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From: dswt@bnr.co.uk (Stewart Tansley)
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: Re: Princess Bride ... AGAIN!
Date: 26 Jan 93 13:39:35 GMT
Organization: BNR Europe Ltd, London Road, Harlow, England.
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The Princess Bride is still not very good IMHO, but me and my email
supporters (both ;-)) are obviously out-voted here.

However, A Room With a View is on UK TV tonight (Channel 4) and this is
*much* more like it! (Even if the girl does dump on the Nice Guy for the
jerk, <sigh>.)

Helena Bonham-Carter -- now *there's* my sort of lady! (In character, at
least! Oh, and looks, of course :-))

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From: apdolan@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (dolan andrew)
Subject: INTERRACIAL ROMANCE
Summary: INTERRACIAL ROMANCE
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 02:17:26 GMT
Keywords: INTERRACIAL ROMANCE

All of my romances in recent years have
been with black women(I'm white).
I heard earlier today about an old book
"Marriage across the color line", 1965,
by Larsson that tells some interesting
stories about how some interracial couples
first met and how some had to do strange
things to keep seeing each other. For example,
imagine being a mixed couple in the South
thirty years ago. 

A woman who has been in interracial relationships
told me today that it was interesting that I met
black women mainly in places close to home, but that's
where I spend most of my time. I am interested in
hearing about any similar stories, books,or other
items with any interracial tie-in. Contact
me at apdolan@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu   Does
anyone think that this topic m ight merit a 
board of its own? You can also post on this board if you wish.
with comments and answers. If I hear of any more
interesting books or articles I'll post them as well.

.

Newsgroups: alt.romance
From: johnwu@netcom.com (John M. Wu)
Subject: Re: Love Vs. Dependency
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 07:39:45 GMT

In article <1jt9j2$khm@agate.berkeley.edu> bhchan@soda.berkeley.edu (Billy H. Chan) writes:
>In article <oneil.727766864@cwis> oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu (Sharon O'Neil) writes:
>[good book description]
>>
> >It's called "The Road Less Traveled."  Actually, it's one in the series and
> >this particular book is called "A New Psychology of Love, Traditional
> >Values and Spiritual Growth."  The title makes it sound more religious than
> >it really is.  It does hit upon religion, but it isn't heavy handed and if
> >I, as a spiritual agnostic, can deal with it, it's not too bad.
>
>[more good reviews for the book]
> >Sharon
> >oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu
>
>Err... slight technicality, Sharon...can you give us the author? :)
>THanks :)
>-Billy

Author: M. Scott Peck

I read this book after my high school graduation (& failed high school
romances) and I must say it has changed my views about love, romance,
and made me strive to be more independent.  I'm also an agnostic and I was
able, with just a bit of difficulty, to swallow it.  Of course, if you are
more religious than I am, then you are in for a bigger treat.  

And the best part (at least for me) was that I picked it up for $0.10 at
a public library sale!  Best dime I've ever spent.

-- 
John M. Wu                "And if a double decker bus, crashes into us
johnwu@netcom.com          to die by your side, is such a heavenly way to die"
jmw@ocf.berkeley.edu         - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
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From: dmcdowel@Nimitz.mcs.kent.edu (Duane McDowell)
Subject: Valentines list.... 
Reply-To: dmcdowel@mcs.kent.edu
Organization: Kent State University CS
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:30:15 GMT

Someone posted  a message a couple of weeks ago... about being single
and wanting to send valentines to others that are single.. I'd like to
have the address of the person colecting the a names.. Does anybody
know her e-mail address. 
	
					Thanks in advance,
					 Duane McDowell

					 dmcdowel@mcs.kent.edu
From: cvaba532@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: younger & more experienced man
Date: 21 Jan 93 10:05:56 GMT
Organization: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Nntp-Posting-User: cvaba532

this is my first contribution to this newsgroup

i feel that i am in a dilema...i met this guy thru
a BBS that i phone into..he is the sysop..we talked
met..etc....he kissed me the other day but it was 
a fiasco...i am older than him by 6 years...i just 
turned 26 and he will be turning 20 next month
when we are talking...age isnt a big deal..but when 
i think about it....it makes me wonder

i am not very experienced and he is a bit more 
experienced than i.  oh well...i think after the 
'kiss' fiasco, that might be it

is age a problem? is experience or lack thereof a big deal?
From: dswt@bnr.co.uk (Stewart Tansley)
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: Re: Girls can be confusing...
Date: 26 Jan 93 13:51:27 GMT
Organization: BNR Europe Ltd, London Road, Harlow, England.
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.199.202.54

In article <93022.090308MC90SANU@MIAMIU.BITNET> Donny <MC90SANU@MIAMIU.BITNET> writes:
>Hm, girls never cease to amaze me with their head-spinning tactics.
>Although, sometimes I'm not sure that they do it purposely.
>Maybe I am way off base here... but, let me explain.

