HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: lesley@pleasanton.EBay.Sun.COM (Lesley Smith - Test Engineering)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Room for Rent in Fremont
Date: 4 Sep 1992 21:45:41 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: lesley@pleasanton.EBay.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: pleasanton.ebay.sun.com



2 bedroom 1 bath             
large kitchen
washer/dryer inside
backyard, garage                            
need to furnish bedroom                              
lots of windows that look out onto courtyard
quiet neighbors
I personally don't spend alot of time there myself so you would basically
have your own place 
looking for someone that is quiet and clean

rent is $400 and $300 deposit plus utilities


Newsgroups: ba.singles
From: tim@sybase.com (Tim Wood)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Sexual Consent form #314159 (Crossposted from hell)
Date: 7 Sep 92 17:54:45 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Sybase, Inc.

In article  nweaver@ocf.berkeley.edu (Nicholas Weaver) writes:
>	...
>                             Nicholas C. Weaver
>nweaver@ocf.berkeley.edu                           nweaver@soda.berkeley.edu
>...
>              Everything I have learned has been by hearsay
		^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

That's stating the obvious.  
-TW
--
Tim Wood / Sybase, Inc. / 1650 65th St. / Emeryville, CA / 94608  510-596-3500
WORK:tim@sybase.com     {sun,pyramid,pacbell,{uunet,ucbvax}!mtxinu}!sybase!tim
PLAY:axolotl!tim@toad.com         {{sun,uunet}!hoptoad,decwrl!noe}!axolotl!tim
Dis claim er dat claim, what's da difference?  I'm da one doin da talkin' hea.
From: rohwerwd@netcom.com (W. David Rohwer)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: hair
Date: 5 Sep 92 01:05:02 GMT
Organization: Netcom - San Jose, CA

In article <1992Aug19.162331.6329@eos.arc.nasa.gov> shrum@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Rick Shrum) writes:
>In article <XkgqPB1w165w@spectrx.saigon.com> space@spectrx.saigon.com (b0b runyon) writes:
>>Hey .... I hope its not just a fad - but I have been noticing 
>>women with HAIR on their legs & underarms (!)
>
>I suspect this means you have been watching the Republican Convention.
>

     I agree.  But, I also suspect that he has been noticing stupid
Christians following their so-called perfect bible.

-- 
  +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
 /   //  W. David Rohwer   // Amiga       UUCP: apple!netcom.com!rohwerwd |
|  \X/       Go A's!     \X/ 3000UX   Internet: rohwerwd@netcom.COM      /
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   Marilyn Quayle said on 08/19/92 at the RNC: "They're (Liberals are)
      always disappointed because most women do not wish to be
      liberated from their essential natures as women...."

   My Response:  "What a stupid old-fashioned remark."
Newsgroups: ba.singles
From: bob@netcom.com (Bob Becker)
Subject: A New Beginning
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 17:27:51 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: ba

Yes, folks, it's a new beginning!
Now that there's a flame war over religeon going on in ba.singles,
it's only fitting that we start one over politics and *really*
waste the bandwidth with more useless drivel that nobody wants
to hear. It's always so much fun to have these useless, unwinnable
debates in public so everybody else can see just how intelligent
we really are.

So.....  who wants to start?
From: chrish@netcom.com (Christina M. Hill)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Stupid Christians?
Date: 12 Sep 92 15:30:44 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <1992Sep12.111402.1485@tfs.com> ecsd@tfs.com (Eric C. S. Dynamic) writes:
>I find it hard to reconcile. I think Christianity is "stupid" because
>it places the definition of the individual outside themself. Christian
>values - e.g. Golden Rule & Walk in the Shoes - are universal and quite
>valuable. But defining that someone should pay homage to a specific (dead)
>person X, or "YOU're obliged because HE died for your sins (who asked him
>to do this for me, that I have a debt to the person, yes?)" to me is
>absurd.
>Yet I have friends who are Christians, who lead very beautiful lives out
>of that philosophy.
>It's a dilemma to want to attack & destroy Christianity, yet not to
>want to injure people who still hold the beliefs.
>
>-ecsd

Excuse me if I'm doing this wrong, this is my first flame, but I was so 
incensed at the attitude you expressed in your last line, I had to stop
lurking and respond.

