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From: bradl@informix.com (Brad Levy)
Newsgroups: alt.romance,alt.romance.chat
Subject: Re: Part Two of "Dryads' Dailiness"
Summary: Nymphette is wrong, and Nymphs can be innocent.
Keywords: Nymphette
Date: 29 Aug 92 02:39:21 GMT
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

In article <1992Aug28.201217.17133@tessi.com> george@tessi.com (George Mitchell) writes:
>jlane@Ingres.COM (Judi Lane) bemoans her fate:
>>  ---> Well, there goes my last chance at innocence! 8^)
>
>What better place than a.r.c, what better group of people, could
>you have chosen for this momentous event!
>

I have checked my dictionary, and it defines dryad as, basically, a
nymph of the woods.  So asserting the title of Official Dryad of ARC,
one automatically accepts the label of Nymph.  The same dictionary 
(Random House) defines a nymph as one of a class of lesser deities of
mythology, conceived of as beautiful maidens inhabiting the waters,
woods, mountains, etc, or a beautiful young woman, or (one we don't need
to apply) the young of an insect that undergoes complete metamorphosis.

Given these definitions, nymphette would not be proper (unless perhaps
she was a baby or very tiny nymph.  My eyes don't see very clearly through
coax, but I don't think Judi is likely to be that tiny.)
Nowhere is a loss of innocence directly implied by the title of nymph
(or subsequently, dryad), however.  So Judi doesn't have to give up her
innocence unless she wants to.  (And being a minor deity, she could
probably make anyone she involved in such an act forget that it occurred,
and remember nothing but her incredible beauty...) ;-)

I would think a dryad might have schizophrenic feelings about the
RFA though - such nice romance, but one has to make sure that the
only wood burned in the fireplace came from trees that had already
died of natural causes and lost their souls.  Maybe inspiring new
souls in the process of burning, though. Thus completing the cycle of life.

- brad (the cuddle-puppy - there, does that make me the first canine a.r
        member? my system denies the existance of a.r.c, so I have to
        settle for a.r)
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From: NIEDFELD@MIAMIU.BITNET
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: Re: Shyness - Re: Second Chances
Date: 30 Aug 92 19:35:40 GMT
Organization: Miami University - Academic Computer Service

In article <Btoty3.B6p@newcastle.ac.uk>, I.A.Inman@newcastle.ac.uk (Ian
Alexander Inman) says:
>
>I am one of those great sufferers of shyness, and also have communication
>difficulties, especially with the opposite sex.
>
>When it comes to time to ask someone out, the usual is for me to bottle up
>completely, and avoid the situation entirely.   This happens for two reasons:
 
>>>>more stuff deleted<<<<<<
 
There is a good book out called THE SHY MAN SYNDROME by Dr. Brian Gilmartin.
I read it and learned a lot about shy men and their dealings with women.
 
I might be able to dig around a little and find what catalog I ordered it
from if anyone is interested.
                                                John Niedfeldt
                                                Miami University
 
                                          niedfeld@miamiu.acs.muohio.edu
Newsgroups: alt.romance
From: cfar@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov (Carol Farquhar)
Subject: Re: Wow.
Organization: NASA/MSFC
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 20:30:59 GMT

Don't you lust me anymore?  I haven't gotten any e-mail.

Carol "do you think I'm sexy" Farquhar
-- 
Carol Farquhar-New Technolgy,Inc    = "The degree of a peoples civilization is
Huntsville, AL                      =  reflected in its attitude towards 
cfar@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov           =  animals."
Opinionated ravings are all mine!   
Newsgroups: alt.romance
From: drburne@eos.ncsu.edu (DALE ROBERT BURNETT)
Subject: Re: what she wants
Originator: drburne@c00416-313mn.eos.ncsu.edu
Reply-To: drburne@eos.ncsu.edu (DALE ROBERT BURNETT)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 15:07:09 GMT


<because later on there will be nothing for you to receive besides
<headaches
<and heartbreaks!

thats an awfully pessimistic veiw of relationships.  i happen to know bunches
of married couples  (10 years or more)  that still date on a regular basis,
send each other flowers and cards for no reason other than to say 
"i love you"
just because you havent met someone or know anyone who knows how to keep a
relationship fresh doesnt mean they dont exist.

