HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: lurkers and parties and cons - oh my!
Date: 30 Aug 92 23:09:45 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

hymowitz@whatever.cs.jhu.edu (Hymie!) writes:

>allegedly , there is going to
>be an sf con in atlanta in november.  i plan to be there.  i'll probably
>wear a button that either says 'net.lurker' or, if i can write small enough,
>I am the village idiot.  I don't have anything to do with this pathetic
>little opera.  I just felt like passing through!                --P. D. Q. Bach

How about "I like to watch" ? :-)

>what kind of response will i get as a net.lurker? will people just ignore
>me?  please save my failing ego and warn me.  thanx.

If people *do* recognize  your name, that may help break the ice, but if
they don't, they won't give you the cold shoulder. Many of the other folks
at the party will be lurkers too.

--
Stef                     "The force of gravity on the moon is a fraction of
stef@apple.com            the gravity on the earth, so the moon would not be 
                          able to attract the pen to inself.  Rather, it would
                          only be able to suspend the pen."
                              --The Pen Is Mightier Than the Moon Hall of Fame
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: fredw@mks.com (Fred Walter)
Subject: Re: Where the best posts come from
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 21:52:11 GMT

drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max) writes:
>Okay next Question[s]:

>Do women remember slights and small insults and hold them against the
>insultor for longer than men?

I think this is more a function of whether or not you are a pessimist or
an optimist. If you're a pessimist you're more likely to remember the bad
stuff (and dwell upon it) than an optimist. (Most of my family consists
of realists^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hpessimists. Family get-togethers are such fun.)

>Are women more easily insulted than men? 

People with low self-esteem are more easily insulted than people with high
self-esteem. Rather, I should say, people with low self-esteem seem to let it
bother them more.

Which in general has lower self-esteem ? Women or men ?

>Is this where I'm supposed to put the smilies?

This wasn't a serious post ? Opps. :-)

	fred
-- 
Disclaimer: everything I write is my *personal* opinion and does not represent
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Subject: Re: Boston Baby Boink!
Keywords: Paaahty, Baaahston, Wicked Pissah!
Organization: soc.singles.music.early
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 07:59:02 GMT

gadfly@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (Gadfly) writes:

>enchilada would be *Nov 14-15* to correspond with the US premiere
>on the 12th of the movie about Marin Marais "Tous Les Matins du Monde",

Oh really?  No Joke?  Where, when?  Advance tickets?  (This is a big
deal around here, since IU is the home of the Early Music Institute.
Everyone is waiting for the film.  Soc.singles would be an interesting
place to get news of the premiere.)

>starring Gerrard Depardieu as Marais.  He actually learned how to
>play the viola da gamba for this flick, although the music was dubbed

At his age, I think he probably only learned to _hold_ the viol.  :-)

>incomparable Jordi Savall--who will appear in concert on the 13th.  

Incomparable is right--tho some might compare him to Wieland Kuijken--
and he is probably a party animal supreme. 

>Anyway, all those red-hot early music party animals you've heard
>so much about and dreamed someday to meet will be in town for that.

Yeah, right, both of us.  Well I am certainly a hot party animal.
Or something.

-- 
"And this is a tiny radio transmitter. It transmits tiny radios
 through the air to this tiny radio receiver."
 .................................The Flying Karamazov Brothers
-- 
Kiran Wagle     <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>     (812) 335-0420
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Hunk)
Subject: Re: Topless Californians
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 21:27:57 GMT

In article <1992Aug23.153504.13200@cbfsb.cb.att.com> yyz@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (donald.w.coons) writes:
>The X-plicit Players say California women are free to go topless because no
>state law specifically prohibits them from doing so. Sources in the public
>defender's and district attorney's offices in San Fransisco say that's true,
>but the women could still be prosecuted under indecent exposure and obscenity
>laws.

Gag dabbit.  Those durned Liberals are going to ruin our fine Middle American
tradition of Family Values on which this great natione was founded with their
wanton ways.  I tell you, a heavily overfunded military industrial complex,
though it may have run the Federal Government into bankruptcy (thereby leading
to the dissulution of the Federal Government in less than 30 months), is not
what made this nation great.  Our Moral Purity is what made US great!  Let
the whole world see the beacon of our God fearing, morally inspired ways.
Though our values may be dangerously obsolete, let everyone adopt them, as
they are True and Proper.  Mark my words.  We will have Cuba singing God
Bless America in inspired devotion and gratitude before the next 4 years are
out, never mind that the US won't exist by then.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: gadfly@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (Gadfly)
Subject: Re: Boston Baby Boink!
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 19:44:59 GMT
Summary: Yowza!
Keywords: Paaahty, Baaahston, Wicked Pissah!