[Explanation deleted as it's so damn familiar to everyone]

Matt,

Basically, in Jane you have met an example of the all-too-common "Type Of 
Woman To Avoid At All Costs". These are an extraordinarily large class of
individuals, characterised in the sub-species you have come across by (a)
being female and (b) wanting fun all the time and (c) not wanting to
commit to a relationship.

If *you* want a relationship that is. And it is clear from your post that
you do. This is the wrong woman for you Matt. You're only going to upset
yourself and probably make a damn fool of yourself to boot if you pursue
this.

But you'll do it anyway I guess. It's what happens to all of us. :-(
Men are so feeble when it comes to controlling themselves WRT women.

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From: rtousi@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: Advice please!!
Date: 25 Jan 93 21:06:27 -0400
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Hi
   Is it right to try and steal a girl from a boyfriend who is making her
life miserable by his neglect, even though she still loves him. But she openly
admitts he's making her life Hell.
Newsgroups: alt.romance
From: petitc@nuge115.its.rpi.edu (Christopher Jon Petit)
Subject: Re: Dating survey RESULTS
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:27:18 GMT

eomiya@borland.com (Elliot Omiya) writes:

>I don't have your data, so I can't be definitive but I would imagine that
>the reason the median age for getting married is so low (and way below
>the national average) is because many many colleges and universities are
>members of the internet and those that are married and still in college
>skewed the results.

  Hmmmm.  If you know more accurate information WRT marriage age and so on,
could you please post it here.

-- 
"Protect endangered species!  Contribute to the Exxon Supporter's Fund!"
"Pay no attention to that little man behind the keyboard."
"If you want to look for fish, best not to look in desert."
"The greatest beauty in the world is beauty that is private."
From: pezzillo@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Amy J. Pezzillo)
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: Re: wedding gift for my betrothed???
Date: 28 Jan 93 05:52:35 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <1993Jan26.154917.22887@walter.cray.com> laser@buckwheat.cray.com (Catherine Hartman  {68387 CF/DEV}) writes:
>
>
>Do any of you wonderfully romantic people have any ideas of what I 
>could give to my incredibly NON-sappy fiance as a wedding gift?
>
>Any ideas would be appreciated immensely.
>
>
Well, for my boyfriend's college graduation last year I got him a
pocketwatch.  It's very different -- most men don't have them, but
they're sort of coming back into vogue.  (at least among my friends --
after I got him his, lots of men started recieving them as gifts!)  He
really liked it because it's sort of a traditional thing -- he likes
the idea of pulling it out to show his grandchildren someday.  Also,
pocket watches lend themselves to engraving, so you could have
something written on it about your wedding.  (Or just his initials, if
he's *that* non-sappy.)

Most jewelry stores stock at least a few.  I got his at a store that
specialized in watches.  It and the chain are gold-plated, and
together were just under $100.  They run from about $50 up, depending
on the quality of watch and how much gold is in it.  (Obviously, solid
gold watches are prohibitively expensive!)

Good luck!



   ***********************************************************************
   *                                *                                    *
   *  Amy J. Pezzillo               * "I myself have never been able to  *
   *  pezzillo@eniac.seas.upenn.edu *  find out precisely what feminism  *
   *                                *  is:  I only know that people call *
   *                                *  me a feminist whenever I express  *
   *                                *  sentiments that differentiate me  *
   *                                *  from a doormat."                  *
   *                                *                 --Rebecca West     * 
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From: petitc@nuge112.its.rpi.edu (Christopher Jon Petit)
Subject: Re: topics to avoid on first date
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:26:22 GMT

ga@mrih.no (Gard Abrahamsen) writes:

>Jeremy Friesner (cs64wag@sdcc8.ucsd.edu) wrote:
>> In article <1jv0imINNf5h@gap.caltech.edu> peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
>>  >>>Please feel free to add onto this list, in which I will only begin to
>>  >>>uncover the dos and do nots of beginning a new romance.
>>  >
>>  >>A: TOPICS NEVER TO DISCUSS ON A FIRST DATE
>>  >>
>>  >>       1. Reoccuring Skin Inflammations
>>  >>       2. Ethnic Jokes
>>  >>       3. Satanism
>>  >>       4. X-Significant Others
>>  >>       5. Super bizarre sexual fantasies or problems
>>  >	 6. Bad credit
>> 	 7. Why C is better than Pascal
>>	8. The bug you can't find in that programme.
       9. Your plans for world domination.
      10. Your recent sex change operation.
-- 
"Protect endangered species!  Contribute to the Exxon Supporter's Fund!"
"Pay no attention to that little man behind the keyboard."
"If you want to look for fish, best not to look in desert."
"The greatest beauty in the world is beauty that is private."
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
From: catbutt@nmt.edu (Matthew Goolsby)
Subject: Re: Dial a Song number
Keywords: "We have our own song, and we wanna record it."  
Organization: New Mexico Tech
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 16:37:56 GMT

In article <1993Jan19.022227.21444@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> peb2g@fulton.seas.Virginia.EDU (Penny E. Breyer) writes:
>Being that I only own the Flood and Apollo 18 CD's, and
>have taped copies of TMBG and Lincoln, could some kind soul
>send me the *real* Dial-A-Song phone number?  It isn't in the
>FAQ (I looked) and the one on Apollo 18's sleeve is rumored
>to be wrong.  I feel like I am one of the great unwashed, 
>having never actually dialed Dial-A-Song.  But rumor has it,
>it's free if you call from work!  A definite bonus!
Imagine this being said by James Earl Jones with plenty of reverb:

"The they MIGHT BE giants Dial-A-Song is area code(718)387-6962.

					Catbutt
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
Subject: Re: Recommended groups
From: bcimmet@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Date: 25 Jan 93 00:05:14 EST
Organization: Wesleyan University

In article <1jv1fjINN63f@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>, praxis@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Laura L Perkinson) writes:
> 	I mean, I love TMBG, but my taste is music otherwise bears no
> similarities to their style. (Top artists: Concrete Blonde, Talking Heads,
> Midnight Oil, Paul Simon...)

	I think a love for TMBG is a psychological thing. It's not something
that you can say, "I like TMBG, so I should like this and this and this." It's
more that the way that certain people think allow them to appreciate TMBG.
True, they're different from anything else on the market, but your common
tastes aren't surprising (esp. Talking Heads).

				- Brian "Skittles" Cimmet
				  BCIMMET@EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU

"Four years and seven score ago I deleted my NEWS.SIGNATURE. Today I made a new
one. Progress is a remarkable thing, Phyllis."

		- K. McQuillan
From: toj8j@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (prufrock)
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
Subject: Re: Did someone say cascade?....
Date: 22 Jan 93 04:39:30 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Virginia

In article <1993Jan22.014253.7937@zip.eecs.umich.edu> jirwin@emunix.emich.edu (Jane Irwin) writes:
>
>Here's a possibility for a new cascade:  let's see who can come up with
>the best phonetic rendering of the 'grunt-thing' on Spider.
>
How 'bout

_Ouaaaagh_.

>stop snickering.

I'm not snickering, I'm frustrated.  It's hard to do this properly without
umlauts.

--prufrock (toj8j@fermi.clas.virginia.edu)
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
From: tower@leland.Stanford.EDU (Jim Van Houten)
Subject: Mr. T Experience
Keywords: MTX, YFF, TMBG, I Love You But You're Standing On My Foot
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 11:03:12 GMT

>24) I like TMBG, what other bands might I like?

FAQ #24, funny thing too...

A friend and I were discussing what the ultimate TMBG line-up for a show would
be.  Of course, TMBG wouldbe headlining, Young Fresh Fellows (those crazy guys
from the Pacific Northwest) would open for them, and starting off the show
would be the Berkeley band Mr T Experience.

Mr. T Experience is to punk rock what TMBG is to modern rock.  They are 
absolutely crazy, and very listenable.  I think I have got all TMBG fans I know
to give them a try and they all love them.  They are also really awesome live.
Their most recent album was released midway through '92 and is entitled _Milk 
Milk Lemonade_ on Lookout Records.

