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From: zoltan@News.Uni-Koeln.DE (Zoltan Sekeres)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: How Important Is Being IN-LOVE?
Date: 14 Oct 1992 17:09:09 GMT
Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne
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Josh Diamond writes
> So, in conclusion, I would have to say that ROMANCE _is_ important in
> a relationship -- it might not be present all of the time, and it is
> definitely not the sole requirement, but I believe that the joy of
> romance is crucial to having a relationship last.

Yes, I think that's right, especially if I think what happened to
me a few weeks ago:

In the beginning of the year I met a girl, kindly and friendly,
not quite the type I usually go for, but I thought she was OK.
As months went by we got to know each other better and better and
we had a great time - without any romance ! I thought "Lucky me,
all the good parts of a relationship without that damned romantic
part which makes everything so complicated."
But: Finally I fell in love with her. Couldn't help it, time with her
was too great. I realized that and decided to break off, so that 
- at least - I would remember the great time we joined together in a 
nostalgic way. 
"Happy end": On the final meeting she told me that for the whole
time - even before we had met - she had loved another guy who
rejected her. Even worse: That guy was one of my friends, always
considered by us to be "strange": Handsome, but a little bit boring
and with some strange attitudes. The question "Why ? And for god's
sake why him ?" did not let me rest for weeks. 
Now: Grumbling is over. Broke off completely. Met another girl for
which I had romantic feelings right from the start. Perhaps it 
will work out next week, would be glad about it.
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Memories
Date: 15 Oct 92 16:24:41 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <73359@apple.Apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
>jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) writes:
|
|> Philly philly philly boink, a go home. You can't push philly round
|>philly won't go. Try tellin everybody but Oh No. Philly philly philly
|>boink. A go home. 
|
|Yow, it's Little Philly by The Sweet!
|
Yea, Stef, James *is* kinda special isn't he.

BTW, send me email.  I've got something I want to send you.
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From: coleman@rocky.cs.ucla.edu (Mike Coleman)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Define "Single"
Date: 15 Oct 92 22:29:42 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department

The idea that one should be single (whatever that means) to read or
participate in soc.singles seems silly to me.  I read soc.singles, soc.women,
alt.politics.bush, soc.motss, and alt.sex, but it certainly doesn't follow
that I'm single, a woman, voting for the Shrub, gay, or getting any.  ;-)

Small minds may make assumptions, but who gives a shit?  Read/participate if
you're *interested*...

Mike

-- 
--Mike Coleman (coleman@cs.ucla.edu), Lord High Executioner of Anhedonia-----
		    Where are you when I need you, Nikki?
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux)
Subject: A Far Better Solution
Organization: Castle WetWare Philosopher and Sniper
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1992 01:03:58 GMT

atovorni@engr.UVic.CA writes:

] In article 24168@channel1, will.sahlein@channel1.com (will sahlein) writes:
] >Attractive, warm, bright, communicative  accompllished, sensual WSM 55
] >seeks similar woman.
] >--
] >Channel 1 (R)   Cambridge, MA
] 
] 
] Why are there so many of you guys coming in here? Get out and don't come back
] if you can't obey house rules! (bouncer throws unwanted patron into street)
 
Andreas,

Well Actually, it would have been nicer to point out
that we Support Posix Compliant women and not iso....


ciao
drieux


 


-- 
Modern Day Problems:

ME? engage in Hyperbole?
I have rarely been more than a first Order Function!!!!
From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Humans as Physical Creatures.
Date: 13 Oct 92 18:56:30 GMT
	<73301@apple.Apple.COM> <1992Oct12.223945.538@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
	<rawdon.718988160@cs.wisc.edu>
Distribution: na
Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
In-reply-to: rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu's message of 13 Oct 92 14:56:00 GMT

In article <rawdon.718988160@cs.wisc.edu> rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu (Michael Rawdon) writes:


   >But isn't genetic invasion the favourite form of assimilation?

   That's _insemination_. :-)

   (I can't believe I just said that.)

Ah, but I can.  In fact, I think this may turn out to be a very fecund
area for a new series of puns, nay, even seminal, so long as we can keep
our minds fluid, our wills proud and erect, our fertile wits ready to be
impregnated again and again by the germinal ideas that have made this
newsgroup great. 
--
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (Andreas  Tovornik)
Subject: Re: Qui est le plus MUSHY?
Reply-To: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 23:59:28 GMT

In article 92Oct14191329@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu, julie@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (Julie Wright) writes:
>dkeller@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dave Keller) writes:
>
>>atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (Andreas  Tovornik) writes:
>>>My biased view is that despite Victorian myths, Men are generally more
>>>prone to sentimentality than women. This is not to say that some women 
>>>cannot be more mushy than some men.
>
>>I agree entirely.  Women can be brutally pragmatic.  If you cannot further
>>their agenda, then you're toast - yesterday's news.
>
>Agenda?  
>
>I must have misplaced mine... don't see it lying around anywhere...

