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From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Various ramblings...
Date: 11 Sep 92 00:13:09 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Sep10.203639.21204@mks.com> fredw@mks.com (Fred Walter) writes:
>johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
|>|johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
|>|>ross@zooid.guild.org (Ross Ridge) writes:
|>|>>I don't have any. Money isn't very important to me, but food and shelter is.
|>|>How do you manage to pay for food and shelter if you don't have any money?
|
|The same way anyone else with no money gets food and shelter in our society ...
|
|With someone else's money.
 
And do you know what relying on someone elses money does for ones self-esteem?
I'm not talking about student loans or money from the parents either.  While
unemployment checks and food stamps will put food on the table and pay
the rent (barely) it doesn't help your social life much.  (Hey baby,  I've
got some foodstamps, wanna party?).  

|>And I'd like to spend a week on a deserted tropical island with Angelwing,
|>the swedish bikini team, and Elvis.
|
|After Angelwing, you won't have the energy to handle the Swedish Bikini team...
 
We'll I do have a whole week.  They'll all just have to wait their turn.

|(After Angelwing, and the Swedish Bikini team, even Elvis would have more
| energy than you. And he's dead :-)
|
|	fred "Wait-a-second, what would you do with Elvis ?" walter

You see, Elvis, the swedish bikini team, Angelwing and Dan Mocsney were
last seen on a cruise ship heading out in the Pacific.  Elvis was singing
in the lounge and I have no idea what Dan does.

-- 
+==========================================================================+
| John Fereira     | Auspex Systems | "Auspex does not share my opinions.  |
| johnf@auspex.com | Santa Clara CA |  So Why am I still working here?"    |
+==========================================================================+
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams)
Subject: Re: Can we can the suck-up bit?
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 15:47:10 GMT

In <1992Sep8.231506.220570@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH) writes:

>huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:

>>Frasier, a lion, was the equivalent of an 80-year-old man when he arrived
>>at Lion Country Safari in 1971 and the keepers, as a joke, placed him with
>>a pride of lionesses who had already rejected some young lions.  Someone
>>forgot to tell Frasier, though.  The lionesses began chewing his food for
>>him (he was almost toothless), and two would press against each side of his
>>body when he tried to take a walk.  Frasier, the Sensuous Lion, sired 35 cubs
>>in 16 months and was voted Father of the Year in a congressional resolution.

>Geez Louise....Steve Garvey got smeared nationally for this kind of stuff! The
>moral? Be A Furry Animal.

	Hobbes gets my vote!  He's just so gorgeous!:)
 
    ____________________________________________________________________
    |   Emma Williams            | Folk sover ellers ikke godt op      |
    |   ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie    | ad en sultan tiger!                 |
    |				 |    Steen og Stoffer :->             |
    |____________________________|_____________________________________|
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: chemistry / love at first sight : fact or fiction?
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 04:05:23 GMT

In article <1992Sep7.022243.29268@peponi.wcc.govt.nz> parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>
>I've met guys who (I thought) there was that chemistry and so on, we got on
>brilliantly, etc. BUT they still weren't interested in anything more than
>friendship, if that.
>
>Why?

It's traditional--after all, if the people you were interested in were
also interested in you, it would probably upset the whole order of the
universe.  There are probably plenty of people who feel chemistry with
you that you don't have any interest in--with the net result that 
everybody keeps buying the latest products, from lipstick to cars,
that are supposed to make you suddenly appealing to the ones you're
attracted to.

Plus, there's the slight problem that a good proportion of the population
tends to find people who aren't interested in them more attractive than
people who are interested in them. 

>I'm beginning to think there *is* no such thing as love at first sight.

Sure there is--it just sounds like it hasn't happened to you.  If you
want it to, you can always try doing a little more sighting.

(You might check around to see if there are any extra Uzi's nearby.)

Trygve  (6'4" -- who was just running a meeting earlier today in
         which all of the programmers in the department are taller
         than I am.) 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
Subject: Re: "want" vs "need"
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 12:51:22 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.152937.16055@clsi.COM> kevin@clsi.COM (Kevin Cameron) writes:
>
>misrael@csi.uottawa.ca (Mark Israel) writes:
>>   Suppose you had a *choice* between finding a cure for cancer and 
>>having a family.  Which would you choose?  If you knew for sure that you
>>*could* find a cure for cancer, wouldn't choosing not to find it make 
>>you unhappy?
>
>I'd go for the family. Nobody lives forever, they will always die from something,
>so why worry about it. If you go for the family you could achieve some level of
>genetic immortality - unless your family is prone to childhood cancer :-)

If you have siblings, each of them has 50% of your genes on average.  Your
offspring would have exactly 50% while your nephews and nieces would have
25%.  Therefore, a niece and nephew are statistically equivalent to one
kid of your own, but someone else has the aggravation of rearing them.

However, if you find a cure for cancer, you'll be bombarded by groupies
wanting you to help them "maximize their fitness."  And we all know that
biology babes are the best.  (Right, Max?)

-- Herb Huston
From: jmd@bear.com (Josh Diamond)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Singles Bar (Why would you want one?)
Date: 9 Sep 92 22:03:46 GMT
	<1992Sep9.010758.3248@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>
	<14523@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
Organization: Bear, Stearns & Co. - FAST
In-reply-to: johnf@Auspex.COM's message of 9 Sep 92 19:43:52 GMT


In article <14523@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:

   Fine, but you'll miss seeing the team of Larry, Larry, James and John in 
   action.  When you add "singles" to "singles" bar you add all the negative
   connotations of the bar scene.  Take away the "singles" part and just go to
   "a bar" you might meet some interesting people.

Here! Here!

Very true.  There are several bars where _do_ like to hang out -- and
where I have met some wonderful people.  But these places would hardly
be considered "singles bars".  

"Dive" might be a more accurate description... :-) :-)


				Spidey!!!



--
 /\ \  / /\  Josh Diamond                              		   jmd@bear.com
//\\ .. //\\ AKA Spidey!!!                        ...!ctr.columbia.edu!ursa!jmd
//\((  ))/\\
/  < `' >  \          Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. -- Michelangelo
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: Larry Margolis <margoli@watson.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: What knockers!  Crreak.
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 05:14:15 GMT
Reply-To: margoli@watson.IBM.com
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: The Village Waterbed

In  <1992Sep7.025433.429@peponi.wcc.govt.nz>  parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz writes:
> In article <14479@auspex-gw.auspex.com>, johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
> >stand in the doorway she *will* brush her tits on me as she passes through.
>
> Help me out here, guys (and girls).
>
> I've had guys stick their elbows out purposely to brush my tits as I walk past.
> How can they possibly get off on elbow contact?  The last I heard the elbow was
> not an erogenous zone and it's rather painful to collide with one with your
> spongy bits!

Next time someone does this, try brushing his spongy bits with your knee,
and then see if you can honestly say you didn't find that satisfying.  :-)

Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams)
Subject: Re: E.W. - Weddings....
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 09:42:32 GMT

In <14522@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:

>In article <ewillims.716049830@unix1.tcd.ie> ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:
> 
>|	Dart Boards?? I've never yet met an Irishman who plays darts!

>Hmmm.  I play darts regularily in a place called O'shea's.  I have in fact
>played against several Irishmen.  

	Hmmmmm....I suppose they must be picking up bad habits since
they moved to the States.  We play lots of drinking games in pubs
in Ireland, not darts!
 


    ____________________________________________________________________
    |   Emma Williams            | Folk sover ellers ikke godt op      |
    |   ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie    | ad en sultan tiger!                 |
    |				 |    Steen og Stoffer :->             |
    |____________________________|_____________________________________|
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Lurkers...
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 92 21:51:30 GMT

In article <1992Sep3.155306.3900@desire.wright.edu> wall@hel4.brl.mil (Jeff Wall) writes:
>
>  I have been hard
>pressed to read all the postings and the only other group I read is rec.scuba
>(any divers out there?).

