HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: arbrown@cayley.uwaterloo.ca (Amy Brown)
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
Subject: Re: Deep Spew
Date: 12 Jan 93 21:07:16 GMT
Organization: University of Waterloo

In article <C0rAuA.BnJ@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> dagbrown@cayley.uwaterloo.ca (Dave Brown) writes:
>In article <1993Jan12.190047.10211@scorch.apana.org.au> jarqui@scorch.apana.org.au (Jared Quinn) writes:
>>Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org> writes:
>>
>>(I'm athiest, BTW.)
>>BTW... I am Agnostic...
>
>Is it me or are there lots of atheists/agnostics on this group?  Like, for
>example, me, Jared, Andrew...(but let's please keep the atheism vs. 
>other religion flamewars in a proper place--alt.atheism, alt.flame....)
>
>Just something I noticed...
	Me too!  It's 'coz we're all smart!  ;-)  (Ducking the flames
that come roaring out of the computer)  Just kidding, I know some smart 
christians, but I just can't cope with the concept of religion.  But
like Dave said, in his infinite wiseness, let's not argue about
religion, it's a great way of busting up friendships...


>
>
>-- 
>Dave Brown
>dagbrown@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca
>Phone: (519) 747-5413
From: daniel@mertwig.uucp (Daniel Drucker)
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
Subject: Re: I shoulda just done it...
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 93 16:28:41 EST
Reply-To: daniel%mertwig@uunet.uu.net  (Daniel Drucker)
Organization: Abnormalities of Reality

Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org> writes:

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

You should be getting the 1993 phone books around now...


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Daniel Drucker        N2SXX       Coconut seashells whispering to me
daniel%mertwig@uunet.uu.net         "Forever, forever, my Coda..."
From: daniel@mertwig.uucp (Daniel Drucker)
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
Subject: exploration summer camp
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 17:03:32 EST
Reply-To: daniel%mertwig@uunet.uu.net  (Daniel Drucker)
Organization: Abnormalities of Reality


Anyone go to Exploration summer camp?


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Daniel Drucker        N2SXX       Coconut seashells whispering to me
daniel%mertwig@uunet.uu.net         "Forever, forever, my Coda..."
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: sjk6119@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Sgt. Kleper)
Subject: Re: Nifty
Reply-To: sjk6119@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 00:21:51 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.035042.2728@zooid.guild.org>, Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org> writes:
>    I was just ranged out for using "nifty" yesterday.  Bah.  I'll keep
>using it anyways.
>
>
>    Well, yesterday was the first time teaching skiing.  Well, I didn't
>really teach taht much.  The first class was more spent sorting the kids out
>into groups.  I got it pretty easy compared to some of my friends.  Most of
>my friends have 7-9 year olds that have never skiied before.  They have to
>stick with them all day.  I have 9 girls.
>    Well, I mean, on the surface, 9 girls, it sounds nice.  But you have to
>keep in mind that they're 10 or 11.  Oh well.  It felt nice to be requested
>anyways.

IN this group, there's nothing unusual about that :-)

>    The afternoon was a bit quicker, and I had more time to spend with the
>kids.  I'd rather not.  I had one shit in the class that I got under
>control, then I got three other little shits.  What makes it worse is that
>they're all friends.  If I could break them up, they could be manageable.
>I felt so illequiped the whole time.
>
>    Bah.  Only one of the ski instructors is any good anyways, and I'm
>almost positive that she's taken.  Oh well.

Gee, you seem to have gotten over the shoe girl pretty quickly.
>
>    I'm an athiest, but I do bow to three idols on an hourly basis.
>
>    Liz
>    INTeL
>    and Juan Valdez.
>
>    Liz for beauty ( you may hear more about her and me as time goes on ),
>INTeL for my computer, and Juan Valdez for COFFEE ( and that cool hat )!!
>
>    I called up Liz today and we talked a bit.  For some reason, I had a
>felling that there was a connection between Marsha ( the shoe girl ), and
>Liz.  It turns out that Marsha hangs around with Liz because she's best
>friends with Liz's boyfriend's sister.  So Liz said that she would find out
>things for me tomorow.  She thought that shoe story was cute too.

