HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: gdb15@grebe.cl.cam.ac.uk (Guy Barry)
Subject: Re: "Women on Top" by Nancy F.
Reply-To: gdb15@cl.cam.ac.uk
Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:37:44 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.193823.5291@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes:
>In article <93020.0009092971047@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> <2971047@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> writes:
>>I'm reading Nancy Friday's "Women on Top"  (ab. 1/3 through).  My question
>>is this:  Do you think that the women who contributed are representative of
>>"women in general" ?
>
>I read parts of it, and I'll aver that the women who contributed are
>representative of themselves.
>
>There ARE no women in general.

That must be why I never find any in general.

(By the way, don't you think Nancy Friday's an appalling writer?  I
found "My Mother, My Self" tedious in the extreme.  The whole book
could have been written in about a quarter the space, though no
doubt then it would never have made it onto the bestseller lists.)

--
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci)
Subject: Re: (LONG) Re: Living alone and liking it
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:19:08 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.170554.19144@walter.bellcore.com> nobody writes:
>In article <77582@apple.apple.COM> pooh@Apple.COM (Wendy Nather) writes:
>>
>>Seriously, I can relate to a lot of what you say.  The men
>>I know ....
>>... It seems to me that
>>men do indeed get more out of a relationship than women do.
>If you were to get into *relationships* with women with the same propensity and
>intensity as you do with men, my dear Pooh, you might realize that women tend
>to fall along the same spectrum of selfishness and to any man that is at least
>as observant as you are, women might appear to get more out of a relationship 
>than men do.

Have either of you considered that *people* get what they get from
relationships based on who and what they are and why and how they conduct
themselves?  And that relationships with similar outcomes in a person's life
do not indicate that *all* members of their preferred sex are this way or that
way?

If you have endured a set of similar relationships, consider the only real
common denominator in each situation.  (Hint:  Mirror mirror on the
wall ...)
 
>And also consider the possibility that one may *see* only a very small part or
>perhaps just a narrow and subjective view of the other's contributions to the 
>relationship.

People see only what they want to see.  When you are emersed in a situation,
it's near impossible to step away from it to see the whole picture.  It's
like trying to examine an oil painting with your nose pressed up against it.
 
>Hence your conclusion, to put it mildly, is ludicrous.

I have to agree.
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"In the next life, I should like to come back as your trousers."-BPC
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu (Sharon O'Neil)
Subject: Re: Credibility...
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 12:21:07 GMT

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

>mel@niblick.ecn.purdue.edu (Meloney D Cregor) adds emphasis:
>>marcia@netcom.com (Marcia) writes:

>>>I think part of the problem is that there are certain people who somehow
>>>dom't comprehend that there are people who have higher priorities than 
>>>having an SO. It's all a matter of what you want right now.
>>                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>>Exactly.  The nice thing about setting your own priorities is, YOU know
>>where the re-set button is.....

>But... if the right person comes along when a relationship isn't high
>on one's list of priorities, one might miss them entirely.

The point that is being made, I think, is that one should be happy
with himself or herself before they try to be in a relationship.  If you
live, eat, sleep and breathe for another human being, that isn't love.
That's dependency.  Love isn't dependency.

Right now, I'm at the point where I am working on being happy with
myself.  I suspect, if "the right person" comes along, even if 
"a relationship isn't high" on my list of priorities, that I won't be
so stupid as to let that individual slip.  While a relationship isn't
high on my list of priorities, it also isn't completely off my list 
of priorities.  It's not like I'm living the life of a nun, for goodness
sake!

>-- 

Sharon
oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu

--
Sharon L. O'Neil
oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: cocoa@netcom.com
Subject: Re: chocolate
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:39:22 GMT

In article <16544@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
>In article <1993Jan20.000640.29156@hubcap.clemson.edu> smersch@eng.clemson.edu writes:
>>It's yummy and easy to spread when heated.
>
>Sounds like one of them cheap, sleazy, hussies.