Yep.  And I'd lay long odds that Larry Margolis is fond of that hobby as
well, so there are at least two.

Trygve   (Oh, you meant *water* diving?  Nevermind.)
From: gswst@cislabs.pitt.edu (Gary S. Wachs)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Nice Guys?
Date: 14 Sep 92 21:06:38 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh, Electrical Engineering

In article <1992Sep13.194506.4811@csi.uottawa.ca> misrael@csi.uottawa.ca (Mark Israel) writes:
>In article <jxvnggm.slf@netcom.com>, slf@netcom.com (Sharon Fisher) writes:
>
>> Sigh.  School just started again, didn't it?
>>
>> No, it is not true that women, in general, prefer assholes.
>>
>> Women, in general, prefer guys with self-confidence.
>>
>> Unfortunately, assholes are generally pretty self-confident.
>>
>> As a wise woman friend of mine once said (meaning, "I can't remember
>> her name"), "Being *nice* is not enough."  Okay, fine, you're *nice*.
>> But you also need to be *interesting*.  
>
>   Pooh.
>
>misrael@csi.uottawa.ca			Mark Israel
>Sunbeams brightly play, where Fancy's fair pavilion once is pight.










WEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL I see we've once again dropped into the
bottomless pit of oversimplified advice-giving...

As if someone could read the above blurb and then think to himself or
herself, "Oh!  That's what I'm doing wrong!  I should try to be more nice AND
more interesting!  Gosh, why didn't someone point that out to me sooner??"

No.  If a person is reading this newsgroup to get hints and tips on how to
attract TOS and become a people-person, then there's really only one
thing that person should do.

Start taking some acting lessons.  Experiment with some different personality
traits and behavoiral patterns.  The one that ends up getting you what you
want, that's the one you adopt and make your own.  Become the person you
need to be to get what you want.

It might sound like bullshit, but the inescapable truth about it is that
if you set your mind to it and don't give up, there's no way it can fail.

Well, if you find that being "nice" and "interresting" helps, then so be it.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
Subject: Re: Tallllll women....
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 12:20:57 GMT

In article <tvkn3!c@lynx.unm.edu> blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
>Ahh, sigh.
>Was watching one of the syndicated talk shows (Montel Williams). They was
>talking to, sigh, tall women. There was one 6'9", one 6'3", and 2 6'2" women.
>They was complaining they can't find good tall men.

Did they specify what they meant by "tall men?"  My guess would be that they
mean "men who are about 5 inches taller than I am." 

>Me? I was screaming here on the other side of the screen 'YO! Over here!'
>sigh.
>r. (6'4", btw :)

5'11.75" in the morning.  I tried but fell short.  B-)>

-- Herb Huston


Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: hays@TECHNET.NM.ORG (Larry 'Purple' Hays)
Subject: Re: leg shaving
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 22:56:40 GMT
Organization: New Mexico Technet   Albuquerque, NM
Reply-To: hays@TECHNET.NM.ORG

In article <1992Sep9.190134.29178@cbfsb.cb.att.com>, weird@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (john.t.erhardt) writes:

>maybe the same women, don't like men with hairy backs or butts.  I suppose
>there are some women who do/don't like hairy legs, arms, etc.  Why?
>And to the men, if you don't like a particular part of you body hair, why
>not shave it?  We shape the hair on our head the way we like it, why not
>hair in other places?

I'll tell you why.  Blood loss.  Sepsis.  Depletion of local blood bank 
stockpiles.  Carnage beyong belief.

Don't beleive me?  Shave your butt-crack.  I dare ya.  No fair getting help,
though you may opt for waxing if you like...

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Larry 'Purple' Hays                                      hays@technet.nm.org

Naw, I never shaved my butt-crack.  Palms, occasionally, but never butt-crack.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tang@akofin.enet.dec.com (Gabe Tang)
Subject: Re: Why do the lurkers / so furiously lurk together?
Organization: The VMS company
Date:  9 SEP 92 15:09:24 EST


re: (Peter Breton) 
> 
>  If the figure of 100,000 readers of soc.singles per month is accurate,
>and less than 100 people post in any given month (can somebody check me 
>on this?), then it follows that 99.9% of soc.singlers are lurkers. So the 
>question should not be "why do the lurkers lurk?" but "why do the posters
>(gee, I guess that includes *me*) post?"

