HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: zzaascd@meehpa.ee.man.ac.uk (Colin Dente)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: Norwich
Date: 1 Sep 92 19:16:49 GMT
Reply-To: colin@manchester.ac.uk
Organization: Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Manchester

In article <memo.602067@cix.compulink.co.uk>, cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk (Clive Grace) writes:
|> 
|> Hiya all, I'm back after getting home about midnight from Norwich. I'm
|> utterly knackered (dead beat) and feeling the usual bump one gets when
|> leaving Bi space and coming back into something approaching normal.

Me too :-(  What a bummer...

|> [...] Colin Dente
|> looking more like a puppy or a bear cub every day (he's so strokable when
|> he's tired)

I'm strokable when I'm not tired, too.  (You just don't often see me not tired)
:-)

|> Wow! The coffee's brewed, I must get some in me and then start writing
|> this stuff up, but in the mean time, here are a few quotes: 

Looking forward to reading it.


|> "I tell you, I'm an Alsatian really!" - Colin Dente
There goes my claim to being a bear...

|> "Oh dear me... people with furry animals" - Olaf
|> (upon seeing Kay putting his hand up the behind of a furry friend)
Ahem!  People will start getting ideas, especially when this is read in
conjunction with the previous quote

|> "I had that Mishima" - Colin Dente
Ahhh... me and Yukio...  I really must start being careful about what I let
slip... :-)

|> "Ahhh, my life as a toy..." - Colin Dente 
|> (after Bethan and I grabbed him and started stroking his delectable beard).
There goes my pretense of being a scholarly, academic type.  Sex_toys_R_us...

|> "I can handle three balls at once" - A guy called Edmund
|> (not on the net, but nevertheless is thinking about it...)
And jolly cute he was too.  Especially in his shorts...

|> I'm not desparate, but I *need* to get on a terminal *now* - Kay Dekker
|> (Kay doing a very good job of looking like a techno-junkie)

Also (connected with this) "I'm not a spod, I'm not!"  (Kay)

Kay also came out with his feeble "I'm not a tart, I'm not" quite a few times
but I've long since ceased believing that one!

|> Tee Hee - more to come...
Oh goody!  Gossiping is *such* fun.

Colin
(A very nice person! :-))
From: Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (Albert Lunde)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: BiNet USA regional meeting
Date: 1 Sep 92 15:42:35 GMT
Reply-To: Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (Albert Lunde)
Followup-To: soc.bi
Distribution: usa
Organization: BiNET
Originator: lunde@casbah.acns.nwu.edu


 "Bi-Queers out or otherwise!!"
 "BiNet needs you!"

BiQueers in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan & Kentucky we need your input 
for the "Ohio Valley Region" of BiNet - the National Bisexual Network.

There will be a regional meeting Saturday Oct 24th in Chicago.

For more information,
contact Melissa Merry (312)275-0186 
c/o BIPAC 4753 N Broadway Suite 1200
Chicago IL 60640

or send e-mail to Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu 

-- 
 Albert Lunde         | Interfaith  |     *Y*Y*      "A branch on the
 Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu |  Bisexual   |      *Y*        tree of life"
 alunde@nuacvm.bitnet |  Feminist   |.......|.........................
From: rsr@soda.berkeley.edu (Roy S. Rapoport)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: A de-muffinning, and a coming out
Date: 26 Aug 1992 21:58:49 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu

In article <b3mpbfkd@cck.coventry.ac.uk> idx009@cck.coventry.ac.uk (the Crisco Kid) writes:
->In article <17e32bINNs0p@agate.berkeley.edu> rsr@soda.berkeley.edu (Roy S. Rapoport) writes:
->>In article <awlpbr9p@cck.coventry.ac.uk> idx009@cck.coventry.ac.uk (the Crisco Kid) writes:
->>->Just wait till I've got you harnessed to my Iris, denims razored away
->>->from your legs, body coated with sweat and beer... Oh? not *that* sort
->>->of dungeon?  Aww...
->>
->>*whimper*
->
->Aww, don't worry, Roy, it wasn't you I was [tempt|threaten]ing, only 
->Matt.

*blink*

And what's wrong with me, I'd like to know? I'm sure Matt wouldn't mind
sharing :)

->>->Phone: +44 203 838668 (work) +44 203 337865 (home) |Deflowerer-of-innocents
->>-roy ... so innocent, it's not even funny.  Well, OK, it is.
->
->Find me on Furry and we'll do something about that innocence if you like...

