HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: elau@berlioz.nsc.com (Eugene Lau)
Subject: Re: Education and the Single World
Organization: National Semiconductor Corporation, Santa Clara
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 02:45:06 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.132743.24050@netcom.com> aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine) writes:
>Given that I've never finished my BS, and yet consider myself better
>educated than most grads, my answer to all of your questions is pretty
>obvious.
>
>Anecdote: One of the most *stupid* people I have ever met had a BA from
>Stanford and an MBA from Cornell.  Completely lacking in any form of
>common-sense.
>                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)

that's right.  many people go to college to get job training more than 
anything else.  they don't try to enlighten themselves after paying 
mega-bucks for their chancellor's yacht.

eugene

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: rfs@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (richard.f.j.soyack)
Subject: Re: Wanting mail from men for a female friend who has access to my account
Organization: AT&T
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 16:43:43 GMT

In article <Nov.14.16.34.36.1992.15621@romulus.rutgers.edu> nehs@romulus.rutgers.edu (-Killer Klondike-) writes:
>
>To all interested men out there, I have access to my friend's account and would
>appreciate any mail sent in my direction.  I'm 5' 6" blond,  ~110 lbs, does
>stair-master everyday and is a poli-sci major.
>
>-The Blond

I can't remember ever sending a spelling flame,  but the
feminine version of this hair color is blonde (I'm a blond),
so I guess you are a short thin man.

Have fun,
Rich Soyack
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: ISO MY PRINCESS
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 23:55:41 GMT

In article <Bxv2FE.E1t@access.digex.com> huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:
>
>And marsupials are *not* second-class mammals!

Now, even though some of my best friends are marsupials (well, they could
be--I haven't checked), don't they usually score in the lowest placentiles?

Trygve   (I know, I know--the tests must contain a racial bias....)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: ac@cheshire.oxy.edu (Aileen Cho)
Subject: Re: Top 9 things...
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA.
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 21:27:42 GMT


  For your information, he said this only when I finally asked him what was
up with us. He hardly was trying to build up any of the "love"--he used the
line as an excuse for why he didn't want to bother trying to make it work.
  You're a bit hasty in using the word hypocrisy.  Plus, you spelled it wrong.
                                                  --ac
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: **FIRST*DATE*IDEAS**
Date: 17 Nov 92 01:18:14 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <196@cnmhnet.UUCP> keithg@cnmhnet.UUCP (keith garrard) writes:
>In article <BxLzJ3.6zI@mail.boi.hp.com> morrison@boi.hp.com (Glen Morrison) writes:
|>Ok, so I met this lady about two weeks ago and I'm very interested in her.
|>So I need some attractive, interesting first date ideas.  I want to impress
|
|I always had great success in dating when I did the unusual on a
|date, whether it was the first date or not.  Forget the TV
|standard of "going to a movie or going out to dinner".  

You're (Keith) off to a good start.  I don't think I'll comment on the airport
stuff and how much money you're spending on the date so I deleted the rest
of the article.

I know you (Glen) are looking for specific suggestions but I think the 
more successful dates are spontaneous.  Instead of say, going to a specific
restaurant, and then to the zoo or whatever, plan on "just going out".  Make
it a lunch date so you have more time.  Go "downtown" or to another town
or whatever and just go with the flow.  Have lunch when you feel like having
lunch.  Ask her "what do you want to do next?".  It's her date too.  Let
her decide what to do next.  Most of all, have no expectations.  Just try
to enjoy the company and the time that you are spending together and whatever
happens, happens.

