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From: hays@TECHNET.NM.ORG (Larry 'Purple' Hays)
Subject: BALLOON BOINK!!!  (you are getting sleepy.  you will attend.)
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 92 18:12:17 GMT
Organization: New Mexico Technet   Albuquerque, NM
Reply-To: hays@TECHNET.NM.ORG

Fair Warning:  Shameless propaganda designed to get you to attend the
baloon boink follows...

Just in case you just joined soc.singles' (ir)regularly scheduled programming
or if you were just released from a state-operated institution, or if you've
been dead until recently or something...

There's a balloon boink October 2-4 in Albuquerque, New Mexico and it's
going to be a BLAST!  Go.  You owe it to yourself.  You're worth it.
you've earned it.  What are you doing better with your pitiful life anyway?

There'll be banannas, balloons, beauty, bonding and borderline behavior.
There'll be sunsets, salsa, silliness and sleep deprivation.
There'll be a net.band, net.personalities, net.lurkers,
net.I-dunno-somewhere-in-betweeners and probably a net.loss.on.the.investment,
but what the hell.

The good news is that it's during and designed around the Albuquerque
International Balloon Fiesta, so there will be breathtaking displays of
balloon beauty as well as humurous specially shaped balloons.

The bad news is that it's during and designed around the Albuquerque
International Balloon Fiesta, so local lodging is expensive and is getting
terribly scarce (make reservations TODAY!)  There is still crash space
available.  (Isn't there, rON?)

The worse news is that it's during and designed around the Albuquerque
International Balloon Fiesta, so much of the cool stuff happens too damn
early in the morning.  (But not the party, 'cause it's at my house, heh, heh)

What's the nettiquite regarding using the names of attendees to lure in the
unwary and indecisive?  Well, I guess discretion is in order but I do have
specific permission to say the following:...

For those of you who have missed the net.presence of Mel Cregor, be advised
that she will be attending the balloon boink, as will some other well known
net.personalities.  Put faces with the attitudes!  Realize WHY you always
thought that person 'X' was twisted.  confirm your worst suspicions!

E-mail blowfish@carina.unm.edu to get on the official mailing list, and the
memories of the boink will bring you great joy for many moons.  Your friends
will look upon you with envy and you will gain respect in all circles of life.
Yes, it is powerful, but you can handle it.


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Larry 'Purple' Hays                                    hays@technet.unm.edu

          "I shoulda toined left at Albuquerque"  - Bugs Bunny
From: gswst+@pitt.edu (Gary S. Wachs)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Planning ahead
Date: 30 Aug 92 04:53:12 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh, Electrical Engineering



Hello Folks,

I'm moving to Austin for the Fall (Sep-Dec) for work.  

It will be my first time in Texas and I'm the nosey, adventurous type, 
so it would be a big help to establish some friendly contacts in advance.

So, if you're gonna be around, write!


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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: Ross Ridge <ross@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: Major suckup (was: Re: Where the best posts come from)
Organization: ZOOiD BBS
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 07:38:04 GMT

diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams) writes:
>Actually, 'Diamond Smiles' is a pretty depressing song, and I'm not
>nearly as depressed a person as I was back when I first selected a
>userid... anybody got any better ideas?  Maybe I'll just have them
>change my userid to my last name.  Boring, but simple.

I'd say keep the name and find a better song.  Maybe Pink Floyd's
"Shine on you Crazy Diamond", or the Beatle's "Lucy in the Sky with
Diamonds".

							Ross Ridge

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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams)
Subject: Re: The Dawn of Suckups (Was: Re: Bananas)
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 10:35:28 GMT

In <1992Aug29.125914.18314@uwm.edu> markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:


>Yes!  Ho. Ho.  Yes!  You too can be a recipient of a major suckup.  Just check
>for my name on the package.  One of YOU, will receive a delivery in the mail
>before the end of the month.  Yes!  Ho. Ho.