In article <kiran.714988742@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>,
kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
> >enchilada would be *Nov 14-15* to correspond with the US premiere
> >on the 12th of the movie about Marin Marais "Tous Les Matins du Monde",
 
> Oh really?  No Joke?  Where, when?  Advance tickets?  (This is a big
> deal around here, since IU is the home of the Early Music Institute.
> Everyone is waiting for the film.  Soc.singles would be an interesting
> place to get news of the premiere.)

Contact the Boston Early Music Festival, PO Box 2632, Cambridge MA
02238; (617)661-1812.  (And if you read rec.music.early, you already
know this.)

> >starring Gerrard Depardieu as Marais.  He actually learned how to
> >play the viola da gamba for this flick, although the music was dubbed
 
> At his age, I think he probably only learned to _hold_ the viol.  :-)

Word is that he got some intensive training.  Which probably resulted
in his being able to do little more than hold the instrument, but
who knows--he may be able to fake the left and right hand action, and
maybe even both together.  Well, we'll see about that, won't we?  And
we especially *want* to see it when we can also watch an audience half
of which knows every enfle' and tremblement in the literature.  (Me,
I've only dabbled in Book III.)

> >incomparable Jordi Savall--who will appear in concert on the 13th.  
 
> Incomparable is right--tho some might compare him to Wieland Kuijken--
> and he is probably a party animal supreme. 

I couldn't say.  But you could try to bring Ms. Wendy with you, if
she's not out touring with Fretwork.  *She* knows how to party.  At
least say "hi" for me.
 
> >Anyway, all those red-hot early music party animals you've heard
> >so much about and dreamed someday to meet will be in town for that.
 
> Yeah, right, both of us.  Well I am certainly a hot party animal.
> Or something.

Well, I was referring to early musicians in general, most of whom
proably don't attend s.s events as a rule.  But when the s.s reader-
ship finds out about all the sexy people in the early music scene,
and especially the outrageous things we do between sets of consort
songs (and sometimes during), they'll want to check it out.

               *** ***
Ken Perlow   ***** *****
28 Aug 92   ****** ******   11 Fructidor An CC
            *****   *****   gadfly@ihlpa.ATT.COM
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From: jis@panix.com (Jack Szwergold)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Tallllll women....
Date: 4 Sep 92 16:16:47 GMT
Organization: Panix, NYC

In <_mmnz6q.aahz@netcom.com> aahz@netcom.com (Aahzmandius) writes:

>It just doesn't matter.  It just doesn't matter.  It just doesn't 
>matter!  IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER!!!

>(A No-prize to the first person to correctly identify the source for
>this quote.)
MEATBALLS!!!!!

:)
Jack
jis@panix.com
"Spaz.... Spaz.... Spaz.... SPAZ.... SPAZ..... SPAZ!!!!!"
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Can we can the suck-up bit?
Date: 1 Sep 92 22:11:57 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Sep1.213726.10567@gvl.unisys.com> liz@prc.unisys.com (Liz Loquacious) writes:
|In article <14413@auspex-gw.auspex.com>, johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
||> 
||> Actually, on the surface it looks like Mr. Cxxxxxx is mowing Liz's lawn solely
||> out of the kindness of his heart.  In reality, he chooses a hot day to mow
||> his lawn so that he can remove his shirt.  In preparation for the task he has
||> secretly mounted a video camera in a tree and it is trained on Liz's bedroom
||> window.  Later, in the privacy of his own living room, he can watch the tape
||> and see Liz's getting worked up over the beads of sweat on his bare tanned
||> chest.  Lawn Sluts,  they gots no morals.  
|
|You're just jealous John; you'd rather be perched in that tree instead of
|that video camera! :-)  Fess up now.  

Who do you think is running the camera?

-- 
+============================================================================++
| John Fereira            "Is that all you ever think about?"                |
| johnf@auspex.com                                                           |
+============================================================================++
From: smith@comm.mot.com (Jeff Smith)
Subject: Re: Desperation (was Re: Commitment--The C-word?)
Organization: Gagging Sloth Records
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 22:55:38 GMT

In article <5084@news.duke.edu>, diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams) writes:
|> In article <kiran.715501437@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
|> >You must meet loads of men during your daily activities.  You don't need
|> 
|> Not really.  There are only two guys in my year; one's married, and I've
|> only seen the other twice.  Most of the professors are married, and I really
|> wouldn't quite know how to make a pass at a professor anyway.  (It's not
|> the age difference I'd have a problem with, but the rank difference).

