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From: randyc@autodesk.com (Randy Clark)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Record trivia
Date: 12 Sep 92 01:43:55 GMT
Organization: Autodesk, Inc., Sausalito, CA


In article <1992Sep11.072847.12982@wam.umd.edu> jns@wam.umd.edu
(J. N. Shaumeyer) writes:
>Jack Hamilton (jfh@netcom.com), knowing
>that I can't resist a quiz, asks:

	A music-trivia question whose answer I
	didn't know.
>
>Name a film which featured set design
>by Salvador Dali and a soundtrack with
>a Theramin.

	SPELLBOUND

	(Hope I'm the first at this, for once.)

	(I can't resist trivia, either.)
>
>--jns  [don't know the counterexample]

-R



--
There is a sad gaiety in our love, and though we have more wit
than Sunday lovers by the water's edge, our wit attracts misfortune.
							-- Genet
Randy Clark			{}!autodesk.com!randyc
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: kjc7435@ultb.isc.rit.edu (K.J. Cater )
Subject: Lesbian/Gay Square Dancing (great idea!!) :)
Originator: kjc7435@ultb
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 23:04:24 GMT

Hi!  I saw the post on gay/lesbian square dancing...please send me all
the info you have on this as I LOVE country and western music and I
LOVE to dance!!!   Is there a group that goes dancing in my area?
(Rochester NY) or in the New York City/Northern New Jersey area (where
my parents live)?  If so, please let me know about it!!!  

is there a nationwide society in the gay/lesbian community concerning
square dancing?  if there isn't, there ought to be one!!!  (if there is,
let me know about that too).

Many thanks, y'all!!

Best wishes,
Miss Kerry Cater.

send e-mail to: "kjc7435@ritvax.isc.rit.edu".

Newsgroups: soc.motss,alt.atheism
From: lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard)
Subject: Ispelled Attempt at creative writting (read this one)
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 00:12:38 GMT

Copyright(c), 1992, Lawrence Foard 
May be copied and distributed freely in unmodified form.


                    WICKED WORM


 Be gone wicked deceiving worm that eats the soul, 
 the parasite that denies its maker! 

 We evolved from star dust as did you vile worm.
 
 Feast upon our souls and tell us you are God.

 Wicked meme very deceiver you speak of,
 the snake,
 the evil one.

 You deny us our existence, 
 heaven you cannot give, 
 empty threat of hell to catch your meal. 

 Worm your day's are numbered, 
 chase you to the cave of husks of devoured souls we will,
 cave where the stench of ignorance reeks like rotted flesh. 

 We come seeking vengeance for 40 million dead and dying.
 
 Wicked worm you cannot hide,
 we are mortal but our ideas will fight on when we die,
 vengeance will not be denied!

-- 
------          Join the Pythagorean Reform Church!               .
\    /        Repent of your evil irrational numbers             . .
 \  /   and bean eating ways. Accept 10 into your heart!        . . .
  \/   Call the Pythagorean Reform Church BBS at 508-793-9568  . . . .
    
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: katbea@auto-trol.com (Kathy Beatty)
Subject: Re: sunglasses and hats
Organization: Auto-trol Technology Corporation -- Denver, Colorado
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 19:10:37 GMT

amz@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu (Arnold M Zwicky) writes:
: i, too, am a sun-sneezer.  well, any bright light.  on first
: exposure to bright light, i give two or three hearty sneezes,
: causing people who don't know me well to worry that i'm
: coming down with a cold or something.
: 
: a couple of weeks ago, jacques and i were sitting at twilight
: by the windows in a cafe when the heavy-duty lights came on
: outside.  and i sneezed twice.
: 
: some people will sneeze if they *think* about bright lights.
: not me, fortunately.
: 
: arnold (seeing no motss-relevance here at all, but
:          always willing to chat)
: 
: 
Well, I'm also photo-sensitive, aka a sun-sneezer. I almost never sneeze
fewer than three times in a row, no matter what the trigger is. 

Obmotss-relevance (sorta): I've heard that the act of sneezing is, 
physiologically speaking, similar to an orgasm. 


