HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: fenthe@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: Iseult, Tanaquai and crutches (was: That bloody War )
Date: 12 Aug 92 20:05:09 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon Computer Club

tweaver@nyx.cs.du.edu (T.C.Weaver) writes:
> iw@tosser.Rational.COM (Iseult White) writes:
>>>tweaver@nyx.cs.du.edu (T.C.Weaver) writes:
>>>>
>>>>Eeek! Who'll help protect me from Iseult? Ang? (Don't hide in that corner, 
>>>>girl)... Fenthe? Anyone? (Where is everyone?)
>>
>>Protection ?!!??!!  Protection from little 'ol becrutched femmey me.  I don't
>>think so.  
>
><grin> I did pick the two lightest, least aggressive people I could recall
>being in the U.K.!

 Hmmph. And there was me feeling touched at being thought of as a protector.
See how much saving-from-the-crutch /I/ do.. <grin>

 -- Fenthe
From: osmith@acorn.co.uk (Owen Smith)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: the "oh" experience
Date: 21 Aug 92 13:57:40 GMT
Organization: Acorn Computers Ltd, Cambridge, England

In article <1992Aug20.103712.15719@nwnexus.WA.COM> elf@halcyon.com (Elf
Sternberg) writes:

>>   "[Snide mode on]"? Pulease! The 70's are dead?! What, did you go out and
>>kill it yourself?!
>
>   If it isn't truly dead, I'll go take care of it now myself!
>Platform soles, polyster suits, mood rings, the Bee Gees and The
>Village (of the Damned) People, Alex Comfort, Stayin' Alive... Do you
>really think _any_ of that decade is worth going back to?

At least the 70s had a definitive style. The 80s were just plain boring.
Note I'm 26 so I was 4 when the 70s started. But I still remember the tail
end. I too wore flared trousers. I think the reason we've had all these
political upheavals in the last four years is that everyone was so bored
with the dull greyness of the 80s that they decided to DO somethine :-). The
90s aren't shaping up any better either, at least not from where I'm
sitting. About the only good thing to happen in recent years is that short
skirts are back in fashion, and indeed they seem to have made it into the
mainstream and are here to stay. Which is good because I quite like
wearing them.

Owen pp Gwendolin (long legged lesbian with freckles)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
From: cjohnson@zeus.calpoly.edu (Coe L Johnson)
Subject: Re: And the saga continues
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Distribution: soc.bi
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 23:21:35 GMT

iw.713776541@tosser> iw@tosser.Rational.COM (Iseult White) writes:
>sharon@pomona.claremont.edu writes:
>
>>Hey, I saw YOU eyeing Iseult's "crutch," sweetie... personally, I
>>think she just uses it to get girls! :-)

I think there's a lot of things Iseult does just to get girls - her
problem is she often doesn't get the right _kind_ of girls (to her 
extreme consternation) :^) 

>>Sharon, wondering what the hell she's *still* doing in Southern California
>
>I have to admit I'm wondering too!  We do have the best crutches here.

And crutch-weilders ;^)

-Coe
cjohnson@nyx.calpoly.edu

Xref: sparky soc.bi:10863 alt.sex.bondage:15938 soc.motss:35312 alt.sex:26838
From: alewis@ds5000.DAC.Northeastern.edu (Drew Lewis)
Newsgroups: soc.bi,alt.sex.bondage,soc.motss,alt.sex
Subject: Call for submissions
Date: 17 Aug 92 01:12:19 GMT
Followup-To: soc.bi
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston MA. USA 02115

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 

We want to know what gets you HOT!  Bisexual writers Karen Friedland and
Drew Lewis are accepting stories from bisexual writers of all genders,
colours, abilities, and flavours for a new anthology of Bi erotic fiction.

Stories can be about women with women, men with men, women with men, or any
combination in greater numbers;  vanilla or s/m; genderfucked or not; all 
possible combinations of any of the above.

The requirements:  The stories get you (and US!) off; that they either
eroticize safer sex, clearly predate the AIDS crisis, or be set in another
time/world/universe/dimension; that they be written by bi identified writers.

If you think that your erotica  fits these requirements, then send it, 
along with a brief bio, to alewis@ds5000.dac.northeastern.edu if you have email
access, or, by US mail to:  Anthology, c/o Drew Lewis, 45 Symphony Rd #502,
Boston, MA 02115
by MARCH 15, 1993.

We especially encourage submissions from bisexual writers of colour, disabled
bisexuals, and other non-mainstream bisexually-identified writers.

ABOUT THE EDITORS:

Karen Friedland is:
    A Boston Bi-woman, editor of _Bi_Girl_World_ and founder and former 
facilitator of the Bisexual Women's Rap Group at the Cambridge Women's Center.
Born around the time Kennedy was shot, she'd like to be labelled as a Jewish 
Bisexual Vegetarian, if she has to be labelled at all.  Mostly writes poetry,
under normal circumstances, and also wishes to write and direct movies.

Drew Lewis is:
    editor of _Bi_Men:__We_Claim_Our_Name_ (tentative title, 1993 Times Change
Press), former editor of BBMN News, and a writer whose work has appeared in
numerous publications.  A student at Northeastern University, he has been an
active member of the bi movement since he came out.  A member of Generation
X (alternatively known as the slacker generation or the twenty-something 
generation), he is proud of his Jewish heritage (although now considers
himself into discordianism, mysticism, and shamanism), is into postive
body image through body art and modification, and identifies as a sex radical 
and a mostly het bi queer punque boy.


Drew Lewis  alewis@ds5000.dac.northeastern.edu / as149@cleveland.freenet.edu
          Warning: Government is hazardous to your health
     Save me from those who would pass laws to protect me from myself
"The right to take drugs, the right to an abortion, the right to suicide, the 
right for people to engage in private, consensual sexual activity, be it
commercial or not, these are all interconnected.  The loss of any one of
these rights diminishes the strength of the others, giving the govenment more
control over the bodies of those it governs -- control it should never have."

Newsgroups: soc.bi
From: johnf@uhheph.phys.hawaii.edu (John Flanagan)
Subject: Re: Stonewall 25
Organization: University of Hawaii, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 08:56:08 GMT

In article <m7apbn9x@cck.coventry.ac.uk> idx009@cck.coventry.ac.uk (the Crisco Kid) writes:
>In article <1992Aug19.045730.11078@news.Hawaii.Edu> johnf@uhheph.phys.hawaii.edu (John Flanagan) writes:
>>In article <17858@acorn.co.uk> osmith@acorn.co.uk (Owen Smith) writes:
>>>And I hope she hates asians as much as I do :-). I've always had a bit more
>>>mild, irrational xenophobia for asians than for other groups, and now I have
>>>something I can justify it with :-).
>>You'll need a lot more smilies than that, Owen...
>
>At least he admits it's irrational, John.

Perhaps I was in a bit of an Attitude snit.  Can I get away with
blaming it on the Republican National Convention?

--John
-- 
John Flanagan                          ||"Pretty boys
johnf@uhheph.phys.hawaii.edu           || with the sunshine faces
U. of Hawaii, Dept. of Physics & Astro.|| <mumble mumble>..."
2505 Correa Rd., Honolulu, HI 96822    ||            -- My Bloody Valentine
Newsgroups: soc.bi
From: tweaver@nyx.cs.du.edu (T.C.Weaver)
Subject: Re: And the saga continues
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Distribution: soc.bi
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 13:04:53 GMT

iw@tosser.Rational.COM (Iseult White) writes:
>cjohnson@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Coe Salzgeber) writes:
>
>>>
>>>Iseult - happily fantasizing about tribadic uses for her crutches.
>>>And a few girls I know (Ellen, Coe, Chris and Sara) had better watch out.
>
>>Well, just look what Iseult posts when she thinks the four of us aren't
>>reading!  Methinks she had better be nice, or she may find herself on
>>the unexpected end of the crutch :^)
>
>Its not fair.  Those ... those wagons keep stealing my crutch.  Fenthe
>Ang Bethan, why even Tanaqui, please come and protect me from them.
>
>Coe is sooooooo mean.