dale
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From: jlane@Ingres.COM (Judi Lane)
Newsgroups: alt.romance,alt.romance.chat
Subject: Re: Part Two of "Dryads' Dailiness"
Date: 26 Aug 92 20:52:55 GMT
Reply-To: jlane@Ingres.COM (Judi Lane)
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501

In article <1992Aug26.164649.10015@tessi.com> george@tessi.com (George Mitchell) writes:
>jlane@Ingres.COM (Judi Lane) tantalizes:
>>                  (to be continued?)
>
>Ve have vays of MAKING you continue!  You VILL continue!
>

What? Violence?  On this list?  Ooooo... I'm scared! I'm scared!!  Let's see...
slivers of frozen semi-sweet chocolate under my toenails?  incessant drips of
cherry coke onto my parched dry tongue?  I know!!  being dunked into a giant
vat of Jack London Vineyards Pinot Noir (1988) that I have to drink my way
out of!!  in that case...

   YES! YES! YES!  MORE! MORE! MORE!  OH! OH!!  YES!  YES!!  OOOOOOHHHHHHH...
   (you sure really know how to get tough ya big meanie) 8^)

  
>-- George (NotTheVILLain) Mitchell (george@tessi.com)

       
       just as long as you don't send for that **evil twin** of Jason's %^(


																				Judi
(wonderin'whata.sigfilewouldlikeifIhadoneofthosethings)
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From: mcarey@eng.auburn.edu (Martin T Carey)
Newsgroups: alt.romance,alt.romance.chat
Subject: Re:re:The Shadow
Date: 25 Aug 92 20:25:41 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Auburn University Engineering

roth@sitter.ips.id.ethz.ch (Martin Roth) writes:
mcarey@eng.auburn.edu (Martin T Carey, "The Shadow") writes:
>>I've been following your group for a little while and by far the AR and ARC
>> groups are two of the most interesting groups around....*grin*
>Why *grin*? It sure IS!
>Never seen you 'round here: *WELCOME HUGS*. 

Thanks *HUGS* back. Yes I'm sort of new.

>>I'd like to tell you a little about myself,  but first (if I may quote
>> Shakespeare):
>>              (Shakespeare excerpt from Venis and Adonis)
>Phew, now that's hard to understand. But it's quite educating... ;-)

Well I'm glad it was educational for you..;-) But seriously, I recently had
the opportunity to see a live performance of 'A Comedy of Errors' and that's
what got me in the Shakespeare mood.

>> my research and write a Thesis...Aaaaaaaaaah...*thud* Sorry, slipped on what
>> appears to be very old chocolate syrup, oreos, and *yeech* rotten strawberries
>Here have some fresh one <splot>!

Whyyyyy yooooooouu dirrrttyy rattttt!!!!! Just for that...(The Shadow reaches
beneath his black cloak and pulls out a SuperColossalX2000 sized Turtle Cheese-
cake and heaves it into the air as if mimicking an olympic shotputter *grunt*)
(The X2000 cheesecake flies through the air in a huge arc (ARC?) and lands with
a SSSSPPPPPPLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTT..:^)

>> Sketchy Fantasy story by the Shadow...........
>Hot *fan, fan*, tell more about it... 8^)
>Just add a fire, and, whoops, there's your RFA app!
>(besides, what does RP stand for?)

Well, watch for more details coming up soon... I'm working on the details. 

                                    Thanks again for being the Happiest 
                                    Place on the Net......
       
                        "I fling therefore I am..."  .......The Shadow......

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Newsgroups: alt.romance,alt.romance.chat
From: george@tessi.com (George Mitchell)
Subject: Re: Part Two of "Dryads' Dailiness"
Organization: Test Systems Strategies, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 16:46:49 GMT

jlane@Ingres.COM (Judi Lane) tantalizes:
>                  (to be continued?)

Ve have vays of MAKING you continue!  You VILL continue!

