HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: liz@prc.unisys.com (Liz Loquacious)
Subject: Re: Tallllll women....
Followup-To: soc.singles
Organization: Paramax Systems
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 15:00:27 GMT

In article <18jfqiINNi0o@peponi.wcc.govt.nz>, parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz writes:
|> 
|> I find, in NZ anyway, that larger sizes don't have longer legs - highly
|> frustrating.  I've seen trousers with a waist circumference about twice the leg
|> length - when will they realise that not everybody who shops in 'larger
|> fitting' shops is round?  Admittedly I'm cuddly, but my leg length is certainly
|> MUCH more than my waist measurement!!

Yeah, mine too!  I can't shop in tall shops because I'm not a big enough size 
but from what I've seen the selection of clothes is rather yukky, over here 
anyway.  For dresses and skirts I don't seem to have a problem although it sure 
looks like a lot of leg sticking out beneath some of my minis sometimes!  

|> Why don't clothing manufacturers make allowance for tall people?  I know SO
|> many short and average height women who complain that most clothes are too long
|> - at least they can be taken up, there's never enough hem to let down!!

Yup, one of my pet peeves too!

Liz Loquacious
From: pw@panix.com (Paul Wallich)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Cooking for 1!
Date: 4 Sep 92 20:39:19 GMT
Organization: Trivializers R Us

In article <1992Sep4.154052.19331@u.washington.edu> intrigue@milton.u.washington.edu (Angelwing) writes:
>
>Angelwing - Garlic me 'til it hurts!
>

Fair enough. I'll put you on the standing invite list for
the next roast chicken with too much garlic (six bulbs
last time, but it wasn't a big bird) and you can even
take some puree home with you.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark)
Subject: Re: Irish ways
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 12:12:56 GMT

In <29135@hydra.Helsinki.FI> taina@cs.Helsinki.FI (Juha Taina) writes:
>How about telling us about Ireland and the Irish ways?  I'm sure that
>a lot of people are interested.

In article <ewillims.716211206@unix1.tcd.ie> ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:
>	Sure!  What do you want to know exactly?

When are you moving out? :)
From: hymowitz@whatever.cs.jhu.edu (Captain Action Figure (tm))
Subject: uh oh...
Reply-To: hymowitz@cs.jhu.edu (Captain Action Figure (tm))
Organization: Creative Sensualities dept, Jacquie's House of Underwear
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 19:59:03 GMT

hello all...

since you folks are the closest i have to family and friends, i'm
letting you know that i am going on my first date since december.
i suppose it's a bit late in the game to ask for last-minute advice?

a friend set us up, and we've spent the last week making very shy and
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
any minute now, and i'm relaxing the only way i know how - readnewsing.

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

--hymie
hymowitz@cs.jhu.edu                                         hymie@jhuvms.bitnet
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Ring for sale (The ballad of a Guy & Girl)
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 92 22:05:48 GMT

In article <4149@moscom.UUCP> wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien) writes:
>trygve lode (tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu) wrote:
>:   My favorite, though, was "Engagement 
>: ring, appraised at <somethingorother>; will trade for guns."
>
>You could probably trade Broward for his baseball bat, wherever he wandered
>off to...

But I thought Broward donated his bat to some needy soc.singler out there.
(Though I can't say that I've seen it get any use for some time--you don't
suppose that somebody just found a new use for it?) 

>Ever notice how occasionally people just vanish?  Spooky...

Yeah, I know--it's like one moment they're posting up a storm and all
of a sudden, just like that, they're gone.  Maybe there's some 
psychotic killer or mysterious extradimensional force that is going
after the contributors to soc.singles one by one.  Hmmm...could be a
basis for a best-selling horror novel or hit movie--let's see, I wonder
if I cou
From: stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Desperation (was Re: Commitment--The C-word?)
Date: 6 Sep 92 00:37:43 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

wall@hel4.brl.mil (Jeff Wall) writes:

>Question:  Where do the people on the net who are out of school ( god I miss it
>:-( ) go to meet MOTOS??  

In the four years I lived in New Haven, I never dated a man who lived
there. I had to move first to Montreal and then to the San Francisco Bay
Area in order to get my romantic life going.

--
Stef					"One of us has to be a pragmatist."
stef@apple.com				"Nonsense!"
From: jis@panix.com (Jack Szwergold)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Losers of the world UNITE!!!
Keywords: Losers, World, People
Date: 7 Sep 92 00:52:47 GMT
Organization: Panix, NYC

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READ ME READ ME READ ME READ ME READ ME READ ME READ ME READ ME
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Hey people.  I've decided to try and start a new thread here, so
here it goes....
 
What do you find that you do differently when you are single as
compared to when you have an SO?
 
Meaning, do you notice certain activities fade away into
obscurity when a loved one bekons....
 
OR.....
 
Do you notice certain activities growing when you have a lot of
free time on your hands....
 
POST REPLIES IF YOU DARE!
 
:)
 
Jack
jis@panix.com
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Tallllll women....
From: parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz
Date: 9 Sep 1992 00:17:22 GMT
Reply-To: parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz
 <1992Sep3.182717.24436@javelin.sim.es.com> 
 <1992Sep7.024047.29667@peponi.wcc.govt.nz> <Bu7H2I.CKF@tik.vtt.fi>,<1992Sep8.135952.3076@gvl.unisys.com>
Organization: Wellington City Council, Wgtn, NZ
NNTP-Posting-Host: blade.wcc.govt.nz


In article <1992Sep8.135952.3076@gvl.unisys.com>, liz@prc.unisys.com (Liz Loquacious) writes:

>I found there to be a lot of tall women in Holland.  What I liked about
>living there was being able to buy dress pants off the rack which weren't
>already hemmed up above my calves or with the crotch between my knees!
>I didn't mine paying for hemming (~$7); it was worth it to get the selection
>finally!

That makes sense - I think my Dutch father's family gives me my height.


I find, in NZ anyway, that larger sizes don't have longer legs - highly
frustrating.  I've seen trousers with a waist circumference about twice the leg
length - when will they realise that not everybody who shops in 'larger
fitting' shops is round?  Admittedly I'm cuddly, but my leg length is certainly
MUCH more than my waist measurement!!

Why don't clothing manufacturers make allowance for tall people?  I know SO
many short and average height women who complain that most clothes are too long
- at least they can be taken up, there's never enough hem to let down!!



Bah!  Humbug!




- Rachel
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: gclapp@javelin.sim.es.com (Glenn Clapp)
Subject: Re: Tallllll women....
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 18:38:37 GMT

In article <1992Sep8.001529.5699@cs.rose-hulman.edu> strickha@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Heath A. Strickland) writes:
>
>In article <1992Sep7.024047.29667@peponi.wcc.govt.nz>  writes:
>> In article <1992Sep3.182717.24436@javelin.sim.es.com>,  
>gclapp@javelin.sim.es.com (Glenn Clapp) writes:
>> 
>> >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)
>
>I would like to find a tall women to see if this is true but long legs are  
>sexier (Love lurking)
>
>Heath
>6'2"
>

I sure don't mean to imply any sort of stereotype here.  I certainly haven't
dated enough of either to establish any meaningful trends, I have just had
more genuinely good times with the shorter women.  Maybe it is that the
shorter women are used to being with taller men, whereas taller women are
somewhat uncomfortable with someone taller or rather, MUCH taller.  I dunno.
I think more experimentation is in order.

Glenn


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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Re: 'What the hell kind of a world do we live in...'
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 18:31:31 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.171714.9998@linus.mitre.org> wtr@mitre.org (Bill Ralston) writes:
>in article <=mvn12g@lynx.unm.edu> blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) posts
>
>[a story too depressing to repeat]
>
>We live in the kind of a world where after a day like you described could be followed by spending a most wonderful day with loved ones enjoying the nicest day of the summer and seeing all that's beautiful in life.  Some AIDS patients who have come to an acceptance of their diagnosis find in each day something special and wonderful about life.  For them each day is special, because it could be their last.
>
>I think most of us go through life thinking we are immortal (we certainly 
>think we're immortal as adolescents) until through either the untimely 
>death of close friends or our own near death experiences that we begin to 
>realize that our time is limited.  Some of the sadness we feel at times of 
>loss may be the process of accepting that our own life is finite.  For 
>some, that is the point at which they decide to accept what life offers 
>them and find joy within it rather than focus on the many negatives that 
>surround us.
>
>Bill

Bill do you go to a lot of party's?
 
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From: infante@acpub.duke.edu (Andrew  Infante)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: chemistry / love at first sight : fact or fiction?
Date: 10 Sep 92 14:57:30 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

trygve - how do you pronounce your name?

phonetically that is. ;)

later.

andy
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Dill Dough
From: wall@hel4.brl.mil (Jeff Wall)
Date: 11 Sep 92 13:39:00 EST
 <1992Sep9.210738.3962@panix.com> <BuCL8F.4Lu@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Sep10.150340.27145@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>
Distribution: world
Organization: U.S. Army Human Engineering Lab  Aberdeen, MD

