HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Discussion Of Romantic Songs
Date: 16 Apr 92 00:13:39 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

I forgot one that belongs on the soc.singles.soundtrack.

It's a song called "Sensitive Newage Guys".  I forget who does this but
the song is hilarious.

-- 
+=============================================================================+
| John Fereira                Al Bundy for President          
| johnf@auspex.com         "He's as good as the next guy"                     |
+=============================================================================+
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: pyan@violet.waterloo.edu (Just call me Ping.)
Subject: Re: over 50 but not over the hill!!
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 06:12:16 GMT

In article <1992Apr7.214221.14369@ryn.mro4.dec.com> bloom@tarkin.enet.dec.com (Elbert Bloom) writes:
>
.....................I am over 50 (51 to be exact), male and single
>for the past 1-1/2 years. Mentally, however, I am closer to 20.
>

No, you are 18, with 33 year experience!   :-)

>Lets hear from all of you beautiful ladies out there. Send me mail.
>

I post, because I am not one of the ladies.

Have a nice day!
-- 
 Ping.....               *  The most important questions of life are, for 
                         * the most part, really problems of probability. 
  Haven't you heard of   *                        
him..... by chance?      *                   ---- Marquis De Laplace
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max)
Subject: Re: Avoiding dating......
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 13:48:10 GMT

In article <1992Apr16.210522.26242@no1home.nashvil.ingr.com> puter@no1home.nashvil.ingr.com (Software Dude) writes:
>"Peter A. Simon" <ps3p+@andrew.cmu.edu> enlightens us with:
>>> Sometimes I call a friend to see if 
>>>they want to do something that evening, or because I have something
>>>specific on my mind; and if their machine kicks on I assume they're out
>>>and hang up.
>>
>>Hell, I leave a message.  That's easy enough.
>>
>My actual message on my machine...
>	"This is an answering machine, you know what to do."
>
>Why do I feel a thread unraveling all of a sudden?
>--
>Puter	puter@no1home.nashvil.ingr.com "My favorite vanity plate - PHUQUE"


My favorite answering machine message: When you call my friend John here's
the message you hear....

1st sexy female voice: John can't come to the phone right now.
2nd sexy female voice: He's tied up at the moment.
1st sexy female voice: Leave your number please. When we let him go, and he 
   recovers, he'll return your call.

beep

MaX
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: dbj@cs.washington.edu (Dave Johnson)
Subject: Re: Do You Remember - early '60s edition
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 17:53:38 GMT

In article <ku66f3INN46k@news.bbn.com> dhardin@spcink.bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes:
>What about those candy cigarettes with the red tips?  Can you believe
>that our mothers let us eat them?

"Our mothers let us"?  C'mon, everybody knows you
gotta sneak cigarettes, even if they are candy ones.

-- 
  Dave Johnson

"You're not too smart, are you?  I like that in a man."
    --Kathleen Turner in Body Heat
From: Larry Margolis <margoli@watson.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Needing not to Need
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1992 23:27:24 GMT
Reply-To: margoli@watson.ibm.com
X-Subliminal-Message: OS/2 2.0 is here now!
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: The Village Waterbed

In article <1992Apr6.215928.7684@u.washington.edu>,
hevern@u.washington.edu (M. Hevern) writes:
> Does big blue teach that right after they show you how to dress
> (wing tips and white shirts) (:?

I work at Research, kiddo - I don't even *own* wing tips or white shirts.
At the moment I'm wearing sneakers (purple), jeans (Levi's 501; gotta
keep them soc.singles women happy :-), and a Mardi Gras T-shirt
(Instant Mardi Gras - just add alcohol!).

Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
From: stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: The Second Move
Date: 17 Apr 92 05:46:56 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

In article <1992Apr15.184218.7839@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
>
>No, the problem is that women like Angelwing ask or expect _men_ to
>assume. They are friendly, the man assumes they are showing interest
>and asks them out, then they are brutally rejected because they didn't
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Kiran, please describe a "brutal rejection" and a "non-brutal rejection,"
so women who continue to make boo-boos and get men to like us by mistake
can reject these men non-brutally.

>Yes, there would be fewer problems if women tried to achieve real
>communication and not this vague read my signals stuff. Communication
>that included words.

Words such as, "My live-in boyfriend who might propose to me next 
week said the other day..."? how soon should we say these words?
most women I know try to get them out within the first couple of
sentences...

--    
                  A more intimate theology, and one more consonant with 
Stef              the nature of...love, pictures a demonic force engaged  
stef@apple.com    in continuous creation and participation. - Iris Murdoch
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@isis.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Male visual orientationREFRESH
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 18:13:34 GMT

In article <1992Apr7.145048.7535@ait.com> eleanor@ait.com (Eleanor Evans) writes:
>>In case it makes you feel better, though, dressing up like a prostitute
>>is not a very effective way of getting me hot and bothered--I respond a
>>lot more strongly to serious flirtation, sexual agressiveness, and
>>touch.  I've got a certain fondness for bare midriffs and cleavage, but
>>something that looks more natural than the prostitute get-up would be
>>likely to work better.
>>
>>Trygve
>
>
>Thanks for the tip, Tryg.  Hm, now what's in this closet-o-mine, anyway?
>
>Piglet

Hey, no problem--find anything appropriate in there?  (If not, I suppose
you could always look through a few of my closets--now, I must admit that
I don't have any women's clothing in there, so you might have to look for
a long time, but I'd be willing to help.)

Trygve    (Would you prefer me to turn the lights on or off in the closet?)
From: eleanor@ait.com (Eleanor Evans)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Male visual orientationREFRESH
Date: 7 Apr 92 14:50:48 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Artificial Intelligence Technologies, Inc.

>In case it makes you feel better, though, dressing up like a prostitute
>is not a very effective way of getting me hot and bothered--I respond a
>lot more strongly to serious flirtation, sexual agressiveness, and
>touch.  I've got a certain fondness for bare midriffs and cleavage, but
>something that looks more natural than the prostitute get-up would be
>likely to work better.
>
>Trygve


Thanks for the tip, Tryg.  Hm, now what's in this closet-o-mine, anyway?

Piglet
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@isis.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Peeking through the curtain
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 18:03:48 GMT

In article <1992Apr11.161332.23398@ddsw1.MCS.COM> jailbird@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Ron D. Harvey) writes:
>In article <1992Apr6.180641.11782@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@isis.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
>>In article <1992Apr5.190009.27945@mks.com> fredw@mks.com (Fred Walter) writes:
>> [...]
>>Absolutely--fortunately (due to time and selectivity constraints) I
>>haven't slept with the majority of married women in this country.  
>
>	Hmm.  And to think that I always thought the reason I couldn't
>sleep "with the majority of married women in this country" was because
>I didn't have enough frequent flyer miles.

Well, nobody ever said you had to have the same reasons that I do--or
vice-versa.  My interest in sleeping with random partners is very low
and I'm probably not as devastatingly handsome as you are, so I have
some additional constraints besides my flying schedule.

>>>It has been both my experience and observation that most people don't
>>>behave as 'adults (your definition above)' when it comes to sex.
>>>Unsafe sex, unwanted pregnancies abound.
>
>>True enough--another good reason why I don't have sex with the majority
>>of the population on the planet.  
>
>	Face it, Trygve: you "don't have sex with the majority of the 
>population on the planet" for the exact opposite reason why a dog licks
>his balls.

The implication of that statement is that I would want to sleep with the
majority of the population of the planet which, I strongly suspect, very
few people would want to do.  As it is, I already turn down a lot more
sexual overtures than I accept, which would seem to fly in the face of
that assumption.

>> I tend to be attracted to intelligent,
>>competent, responsible women with at least a certain degree of self-esteem;
>>this seems to be conducive to responsible sexual behavior.
>
>	Oooh, you'd be *surprised*, young man.

Well, I've been surprised enough times in my life, usually pleasantly and
never about this (at least with my past sexual partners).

>Ron D. Harvey	jailbird@ddsw1.mcs.com 

Trygve
From: stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: date characteristics
Date: 8 Apr 92 00:52:57 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

In article <1992Apr5.053844.8426@unixg.ubc.ca> ramsay@unixg.ubc.ca (Keith Ramsay) writes:
>Sometimes things just go haywire.
>
>E.g.: you run into the previously friendly MOTAS you've just asked,
>and s/he won't say, "hello" anymore, and looks uncomfortable with
>seeing you. E.g.: having an ex-friend of the appropriate sex, who
>doesn't talk to you anymore, and wondering whether it has to do with
>having expressed romantic interest. I guess as one gets older this
>gets to be less frequent, but even once in a while is unpleasant
>enough.
>
>One way of trying to avoid this is to initiate things only with MOTAS
>who one is not likely to encounter again, and who aren't particularly
>good friends, but this has problems too.

Another way is to shrug and let that person alone for a while. 
Personally, I would rather take the chance that a friend might
get uptight about my having expressed a romantic interest, than
to limit my romantic interest to people I barely know.

>Keith Ramsay            

--
Stef                 In the force if Yoda's so strong, construct a 
stef@apple.com       sentence with words in the proper order then 
                     why can't he?                         /fortune
Newsgroups: soc.singles,soc.women
From: e_clarke@oz.plymouth.edu (WIZ (in training))
Subject: Re: Men and women talking
Keywords: Lick me!
Reply-To: e_clarke@oz.plymouth.edu (WIZ (in training))
Organization: Plymouth State College - Plymouth, N.H.
Distribution: all over the world!! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 00:54:23 GMT

Wanted : female that would like to have a funfiled, erotic, nasty
and all around moist time exchangeing e-mail

O-ster

From: wjb@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Bill Buse)
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 14:48:45 GMT
Subject: Discussion Of Romantic Songs
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Loveland, CO
From: markn@ecs.comm.mot.com (DX560 Mark Nowak)
Subject: Re: Newspaper personals
Organization: trunking_fixed
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 13:13:11 GMT

In article <1992Apr5.041241.27885@grebyn.com> rmg3@grebyn.com (Robert Grumbine) writes:
>In article <1992Apr03.195252.28862@sco.COM> jondr@sco.COM (Karen Silkwood's car) writes:
>>
>>U53644@uicvm.uic.edu writes:
>>>Now, it's only fair to point out that I live in Chicago, home of the free and
>>>the strange, so your experiences might be more pleasant, but so far.......
>>
>>Whoa.  All I can say is it worked OK for me.  Nothing went further than a
>>few dates, but on the whole I enjoyed meeting these women and getting out of
>>the house.
>>
>>This was in the Cambridge, Mass. area btw.
>
>  A friend of mine met his wife (of 5 years as counting) through the
>newspaper personals in Chicago.  The _Reader_ in fact  (speaking of the
>strange).  Of course it may have helped that he was answering her letter,
>rather than publishing his own.
>
>  As the old line says: Ya pays yer money and ya takes yer chances.
>
>Bob Grumbine

I live in Chicago and have answered a number of ads.  I've met 5 women this way.
Four never got past the first meeting (2 of those were perhaps the ditziest 
women I've ever met).  One, I dated for a month.  It's just not that bad.  It
helps if meeting people is a problem.
-- 
Mark Nowak                          | By means of the easy and the simple we
(SWM, 25, 5'11", seeking SF ...)    | grasp the laws of the whole world.  When
Chicago, Illinois                   | the laws of the whole world are grasped,
INTERNET: markn@ecs.comm.mot.com    | therein lies perfection. - I Ching
Newsgroups: soc.singles,sci.med,misc.consumers,misc.kids
From: tmkk@uiuc.edu (K. Khan)
Subject: Re: Business cards
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 14:18:03 GMT


In article <1992Apr4.213211.17723@spool.cs.wisc.edu> rawdon@cabrales.cs.wisc.edu (Michael Rawdon) writes:
>In <22499@alice.att.com> ark@alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig) writes:
>>I have seen so many posts over the years about Craig Shergold
>>dying of cancer that I can only figure he must be a cat.
>
>The really funny thing about this is that, in the wake of the initial post,
>we've gotten at least three different stories about Shergold:  He doesn't
>exist, he's dead, and he's been cured and no longer wants cards.

The distortions just multiply with each retelling. It started out as get
well cards, then someone made a "business cards" version and now I see
that version posted as frequently as the original.

I can't wait to see what people will come up with next. Send your
business cards to Craig "beyond the grave" Shergold, c/o Marianna Max...
;-)

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: puter@no1home.nashvil.ingr.com (Software Dude)
Subject: Hooters
Organization: WHAT?
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 20:32:48 GMT

>>> Tremendous Hooters need to be managed when they
>>> get out of hand.

>>If they're really tremendous, it seems that they wouldn't *fit* in a hand
>>to begin with, no?
>
>It only seems that way if you equate 'tremendous' with 'large'.

Maybe you guys are trying to hard to figure out their size. My advice
would be to work more in finding out how they taste. ;)
--
Puter	puter@no1home.nashvil.ingr.com "My favorite vanity plate - PHUQUE"
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: puter@no1home.nashvil.ingr.com (Software Dude)
Subject: personals
Organization: WHAT?
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 21:35:10 GMT

>Disco Junkie
>
>p.s:  How does this sound for an ad?  :-)

	<deleted lots of cute plays on 70's disco songs>

>I can see the flames coming from the disco haters right now...  ;-)

I'd love to oblige you, but I've grown up. Plus, I'm too busy flaming
those that listen to crap... er, uh, rap...
--
Puter	puter@no1home.nashvil.ingr.com "My favorite vanity plate - PHUQUE"
From: rawdon@cabrales.cs.wisc.edu (Michael Rawdon)
Subject: Sleeping Around While Dating (was Re: Male visual orientationREFRESH)
Reply-To: rawdon@cabrales.cs.wisc.edu
Organization: University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Dept., Madison, WI
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 23:00:48 GMT

In <1992Apr7.170420.5029@ccu.umanitoba.ca> browns@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Stuart Brown) writes:
>I read this post and I think, gee that sounds wonderful.  I bet it would be 
>great to fantastic to do that wild thang with Pooh.. I mean, yeah its better
>with someone you love, and have a serious commitment with, but it could also
>be a blast to do it with someone who you hardly know, but who is *good* at sex.
>In fact, there are just bunches of excellent women out there that I could have
>a great time making love with, and who could teach me lots of new tricks too.

>So how can I think like that, and maintain one solid, exclusive relationship?
>My current SO and I have agreed that it will only work between us if we are both
>completely honest and faithful to each other.   Damn.

>So how about y'all?  Where is the solution to this dilemma?

Well, first, there's a difference between THINKING like that, and ACTING like
that.  I generally found myself not being at all jealous when my (then-)
girlfriend found other people attractive or lusted after them - as long
as she didn't actually ACT on those feelings.

However, as far as ACTING on your feelings, I honestly don't think that there
is a solution.  I think it's perfectly reasonable for my SO (not that I
have one now :-) to demand monogamy from me in a relationship, and I would
recognize that if I violate such a requirement, that she might choose to
break up with me.  So, though I occasionally did think of the possibilities
with other women when I was dating, I did not act on them.

This is basically a "having your cake and eating it too" situation.  If she
doesn't want you to sleep with other people, then you shouldn't do so, if
you want to remain with her.

The only way I know of to get around this is pretty risky in and of itself,
and that is to bring up the idea with your SO.  But be prepared for her
reaction... including a "no" answer.

It's harsh, but I think that part of a successful relationship involves
following certain ground rules.  And the only way to change the rules is
through communication.

-- 
Michael Rawdon
rawdon@cabrales.cs.wisc.edu
University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Department, Madison, WI

All the wine in your life's all dried up - is now the time to give up?
				- Bryan Ferry, "When She Walks In The Room"
Xref: sparky soc.singles:11470 alt.romance:7241
From: margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.romance
Subject: Re: To pursue or not to pursue...
Date: 17 Apr 92 08:57:09 GMT
Reply-To: margoli@watson.IBM.com
Organization: The Village Waterbed
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM

In  <1992Apr17.004120.1@pomona.claremont.edu>  greg@pomona.claremont.edu (Tigger) writes:
> Since then I haven't trusted women for anything more than the time of day.

Shit happens.  But you can't blame *all* women because of what happened
with *one* woman.

> she is almost exactly what I'm looking for.

Great!

> First, she lives four hundred miles from here.

Not insurmountable; that's less than 4 hours each way.  :-)

> Second, it became obvious to me (though
> not to her) during our conversation that she is still hung up on
> her ex, even though he is using her.

*That* might be a problem.

> So I'm very afraid that if I were to pursue this
> new interest, and if I were successful in this pursuit, I'd end up in
> the same boat I did before simply because he's there and I'm not,

Are you happy now?  Are you dating anyone else at the moment?  If the
*worst* that can happen is that you wind up in the same place you are now,
but you experienced some happiness that you would otherwise have missed
out on, isn't it worth taking the chance?

> is someone she could only see a couple of times a month really
> taking his place?

Are you both at school?  Are you both permanently located where you are?

> Another friend I mentioned the situation to advised me
> to forget about it, and expressed the opinion that this woman will
> need several years, several men, and perhaps therapy to get over her
> last boyfriend.

Maybe.  Or maybe just one sensitive, caring, understanding guy.

> So what do you think?  Like I said, I've already made up my mind about
> what I'm going to do.  So I'm not looking for advise.  But I am curious
> to know what you all think of this.  I now relinquish the floor to my
> distinguished colleague from...

.. The Village Therapy Shop & Massage Parlor.

I think you and she have to do a lot of talking.  I think it's very
important that you be open with each other, and try to keep in mind that
the person you're with is *not* responsible for your past grief.

I'm afraid that's all the time we have this week; you can settle with the
receptionist on the way out.

Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Male visual orientationREFRESH
From: eleanor@ait.com (Eleanor Evans)
Date: 10 Apr 92 06:37:36 GMT
 <1992Apr3.211735.29311@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Apr7.145048.7535@ait.com> <1992Apr8.181334.10370@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
Distribution: na
Organization: Artificial Intelligence Technologies, Inc.

>Hey, no problem--find anything appropriate in there?  (If not, I suppose
>you could always look through a few of my closets--now, I must admit that
>I don't have any women's clothing in there, so you might have to look for
>a long time, but I'd be willing to help.)
>
>Trygve    (Would you prefer me to turn the lights on or off in the closet?)

Well, the cleavage part is not a problem.  The bare midriff I might have
a little trouble with--oh, wait a second, I'll just raid my sister's
closet.....

Strobe the light, of course.

Piglet
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: mlw@cisco.com (Monica Waldman)
Subject: Re: Discussion Of Romantic Songs
Organization: fetus under glass 
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 22:46:44 GMT

"Blister In The Sun" -- Violent Femmes

-- 
standard disclaimer, etc., ad nauseum

"Now shut up and look stupid!" -- Ren Hoek
From: richh@tigger.jvnc.net (RICHH)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: THE ELEMENTS OF SEDUCTION
Date: 14 Apr 92 21:24:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: tigger.1992Apr14.212458.25276
Organization: JvNCnet, Princeton University, NJ
Originator: richh@tigger.jvnc.net

There's a local place here in Philly that sells these 'fake beepers'
for about twenty-five bucks.  They look real, but all they really
are are alarm clocks.
Here's what you do.  Say you're meeting a blind date at 7 for dinner.
You set the beeper to go off at about 7:30.  That should give you
ample time to  make your decision.  If it's not clicking, you simply
excuse yourself and not return. That's okay, but here's the real
beauty:  if it *is* clicking, you let it go off anyway.  She'll say
something like, "Shouldn't you be checking on that?"

"Nah, you are far more interesting than anything going on in that
silly old ICU."

*BARANGUS*

RICHH
--of course, if you already have a beeper, you're one step ahead.