Oooh, stop, stop.  My ears are burning.

Just me,

little 'e'



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From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
Subject: Re: Mating Genes..(was Credibility)
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 05:53:18 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 <1993Jan23.062733.18294@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:

>2) it assumes that 
>enjoying being single precludes enjoying being coupled (which is patently
>not true, since I quite enjoy both of these states and regions in between);

States in between?  Careful, Trygve, I think you're admitting more
than you are to.

Most people who claim they are "happy being single" expend 
considerable energy ensuring that there are periods when
they are, at least temporarily, not-single.

However, we can test this.  Since you wimped out on the last
bet, here's another one.  100 bucks says you can't go one
year without attempting to do something with a member of the
opposite sex.  Name your own odds.


>3) it assumes that people who enjoy being single do not reproduce (not a
>valid assumption 

Oh.  Okay.  If you can also reproduce withint the same year, I'll doubl
the bet.


Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci)
Subject: Re: what is attractive ?
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:36:20 GMT

In article <ewright.728074350@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
>People who dig ditches for a
>living *still* get plenty of exercise and (unless they are smart
>enough to use sunblock) tans.

No, sun not block.  Sun big round thing in sky.
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  "I'm not absolutely sure I want to do ANYTHING, so quit asking."
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From: brent.mason@uuworld.via.mind.ORG (Brent Mason) 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Living alone and liki
Date: 22 Jan 93 21:29:00 GMT
Reply-To: brent.mason@uuworld.via.mind.ORG (Brent Mason) 
Distribution: world
Organization: Micro Exchange - Kenwood, CA - 707-833-4032

CR> From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
  > Newsgroups: soc.singles
  > Subject: Re: Living alone and liking it
  > Message-ID: <MARTINC.93Jan18191648@grover.cs.unc.edu>
  > Date: 18 Jan 93 19:16:48
  >
  >    Or just getting one of those turntable CD players, and putting
  >    Gregorian Chants, Pink Floyd, and Satchmo (sp?)  at the same time.
  >
  > Please tell me you mean sequentially.  Not simultaneously playing.
  >
  > (Mine is loaded with 2 disks of Evita, Melissa Etheridge, Jean-Michel
  > Jarre's Revolutions, and Das Ring Ohne Worte....)
  > --
  > 		Charles R. Martin/(Charlie)/martinc@cs.unc.edu

       Oh yea, well mine's loaded with 3 Hotters albums, Tommy Shaw (of
Styx and Damn Yankees fame) and Jethro Tull (Best of the last 20 Years)

       Sitting on a park bench, looking at little (??) girls with bad
intent!! Jethro Tull - AquaLung

Brent Mason

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From: blowfish@centauri.unm.edu (rON.)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Living alone and liking it
Date: 22 Jan 1993 05:25:54 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
NNTP-Posting-Host: pioneer.unm.edu

In article <77219@apple.apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
>>>Like Garfield.
>>Oh, Ste-ef, here, Stefstefstefstefstefstef.....  *lasagne*
>Hey, I said I look like Garfield, not that I have the same taste in
>food! Not that I mind lasagne, but I like sushi better. You know, fresh 
>fish in a blanket...maybe I should try it with whipped cream sometime.

Um, er, ahhh. Hmmmmm.
r.
From: gal@endor.uucp (Gal Kaplan)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Valentine's Day Personal Ad
Summary: The Missing Bit
Keywords: Seesters
Date: 26 Jan 93 00:38:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: das.1993Jan26.003819.3550
Organization: Harvard University

In article <106459@netnews.upenn.edu> crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
>
>Hi.  I'm not too young, not too old, with long blond hair.
	[Rest of "ad" defenestrated]
>Hope to hear from you soon.