In article <1992Sep10.150340.27145@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> smith@comm.mot.com
(Jeff Smith) writes:
>In article <BuCL8F.4Lu@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, kramersc@expert.cc.purdue.edu
(Scott C. Kramer) writes:
>|> In article <1992Sep9.210738.3962@panix.com> pw@panix.com (Paul Wallich)
writes:
>
>|> >The Midwest!?!? You mean the place where people still wear white
>|> >shirts and narrow ties and think it's about 1957? Where a good
>|> 
>|>  Dude!!!! How can you be so insensitive to people like myself who
>|> have lived in the midwest all my life???  I am deeply offended by that
>|> remark and demand an apology on my behalf and other fellow midwesterners..
>|> at least we have values here in the midwest....
>
>How can you complain about people using stereotypes after THAT statement?!
>Please...
>
>|> this is 1990, BUD, and I  
>|> happen
>|> to be a very hip person when I want to be and does that mena I wear white
>|> shirts and narrow ties? NOOOOOOOT!
>
>|> 
>|> >time is watching cows sleep? Where people don't applaud a standup
>|> >comic but just smile and nod to each other at how funny that last
>|> >joke was? Pickles aren't even in the game.
>|> 
>|>  IF you think ALL midwesterners think alike, you are definitely WRONG...
>|> Chill out, ok?? Thanks....:-)
>
>Hey, speaking of chilling out...there's this little thing called humor, see.
>IT WAS A JOKE! Geez...

Even though it was a joke and Scott kinda got excited he does make a point.  I
used to live in the midwest (Ohio) until I moved to Maryland a year and half
ago.  The life style is pretty much the same except the pace is slower in the
midwest.  On the east coast everybody always seems to be in a hurry and I've
found them to be a lot more closed, not nearly as open as people in the midwest
are.  But on the other hand I think the east coast is more fun.  there is
definetly more to do and see the culture is more diverse.  

But I always wanted to go cow tipping and never did :-)  Oh well, can't do it
all.

Jeff Wall
wall@hel4.brl.mil
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: A lurker goes to California
Keywords: Good luck !!
Date: 9 Sep 92 20:01:04 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <ntsnctq.tyger@netcom.com> tyger@netcom.com (Kitty in the Middle) writes:
|In article <BuB1sn.FpE@acsu.buffalo.edu> v105l4lg@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (c pierre) writes:
|>In article <BuALv8.A07@acsu.buffalo.edu>, lewocz@acsu.buffalo.edu (John S. Lewocz) writes...
|>>Hi All,
|>
|>>I'm scheduled for an interview with a Bay Area company next Fri, the 18th,
|>>and, this being my first trip to the state of California, I was wondering
|>>in anyone would volunteer to show me the sights.  I'll be arriving around
|>>noon on Thursday and leaving late Sat evening. 
|>
|>	Greetings there good buddy !!
|
|Put the CB *down*, C!
 
There's an old CB joke that goes...

Q: What is a good buddy?
A: A good buddy is a guy that goes out, gets two blow jobs, and comes back
   and gives you one.


|>	If you can, try and rent a car and buy a map in the process, because	
|>that place is quite treacherous. Yes, in the blink of an eye you would be
|>naked and broke around those folks. Party animals you see !!
|
|That's a flaming lie! We only want his money! :)
|
There may also be some ProblemOlderWomen around that would prefer that
he was naked as well.

|>	 I again suspect that you would be looking for an eyeopener too, so
|>drive to Navada and look for the M. Ranch. Dude, you would leave there with
|>a profound smile on your face, languishing in the after thought. On your way
|>in ask to speak to the young woman in charge then just mention my name. Heck,
|>you would be treated like a king in that place. You would surprise the worth
|>of a couple of quids in that establishment.
|
|Now if only it hadn't been shut down by the IRS for tax infractions...
                                                         ^^^^^^^^^^
Are you sure this is spelled correctly? 

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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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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart)
Subject: Re: NEW YORK, NEW YORK.....
Organization: my opinions only
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 00:20:46 GMT

In article <1992Sep15.173331.4533@panix.com> jis@panix.com
(Jack Szwergold) writes:
>Hey... aren't there any people out there from N.Y.C.?

No there aren't.

And you missed the boink, too.

Seth		sethb@fid.morgan.com
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
Subject: Re: chemistry / love at first sight : fact or fiction?
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 11:31:04 GMT

In article <ewillims.716118911@unix1.tcd.ie> ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:
>	I heard a very interesting comment on Love at first sight last
>night which I thought was very clever.  The guy said that it was in fact
>a form of Narcissism. 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.  That made sense to me. How about
>you?

Science has investigated this matter and confirmed that this is so.
Interestingly, the physical traits were ones that most of us give no
conscious thought to.  The only example I remember is distance between 
the eyes, i.e., people with widely spaced eyes tend to be attracted to
people with widely spaced eyes.

See a new book, _The Third Chimpanzee_ by Jared Diamond, for details.

"There is sacred love, profane love, and self love.  Of these, the last
is the most sincere." -- Moral to a fable, but I've forgotten who wrote it.