	Dear Santa Claus, aren't you a wee bit early for Christmas?:-)
From: wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Las Vegas
Date: 30 Aug 92 00:59:25 GMT
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Kiran Wagle (kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu) wrote:
: wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien) writes:
: >Sure!  The closer you get to the Houghton area, the better.  Bonus points
: >for McClean's Park, that'd put you within two miles.  :-)
: 
: I was in Houghton a couple years ago, stayed at McLean.  Beautiful
: country.  Great cinnamon rolls at the Hilltop in L'Anse, and of
: course, pasties at Suomi.  And for bridge lovers, the largest lift
: bridge ever, i think.

Hunh.  Small world, isn't it?  That makes you the second person from 
soc.singles that I know has been there, and I'm not sure how close
Cindy has been/will be on her trip to dah great U.P.

I think it's the heaviest lift bridge, though not the longest.  It replaced
a bridge which rotated, until it didn't and was hit by an ore-carrier. This
was considerably before my time;  I've never figured out how people got back
and forth while they built the new one :-)

As for eating places, the Library is definitely worth the trip.  If you like
folk music, try for Thursday and sit upstairs.  At least, that's when Gary
Tunstall used to play when I was there...

Bill
: 
:  
: -- 
: Kiran Wagle     <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>     (812) 335-0420
-- 
"Bless me, Father; I ate a lizard."
"Was it an abstinence day, and was it artificially prepared?"
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Bill de Beaubien / wjb@moscom.com
From: sms@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (steven.m.stein)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Trip to KOKOMO, INDIANA (Correction)
Keywords: Things to do !
Date: 2 Sep 92 19:07:47 GMT
Distribution: in
Organization: AT&T

I might be leaving Thurs. Sept. 3 (not Wed the 2nd.).  If I do go,
I will read messages up until early Thurs. morning.  Thanks in advance
for your suggestions.

				Steve
				
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Re: Commitment--The C-word?
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 15:33:06 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.135049.15495@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes:
>
>-Nance
>Chicago Tribune, August 27th, DuPage County section, Page 6, last four
>paragraphs.  Read it!!!  :-)

I did. Remember the little people. That'll teach those namby pamby...
 
================================================================================
 Sesquipedalian's 'R' Us. ZX-10. DoD#564. There ain't no more.
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.)
Subject: Re: Powerful forces of nature conspire
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 15:55:13 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Oh, yeah, and what is a 'sweltering hot' day in Wisconson? 
50 degrees?
r.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: barry@netcom.com (Kenn Barry)
Subject: Re: Desperation (was Re: Commitment--The C-word?)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 02:43:40 GMT
Organization: QQQCLC

In article <1992Aug25.183926.12962@mdd.comm.mot.com> rudoff@mdd.comm.mot.com (Doug Rudoff) writes:
>[3 stories of "desperate" women deleted]
>as long as I'm
>attracted to the desperate person, I have no problem with desperation.
>But when the attraction is one-sided, it's best to avoid the person.

	I don't get it. Read your anecdotes, failed to find any sign
of desperation in the women's behavior. The only real point to the
stories I saw was the one you almost make in the quote above: what
you have actually described are one-sided attractions; desperation
has nothing to do with it.

						Kayembee
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: schock@cpsc.UCalgary.ca (schock)
Subject: Re: Homesickness!
Organization: The University of Calgary
	<1992Aug23.214603.13165@uwm.edu>
	<1992Aug23.194241.21010@walter.cray.com>
	<SCHOCK.92Aug25232424@fsd.cpsc.UCalgary.ca>
	<thurlow.714947137@convex.convex.com>
	<1992Aug27.225109.27562@watson.ibm.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 00:00:11 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.225109.27562@watson.ibm.com> motani@watson.ibm.com (Muiz Motani) writes:
>   In  <thurlow.714947137@convex.convex.com>  thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:
>   > In <SCHOCK.92Aug25232424@fsd.cpsc.UCalgary.ca> schock@cpsc.UCalgary.ca (schock) writes:
>   > 
>   > >WoW!  Try out SaltSpring Island, British Columbia, Canada.
>   > ....
>   > >ohh...  I miss 'ol SaltSpring Island already.
>   > 
>   > (sigh)  So do I.  Dammit, the one period in my life I'm not free to go
>   > back home, and people are talking about the Canadian Rockies and about
>   > Banff and about the Gulf Islands! 