-- George (NotTheVILLain) Mitchell (george@tessi.com)
From: tony@iti.org (Anthony Skjellum)
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: Re: Together and other dating services
Date: 23 Aug 92 21:51:20 GMT

My opinion of these is pretty low too.  My interest stems from the 
fact that a colleague of mine found a fiancee in about a year after
starting.  Other random people I've run into
have less high opinions.  

- Tony

--
 	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.      .
"They also serve who only stand and wait." - J. Milton

Anthony Skjellum, LLNL, (510)422-1161; FAX: (510)423-2993; tony@helios.llnl.gov
Xref: sparky alt.romance:11026 alt.romance.chat:17734
From: carl@sscl.uwo.ca (Carl Kaufmann)
Newsgroups: alt.romance,alt.romance.chat
Subject: Re: The Shadowette....
Date: 28 Aug 92 00:32:42 GMT
Organization: Soc.Sci.Comp.Lab., U.West.Ont.

In article <c3cnhmf.tyger@netcom.com>, tyger@netcom.com (Kitty in the Middle) writes:
> In article <1992Aug21.201756.1@vaxr.sscl.uwo.ca> carl@vaxr.sscl.uwo.ca (Carl Kaufmann) writes:
>>
>>MEOW!
>>Cats are more romantic than dogs.  
> 
> I like you already! Welcome...:)

Thanks for the welcome, Tyger.  <hug>

The Shadowette has challenged me to prove that cats are indeed more romantic
than dogs.  To that end I would appreciate any help you and our fellow 
net.felines could muster.  TIA

Many hugs to all.

<PURR>

> 
>>CatGuy
> 
>    Tyger
> 
> -- 
>       Kristen Kohlbecker    And I would choose to be with you
>       tyger@netcom.com      That's if the choice were mine to make   
>                             But you can make decisions too
>       A Tyger and a Lady    And you can have this heart to break 
>  
CatGuy
*****************************************************************************
* See how the heart reaches *  Carl Kaufmann   * No one has to do anything, *
* out instinctively, for no * Soc.Sci.Comp.Lab * except bear consequences.  *
* reason but to touch.      *    U.West.Ont    *                            *
*       -Kate Bush          * carl@sscl.uwo.ca *       -Me                  *
*****************************************************************************
From: brett@ice.East.Sun.COM (Brett Berg)
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: Re: Opinion/insight- becoming friends with an ""ex""
Date: 26 Aug 92 19:21:59 GMT
Reply-To: brett@ice.East.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems
NNTP-Posting-Host: ice.east.sun.com


Write her a letter...

Brett
Newsgroups: alt.romance,alt.romance.chat
From: rip@sequent.com (Paul T Taylor)
Subject: Re: Part Two of "Dryads' Dailiness"
Keywords: Nymphette, Nympho
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems Inc.
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 00:02:23 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.130742.14648@pony.Ingres.COM> jlane@Ingres.COM (Judi Lane) writes:
>In article <1992Sep1.013709.20823@sequent.com> rip@sequent.com (Paul T Taylor) writes:
>>In article <Btrs9B.9BD@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au> coates@newton.physics.uq.oz.au (Tony Coates) writes:
>>>In article <1992Aug28.130217.4814@pony.Ingres.COM>, jlane@Ingres.COM (Judi Lane) writes:
>>>|> In article <Bto7Ct.CHx@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au> coates@newton.physics.uq.oz.au (Tony Coates) writes:
>>>|> >In article <1992Aug27.022244.4403@sequent.com>, rip@sequent.com (Paul T Taylor) writes:
>>
>>**bunch of stuff deleted**
>>
>>>Um ... er ... well, yes, we sort of did hijack you title a bit, didn't
>>>we (he says, trying to get 'rip' to take at least half of the blame).
>>
>>Hey!  Don't drag my pristine reputation into this!  You can take all
>>this yourself!      ^^^^^^^^
>
>       "Pristine"?  Maybe for a toxic waste dump.  8^)

Hey!  Don't believe anything Mary tells you!  Mine is the strength of
10 because my heart of pure!

rip(the pure, pure what we don't know...)
From: thomas@mvac23.UUCP (Thomas Lapp)
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: Re: Woman dating separated man -- advice desired
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 20:24:54 EDT
Organization: MultiVac23, Newark, DE, U.S.A.