I have taken the liberty to posting the lyrics to one of their songs just to 
give you an example of how zany they are:

"I Love You But You're Standing On My Foot"

When I saw you standing there, in your lacy underwear,
I knew I was in the ladies' dressing room,
and now I've seen it all,
and they kicked me out of the mall,
but it was wonderful,
and now we've got alot to talk about, yeah,
but when we're hanging,
it always seems like you're having a cow.

CHORUS: I love you
	I love you
	I love you, but you're standing on my foot.

There's got to be some way for you and me to act our age
and maybe make a change.
Where will we be next year?
Still sitting here and drinking beer and watching Mr. Belvedere,
and I know it's not much of a life,
you're in color, I'm in black and white,
but we play parcheesi every saturday night,
so that's all right, 'cause...

CHORUS: I love you
        I love you
        I love you, but you're standing on my foot.

And you were wearing your hat that said "god guts and guns made America free
lets keep all three"
And you were smiling but I could see the disappointment 
and a piece of something green stuck between your teeth
I said "I'm so impressed"
you saud "Surely you dressed"
I said "Yes, but stop calling me Shirley it's not my name"

CHORUS: I love you
        I love you
        I love you, but you're standing on my foot.
	I love you, but you're standing on my foot.

It sounds much better with the music.

e-mail if you want more info.

			Jim
-- 
Jim Van Houten		  |"Jesus loves you, more than I do."
Stanford University	  |		-THE WONDER STUFF
tower@leland.stanford.edu |
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
Subject: Totally Pointless Cascade #4
From: bcimmet@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Date: 21 Jan 93 01:33:45 EST
Organization: Wesleyan University

Try this cascade on for size:

	"Minimum Wage!"...



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 ||   "Well, of all things, can it be peeling?  No, yes, Ohio! My eye..."   ||
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From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Matt McIrvin)
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
Subject: Re: Once and for all, Triangle Man
Date: 27 Jan 93 02:15:33 GMT

MJO109@psuvm.psu.edu writes:

>Hello Friends, Being new to the netnews thing here, I happened across this
>lovely alt.music.tmbg section where I noticed there was a bit of controversy
>as to _exactly_ what the meaning of "Particle Man" is (no, it's not about
>religion or the bomb, although admirable guesses).  Several years ago, among
>my friends and I, we figured out that triangle man, /\ , or Delta, was the
>                                                   /--\
>universal scientific symbol for *change* and that triangle man, thus change,
>wins over all.  [...]

That was my favorite theory on the subject until I discovered one so
obscure that it couldn't possibly be correct.  In various theories of
particle interactions one encounters "anomalies" associated with Feynman
diagrams (those pictures you see occasionally in Scientific American in
which particles are represented as following little squiggly tracks and
arrows through spacetime).  The anomalies destroy symmetries in the theory,
and can in some cases ruin the whole theory; and the most common variety
involves particles traveling in a *triangular loop* within the diagram.
The Feynman diagram looks like this:

                                  /|~~~~~~~~~~
                                /  |
                              /    |
                     ~~~~~~~<      |
                              \    |
                                \  |
                                  \|~~~~~~~~~~

where, for the nerdly minded, the squiggles represent chiral currents and
the sides of the triangle are fermion lines.  This Triangle Man is capable
of killing particle theories (Particle Man) and frustrating physicists
(Person Man).  But in the real world (Universe Man) all such Feynman
diagrams must cancel each other out, if they break the gauge group.

The sheer implausibility of this explanation makes it attractive to me.
-- 
Matt McIrvin
From: bo@igc.apc.org (Bo Orloff)
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
Subject: Re: Dial-a-song update
Date: 21 Jan 93 13:54:00 GMT
Nf-ID: #R:OSA.93Jan18183002@wilbur.unh.edu:427463725:cdp:1751600008:000:436
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!bo    Jan 21 05:54:00 1993


mbrockma@ecn.purdue.edu (Matt Brockman) writes:

> Approximately how much does it cost to call the Dial-a-Song? How
> long does it last? I'd be calling from Indiana.

You can get the rate step by calling an operator for your long
distance carrier and asking (try dialing "00"). The length of the
songs on Dial-A-Song varies pretty widly, but it's generally no more than 
3 minutes or so.

