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From: thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow)
Subject: What's the silliest thing hormones made you do?
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 18:37:29 GMT
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
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My second original thread topic is about the little incidents we tend
to get caught in because of a slightly-less-than-perfectly-applied
top coat of civilizing veneer.  What the most noteworthy thing you've
done because you were attracted to some MOTAS or other?  I'm not after
stories about wasting ten years in a marriage because someone had a
cute butt, but more the kind of thing that you wished you hadn't done
in public.

My entry?  That's easy; it's the time last summer I walked into a
brick pillar while I was looking over at a nice-looking woman.  I think
I cracked a rib that time; I noticed I was about to make contact just
soon enough to not bash my nose.  Thank God there was nobody around with
a video camera.

Rob T
--
Rob Thurlow, thurlow@convex.com
"Sometimes it feels like the sun just comes up out of habit,
 And goes down as quick as it can,
 These days, you just have to grab it as it goes by."
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.romance
From: caforce@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (DALE FORCE)
Subject: Re: Where did you meet your SO?
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date:  7 Jan 1993 10:29 EST  

In article <C0GAK9.6pu@mach1.wlu.ca>, macl6441@mach1.wlu.ca (macleod heather) writes...
>In article <1993Jan6.064348.26971@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> bss2p@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Brent S. Stone) writes:
>>As long as Heather got the ball rolling on the 
>>subject of meeting people, where you meet your
>>current partner?  Theorizing where to meet
>>people is one thing, what works is another.  
>>So how about some info for the group?
>>
>>BS
>>
>>
>>
>Yes, absolutely!!  I'm getting hundreds of theories, let's hear some
>reallife experiences!!
> 
> 
>Heather MacLeod                  If you've seen one shopping centre,
>macl6441@mach1.wlu.ca            you've seen a mall.
>Wilfrid Laurier University
>Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
I met my SO (fiancee) at a contradance (a traditional dance). As far as 
meeting men is concerned, catch the eye of an attractive man and smile (
wink optional) and say Hello. Also you can try asking him for a date ( the 
only time I turned a woman done, I said "Have you heard about my engagement
?)( actually only the 3rd time I'd been asked)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: ua308@freenet.victoria.bc.ca (Andreas Tovornik)
Subject: Henry's Ghost
Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:30:39 GMT



When I took the room, I didn't expect this:

Ghosts are a product of the mind. When you believe in them, they
come out and haunt you.

In the morning, I woke up to the sound of an organ playing. This
is perfectly normal, because my landlady plays it in order to
relieve the stress of grief. I went upstairs to the kitchen from
the rock closet, and poured myself the first of four customary
mugs that I use to get geared up in the morning.

Joyce stopped playing and asked me to help her with the rods
for the drapes. The painters were on their way over to redo the
parlor, since it is well overdo.

I helped her, and she kept worrying about the painters, and all
that sort of thing. She got back on the organ and had trouble
with the vast array of tempo switches, etc. She finally got it 
going the way she wanted, and started to play again.

Promptly, she collapsed on the keyboard with one of her dizzy
spells, and called out to me to come quick. I helped her up and 
had to hold her up for about five minutes. Then I helped her
into her room and went to get some water and nitro pills.

It was, thankfully, not a heart attack. She told me about last
night's flashback: Henry was floating around the room on a 
marble slab and leering at her. This most certainly was res-
ponsible for giving the old girl the willies!

These problems are something that we all must face in the case
that we haven't had to already. The old folks, be they rel-
atives or friends require our care and compassion during the
rough spots as they live their golden years.

Joyce can be lots of fun on her better days, but Henry still
gives her a chance to have her moments. Maybe she feels just
a tad guilty about throwing out his tattered and threadbare
favorite chair.

dreas
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer)
Subject: Re: Oh God, they're back....
Date: 07 Jan 93 12:08:04 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <1993Jan5.194208.10872@netcom.com> aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine) writes:
>In article <1993Jan04.100158.11917@microsoft.com> jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer) writes:
>>In article <1992Dec30.112758.13385@wetware.com> drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:
>>>"want to come up to my terminal room and
>>>see the neat new cobol program I am writing?"
>>
>>COBOL???? C, certainly. [...] But COBOL?? Not wishing to 
>>offend the memory of GMH, but, this is truely amazing. COBOL????
>
>Oh, come now.  Wouldn't you be the least bit interested if someone
>wanted you to see their spanking-new OODBMS written in COBOL?  Just for
>kicks?