	So they can come out of the closet? :)
From: ANNE@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Fall classes have started
Date: 16 Sep 92 01:27:04 GMT
 <29181@hydra.Helsinki.FI> <MARTINC.92Sep15162659@grover.cs.unc.edu>
 <1992Sep15.172938.29038@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Ron,  you forgot:

    Gee, why do women only fall in love with what's on the *outside* of
a guy, and not what's on the *inside*?  I really don't think looks should
what diddley squat, do you?  Anyone who agrees with me, please call
(555) NICE-GUY pronto.

(snicker snort)

Lee Anne
From: stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Can we can the suck-up bit?
Keywords: encourage friendship?
Date: 9 Sep 92 16:42:11 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:

>In article <72095@apple.Apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
>>
>>trygve, what a courageous viking you are, to post this to a thread with the
>>subject line 'Can we can the suck-up bit.'

>But what have I to fear from being accused of sucking up?  

If you advertise in this thread that you are particularly good at sucking 
up, I fear that someone will arrive on your doorstep and attempt to can the 
bit of your anatomy that you use for such activities.

--
Stef                            Carpe diem (fish for ten cents)
stef@apple.com                                  --Usenet Oracle
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Your eyelids are getting hairy.
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 12:50:26 GMT

In article <lbaap6INNb4i@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> smith@wesson.Eng.Sun.COM writes:
>In article 13497@cbfsb.cb.att.com, jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) writes:
>>In article <lb7t71INN37u@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> smith@wesson.Eng.Sun.COM writes:
>>>In article 3611@wvnvms.wvnet.edu, un030025@wvnvms.wvnet.edu () writes:
> 
>>>my date's lugging a black bag containing God-knows-what and doing 
>>>impersonations of the Church Lady, George Bush, Big Rick Stewart 
>>>and Steve Masters all rolled into one!!!
>>>
>>>That was about about 11 months ago.  I had another blind date a few weeks ago.
>>>Nice guy!  We made plans to go to dinner and then to a play in Berkeley.  We 
>>>find a parking spot, he opens the back door of his car and pulls out . . . 
>>>yep! *a black satchel*!!!  ARRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>>
>>>-- Nina
>>
>>I'll bet they were doctors.
>> 
>
>Ha-uhh . . . the first one's a Financial Consultant and the second a 
>Computing Consultant.  Omigod!  Blow me down with a feather . . . that's 
>it!  No more dating with consultants . . . or is it consulting with dates?
>
>-- Nina

 Sounds like you need to consult with the Sultan of Love[tm]. I have an
opening at three.
 
================================================================================
 Sesquipedalian's 'R' Us. ZX-10. DoD#564. There ain't no more.
================================================================================
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Can we can the suck-up bit?
Keywords: encourage friendship?
Date: 10 Sep 92 00:15:16 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Sep9.194040.22143@gvl.unisys.com> liz@prc.unisys.com (Liz Loquacious) writes:
|In article <14521@auspex-gw.auspex.com>, johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
||>  
||> If you do, I also have some videos recently taken from a tree near a freshly
||> mowed lawn.  Perhaps we can discuss a trade. 
||> 
|
|I hear the camera slipped out of the tree when John climbed down to check
|out the babe in my shaven-legged-ex's car and all that was filmed were the
|couple of squirrels who were more or less engaged... Don't trade Trygve!
 
Yea, but you should see the tail on that female.

-- 
+==========================================================================+
| John Fereira     | Auspex Systems | "Auspex does not share my opinions.  |
| johnf@auspex.com | Santa Clara CA |  So Why am I still working here?"    |
+==========================================================================+
From: rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu (Michael Rawdon)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: chemistry / love at first sight : fact or fiction?
Date: 11 Sep 92 04:20:24 GMT
Reply-To: rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu
Organization: University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Dept., Madison, WI

In <5220@news.duke.edu> infante@acpub.duke.edu (Andrew  Infante) writes:
>trygve - how do you pronounce your name?
>phonetically that is. ;)

I think that he probably pronounces it "LOHD", as in "lodestone".

