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From: pickerig@eee.bham.ac.uk (Guy Pickering)
Subject: Re: Book
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 11:16:51 GMT
Organization: The University of Birmingham, England
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Lauren L. Crawford (crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu) wrote:
: In article <1992Dec14.014037.26694@sol.UVic.CA> atovorni@engr.UVic.CA writes:
: >Three more chapters makes four! </.)
: >
: >dreas
: 
: Go, dreas!
: 
: What's the book about?
: 

Oh, no. That's torn it....I bet he has just been _dying_ for you to ask!

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From: mel@niblick.ecn.purdue.edu (Meloney D Cregor)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: sexual addiction
Keywords: inappropriate,postings,belong,elsewhere
Date: 11 Dec 92 19:23:34 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <1992Dec11.131441.15214@netcom.com> aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine) writes:
>Problem is, a number of people believe that the phrase, "beyond
>voluntary control," is incorrect.  If it were, then we're all addicted
>to breathing, eating, and sleeping -- which sounds just a little
>ridiculous.

Those are not behaviors.  Those are functions.  And technically, you
do have some voluntary control over all of those.
--
       Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.
                                -- Karl Marx
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu (Sharon O'Neil)
Subject: Re: Females have it easy!
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 04:51:06 GMT

sms@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (steven.m.stein) writes:

>Not all women have the same taste as the men who might be interested
>in them.

True.  It doesn't really matter as much to me what a person looks like, as
long as they are healthy and take reasonably good care of themselves.
Whereas you make the comment:

>Really depends on how much they weigh.  

So, we're to assume that the heavier girls are definitely not on your list
of "desirable."  Now, stop and think what you said earlier: that women have
it easier than men.  Well, maybe societally-accepted gorgeous women have more
"luck" getting "offers" from superficial guys.  (I know plenty of such women
who got plenty of "offers" from jerks.  You think that they have it easier?)

I also know plenty of women who don't fit the societal stereotype of what
"beautiful" is and they are in the same predicament as you are: they can't
find significant others.  

>(Seriously, if you knew me, you would know my primary goal is to get
>to know a woman and develop a close, mutually fullfilling and warm
>relationship.)

>That should take up the first 2 or 3 hours.  Then onto my secondary
>goal.......hot and steamy sex the rest of the night

I assume you're kidding.  If not, maybe you should reread what you've written.
I'll explain it to you very well.  

oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu
From: kgorman@bbn.com (Karen Gorman)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Am I banished?
Date: 14 Dec 1992 21:44:37 GMT
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

In article <lipoeqINN7nq@news.bbn.com>, dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes:
 
|> Hee hee hee.  I might have to be drugged to *get* married again 

Understandable.

|> Actually, at my last wedding, (and no, nobody asked but I'm telling you
|> anyway) I woke up too late, had a run in my hose (wore a miniskirt too)
|> ran out of nail polish remover and so had one red fingernail, (do your
|> RING hand first, Lauren), and the smell of the flowers made me want to
|> puke.  So I was standing there saying, "I'm going to puke, I think I'm
|> going to puke" and my mother was convinced that it was morning sickness
|> and kept saying "Why won't you confide in me?" and started crying because
|> I wouldn't tell her the truth, except that I WAS telling her the truth.
|> So I waited outside of the judge's chambers alternating "I think I'm 
|> going to puke" with "I'm really not pregnant Mom, I swear" scratching
|> frantically at that last scrap of red polish.  Oh, and neither of our 
|> rings fit.

Well doesn't this sound like the perfectly planned day for that oh so momentous
occasion.  If I were you, I don't think I'd be in a big hurry to do that again,
since once was certainly enough....Loved the nail polish part.  I'll pass on
seeing the pictures thanks.

Now I understand why I've never taken the plunge...doesn't sound like fun.

|> In retrospect, I should have gone ahead and tossed breakfast.  It might
|> have saved me a lot of trouble.

Agreed.


