HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: pw@panix.com (Paul Wallich)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Desperation (was Re: Commitment--The C-word?)
Date: 14 Sep 92 13:50:41 GMT
Organization: Trivializers R Us

In article <72345@apple.Apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
>dy@depsych.Gwinnett.COM (Dr. Yes) writes:
>>aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine) writes:
>>> In article <1992Sep12.123111.948@access.digex.com> huston@access.digex.com (H
>>> >Humans, being mildly polygynous as evidenced by sexual dimorphism, are
>>> >going to exhibit male competition for females.  This does not have to
>>> >mean that males will fight.  Competition can take the form of elaborate
>>> >displays to attract the interest of females.  This is what keeps Porsche
>>> >dealers in business.
>>> 
>>> Hmmmm.....what about the females who buy Porsches?
>
>>Alfred Adler called it "the Masculine Protest."  They want some of
>>the perks males have, which is one of the motivations for the
>>women's movement.
>
>So you're saying these women want to be like men, so they buy Porsches in
>order to compete for females?

I think this goes along with the thread somewhere that all feminists
are lesbians (not to mention baby-killers and witches) who bash men
to improve their chances of glomming onto cute women. (Although what
any self-respecting lesbian would want with a woman airheaded enough
to need reorientation is beyond me)

Stef, to put it in terms you may be more familiar with, the trunk of
a Porsche is reputed a good place to store your Uzi regardless of its
configuration.

>--
>Stef                 In the force if Yoda's so strong, construct a 
>stef@apple.com       sentence with words in the proper order then 
>                     why can't he?                         /fortune
We don't need no steeenkin syntax!

paul
From: keithg@cnmhnet.UUCP (keith garrard)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: nice headlights. vroom. (was Re: What knockers!  Crreak.)
Date: 10 Sep 92 17:41:43 GMT
Organization: California-Nevada Methodist Homes

In article <1992Sep5.103409.22190@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> hymowitz@whatever.cs.jhu.edu (Hymie!) writes:
>jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH) writes:
>[about holding doors for people]
>>I'm going to start slamming them in front of everyone now; it's less subject
>hmmm... i'm from new york, and i was lectured and spit at for the crime
>of offerring a woman with a big bag my seat.  it's just something i normally
>--hymie

It's sad, but this is what it's come to in the world today.  Just 
being courteous subjects one to being scrutinized by everyone
witnessing the event.  I was working  at a garden center once, years
ago, and we sold railroad ties [for landscaping use].  Now, railroad
ties are pretty darn heavy even for two men.  Anyway, this was at the
height of the women's lib movement, where equality of the sexes was 
at the forefront of discussion and discrimination based on sex was
being looked at in great detail in the workplace.  Anyway, we needed
sales help in the garden center.  Among the qualifications was that
anyone who worked there, had to be able and willing to lift heavy
objects [such as bags of seed and fertilizer, concrete mix, and yes,
railroad ties].  Well, in walks this woman, who was perfectly 
qualified to work there, although from appearances, it seemed doubtful
that she could do the required lifting.  Anyway, she was hired, and 
proceeded to do a good job, lifting the heavy bags just as the rest
of us men did.  Anyway, one day, she sold some railroad ties, and asked
me if I would load them for her.  I refused, saying that I voted for 
the ERA [equal rights amendment], and that since she said she could 
do the job, and sold the product, that she should then complete the sale
and load the product into the customer's truck.  Well, she told the
boss, and after an argument, I quit.  It was the principle of the
thing.  Anyway, about three weeks later, the boss called me to say that
he was wrong, and that I was right.  Even though the gentlemanly
thing to do would have been to help her, that in today's workplace,
one simply can't do that.  One cannot be a gentleman in today's
working environment.  A gentleman compliments a lady on her perfume
or her appearance.  NO WAY!  NOT TODAY!  Today, a simple compliment
such as "...that's a nice dress..." depending on the flex in the 
voice, and interpretation, can land you in court for sexual 
harrassment.  Even a simple "..Good Morning" can be misinterpreted,
depending on voice flex.  
	I have to say it, let's bring back the days of Good Ole
Fred MacMurray, and My Three Sons; when the women stayed at home
and took care of the house.  Not only would this eliminate these
conflicts in the workplace, it would help with such problems as 
massive unemployment in the US today, as qualified men could assume
the positions enjoyed by women today.  
	Fred MacMurray, we need you more than ever.  May you rest
in peace.
			8-)
--Keith
From: aaron@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: chemistry / love at first sight : fact or fiction?
Date: 10 Sep 92 08:38:14 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