No. Not. Nada. Niente. Nichts. Nien.

>And COBOL's certainly no worse than FORTRAN.  Didn't Microsoft just
>release FORTRAN for Windows?  

Umm, no. Or if they have, it's not on the master current-releases
spot on the internal net. [I'm a systems person, not an apps slime]

>(Say, what *does* GMH's middle initial
>stand for, anyway?)

I learned it as Grace Murray Hopper....

;>

-jen
  
...who also breaks rule 6...

Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.sex
From: sorlin@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Steven J Orlin)
Subject: Re: The Classiest Pickup Lines
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:31:13 GMT

In article <1idntbINNfi@uwm.edu> markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:
>"Come hither, oh beloved, and with me fulfill the most romantic impulses
>that be thine."


Uhh....umm...hey baby...can I take off my clothes and jump on you?????
-- 
"Nobody tells a Navy man when he's had enough to drink, cause only a Navy man
 knows when he's had enough to drink!"
-Steven J Orlin   sorlin@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu  /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.war.vietnam
From: drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux)
Subject: Clearly More Blatant AntiGerman RACISM!!!!
Organization: Castle WetWare Philosopher and Sniper
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 11:36:04 GMT

veen2976@mach1.wlu.ca (veenstra christopher) writes:
] In article <1993Jan9.203621.27153@vpnet.chi.il.us> orc@vpnet.chi.il.us (david parsons) writes:
] >In article <1993Jan9.041600.4046@sol.UVic.CA> atovorni@engr.UVic.CA writes:
] >|                                  
] >|Oh, no! Not another NiceGuy[TM]      Merde! Pas encore! Un autre JoliGars[MD]*
] >   Umm.  I'm not extraordinarily up on my french, but the
] >translation seems to be just a little bit inaccurate.
] 
] Yeah, well, I know my french isn't what |   Oui, mais je sais que mon
] it used to be so I really don't think   | Francais n'est pas tres bien puis
] that I'm qualified to flame him.        | je pense qu'il y est des autres 
] Besides, my translation is pretty nasty,| que dois le faire avant moi.
] too.                                    | Et, mes translations, ils ne sont
]                                         | tres bien, aussi.  Et Heather, je
]                                         | veut t'achete le boisson quelques
]                                         | temps, mais je le laisse a toi
]                                         | pour decider quel jour.  Cette
]                                         | semaine?  C'est a toi.


You think we would Not notice that once again
the Traditional FrancoPhile tendency for AntiGerman
Sentiments would Raise Its Ugly Heads!!!!!!

Worse Yet it is nothing more than 
Classic QuebecQuaFrancoPhileAntiGermanIsm!!!

You thought You guys could try and SNEEK it
past US! But We have NOT forgotten who is
Oppressing the WholeSomeGermanTraditionalFamilyValuesVolk
in the Stolen Provinces of the Reich!!!!!

ciao
drieux

I mean and after all that the German People have
Given to Western Kultur, like all the short
Sweet and to the Point Terms, Not to Mention Karl Marx!

Restore a FREE GERMANY and RETURN the GERMAN PEOPLES
to THEIR NATIVE LANDS!!!!!







-- 
MajorModernDayProblems: 
Just because you are a homicidal maniac
doesn't mean you don't have a sense of humor.
		- Barry Sadler
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow)
Subject: Re: Meeting women in clubs
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 03:59:39 GMT
Distribution: usa
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 <1993Jan7.144828.10753@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes:

>In article <thurlow.726383185@convex.convex.com> thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:
>>In <1993Jan5.175137.2462@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes:
>>
>>>Why bother her?

>>Sorry, but if I let myself judge whether or not she wants to be bothered,
>>I'll never make an effort at all.  It's her job to decide whether she
>>is open to meeting me.  I will be polite when I approach, and I will go
>>away nicely when asked, though.

>Different people treat the bar scene in different ways.  Some people see them
>as places to go to get together with friends, and others see them as places
>to hang out looking for that special someone (Ms. Right, Mr. Right Now, etc.).
>I think logic tells us that you're most likely to meet people who are open
>to meeting you.  Why waste time on anyone else?

I don't; I simply don't think there's a magic aura I can detect that
a person who wants to meet me emanates.  I also find that a lot of
people who prefer to go out to bars/clubs/events with friends are
quite open to meeting new people.  If they aren't, or if I'm not it,
I don't feel bad, because I never intentionally "bother" anyone.

My point is that I've heard what you suggested stated as a rule.  My
recent experience is that that is a stupid rule, and that I need to
be more willing to talk to women who catch my attention, whether they
have batted their eyes wistfully at me or not.  It's a given that I'll
be polite, so I think anyone who gets really bent about my daring to
try striking up a conversation is someone who will wind up alone, anyway.

>If you go into a bar hoping to meet someone, I'll bet there is SOMEONE there
>who wants to meet you, and that person is fairly easy to find.  Just look
>around for the one who makes eye contact and smiles.

This is quite likely to get my attention, indeed.  It even happens once
in a great while (like at that concert last May :-)

>What?  You mean those aren't the ones you're attracted to??  Ah, then
>hereinforth might lie the problem.  Anyone who feels that way might do well
>to leave their high horse in the stable.

If you think I have standards that are way-too-high, you likely have
me confused with someone else.

Rob T
--
Rob Thurlow, thurlow@convex.com
"Sometimes it feels like the sun just comes up out of habit,
 And goes down as quick as it can,
 These days, you just have to grab it as it goes by."
Xref: sparky soc.singles:35692 alt.romance:15808
From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.romance
Subject: Re: Where did you meet your SO?
Date: 7 Jan 1993 23:44:06 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

In article <1993Jan6.233456.24005@borland.com> eomiya@borland.com (Elliot Omiya) writes:
>She somehow had to work her tables and convince me she had a brain on her
>shoulders (she's a teacher) which wasn't easy, because it's a busy place.

Just ask her which of the flags hanging up on the rasters is New Zealand, and
which one is Australia.
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.war.vietnam
From: drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux)
Subject: the silliest thing hormones forgot to make you do?
Organization: Castle WetWare Philosopher and Sniper
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 12:14:07 GMT


One of my more enjoyable 'seastories' - yes, boys and girls,
its time again for an 'uncle drieux tale' so curl up your seats.

I had just come back to the world and this woman invited me over 
to her place to hem up her skirt, and so like a fool I brought along my 
needle and thread....

ciao
drieux

ps: some times literalism is a FemaleDog....

ObDisclosure:	1. Yes
		2. And the HemLine was straight as well.


-- 
MajorModernDayProblems: 
Just because you are a homicidal maniac
doesn't mean you don't have a sense of humor.
		- Barry Sadler
Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 15:17:15 EST
From: Andy <2893684@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Facial hair

In article <thurlow.726690280@convex.convex.com>, thurlow@convex.com (Robert
Thurlow) says:
>
>Hi all, I hope your Christmas/Hannukah/solstice went well.  I'm back
>and about half-caught-up (still owe mail to too many people!), but I
>thought it was time to post a couple of original threads for the New
>Year.
>
>The first is about facial hair.  I'm not sure it will stay yet, but
>I decided a couple of days into my holiday that since a) I hadn't been
>shaving anyway, b) I was going to be able to be away from work for
>almost two weeks and c) it was colder than a witches' tit up in
>Edmonton (-40C == -40F; I shoveled the walk at -35C one day) that
>I was going to just let the stuff grow.  All I'll say about the
>result is that it's a lot better than the last time I tried it in
>school, when I mostly had scraggly stuff under my jaw line.
>
>So my question today is a two-parter:
>
>1) What do you generally think of a well-trimmed beard?

If on a woman, it's a definite turn-off:)

>
>2) For those of you who have met me, would you think a beard would
>   prompt a compliment or peals of laughter?

Draw us a picture

>
>Rob T, slightly more furry than previous
>--
>Rob Thurlow, thurlow@convex.com
>"Sometimes it feels like the sun just comes up out of habit,
> And goes down as quick as it can,
> These days, you just have to grab it as it goes by."
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (dreas)
Subject: Re: Question about divorced women...
Reply-To: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 03:36:16 GMT

Long question. Here's a possible answer in the form of an anecdote:

I used to date a divorced woman. She wanted me to move in with her.
I wanted to keep my independence, and did. 

When I first met her, she was bummed out. Her divorce had just gone 
through, and she was feeling all alone in the world. 

Just by being a good friend to her, I became attractive.
The whole thing just happened when neither of us was looking
for a relationship. It was a very good one.

I would suggest that you just be there when she needs a friend.
Show her that you don't want to mess up her freedom by not being
threatening to her individuality. Don't tell her, show her.

If anything develops out of it, it may take some time. She likely
believes all men to be just like her ex. Her son is her son, to be
raised the way she wants to raise him, and so on.

Like I said, it may take some time. It took nine months before I
made love to the divorced woman I'm talking about. It was worth the
wait. Why are we no longer together? Her kids were jealous of the 
time that we were spending together. This caused considerable tension
that neither of us wanted. We departed the relationship as friends.

dreas
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Rob's beard (was Re: Facial hair)
From: quirke_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Date: 12 Jan 93 13:23:24 NZST
 <Jan.11.02.27.21.1993.11528@andromeda.rutgers.edu> <76446@apple.apple.COM>
Distribution: world
Organization: Welligton City Council, Public Access.
NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

pooh@Apple.COM (Pooh) writes:

> My PSOM always claimed that he couldn't get enough hairs together to
> manage a decent beard, but while we were apart for two weeks over
> the holidays, he grew a beard as a Christmas present for me.
> The poor thing put up with two lonely weeks of itchy-face just
> to surprise me!  Now that it's grown in properly, I think it
> makes him look like Lenin. :-)

   Poor Pooh !
   As I recall, Lenin has been sorta saturated with wax, and is slowly
decomposing in Red Square.
   So your SO's beard makes him look like a cross tween a wax dummy and a
pathologist's prize exhibit ?
   Heck, it only takes a night on the town to make me look that way...

Tony Q.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: sethb@panix.com (Seth Breidbart)
Subject: Re: rON bashing
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 04:17:42 GMT
Organization: Society for the Promulgation of Cruelty to the Clueless

In article <a6wrylk@lynx.unm.edu> blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
>In article <1993Jan4.184033.6612@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
>>>(yeah, my idea of hell- one terminal with a newsreader- alt.romance.chat...
>>>at 300 baud...on a green-screen... :)
>>available are base-model ADM3's with twelve-line displays and no lower
>>case running at 110 baud.  But, on the positive side, the alt.romance.chat
>>posters down here have gotten into a really K00L contest to see who can
>>come up with the biggest .sig with the best ASCII pictures of bunnies,
>>ducks, and lots and lots of net.roses.
>
>AIEEE! I'll be good! I'll be good! :)

Gee, you gave up even before I had to bring up the Model 33 running at
110 baud; that also has the advantage of being so noisy that you can't
sleep anywhere near it.

Seth		[and I remember when that was considered _good_]


Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.romance
From: macl6441@mach1.wlu.ca (macleod heather)
Subject: Meeting guys
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 23:03:11 GMT

I've been reading a lot lately here about how men should go about meeting
women, but nobody seems to be giving many suggestions on how women can meet
men.  I ended a four year relationship a month ago, and I'm ready to meet
someone new, but I'm not really comfortable with the bar scene.  There are
guys in some of my classes, but I'm pretty shy.  Can someone give me some
advice?
Thanks!!

