HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: desiree@netcom.com (dmc)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Favorite Groups
Summary: Uncle Fester resides in my car trunk
Date: 26 Jan 93 20:43:46 GMT
Organization: Ned's Atomic Dust Bin

In article <1993Jan26.141417.15148@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jwall@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jeff Wall) writes:

[my comments as to why I said something deleted..]
>Yeah I read it - but I'm curious - how did you expect the net.world to
>assume you weren't serious??  I mean there was no indication that you were
>being sarcastic.  I took what you wrote at face value, so sue me.

	Naw, I'd rather settle outta court, if you don't mind.  Lookie,
I said that I failed to pull off the twist in the desired manner.  
But frankly, I really don't give a hoot if the net.world.at.large 
understands everytime I'm being sarcastic, phunny or whatever.  I've
been around here for a long time (no age jokes, if you please) but even
I fuck up every now and again.  Capische?

>I said:
>>	Tell you what Jeff -- you flame the personals or whatever you
>>see as potential bbq material -- I'll flame or not flame whatever I
>>see fit, okie dokie artichokie? 
>
>Kay-o, I was just looking out for the overall good of soc.singles.

	Don't do that unless you get a written contract that you'll
be paid for your services.  It's hell being a playground parent -- even
around the best behaved bunch...

>Hmmmm, didn't know I was.  You took my post as a flame, it wasn't.  I
>don't usually find flaming to accomplish much, although they can be
>humerous sometimes.  The point of the smiley was to lighten the situation
>up a little.  I was smiling when I wrote it so I put a smiley on the post. 
>Cool down, relax, take a breath, you're liable to have a stroke if you keep
>this up :-) :-) <- note smileys, this was meant to be said with a smile on
>the face.  Don't take life so seriously.

	You assume I took your post as a flame.  And thanks for the
smiley lesson, but I generally find the little critters to be a waste of
time, myself -- so I don't use them.  Enough people know my style to
know when I'm joshing, manipulating the net, or yanking chains that I've
outgrown them.  

	And thanks, aussi, for the hints.  But I don't take life so
seriously as most of you think.  It's all an evil ploy ... 

	Remember, I do not exist...

Desiree
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
Subject: Re: The Classiest Pickup Lines
Organization: Don't blame me, I voted for Bill 'n' Opus
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 13:18:48 GMT

In article <28451@sybase.sybase.com> mysti@sierra.sybase.com (Mysti Rubert) writes:
>
>Actually my quarrel with the guy/girl who runs things together is not
>a grammatical quarrel, merely an orthographic one (the charge of vaugeness
>is a semantic complaint).  
>
>Are you related to Chuckles?  He too seems to focus on my all-too-frequent
>typos (not that I would expect anyone with a penchant for prescriptive grammar
>to allow me to invent the word usurous (typo was "usurious") an adjectival
>form of "use") and not on the propositions at hand.  Even if I was just
>butt-stupid about english, single errors in a clear context are a different
>manner of beast from deliberate vaguaries and cutsie running-together words,
>aren't they?

Given the choice between a poorly thought-out, unpalatable, and/or
illogical argument that is well-written, and a piece of satire that adds
additional humor value through various perversions of the English
language, I'll take the latter, thankyouverymuch.

Now, I *could* just flame your arguments directly, but I'm a busy
person, and -- quite frankly -- a person who claims to be a technical
writer should know that the presentation of the argument influences the
reader's perception of it.

But, justforthehellofit, let's attack the meat of one of your arguments:

You make a claim that pickup lines are inherently unclassy.  My (and
others) primary irritation with this is that you are making what we
consider to be an incorrect assumption, that pickup lines are used only
or primarily for initiating a sexual encounter.

Had you instead posed your argument as a request for discussion on
whether or not pickups lines are primarily for sexual encounters, you
would have received (from me, at least) a much better response.
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

Kinky vanilla queer het
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Re: Valentine's Day Personal Ad
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:34:40 GMT

In article <106459@netnews.upenn.edu> crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
>
>Hi.  I'm not too young, not too old, with long blond hair.  Unless you
>prefer dark brown hair, in which case it's dark brown.  Sometimes it's
>short.  And red.  My eyes are sweet baby blue ... except when they're
>deep, mysterious brown.  Or green.  Hazel.  Whatever.
>
 
Bunch's of goot sheet deleted.
 