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From: tps@jptcs.COM (Tim Sailer)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Education and the Single World
Date: 13 Nov 92 19:33:34 GMT
Reply-To: tps@jptcs.com
Organization: JPT Computer Solutions, Port Jeff Station, NY
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Dawn Hardin (dhardin@bbn.com) wrote:
: In article <cacqncc@lynx.unm.edu> blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
: 
: >For most of the rest of us, namely myself, I'll take 'intelligent' over
: >'educated' any day o' the week.
: >Any goober with half a brain, perseverence and luck can get a college degree.
: 
: The important question is WHY doesn't this intelligent person have a college
: degree?
: 
: If the answer is:
: 
: A) Got an OK job, never had time to go back;
: B) Field of interest is something that isn't adequately taught in a classroom;
: C) Learned more on the field than he'd learn in a class;

How about.... I wasn't ready really for college, went 2 years and ran out
of money and ambition at the same time, got a good job anyway, and since then
learned more on the job than I ever could in school. People in Oak Ridge
ask for me by name for projects, so I don't think I'm doing all THAT bad... ;)

: 
: A) Thinks he knows more than the professors anyway;

At this point in my life, I just might in some cases. :)


Tim

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Tim Sailer
JPT Computer Solutions - SCO Sales/Consulting/Administration and Mangling
Port Jefferson Station, NY
(516) 331-9001
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: rohwerwd@netcom.com (W. David Rohwer)
Subject: Re: Politeness and Canterbury Apt. Troubles.  (Was:Re: What do you Am men think about Am women?)
Organization: Netcom - San Jose, CA
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 01:05:43 GMT

In article <1992Nov13.214750.2239@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
>
>Trygve    (However, it is best never to get angry when you're mad--that
>           way you lose any edge the anger gives you.) 

     How do you lose any edge?

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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: larry@b8.b8.ingr.com (Larry Billings)
Subject: Re: What do you Am men think about Am wome
Organization: Intergraph
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:06:03 GMT

In article <Bxvt4w.LC6@access.digex.com>, huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:
> 
> Here are some numbers.  The average duration of human copulation is about
> four minutes.  This compares quite favorably to our close cousins, the
> chimpanzee and gorilla, who clock in at about one minute.  However, our
> more distant cousin, the orangutan, manages about twenty minutes on average.
> (Orangs also prefer to copulate in the trees rather than on the ground.)
> 
> -- Herb Huston
> -- huston@access.digex.com


Thanks for the hint, I'll try doing it in the trees from now on.


Larry (hanging from a branch) Billings
Newsgroups: soc.singles,hsv.general,general
From: lms@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Max Stern 310-524-6152)
Subject: Re: Nightline and Presidential Cantidates
Organization: NCR (Torrey Pines Development Center)
Disclaimer: This posting does not necessarily reflect the opinions of NCR.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 22:49:07 GMT

In article <1992Nov19.145323.13846@b11.b11.ingr.com> lhughes@b11.b11.ingr.com (Lawrence Hughes) writes:

>In article <1992Nov19.080921.10505@mr.med.ge.com>, bednarek@picard.med.ge.com (Dennis Bednarek Mfg 4-6971) writes:
>> 
>> Well back on to the general subject of the economy.
>> 
>> First lets look at the difference between an unemployed
>> American and a gainfully employed American.  An unemployed
>> American cost the government over $10,000 a year in unemployment
>> and additional benifets he/she receives, and does not have
>> any income to pay taxes on.  A gainfully employed American
>> making a minimum of $21,000 a year pay at least $4,000 in
>> taxes.  That makes a difference in goverment dollars of
>> at least $14,000 dollars for each American that can be taken
>> off the welfare rolls and become productive.  If Clinton
>> can force private industry to hire 1,000,000 unempolyed
>      ^^^^^
>> Americans at a living wage that means the goverment would
>> have an additional 14,000,000,000.00.  
>> 
>> dennis
>
>And if buffaloes had wings...
>
>[an extended triumphalist reactionary rant deleted here]
>
>Larry "didn't you get a LITTLE hint from what happened to the USSR?" Hughes

Well.  I think your posting reveals a *lot* more about where you are
coming from than Dennis's does about him.  As a matter of fact, I
suspect (but I'm not certain, of course) that Dennis was attempting
satire.