Sigh ... I'm already horribly corrupted in Furry ... I was referring to RL :)

-- 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Roy S. Rapoport					rsr@ocf.berkeley.edu
Disclaimer:  "It wasn't me!! Must have been a fake posting or something!! I
              would NEVER say something like that!!"
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: Michigan Wom*n's Music Festival
From: pclary@mushroom.csc.calpoly.edu (Ellen Clary)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 06:39:07 GMT
Organization: Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA - aka Barnum & Bailey

osmith@acorn.co.uk (Owen Smith) wrote...
> Half the time I don't drink alcohol at all because I'm driving.
>I am absolutely rigid about not drinking and driving. So people view me
>as boring in pubs just because I don't drink alcohol often, and thus
>they don't invite me (yet another random excuse). 

Errr, I drink very rarely these days, and I still seem to usually have
a good time in pubs.  Especially if there's a Ciaran attached to my foot.
Or others attached elsewhere....
Boring?  No... haven't been accused of being boring.

Ellen
Newsgroups: soc.bi
From: mvsaf1@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (steve-o)
Subject: Re: Joke
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 21:03:26 GMT

In article <1992Aug23.085419.15065@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> ptd2@po.CWRU.Edu (Palmer T. Davis), it was written:
>>
>>   Now, "package store", that's a new one....
>
>It's a (gratuitous) New Englandism.  A package store is a (usually scruffy)
>place where you can get alcohol and junk food for carryout, and frequently
>groceries.  In Pennsylvania (home of the People's Glorious Revolutionary
>State Liquor Stores), there is a similar concept known as the ``beer
>distributor''-- they sell just beer, frequently soda (a.k.a. ``pop''), and
>maybe junk food.
>
	Ah yes, after frantically driving around looking for a store that
	had some neon beer signs in the window, I thought maybe they sold
	it in supermarkets. After stopping in two or three I asked a clerk
	"where's the beer?" she replied, "oh you _must be_ from out of state,
	it is sold at the distributor warehouse down the road." It was well
	concealed, off the beaten path in a large cement building.

	And I thought that New Hampshire had strange ways of selling alcohol!

							steve-o
Newsgroups: soc.bi
From: tweaver@nyx.cs.du.edu (T.C.Weaver)
Subject: Re: And the saga continues
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Distribution: soc.bi
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 22:02:34 GMT

sara@castle.ed.ac.uk (Swamp Thing) writes:

>Seems like what you're looking for here Iseult is a nice little *bottom*
>to whip with your crutch.

Seems to me, girl, that you're stirring |-)

> not to mention the unfortunate
>fact that none of the airlines appear to be regarding shirt buttons as
>legal currency just now, inconsiderate swines. 

Damn, how am I going to get to California now? Anyone with a large suitcase?

Tanaqui

"The shape a long serpent's, scaled all in liquid silver and black
 Smoke coils from the nose, the smell of incense, sunlight rolls down the back
 Hir gaze the weight of centuries, flames burn high in dragon's eyes...
 Hir voice the song of joys and fears, the wings a challenge to the skies"
                                                (c)  The Lady Shaklissko
From: n8946410@janice.cc.wwu.edu (Cameron Parish)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: Michigan Wom*n's Music Festival
Keywords: ooh!  grrr.
Date: 26 Aug 92 00:36:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: henson.1992Aug26.003605.21732
Organization: Western Washington University


	
In article <64628@cup.portal.com> Drakon@cup.portal.com (HARRY BENJAMIN GIBSON) writes:

>Go ahead and laugh, but think about what you are doing. If every time someone
>dolls themselves up, you hassel them about it, before long they are going to
>stop. Henlines are going to fall, no more hot pants, or mini skirts, or lycra,
>just because you made it too much trouble.
>Look, not all of us are like this. Its probably just a few guys pulling this
>kind of shit and they are going to ruin it for all of us. So next time you
>see somebody hassleing someone who obviously went out of their way to look 
>good, smack them upside their head.

	I would have dearly loved to have punched out the assholes who were
hassling me yesterday.  But please note:  they were not hassling me because
I "went out of my way to look good."  I hadn't. They were hassling me 
because I'm *female*.
	What is this 'ruin it for all of us' crap?  I don't dress for the
amusement of random men on the street.  I am not free pornography for you.

>And I would recommend that you people you are pulling this kind of stuff would
>listen up. There is one sure fire way of keeping this problem from happening. 
>We could adopt the dress code that they have in Saudia Arabia. I doubt if most
>of you would like howling at some lady in one of those black dress and veils
>and have it turn out to be someones grandmother.