You forgot the part about having several identical twin seesters.

	~~~
	~~~ Gal						gal@das.harvard.edu
	~~~
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Initials  (Was:Re: Women write to me!!)
From: rohwerwd@netcom.com (W. David Rohwer)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 08:23:04 GMT
Organization: The Tickle Palace - Moonyvale, CA

In article <77136@apple.apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
>
> [deleted]
>--
>I am not politically incorrect. I am politically challenged.   --MB

     MB = Matthew Broderick?

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Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.romance
From: alan@ctsx.celtech.com (Alan Dahl)
Subject: Re: Where did you meet your SO?
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 22:04:23 GMT
Organization: cts

I meet an ex-SO in what is probably one of the most unique ways:

You see it was pitch black because Mt St. Helens had just erupted and she 
was passing through my town (Ellensburg, Washington, home of Central 
Washington U) and she stopped by my dorm looking for a place to hide 
and I offerered to help her and one thing led to another and...

We dated for a year-and-a-half and are still good friends after 13
years. It's always fun to explain to people how we met.

So, did anyone else meet because of a natural disaster? :-)

- Alan
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: smith@wesson.Eng.Sun.COM (Nina S. Smith - SunSoft Product Marketing)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: How Does your Name Sound?
Date: 25 Jan 1993 02:42:02 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: smith@wesson.Eng.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: wesson

In article 16533@auspex-gw.auspex.com, johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
>In article <1993Jan19.213938.1072@ttinews.tti.com> scott@soldev.tti.com (Scott Taylor) writes:

>|Oh, cool: a contest. My guess is "Fairy-R-us".
>|
>|Scott Taylor, Citicorp/TTI
>
>Shit. How are you supposed to make fun of a name like Taylor?   I suppose
>I could say that you'll never have a contest for a pronounciation of *your*
>last name.
>
>neener-neener-neener

WHAT??? 

>-john

-- Nina



Xref: sparky soc.singles:37690 alt.romance:16355
From: peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.romance
Subject: Re: Where did I meet my SO?
Date: 24 Jan 1993 04:50:17 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandman.caltech.edu

manjulav@cc.usu.edu writes:

>	Have you ever wondered its o amazing when you are not looking for
>someone you endup being with someone...

Hencd one of my favorite truisms:

Love is where it finds you.
-- 

                                                --  Michal
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Impressive amounts of material can be accreted in this manner.
Xref: sparky soc.singles:38236 soc.penpals:6101 alt.romance:16489 alt.romance.chat:24047
From: MARCUS@industry1.ditt.ns.ca (Mark Earhard)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,soc.penpals,alt.romance,alt.romance.chat
Subject: Re: SM ISO MAIL
Date: 26 Jan 93 21:34:29 GMT
Organization: NS Dept. of Economic Development

In article <C19GCo.DE7@cen.ex.ac.uk> st92rcn@cen.ex.ac.uk writes:
>Xref: nstn.ns.ca soc.singles:65707 soc.penpals:5816 alt.romance:26984 alt.romance.chat:37836
>Path: nstn.ns.ca!newsflash.concordia.ca!utcsri!torn!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!uknet!strath-cs!cen.ex.ac.uk!st92rcn
>From: st92rcn@cen.ex.ac.uk
>Newsgroups: soc.singles,soc.penpals,alt.romance,alt.romance.chat
>Subject: Re: SM ISO MAIL
>Message-ID: <C19GCo.DE7@cen.ex.ac.uk>
>Date: 22 Jan 93 15:00:23 GMT
>References: <1993Jan21.174036.25110@odin.corp.sgi.com>
>Organization: University of Exeter, UK.
>Lines: 1

>My name is rachel and I want your body


Well you can have it if you pay shipping.  :)



Left yourself logged in again, I see.  Tsk Tsk.


Marcus (Who finaly got his NNTP debuged and may be able to post again)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: sethb@panix.com (Seth Breidbart)
Subject: Re: How Does your Name Sound?
Organization: Society for the Promulgation of Cruelty to the Clueless
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:18:08 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.040340.28921@Virginia.EDU> llk4k@Virginia.EDU ("Lori Karalow") writes:
>Okay, my turn, see if you can pronounce my last name......
>                     Lori Karalow