This is not mushy, folks.

>>But with time we all learn - and get hard-hearted.  We go from starry-eyed
>>nice-guy to flaming jerk.  
>
>And a good way to start being a jerk is to make a lot of unfair and 
>unflattering generalizations about women.

10,000 points for style, squat for sentimentality.

>>Which is better anyway since that is what women want.
>
>Ooh, BABY!  Somebody throw cold water on me!  
 
This is an interesting kink: Do RadFemSurfNazis like their water cold?

>>Quick!  Someone flame me cruelly!  I may not be a total jerk yet - I need
>>help!
>
>Well, you did ask.

Every flame adds to a good war!

                                           -The Arsonist

>I always wonder when I see these "I'm trying to be a jerk so I can attract
>more women" posts: just what sort of women do you think you're going to
>attract??  

OOOh lo blo! You're obviously attempting to cripple a fragile male Ego.
Good thing I don't believe in Freud.

>Maybe you should try cultivating some patience instead.  Sometimes you
>have to wait for the good stuff.  Life's like that.  

Hmmmmmm. Can I grow patience like drieux grows relationships?

Andreas.

Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.romance,alt.romance.chat,talk.bizarre
From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
Subject: Re: How long has it been?
Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 23:55:18 GMT

In article <1bch8lINNgsc@overload.lbl.gov> inspecti@ux7.lbl.gov () writes:
>
>thanks blair, i needed that.

You also need a 24" mechanical penis buried in
your rectum, but this is neither the time nor
the economic milieu for that.

				--Blair
				  "Gay white tiger seeks tall,
				   sensitive man for bestiality
				   and long walks in the rain..."
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux)
Subject: About: POT AND THE RELATIONSHIP
Organization: Castle WetWare Philosopher and Sniper
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 09:35:48 GMT


This Question comes Up time, and Again, And I
would Like to attempt a definative answer.

If you have to Pot a Relationship, Make sure
that you have a large enough one so that
there is no chance for root rot. Also Make
sure that there is sufficient Humus for the
type of relationship you are Growing.

Now, Let Us Turn towards the SUN. It is
important that You make sure that there
is enough photosynthesis to maintain
positive growth without the dangerous
side effects of 'burn out.' There are
some Clearly Defined rules about drawing
the Shades, so that the Happy Plants will grow.

Also remember to Water Regularly,
a Parched Plant is NOT a Happy Plant.
Unless, or course you are Potting a
cacti.... A Pointy Problem for most,
but not an Insurmountable one.


Ciao

Miss Drieux


-- 
Modern Day Problems:
In any case, don't give up, just type slower :-).
Chimo
Bob.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
Subject: Re: older women
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 12:48:28 GMT

In article <PETONIC.92Oct13202935@daisy.hal.com> petonic@hal.com (Michael A. Petonic) writes:
>When I was 22, I dated an older woman (27, not too large a diff).

F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of
twenty-seven."  He himself was 24 at the time.

-- Herb Huston
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: dkeller@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dave Keller)
Subject: Re: Qui est le plus MUSHY?
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 23:09:43 GMT

atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (Andreas  Tovornik) writes:



>   A recent experience has compelled me to post this.

>I was wondering what your thoughts were on sentimentality as a function
>of gender. I don't care if you use sweeping generalizations, or you get
>down dirty and specific.

>My biased view is that despite Victorian myths, Men are generally more
>prone to sentimentality than women. This is not to say that some women 
>cannot be more mushy than some men.

>What do you think/believe?

>Andreas. 

I agree entirely.  Women can be brutally pragmatic.  If you cannot further
their agenda, then you're toast - yesterday's news.

But with time we all learn - and get hard-hearted.  We go from starry-eyed
nice-guy to flaming jerk.  Which is better anyway since that is what women
want.

Quick!  Someone flame me cruelly!  I may not be a total jerk yet - I need
help!
--
   -=: Dave Keller :=-     | Trust machines to make big decisions,
  dkeller@nyx.cs.du.edu    | Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision.
  `Spirit of the Night'    |     -- Donald Fagen, "I.G.Y"
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
Subject: Re: Ignorance
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 12:33:59 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.062708.23767@sol.UVic.CA> atovorni@engr.UVic.CA writes:
>Are the wombats living, or dead like latin?