Good work!
>
>
>    My friend is suposed to bring me the sheet music for "Somebody" by
>Depeche Mode tomorow.  I hope she does.  I really want to learn to play it.
>Great way to get attention at parties ( just in case I ever get away from
>this computer and go to one ).
>
>
>    Bah.  I feel like a loser.  I think I'll stop.
>
Stop what? Saying Bah? The people in this group all sound like sheep or 
people with never ending stomach aches.
:-)

>---
>    .sig's are neat,                   | Andrew McCallum
    the idea behind the .sig is neat
>    .sig's are fun,                     \ andrewm@zooid.guild.org
    at parties
>    .sig's tell where to flame someone.  |andrewm@terranet.cts.com
>
>            SUPRESS THE POOR, SAVE THE RICH, KILL THE STRANGE
>
-Scott J. Kleper
"Sgt. Kleper"

Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: jarqui@scorch.apana.org.au (Jared Quinn)
Subject: Re: I shoulda just done it...
Organization: Craggenmoore public Unix system , Newcastle , Oz
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 18:30:17 GMT

Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org> writes:

|>I think I may have... Well we both hope... I'll have to get  her  over
|>sometimes to meet you guyz on the net... think it would be fun...  she
|>has no idea about electronic communication...

|    Yeah.  You can really scare and blow some people away with this stuff.

I think she'd be able to comprehend what happens,  I  did  explain  in
convo  with  her  and  she seemz to understand... the hardest part was
explaining how two computers can actually `communicate'

|    Bah.  It's probly just the ones that I meet.

Sounds  farmiliar...  I went thu that stage... then I started `It must
be me' then I was suicidal for a while... when I took  up  smokin  and
drinkin, then I gave up lookin for a girl all  together...  then  Peta
Asked me out...  I haven't drank or smoke for ages and life RULES!

How long is it since your last girlfriend?




-- 
Jared Quinn
---------------------------------+--------------------------------------O---O-
jarqui@scorch.apana.org.au       | A great philosopher once wrote:        i
3:622/401.0@fidonet.org          | Naughty,  Naughty,  Very Naughty!    \___/ 
---------------------------------+--------------------------------------------
Tought/Quote of the Day:
Ill play with it first and tell you what it is later.
MILES DAVIS
	

Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: I shoulda just done it...
X-To: AMY BROWN
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 01:21:00 GMT

From arbrown@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Amy Brown)
>        Well, I'm seventeen, my honey's just turned twenty-two.  We've been
>going out for just over a month now, so not too long really, but it looks
>like we're in it for the long run.  Both his major relationships have
>lasted more than a year, so he doesn't do flings...  When you get to our
>age five years isn't _that_ significant.  We're both in university, so I
>guess that helps.  If I was in high school like any self-respecting
>seventeen year old should be we probably wouldn't be going out, particularly
>since we probably wouldn't have met!  But even if we had it would be too
>difficult to maintain a relationship between two different worlds.

    Seventeen and in University?  That must be hell.


    Wow.  It's wierd that you're my age.  I always pictured you to be 21-22
or so.

---
    .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

            SUPRESS THE POOR, SAVE THE RICH, KILL THE STRANGE

Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: sjk6119@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Sgt. Kleper)
Subject: Re: Age in relationships
Reply-To: sjk6119@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 20:56:10 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.132226.1380@lds.loral.com>, kurnik@lds.loral.com (Timothy J. Kurnik) writes:
>In article 11761@scorch.apana.org.au, jarqui@scorch.apana.org.au (Jared Quinn) writes:
>> sjk6119@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Sgt. Kleper) writes:
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I never wrote that! Something's fucked up.

-Scott

>> 
>> as she goes to another school...  the slight prob  is  she's  2  years
>> younger then me (she's only 13),  but neither of us seem to mind  that
>> at  all...  tho  some  people seem to think that she's not ready for a
>> relationship as serious  as  ours  at  that  age...   We  think  thier
>> wrong...
>> 
>
>My girlfriend and I have a similar situation.  I'm 26 and she's 16.
>
>We met nearly 20 months ago when she was 14 and I was 24.  Of course, it was her
>and I against the world.  Her dad had the police visit me a couple of times and
>her mom (their divorced) was threatening to put a restraining order on me.  We
>still found ways to see each other, though.  I'd go to the mall or beach (I live
>in Florida) and she'd arrange a ride with her parents or a friend.  They had no
>idea she was going to meet me at these public places.  I'm sure it crossed their
>minds, but they weren't about to keep her secluded.
>
>Anyway, to make a long story short, she convinced her mom that I was a nice guy
>and she should meet me before passing judgement.  They invited me to dinner one
>night around Thanksgiving of 1991, and the rest is history.
>
>Her mom (and dad) both love me to death.  I see her every day.  I have a key to
>her house.  We've gone camping with her dad and also with friends.  We go
>shopping together, see movies, go to the beach, etc., etc.
>
>If you really love each other, it'll happen.  I'm living proof.  You CAN fight
>the world and win if you believe in what you're fighting for.
>
>Just a little info for you to digest...
>
>SEE YA!
>
>- T.J.
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: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 00:28:31 GMT