-- Herb Huston
From: c71@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (David N)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Tallllll women....
Date: 11 Sep 92 15:55:21 GMT
Reply-To: c71@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany


 Talll women give credibility to the "Big Bang" -theory. 
(Maybe I should state at the same go that the qualities of the human soul has nothing to do with the length. Just so that you know.)

David
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: probst@selkirk.sfu.ca (Scott Probst)
Subject: a Frequently Asked Question...
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 01:07:53 GMT

i'm sorry, i have to do this... i can work out most of the (tm)s, like 
ToolOfTheDevil (tm), but what *exactly* does ProblemOlderWoman mean? i realise
this is a devastating self-exposure of ignorance, but it's been eating away
at me (the question, not the... oh, hell).

bombard away, it's friday and i'll be back tomorrow...

scott

"i realised getting any sense out of him was going to be like getting meat
off a hammerhead shark, so i just gave up" - Dr H.S. Thompson on Jerry Rubin,
me on my last advisor.
From: wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: E.W. - Weddings....
Date: 12 Sep 92 04:42:24 GMT
Reply-To: wjb@moscom.com
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Emma Williams (ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie) wrote:
: >>............................................I made lots 
: >>of new friends, including more single unattached males than I've
: >>ever seen before in one place!  (Very unusual for Ireland where the
: >>ratio of females to males is 3:1 )
:
and in a later article:
: 
: 	Dart Boards?? I've never yet met an Irishman who plays darts!
: Are you sure you're not thinking of English men?  It's a national
: pastime in Britain!

With a female to male ratio of 3:1, you can bet they're not playing darts.
You can probably also bet what they *are* playing at.  :-)
-- 
"Bless me, Father; I ate a lizard."
"Was it an abstinence day, and was it artificially prepared?"
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: smith@comm.mot.com (Jeff Smith)
Subject: Re: Ring for sale (The ballad of a Guy & Girl)
Organization: Gagging Sloth Records
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 17:12:17 GMT

In article <1992Sep12.165433.23153@news.acns.nwu.edu>, drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max) writes:
|> 
|> Brownard is alive and well in Idaho. He fell in love by email so is not
|> welding his bat on women anymore. However HP is giving him trouble so I
|> think it hasn't been completely retired. (HP apparently recomended not
|> rehiring him based on their reading of some of his email communications
|> while he was in their employ). Big brother is out there still apparently. 

Wow...that's pretty scary (says Jeff as he madly starts deleting old mails).
How did he find out that that was the reason...I can't imagine them actually
admitting to it!

jds

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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams)
Subject: Re: chemistry / love at first sight : fact or fiction?
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 11:04:53 GMT

In <1992Sep10.180948.5527@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:

>In article <ewillims.716139856@unix1.tcd.ie> ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:
>>In <1992Sep10.073942.21182@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
>>
>>
>>>Trygve   (Of course the obvious conclusion one can draw from this is
>>>          simply that the only reason to date me is the brief sensation
>>>          that there's a challenge in doing so.) 
>>
>>	You mean we'd only get brief sensations out of it, Trygve????
>>	Ahhhh!  Too bad!  How disappointing!;>

>Well, I suppose that all would depend on whether or not you were able to
>persuade me to take off my briefs. 

	"Persuade"????  Surely you jest?:>
 

>Trygve   (Normally it's just the sensation of uncertainty that's brief--
>          there are many others that last much longer.) 

	Uncertainty?  Ahhh!  Poor baby, don't you know what to do?
	Here I am...disappointed again! :(

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Flirting.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 23:10:42 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.235420.22890@linus.mitre.org> wtr@mitre.org (Bill Ralston) writes:
>in article <1992Sep11.101012.3241@memstvx1.memst.edu> 
>mcsweinberg@memstvx1.memst.edu (Rai) posts:
>> If she is serious her flirting will get more intense. (i.e Sitting on or
>>near your desk or area often, offering backrubs, etc..)
>
>Oh to be back in school were offering a backrub was not only an acceptible 
>form of flirting, but was frequently accepted.

Hmmmm...actually this seems to still be pretty common in post-school days
at parties, SF cons, and even Mensa meetings.  (Maybe you just need to
try offering more often.)
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Dill Dough
Keywords: Kosher dills, half sours, dill dough.....
Date: 10 Sep 92 19:06:11 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <BuCL8F.4Lu@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> kramersc@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Scott C. Kramer) writes:
|>
|>The Midwest!?!? You mean the place where people still wear white
|>shirts and narrow ties and think it's about 1957? Where a good
|
| Dude!!!! How can you be so insensitive to people like myself who
|have lived in the midwest all my life???  

As Will Durst said, "The Midwest. Where cowpoke is a verb."

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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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