You asshole, how dare you feel it is your right to try to destroy any
religion. Attack it yes, but to want to destroy a belief system that is
dearly held by many, including some you call your friends, puts you in 
the same category, in my opinion, as the far right wing fundamentalist 
Christians who want everyone to believe exactly as they do. If I was one
of these poor unfortunates you call your "friends" I would find it very 
condescending that you deign to like me despite this terrible flaw in my
intelligence. Yes, I am a Christian, and proud of it, but I have many friends
who are not, and I respect that, and they in turn respect my beliefs. How 
can there be friendship without respect?

Back to lurking, Chris    
  


-- 
Chris Hill      chrish@netcom.netcom.com     415-572-9591

"We hope to continue entertaining you in the months to come" 
                                                 -  Deborah Pratt   
Newsgroups: ba.singles
From: thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet)
Subject: Re: stupid Christians (was re: hair)
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 18:06:52 GMT
Organization: International Foundation for Internal Freedom

gordon@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Gordon Vickers) writes:

>     I know some stupid Christians, and I know many gifted ones but I don't
>  know any that incourage their women to grow hair in their arm pits. That
>  is not to say there may not be some around, heck, beliefs are so varied,
>  I wouldn't doubt that some such sects may exist. 

I knew it!  I knew it!  Europe is full of Sectular Heathens!

They incourage their slave women to grow hair and plants in their arm pits!

My god!  I'm so shocked!  I'll never go there again!  All that
beautiful museum artwork is subliminal programming for hairy pits!

-- 

Lance Norskog

Data is not information is not knowledge is not wisdom.
From: rickk@public.BTR.COM (Rick)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Marvin Raab -- Request for e-mail address
Date: 11 Sep 92 05:36:33 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: BTR Public Access UNIX, MtnView CA. Contact: Customer Service cs@BTR.COM

Marvin -- if you still monitor this group, please send me
an e-mail address; I'd like to contact you.  Thanks.  Rick.

rickk@btr.com


-- 
Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty!       (rickk@btr.com)
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: I am new to this group.
Date: 9 Sep 92 18:21:58 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <laq37kINN52h@male.EBay.Sun.COM> lesley@pleasanton.EBay.Sun.COM writes:
>
>					Hi!
Hello. 
>					 I am new to this group. I was wondering if this guy
>					"Rick" plans all the get togethers? When and how often
>					are	they? Is everyone on this newsgroup single?
 
What?  Come a little closer.
Over here, on this edge of the screen...

>I am new to this group. I was wondering if this guy
>"Rick" plans all the get togethers? When and how often
>are they? Is everyone on this newsgroup single?

There, that's better.  Now on to your questions.  As far as I know this
was the first time that "Rick" has planned something here.  Anyone is
welcome to plan a get-together.  (Which reminds me,  Steve Stein from 
soc.singles is in town on business this week for a week or so.  He said
he'd like to meet a few of us locals.)  Get-togethers range from informal
"pizzaboinks", originally called the "HumpdayBoink", to fullblown, all 
weekend, complete with out-of-towners,  lose all inhibitions,  net.romance
generatin', net.godess creatin', blowouts.  In between there are, dayhikes,
bikeboinks, and a variety of other opportunities to meet those that
are posting here.  Finally, the answer to your third question is no.  Some
people reading ba.singles are not single.  We don't hold that against them
though.
-- 
+==========================================================================+
| John Fereira     | Auspex Systems | "Auspex does not share my opinions.  |
| johnf@auspex.com | Santa Clara CA |  So Why am I still working here?"    |
+==========================================================================+
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From: thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet)
Newsgroups: ba.singles,ba.general
Subject: Cirque Du Soliel: Seat recommendations?
Date: 8 Sep 92 17:48:53 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: International Foundation for Internal Freedom

What are good seats for Cirque Du Soliel?
That is, which zones have good visibility?

Thanks,

-- 

Lance Norskog

Data is not information is not knowledge is not wisdom.
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: A New Beginning
From: wallich@ncd.com (Ken Wallich)
Date: 15 Sep 92 00:21:17 GMT
Reply-To: wallich@ncd.com (Ken Wallich)
Distribution: ba

bob@netcom.com (Bob Becker) writes:

>Now that there's a flame war over religeon going on in ba.singles,
>it's only fitting that we start one over politics and *really*
>waste the bandwidth with more useless drivel that nobody wants
>to hear. 