>You are intelligent.  Well, you don't have to be intelligent.  Your
>personality is warm, kind, funloving, eccentric ... maybe not eccentric. 
>You don't have to be funloving or warm, either, if you don't want to be. 
>
>You are male, and you have a pulse.
>
>Hope to hear from you soon.

****
 
================================================================================
 Steatopygias's 'R' Us.          doh#0000000005 That ain't no Hottentot.
 Sesquipedalian's 'R' Us. ZX-10. AMA#669373 DoD#564. There ain't no more.
================================================================================
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: ag936@yfn.ysu.edu (Lance Durden)
Subject: A hug for illiterate flamers
Organization: Youngstown State/Youngstown Free-Net
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 07:58:04 GMT


               HUGS
          R. H. Grenville
 
Hugs are happy, healing things,
Like a wraparound of angel wings;
Like a mother's cradle when you're small,
Like a lovely rose-embroidered shawl.
 
Hugs can reach to distant places
With loving heart and thought embraces.
 
And in the peace that follows prayer,
How often are we made aware
Of the enfolding comfort of
The everlasting arms of love?
-- 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: desiree@netcom.com (dmc)
Subject: Re: Mocsny?
Summary: Spawning threads...
Organization: Thursday Babes
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:10:15 GMT

In article <1993Jan28.141327.848@walter.bellcore.com> nobody writes:

>Alas. I have been found out.
>
>Yes, it is true that Mark Israel is my narcissistic, pit-bull-phobic alter ego
>that emerges periodically to annoy the denizens of soc.singles. Treat him
>kindly since his fragile sense of humor may be irrevocably damaged otherwise.

	Oh shit.  Please, not the 12th resyndication of the Evil Twin
thread.

	But speaking of old threads or fun-things-that-should-resurface --
I propose that we all bombard Ron "That Handsome Devil" Harvey with
email and beg, plead and stroke him into reissuing the Mr. Single Person
series again.  


Desiree
From: jmd@bear.com (Josh Diamond)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Flirting How To Guide/Backrubs
Date: 27 Jan 93 18:52:45 GMT
	<1993Jan26.015338.6704@cbnews.cb.att.com>
	<JMD.93Jan26142520@lion.bear.com>
	<1993Jan27.172040.29993@cbnews.cb.att.com>
Organization: Bear, Stearns & Co. - FAST
In-reply-to: eleanor@cbnews.cb.att.com's message of 27 Jan 93 17:20:40 GMT


In article <1993Jan27.172040.29993@cbnews.cb.att.com> eleanor@cbnews.cb.att.com (Piglet) writes:

   In article <JMD.93Jan26142520@lion.bear.com> jmd@bear.com (Josh Diamond) writes:
   >
   >Piglet, trying to imagine you with BigHair is almost as difficult as
   >trying to imagine Jim Dutton wearing a tutu!

   But, but, but.... <splutter>...  Dutton looks _good_ in a tutu!  

OK, Jim.  When we actually get around to planning and having the
BAB (BigAppleBoink), I expect to see you there, IN A TUTU.

I must see this!


Spidey!!!

--
You don't hunt ducks with a turnip! 

 /\ \  / /\  Josh Diamond                                          jmd@bear.com
//\\ .. //\\ AKA Spidey!!!                        ...!ctr.columbia.edu!ursa!jmd
//\((  ))/\\
/  < `' >  \                                              Do whatever it takes.
From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: The Classiest Pickup Lines
Date: 27 Jan 93 09:22:59
Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
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NNTP-Posting-Host: grover.cs.unc.edu
In-reply-to: mysti@sierra.sybase.com's message of 22 Jan 93 19:22:34 GMT

In article <28451@sybase.sybase.com> mysti@sierra.sybase.com (Mysti Rubert) writes:

   In article <1993Jan17.172610.6034@netcom.com>, aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine) writes:
   |> In article <28034@sybase.sybase.com> mysti@sierra.sybase.com (Mysti Rubert) writes:
   |> >  [deleted]

   |> >Speaking with or to anyone for any express purpose other
   |> >than getting to know them is usurious and inherently unclassy,

   |> Mytsi, Mytsi, Mytsi, haven't you learned that engaging in grammar flames
   |> is inappropriate when you don't know the English language all that well,
   |> either?
   |> -- 

   Actually my quarrel with the guy/girl who runs things together is not
   a grammatical quarrel, merely an orthographic one (the charge of
   vaugeness is a semantic complaint).