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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
Subject: Re: What do you Am men think about Am wome
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 17:40:44 GMT

In article <1992Nov20.181023.18001@fid.morgan.com> sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart) writes:
>In article <By0pFF.Fzx@access.digex.com> huston@access.digex.com
>(Herb Huston) writes:
>>In article <74489@apple.apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
>>>huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:
>>>
>>>>Here are some numbers.  The average duration of human copulation is about
>>>>four minutes.  
>>>
>>>Ninety seconds is a more commonly quoted figure.
>>
>>I've rechecked my source (Jared Diamond's _The Third Chimpanzee_), and I 
>>stand by the 4-minute figure.
>
>I guess it depends on whether you average in negative numbers for
>premature ejaculators.

Well, I might have found a possible "explanation" for the 90-second figure.
It seems that Kinsey published a statistic of 75% of all men in 2 minutes or
less.  It seems plausible that some bozo would multiply .75 by 2 minutes and
convert the result to 90 seconds.  Masters and Johnson and other researchers
dispute Kinsey's result as being too brief.  On the other hand, I could see
that M&J's technique (observation instead of interviews) might lead to longer
durations.

>      (sometimes I just feel silly)

After Dr. Kinsey switched from studying gall wasps to gathering data on 
human sexual behavior, he had to do a lot more traveling.  Supposedly 
someone once asked Mrs. Kinsey about this, and she replied, "I just don't
see as much of him since he became interested in sex."

-- Herb Huston
-- huston@access.digex.com
From: dbj@cs.washington.edu (Dave Johnson)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: PRES DEBATE
Date: 16 Nov 92 19:20:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: beaver.1992Nov16.192032.11866
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle

In article <MARTINC.92Nov14160302@hatteras.cs.unc.edu> martinc@hatteras.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
>In article <92318.104242SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA (Graydon) writes:
>
>
>   plant for short term gain is generally regarded as a bad idea (at least
>   by my understanding of things.)  The planet is 'our' (everybody's) joint
>   capital plant.
>
>   If the accounting were to include the enviromental damage as a cost
>   how profitable would 'dirty' industries be?
>
>I don't know, how long *is* a piece of rope?
>
>It obviously depends on how you cost it.  Check out Garret Hardin's
>_Filters Against Folly_ for a long discussion of the problems with that
>kind of cost-based argument.  But in the short form, it depends on how
>you evaluate "damage".  For example, what is the "value" of one acre of
>wetlands, or one slightly differentiated species?  Many environmental
>activists will say that a species' value is immense, beyond valuation:
>this leads to a costing where any economic cost is less than the immense
>value. 
>
>This is the costing model that is causing all the trouble in the
>Northwest US right now: what is the value of the western subspecies of a
>particular owl, compared to the economic loss to the region if timbering
>is made impossible to protect that species?

Hmmm, I would say it is this sort of all-or-nothing rhetoric
that causes a lot of the trouble right now.  There are only a
few extremists who are proposing making timbering impossible,
and even that is referring only to public lands.  Just because
Dan Quayle said we could have owls OR jobs doesn't mean we have
to choose between them.  Most of the environmentalists are asking
that SOME ancient forests be left uncut--unfortunately, at this
time there's only SOME left, so the environmentalists are in the
position of asking that most all of the remaining ancient forests
be left uncut.
-- 
  Dave Johnson

"You're not too smart, are you?  I like that in a man."
    --Kathleen Turner in Body Heat 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
Subject: Re: Animals, animals, animals ?
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 13:54:29 GMT

In article <1ee1p6INNg8r@FUNCTOR.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU> loosemore-sandra@cs.yale.edu (Sandra Loosemore) writes:
>jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) writes:
>
>   >It takes a lot of hard work to train your monkey and sometimes when
>   >you're alone, it's fun to spank it.
>
>   I like to flog my dolphin.
>
>Well, I like to rub my pussy.  Both of them, in fact -- and they're
>especially grateful when I scratch under their chins.  (Purr!)

If you want to reward a male, "scratch him between the legs." -- Barbara
Woodhouse, dog-trainer extraordinaire, speaking about the forelegs of male
canines.