	Dress doesn't have a whole lot to do with it.  I go out in
baggy pants and a sweatshirt, and I still have to put up with idiots
hanging out of their trucks and making kissy noises.   "Sure fire way."
Yeah, right.  The only sure-fire way I've heard of is the assault-rifle
method.

-- Cam
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: The Great Graham Crackers Deba(cle)te
From: pclary@mushroom.csc.calpoly.edu (Ellen Clary)
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 03:39:30 GMT
Organization: Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA - aka Barnum & Bailey

cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk wrote...
>[Kay - (the thought-Poet) writes:]
>>Hah! *You* get digestive biscuit crumbs under your foreskin and see
>>how your sexual appetite dwindles...
>
><Looks sheepish and hurt>
>B...but Ellen only gave me the cheesecake recipe s..so she could say 
>"thanks for letting me stay a coupla nights"... 
Well that was the original intention.  Just what have you been doing
when you were supposed to be making pie crust?

>Aren't we presuming something? Hmmmm? Although I know of two people here (poss-
>ibly three?) that know if I have been or not :-)

Oh dear, Clive has lost me.  Does this make me innocent?

>+----------------------------------------------+----------------------+
>| Floor Shows R Us                             |cliveg@compulink.co.uk|
>|                - aint that right you three?  |cliveg@compulink.uucp |
>+----------------------------------------------+----------------------+
>Oooh - how much more info can he give away?
                      ^^^^
I believe the word is disinformation.  Or at least a bit misleading.
(Well a _bit_)

Ellen
From: woodhous@latcs3.lat.oz.au (Joe P Woodhouse)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: Hot spots for bi's
Date: 27 Aug 92 15:23:35 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia

sara@castle.ed.ac.uk (Swamp Thing) writes:
>>>>woodhous@latcs2.lat.oz.au (Joe P Woodhouse) wrote...
>>>>>   Ellen, shall we try for seven? [in the hot tub]
>Drat, and it was only six when I was there <sulk> but six very hot bi
>babes and studs in a very hot tub ... >{8-)

   Well, by last count we had 5 definitely, most likely 6, maybe a
7th, and with luck as many as the tub will cope with.

   Of course, I won't be there to enjoy it, unless some kind soul undoes
Iseult & Ellen's fine examples of knot work...


>More interesting still: tie him up and throw him *in* hot tub in order
>to take his torture.

   <blink> Didn't think of that!


>iw@tosser.Rational.COM (Iseult White) writes:
>>Extra special torture for you.  Bondage and being forced to look at us
>>having fun and frolics in the hot tub.
>Ouch, how evil can you get, Iseult, without actually dealing him the
>rubber end of your crutch as well.

   <wince> And here was I hoping that they wouldn't think of that...

Joe.

  / Joe Woodhouse        / I'm just a sweet bisexual...   / Hello, there.
 / Latrobe University   /    (think - Rocky Horror)      / Threesomes are fun.
/ Melbourne, Australia / Music. Magic. Mathematics. Me. / I like cats! (miaow!)
From: osmith@acorn.co.uk (Owen Smith)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: Who am I anyway?
Date: 23 Aug 92 23:35:13 GMT
Organization: Acorn Computers Ltd, Cambridge, England

In article <1992Aug20.184515.14518@brtph560.bnr.ca> jbl@mesaadm.cre.nt.com
(JB) writes:

>Also, I must assume from the number of "I've just now gotten up the nerve
>to post" postings that there are those who would reply but don't dare. 
>Maybe?  Maybe not.

They can always reply by email though - in fact I've had quite a few replies
by email. I'm not sure how many of those people just wanted to switch to a
more intimate mode of communication, compared to how many of them don't
post. But I'd encourage shy lurkers to email people - your secret is safe on
email. Oh sure it can be snooped by lots of people in various ways, but
no-one ever bothers because there is an awful lot of email floating around
an average machine and most of it is incredibly dull. I know this because I
used to work on an email system, and our site was used as an alpa test site.
Sometimes I had to go in and sort things out, and as a result I saw quite a
lot of people's private messages. I can only remember one ever being
interesting, and I must have looked at hundreds. If it hadn't been needed to
do my job I would have got bored snooping at boring email very quickly.

>I would however, call this group cliquey, very much
>so compared to other boards, but let's assume this is because of the very
>personal nature of the general message, and not a paranoia of
>intruders/voyeurs.

Yes, this group is cliquey. Am I in yet? Please? Pretty please? Cross my
legs sexily with the swish of nylon on nylon please? :-) :-). I never really
got that many hugs when I belatedly de-muffined myself (sulk) HINT HINT.

