
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 21:42:13 GMT

	How many people are in this newsgroup???
Please respond-I really want to know.  Thanks!
			Aliza

Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: I shoulda just done it...
X-To: JARED QUINN
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 20:17:00 GMT

From jarqui@scorch.apana.org.au (Jared Quinn)
>We  think  thier
>wrong...

    Yeah, but you would though.  So would I, at that age.  There are,
however, a select few that can.  Maybe you've gotten one of them.

    I've found for the most part, younger girls arn't up to having a
relationship with older guys.  (ie: 16 and 14)

    That may just have been the people I've gone out with, but it seems to
be true for the most part.

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