-- Herb Huston
-- huston@access.digex.com
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: finding a soulmate
Date: 23 Nov 92 23:25:50 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Nov20.160128.13449@panix.com> nancyw@panix.com (Nancy Weiner) writes:
>I am new here..second day or so ..so please forgive the format. Not sure I'm
>doing this right. 


DING DING DING DING DING


Congratulations Nancy, you are the 1,000,000 poster to soc.singles.  We've
been waiting for this day and have many prizes for being lucky one.  Bob, I
mean, Robert, tell her what she's won.

   We'll John,  our first our luck winner will received three free months of
   connect time to portal.com where she can post to her hearts content.

   Next,  Nancy, you have won the "Ronco 2000 Clue detector".  No, not the
   obsolete Ronco 1000 which was recalled by the FBI, KGB, DEA, and IMHO but
   the lastest and greatest version. What do you think about that?
    

        "...Well"

   Don't answer yet.  The final prize is ...<drumroll> ... a dream date with 
   none other than the Burger King guy.  Your chauffer, Larry Billings, will 
   gently wake you at 3:00am with his car alarm and then wisk you to the
   campus of PSUVM where you and your date get a guided tour of the computer 
   center.  After that a romantic meal will be served at the campus 
   Burger King where you will have your choice of meals *and* table service.


Thank's Bob, I mean, Robert.  Now Nancy, if you will just give us your full
name and address we'll beginning sending you your prizes.

         "Nancy Weiner, 12.."

[voice from off stage]


"What?, uh huh, I see"  

Ahem,  Nancy, I am sorry to inform you but you have been disqualifed from our
contest.  You see, previous weiners are not eligible...

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| johnf@auspex.com    | Santa Clara CA |                                   |
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From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Smiths & Joneses
Date: 19 Nov 92 00:43:31 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Nov18.190225.14601@sol.UVic.CA> atovorni@engr.UVic.CA writes:
 
|
|I have been looking through my email files lately and made a discovery...
|
|"Smith" and "Jones" appear to be names as common as they are portrayed in 
|many stereotypes...These names are also portrayed in such a way as to invoke
|images of averageness or dullness.
 
You haven't met Nina, I guess.

|To all the Smiths and Joneses in my files:
|
|Thank you for destroying a stereotype and killing some myths about your
|last names...At least in my imagination.

We'll, maybe you have.

-- 
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| John Fereira        | Auspex Systems | "Ask me about my vow of silence." |
| johnf@auspex.com    | Santa Clara CA |                                   |
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From: martinc@hatteras.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Description of the Fetal Remains from an Abortion
Date: 23 Nov 92 15:20:35 GMT
	<MARTINC.92Nov22234015@hatteras.cs.unc.edu>
	<1992Nov23.131304.9889@netcom.com>
Distribution: na
Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
In-reply-to: aahz@netcom.com's message of 23 Nov 92 13:13:04 GMT

In article <1992Nov23.131304.9889@netcom.com> aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine) writes:

   In article <MARTINC.92Nov22234015@hatteras.cs.unc.edu> martinc@hatteras.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
   >In article <MARTINC.92Nov22205408@hatteras.cs.unc.edu> martinc@hatteras.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
   >
   >   No, asshole, it's the fact that *I* had to read the description before I
   >   *knew* you should be in my kill file that upsets me.
   >
   >Since it appear to be an issue, I apologize for sullying the newsgroup
   >with the somewhat coarse word "asshole".

   Why?  Other than the fact that you're wrong, of course: no way Dougie
   could be an asshole, the way he's so full of shit.