> MARIE:  I'm saying that the right man for you might be out
>         there right now and if you don't grab him, someone
>         else will, and you'll have to spend the rest of
>         your life knowing that someone else is married to
>         your husband.
> 
> ........When Harry Met Sally.................................

Didn't that one kinda come home to me today.  There was a gal
in college that I thought was pretty interesting, but we went
our separate ways, and never really became friends.

Wouldn't you know it, I'm reading a church publication and
find that this gal was still single all this time (I figured
she would have been married long ago), but got married
last month to the fellow who used to sit next to me in a
freshman humanities class!!

I was only off by one! :-)
                         - tom
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Newsgroups: alt.romance
From: michael@gandalf.moria (Michael Haardt)
Subject: Re: Friends First or Not?
Reply-To: u31b3hs@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Haardt)
Organization: An old and gray machine, somewhere in Moria.
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 92 21:46:06 +0100

In article <1992Sep2.050741.6686@leela.cs.orst.edu>, caldwem@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Twiggs) writes:
> Getting to know the little things about a person helps,
> you can't say Geez i wish i had know this befor, I think,
> Going from friends into Love is very nice we all have little things
> about us that is sometime hidening for awhile if you think,
> you may be in Love.

As usual, you said it in better words :)  I saw too many people who 
didn't know each other good enough before and than discovered that their
SO is very different from what they thought at first, including me once 
:(  Fortunately, I also know a few who got really good friends first and
then fall in love.  It is funny that both me and my sister met their SOs
in IRC first and got friends, falling in love later (and meeting, of 
course).  She is as happy with her bf as I am with Mary.

If you are already used to these "small things", you just feel more
comfortable plus you already know about things which you may overlook
at first while being "blind of love", and which turn out to be
unacceptable later.  I think however, it is a problem for a friendship
if only one falls in love, especially when the friendship is deep.  I
don't want to quote from Harry & Sally, but there is something true in
it.

Mary and me got very special friends and at a certain point we asked us 
if that would lead to more, some later later we *knew* that it was more 
than just friends.  It just felt right, and about five months after 
meeting first, we heard these wonderful three words from each other.
Everybody deserves someone to say them to, and hearing them.  Being
happy in love feels sooooo good :-))))

> :wq

I knew that this game would get me, but I will tunnel and kill both
green worms and quaggas, plus giving you an editor you like more :-)

Michael "root"
--
Twiggs and root are a wonderful tree (tm) Twiggs and root :)
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From: jlane@Ingres.COM (Judi Lane)
Newsgroups: alt.romance,alt.romance.chat
Subject: Re: Part Two of "Dryads' Dailiness"
Keywords: Nymphette, Nympho
Date: 28 Aug 92 13:02:17 GMT
Reply-To: jlane@Ingres.COM (Judi Lane)
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501

In article <Bto7Ct.CHx@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au> coates@newton.physics.uq.oz.au (Tony Coates) writes:
>In article <1992Aug27.022244.4403@sequent.com>, rip@sequent.com (Paul T Taylor) writes:
>|> >How about 'Official Nymph of the RFA' ?????
>|> 
>|> Would that be 'Nymphette', or 'Nympho'?
>|> 
>|> Dirty minds want to know....
>|> 
>|> rip
>
>Nymph? Oh!!  Didn't think of that one (rip - 1, Tony - 0).
>
>Anyway, maybe we should just vote on it :-)
>						Tony.

  Hold it!!  Just what exactly are "we" supposed to _vote_ on??  Hmmm?
  Even though I just recently unlurked... I get the feeling that my
  reputation is about to be stained.  And NOT by my own doing!! 8^)

  I guess I should try to put a stop to this now, before things get
  out of control %^) here shortly. (like I really have the power to
  do that yeah right) 

  --->  What about "The Official Dryad of the RFA"?  


  Judi
  ("someday,my.sigwillcome...")
From: jholtgra@afit.af.mil (Jeremy C. Holtgrave)
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: Re: What is LOVE ?
Date: 29 Aug 92 20:41:17 GMT
Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology

In article <1992Aug18.160707.9561@uoft02.utoledo.edu> steiner@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu (jason "Think!" steiner) writes:
>ankolamb@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Guess Who ?) writes:
>> 
>> Just a question....
>> 
>> What is LOVE ??