-Bo Orloff
 TMBG Imformation
 (bo@igc.apc.org)
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
From: scheyen@julian.uwo.ca (Peter Scheyen)
Subject: Re: Recommended groups
Organization: University of Western Ontario
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:56:43 GMT

and don't forget The Proclaimers.
-- 

	". . . but I wouldn't know a single word to say,
	 if I flattened all the vowels and I threw the 'R' away."

		- The Proclaimers
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
From: jirwin@emunix.emich.edu (Jane Irwin)
Subject: Re: Tom Lehrer (was Re: Recommended Groups)
Organization: Eastern Michigan Lunatic Asylum
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 03:33:42 GMT

In article <1993Jan23.171901.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu> bcimmet@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
>In article <1993Jan23.054127.26420@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>, wisdom@picasso.ocis.temple.edu (Robert Wisdom) writes:
>> 	TOM LEHRER!!!! - If you don't know this guy, go find him NOW!!  He
>> was writing songs about boy scouts smoking "reefer" in 1957.  Some of the
>> jokes are dated, but anyone who can put the periodic table to a Gilbert &
>> Sullivan tune and write a march for "Smut" can't be all bad.  Lines from
>> "New Math": You can't take 3 from 2/ 2 is less than 3/ so you look at the
>> 4 in the 8's place [didn't I warn you this was in base 8? ...  Sorry] /Now
>> that is really 4 8's/So you make it 3 8's/ regroup/ change an 8 to 8 1's
>> /and you add it to the 2 and you get 1 2 base 8 which is 10 base 10 and
>> you take away 3 that's 7/ Got that? ...
>
>	Now instead of 4 in the 8's place, you've got 3 'cause you added 1,
>that is to say 8 to the 2 but you can't take 7 from 3 so you look in the 64's.
>From the 3, you then use 1 to make 8 1's, you add those 1's to the 3 and you
>get 1 3 base 8 or in other words in base 10 you have 11 and you take away 7 and
>seven from 11 is 4! Now go back to the 64's, you're left with 2 and you take
>away 1 from 2 and that leaves... Everybody get 1?
>
>

New Math!  New-Hew-Hew Math!  It won't do you any good to Re-view Math!


(I personally loved Poisoning Pigeons in the Park)
My pulse will be quickenin' with each drop of strychinine as
we poison the pigeons- it just takes a smidgen! to poison a 
pigeon in the park!!!


(And 'So long, Mom, I'm off to drop the bomb!"
So long, Mom, I'm off to drop the bomb
so don't wait up for me\Although I may roam
I'll come back to my home
although it may be
a pile of debris


--Jane, the Doctor Demento Disciple-  WHERE THE HELL IS HE NOW THAT
HE QUIT WESTWOOD ONE?!?!?!  (SOB!)
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
Subject: Tom Lehrer (was Re: Recommended Groups)
From: bcimmet@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Date: 23 Jan 93 17:19:01 EST
Organization: Wesleyan University

In article <1993Jan23.054127.26420@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>, wisdom@picasso.ocis.temple.edu (Robert Wisdom) writes:
> 	TOM LEHRER!!!! - If you don't know this guy, go find him NOW!!  He
> was writing songs about boy scouts smoking "reefer" in 1957.  Some of the
> jokes are dated, but anyone who can put the periodic table to a Gilbert &
> Sullivan tune and write a march for "Smut" can't be all bad.  Lines from
> "New Math": You can't take 3 from 2/ 2 is less than 3/ so you look at the
> 4 in the 8's place [didn't I warn you this was in base 8? ...  Sorry] /Now
> that is really 4 8's/So you make it 3 8's/ regroup/ change an 8 to 8 1's
> /and you add it to the 2 and you get 1 2 base 8 which is 10 base 10 and
> you take away 3 that's 7/ Got that? ...

	Now instead of 4 in the 8's place, you've got 3 'cause you added 1,
that is to say 8 to the 2 but you can't take 7 from 3 so you look in the 64's.
From the 3, you then use 1 to make 8 1's, you add those 1's to the 3 and you
get 1 3 base 8 or in other words in base 10 you have 11 and you take away 7 and
seven from 11 is 4! Now go back to the 64's, you're left with 2 and you take
away 1 from 2 and that leaves... Everybody get 1?


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