No, no, no.  I think we should start a debate on the many and various
merits of gun control.  I'll start this one.  Only police, military,
and government approved persons should have guns.  Simple.  Anyone
unlicened caught with a gun should be shot, or clubbed to death, if
you're just a private citizen.  In fact, we should just ban all
weapons capable of emiting a projectile (like those nerf bow&arrows,
and squirt guns, since I'll define water as a projectile for this
debate), and all weapons that *look* like they could emit a projectile
also must be banned, so that the police will not be responsible for
wasting some little punk playing with a pink neon-spotted M16.  Yeah,
that's the ticket.

But gee, this can't possible fill up all the bandwidth, I think we
should also settle once and for all this stupid pro-life/pro-choice
debate.  I'll let Bob take that one.

Oh yeah, we should also start bitching about spelling and grammar.  I
count at least one spelling error in Bob's posting, but I'll leave the
grammar flames for someone with a grammar checker...

I think minor flame wars like this are perfectly harmless.  They are what
kill files are made for (I'm an 'nn' user, and I *love* the two keypress
'kill subject for one month' feature :-).  Either that, or someone could
create ba.flame, and start bitching that followups should all be tossed
that-away.

Just for the record :-).  The above is *humor* folks.  Statements
intented to interject some levity into your poor, wretched lives.

--
Ken Wallich
wallich@ncd.com  
ken@wallich.com
Newsgroups: ba.singles,ba.general
From: chesnutt@adobe.com (Stan Chesnutt)
Subject: Re: Cirque Du Soliel: Seat recommendations?
Organization: Tuesday Weld Fan Club
Distribution: ba
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 21:00:09 GMT

In article <hwrn4-c.thinman@netcom.com> thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet) writes:
>What are good seats for Cirque Du Soliel?
>That is, which zones have good visibility?

Unlike the opera or symphony, front-row center is probably optimum.  I
sat towards the rear of the center section last Thursday, and everything
fitted within the field of vision.  The action was a bit far away.

If you sit close, though, you will have to decide what to watch from second-
to-second.

All in all, there probably isn't a bad seat in the house.  I'm ready for a
rebuttal on that statement, though.

-- 
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Stan Chesnutt,  Adobe Systems			      chesnutt@mv.us.adobe.com
From: janetg@informix.com (Janet George)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: GOOD MECHANIC
Date: 10 Sep 92 17:45:34 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
Originator: janetg@superior

Hi,

 I looking for a good mechanic who has a great deal of knowlege on used cars, Since I am planning to buy a used car very shortly.
I would pay him some price money if he could help me with a good deal.
Those of you who know somebody or have had some experience in the above could send me references  at my email address janetg@informix. I am new to the bay area and seek help.
 
All comments, experiences, references with detailed contact address or telephone nos will be deeply appreciated. 

Thanks a lot !!
 
Newsgroups: ba.singles
From: bob@netcom.com (Bob Becker)
Subject: Re: I am new to this group.
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 05:34:56 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: ba

In article <laq37kINN52h@male.EBay.Sun.COM> lesley@pleasanton.EBay.Sun.COM writes:
>
>			Hi!
>
>			 I am new to this group. I was wondering if this guy
>			"Rick" plans all the get togethers? When and how often
>			are they? Is everyone on this newsgroup single?
>

Hello.
Congratulations.
Who's "Rick"?
They are all random.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHahhahahahahahahahhaha


Newsgroups: ba.singles
From: ecsd@tfs.com (Eric C. S. Dynamic)
Subject: Stupid Christians?
Organization: TFS
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 11:14:02 GMT

I find it hard to reconcile. I think Christianity is "stupid" because
it places the definition of the individual outside themself. Christian
values - e.g. Golden Rule & Walk in the Shoes - are universal and quite
valuable. But defining that someone should pay homage to a specific (dead)
person X, or "YOU're obliged because HE died for your sins (who asked him
to do this for me, that I have a debt to the person, yes?)" to me is
absurd.
Yet I have friends who are Christians, who lead very beautiful lives out
of that philosophy.
It's a dilemma to want to attack & destroy Christianity, yet not to
want to injure people who still hold the beliefs.