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

hardware, n. The parts of a computer system that can be kicked.
From: diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Sex & Moose & Wolf (was Re: Desperation
Date: 13 Sep 92 15:38:01 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

In article <72300@apple.Apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:

>I have heard of people who tried to start a relationship with someone but
>it didn't work out because the person didn't smell right. Not that they
>smelled bad--just wrong. 

I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only person for whom this is true!  Give
me a guy who smells good over a guy who looks good any old day.  (And to tie
in to the perfume/aftershave discussion, my personal opinion is that artificial
scents can be attractive, but only if they complement the person's own smell
rather than mask it.  I mean, unless the guy wakes up at five A.M. every 
morning to throw on aftershave, you're going to smell the real him sooner
or later).

				--Diamond

diamond@acpub.duke.edu |  "*Think* before you ask these questions, Mitch."
Elizabeth S. Abrams    |                         --Chris Knight
From: dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: General topic to break the monotony
Date: 10 Sep 92 13:57:44 GMT
Reply-To: dhardin@spcink.bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
Distribution: na
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

In article <18mgdjINN84m@agate.berkeley.edu> epg@nature.Berkeley.EDU writes:
>
>Mr. Dutton, please take care not to utter the words "ham" and "eggs" in the
>same sentence.  Elswise, the reciting demon inside me will be compelled to
>cite Dr. Seuss at length.  

The baby's uncle just gave her a copy for her birthday, and I felt compelled
to give a very dramatic reading in the middle of a gay conference whilst
wearing a t-shirt that said "Nobody knows I'm a drag queen."  Don't ask.
It's a long story.

Dawn
"Oh, Time!  Of all the dwellers here below 
You only elevate buffoons or fools,
Or him whose anus as an inkstand serves."
The Perfumed Garden of the Shaykh Nefzawl, translated by Sir Richard F. Burton
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: Ross Ridge <ross@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: Desperation (was Re: Commitment--The C-word?)
Organization: ZOOiD BBS
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 08:21:58 GMT

diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams) writes:
>Um, I meant there are only two guys in my year in my department.  There
>are only seven of us in total, so the ratio's not alll *that* unreal.

Which brings up the point that there are other years, other departments.
In fact there should be a bunch of naive freshmen arriving on campus
now, plenty of opportunities there.

							Ross Ridge

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From: gds@TIS.COM (Greg Skinner)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: soc.singles #64637 - Re: Desperation (was Re: Commitment--The C-word?)
Date: 7 Sep 92 23:41:39 GMT
Organization: Trusted Information Systems, Inc., Merry-land

In article <1992Sep7.002524.16078@clsi.COM> Kevin Cameron writes:
>I don't think my life is incomplete because I am not in a
>relationship, it's just dull.

sol 1 % webster
Word: dull
dull or dul.ness \'d*l\ \'d*l-n*s\ \'d*l-(l)e-\ aj [ME dul; akin to OE
dol
2b: lacking zest or vivacity : LISTLESS

i.e., incomplete.

>Are people confusing "complete" with "happy"? - I'm not sure what
>"complete" means.

sol 1 % webster
Word: complete
1. com.plete \k*m-'ple-t\ \-'ple-t-iv\ aj [ME complet, fr. MF, fr. L
completus fr. pp. of comple-re]to fill up, complete, fr. com- + ple-re
to fill - more at FULL 1a: possessing all necessary parts : ENTIRE

I think you have hit on a key point, though.  People fall into the
trap of thinking that if they can get into a relationship that will
make them happy, or complete, or whatever.  Some also think all they
need is to be in a relationship and they'll be happy.  I think it is
OK to realize that you are lacking something (friends, SOs, whatever),
but you shouldn't beat yourself up over it.

--gregbo
Newsgroups: soc.singles