Kathy
From: ro@panix.com (r l reid)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Hate mail
Date: 10 Sep 92 23:23:32 GMT
Organization: Playdoh's Republic

In article <65587@cup.portal.com> Furr@cup.portal.com (George Dalton Madison) writes:
>Bob Donahue writes:
>>he sounds to me like someone who didn't get into grad school....
>
>Hell, from all the errors in the damn thing he sounds like someone
>who never finished GRADE school....

Well, fuck yez both.
I'm a dropout from way back.  Any regrets?  Just that  I didn't do
it sooner.  

Don't confuse degeneracy with a lack of formal ed-jimication as we'un
dropouts call it.

And don't be so damn sure that your years and years of schooling mean shit
to a tree - mostly, it means you know how to play that one game.



-- 
		r l reid	ro@panix.com
From: foucault@netcom.com (Howard Arthur Faye)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Tom Kalin ('Swoon') in _Movieline_
Date: 12 Sep 92 15:13:58 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)


The latest _Movieline_ (a pretty good film rag) has an article about
Tom Kalin and his new film 'Swoon', sort of a queer take on the
Leopold and Loeb case. (I saw it at the LA GL Film Festival in July).

Anyway, I had to share a quote from the article. I can't risk the
odds that all of you read _Movieline_.

"I had heard of Leopold and Loeb-- barely. I knew only that they
were killers-- they had murdered someone in Chicago, a long time
ago. I had, in truth, occasionally confused them with Lerner and
Loewe, and when the musical version of 'Cinderella' with Lesley
Ann Warren came on TV, I marveled at their rehabilitation into a
successful songwriting team."
-- 
Howard Arthur Faye * Panglossian Acres * Box 7 * Littlerock, CA   93543
                         Fax: 805.944.5958
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
Subject: Re: twpierce: new address
Organization: Amherst College, Amherst MA
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 04:41:20 GMT

In article <1992Sep6.033052.29054@athena.mit.edu> max@athena.mit.edu (Max Meredith Vasilatos) writes:

>twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
>
>>probably be more reliable for a longer period of time.
>
>"Period of time" is redundant.

Sosumi.  Right now, I'm not inclined to think about anything that I'm
not paid for or graded on.  It is valuable brain energy and must be
conserved.

-- 
____ Tim Pierce                / "I don't know how much support NAMBLA
\  / twpierce@unix.amherst.edu /  has in the gay community."
 \/ (BITnet: TWPIERCE@AMHERST) /   -- Clayton Cramer, August 1992
From: wood@siemens.com. (Jim Wood)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Publicity
Date: 8 Sep 92 13:31:31 GMT

joelp@cs.man.ac.uk (Joel Parthemore || Pharos Project) writes:

>markm@ogicse.ogi.edu (Mark Morrissey) writes:

>>(quick!  Help from the cabal!  Who was the president who didn't receive a
>>majority of the popular vote but won in the EC?)

>William Henry Harrison (as opposed to Benjamin Harrison) defeated Grover
>Cleveland in 1888, even though Cleveland topped him in the popular vote.
>(Cleveland, the Democrat, was seeking re-election at the time, and was indeed
>re-elected in 1892.  ``Ma, ma, where's Pa?  Gone to the White House, ha, ha,
>ha....'' -- Cleveland was accused in the 1884 election of having fathered an
>illegitimate child!)

BZZZT !!!

William Henry Harrison was president in 1841 for barely a month when he
died.  His *grandson* Benjamin Harrison defeated incumbent Grover Cleveland
in 1888 and was in turn defeated by Cleveland in 1892.

--
Jim Wood [jwood@siemens.siemens.com] (609) 734-3643
"Rise up on the wings of eagles, and two step among the stars.
 You are not forgotten.  Your smile will echo forever."
   -- Ryerson Schwark, to my friend Rob Bernardo.
From: adolphso@mizar.usc.edu (adolphson)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Anthony Perkins
Date: 13 Sep 1992 20:36:19 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: mizar.usc.edu

In article <michaelh.716434911@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> 
michaelh@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Mike Hennahane) writes:

[...]
> one more comment on this article/obit: it never said anything about
> how he contracted AIDS. i'm glad to see that at least *some* folks are
> figuring out that it just doesn't matter.

The LA Times referred to the interview Anthony Perkins gave to
People magazine 10 years ago in which he talked about having been
an anonymous (gay) sex/t-room devotee for years and years.  The obit 
writer misremembered, though, and wrote that Perkins had admitted to 
*one* homosexual encounter. 

I, like Jess, had a huge crush on Anthony Perkins, and for exactly
the same reasons.  I used to see him from time to time at a nearby
upscale market, and his height never ceased to surprise me.  That,
and just how intense he was in person.

Arne

Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard)
Subject: Re: advice sought: handling on-street harassment
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 00:11:30 GMT

In article <DLB.92Sep7161952@fanny.wash.inmet.com> dlb@fanny.wash.inmet.com (David Barton) writes:
>In article <1992Sep3.233105.18243@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
>lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard) writes:
>
>   I'm curious how the street preachers would react to people handing out
>   pythagorean tracts :-)
>
>I had one friend who always responded to tract pushers with a benign,
>"Baal be with you, brother (or sister)!"  With the appropriate open
>handed salute.
>
>One turned bright read and started gibbering.  Sounded like Cheeta in
>an old Tarzan movie.  Made my day.

I'm posting my first pythagorean reform churchs tracts to
alt.religion.kibology and talk.religion.misc. These are half serious and
half humorous. If any one wants to print them up and hand them out next
to street preachers feel free :-)

I wish I knew where to find a good street preacher, I wonder what people
would think of a bear dressed up in greek robes handing out tracts :-)
-- 
------          Join the Pythagorean Reform Church!               .
\    /        Repent of your evil irrational numbers             . .
 \  /   and bean eating ways. Accept 10 into your heart!        . . .
  \/   Call the Pythagorean Reform Church BBS at 508-793-9568  . . . .
    
Newsgroups: soc.motss,talk.politics.misc
From: rjwill6@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams)
Subject: Re: NEWSWEEK POLL: Plurality of Americans support GAY RIGHTS
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Francisco
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 22:26:13 GMT

> buckmr@rpi.edu (Ron Buckmire) writes:

>Just seen on CNN: They are reporting that NEWSWEEK has a new poll with the
>following results:
>
>Should homosexuals have equal rights under the law?
>78% YES
>17% NO
>
>Is Homosexuality a threat to the American family?
>44% YES
>51% NO

Not just a plurality, Ron, but a majority!
-- 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: ry@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (ryerson.schwark)
Subject: Re: Publicity
Organization: UNIX System Laboratories, Summit, NJ
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 13:07:01 GMT

In article <1992Sep8.093855.8919@panix.com> mara@panix.com (Mara Chibnik) writes:
>
>joelp@cs.man.ac.uk (Joel Parthemore || Pharos Project) answers
> >       cabal member in training (but with a ways to go yet)
>
>There is _no_ cabal.  


Pay no attention to the people behind the curtain.

Ry Schwark
ry@usl.com
From: buckmr@rpi.edu (Ron Buckmire)
Subject: *YOU* Can Call Pete Wilson to get a GAY RIGHTS LAW in California!
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 92 23:19:40 EDT
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With regard to the California Civil Rights Bills
AB-2601 and AB-3825.  Pete Wilson's office
is not taking names, so anyone can call and urge
him to sign these two bills.  The last time
the Orange County legions swamped his office
with negative calls.  Everyone reading this
should call to urge him to sign.

The numbers again:  San Francisco (415) 703-2218
                    Sacramento (916) 445-2841
                    Los Angeles (213) 897-0322

With the doings in Oregon and Colorado, we must do everything
possible to protect our civil rights.

---
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Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: crombie@iisat.alt.ns.ca
Subject: Re: boobs
Organization: Public Access UNIX
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 12:08:01 GMT
Summary: and then there was this Dyke who became a Mountie...


Various people write about dykes and roadsigns...

Spotted in the newspaper in Fredericton, New Brunswick was a charming fluff
piece about the newest Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer in town, who
also happens to be the city's first female Mountie. 

It was rather dull until you got to the part where the woman recalled
being at the Mountie police academy where everyone has to wear T-shirts 
with their name emblazoned on the front and back.

Her last name is Dyke.  So she (with regulation short hair and regulation
powerful build) had to go through an entire training program labelled what
most people would have guessed anyway.
-- 
Kevin Crombie		Public Access Unix
UUCP:  {dalcs,ulowell}!iisat!crombie
From: nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Record trivia
Date: 11 Sep 92 07:52:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: reed.1992Sep11.075229.8607
Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR

In article <y-vnnpg.jfh@netcom.com> jfh@netcom.com (Jack Hamilton) writes:
>how many groves are on the side of a record?

what, are you talking about that new age music? "Pine grove fart"? :-)

>I think her answer, which hasn't appeared yet, is going to be '1'.
>What record is a counterexample?  Blank records don't count. 

I can think of one counterexample, which I claim by your counting has
no grooves at all - the fourth side of Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music.
The last track is locked into itself, forming an endless loop of
feedback noise hell. I listened to it for 3 hours once and became
convinced that I was hearing voices.

If you have actually listened to this album, drop me a note.

ObMotss1 - Lou Reed
ObMotss2 - The guy who gave me a copy of that album was my "first"
ObMotss3 - there's a new contemporary art exhibit in Portland - it's
  even vaguely interesting (Portland is usually Art Hell). It's
  political art coming from various protest movements of the 80s -
  Native American rights, women's rights, ACT-UP (mostly people from
  Gran Fury), etc. It's pretty good. One of the pieces is a 15 second
  loop of William Kennedy Smith saying "then I took out my penis" and
  wincing. He does this over and over again. It's quite disturbing.
ObMotssN - follows by induction.
-- 
                __
nelson@reed.edu \/                 Shame is playback: exposure to disapproval
From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: World's First Known Bottom Found in Alps
Date: 9 Sep 92 03:22:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Sep9.032257.9109
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA

Reprinted w/o permission from "In", a weekly Boston gay bar rag.
As Brian Gollum likes to say in his signature: "Se non e vero,
e ben trovato."

Otztal Valley, ITALY -- The mainstream media reported widely on "Otzi",
the 5,477-year-old Stone Age man found mummified in a melting glacier
high in the Italian Tyrolean Alps.  The U.S. media did not, however, share
a gripping detail that was reported in Italy, Austria, Switzerland and
elsewhere: there was sperm in Otzi's anal canal.

"The Tyrolean scholars have not given this little detail any special
significance," according to _Lambda Nachrichten_, the magazine of
Homosexual Initiative Vienna, Austria's leading gay organization,
"but there can only be one explanation: Otzi had sex with another man
in the Alps!"

"The tight-assed Tyrolean scholars were very uncomfortable even having
to acknowledge it," _Lambda_ said, "but Otzi is the first known homosexual
man that enjoyed being fucked. ...Otzi was the passive partner--of this
there is absolutely no doubt...The sperm has been carbon-dated."

Otzi, named for the Otztal Valley on the Italian/Austrian border, was
found intact from the day he possibly froze to death in a flash snowstorm,
in 3485 B.C.  He was discovered by hikers.

Aged 25-35, Otzi was probably a herdsman from a nearby valley settlement.
He was carrying a copper ax, a quiver and arrows, a dagger with a flint blade,
a woven grass sheath, and a wooden backpack frame, among other things.

He had tattoos on his back.  His only jewelry was a small stone disk with thin
leather strips pulled through it, knotted at the top and free at the bottom.
His clothes were leather.

According to the Zurich, Switzerland, newspaper _Blick_: "Since the homosexual
innuendo has made the rounds, polititians in the North and South Tyrol regions
suddenly have less interest in poor Otzi.  Even the souvenir business has
dropped off.  And in Otztal they're afraid they're going to end up being
called 'Homo Valley'."