_Vombatus hirsutus_ and _Lasiorhinus latifrons_ are still living.  So is
Latin (see previous sentence).

-- Herb Huston
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (Andreas  Tovornik)
Subject: Re: Does anybody celebrate a Deathday?
Reply-To: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 00:56:22 GMT

In article 23022@hubcap.clemson.edu, smersch@eng.clemson.edu (Steve.) writes:
>I do.  Last year (October 19), I fell off of a waterfall and broke several things (pelvice bone, back and neck... c6 and c7 was the worst, "pulverized", they said).  I am just happy to still be here and have decided to make a yearly celebration out of it.
>
>									Steve.
>
>
>
My landlady celebrates the day her husband died every month.

Andreas.
Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 00:30:10 EDT
From: Graydon <SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: How Important Is Being IN-LOVE?

From someone with one oar in the water; immediacy of feeling inversely
correlates with long term stability contribution.

*very* immediate lustful thoughts don't do much for long term relationships.
"in love" states (the desire to be important enough to someone that
meaningfulness for yourself can be derived from it) aren't very long
term either, although more so than the lustful thoughts.

I think the thing that sustains truly long term relationships (the short
term stuff being why you want the relationship to last) is a suffused
unfocused, and patient affection.  Although I think I could have said
'respect' and have had the sentence be just as true.

You don't have to write like Drieux to make little sense, I'm afraid... :]

Graydon
From: stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Banana-split psychosis
Date: 15 Oct 92 19:38:49 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

cocoa@netcom.com writes:

>Please forgive my quoting of these two articles at length, but does anyone else
>beside me wonder if this person is:

>a) a fruitcacke with split personalities?
>b) a hard-up adolescent sneaking into someone else's acct?
>c) a Nice Guy [TM] who's finally lost all his inhibitions?
>d) invent your own
D--Mr. Randy 'Las Vegas' Soard's latest ploy?

When I read those two articles,  I thought, "Here is a guy very stupidly 
revealing Guy Trade Secrets on the net. See, some guys try on different 
attitudes in order to attract different sorts of women. If he sees a bouncy 
cheerleader type he might take on the "hey baby! I'm a fun guy!" attitude. If 
he sees a serious-looking gal sitting in the back of the room writing in 
a journal, he might take on the "I'm a wounded guy, will you listen to my 
tale of woe?" attitude.

I know it works sort of, because I considered responding to the first letter,
until I saw the second.

--
Stef -- serious writerly gal (sometimes)
stef@apple.com

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>In article <5387@balrog.ctron.com> lawrence@olympus.ctron.com (Saint) writes:
>>I'm a 30 yo male and I'm in that "shattered" stage having just lost my SO

>In article <5450@balrog.ctron.com> lawrence@olympus.ctron.com (Gary St. Lawrence) writes:
>>Anyway, for any and all women, age 25-35, REDHEAD, brunette, or blonde
>>(with most variations also accepted): If you're seeking intelligent,
>>fun, flirtatious and sometimes randy conversation and perhaps a
>>meeting of the minds (and bodies eventually), E-mail me!
From: thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: More Questions we all wanted to ask
Date: 15 Oct 92 22:19:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: convex.thurlow.719187598
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
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              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In <15015@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:

>In article <thurlow.719034723@convex.convex.com> thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:

>|Has anubody else tried braiding theirs?

>You have three of them?  I bet you're real popular with the ladies.

Like I was explaining to a local lurker, you first fold it so that you
have three pieces to work with.  After that, it's not hard.  Actually,
it had better not become hard, either, or you'll have some difficulty
with the procedure :-)

Rob T
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Convex Computer Corporation, Richardson, TX
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jdnicoll@watyew.uwaterloo.ca (James Davis Nicoll)
Subject: Re: The Engaged Psychobitch from Hell Syndrome
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 15:12:53 GMT

In article <14889@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
>|markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:
>|Actually the probabiliy of someone being a perfect match is more like 1/1000
>|or so.  Probably even a lot more, like 1/100.
>|
>|Really, I'd say 1/1000, because then the probability of finding two perfect
>|matches at once would be like 1/1000000, which makes the event about as common
>|as observation suggests. :)
>
>All the more reason to throw statistics out the window.  

	Nah. The stats people are just ignoring the  role of manufacturing
in 'perfect matches'. You can't just use the raw materials one finds in
people; you have to  run them through the lathe a few times to get the
product you  want.

	Think  'Procrustes'.