Karen
kg@bbn.com
From: souchay@CAM.ORG (Francois Souchay)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Women at work, was Attraction -> Acquiantance or vice versa?
Date: 13 Dec 92 23:26:24 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada

In article <1gfprsINNg7n@FUNCTOR.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU> loosemore-sandra@cs.yale.edu (Sandra Loosemore) writes:
>In article <Bz5Lz5.DIn@CAM.ORG> souchay@CAM.ORG (Francois Souchay) writes:
>
>   I'd wager this attitude is endemic in male-dominated professions like
>   engineering & the harder sciences,
>   How do we reverse the trends apparent here?
>Actually, I think relatively few women *are* driven out in the
>way you suggest.  Rather, the problem is that there are not enough
>women entering these fields to begin with.
>More recently, I've been involved with a couple of programs aimed at
>convincing more junior-high and high-school girls to consider careers
>in science and engineering. 

Cool. Expanding your base of candidates can't help but improve the
work done, if only thru intellectual competition. As it stands, many
professions only tap half the minds available.

Best damn C coder I *ever* worked with wore a skirt.

>but it still seems that
>girls are afraid of being treated as nerdy outcasts if they do well in
>tough math and science classes

Guys have the same problem ( at least where & when I grew up ).

>Anyway, I can't say that I've ever experienced gender-based
>harrassment of any type either in college or in any of the jobs I've
>held since then.  The closest thing to it was when I was hired as the
>first woman among a group of about 40 male engineers, and on the
>telephone people would always assume I was a secretary and ask to
>speak to "one of the *engineers*".  But it's been my experience that
>as long as I act like a professional, that's how I'll be treated by my
>coworkers.

The place where I used to work hired its first woman as a technical
salesperson less than 2 years ago, and she did such a good job
cracking the gender barrier the sales force new hires are now
evenly balanced for the first time since the place opened its doors
in 76. All of this despite a notorious swine for a boss. He got 
forced out, she stayed.

She had to deal with the same issues of professional respect, along
with fighting a real bastard who didn't understand single motherhood. 
Some of the fifty year old industry managers we worked with
just would be tongue-tied and stammering at hammering out a deal 
with a woman bearing an advanced degree.

Francois.
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From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Pre-Sex Contract
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 22:31:39 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.163407.5960@netcom.com> desiree@netcom.com (Desiree Champagne) writes:
>
>	In today's article the self-proclaimed Mr. Tickle Monster
>has come out with the latest in a rash of rather scary thoughts:

[W. David states that he takes broken agreements seriously] 

[response containing words like 'puke' and 'stupid' deleted] 

>	You're a sanctimonious prig. And don't give me this drivel about
>that being an ad hom attack.
>
>	Take a word of advice, lose the .sig.  Not only are you not
>a net.personality -- you're not a personality in any sense of the word.
>
>
>Desiree
>
>
>P.S.  I do have to say that you are the only person in all my years on
>      the net where your personal demeanor matches your net.demeanor.
>      One look at you and I realized that you are an uptight, angry
>      young kid.  You are so tightly wound up that you can see the
>      shit oozing between the cracks...

Can I get you some more Windex for that house of yours? 
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From: kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.pagan,alt.romance,alt.sex,alt.polyamory,talk.religion.misc
Subject: Re: Truth
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 03:12:24 EST
Reply-To: kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us
Organization: Kalki's Infoline BBS, Aiken, SC, USA

lothie@syrinx.umd.edu (Lothie) writes:

> I have a LOVELY definition of Truth that I'd like to share with everyone.
> 
> 	Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty; that is all
> 	Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
> 
> 				-- John Keats
> 				"Ode on a Grecian Urn"

Yes, this is nice. The greatest beauty therefore is the greatest truth.
That is God, the Absolute Truth, Who is absolute beauty.

Sincerely,
Kalki Dasa


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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: rossi@mtu.edu (Rossi)
Subject: Re: Woman With (rest removed to protect the innersent)
Summary: Was this a quiz?
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 22:46:56 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.165752.5203@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes:
>
>Happy Holidays to all who are celebrating them.  These last few days I
>had the rare time opportunity to do some net.ketchup, and in honor of

   What's net.ketchup?  Some new designer drug?

>the celebrated birth of the religious icon to whom I subscribe, I give
>you all, in the spirit of Lederer's _Anguished English_, what I read:
>
>(If any of you recognize yourselves PLEASE take this in the friendly
>spirit in which it is meant!!!  I took special care to try to copy these
>article clips EXACTLY as they appeared.)

  Ok Casper!  Come out!  I know you're hiding somewhere close!

  songbird
From: akcs.lilmurph@vpnet.chi.il.us (Kerry Lynn Murphy)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Women, Cats, & Chocolate
Date: 16 Dec 92 16:55:01 CST

is this as interesting as the singles can get!!!!  I'm glad I have a
boyfriend!!

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: shannah@netcom.com (Teri Miller)
Subject: Re: Abortion
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:07:13 GMT

In article <235@cnmhnet.UUCP> keithg@cnmhnet.UUCP (keith garrard) writes:
>In article <1992Dec11.221530.9943@cbnewsi.cb.att.com> gadfly@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (Gadfly) writes:
>>In article <228@cnmhnet.UUCP>, keithg@cnmhnet.UUCP (keith garrard) writes:
>>> > > Is abortion wrong?
>>> >Discussing it in this newsgroup is!
>>> No Gadfly, it isn't.  
>>your net.elders--created net.abortion, which would become talk.abortion
>>in the fullness of time.  Of course, all adolescents are convinced
>>find it cute.  Now, kid!!
>
>Oh Gadfly, if you were as chronologically mature as one would
>have us believe, you would have stated in your brief rhetoric,
>that there is a more appropriate newsgroup for the discussion
>of a topic such as abortion, and you would have mentioned it.
>Instead, you instilled upon us the subtle flame which said,
>"Discussing it in this newsgroup is...", without gladly furnishing
>the addendum "...try the newsgroup talk.abortion".  

I suspect, Keith, that's because he figured that you were bright
enough to figure that out from the information he provided.  Was
he really sadly mistaken, or are you just arguing because you have
nothing better to do?
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From: dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Women, Cats, & Chocolate
Date: 14 Dec 92 20:01:34 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

In article <PETRI.WESSMAN.92Dec12142540@lk-hp-19.hut.fi>, Petri.Wessman@hut.fi (Petri Wessman) writes:
> 
> Hmmm... will someone then explain to me why just about all the women
> (ok, girls) that I know are nuts about dogs and couldn't care less
> about anything that goes "meow" or scratches at the furniture -- and
> why I'm a cat person myself and think dogs are walking drool
> generators? Is this some weird Scandinavian thing? :-)

I'm curious why somebody should be a lifelong cat freak and then suddenly
fall head over heels in love with some stray dog?  I'd always adored
cats and thought dogs were, as you say, walking drool generators, when 
this stray dog informed me that she was moving in with me.  What was
weirder was when I called my sister to tell her about it, it turns out 
that a stray dog had forcibly adopted her the week before.  She now has 
three, and had to buy a new house to accomodate them all.

So now I'm a cat-and-dog person, only my ex took the dog and my last cat 
died when I was in labor.  But I think there's some cockroaches left in
the kitchen.

Dawn

Joseph Campbell gave me hope and now I have been saved.
"Folk Song" by Bongwater
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: schock@flip.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Craig-Richard Schock)
Subject: Re: Attraction -> Acquiantance or vice versa?
Reply-To: schock@flip.cpsc.ucalgary.ca
Organization: University of Calgary Computer Science
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 21:26:49 GMT

In article <1992Dec9.212121.13220@cbnewsk.cb.att.com> krw@cbnewsk.cb.att.com  
(keith.r.smith) writes:
> I would like to offer this poll for the men:
> 
> 	1) how many of you ever approached a woman on your own, whom
> 	   you _did not_ find attractive in some way, for purposes of
> 	   making her acquaintance?
> 
> 	2) how many of you ever, by your own free will, asked a woman
> 	   out on a date, whom you did not find attractive in some way?
> 
> 	3) how many of you, actively and freely, spend significant amounts
> 	   of time with a woman whom you are not attracted to?

I definitely answer YES to questions 1 and 3.  (Or, should I say... may hand  
is raised :-)

The only thing I'm not sure about is how you define ``attractive''.  If you  
only mean ``looks'', then I answer YES to question 2 as well.  I have found  
that even though I may not find someone to be a raving beauty on the outside,  
they may be incredibly beautiful on the inside. 

> As for me, my arms are folded in response to 1, 2, and 3 above.

That's too bad.  I used to choose whom I would ask out simply by how good they  
looked.  And.. then, one day... the most amazing thing happened to me.  I met  
a woman whom I did not find particularly attractive (looks wise) but she was  
the most fantastic person to be with.   My world changed before my eyes.

In a way... I feel sad for you because I know what I missed out on when I felt  
the same way you do.

> Keith R

Take care,

Craig
From: martinc@hatteras.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Women: would you go out with a man dumber than you?
Date: 17 Dec 92 01:09:14 GMT
	<1992Dec16.172504.29957@cbnews.cb.att.com>
Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
In-reply-to: eleanor@cbnews.cb.att.com's message of 16 Dec 92 17:25:04 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.172504.29957@cbnews.cb.att.com> eleanor@cbnews.cb.att.com (eleanor.j.evans) writes:

   I have to.

No you don't.
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	    3611 University Dr #13M/Durham, NC 27707/(919) 419 1754
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      to resist the temptation to laugh uncontrollably.  Amen." -- Rob T
From: keithg@cnmhnet.UUCP (keith garrard)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Am I banished?
Date: 16 Dec 92 23:52:02 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: California-Nevada Methodist Homes

In article <1gjfdpINNj93@FUNCTOR.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU> loosemore-sandra@cs.yale.edu (Sandra Loosemore) writes:
>OK, I'll post my favorite weird wedding story.  A couple of years ago
>my younger brother got married.  At the time, neither one of them was
>working regularly and since she's a foreigner (Japanese) there wasn't
>much point in having a big family wedding.  So one day my mother gets

OK Sandra, I have to ask about what you are saying here.  In the
above message, you state "...since she's a foreigner (Japanese)
there wasn't much point in having a big family wedding."  
I've got to say that at first glance, I took offense with that.
Are you saying that foreigners aren't worth having big weddings
for?  Or you saying that because she was a foreigner, that 
'the marriage probably won't last long enough to have a big
wedding for, or are you saying that Japanese aren't worth
having big weddings for.  I hope that what you meant was that
since her family would be unable to attend due to the fact that
they are in Japan, that a big wedding wouldn't be practical.
Please clarify.
--Keith
From: souchay@CAM.ORG (Francois Souchay)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Woman: will you go out with shorter man?
Date: 13 Dec 92 14:37:51 GMT
Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada

In article <1992Dec13.075628.164795@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.IBM.com writes:
>In <Bz5MEv.E83@CAM.ORG> souchay@CAM.ORG (Francois Souchay) writes:
>>In article <1992Dec12.072004.148969@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.IBM.com writes:
>>>I've found that in bed, height differences don't generally matter...
>>Yeah, right. I wish L. had the same attitude. Silly git had a talent for
>>making a man feel he was Toulouse-Lautrec's smaller brother.
>>How much taller was she?
>>One inch.
>I'm 5'9".  I dated a woman who's 6' tall for about a year.  Neither of us had a
>problem with it.  Depends on the individuals, I suppose.

True enough. Half the women I've dated were my height or better barefoot,
so when you add in the heels... They didn't have a problem with it either.
It depends on the set of value checklists imposed on the partner, I suppose.

The secure woman (person) will probably spend less time worrying about
whether the man she's with satisfies the Relative Height Criterion
as promulgated by Hollywood/Mad Ave.

>>I've always been a sucker for redheads, tho... :-/
>I've always been a sucker for women. 

C'mon Larry, *that* goes without saying!  Should've typed sucker ** 2.

> My current redhead now has an exclusive contract, though...

For the tell-all tale of living with Larry? Heh heh heh.

Gotta go now, time to find something to make some girls' eyes light up.
I get nieced in 5 days, can't wait!  

Francois.

Stephanie : We're going to wake him up. We're going to jump on his stomach!
Natalie : Yes! Jump on his stomach!

Annick (bless her) : I think he'd rather wake up on his own.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: pdsmith@bbn.com (Peter D. Smith)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: PhillyBoink Report and Thanks
Date: 11 Dec 1992 18:38:42 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com
Keywords: PhillyBoink Liz Sheba Thrashing_Robots Lox

I hate computers.  Due to a gradually-failing 'rn' and an almost-working 'nn'
this message was not posted earlier.


                PhillyBoink Report and Thanks
		-----------------------------

Kudos to Liz and Sheba for an amazingly enjoyable time.  It was a real treat
to meet everybody, and I learned a number of totally useless facts, such as

      - Laser pointers can be used to determine beer quality.  If the
	laser shines straight through, it's mediocre beer; if the light
	is stopped dead, it's a Guiness.

      - Bizarre bond prices and terms are set up specifically to confuse
	competing bond traders

      - Pelican skulls are way cool.

(Also, many thanks to Bill and Bob who drove me down from Boston, even
though they didn't really want to).


					Peter D. Smith
					or just "Peter"
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: phantasm@iastate.edu ()
Subject: Greetings all...
Summary: Greetings and Thanks...
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:16:11 GMT


I wish to thank you for allowing me a respite from the occassional
dullness of life...

The brevity of our life, the dullness of our senses, the torpor
of our indifference, the futility of our occupation, suffer us
to know but little: and that little is soon shaken and then torn
from the mind by that traitor to learning, that hostile and faithless
stepmother to memory, oblivion.
                                 -John of Salisbury

I wish to increase that store of knowledge before oblivion claims me
entirely... I welcome the opportunity to meet you all...

For those who enjoy to post, and those who don't, I'd love an introduction...

Good fortune to those with finals to take...

May everyone enjoy the holidays...

Until we meet again...

phantasm

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jjj@mits.mdata.fi (Joni Jarvenkyla)
Subject: Re: What is gold-digging?
Organization: Microdata Oy, Helsinki, Finland
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 18:33:20 GMT

In article <oneil.724176019@cwis> oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu (Sharon O'Neil) writes:
>You and I should talk.  I'll usually let a guy open the car door, if he
>insists, but it really, really, really ANNOYS the hell out of me. 

You'd probably love Finland (or probably just about any other Nordic
country).

Around here it'd be a joke if a woman said 'he pays'.

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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Re: Am I banished?
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 15:30:21 GMT

In article <OLSON.92Dec16235256@husc8.harvard.edu> olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson@somewhere.out.there) writes:
>Well, while we're trading wedding stories, I'll tell you about my friend Guy's
>wedding.  Guy is an odd sort; he's into SF and the SCA, hang-glides, sky-dives,
>does technical climbing, and he's terrified of heights. Also a devout Catholic.
>stroke. I think the reception had already been paid for at that point, though.
>

This lovely yet tragic story brings up a regurgitated mammary of my own
Place wedding banquet hall.
# of receptions in hall = 4.
Buffets for me = 4.
Being in a suit has value.
Very tasty indeed.
 
The women weren't bad either.
 
Now isn't that a lovely story also, although a bit wordy.
 
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