Now try spelling mine.  (Have someone read you the header while you
write it down.  A majority of people get it wrong.)

Seth	[but the book "Never Make a Reservation in Your Own Name" has
lots of good advice]
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: woody@rock.concert.net (Woody Muller)
Subject: Re: A hug for illiterate flamers
Organization: CONCERT-CONNECT -- Public Access UNIX
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 02:48:23 GMT

In article <16663@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
>
>Whatever happend to Woody or whatever his name was that had the knack for
>putting a weekly summary of soc.singles into a poem.  Some of them were 
>quite clever.

	Not DiMaggio nor Yogi Berra,
	Ginger Rogers nor Freddie Astaira,
	     Could make me swing home
	     For a dance or a poem
	Like this invite from John Feriera:

	There was a young fellow from Convex,
	Whose apparent religion was non-sex.
	     I've heard things are slow
	     Near the Old Alamo,
	But I don't think it's time for the bomb, Tex.

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: mmzn@rice.edu (Mark Mazina)
Subject: Re: Living alone and liking it
Originator: mmzn@tarka.cs.rice.edu
Reply-To: mmzn@rice.edu (Mark Mazina)
Organization: Rice University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:28:08 GMT


Not having your cat decide someone else's lap is more comfortable when
you want her in your lap.

Mark
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: phantasm@iastate.edu ()
Subject: I can not resist...
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:40:38 GMT

Greetings all...

(Stef Jones):   Who are you, anyway?

(J.A. McVeigh): Must be some sort of government official...

(Piglet):       Whoa!  phantasm is really MacGyver!!

(Marianna Max): Oh damn, and I thought it was written by Trygve.

Actually I am an escaped mental patient with a history of violence...

Fortune smile...

phantasm
From: fsquared@eff.org (Fawn Fitter)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Valentine's Day Plans I (Jan 26 93)
Keywords: Valentine's Day Public Service
Date: 26 Jan 93 23:12:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: eff.1993Jan26.231216.29610
Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
Originator: fsquared@eff.org

The lyrics to Joe Jackson's "Happy Loving Couples" are:

Happy loving couples make it look so easy
Happy loving couples always talk so kind
'Til that time when I can do my dancing with a partner
Those happy couples ain't no friends of mine
From: barry@netcom.com (Kenn Barry)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: SWF in search of SWM or DWM
Date: 28 Jan 93 07:19:35 GMT
Organization: QQQCLC

In article <1993Jan28.012424.5941@walter.bellcore.com> nobody writes:
>In article <1993Jan27.180425.10294@iscsvax.uni.edu> mehrl4986@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
>>I'm a single white female who is wondering if anyone does read these things?
>
>Ah, the irony of it.
>
>Would the futility of shouting in a crowded room analogy still work in this
>case? Kenn?

	No, that's somebody else's analogy, Walter. Shit, I'm tired and
I'm sick and it's gotta be someone else's turn to do the bottom-feeding
by now. Would somebody kindly flame Clueless Airhead #mehrl4986 for me?
Be sincere, now.

						Kayembee
From: pooh@Apple.COM (Pooh)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Zen and the art of refrig upkeep (Re: Living alone)
Date: 25 Jan 93 11:57:15 GMT
Organization: Internet Refugee Camp


*sigh* I keep offering to keep my PSOM, but he insists on having
a Cisco and his own Internet connection as part of the support
requirements.  Plus there's the tricky little problem of a residence
permit ...

He'll DEFINITELY have to learn to cook a few more dishes if
I'm going to keep him on the Internet ...

Pooh
	pooh@apple.com
From: brent.mason@uuworld.via.mind.ORG (Brent Mason) 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Purple - a vignette from
Date: 25 Jan 93 20:18:00 GMT
Reply-To: brent.mason@uuworld.via.mind.ORG (Brent Mason) 
Distribution: world
Organization: Micro Exchange - Kenwood, CA - 707-833-4032

MO> From: an183@anon.penet.fi (Mark O. Zorro)
  > Newsgroups: soc.singles
  > Subject: Purple - a vignette from Mark O. Zorro
  > Message-ID: <1993Jan23.033137.13773@fuug.fi>
  > Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:01:59 GMT
  >
  > Vignette:  Purple - A Real Experience

       [long story left out]