-ecsd
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: A New Beginning
Date: 15 Sep 92 16:32:11 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <wallich.716516477@pepper> wallich@ncd.com (Ken Wallich) writes:
|No, no, no.  I think we should start a debate on the many and various
|merits of gun control.  

A meaningless topic.

|But gee, this can't possible fill up all the bandwidth, I think we
|should also settle once and for all this stupid pro-life/pro-choice
|debate.  
 
Who cares?

|Oh yeah, we should also start bitching about spelling and grammar.  

What's the point?

What we need is to discuss a topic of importance, like "should I
leave the cover of the toilet seat up or down?"

|I think minor flame wars like this are perfectly harmless.

I think minor flame wars are useful.  Contrary to what Ms. Olsen, of
Olsen's cherries, would like us to believe, life is not a bowl of 
cherries.  We're not always going to agree.  Debating topics, or just
reading those debates, will allow us to recognize different points of 
view and how to express those opinions.  One can learn how to and how
not to debate/flame/argue by reading flame wars in ba.singles.  

| They are what
|kill files are made for (I'm an 'nn' user, and I *love* the two keypress
|'kill subject for one month' feature :-).  
 
I wan't aware of that feature.  That's a good one.

|Just for the record :-).  The above is *humor* folks.  Statements
|intented to interject some levity into your poor, wretched lives.
 
Thanks, Ken.  My poor wretched life *did* need a bit of levity?

-- 
+==========================================================================+
| John Fereira     | Auspex Systems | "Auspex does not share my opinions.  |
| johnf@auspex.com | Santa Clara CA |  So Why am I still working here?"    |
+==========================================================================+
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From: mgm@clipper.ingr.com (Mike Marfell)
Newsgroups: ba.singles,ba.market.misc,apd.forsale,su.market,sun.forsale,rec.sport.baseball,ba.sports
Subject: A's Tix forsale
Keywords: Face Value!
Date: 5 Sep 92 16:55:01 GMT
Distribution: ca
Organization: Intergraph Advanced Processor Division - Palo Alto, CA



               Who: A's vs Boston Red Sox

               When: Sunday Sept. 6th @ 5:05pm

               Where: Oakland Col. Sec 107 Row 16 Seats 15 & 16

               Cost: $24 for the pair

               If you would like them, please call me at 408-365-1884

                                            Thanks,

                                                -Mike

-- 

                      "Just Say No! To Cable TV"
Mike Marfell                                      mgm@clipper.ingr.com
From: lesley@pleasanton.EBay.Sun.COM (Lesley Smith - Test Engineering)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: I am new to this group.
Date: 8 Sep 1992 20:28:36 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: ba
Reply-To: lesley@pleasanton.EBay.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: pleasanton.ebay.sun.com


			Hi!

			 I am new to this group. I was wondering if this guy
			"Rick" plans all the get togethers? When and how often
			are they? Is everyone on this newsgroup single?

			Lesley (AKA Lottie)
From: stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: British Comedy Boink 12 September
Date: 6 Sep 92 00:29:34 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA


Do you like Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, Red Dwarf, Black Adder, Are You
Being Served, _A_Fish_Called_Wanda_, _The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_To_the_Galaxy_?

Then come to:

Stef's British Comedy Boink
Saturday, September 12
3pm - 9pm
San Francisco Sunset District (near 19th Avenue exit off 280)

What we have so far:

   Fawlty Towers (complete series)
   Monty Python (selected episodes and both _All_the_Words_ books)
   Red Dwarf (selected episodes)
   Hitchhiker's Guide (complete radio series)

Space in front of my TV set is limited, so please RSVP. As a reward, you 
will receive directions to the party location.

Please bring:
British Comedy videos, cassette tapes, records, CDs, books
     (let me know what you're planning to bring) 
     (yes it's OK not to bring them if you don't have any)
A snack or beverage to share 

Hope to see you there!

--
Stef                 Where am I going, and what am I doing in this handbasket?
stef@apple.com
From: rickk@btr.BTR.COM (Richard A. Kaplowitz  rickk@btr.com)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Suggested flame becomes Activity Inquiry
Date: 13 Sep 92 21:41:52 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: BTR Public Access UNIX, MtnView CA. Contact: Customer Service cs@BTR.COM

A note in response to the (inappropriate on this list) discussion
of religion suggested, tongue in cheek, that we now move on to
a political discussion ...

My first thought was to make a wry comment on "family values" in
this, our bay area singles piece ...

Which led me to think about singles values ... and, in turn, to
wonder if there's any list of groups in the bay area that are
singles groups which focus on a mix of enjoyable activities
for people who are single and are looking for others (both
genders; who may be happy as singles and/or open to partnerships)
to share activities ...

I've seen some references to specific activities from time to
time -- including the boinks... but wonder if there's a general listing
(or, if seemly, I'd even complile a list of responses and post it).

Responses can be posted to ba.singles, or sent directly to me.
  
(I'm not including the commercially run activities here, from
Trellis to the range of others ... that's a whole separate
compilation, I think, which I leave aside for the moment).

Please include some notion of location of the group (i.e., City,
Peninsula, etc.), and a contact phone number if possible.

Look forward to hearing from ya!

   Rick     (direct e-mail to:   rickk@btr.com    )




-- 
Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty!       (rickk@btr.com)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
From: gordon@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Gordon Vickers)
Subject: stupid Christians (was re: hair)
Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 04:27:24 GMT

In article <d9mn!9j.rohwerwd@netcom.com> rohwerwd@netcom.com (W. David Rohwer) writes:
>     I agree.  But, I also suspect that he has been noticing stupid
>Christians following their so-called perfect bible.
>
     I know some stupid Christians, and I know many gifted ones but I don't
  know any that incourage their women to grow hair in their arm pits. That
  is not to say there may not be some around, heck, beliefs are so varied,
  I wouldn't doubt that some such sects may exist. 
     Some sects don't even require that a minister be ordained or even
  college educated. Don't forget too, that most anyone can start their
  own Christian (or non-Christian) church with few restrictions.
     There are some odd ball churches out their and some may even be stupid,
  but I really don't believe anyone knowelegable on how varied the beliefs
  are could make the generalization that all Christians are stupid.
     For many of the same reasons, one cannot generalize that all Christians
  consider the Bible "perfect" .   I believe it does, in a way have a few
  imperfections, but those mentioned most often by non-Christians tend
  to be passages taken out of context, or at least, interpeted without
  understanding related passages, writing styles and customs of the time
  the particular 'book' was written, and many other factors that one MUST
  consider before they can grasp what is really being said.

--------------------------------------------------------------------
Gordon Vickers, member Luthern Church of Our Savior, Cupertino, Ca.
gordon@kpy.com
I can respect a man of (any) religion more than the one with none.
From: rpwhite@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (rpwhite)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: A New Beginning
Date: 15 Sep 92 19:30:44 GMT
Reply-To: rpwhite@cs.nps.navy.mil (rpwhite)
Followup-To: ba.singles,ba.test,misc.test
Distribution: ba
Organization: Elkhorn Yacht Club, Moss Landing CA

wallich@ncd.com (Ken Wallich) writes:

>>Now that there's a flame war over religeon going on in ba.singles,
>>it's only fitting that we start one over politics and *really*
>>waste the bandwidth with more useless drivel that nobody wants
>>to hear. 
>
>No, no, no.  I think we should start a debate on the many and various
>merits of 

No, no, no. Ad hominem personal attacks are the only way to go.
Like this:

"now Ken, i'm sure your life has been a difficult one, what with a 
face like yours, and all...but listen closely now.  i don't know why
you suddenly decided the time had come for you to crawl out from 
under your scum-encrusted rock, grab the nearest keyboard, and spew 
forth these smegma rich posts, but let me tell you...those of us in 
ba.singles are less than amused at your feeble attempts at humour.

none of us like you...do you understand?  i don't know exactly when our
hatred started - maybe it was simply your stupid-ass excuse for humor,
maybe it was your open attacks on those of us in ba.singles who are clearly 
your intellectual superiors...who knows?  but i can tell you, Ken, that
even though we all dislike you so much, you can still win our favour.
what we need you to do is this:  burn your stupid, loser flesh repeatedly
with red hot andirons, hack off your fingers with a steak knife (to 
prevent further posting), then fling yourself in front of an amtrak.

only your excrutiatingly painful death will satisfy us."

      - adapted from a flame originally by Christine Nelson. 

The foregoing was presented only as an illustration and in no way
reflects my opinion.