What?! You are at Duke, according to your address. There are only two guys 
in your year?! WHY THE HELL DIDN'T I GO TO SCHOOL THERE?!

a peeved jds

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From: wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Oh, no! Statistics! Run!! :-)
Date: 28 Aug 92 19:00:10 GMT
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

CatWoman (diana@wetware.com) wrote:
: kevin@nuchat.sccsi.com (Kevin Brown) writes:
: ] Ouch!  That wouldn't be because Snap-On tools are so expensive, and thus
: ] a guy with Snap-On tools has a lot of money, would it?  :-)
: 
: No - the quality, and the idea you can't just pick them up
: at your local department store...
:  
Ah, so you like yours hard to get?
-- 
"Bless me, Father; I ate a lizard."
"Was it an abstinence day, and was it artificially prepared?"
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.)
Subject: Re: Tallllll women....
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 92 15:20:31 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <715596605.14890@minster.york.ac.uk> aaron@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
>I find tall women in general more attractive than short (all other things
>being equal). I'm quite capable of finding shorter women cute but I tend
>to have an almost irresistable urge to pat them on the head.

Cute? Pat 'em on the head?
Boy, you are gonna catch some shit for that one :)
Patting them on the head may be cute and all, but just wait til one straight-
arms you- right in the crotch. :)
r.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Subject: Re: Desperation (was Re: Commitment--The C-word?)
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 06:56:31 GMT

diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams) writes:

>fun people I can talk to without having to spend long-distance money.
>(Or be logged on! :-))

*laugh*  Email's not good enough?  You could always try IRC...

>johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
>>I'll have to agree with Kiran.  I got a kick out of the comments about the
>>tequila sunrises and the ex.  You've already shown a sense of humor which,
>>for me, would go a long way to making an enjoyable dinner companion. 

>Awww.  So, what city are you in? :-)

*humph*  I said it first.  

Guess I'll cancel the order for the flat of raspberries & the Valrhona 71%.

-- 
 From the corrections column in a July Fresno, CA _Bee_:

"An item in Thursday's [issue] about the Massachusetts budget crisis
 made reference to new taxes that will help put Massachusetts 
'back in the African-American.' The item should have said 'back in 
 the black.'"

-- 
Kiran Wagle     <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>     (812) 335-0420
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: smith@comm.mot.com (Jeff Smith)
Subject: Re: Commitment--The C-word?
Organization: Gagging Sloth Records
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 15:30:40 GMT

In article <1992Aug21.130647.26551@cbnewsd.cb.att.com>, nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes:
|> In article <71435@apple.Apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
|> >
|> >Are you equating "not contributing income to the household" to "living off
|> >another person"? Why?
|> 
|> Yes, I am.  If someone other than yourself provides a roof over your
|> head and your other sustinence, what would you call it?

If someone other than myself provided the roof and the food, etc, and I kept
said roof clean, said food cooked, and raised the kids, I'd call it symbiosis.
Both parties are providing for the family unit's needs.  Whether or not those
provisions include the generation of green paper with a former president's
mug in the middle is not important. However, your point about the person who
stays at home being at a disadvantage if the relationship terminates is a good
one, I think. 

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                               * Health and knowledge and wealth and power,
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                                                - shriekback
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: carl@vaxr.sscl.uwo.ca (Carl Kaufmann)
Subject: Re: Kiran Wagle (Was Re: Las Vegas)
Organization: Soc.Sci.Comp.Lab., U.West.Ont.
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 02:08:42 GMT

In article <kiran.714608574@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>, kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:

* stuff deleted

> (I must also say I am bothered by the notion that invisible people can
> read without ever mentioning their presence.  If they are not willing
> to even introduce themselves, why should I try to entertain them?)
> 
>>come wrapped in. I could go on like you do, but then us lurkers
>>most often choose not to for the sake of the rest of the net folks. 
> 
> Well come on in, the water's fine.  I wonder how many lurkers choose
> to refrain from posting for the sake of the rest of the net.
> 
> Survey time! Hey lurkers, why do you lurk? 

* more stuff deleted

I lurk most of the time, but I do post occasionally.  Most of the time
I find that I either have no opinion on the subject at hand and am content
to simply read what others say, or my opinions have already been expressed
by others who are much more thoughtful and articulate than I am.

CatGuy
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* out instinctively, for no * Soc.Sci.Comp.Lab * except bear consequences.  *
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From: wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: The Chocolate Urgies
Date: 28 Aug 92 19:15:09 GMT
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Randy Zagar (zagar@chester.cms.udel.edu) wrote:
: It is known that consuming chocolate causes the brain to produce certain
: chemicals that are also produced (naturally) when a person is 'in love'.
: (the romantic/erotic kind :-)
: 
: Is it any wonder, then, that chocolate is the gift of choice on valentines' day ?