In article <DLy1wB1w165w@mertwig.uucp>, daniel@mertwig.uucp (Daniel Drucker) writes:
>arbrown@cayley.uwaterloo.ca (Amy Brown) writes:
>
>> In article <1993Jan3.210732.11760@zooid.guild.org> Andrew McCallum <andrewm@z
>> >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)
>
>I know a lot of Junior-Freshman relationships.
>
>> 	Hmm, my dad is fourteen (!!!) years older than my mom, but then
>> they both married late.  And my boyfriend is four years and eight months
>> older than me, and we seem to be doing okay.  I guess it's the age of the
>> people involved as well as the relative age.  I mean, thirteen vs nine
>> seems a lot more significant than twenty-one vs seventeen, or better yet,
>> thirty-four vs thirty.
>
>Yeah...although a friend of mine (10) is going out with a 14 year
>old...

Oh yeah? Well, when I was five, I went out with a 20 year-old.  Things were
getting pretty serious, and she couldn't take it, so we split up. We still
keep in touch. Kinda nice. :-)

-Scott J. Kleper
"Sgt. Kleper"

>
>
>--
>Daniel Drucker        N2SXX       Coconut seashells whispering to me
>daniel%mertwig@uunet.uu.net         "Forever, forever, my Coda..."
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
Subject: Re: Suicide
From: bigbro@netlink.cts.com (Kenneth Sullivan)
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 12:41:15 PST
Organization: NetLink Online Communications, San Diego CA

Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org> writes:

>     How many people here have ever considered suicide?  For what reasons?
> How would you go about doing it?
> 
> 
>     Just some things I'm interested to know at the moment.
> 
> ---
>     .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
> 
>             SUPRESS THE POOR, SAVE THE RICH, KILL THE STRANGE
> 

I sort of have, not seriously though, just kind of "boy won't they feel 
guilty" type thing when I am really mad at someone, or if I have an 
incomprehensible amount of homework I feel a bit trapped.  Anyway from 
what I have heard carbon monoxide poising is the best way to do it.  Just 
park a car in a garage, put a barry manilow tape in(so when they find the 
body they'll say manilow has subliminal messages in his music) and just 
fall asleep.

--                    
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Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: Time for my weekly spew...
X-To: AMY BROWN
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 22:07:00 GMT

From arbrown@cayley.uwaterloo.ca (Amy Brown)
>        Well, it's friday,thank god.

    It is?  Ack.  That was slow getting here.

>unstable.  As for methods...  I kinda fancy going over a cliff
>in a car and setting it up so there's a nice explosion at the
>bottom, like in the video for "Don't Cry".

    I don't want to go out like a G N'R video.

>Anyway, I shouldn't be encouraging
>you, suicide is a really dumb, and extremely final way out of things.

    Yeah.  I was flooded with letters telling me not to do it.  It's the
weekend and I feel a bit more stable.

---
    .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

            SUPRESS THE POOR, SAVE THE RICH, KILL THE STRANGE

Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: I shoulda just done it...
X-To: AMY BROWN
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 02:46:00 GMT

From arbrown@cayley.uwaterloo.ca (Amy Brown)
>        Hmm, my dad is fourteen (!!!) years older than my mom, but then
>they both married late.  And my boyfriend is four years and eight months
>older than me, and we seem to be doing okay.  I guess it's the age of the
>people involved as well as the relative age.  I mean, thirteen vs nine
>seems a lot more significant than twenty-one vs seventeen, or better yet,
>thirty-four vs thirty.

    Yeah.


    It's likda like those nifty curves that we were doing in math yesterday.
They slope down really fast, and then even out more and more but still travel
the same distance across.  It's like that with relationships.  The difference
is less as the age is more.

    Bah.  It's late.

---
    .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
From: daniel@mertwig.uucp (Daniel Drucker)
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
Subject: Re: Gifts
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 93 16:22:28 EST
Reply-To: daniel%mertwig@uunet.uu.net  (Daniel Drucker)
Organization: Abnormalities of Reality

sjk6119@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Sgt. Kleper) writes:

> Since nobody can really think of something to talk about - what
> did y'all get for Christmas/Hanukkah?
> 
> I got:
> 
> * A 2400 BAUD internal PowerBook fax/modem (cool!)