Heather MacLeod                      And now .... for something
macl6441@mach1.wlu.ca                completely the same.
Wilfrid Laurier University
Waterloo, Ontario
From: loosemore-sandra@cs.yale.edu (Sandra Loosemore)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Can't let go of her
Date: 4 Jan 1993 16:45:12 -0500
Organization: staff hacker @ Yale Haskell project
NNTP-Posting-Host: functor.systemsz.cs.yale.edu
In-reply-to: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu's message of 4 Jan 1993 20:01:55 GMT

markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:

   There are three logical choices.  (1) Attempt to win her back, or force the
   situation in some other way; (2) Find another lover after grieving; or
   (3) Remain alone and grieve.

You missed one:

(4) Finish grieving, but still be alone.

-Sandra

Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.romance
From: bacon@mtu.edu (Jeff Bacon)
Subject: Re: Where did I meet my SO? 
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:52:43 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.115846.15813@wetware.com> drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:
>bacon@mtu.edu (Jeff Bacon) writes:
>] >Well she sent me email, wanting to meet me,
>] >becuase of my Basically Shy Quiet Naive Innocent Waifly Way
>] >that I posted to the net.
>] *LAUGH*
>do I detect a Lack of Sensitivity to my Cultural heritage?

yuppers!

>] >Little did I know that all she Really Wanted to do 
>] >was Take Advantage of my Innocence and Youth.
>] are you sure it didn't go the other way? :)
>Minor Technical Note: It is Historically nonPlausible
>for a problem Younger man to take advantage of a
>Problem Older Woman's "youth and innocence" for 
>reasons that should be intuitively obvious!!!!!
>ps: what are they teaching the youth these days....

got me, I didn't listen.

-bacon

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max)
Subject: Re: Seeking female companion
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 00:54:58 GMT

In article <1993Jan9.121312.8194@fuug.fi> an3936@anon.penet.fi (Silly Question) writes:

>
>And why shouldn't people be able to post anonymously? 

I have no problem with posting anonymously per se, its just that this is
not a group where posting personals is generally appreciated. If one is
offering an anonymous posting service to this group then one should make it
clear that personals are not appropriate. So far all of these anonymous 
postings have been personals (with the exception of the above comment,
seems to me that the person running the service is a bit clueless.


People don't put their
>names on personal adverts in the newspaper. By using anonymous posting, people
>can post information that they don't want immediately associated with their 
>name. If they want to reveal their identity to those they contact via email,
>that is their own business.
>
>The anonymous postings I have seen are not less interesting or informative
>than those with names credited.
>
>I am not the person running the anonymous posting service. This posting
>explains my views which are quite possibly different from his/hers.
>
>Anonymously.
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>To find out more about the anon service, send mail to help@anon.penet.fi.
>Due to the double-blind system, any replies to this message will be anonymized,
>and an anonymous id will be allocated automatically. You have been warned.


Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: ua308@freenet.victoria.bc.ca (Andreas Tovornik)
Subject: Curiosity
Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 01:24:12 GMT



A recent experience has compelled me to make a declaration:

I am proud to be curious! </.Q
                              \
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Now that I have declared it, on to more mundane matters.
Renewed interest has been sparked regarding the upcoming
VickyBoinx. VickyBoinkOne will be happening in just six 
weeks' time. 

The plan is that the festivities will be commencing at 5PM
atop Grouse Mountain in the restaurant. For those of you
who are not familiar with Southwestern British Columbia,
Grouse Mountain is one of those big LandBumps just in your
line of sight as you look Northwards from Vancouver.

The exact date is Friday, February 19'th, and if you need
transportation from the Vancouver Airport, I might be 
persuaded to pick you up there before 3PM on Friday. If
you can't make the inaugural dinner, land at the Victoria
Airport sometime on Saturday, and I'll arrange to send
James to get you in my Private Limo (if he shows up).

PartyOnDown!

dreas
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder)
Subject: Jerry Lewis On Mars 
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 21:55:01 GMT

In article <1992Dec30.225210.7573@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:

>"Mysterious face discovered on Jerry Lewis' head--just like the one on
> Mars!"


Merely confirming my suspicion that Jerry Lewis is, in fact, one of the
original Ancient Atronauts made so famous by Eric Von Danaken.  The only
piece of the puzzle I have yet to solve is: what was Dean Martin's role in
the Ancient Astronaut Corps?  Was he the construction supervisor during
the Naszca Line Project?

-- 
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