EMMA writes>
: Well, do you guys feel the same way?  Do you hate it if the woman makes
: it too obvious that she can't live without you?  Actually, I'm sure you
: probably do...I have heard men complain before about "clingy" women!
:  

If a woman is too dependent then it raises the question as to whether
they are interested in you or just the idea of going out with someone
and having someone to depend on. A very dependent woman can be quite
suffocating and so an air of independence is attractive (to me at least)
as this means that you can go off and do other things that you would like
to do alone without recrimination or guilt otherwise it would feel like
the woman is trying to steal the man's life away to fill the holes in her
own rather than sharing it.

In fact a woman that just seems to have a busy life doing interesting things
rather than simply waiting for The One is attractive. (but I digress).
Personally if I see a physically attractive woman in the street then I
don't instantly fall in love; instead I start thinking "how intelligent
is she? does she have interesting hobbies? creative? what of her politics?
Is she a sensitive human being?" Not until these questions are answered
could I fall in love. (Normally if I get positive answers to these questions
it turns out she already has boyfriend and probably wouldn't be interested
in someone as nice as me :-( )

		Aaron Turner		aaron@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart)
Subject: Re: Nice Guys?
Organization: my opinions only
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 02:16:49 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.203939.19336@csi.uottawa.ca>
misrael@csi.uottawa.ca (Mark Israel) writes:
>In article <jxvnggm.slf@netcom.com>, slf@netcom.com (Sharon Fisher) writes:

>> As a wise woman friend of mine once said (meaning, "I can't remember
>> her name"), "Being *nice* is not enough."  Okay, fine, you're *nice*.
>> But you also need to be *interesting*.  
>
>   Pooh.

What about her?  Are you saying that she's nice and interesting?  Is
this a suckup?

Seth		sethb@fid.morgan.com
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Moose
Date: 10 Sep 92 18:16:52 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

I actually have a large piece of moose fur at home.  Moose hair is used
for tying fishing flies.  Next time I go out I'll forgo the the cologne
(which I don't wear anyway) and just put a piece of moose fur in my pocket.
I'll be so irresistible it'll hardly seem fair.

-- 
+==========================================================================+
| John Fereira     | Auspex Systems | "Auspex does not share my opinions.  |
| johnf@auspex.com | Santa Clara CA |  So Why am I still working here?"    |
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: hymowitz@whatever.cs.jhu.edu (Hymie!)
Subject: Re: uh oh...
Organization: Creative Sensualities dept, Jacquie's House of Underwear
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 22:43:28 GMT

un030025@wvnvms.wvnet.edu writes:
>this part is me, hymie@hicktown.baltimore.maryland.usa
 
>> a friend set us up, and we've spent the last week making very shy and
>> --hymie

>Tell you what. I don't think you should have gone on the date! I have had the
>worst luck on blind dates. The girls are usually messed up in the head! Hope it
>worked out differently for ya.

well, it wasn't quite a blind date, entirely - i had met her once or twice,
and we got along well, so this friend figured...

anyway, it was /really/ cool... i had two very nice dates with her, had a 
cool (if expensive) time, eventually worked up the nerve to ask her to
hold hands with me (hey - it's a big step), and got a fairly nice
good-night kiss.

and, because of the way our schedules work out - she's taking classes, and
i work a night job - i probably won't do much more than talk on the phone
with her for /quite/ a while... *sigh*

hoping to graduate to soc.couples, but not holding my net.breath,
--hymie
hymowitz@cs.jhu.edu                                         hymie@jhuvms.bitnet
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From: wkaufman@us.oracle.com (William Kaufman)
Subject: Re: leg shaving
Organization: Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores CA
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 04:40:37 GMT
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              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.

In article <1992Sep9.195412.23057@gvl.unisys.com> liz@prc.unisys.com (Liz Loquacious) writes:
] In article <1992Sep9.190134.29178@cbfsb.cb.att.com>, weird@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (john.t.erhardt) writes:
] |> 
] |> But the real reason is vanity.  It's the same for body builders.  They shave
] |> their whole bodies to show off all those veins and muscles.  We do the
] |> same but just for our legs.
] 
] I'm crushed.  He lied to me all these years, as well as to himself and his
] USCF dad.... Really, he believes he does it for hygiene.  Whether or not
] that's the truth...who's to say.  But you bring up some good possibilities.

    They shave their bodies in the US Chess Federation?  I don't see how
that could help your game.

    And, hygiene's never been very important to any professional chess
players I've known.

] I don't really care to ask him though.  You understand, eh?

    Yeah, chess players are a pretty scary lot,...

                                           -- Bill K.

Bill Kaufman,          | "Maybetheyhadaridiculousstatementtomakeaboutsomethingt
Corporate Lackey       |  heyhadntexperiencedPossiblySamhadadifferentopiniontha
wkaufman@us.oracle.com |  tnobodyeverconsideredimportant."  -- the Meat Puppets
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.sex.bondage
From: thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow)
Subject: Re: Rocker, Tell that to My ProblemOlderWoman
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 02:54:31 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 <1992Sep3.114803.11231@uwm.edu> markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:

>Orgasm probably can't be forced, but ejaculation certainly can.

Actually, that reminds me of the article in misc.handicap the other
day about electroejaculation.  A fellow was describing how the little
electrodes were taped to the penis with things that looked like
Band-Aids, and how the current could stimulate the organ to have the
desired effect.

It kinda made my parts want to crawl waaaaaay up there for safety :-)

Ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow!

Rob T
--
Rob Thurlow, thurlow@convex.com
Across the evening sky, all the birds are leaving
But how can they know it's time for them to go?		- Sandy Denny
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Re: leg shaving
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 13:31:01 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.031255.11724@samba.oit.unc.edu> Bathsheba.Grossman@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bathsheba Grossman) writes:
>One-liners compacted into convenient ready-to-wear one-size-fits-all
>post.
>
>Sesqui a blond?  My world reels.
>

 A post be Shebaleba seems the perfect spot to open myself to the
collective net wisdom/advise.
Dream interpretation time: (before we get started let me just say wheeeeee)
wheeeeeee. OK.
So's I'm skating along and my ice skates are attached by six foot long
poles. At the bottom of my hand held poles are more skates(ice skates).
So I skate into an apartment complex that sits on a slight rise.
Now there is snow in the parking lot and maybe twenty feet around the
building. Now I'm skating along rather nervously but I'm starting
to get the hang of it. I'm looking for the car of an old high school
friend. In this dream he's working as the maintenance man at said
complex.
 
Occassionally in the process of skating around the building I come to the
end of the rise and hit the grass which causes me to run a few steps
to keep up my momentum enough to get back on the snow and up the rise
for another descent.               
 
 Now at one corner is a hot hot babe. She is skating real well(like a skyier)
silver tighted legs glued together. Swish swish. Nice petoot swaying
this a way and that. Pink outfit(hey I don't dress em I just dream em).
 So I go on looking for my friend.
 
 I can't locate my friend so I go to take my skates on poles off.
Now I'm on a big barge which is pretty crowded so I go down to the second
level find a spot and proceed to take off my stilt like things. A chinese
guys comes up and say's "hey your in my spot". 
 
I look at him and he
looks like he can probably take me so I say "I don't see your initials on it".
 
He sits down next to me and continues to bitch about it so I say "Hey
as soon as I get my skates off I'm oughtta here". This seems to make him relax.
 
At that point a real crappy yacht pulls up and through a break, in the people
standing on the rail, I see some pudgy guy sitting on a chair right on
the bow of the yacht. On each side of him are a couple of flunkies.
 