							James Nicoll
From: wjb@moscom.com (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: relationship gone to pot?
Date: 8 Oct 92 13:40:14 GMT
Reply-To: wjb@moscom.com
Distribution: na
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford NY
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In article <9680158@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> jws@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (John Schmidt) writes:
: Teri's advice is excellent. It's best to avoid relationships with people
: who have addictive personalities. Unfortunately, it may take some time for
: you to realize that the person you have fallen for is addicted to alcohol,
: drugs, or some other self-destructive habit.
Does soc.singles count?
-- 
Who needs lime jello?  We had lasagna...
-------------------------------------------------------------
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From: pw@panix.com (Paul Wallich)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Open letter to Edward V. Wright
Date: 9 Oct 92 22:58:55 GMT
Organization: Trivializers R Us

In article <1992Oct7.222421.6938@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
>In article <5800@news.duke.edu> diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams) writes:
>>Well, to half-borrow a line from 'Dangerous Liasons'- I'd *love* to do
>>some secretarial work for you.
...
>Trygve    (Hope you don't mind if I tend to alternate shorthand with
>           longhand.) 

I'm so confused. I thought it was Dawn's mutant who was differently
handed. Please somebody explain this to me.

paul
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: Bathsheba.Grossman@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bathsheba Grossman)
Subject: Re: Ipisissimus
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 01:46:49 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.130633.28367@cbfsb.cb.att.com> jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) writes:
>In article <1992Oct9.202428.26419@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> allisson@turing.toronto.edu (H. Allisson Roome) writes:
>>Sorry, I don't have any seesters (at least that I know of) but I'm
>>willing to open with 3 pounds of bananas (and not to be outdone by Mel
>>- I'll scrounge up the fondue pot and make chocolate fondue, dip the
> 
> Can you cook meat in that there pot?

Flesh fondue?  There's a market nearby that sells whole filets
mignon...yes... hordes of raving nurds elbowing one another's breasts in
their eagerness to plunge chunks of scarcely-expired cow, impaled on
razor-sharp skewers, dripping with gore, into boiling oil.  Then, the
savory condiments, the soft pillows, the well-greased orifices...yes.

-Sheba
What did they use before condiments?  The rhythm method.   -Zippy the Pinhead

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From: morton@rtpnet06.rtp.dg.com (John R. Morton)
Subject: Re: BARBIE DOES IT AGAIN!!!!
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 12:12:14 GMT
Organization: Data General Corporation, RTP, NC.

>>Kiran Wagle (kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu) wrote:
>>: But--math class _is_ hard!  I never did figger out algebra.  

	How old is Barbie ? She may be a math grad student, in which case
	your damn right math is hard, 
	When I was a kid , Barbie was a teenager, that means she must be
	72 years old now, I suppose that could contribute to some difficulty
	reasoning in mathematics..
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Good movies ...
Date: 8 Oct 92 14:55:17 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.
Originator: news@auspex-gw.Auspex.COM

In article <1992Oct2.174532.235874@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH) writes:
>
>The ultimate date movie now in theaters.."The Last of the Mohicans."
>
>Lots of action, great scenery, a hero and a heroine, drama, good guys and bad
>guys, redemption of a quasi-bad guy, 

Add some comedy and romance and take away a bit of scenery and you'd 
have "The Princess Bride".

It may not be playing in the theaters but could always rent it and cuddle
on a couch.
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From: thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Vicky Boink.
Date: 15 Oct 92 20:51:12 GMT
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
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In <14994@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:

>I'm not sure what an unscheduled whale and dolphin show is but Aquariums
>are usually interesting.  We're fortunate to have some real good ones
>in the bay area (if you consider Monterey, to SF the bay area).

An unscheduled whale and dolphin show is a show for the benefit of all
the poor whales and dolphins unfortunate enough to lose their daytimers.
Various downtown types in three-piece suits do tricks, flips, balance
balls on their noses, etc.  They then get a piece of cruelty-free tofu
marinated in hoi-sin sauce as a reward.  Quite touching, really.

Rob T
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From: mel@niblick.ecn.purdue.edu (Meloney D Cregor)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Balloon Boink report
Date: 14 Oct 92 00:46:13 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <14968@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:

>Which reminds me.  Why haven't we heard anything about those incredible
>New Mexico sunsets that were being bragged about?

Ya know, I can only recall seeing one and that was Sunday night.  It was
quite lovely.  The rest of the time, we were busy at that time.   Too bad,
since they at least have the decency to occur at a civilized hour.
--
 Life is exactly what you make of it, always has been, always will be.
                                          
                                          --  Grandma Moses
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