   Are you related to Chuckles?  He too seems to focus on my
   all-too-frequent typos (not that I would expect anyone with a
   penchant for prescriptive grammar to allow me to invent the word
   usurous (typo was "usurious") an adjectival form of "use") and not on
   the propositions at hand.  Even if I was just butt-stupid about
   english, single errors in a clear context are a different manner of
   beast from deliberate vaguaries and cutsie running-together words,
   aren't they?

Mitzi, it's awfully hard not to take your use of "usurious" in context
as your knowing the word was considered perjorative but not knowing that
it means "lending at an excessive rate of interest".  It's even harder
to figure out what the fuck using "userous" as an adjectival form of use
in that sentence is supposed to mean.  Was it something like "speaking
with someone for the purpose of inciting sex is like 'using' them and
inherently unclassy"?

And, no, actually, single errors in context are sometimes -- as here --
much harder to follow than a pattern of experimental usage, because
there's no redunancy to let us know you aren't just butt-stupid about
English.  Drieux' peculiar, arch, sarcastic posts are clearly not to
everyone's taste, but they're clearly purposeful; typoing a made up and
already unclear word like "userous" into "usurious" just looks ignorant.
--
		Charles R. Martin/(Charlie)/martinc@cs.unc.edu
     Dept. of Computer Science/CB #3175 UNC-CH/Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175
	    3611 University Dr #13M/Durham, NC 27707/(919) 419 1754
     "Oh God, please help me be civil in tongue, pure in thought, and able
      to resist the temptation to laugh uncontrollably.  Amen." -- Rob T
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
Subject: Re: Credibility...
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 05:39:40 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 <1993Jan23.061659.17967@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:

>In a strict sense, people don't actually enjoy being single or not being
>single--they enjoy the experiences and the emotions that go along with
>each state.  However, the experiences and emotions of being single are
>not the negation of the experiences and emotions of being non-single 
>(in fact, there's a fair amount of overlap); 

Well, the experiences and emotions that are common to the two states
can hardly affect your preference, can they?  At least try to think
logically, Trygve.

I know, that's asking a lot for someone who works in television. :-)
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: *How* did you meet your SO (And do they know?)
Date: 21 Jan 93 22:49:48 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1993Jan21.193603.13166@julian.uwo.ca> jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll) writes:
 
|	Some of the folks on the net were born during the Carter
|Administration.

Ouch.

-john
From: souchay@CAM.ORG (Francois Souchay)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Any Available Jewish Men Out There??
Date: 23 Jan 93 03:03:30 GMT
Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada

In article <1joq2qINNi9k@mirror.digex.com> huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:
>Be prepared for failure, though.  Recently I've read about an interesting
>hypothesis that religious belief and behavior are biological traits of humans.
>They're not necessarily adaptive but could be side-effects of our neoteny
>and carnivory.

"Take this wine and drink, for it is my blood. Take this bread and eat,
for it is my body."

Some guy with a beard, a long time ago.

Francois,
          raised Catholic, so I _know_ I'm going straight to hell.
From: dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Trygve's shower
Date: 22 Jan 1993 22:14:14 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN)
NNTP-Posting-Host: spcink.bbn.com

In article <1993Jan22.200221.11126@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
>In article <1993Jan21.114038.12699@lloyd.Camex.COM> amy@lloyd.Camex.COM (Amy Lindsay) writes:
>
>Well, at least he'll probably be a little more mobile.  Of course it
>depends on the tastes of your minions--Charlie has a dissertation while
>I have a dungeon, so you just need to decide which they prefer. 

Not bad, Tryg, but you'll have to do a little better than that to beat
the "live dildo" line.