The bow of the yacht bumps up to a break in the people, standing on
the rail of the barge, and the guy talks to this old lady walking by.
 
This startles the old lady. He hands her some pieces of paper.
 
The yacht backs off and pulls away. I say to no one in particular "What did
he give her". To which no one in particular says "She just one two free
fifty packs of Budweiser"
 
At this point the dog woke me up.
 
Now the weird thing is, I don't normally drink Bud. So what could it mean?

 
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From: browns@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Stuart Brown)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Re: Clinton Screws Up! Press Reports It!
Date: 14 Sep 92 20:12:43 GMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

In article <MICHAEL.92Sep11154532@adriaan.bu.edu> michael@adriaan.bu.edu (Michael Chaplin) writes:
>In article <5239@news.duke.edu> eyc@acpub.duke.edu (EMIL CHUCK) writes:
>
>  =jxxl@cs.nps.navy.mil (John Locke) writes:
>  =>> Rush Limbaugh seems to be the only popular media
>  =>> soul who has decided to become rich doing it.
>  =>
>  =>There's a sucker born every minute.
>
>  =All 13 million of us in the 520 stations around the country.
>   
>And remember, 13 million lemmings *can't* be wrong!
>

This reminds me of my all time favorite comic strip.  It was an old Bloom County
Scene: Milo's Meadow
Somebody says something innane about how everyone is doing the latest fad.
Opus stands up and pontificates:  "When I was a young bird living on a small
island in the Antaric, we penguins would gather by the millions on the beach 
to watch Air Force jet fighters fly trianing exercises overhead.  The planes
would fly past from right to left- and millions of penguins would turn their
heads from right to left.  Then the planes would fly back to the right - and
millions of penguins would turn heads to the right.  Then the planes would fly 
far out to sea, turn and fly right at us passing right overhead - and millions
of penguins would watch looking up, up, up untill we all fell over on our butts.

"The moral of course is that if millions of people do a stupid thing, it is 
still a stupid thing!"

As Opus finishes the story, he looks around and notices that no one is paying
attention to him and the discussion of the latest "Rad" fashion continues.
He mumbles to himself "As the master parable teller completes his story, he
lies on his back in the grass and ants crawl up his butt."

	-Stu

-- 
Stuart M. Brown                             If you can remain cool when all 
U. of Manitoba, Dept. Plant Science         Around you are in panic,
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CANADA
browns@ccu.umanitoba.ca            Then you surely misunderstand the situation
From: kramersc@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Scott C. Kramer)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Tallllll women....
Keywords: Tall women are probably great
Date: 8 Sep 92 04:39:56 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center


In article <1992Sep7.165223.13630@panix.com> jis@panix.com (Jack Szwergold) writes:
>In <1992Sep7.024604.29893@peponi.wcc.govt.nz> parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>
>>Well, that depends how tall the women are who do the complaining!  From my
>>perspective (6'), 5'8" isn't very tall.   From the perspective of someone
>>who's 5'2", however, I'm sure you're quite impressive.
>
>Well, most American women think that ANY man who is less than 6' tall is
>-SHORT-  Even if she, hersself, is short.  I guess it's something in the

 Short-how can you possibly call me short(I am 5'10" and could care less
  if a woman called me a munckin...) I think I am coo, hip, and ready to
  be rocked...now there :-)))))))


>water.  But as far as New Zealand goes, aren't most of the women there
>tall anyway?  (Boy does that sound naive)
>
>Jack
>jis@panix.com

bP.S. Make that how can the women call me short....they don't know what
they're missing :-
:-)

Scott
kramersc@expert.cc.purdue.edu

"Born an Illini,
 Boilermaker by the grace of God"
From: pw@panix.com (Paul Wallich)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Why do the lurkers / so furiously lurk together?
Date: 9 Sep 92 20:27:38 GMT
Organization: Trivializers R Us

In article <las81hINN5k9@news.bbn.com> dhardin@spcink.bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes:
>In article <414@asylum.UUCP> pbreton@asylum.UUCP (Peter Breton) writes:
>>  If the figure of 100,000 readers of soc.singles per month is accurate,
>>and less than 100 people post in any given month (can somebody check me 
>>on this?), then it follows that 99.9% of soc.singlers are lurkers. So the 
>>question should not be "why do the lurkers lurk?" but "why do the posters
>>(gee, I guess that includes *me*) post?"
>
>Egos.  Frightening, frightening egos.  And a little exhibitionism on the
>side.