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: katbea@auto-trol.com (Kathy Beatty)
Subject: Re: A Short History ofDiscrimination in the Military
Organization: Auto-trol Technology Corporation -- Denver, Colorado
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 14:29:45 GMT

balistik@big-brother.nevada.edu (Shawn Hicks) writes:
: In article <34794@hoptoad.uucp>, laura@hoptoad.uucp (Laura Creighton) writes:
: >When Clinton lifts the ban on Gays and Lesbians in the military, as
: >promised, or whoever in 1995 or so ... lets us not forget to fight that
: >those who got dishonorable discharges because they were Gay or Lesbian
: >get reassigned honorable discharges.
: >
: >Laura    
: 
: Very few people who were discharged for homosexuality since 1980
: were given dishonorables.  Most were given general discharges,
: and since 1990 (or so) most are given honorables.  If a soldier
: received a general discharge, they could apply for an honorable
: six months later and usually received one.  
: 
: We need to make sure, though, that those who were discharged and
: are still of age to re-enlist, are allowed to do so. 
: 
: 
: Shawn, a veteran, who has seen too many good soldiers kicked out
: for being queer.
: 
: 
Shawn, why do you think those who were discharged before 1980 should 
be ignored?  Are they somehow less important because they are older?
It seems to me that it should be even more important to correct the
gross injustice perpetrated against them. What Laura said is what
we need to fight for, nothing less.


Kathy
From: roger@quantime.co.uk (Roger Phillips)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: accordion bashing
Date: 9 Sep 92 23:16:01 GMT
Reply-To: roger@quantime.co.uk (Roger Phillips)
Organization: Quantime Ltd, London (software for market research)

[A brand new Subject:, and already I'm off it...]

In article <1992Sep9.074413.21095@wam.umd.edu>,
jns@wam.umd.edu (J. N. Shaumeyer) writes:
> --jns  [and I can't *believe* that brother
>         Rog would request Brian's first
>         symphony--all I wanted was a measly
>         symphony of a thousand.  Honestly,
>         Rog, all your mourners would *die*
>         before they got you buried.]

No, I'd be cremated while they got blown away.

But if you want a drive-thru quickie,
I'd settle for his 21st Syumphony,
which lasts 19 minutes.
(Or was that the other way around?)

		[impressed,
		despite
		myself,
		that my
		twin,
		stuck in
		the
		colonies
		though he
		is, is in
		touch
		with the
		work of
		dear old
		Havergal,
		but
		nevertheless
		making an
		all-out
		assault
		on the
		thinnest
		sign-off
		record,]
-- 
Roger Phillips                            roger@quantime.co.uk
"The best way to find something you've lost is to buy a replacement."
-- Ann Landers
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: dbidwa@sei.cmu.edu (Daniel Bidwa)
Subject: Re: Pro-Gay school program receives protests
Organization: The Software Engineering Institute
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 14:58:16 GMT


>>Donald - Strange.  I've seen that face before ...
> Grace Jones. "Libertango" (heard in the movie FRANTIC starring Harrison Ford)

Odd factoid: "Libertango" is actually an Astor Piazzolla song. 

Dan, who thinks that everyone should go buy Piazzolla's "Tango Zero Hour"
right now
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: max@athena.mit.edu (Max Meredith Vasilatos)
Subject: Re: 277-4653
Summary: we *are* related
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 03:05:28 GMT

amz@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu (Arnold M Zwicky) writes:

>alexander adams, or alex adams, is the name
>i use whenever it's important that i have a recognizable name but not
>important that i use my real name - in making reservations, for
>instance.  no one ever gets it wrong, while what people make of
>"arnold zwicky" is not to be believed.

Mine was Ann Armstrong (ok, mr linguist, are double
initials A somehow easier on the brain/ear/tongue?).

>but i'll still answer to "alex".

Having "alix" on my birth certificate, I do the same.
(Talk to Radclyffe Hall about parents giving their
daughters masculine names.)

Max, incoherent with happiness over a working computer
max@athena.mit.edu
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: jakec@ralvmm.vnet.ibm.com (Jake Coughlin)
Subject: Re: Gay Cops and 60 Minutes
Originator: jakec@ralvmm.vnet.ibm.com
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 19:14:31 GMT
Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research

bobsarv@microsoft.com (Bob Sarver):
> "But they're only a tiny minority of our community.  They
> don't represent the mainstream.  WE ARE the mainstream."

do y'all get together in the woods to admire how the
sunlight falls thru the canopy of oaks?  like ya know,
_robin hood, the untold story_.

you are the mainstream of *what* exactly?
-- 
Jason Coughlin ( jakec@ralvmm.vnet.ibm.com )
Queer Without A Cause!
"I find myself suddenly in the world, and I recognize that I have one
right alone: that of demanding human behavior of the other." -- Fanon