>And I think Owen is a perfectly nice name for a girl (femme? lady?
>female?).  In fact, I think I'll name my first born that.

Aw, gee shucks! Isn't that cute? (Half the readers throw up over their
keyboard with their finger wedged past their tonsils :-) :-).) I really
don't know what to say. Are you pulling my leg (in the nicest way of course)
or are you really intending to saddle your first born with my name
regardless of its sex?

Owen.

(Feeling happier by the minute.)
From: J.W.Harley@newcastle.ac.uk (Jon Harley)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: Appreciate Me Now and Avoid the Rush!
Date: 2 Sep 92 15:47:19 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU

cen@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
> J.W.Harley@newcastle.ac.uk (Jon Harley) writes:
>
>[Edinburgh closest bi group to Newcastle?]
>
>+> Aha no! We are starting a bi group right here in Newcastle; Gerbil and
>+> I went along to the inaugural meeting the other week. :-b
>
>Oh, say hi to her. I never see her on any of the machines we have in common
>(three, I think) now... is she busy working on that degree thing?
>
>Tanaqui 

No, she's been on holiday with her boyfriend in darkest Cornwall. She'll
be back on the net in October.

I'll say hi for you though, I'll be seeing her at the next NEBG meeting
(now with 3 soc.bifolk!!) ...


/jon
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Newsgroups: soc.bi
From: pwiebe@ecst.csuchico.edu (s mandell)
Subject: Re: Bi pamphlet - enough already! 8->
Organization: California State University, Chico
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 13:14:49 GMT

In article <25499@castle.ed.ac.uk> sara@castle.ed.ac.uk (Swamp Thing) writes:

>Hmm.  Methinks things are getting chaotic around here.
>
Getting?  Really.  :)

S

Newsgroups: soc.bi
From: pwiebe@ecst.csuchico.edu (s mandell)
Subject: Re: Dialects
Organization: California State University, Chico
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 13:22:30 GMT

In article <18293@acorn.co.uk> osmith@acorn.co.uk (Owen Smith) writes:
>Pennines). My ears always pop as I drive up that road too. If I had to drive
>to work every day I'm not sure I could stand it - would having your ears pop
>twice a day be bad for you?
>
>Owen.

Chico to Paradise is about a 2000ft difference over 8 miles.  Sometimes
I'd do it twice in one day.  My ears popped every time.  I lived.

The winter I lived there we had something like a 22 inch snowstorm.  We
were totally snowed in, and there wasn't a bit down in the valley.

S
Newsgroups: soc.bi
From: ptd2@po.CWRU.Edu (Palmer T. Davis)
Subject: Re: Who am I anyway?
Reply-To: ptd2@po.CWRU.Edu (Palmer T. Davis)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 00:07:27 GMT


In a previous article, osmith@acorn.co.uk (Owen Smith) says:
>
>Things could
>definitely get a lot worse though (eg. I have a job, a car and a tuba).

*ROFL*  Yes, the basic requirements of survival: Food, Shelter, Clothing,
Transportation, and Very Large Brass Musical Instruments....

-- PTD --
-- 
Palmer T. Davis      ___
<ptd2@po.cwru.edu>   \X/   cthread.  cthread_fork().  Fork, thread, fork!
Newsgroups: soc.bi
From: fwi@cco.caltech.edu (Bill Irion)
Subject: Re: Lovely things found in my mailbox
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 09:46:33 GMT

orc@usite-next.uchicago.edu (David Parsons) writes:


>   So I come home from work early today, because I want to make my
>terminal emulator even sillier, and what do I find in my mailbox?
>Why, it's an INVITATION from the American Nazi^H^H^H^HRepublican
>party; they want me to attend a reception for Maggie Thatcher on
>the 17'th of September, and/or join the Presidential Roundtable
>(for a nominal $5000 yearly fee!)

>   What can I say?  Have the Republicans decided that queerfolk are
>*really *stupid and will happily give them all of our money before
>they sent the purity police around to relocate us to the new "family
>values" deathcamps?  Or do they think that nobody but the most knee-
>jerk conservative would subscribe to The Economist?  Or maybe, just
>maybe, they think they might not win the election, even with the new
>Willie Horton and/or Enemy Of Humanity waiting to be butchered for
>one or two percentage points in the polls.

[...]

Not meaning to minimize the hate-mongering of the campaign, but...