Dawn
-- 
"You have this adorable and misguided notion that death is something really
radical and cool but I still can't help being attracted to your fresh-faced
uncompromised tatoo-ed rebel stance and god damn, I'd like to help you
sing your tune."  "Folk Song..." by Bongwater
From: SURGDM@mizzou1.missouri.edu (Diane)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Excellent Flames Deleted
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:11:10 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri

In article <1993Jan27.001841.16128@sol.UVic.CA>
atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (dreas) writes:
 
>I post eight or nine excellent comebacks, only to find that some
>big hard drive somewhere is going wonky.
>
 
God, do I know what you mean. *Every*time I want to post something
that big old hard drive just goes *bonkers*. He says that he doesn't
think I'm paying attention (jeesh, I mean like I can't do 2 things at
once or something!).
 
Diane
From: brent.mason@uuworld.via.mind.ORG (Brent Mason) 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Any Available Jewish
Date: 25 Jan 93 20:42:00 GMT
Reply-To: brent.mason@uuworld.via.mind.ORG (Brent Mason) 
Distribution: world
Organization: Micro Exchange - Kenwood, CA - 707-833-4032

FS> From: souchay@CAM.ORG (Francois Souchay)
  > Newsgroups: soc.singles
  > Subject: Re: Any Available Jewish Men Out There??
  > Message-ID: <C1ADtw.6u7@CAM.ORG>
  > Date: 23 Jan 93 03:03:30 GMT
  >
  > "Take this wine and drink, for it is my blood. Take this bread and eat,
  > for it is my body."
  >
  > Some guy with a beard, a long time ago.
  >
  > Francois,
  >           raised Catholic, so I _know_ I'm going straight to hell.

       Watch out, I'd take a few steps back... Lightning is going to
strike soon... I USED to have a friend just like him and well....

       Zzzzzzaaaaaap!!  Poof... Burnt hair sure does smell nasty!

Brent Mason
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Xref: sparky soc.singles:38262 uk.misc:3251
From: ivan@spider.co.uk (Ivan Reid)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,uk.misc
Subject: Censorship in UK
Date: 27 Jan 93 16:31:51 GMT
Organization: Spider Systems Limited, Edinburgh, SCOTLAND

Hi! I just discovered whilst reading uk.misc, that alt.personals and
alt.personals.ads is not carried by the company who forward net news traffic
(something like UKNet Ltd.) in the UK. What a bunch of fascists! (they could
be communists, but that's less likely given the political climate in the
world these days :-) )

I'm sure there is a "sound" reason why they don't carry these groups, but
then why do they bother to carry the alt groups that they do then?

<sigh> only in Britain ... :-)
-- 
Ivan Hans Mark Reid                      Management Information Systems Analyst
"Information is Power ..."                                   Spider Systems Ltd
vox: (+44 31) 554 9424                                 Spider Park, Stanwell St
fax: (+44 31) 554 0649                              Edinburgh EH6 5NG, SCOTLAND
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow)
Subject: Re: Living alone and liking it
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 06:02:05 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 <16558@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:

>Something newer than "The Visit"?  "Courtyard Lullybye" at eight could
>crack all my crystal.

No, that's as recent as she gets, which I agree really isn't anymore.
She was still touring-in-support-of when she was through here in
December, though, so I won't apologize :-)

>BTW, Rob, that Tish Hinojosa is really starting to grow on me.

I saw her again last night at Poor David's here in Dallas.  She
and her band had a good time playing to a packed house.  "Culture
Swing" is getting her more attention these days, all well deserved.
Everybody with an interest in folk and a tolerance for country
should check her out, especially live - you can watch her amazing
guitarist, Marvin Dykhuis, and gape like an idiot trying to figure
out how he plays those notes.

BTW, I found a source for Mary Black's "By The Time It Gets Dark"
and "Without The Fanfare" on CD.  It's a catalog you want, definitely.
I'll e-mail you.