>   Sighhhhhhhhhh....Now you've got me going! I miss the Gulf Islands so much that 
>   even my machine on the LAN is named after one of them: GABRIOLA!

Yeah... the islands are sooooo nice.  I'm usually at SaltSpring in the last 
2 weeks of August every year...  You may notice that those two weeks are now and 
I'm typing on a computer :-(.  I guess I just don't get my vacation this year :-(

Geeee... It's nice to know there are others out there who feel the same way I do.  
Thank goodness we're not alone :-) 

So, where exactly is "home" for you two?  I'm here at my first home (Calgary) but
I can't leave to go to my second home (SaltSpring). 

>   > Anybody got a real good homesickness remedy?

>   Yes......just bake yourself a batch of Nanaimo Bars and enjoy!

Yeah... I've been pigging out on those lately!  I can post a recipe if anyone needs it! :-)

Craig

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: fredw@mks.com (Fred Walter)
Subject: Re: Various ramblings...
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 01:44:32 GMT

dy@depsych.Gwinnett.COM (Dr. Yes) writes:
>I may be wrong on this but my take is that visible intelligence
>has become socially acceptable.

Yes, but ... the context behind what I said was Kevin Brown wanting
to be in a relationship. And him saying something to the effect that
he didn't want to come across as a smart alec. Visible intelligence
may be socially acceptable *if* you don't rub the other guys nose in it.
Many of the guys I know that are noticably above average intelligence tend
to do that (sort of like "I'm better than you because I'm smarter").
Sometimes they don't even have to do anything to rub the other guys nose
in it, they can let the other guys insecurities do it for them.

>Therefore the practical value of intelligence seems to become more apparent.

Yes, the financial success that often is the result of intelligence
practically applied does become more apparent - to your friends and
family who start wanting to borrow money from you. (Yes, I know
this isn't exactly what you meant).

>In other words I think your discourse is a little outmoded.

My discourse is a little outmoded if you live in a perfect world where
people's insecurities don't cause them to feel 'less' if someone else
is 'more'. The people I deal with don't live in that perfect world.

	fred
-- 
Disclaimer: everything I write is my *personal* opinion and does not represent
or reflect the opinion of the company which employs me.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: fredw@mks.com (Fred Walter)
Subject: Re: Various ramblings...
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 20:23:01 GMT

dy@depsych.Gwinnett.COM (Dr. Yes) writes:
>fredw@mks.com (Fred Walter) writes:
>> Visible intelligence may be socially acceptable *if* you don't rub the
>> other guys nose in it. Many of the guys I know that are noticably above
>> average intelligence tend to do that (sort of like "I'm better than you
>> because I'm smarter").

>> Sometimes they don't even have to do anything to rub the other guys nose
>> in it, they can let the other guys insecurities do it for them.
>
>But that _was_ my point, that the intelligent person didn't need
>to actually _do_ anything, just obviously _being_ intelligent was
                                                               ^^^
>enough to affront some people.

Not 'was'. 'is'.

At least amongst some of the people I associate with. (Relatives, and
other people with with low/no self-esteem and bad self-images).

>intelligence has greater survival value and becomes for that
>reason a sexual attractiveness plus.

Intelligence (in my observation) is a noticable "sexual attractiveness plus"
only to people who themselves are intelligent.

>The friends you describe as having an old-fashioned resentment for someone
>whom they suspect may be more intelligent than they are are probably working
>in fields where there is a relative labor shortage so minimal skills
>are still comfortably rewarded.