I just got my first 56kbps modem...



--
Daniel Drucker        N2SXX       Coconut seashells whispering to me
daniel%mertwig@uunet.uu.net         "Forever, forever, my Coda..."
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: TGIF
X-To: ALL
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 03:58:00 GMT

From gpt@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (gabe.p.torok)
>Bah.  Yikes, I have to stop using Andrew phrases.

    I'm going to convert you all!!! BAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

>I'm being rediculously boring - somebody please write and liven this place up.

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    Found 'im on the car window.

---
    .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

            SUPRESS THE POOR, SAVE THE RICH, KILL THE STRANGE

Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: arbrown@cayley.uwaterloo.ca (Amy Brown)
Subject: Time for my weekly spew...
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:20:35 GMT

	Well, it's friday,thank god.  I have a whole shit-load of things
to do, but hopefully if I move my butt I can get them done today,
at least most of them.
	Suicide.  I never seriously contemplated suicide.  My life
has never been that bad, and/or I've never been that mentally 
unstable.  As for methods...  I kinda fancy going over a cliff
in a car and setting it up so there's a nice explosion at the 
bottom, like in the video for "Don't Cry".  But that's a bit
impractical, since I don't have a car - I suppose I could steal
a really nice one tho.  Plus I don't think there are many decent
cliffs around here.  Anything else - shooting is too messy, plus
I don't have access to a gun.  Stabbing - again too messy and likely
to be slow and painful.  I suppose with the right drugs you could
do it neatly, but I don't particularly want to be found in a pool
of vomit.  What else is there?  I wouldn't want to do anything that
would put anyone else in danger.  Anyway, I shouldn't be encouraging
you, suicide is a really dumb, and extremely final way out of things.
	Back to the real world.  Or at least my perception thereof...
Miraculously, I got into the courses I want!  Yay!  So that's one little
problem I personally don't have to worry about.	
	Anyway, I'd love to stay and chat, but in 10 minutes I have a 
class and I need lunch before then.  Talk to you soon...

Amy

-gotta get me a sig!
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
Subject: Re: sigh
From: biddy@ping.actrix.gen.nz (Bridget Ingham)
Date: 7 Jan 93 14:14:44 GMT
Reply-To: biddy@ping.actrix.gen.nz
Followup-To: alt.kids-talk
Distribution: world
Organization: Private UUCP Site
Organization: 
Keywords: 
Summary: 

> 	PROVE:
> 	In an isosceles triangle, the sum of the lenghts of the perpendiulars
> 	drawn to the legs from any point  on the base is equal to the length
> 	of an altitude drawn to one of the legs.(Hint:draw line segment PF
> 	perpendicular to line segment AG.)

Is that in a foreign language or something?????

    Bridget Ingham              biddy@ping.actrix.gen.nz
    Lower Hutt,  New Zealand
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: Gifts
X-To: DANIEL DRUCKER
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 22:20:00 GMT

From daniel@mertwig.uucp (Daniel Drucker)
>I just got my first 56kbps modem...

    Are you planning to start a collection?

---
    .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

            SUPRESS THE POOR, SAVE THE RICH, KILL THE STRANGE

Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: b645zax@utarlg.uta.edu (David Richardson)
Subject: Suicide - PLEASE DON'T (was Re: Suicide)
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: The University of Texas at Arlington
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:40:00 GMT

(In response to the recent post of how/why to commit suicide...)

PLEASE DON'T!!

2 1/2 years ago my sister killed herself (she had tried before, the
first time in 1988).  Even though most of her friends knew she had tried
before, we were not prepared for this (nothing can prepare you for it).

As to why, her doctor's best guess is that she had a bad reaction to
her medication (she was on anti-depressants).

Since then, I've me more than a few people who have either survived a
friend/family member's suicide, or seriously considered it themselved (and
are glad they didn't).

The old cliche is true - Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem
(ignoring such cases as terminal cancer, etc.).

IF YOU ARE SERIOUSLY CONSIDERING SUICIDE, TALK TO SOMEONE: parents, friends,
teachers, ministers.  If all else fails, call me.

To the original poster:  I couldn't tell if your post was a cry for help
or an academic excercise.  If it was academic, please say so next time.

PS: Mary's (my sister's) memorial packed the church.  She had more
friends than we ever new.

-David Richardson, b645zax@utarlg.uta.edu (until 1/15/93),    +1 817 461 4799
1904 Silverleaf, Pantego, TX 76013-3124 USA; Watch here for new email address
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk