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From: jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Good movies ...
Date: 2 Oct 92 17:45:32 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes:

>Someone asked for suggestions for movies to see on a date.  Here's
>my three cents:

>-Sneakers (good especially for the computer-interested)
>-A League of Their Own
>-Single White Female
[...]

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, reasonably faithful to its literary basis,
popular (NB it's a first-date priority), a romance that's not overblown but
not buried, not overwhelmingly PC, extremely well-staged action sequences, and
the requisite dramatic conclusion.
-- 
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   jm0i@.Lehigh.edu     | "- or nothing. So you see, I take the nothing." (AR)
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From: keithg@cnmhnet.UUCP (keith garrard)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Asking advice
Date: 28 Sep 92 21:03:05 GMT
Organization: California-Nevada Methodist Homes

In article <72785@apple.Apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
>keithg@cnmhnet.UUCP (keith garrard) writes:
>Wrong-o. Refusing to touch your partner in public is saying, psychologically, 
>that you don't respect her and are secretly looking for someone else to
>boink. And as we know, not being happy with your monogamous relationship
>indicates insecurity of the highest order.

Oh Stef, of Apple, let us get to the core of the discussion.  Excessive
touching of one's partner in public signifies an attempt to remind
everyone that the partner "belongs" to you, in a possessive manner.
Of course, this is wrong, because no one belongs to anyone else.  This
also states that the partner being constantly touched is somehow
inferior, and must be led around due to lack of direction [handholding].
In this modern society, when equality is supposed to be practiced, 
the man & the woman walk together down the street.  They may be 
side-by-side, or one in front of the other, but they are still two
independent people who should be accorded their space as human beings.
--Keith
From: crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Humans as Physical Creatures.
Date: 5 Oct 92 19:39:56 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <718296643.1327@minster.york.ac.uk> aaron@minster.york.ac.uk writes:

>Creative people are
>much more attractive than vegetables!

That depends.  I've never met a zucchini I didn't like.



-- 
Lauren Crawford  //  crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: Marc@cbnewsm.cb.att.com
Subject: Re: Nice Guys (noooooooo!)
Organization: AT&T
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 22:53:38 GMT

From article <5461@news.duke.edu>, by diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams):
> I'm being pursued (in a Nice way, of course) by a guy with a really 
> CLASSIC case of the disorder.  My question is this: what's the least 
> unpleasant and most helpful way to turn such a person down?  I don't 
> want to be cruel or anything, but then again all the talk on this group 
> has given me the impression that the reason many Nice Guys[tm] never 
> realize what's going wrong with their love lives is because no one 
> ever has the heart to *tell* them, and I really don't want to string 
> him along. 
> 
  
Well, if you find it to be such a 'disorder' and you seem to  
find that the cause is people not being blunt and up front;                     

My suggestion is be cruel and show your true self!  He will
go away and you can ride off into the sunset on Ron's Harley. 

We can see what 'CLASSIC' disorder you suffer.
From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: More on guys who aren't dating Ed Wright
Date: 1 Oct 1992 11:51:34 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: soc
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In article <1ade3uINN688@golem.wcc.govt.nz> parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>How do you know this woman was 'perfect' if you never got close to her?
>Do you mean she *looked* perfect?  Did she have face and body of your 
>dreams?

Give me the beauty and body, and I'll take care of the rest, as she undergoes
the rigors of training under my control and so achieves a greatness in mind
to complement her other positive attributes.
From: keithg@cnmhnet.UUCP (keith garrard)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Dating an older woman
Date: 28 Sep 92 20:50:44 GMT
Organization: California-Nevada Methodist Homes

In article <1992Sep25.154107.21029@tinman.mke.ab.com> incorban@mke.ab.com (Isaac Corban1) writes:
>Heres the story.  I'm a guy in his mid 20's and I've recently started dating
>a woman in her upper 30's (maybe 40? I haven't asked).  The difference in
>She is divorced with two children, an 18 year old daughter and a 12 year old
>entire situation though.  Anyone out there been in a similar situation?
>anyone got any advice for me?
>Isaac Corban

Oh yes!  Do I know what you are talking about!  In 1989, I met this 
lady who turned out to be 11 years older than me.  At the time, I was
34, and she was 45.  She had 3 kids, two daughters, age 16 & 21, and a 
son age 12.  Well, the oldest daughter was away at college most of the
time, and the 16 year old daughter was 16 going on 21, so she was
pretty much out of the picture.  Basically it was the mother and her son.
I thought the mother was a nice lady [and she was] and very attractive
[and she was] until I met the 16 year old daughter.  She was 5'11"
tall, and she did a lot of local modeling.  In fact, she also appeared
in Glamour Magazine.  I knew that I was physically attracted to this
16 year-old, but I tried to put it out of my mind.  However, as the 
months went by and I was dating her mother, I came to realize that
it wouldn't work; that I would always have this urge to have the
daughter[or any of her absolutely gorgeous friends!].  However, 
I don't see anything wrong with dating an older woman.  I eventually
did just that, and it was quite successful, as many of you know.
--Keith

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From: GCTHORNE@idbsu.idbsu.edu (Broward Horne)
Subject:      First Lady?
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 92 11:03:36 MST
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       YOU
         are the one
                   supreme being

       always pushing Bill
                         to fulfill
                                  the American dream

       OUT!
          of Arkansas, you require

       all hips and quips
                        just made to blow
                                        a housewife's cool

       I
        could have sworn
                       that you were republican

       cause you're a hard,
                          hard,
                              hard,
                                  humorless thing

       But he
            should have known
                            that you were a devil

       I see now why Slick would cheat,
                                      cheat,
                                           cheat,
                                                with his thing



       YOU
         lack the one thing
                          and that is emotion

       fluffing your hair
                        you don't care
                                     who he lays

       YOU
         want the one thing
                          and that is upward motion

       your banality
                   will always be
                                your greatest sting

       I
        could have sworn
                       that you were a woman

       cause you are a hard,
                           hard,
                               hard,
                                   Hilary-ous thing

       But Bill
              should have known
                              that you were a lawyer

       when you slipped on that big,
                                   big,
                                      big,
                                         diamond ring.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams)
Subject: Re: The Engaged Psychobitch from Hell Syndrome
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 16:48:11 GMT

In <72787@apple.Apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:

>ron@turing.toronto.edu (Ron Wessels) writes:

>>ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:
>>>Emma (still holding her position!)

>>But Emma, holding your position is so ... lifeless.  It's >so< much better
>>if you move with the rhythm.

>Oh, but the tension you can build up if you try to stay still...

	Yeah, and think of how wonderful it is to release that
tension! (*GRIN*)
From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: men in their thirties who never dated
Date: 30 Sep 92 01:20:26 GMT
	<ewright.717696345@convex.convex.com> <aa+p3aj@lynx.unm.edu>
	<ewright.717781394@convex.convex.com>
Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
In-reply-to: ewright@convex.com's message of 29 Sep 92 15:43:14 GMT

In article <ewright.717781394@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:

   >Because, Edward, what they are saying is true! Did you ever stop to think
   >of that?  Americans, in general, are not very physically fit. 

   Do you have any evidence to prove that?

Ed, we've offered medical evidence with references on more than one
occasion.  You've responded with (a) a stupid conspiracy theory and (b)
with modifying the initials of Duke University Medical Center to DUMB.

If you don't care to believe, don't.  But don't disingenuously ask for
"evidence" -- you've no more interest in evidence than a JFK-assassination
nut. 
--
Charles R. Martin/(Charlie)/martinc@cs.unc.edu/(ne crm@cs.duke.edu) 
O/Dept. of Computer Science/CB #3175 UNC-CH/Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175
H/3611 University Dr #13M/Durham, NC 27707/(919) 419 1754
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"I am he who walks the States with a barb'd tongue, questioning every
one I meet,/Who are you that wanted only to be told what you knew
before?/ Who are you that wanted only a book to join you in your
nonsense?"  _Leaves of Grass_ xxiii.4.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: wtr@mitre.org (Bill Ralston)
Subject: Re: men in their thirties who never dated
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 23:42:41 GMT

in article <1992Sep28.190952.28341@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> 
nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes:
[regarding people who exercize]
>...  It's
>superior morally because you are going to be alive and well and contributing
>to the lives of people ...

I'm calling you on this one.  I can think of a large number of people who 
work in Washington DC (e.g. the large number of rather pot-bellied (or is 
that pork-bellied) congressmen) for which the world would be a better 
place if they all just died of obesity! :-/

>Nance Colucci  *^*^*^*^*^*    o__    *^*^*^*^*  |  Work that body!
>att!ihlpk!colucci            _.>/               | Stay fit for life.
>                            (_) \(_)                           

Get with the program, Nance, recumbant bicyles are it!! :-)
                                o                           
                            ___/ 
                         (_)---(_)
---------------
Bill
wtr@mitre.org
**Marrou/Lord in '92.  (If you don't know who they are, you are not a 
fully informed voter.  Fulfill your civic responsibility and find out!! **
** Opinions are mine only, and not my employer's **
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
Subject: Re: men in their thirties who never dated
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 05:39:09 GMT
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 <bf#pvxd@lynx.unm.edu> blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:

>Have you ever been to a ball game? Experienced the sights, sounds, smells,
>flavours, activities? Bit into a dog you could swear has been boiling since
>the Kennedy administration, smothered in mustard and kraut, a tepid drink
>nearby, as the pitcher takes his time, delivers a well timed pitch that the
>batter swings and takes the ball over the fence? The roar of the crowd as the
>ball flies out of the park? The excitement in the air?

Sounds like Dante's description of Hell.
From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: The spice of life
Date: 1 Oct 92 03:07:03 GMT
	<ewillims.717614514@unix1.tcd.ie>
	<1992Sep29.162306.13106@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
	<ewillims.717873749@unix1.tcd.ie>
Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
In-reply-to: ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie's message of 30 Sep 92 17:22:29 GMT

In article <ewillims.717873749@unix1.tcd.ie> ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:

   In <1992Sep29.162306.13106@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:


   >>>the fangs part--kinda silly for a strict vegetarian to have fangs, but

Why does Bob Hope keep running through my mind.


... fangs... for the mammaries....

Hmmm.
--
Charles R. Martin/(Charlie)/martinc@cs.unc.edu/(ne crm@cs.duke.edu) 
O/Dept. of Computer Science/CB #3175 UNC-CH/Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175
H/3611 University Dr #13M/Durham, NC 27707/(919) 419 1754
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"I am he who walks the States with a barb'd tongue, questioning every
one I meet,/Who are you that wanted only to be told what you knew
before?/ Who are you that wanted only a book to join you in your
nonsense?"  _Leaves of Grass_ xxiii.4.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: More on guys who aren't dating Ed Wright
From: parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz
Date: 30 Sep 1992 23:43:58 GMT
Reply-To: parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz
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  <ewright.717737097@convex.convex.com><MARTINC.92Sep29210821@grover.cs.unc.edu
 ><ewright.717826420@convex.convex.com>,<MARTINC.92Sep30103015@grover.cs.unc.edu>
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>   Your reading way too much into this.  It never got far enough for
>   "feelings" of that sort to come into it.  I will admit that I do
>   sometimes wonder if I'll find another woman who I'll *want* to have
>   a relationship with as much as her -- someone who'll be more than
>   second best -- but that's all there is to it.  And I don't dwell on
>   that, either -- it's something I think about maybe once a month or so 
>   -- so, again, don't read too much into this.

Please sir, can I ask a question?

How do you know this woman was 'perfect' if you never got close to her?
Do you mean she *looked* perfect?  Did she have face and body of your 
dreams?

She might have been impossible to live with.  You simply don't know
whether or not she was truly perfect or just appeared so.

P.s.  I think you meant "You're reading way too much ..." not "Your"
      common mistake    :->



>saintly demeanor and my physical fitness, but I meet lots of lawyers who
>talk about the neat things they do with their computers, English grad

EEeeeeeeiew!   Lawyers!   (hisssssss)






>wrong to date someone who doesn't find you attractive" and in any case,
>how do you propose one go about it?  Hold a gun to the other person's
>head? 

To totally change the subject, why is it people can't handle the fact that
someone isn't attracted to them?  I've had trouble in the past with a guy I
really like as a friend, i.e. we get on really well and enjoy each other's
company, but I'm simply not physically attracted to him.  He can't understand
that, and my attempted explanations obviously haven't convinced him.  I'd hate
to lose his friendship, but I'm sick of every time he's around, him hassling me
to go out with him as more than a friend.


Maybe it's true that male/female friendships can never *truly* be 'just
friends'.


???




Rachel                           "Supergoof!"
                                    -  -
                                    O  O
                                      >
                                     \_/
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: diana@wetware.com (CatWoman )
Subject: Re: To all Christian girls
Organization: Castle WetWare MouseCatcher
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 14:23:45 GMT

barry@netcom.com (Kenn Barry) writes:

] greg@netcom.com (Greg Bullough) writes:
] >just me writes:
] >> I am getting closer to my thirties, and being a genuinly trying Christian man
] >>I constantly have a problem to see where there are all those young sporty
] >>Christian girls ...
] > 
] >What does "sporty" mean? I mean, in a car, it means you can take their
] >tops down...
] 
] 	The expression "sporting lady" used to be well-known; perhaps it
] has fallen out of fashion? Of course, the only especially Christian
] feature of sporting ladies is the need to drop something in the
] collection plate :-).
] 
] 						Kayembee

Okay, guys - now that we've got the idea about what
a "sporty" Christian girl might be, I have a question...

WHAT, exactly, is a "trying Christian man".  I've met
a few that were VERY trying, but they'd never admit it
in public!

Diana
From: crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: The Engaged Psychobitch from Hell Syndrome
Date: 29 Sep 92 14:17:08 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <1992Sep28.171931.14509@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> smith@comm.mot.com (Jeff Smith) writes:
>In article <90413@netnews.upenn.edu>, crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
>|> I'm brand new to the group.  After reading a bit of this thread, I thought
>|> I'd ask:
>|> 
>|> Anyone else out there planning on waiting until marriage before they
>|> have sex, and then sleeping only with their spouse thereafter?  Or
>|> am I too hopeless an anachronism for this group?
>
>My guess would be that there are more people who feel that way than will
>publicly (at least here) admit it.
>
>Here's an interesting question:  with regard to the first part of your question
>(the part about waiting) would you insist on only dating someone who felt the
>same? Or is this simply something you feel that you, personally, should do?
>



If you mean, would I seriously date (as opposed to going out with once or
twice) someone who slept with other women or pushed for me to sleep with
him, or who planned on sleeping with other women after he was married, no.
I wouldn't.  It's extremely important for me to have respect for someone
in order to get involved with him; it's just the way I'm made.  And I
don't respect that mindset.





-- 
Lauren Crawford  //  crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu
From: julie@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (Julie Wright)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Humans as Physical Creatures.
Date: 6 Oct 92 19:11:52 GMT
Organization: The Cultural Elite

wjb@moscom.com (Bill de Beaubien) writes:

>Charles R. Martin (martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu) wrote:
>: And how narrowly can we identify the
>: "date" on which the Neanderthals disappeared?

>July 18th, 39736 B.C.  Any other questions?

From _An Almanac of Words At Play_, by Willard Espy (Sept. 15 entry):

...[T]his news item from the Los Angeles _Times_ [falls] in a category
of "remarkably precise dating":
Engineers surveying for a railroad in Northern Turkestan
have uncovered the skeleton of a massive saurian that must
have passed away 3,000,000 years ago last Friday.


(I dunno, I always thought "remarkably precise dating" was when you
go out with *just* the right person.  Seems like more fun, anyway...
*smile*  But maybe some people get into dating massive saurians; who
knows?)

---Julie


-- 
Pigs and goats alike care nothing for the opera.
			--- Tom Weller, _Minims_
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
Subject: Re: Humans as Physical Creatures.
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 13:03:32 GMT

In article <x+-pn_b@lynx.unm.edu> blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
>In article <ewright.717782850@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
>>Read the quote from Wilson's book once again.  The selection
>>characteristics used by the hominids that man descended from
>>were hunting skills, political leadership, and toolmaking. If
>>apes have different criteria, it is not directly relevent.  Since
>>humans are not descended from apes, we could not have inherited
>>it from them.
>
>Excuse me? What did humans evolve from, Newts?

Ed is technically correct in that humans did not evolve from MODERN apes,
e.g., chimps or bonobos.  However, the most recent common ancestor of humans,
chimps, and bonobos was an ape that lived 5-6 million years ago and is now
extinct.  (This topic came up on talk.origins recently.)

Nevertheless, one would expect humans, chimps, and bonobos to share many
behavioral characteristics, and, in fact, they do.  Frans de Waal has written
two very readable books called _Chimpanzee Politics_ and _Peacemaking Among
Primates_ on this topic.

-- Herb Huston
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: richwing@leland.Stanford.EDU (Rich Wingerter)
Subject: Re: Nice Guys (noooooooo!)
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 92 05:49:54 GMT

In article <5521@news.duke.edu>, diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams) writes:
|> Actually, it led me
|> to another question; what do people think in general about giving
|> or getting reasons why a relationship can't work out or isn't working
|> out?  When someone breaks up with you, do you want to know why?  Some
|> people advised me strongly to tell him my reasons, others advised me
|> just as strongly to keep my trap shut.

This depends on what you are trying to accomplish.  If you just want the
relationship to "end" and you don't care how, then keep your "reasons" to a
minimum.  Remember, a reason is something we make up to satisfy our minds about
what we intend to do anyway.

If, on the other hand, you are trying to help him out in some way, tell him
what you told us, in no more words.  The only way to make a difference is to
tell the truth about what you see.  However, my prediction is that his response
will just be to try to act more mature for you.  Disclaimer: people often hate
other people's truth, so take appropriate precautions.


--Rich Wingerter
(I still think you should just fix him up with some Nice Girl.)
From: wjb@moscom.com (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: AAAAaaaaaaaaaaarrrrggghhhhhhh  8-(
Date: 28 Sep 92 18:09:56 GMT
Reply-To: wjb@moscom.com
Distribution: na
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Charles R. Martin (martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu) wrote:
: That "clean underwear in case you're in an accident" thing is an old
: wives tale: if you get mashed by a ten-ton truck, the 30 seconds
: preceding will ensure that you don't have clean underwear when the body
: is found no matter how they started.
Or, to quote Bill Cosby, "First you say it, then you do it."
-- 
"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 
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