       Vignette:  1.  A decorative design at the opening or end of a book
                      or a chapter of a book.

                  2.  An unbordered protrait that shades off into the
                      surrounding color at the edges.

                  3.  A SHORT, descriptive literary sketch.

       Are you sure you didn't mean vinaigrette?

       Sorry I'm a Computer Sci Major, English was never my best subject.
       Maybe someone can explain this to my feeble mind.  Never went much
       for the mushy stuff.  (yes of course some of you appreciated it,
       just please explain it to me...)

Brent Mason
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Credibility...
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 08:40:08 GMT

In article <9084@news.duke.edu> diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams) writes:
>In article <ewright.727988060@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
>
>>Most people who say they are happy being single do not mean they are
>>happy having no interaction with the opposite sex (assuming they are
>>heterosexual). 
>
>Ed, I don't think anyone who's said that they're happy being single has
>meant that he or she is happy having no interaction with the opposite sex.
>In fact, I think Trygve listed the opportunity to interact with many 
>members of the opposite sex as an *advantage* of being single.  (Correct
>me if I'm wrong, Trygve.)

No argument here--in fact, if Ed needs more convincing on this matter, 
he's welcome to fly up here to Denver and I'll arrange a demonstration.

Trygve   (Why, I'll even make this offer open to people other than Ed.)
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From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Living alone and liking it
Date: 22 Jan 93 00:04:53 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1993Jan20.191250.3001@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jwall@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jeff Wall) writes:
>In article <1993Jan17.200654.2042@dgbt.doc.ca> michele@dgbt.doc.ca (Michele Guillet) writes:
|>
|>And of course, the cleaning lady does move quite a bit of stuff around.
|>But in that case, it feels more like a good fairy came into my house
|>in my absence and did all the things I should have done. I've had
|>a cleaning lady for years but it still feel like magic somehow.
|>
|
|What a brilliant idea!!!  Just what I need is a cleaning person.  I wonder
|how much one costs??  Does anyone else use this service??? If so what do
|they do or not do and how much??
|
|This could be a single persons dream come true.  And best of all you still
|have the benefits mentioned in the previous posts :-).
 
No, having an SO that is a cleaning person by trade is a single persons
dream come true.  My X-SO cleans houses and decorates for a living.  Having
a cleaning person that is also you SO provides still more benefits.

BTW,  going rate is typically about $60 per 3-4 hour visit every other week.
It all depends on what you want done.  There are also quite a few maid
services available, and from what I understand the rates are about the same.
They usually bring in two or three people at a time and run through the place.
I don't think they can provide the personal service that you can get from
someone that is self-employeed.
From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Ankle bracelets
Date: 22 Jan 1993 12:28:04 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com

In article <289@cnmhnet.UUCP> keithg@cnmhnet.UUCP (keith garrard) writes:
}In article <1in3b6INN1ld@mirror.digex.com> huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:
}>Female circumcision is still practiced in parts of Africa and Asia and
}>typically consists of excision of the clitoris and sometimes the labia.
}>The young girl is fully conscious, and no anesthetics or antiseptics are
}>used.
}
}Is this really true?

Yes.

}                      This is absolutely fascinating.
}
}I'm not being sarcastic in asking this, but will
}
}you please furnish us with some details?

Someone who sent me email has suggested that I post the following book
reference:  Nawal El Saadawi, _The Hidden Face of Eve_, Zed Books, London.

}                                          Are you
}
}saying that the clitoris and labia are cut off?

Yes.

}What are the reasons behind this?

"Tradition!"  The real reason is to keep women subordinate to men.

-- Herb Huston
-- huston@access.digex.com
Newsgroups: soc.singles