Rob T
--
Rob Thurlow, thurlow@convex.com
"Shouldn't I have this, shouldn't I have this, shouldn't I have all of this,
 and, passionate kisses, passionate kisses, passionate kisses, from you?"
- "Passionate Kisses" Lucinda Williams
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Darts?  was:Women on Top
Date: 27 Jan 93 01:34:08 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1993Jan26.161831.27161@ryn.mro4.dec.com> tang@akofin.enet.dec.com (Gabe Tang) writes:
>
>re: (nancy.l.colucci) .......
|>In article (John Fereira) writes:
|>>Last night I competed in the championship match in the Bud Light Dart League.
|>>Earlier in the week my steel tip team also played in the final match and
|>>took first place.  My soft tip team didn't fare so well.
|> 
|>Don't you know the trick?  When you're losing, you start power-throws from
|>hell and try to get a particle hopelessly stuck so the board goes into a stall
|>and needs the piece removed from inside.  Then you can move to another board
|>and you get another chance.
|>Of course this would be tough with steel-tips.  :-)
|
|Nance,
|
|        How could you be so mistaken??! It's *very* easy to slam a steel-tip
|	into one of those soft-tip machines....and if you start chipping away
|	at the plastic....I'm sure they'll want you to stop shooting and
|	move to another board......preferably a real.....bristle board!  ;^)
|John,
|
|	Now, just where abouts are you shooting? Sounds like the west coast.
|	Coming east to Boston some time?  Drop a line......shoot a few and
|	drink a few.  :-)

Unfortunately, fouling a board is grounds for the loss of a game during
a league match.  Considering this was the championship finals that might
not have been a good idea.  As I said, my steel tip league played on
Tuesdays.  Out here a lot of the darters throw both steel tip and electronic.
As a matter of fact, last weekend I played in a soft tip tournament and lost
to guy in the semi-finals that plays on the steel tip US National team.
-- 
-john
From: blowfish@centauri.unm.edu (rON.)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Query [FM]
Date: 22 Jan 1993 05:26:58 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: pioneer.unm.edu

In article <305@cnmhnet.UUCP> keithg@cnmhnet.UUCP (keith garrard) writes:
>	Why and how did FM become popular? 

Easy-
HiFi and Stereo.
r.

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (Die Fledermaus)
Subject: Re: Women, Cats & Pizza.
Reply-To: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 07:45:40 GMT

In article 16538@auspex-gw.auspex.com, johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
>In article <1993Jan20.050434.18675@sol.UVic.CA> atovorni@engr.UVic.CA writes:
>|I discovered something just as good as chocolate.
>|It's called pizza. Just thought I'd tell you.
>|
>|It had one ISObabe squealing with delight last
>|night back at the Drummer's Lounge.
>|
>|Or was it all the Rum&Cokes and caesars?
>|Maybe it could have been something else.
>
>Did you give her a ten or a twenty?

Twenny, I heartwenny. Twennytwenny, TWENTY...

..Who'll gimmetwennefie?

dreas
From: brent.mason@uuworld.via.mind.ORG (Brent Mason) 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Concerts vs. Relationship
Date: 24 Jan 93 17:57:00 GMT
Reply-To: brent.mason@uuworld.via.mind.ORG (Brent Mason) 
Distribution: world
Organization: Micro Exchange - Kenwood, CA - 707-833-4032

       I would like to pose/post a new question that's been buging me for
a while.

       Why is it that everytime I take a girlfriend (in the past) or my
ex (not so long ago) to a rock n roll concert it just seems to be a
matter of months before our relationship seems to take a turn for the
worst?

       Took my ex to see the B-52's in Concord, CA this last Sept and
well December rolls around and we're signing divorce papers...

       Same goes for Howard Jones, Styx, Cool n the Gang.

       Now I'm not blaming it on the concert or the artists, but it just
strikes me odd.  Have any of you had similar experiences?

       Brent Mason
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: barry@netcom.com (Kenn Barry)
Subject: Re: Midwestern SWM ISO Upbeat SWF
Organization: QQQCLC
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:41:49 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.054412.1837@fuug.fi> an8180@anon.penet.fi (North Coast Optimist) writes:
>I would like to meet
>an intelligent (and preferably well educated), sophisticated,
>optimistic, outgoing, self-confident, independent yet supportive
>woman who is also interested in eventually having children.

	Well, if any women like that read your ad in soc.singles, they
will (correctly) conclude that you've got the brains of a tube of
toothpaste, and avoid you. This group ain't for personals; what you've
just done is equivalent to standing on the lettuce cooler in a
supermarket and yelling, "anybody wanna go out with me?" Only _this_
supermarket has about 80,000 people in it. Nice work, sport. Hope you
keep your brains in a safe place when you don't have 'em with you.

						Kayembee
Newsgroups: soc.singles