Or they are unemployed. Or they have low-to-no self-esteem (that 'if they
are doing better than me than I am doing *worse* than them and am less of
a person' problem). Or they have a bad self-image (see the previous sentence).

	fred
-- 
Disclaimer: everything I write is my *personal* opinion and does not represent
or reflect the opinion of the company which employs me.
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Lurkers...
Date: 25 Aug 92 17:19:53 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Aug25.154359.17510@news.acns.nwu.edu> drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max) writes:
|In article <1992Aug25.113916.15376@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> ron@turing.toronto.edu (Ron Wessels) writes:
|>Dear Dawn,
|>    I saw your posting on  fear of e-mail ,
|>and I just had to complement you on such a concise and well-thought out 
|>article.  I also feel as you do in this matter.  In fact, since we seem
|>to have so much in common, perhaps we could get together for lunch some
|>time?  If you send me your home phone number by return email, I will
|>call and arrange it.
|>
|>    I'm looking forward to hearing from you.
|>
|>						Sincerely,
|>						Ron Wessels
|
|Either this guy has a female friend who shares her email, posts under a
|female name sometimes, or is the source of all those "please write back to
|me, I'm a nice guy" email messages that I get cause he's got the tone down
|perfectly. 

Actually that pretty much how I figured what the form letter messages
would look like.  Sort of like BIFF's interpretation of the neophyte
net user.  It's pretty easy to create a stereotypical "nice guy", especially
if you've read the net for awhile. 

-- 
+============================================================================++
| John Fereira            "Is that all you ever think about?"                |
| johnf@auspex.com                                                           |
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: Ross Ridge <ross@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: Commitment--The C-word?
Organization: ZOOiD BBS
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 21:15:54 GMT

michele@dgbt.doc.ca (Michele Guillet) writes:
>And my parents never quite accepted that their daugther became an
>engineer. Not a profession for a woman. My father eventually got used to 
>the idea.

*shudder*  The more I hear about other people's parents the more I
realize how my parents really aren't that bad...

>I have been living alone since I can afford it and there are a lot of things
>I like about living alone. I have a house and a dog and have never been married
>or in a bad relationship.

'Course the question is, have you even been in good relationship?

								Ross Ridge


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From: wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Rocker, Tell that to My ProblemOlderWoman
Date: 3 Sep 92 00:10:10 GMT
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Stef Jones (stef@Apple.COM) wrote:
: drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:
: 
: >3. Also would You PLEASE esplain to my problem older woman that
: >merely as she has not had 'sex' in a week is NO excuse for her
: >to Flaunt Herself at me in her Vain Efforts to Force an Orgasm on me.
: 
: Oh drieux, have pity on your problem older woman. After all you are a role
: model for Shy Naive Young Men everywhere.

Well, a roll model in this case.
 
: Stef    --    aarrrooooo!
: stef@apple.com
: 
: PS Besides, would you rather have her Flaunt Herself or would you rather
: have to throw old shoes at her because she is Howling in the Alley?

No problem, just crank the stereo :-)
-- 
"Bless me, Father; I ate a lizard."
"Was it an abstinence day, and was it artificially prepared?"
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Bill de Beaubien / wjb@moscom.com
From: bmeyer@feds12.prime.com (Robert A Meyer x2557 14-13)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Boston Baby Boink!
Keywords: Paaahty, Baaahston, Wicked Pissah!
Date: 25 Aug 92 22:49:05 GMT
Reply-To: bmeyer@feds12.Prime.Com (Bob Meyer)
Organization: Prime Computervision, Bedford MA


 
    You've heard all the rumors...

    You've read all the hype...

    Now it's here... 

    The Boston Baby Boink  
    the weekend of Sept 12-13 1992
    In Boston ... Massachussetts!

    Meet Dawn Hardin and other net.personalities and lurkers alike at our
    centerpiece attraction, the saturday night party in rockin' East Boston 
    (easy airport access!) 

    Gape at the subject of the original "deformaties and perversions" posting!

    See the debut of Allisson Roome's new party tricks!

    Hear Karen Gorman say "Let`s just be friends!"

    Answer the Questions: "Are there any intellegent men on the net?" and 
                          "if so, why aren't they here?"

   There is crash space for those who need it and even more exciting events are
   being planned ... as you read!

   Please rsvp to bmeyer@feds12.Prime.Com

   Hope to see you there!

   Bob 

   A prize will be given for the person traveling the farthest for the boink
   - so far looks like Texas.
    