Hmm...  Are there any interesting correlations involving allergies to chocolate?
-- 
"Bless me, Father; I ate a lizard."
"Was it an abstinence day, and was it artificially prepared?"
-------------------------------------------------------------
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: strickha@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Heath A. Strickland)
Subject: Re: hi you all!!!
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 23:56:43 GMT


In article <1992Aug31.182952.24897@cbnewsd.cb.att.com>  
nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes:
> In article <1992Aug31.164417.4271@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>  
smaus@nyx.cs.du.edu (Scott Maus) writes:
> >
> >If you are interested and would like to communicate through the Postal
> >System, email me at smaus@nyx.cs.du.edu and I'll give you my address  
and
> >phone number to that special lady!!
> 
> Which one of us is special?
Boy this nance can talk a lot!
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams)
Subject: Re: chemistry / love at first sight : fact or
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 16:08:43 GMT

In <1992Sep3.121751.5335@exu.ericsson.se> exujbl@exu.ericsson.se (Jerry Blackerby 214-907-7810) writes:

>In article 14407@CERIS.Purdue.EDU, dheisler@CERIS.Purdue.EDU (Dave Heisler) writes:
>>     anyone else believe in love at first sight?

>I am not single, but do read SOC.SINGLES sometimes.  This subject caught my
>eye.

>I met my wife on March 20, 1955.  We started dating one week later.  We
>were engaged two weeks after that.  We married on July 8, 1955 and celebrated
>our 37th anniversary this year.

>It can happen!

	True, it can happen but it is very rare.  My parents met on a 
blind date. My mother was to be bridesmaid at her best friend's impending
wedding and my father was the best  man for the girl's fiance'.  My 
parents were married before them instead with the roles reversed after only
15 dates....27 yrs later, they still hold hands....
However, I think that it is really only an intense attraction that turns
into love when you work at it very hard...
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Homesickness!
Date: 31 Aug 92 17:55:11 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <thurlow.715105128@convex.convex.com> thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:
|In <14348@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
|
|
|>Actually I did hit one Nanaimo bar.
|
|Well, it's nice that you survived the experience :-)

A few glasses of Labatt's Blue softened the blow.  I did, however, get
a few polyester burns from the tourons in Victoria.
-- 
+============================================================================++
| John Fereira            "Is that all you ever think about?"                |
| johnf@auspex.com                                                           |
+============================================================================++
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: karttu@mits.mdata.fi (Antti Karttunen)
Subject: To push wood or not? (was Re: Girls in rec.games.chess)
Organization: MITS, Helsinki, Finland
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 03:31:30 GMT

(Note! This was in rec.games.chess, and now this goes only to soc.singles
to spare the chess readers from further posts of this kind...)

In article <snpya-c@rpi.edu> buckmr@aix.rpi.edu (Ron Buckmire) writes:
>doug@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Doug Manley) writes:
>
>>Well, the last post certainly separated the men from the choir boys
>>and we certainly gained a whole new practical perspective on women and
>>chess.  There seemed to be one flaw....  Sooner or later the man
>>inevitably makes a key mistake.  He decides to push wood rather than
>>spend time with the fair sex.  After only a milliseconds pause, the
>>woman concludes the doomed male would rather spend time pushing
>>inanimate wooden objects with the guys rather than <insert your
>>favorite shared activity> with her.  After just another milliseconds
>>thought she realizes the full impact of this choice.   
>
>>Now she might understand if you were doing something that had some
>>pretense to value, but we're talking woodpushing here.
>
>>The male is now doomed.                                    
>
>>It doesn't matter how often she wins, or whether you're interested in
>>her game.
>
>>It doesn't matter how well you disguise your losses.
>
>>You're in a lost position and resignation is appropriate.
>
>What does the above nosensical tripe have to do with rec.games.chess?
>Ugh!
>>Doug Manley
>

Not nonsensical at all. Although it might be better appreciated/flamed
in some another newsgroup. So I try soc.singles.
This posting also provoked one thought: It seems that (some) males are in
general more inclined toward various kind of obsessive/compulsive things
(like games, hacking, all kinds of tinkering, collecting, science, etc.),
while (most) females are not. Or perhaps their obsessions are elsewhere.

>-- 
>RON BUCKMIRE, 11 Colvin Circle, Troy, NY 12180-3735. **Clinton-Gore '92!**

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