Just another four letter word...
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Tuesday, 25 Aug 1992 21:40:35 MST
From: <ICSAA@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: Re: Woman dating separated man -- advice desired
 <1992Aug24.190351.25707@odin.corp.sgi.com>

About giving advice to a friend dating a separated - not yet divorced
man - I started dating my husband something like a week plus after his
wife left, and friends told me to watch out - we were only rebounding.
 Yeah, in most situations it's not a good idea, probably, but people are
very different, and situations vary.

 For ME, it worked out wonderfully.  My advice giving friends were wrong.
 But wouldn't it have been sad had I been the kind of person who said, "They
 must be right" and missed out on this great life I now have?  Let your
friend be.  What will be, will.


             Stefani
Newsgroups: alt.romance
From: afdenis@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (Stephen Dennison)
Subject: Re: LJBF again
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Ancient Souls Inc.
Date:  1 Sep 1992 12:25 EST  

In article <1992Sep1.092522@cs.bham.ac.uk>, jml@cs.bham.ac.uk (Jane Littlehales) writes...
>From New Woman magazine, Sept 1992, p15
> 
>'Men are three times more likely than women to misinterpret friendliness as
>sexual interest and are then twice as likely to think they were deliberately
>misled.'
> 
>One reason for men to feel LJBFed more than women?
> 
>Jane

So, Jane, does this post mean you want to go out with me ? :-) :-)

-- Stephen

	"Some people live their dreams, some people close their eyes.
	 Some people's destiny... passes by"

					"I'll Be Over You"   -- Toto

Newsgroups: alt.romance
From: dennisp@kpc.com (Dennis Preston)
Subject: Re: Woman dating separated man -- advice desired
Organization: Kubota Pacific Computer Inc, Santa Clara, CA
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 21:44:56 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.171646.20303@news.ysu.edu> ae498@yfn.ysu.edu (Dawn Bott) writes:
>
>To agree with Marcia on never knowing when the time is right:
>
>SALLY:  Look, there is no point in my going out with
>        someone I might really like if I met him at
>        the right time but who right now has no
>        chance of being anything to me but a transitional man.
>
>MARIE:  Okay. But don't wait to long.  Remember what happened
>        to David Warsaw?  His wife left him, and everyone
>        said, give him some time, don't move in too fast.
>        Six months later he was dead.
>
>SALLY:  So what are you saying? I should get married to 
>        someone right away in case he's about to die?
>
>ALICE:  At least you can say you were married.
>
>MARIE:  I'm saying that the right man for you might be out
>        there right now and if you don't grab him, someone
>        else will, and you'll have to spend the rest of
>        your life knowing that someone else is married to
>        your husband.
>
Interesting dialogue. A lot of us separated guys wished(wish) we were
dead. Too many women consider us "untouchable". Where is Marie?
>
>
>........When Harry Met Sally.................................
>-- 
>Irony is hygiene of the mind      --Elizabeth Bibesco
From:  (Angie)
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: what she wants
Date: 2 Sep 92 21:57:50 GMT
Followup-To: alt.romance
Organization: U of Notre Dame

All women are not the same.  Some ladies prefer all the cute things that
men do when dating.  While others prefer to bypass all that "cutsie-shit"
and just get on with the relationship.  For myself  - and a majority of the
women I know - I prefer all the "cutsie-shit" that a man will hand out!  As
long as he's willing to spend money and time on you, then take it!  Why? 
Well, simply because later on in the relationship, it just will not happen.
 Take, for example, my parents....loving couple that fell in love after
only dating for two months.  Sure, my dad brought dead flowers from my
grandmothers garden and left them on my mom''s desk at work to greet her
when she arrived.  Then, later on he gave her potatoe chips (Lays brand)
with a note that said:  "How aabout a Lay?"  Oh, isn't that cute?!
Twenty-some years later, my mom has not seen the sight of dead flowers or
stale potatoe chips!  So, men, give us all you've got, and Ladies, TAKE IT
because later on there will be nothing for you to receive besides headaches
and heartbreaks!
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