  > BOINK = soc.singles gathering where people, who've read and/or
  >         post to soc.singles <from the hyper-active ala Larry Margolis
  >         to your garden-variety lurker types>, congregate for a weekend
  >         to meet and enjoy the company of other people from the newsgroup.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: gclapp@javelin.sim.es.com (Glenn Clapp)
Subject: Re: Tallllll women....
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 18:27:17 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.222325.27967@advtech.uswest.com> rray@lookout.it.uswc.uswest.com (Randy J. Ray) writes:
>In article <tvkn3!c@lynx.unm.edu>, blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
>> Ahh, sigh.
>> Was watching one of the syndicated talk shows (Montel Williams). They was
>> talking to, sigh, tall women. There was one 6'9", one 6'3", and 2 6'2" women.
>> They was complaining they can't find good tall men. 
>> 
>> Me? I was screaming here on the other side of the screen 'YO! Over here!'
>> 
>> sigh.
>> r. (6'4", btw :)
>> 
>
>Coming back to the office from lunch, I passed an attractive woman who was only
>about 1/2" shorter than I. I looked... no heels. Flats. The lady was 6'2" or 
>better, and wearing sandals! *sigh*
>
>Randy
>6'3"

Aaah yes.  Tall women.  How would it be?  I know some, dated some.  Most
of them that I know are in their teens!  (bummer).  The rest?  Not one
thing in common.  I once told myself I'd only date >6 footers, then 5'10,
now no such limits.  I have found the average and even shorter women to
be much more fun (and more readilly available).  But... tall women... *sigh*

Glenn
6'10"  (209 cm)



-- 
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= Glenn Clapp                          |  gclapp@thunder.sim.es.com         =
= Evans and Sutherland Computer Corp.  |  My opinions are my own, but then  =
= Salt Lake City, Utah  (801) 582-5847 |  that's my opinion.                =
From: stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Where the best posts come from
Keywords: intelligence insight
Date: 31 Aug 92 22:19:37 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

enigma@halcyon.com (Matt Luders) writes:

>Keith Garrard writes:

>> A little note though, the most interesting posts come from "Angelwing".

>In my humble opinion, the most interesting posts come from stef@apple.com.
>She's thoughtful, articulate, and witty--a clear, strong signal in a
>cacophony of noise.

Gee, thanks! I'm glad you appreciate my posts.

However, have you noticed that Angelwing and I *never post at exactly the
same time*.......?

:-)

Stef
stef@apple.com
--
You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him to find it within
himself. - Galileo
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: chapin@cbnewsc.cb.att.com ( Tom Chapin )
Subject: Re: SOC.SINGLES
Organization: Dis...
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 14:37:44 GMT

Stef Jones writes:
>I think the newsgroup you want is alt.bottom-feeders.

Sounds delightfully kinky.  Where might that newsgroup be found?

-- 
	     tom chapin                tjc@hrcce.att.com
From: wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Kiran Wagle (from Prakash)
Date: 3 Sep 92 02:05:13 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Stef Jones (stef@Apple.COM) wrote:
: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) writes:
: 
: >I must compliment you on your logic
: >trail. It's sorta curvaceous.
: 
: It's getting more and more difficult to tell apart suckups and flames
: around here.

That's because suckup-meters are calibrated using chars... somebody's 
suckup-meter wrapped, and is causing all sorts of confusion :-)
-- 
"Bless me, Father; I ate a lizard."
"Was it an abstinence day, and was it artificially prepared?"
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Bill de Beaubien / wjb@moscom.com
From: wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Boink?
Date: 1 Sep 92 20:30:13 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Aahzmandius (aahz@netcom.com) wrote:
: I'm going to be traveling back East to Detroit and Toronto at the
: beginning of October; won't be long enough in Detroit to have a Boink
: (though I'd like to meet people), but if there's enough interest maybe
: something can be arranged in Toronto.
: 
: I'll be in Toronto from Oct. 1 to 4, then in Detroit until the evening 
: of the 5th.

Well, Contradiction Twelve is in Niagara Falls from Oct 2-4 :-)
-- 
"Bless me, Father; I ate a lizard."
"Was it an abstinence day, and was it artificially prepared?"
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Bill de Beaubien / wjb@moscom.com