I'm not frightened of Dawn's ego. Not even her exhibitionism 
(although I await the airport incidents from the coming weekend
with bated breath). It's that big tote bag that _looks_ like it has
cuddly soft baby things in it that frightens me.

paul
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From: chapin@cbnewsc.cb.att.com ( Tom Chapin )
Subject: Re: Name That Diamond!
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 15:07:26 GMT

Jack Szwergold writes:
>I mean even Claudia Schiffer looks like crap when she wakes up.....

I'll believe that when I, uh, see it...


-- 
	     tom chapin                tjc@hrcce.att.com
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From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Subject: Re: uh oh...
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 10:40:22 GMT

hymowitz@whatever.cs.jhu.edu (Captain Action Figure (tm)) writes:

>since you folks are the closest i have to family and friends, i'm

Shit.  I'm sorry.  Hope things get better for you.

>letting you know that i am going on my first date since december.

>tentative phone calls to each other.  finally, she found the nerve to
>come out and say 'look, i'm not doing anything, you're not doing anything,
>let's get togetther and do something.'  so she'll be here about a half-hour

Pull the other one.  Everybody knows women never ask men out.

>oh, p.s.: she has no sisters, and she thinks i'm a nut for asking. :)

No Seesters?  What good is she then?

-- 
"(5) When the cerebellum is removed from a male frog, he starts
 looking for a mate, in or out of breeding season.  
 There may be a lesson in that somewhere."
 ........................Will Cuppy, _How To Attract the Wombat_
-- 
Kiran Wagle <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
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From: Bathsheba.Grossman@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bathsheba Grossman)
Subject: Re: leg shaving
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 03:12:55 GMT

One-liners compacted into convenient ready-to-wear one-size-fits-all
post.

Sesqui a blond?  My world reels.

>...you can't possibly know what the object of your desires is *really*
>like so you project onto them all the qualities that you admire or
>lack in yourself.  The other person then becomes the epitome of all
 >you want them to be.  
Yes, this happened to me just lately, with a quality that I greatly
admire.  He looked *happy* - saints preserve him now.

Trygve I'm ROTFL - you win, uncle, I submit.  From now on I'll run
the Turbo Mouse with the body part of your choosing.

For God's sake, Rachel, shorten your .sig already.  I can tell you're a
supergoof without spending hours paging through it  >B).

C. "Rock" Hudson, I can't reply due to the Amazing Bouncing Email
Phenomenon.

I guess the ol' lyricism circuits are in bypass mode these days...enjoy
at least the satisfaction of knowing I feel guilty about it.  Just write
me off as one of the cyclothymically challenged - and, as the
Terminator said, I'll be back.  Me, death, taxes, bad pennies, rain, and
the waves rolling in.

-Sheba the .sigless wonder

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From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Blind dates scare me!
Date: 14 Sep 92 17:21:52 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <lb7t71INN37u@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> smith@wesson.Eng.Sun.COM writes:
>Hmm . . . beats my blind date from hell! Or should I say stabs??? :)
 
This could be an interesting string...

>drive.  I get in his Beamer (no less!) which reeks of something 
>quite unpleasant :*(  

Did you ever find out what it was?

>That was about about 11 months ago.  I had another blind date a few weeks ago.
>Nice guy!  We made plans to go to dinner and then to a play in Berkeley.  We 
>find a parking spot, he opens the back door of his car and pulls out . . . 
>yep! *a black satchel*!!!  ARRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

There I was, there I was, there I was....In the congo.
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| John Fereira     | Auspex Systems | "Auspex does not share my opinions.  |
| johnf@auspex.com | Santa Clara CA |  So Why am I still working here?"    |
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