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From: pw@panix.com (Paul Wallich)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: The Chocolate Urgies (was: Re: Finding Romantic Partners (long))
Date: 27 Aug 92 20:01:29 GMT
Organization: Trivializers R Us

In article <1992Aug26.172906.25719@uwm.edu> markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:
>In article <ewillims.714843551@unix1.tcd.ie> ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:
>>	Weird as it sounds, chocolate sauce on meat is an original use
>>for chocolate. The Aztecs used to use it as a sauce and regarded it as
>> delicacy. That's what I call chocoholism.....my kind of people! (*GRIN*)
>
>There must be something hormonal about women and chocolate.

Why limit it to women?
Speaking of Molle (sp) sauce, it even makes its appearance
in psychoanalysis, to wit the recipe for Melanie Klein's
good and bad breast of chicken in _Freud's First Cookbook_.

paul      someday to be unpacked
From: dennisp@kpc.com (Dennis Preston)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Rockies (was: Las Vegas)
Date: 27 Aug 92 21:18:53 GMT
Organization: Kubota Pacific Computer Inc, Santa Clara, CA

In article <SCHOCK.92Aug27100945@fsd.cpsc.UCalgary.ca> schock@cpsc.UCalgary.ca (schock) writes:
>In article <Pyg6PB1w165w@wildrose.infoserv.com> rkf@wildrose.infoserv.com (Ray Fink) writes:
>>   schock@flip.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Craig-Richard Schock) writes:
>>   >In article <1992Aug25.212538.27393@zooid.guild.org> Ross Ridge  
>>   ><ross@zooid.guild.org> writes:
>>   >> Bah, I'd take Northern Ontario (or even any place north of Barrie), over
>>   >> the Rockies.  I've never understood the appeal of mountains like that,
>>   >> they're so dead and lifeless.
>>   >
>>   >Which Rockies did you go to cause the ones I live by are wonderful! :-)
>>
>>   Craig! Pipe down!! Put a cork in it, man!
>>
>>   <ahem>
>
>>   Yes, Ross, you are exactly right.  Dead and lifeless.  Colder than the
>>   hubs of hell, and that's just our summer weather.  There's no culture
>>   here either, we don't even have Oley and Tina jokes like those great
>>   folks in Minnesota.  No single women, just stodgy married folks,
>>   single men, and scared sheep.  (And you were wondering what this thread
>>   had to do with soc.singles....) There's no appeal here whatsoever.
>
>>   (Touron season is almost over, I can hardly wait.)
>
>>   -- Ray
>
>Ummmm, er... ahh... Yeah...  That's right!  Ummm... er... Listen to 
>Ray cause he knows what he is talking about.  There's nothing... zilch...
>nada...  the ol Zippo.  There's not enough life to shake a stick at...
>hell... you can't even shake a stick cause there aren't any!  only rocks.
>Big rocks...  mountain size rocks... yeah... that's it.  And some of
>those rocks have snow on 'em...  lotsa snow on them.... Gee... makes
>me shiver just thinking about it...
>
>Craig
>
>PSST.  Ray. How did I do?  Was that ok?
>
SKI VAIL, It's dead and lifeless too.:):):):):)
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 12:51:13 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.214506.15981@samba.oit.unc.edu> Bathsheba.Grossman@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bathsheba Grossman) writes:
>In article <1992Aug26.131222.18582@cbfsb.cb.att.com> jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) writes:
>> Lets go get stinking drunk on tequila. I'll get in a fight. Then
>>go home with the homeliest.. err .... I meant tea, a debate and
>>perhaps run into a sympathetic young lady.
>
>Light of my life, fire of my loins.  The tip of the tongue taking a trip
>of three steps across the palate, to tap at three on the teeth.  james dutton.
>My sin, my soul.
>
>'Sheba (apologies to Nabokov)

Only Sheba makes me blush like that.
'Jim(take care of that cough)
 
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: pjb4288@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Pete - Toonatic - Boulay)
Subject: Must say Goodbye (For now)
Originator: pjb4288@ultb
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 20:51:11 GMT

Alas, the time has come and my scholarly duties have been thrust back
upon my shoulders necessitating my departure from a few newsgroups for
a period of time.

If you would like to contact me, please use pjb4288@ritvax.isc.rit.edu

See ya!

Lorin Francis Rinaud
Elder Town Crier
Ravensnest, Thescorre, East.
Campaigne Mercurie
-- 
Peter J. Boulay --17 Split Rock Road-Pittsford, NY 14534-The ToonAddict!
Email should be sent only to PJB4288@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Disclaimer: You don't like what I'm writing? Oh well.
"Well shut my mouth wide open!"- Tiny Toons HISMV
From: wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Why do the lurkers / so furiously lurk together?
Date: 30 Aug 92 00:38:47 GMT
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Juha Taina (taina@cs.Helsinki.FI) wrote:
: In <4059@moscom.UUCP> wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien) writes:
: 
: >It is kind of amazing that somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 person in 3000 
: >in the U.S. reads this group.  Heck, that's probably more than watch some TV
: >shows :-)  Does this count towards Warhol's 15 minutes?
: 
: It's less than 1/3000.  This is an international newsgroup.  I'm also
: sure that a lot of subscribes don't really read this newsgroup but
: rather browse it sometimes.
: 
: Juha
: -- 
: Juha Taina | taina@cs.helsinki.fi | Phone: +358-0-708-4247

Well, I was estimating the U.S. population at around 225,000,000.  This is
probably somewhat off.  I was also guessing somewhere in the neighborhood
of 75% U.S. readership.  I have no idea how accurate that is.  Actually, I
lied.  I didn't really estimate U.S. readership, I just chose convenient 
numbers that left me a sizeable fudge factor.  

Now if I can just get someone to send me the fudge from one of those 
chocolatiers mentioned in another thread :-)
-- 
"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: ewasdih@state.systems.sa.gov.au (Don Healey)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Help with business card appeal
Date: 3 Sep 92 10:48:40 GMT
Organization: State Systems, South Australia

I caught someone today trying to have an appeal for business cards circulated
throuhgout the department. The business cards would be to help 7 year old Craig
Shergold, a terminal cancer patient, get into the guiness book of records for
the most business cards.

If there is one thing I have learnt in months of lurking is that this appeal
is years old, Craig has recovered and his family desperately wants this appeal
stopped. 

This issue was last raised in soc.singles in April I beleive. However I don't
have a copy of any of the details. I would greatly appreciate it if someone
could send me the information and include a contact with whom the details can
be confirmed, if one exists, so I can pass it onto the organisers of the
appeal.

Could replies be made by email as my News feed only picks up half the postings
(yet another reason why people may lurk instead of post).

Thanks
-- 
Don Healey        ewasdih@state.sa.gov.au
Engineering & Water Supply Dept.
South Australia   +61 8 226 2216
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark)
Subject: Notifying the Recipient (was: Re: The Dawn of Suckups (Was: Re: Bananas))
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 17:33:09 GMT

In article <thurlow.715104029@convex.convex.com> thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:
>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.
>
>Will it come with a custom form letter direct from Las Vegas?  :-)
>
>(Yo, Emma!  How was that?)

I'm sure that she'll be able to tell you, herself, after she receives the Big
Notification. :)

After announcing the winner, it behooves us to remind the recipient to carefully
read the Small Print that comes with the Notification -- with a microscope even.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max)
Subject: Re: Kiran Wagle
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 15:16:22 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.205353.13297@ultb.isc.rit.edu> pjb4288@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Pete - Toonatic - Boulay) writes:
>I lurked for quite a while...then I posted. Marianna didn't like my post so I
>decided to post more...:-) 
>
>Its a joke Mr. Max
>-- 
>Peter J. Boulay --17 Split Rock Road-Pittsford, NY 14534-The ToonAddict!
>Email should be sent only to PJB4288@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
>Disclaimer: You don't like what I'm writing? Oh well.
>"Well shut my mouth wide open!"- Tiny Toons HISMV


ha ha Miss or is that Ms Boulay.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: hymowitz@whatever.cs.jhu.edu (Hymie!)
Subject: lurkers and parties and cons - oh my!
Reply-To: hymowitz@cs.jhu.edu (Hymie!)
Organization: Creative Sensualities dept, Jacquie's House of Underwear
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 21:39:38 GMT

hmmm, i suppose i need to ask this question, since i consider myself
to be an overall lurker (or part-time non-lurker?)

anyway, if lurkers should go to boinks, @-parties, etc, then should
we just kinda walk around and stare at everybody?  occasionally whisper
to somebody, a la email?

i do in fact mean this half-seriously.  allegedly , there is going to
be an sf con in atlanta in november.  i plan to be there.  i'll probably
wear a button that either says 'net.lurker' or, if i can write small enough,

I am the village idiot.  I don't have anything to do with this pathetic
little opera.  I just felt like passing through!                --P. D. Q. Bach

what kind of response will i get as a net.lurker? will people just ignore
me?  please save my failing ego and warn me.  thanx.

--hymie
hymowitz@cs.jhu.edu                                         hymie@jhuvms.bitnet
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.)
Subject: Re: Diamonds
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 92 07:47:16 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' >is< a good song (hell, its Pink Floyd, so it
has to be a good song :), but it isn't exactly 'uplifting' :)

Also- the music.fogeys around here missed one- the recent Prince release-
Diamonds and Pearls- not too bad, overall. 
r.
(discovered, btw, that when you play the 'clean' version of Prince's
'Sexy MF' ('you sexy mother-arwoaouah') backwards, it sounds strangly
like like 'I want to sleep with Tipper Gore'...dunno about that one... :)
From: drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Where the best posts come from
Date: 31 Aug 92 17:04:03 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.

In article <la4it4INNiri@news.bbn.com> dhardin@spcink.bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes:
>In article <1992Aug31.145843.12719@walter.bellcore.com> nobody writes:
>>
>>*SNORT* Emma gets my vote. The rest of the women just strut.
>
>Yeah, Walter hon, I know what you mean.  That Max and her broad-band come
>on posts -- it's just disgusting to any self-respecting east coast type
>lady.
>
My we have a long memory don't we?

>(Would it be possible to put enough smilies on that to get me out of 
>trouble?  Probably not.)
>
Oh Dawn you know that smilies never really help one out of trouble. Its the
illusion that they do that helps get us in trouble in the first place.

Okay next Question: Do women remember slights and small insults and hold them
against the insultor for longer than men? Are women more easily insulted
than men? 

Is this where I'm supposed to put the smilies?
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: shannah@netcom.com (Teri Miller)
Subject: Re: The Dawn of Suckups (Was: Re: Bananas)
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 92 07:36:31 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

In article <1992Sep1.215927.25545@infonode.ingr.com> rock@medch.b17a.ingr.com writes:
>
>I have to agree here.  Just receiving flowers out of the blue from an unknown
>person could be terrifying to some people.  Especially if they were received 
>at their home.  With the problem of "stalkers" nowdays, having a secret admirer
>could be deadly.  If you're interested in sucking up, reply to the suckee of
>choice by e-mail and start sucking fast and furious.
>
>Chris Hudson

I won't bore oldtimers with the details again, but I can say, from 
personal experience, that unwanted attention can be very frightening.
I'm with you, Chris: I think it's much better to exchange some email
first and get to know one another.  

I will rehash a point I've made before, though.  Special attentions 
are often appreciated when they are the "right" thing.  A common
mistake is to try to do something *really* *nice* before the giver
knows the givee well, and that can be a serious problem.  One woman
talked about how giving her flowers would seriously endanger her
health, due to allergies, for example.

My suggestion, if you want to do something really nice for someone,
is to get to know that person well enough to know what would be
appreciated, before making the grand gesture.  Once you know what she
would really appreciate, you will then be sure that the gesture is
received in the spirit it was intended.
From: wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: A Lurker's Tale
Date: 2 Sep 92 21:00:29 GMT
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Al Duester (capnal@aqua.whoi.edu) wrote:
: I hate to break it to you, but I've known Kiran for over a decade, and
: in that time period, he's always been a guy. I think those of us who
: have met him would have noticed if he'd gone in for surgery. :)

Well, that depends;  how many people would notice that _you_ just went
in for surgery? :-)
-- 
"Bless me, Father; I ate a lizard."
"Was it an abstinence day, and was it artificially prepared?"
-------------------------------------------------------------
Bill de Beaubien / wjb@moscom.com 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: morton@rtpnet06.rtp.dg.com (John R. Morton)
Subject: Re: Commitment--The C-word?
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 10:38:22 GMT
Organization: Data General Corporation, RTP, NC.

Everyone writes at least two scripts for their own life !
One, that they would love to do, that they see as heroic,
and one , that they feel they "SHOULD" do, the responsible,
sensible , thing.
Everybody I know has chosen one or the other of these paths, and
without exception, swears they did the wrong thing !
From: stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Boink?
Date: 1 Sep 92 18:52:59 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

aahz@netcom.com (Aahzmandius) writes:

>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.

Count me in, I'll be in Toronto then, too.

But what soc.singles really wants to know is: Will your ProblemOlderWoman
be there? And will she allow you out of bed long enough to attend the
Boink? Or will she keep you there until your entire supply of Astroglide is
used up?

--
Stef                 Where am I going, and what am I doing in this handbasket?
stef@apple.com     
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: watson@hpcvcah.cv.hp.com (Jeffrey Watson)
Subject: Re: Diamonds
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 00:02:58 GMT

diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams) writes:
: 
: ... and if I'm going to go to the trouble of choosing a creative 
: userid it might as well be apt, right?  (I mean, I've never taken LSD.
: so "Lucy... " can't be too appropriate, and I have NO IDEA what "Shine
: On... " is about)!
:  
: 				Diamond  (What the hell.  I'll MAKE
:                                           it mine. :-))

If you've got the body of a female Arnold Schwartzeneggar then Diamond is
appropriate (it is the name for one of the hulking females on American
Gladiators). :^)

Jeff
From: swann@acsu.buffalo.edu (Stephen Swann)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Endless Loop?
Date: 3 Sep 92 04:59:33 GMT
Organization: UB

In article <1992Sep3.001434.78145@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH) writes:
>What's going on? Look at this:
>
>stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
>>Matt, you needn't give in so easy. We know that what you wrote really
>>wasn't a suckup.  I mean, you didn't use the word 'perky' even once.
>
>Stef, you're sucking up to Matt here, presumably because he sucked up to you.
>
>Where will this end?

As a cascade?

Oops.

-- 
Steve Swann                 |    Speak to me in many voices; make
swann@acsu.buffalo.edu      |      them all sound like one...  -BOC
From: diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Desperation (was Re: Commitment--The C-word?)
Date: 2 Sep 92 23:27:05 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

In article <kiran.715449839@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
>(c)  You are welcome to come over for dinner anytime.  Do try and give
>me a couple days notice so's I can fire up the stockpot and pick the
>raspberries.

Yum.  Cool.  (Be careful, I may actually take you up on this.  I didn't
see a smiley)!

>(b) Try turning the peanut butter into Thai peanut sauce, and have it
>over rice with cheap vegetables--onions and red, yellow, and green bell
>peppers go well.  I can send you a recipe if you like.

Please do!  That'd be great!

>Yup. Once again, Walter, in his urbane and erudite way, 
>hits the nail squarely upon the head.  
>
>If you have needs before a relationship starts, you're "desperate."
>If you don't have needs after it starts, you're "emotionally
>unavailable."  

Yeah, I think this has a lot to do with perceptions of desperation.
If someone I've known for ten years calls me up when he's upset and
talks to me for four hours, I probably wouldn't mind.  If someone 
I'd just met and with whom I felt no particular rapport did the same
thing, I'd probably think that the person was pretty desperate for someone
to talk to.  Certain kinds of interaction are only appropriate after you've
known someone for a while, and this is most true in romantic relationships.
(For example, if someone you've known for two days proposes, you'd probably
think that was desperation.  If someone you've been dating for five
years proposes, it makes more sense.  Same action, different perception).

>I think most people deserve what they get. 
>(Some people, of course, aren't getting any.)

Does that mean that's what we deserve?  What an ugly thought. :-)

>Kiran Wagle     <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>     (812) 335-0420

				
				Diamond
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: Bathsheba.Grossman@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bathsheba Grossman)
Subject: Re: attentive dependence
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 02:31:10 GMT

>My strategy, if you will,
>is to avoid women who don't also have intense interests/lives of their 
>own; on the hypothesis that women who do "have a life" and can be
>intensely interested in other things *might* be 
>(1) less likely to be dependent on my constant attention 
>(2) more understanding of my own intensity, when it's focused elsewhere
>(3) a helluva great ride when we're intensely focused on each other 

Good call.  If her life doesn't make sense without you, it's not
likely to with, vice versa mutatis mutandis.  I think this must be
very annoying for men, that so many women are other-directed.
Though on the other hand, with such a woman you'll always come second.

>Finding such women, of course, poses an entirely new set of problems :-(

Sure does - they're busy working.  I only know one (1), and she's gay B) but
attached B(.  And I roomed with her all through college without realizing
%#*@!

-Sheba
--
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: aahz@netcom.com (Aahzmandius)
Subject: Re: we bit the suck-up  Re: Can can?
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 92 06:12:08 GMT
Organization: Bill 'n' Opus for Prez

In article <r_jn_xp.gerg@netcom.com> gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews) writes:
>Tyger  who has pilfered the keyboard from gerg 
>cuz he knows that resistance is useless!

Ohm, I see.
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

So much Astroglide.  So little time.
From: wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Seesters, I want the seesters.
Date: 1 Sep 92 21:16:34 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

james.j.dutton (jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com) wrote:
:  Oh sure lead the guy around(as if a ring in the nose). Over hill,
: through yonder trail, up over the log, swim that damn, lift that barge,
: and right at the climax(its a literature term) of the story - Wham, Bam,
: gotta go, hasta, chow, exit stage left, I'm outta here even.
: It's no wonder guys are(shhhh) S-E-N-S-I-T-I-V-E.

Ahh... S-E-N-S-I-T-I-V-E like a bruised elbow, hmm?
-- 
"Bless me, Father; I ate a lizard."
"Was it an abstinence day, and was it artificially prepared?"
-------------------------------------------------------------
Bill de Beaubien / wjb@moscom.com 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci)
Subject: Re: hi you all!!!
Organization: AT&T
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 18:29:52 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.164417.4271@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> smaus@nyx.cs.du.edu (Scott Maus) writes:
>
>If you are interested and would like to communicate through the Postal
>System, email me at smaus@nyx.cs.du.edu and I'll give you my address and
>phone number to that special lady!!

Which one of us is special?

-Nance
-- 
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att!ihlpk!colucci            _.>/               | Stay fit for life.
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