About two years ago, I got a letter that had a return address of "George
Bush, Washington D.C."  This was before I got my subscription to The
Economist.  It was a solicitation to become a "Sustaining Member" of the
Republican National Committee (or someting like that) for fifty bucks or so.
George Bush was telling me how important it was to get a Republican congress.
The letter even had a nice card with my name embossed that entitled me to all
the rights, privileges, obligations, exasperations, and incantations of
a sustaining member of the Republican National Committee.  I was so
impressed, I forgot to include a check with my letter (which I stuffed
into the postage-paid envelope thoughtfully supplied) asking them on
whose mailing list they got my name.  I never got an answer to my question,
and I never got any more mail from George.  Bummer!

BTW, if I recall correctly, a few years back the Rhinocerous party nominated
a hobo named Adam Nobody for president.  Their slogan:  "Nobody for President.
Everybody for Vice."    


--
Bill Irion    fwi@cco.caltech.edu
"Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere." - Elvis Costello
Newsgroups: soc.bi
From: rlove@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Rebecca M. Love)
Subject: Re: Hi again
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 17:37:58 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.143350.7773@visix.com> owen@visix.com (Owen Thomas) writes:
>Hey, y'all, it's me again.  You know, the much-less-interesting
>Owen.  (Hi, Owen/Gwen; my vote's for keeping your name, but
>I'm obviously prejudiced.)  Anyway, I just couldn't avoid posting
>when there were all these articles with the subject "Owen."

   Hello again Owen, I really like seeing someone here that I knew in
highschool!!  :)  See?  There were more bi's in Madison than we knew..;)

>I can't think of any views from D.C. that are particularly breath-
>taking; I mean, the Washington Monument is impressive and all
>that, but I don't really go, "Ooh!  Wow!" when I see it.  Then
>again, I grew up here, so I may just be blase by now.  I was also

   I agree about the monuments in DC, but juggling on the Mall, I have seen
some spectacular 'sights' there.  ;)

>I suppose this doesn't sound very impressive, but for someone
>coming out, it was a really positive experience to meet gay and
>bisexual people living their lives and having fun.   Well, I totally
>flubbed trying to make that sound like something meaningful,
>but I hope y'all will get the idea.

   I understand that Owen, when I first came out, I was very suprised and
comforted to see gay/bi/lesbian people being 'real'; it made me feel more
secure in who I am.

>
>Owen
>

   Congratulations again on your demuffionig and coming out to soc.bi!!

Becky

P.S.  Have you heard from Peter lately?  Tell him to write me e-mail 
sometime.
From: nigel@isgtec.com (Nigel Burnett)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: the "oh" experience
Date: 28 Aug 92 16:28:06 GMT
Organization: ISG Technologies Inc., Mississauga Ontario

> In article <1992Aug25.113329.49545@ccvax.ucd.ie> pflynn@ccvax.ucd.ie 
> (Peter Flynn, The world's sexiest academic computing manager) writes:
> 
>    Hey, do I detect competition in the bed-breaking stakes?
> 
>    ///Peter
> 

Well, I've never been involved with a bed-breaking but the darkroom counter
fell down the first time it was used for sitting on.  Friends of mine also
broke the dining room table.  I'd love to see the warranty claim!

NIgel


--
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Send e-mail to nigel@isgtec.com, uunet.ca!isgtec!nigel, or nigel@isgtec.UUCP
From: jclark@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (John Clark)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: 101 ways to tackle sexual harassment?
Date: 27 Aug 92 20:56:03 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <1992Aug27.161813.22943@rat.csc.calpoly.edu> pclary@mushroom.csc.calpoly.edu (Ellen Clary) writes:
+
+Along the lines of carrying an Uzi might be:
+Carry a large scary looking knife with the words 'Castrating Bitch'
+printed prominently on the hilt or sheat.

Or just simple sheep shears...
-- 

John Clark
jclark@ucsd.edu
From: cen@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: the "oh" experience
Date: 23 Aug 92 11:38:50 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620


 kamal@specialix.co.uk (Kamal Mortoza) writes:

[Omaha]
>>other's sexual lives. It adds an air of mystery, trying to imagine what
>>DeWolf might be doing to Elf right now.
> 
> But doesn't this air of mystery, with many people, turn into something
> dark after a while, as they imagine their spouse in sexual situations with
> a third party? For many - especially if the relationship hasn't matured in
> terms of trust and dependability, it WILL play on their minds untill it
> starts to become something destructive.

Nah, sorry. I find it interesting to imagine different people with each other.
But then, I don't own anyone and never will. I'm not the marrying type - I
find the interplay of polyamorous webs, individuals and the binary stars of
couples too endlessly fascinating.

I don't see that destruction is even a frequent end to such speculation. 

Tanaqui