Thank you for your support.
--
		Charles R. Martin/(Charlie)/martinc@cs.unc.edu
     Dept. of Computer Science/CB #3175 UNC-CH/Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175
	    3611 University Dr #13M/Durham, NC 27707/(919) 419 1754
     "Oh God, please help me be civil in tongue, pure in thought, and able
      to resist the temptation to laugh uncontrollably.  Amen." -- Rob T
From: rohwerwd@netcom.com (W. David Rohwer)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Top 9 things...
Date: 23 Nov 92 08:34:27 GMT
Organization: Netcom - San Jose, CA

In article <Nov.17.13.40.03.1992.27111@romulus.rutgers.edu> nehs@romulus.rutgers.edu (-Killer Klondike-) writes:
>Top 9 things a man doesn't want to hear from a woman he's interested in...
>Compiled from several different sources, my thanks to each and every one of
>them.
>
>9. Sorry, I only like to date guys who like to beat the sh*t out of me and
>     treat me like dirt.
>
>8. Sorry, I already have a boyfriend.
>
>7. Oh, he's just like a brother to me.
>
>6. Oh, HIM, he's just a friend.
>
>5. Why?
>
>4. No.
>
>3. I don't know.
>
>2. You are such a nice guyt.
>
>1. I just want to be friends.
>

 0.  I may want to have kid(s) later on or I have kid(s) now.

-1.  I am a Christian. (Of course, I wouldn't mind corrupting her.)

-2.  I am a member of OR or the pro-life movement.

-3.  I am a virgin and I will only lose my virginity to a man who loves me.

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From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: PRES DEBATE
Date: 16 Nov 92 02:07:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: usenet.BxsDxA.2K3
Distribution: usa
Organization: Indiana University

thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:

>BTW, I've always thought Baker was one of the _competent_ Republicans.

Competent perhaps, but competence is not something I like to see in
evil, self-serving, cynical, callous assholes.
-- 

Kiran Wagle                           <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.pagan,alt.romance,alt.sex,alt.polyamory,talk.religion.misc
From: thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow)
Subject: Re: Prove That Kids are Precious Gifts From God. (Was: Re: ra-ising c-hildren)
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 20:28:08 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 <1992Nov22.013945.14581@netcom.com> rohwerwd@netcom.com (W. David Rohwer) writes:

>I repeat and add, before Lubosh can say that kids are precious
>gifts from God, he has to prove God exists and that God says that kids are 
>precious gifts from HIM/HER in a scientifically verifiable way.

Why?  Who's the anal-retentive person who's going to insist on proving
something like that in a "scientifically verifiable way"?  And what's
going to happen to him if he doesn't?

You need to learn that there are many things you will come to believe
as truth which you won't have the time/knowledge/resources to _prove_
to someone who hasn't been down your road.  Some truths aren't even
provable.

Rob T
--
Rob Thurlow, thurlow@convex.com
"I get so tickled debunking bad personal philosophy." - Milquetoast
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.)
Subject: Re: These religious social activities
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 10:57:13 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <1992Nov17.022101.26831@vela.acs.oakland.edu> jmwojtal@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Wojo) writes:
>It seems that my Mom found out about a Catholic mass party for all singles and
>young adults.  I never been to one of these type of get togethers so I'm 
>writing to you about advice.  What age would mostly show up?  I'm 24, and I'm
>not interested in someone in her forties.  
>Please mail or post if you have any advice.

Yeah, don't wear your 'I Swing with Satan' Tee-shirt.
r.
From: fred@walter.UUCP (Fred Walter)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: honesty and trust (was Re: SUMMARY: What is attractive)
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 09:26:51 GMT
Organization: GRW Enterprises

taina@cs.Helsinki.FI (Juha Taina) writes:
>My conclusion is that the first impression is mainly based of
>appearance (so? what else is new?).  I was surprised how fast
>appearance lost it's leading part for character and intelligence.
><deleted>
>Another interesting aspect is that trust and honesty were very undervalued.

That's because most people haven't been betrayed enough times to have
learned how valuable honesty is, and how precarious trust is. So they
don't even think of trustworthiness and honesty as a requirement because
people are just *naturally* trustworthy and honest. Right.

	fred "Just a little cynical ? Nahh :-)"
--
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From: stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: What is attractive to women?
Date: 23 Nov 92 14:30:10 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:

>Also, they can be removed from the feet quickly enough to make a dandy and
>very deadly weapon.

Oh, in real life? Not just in the movies?

"High heel bludgeoning scene, take 15"
"Nope, can't do it. Actress broke her leg in the last take."

--
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
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