Coe, could I have the privilege of -uh- applying the crutch after you?
Otherwise I might be forced to help Iseult defend her sacred honour |-)

Tanaqui

Xref: sparky soc.bi:11089 soc.motss:36254
Newsgroups: soc.bi,soc.motss
Subject: Re: Farewell to Rob
From: elle@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Ellen Keyne Seebacher)
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 15:53:47 GMT
Reply-To: elle@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <1992Aug21.110123.23284@dsg.cs.tcd.ie> 
 cjmchale@dsg.cs.tcd.ie (Ciaran McHale) writes:
>Later, when I feel up to it, I will hack together a program to extract
>the names of all the posters to soc.bi and soc.motss from whatever
>spool directories our system has them stored in. The list won't be
>complete since some people won't have posted recently, but it will be
>enough for the moment. I'll print out these two lists and hang them on
>the wall beside my desk so I will know who my family are.

Unfortunately, you'll need a pinhead extractor.  That is, unless you want
Cretin Clamor and his ilk in your "family".

--
Ellen Keyne Seebacher            elle@midway.uchicago.edu
From: pclary@radish.csc.calpoly.edu (Ellen Clary)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: Introduction
Date: 22 Aug 92 22:19:41 GMT
Organization: Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA - aka Barnum & Bailey

angi@festival.ed.ac.uk (Angi Lamb) wrote...
>I can offer an ftp site at Edinburgh.  I can't store vast quantities of
>data but bios and other bi-resources like lists of books, contacts etc
>would be feasible. 

Colin was offer space for soc.bi gifs, he might have space for such things.

By the way, Clive tells me the Edin<mutter> party photos have been scanned.
[Now they just have to get to Colin...]

I don't think I mentioned that UK customs opened the package when I sent 
the photos to Clive - I'm sure they were most entertained by all of your
happy...... faces.

Ellen
Newsgroups: soc.bi
From: tweaver@nyx.cs.du.edu (T.C.Weaver)
Subject: Re: Iseult, Tanaqui and crutches (was: That bloody War )
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 02:22:39 GMT

aag@aber.ac.uk (Angela Gilham) writes:
>>tweaver@nyx.cs.du.edu (T.C.Weaver) writes:

>>eeek! Who'll help protect me from Iseult? Ang? (Don't hide in that 
>>corner, girl)

>I'm not in the corner! I'm in the lab doing the rewrites on Chapter
>Five at half-past one in the morning ;-(

Oh, my mistake. That wasn't you over there, munching Mignons Morceaux & swilling
Boddington's?

[Iseult gets offended at my calling for protection]
>><grin> I did pick the two lightest, least aggressive people I could recall
>>being in the U.K.!

>Hmmm. Unaggressive? Me? Well, that's a new one on me . . . Of course I
>could have been listening too closely to the comments of certain
>people who find me frighteningly aggressive, possessive, and
>threatening . . . 

Indeed you could, dear <half-smiley>. & then there's always your arthritic elbow
to take into consideration... as for possessive, I appreciated the ogle-fest we
had in _The Jolly Farmers_. Eve was cute ;-)

>on the other hand, there's no need to be aggressive
>around Tanaqui. I just sit back, relax, and let my silk shirts or
>lycra leggings do all the work ;-)

*wistful sigh* It's all true: no crutch necssary. Though *whimper*, Ang did buy
two new silk shirts while she was in Oxford.

> Alternatively, I sit around and 
>spit blood into her sink and weeble; it's amazing how unaggressive
>one can be under the latter circumstances, in fact, its amazing how
>uneverything one can be under those circumstances. 

*sniff* That was sad: Ang evaporated slowly under my eyes & into my sink. I
tried to feed her, honestly people. It's really not my fault she left thinner
than when she arrived - we certainly didn't do anything very strenuous |-)

>Ang (who has to confess that she spent a weeks' holiday with Tanaqui, 
>     and spent all her time being thoroughly ill with tosilitis, and
>     was thus the most apologetic and well-behaved house guest one
>     could ever imagine)

See! Sweet & pure & innocent! We did nothing!! 

Tanaqui

Bog vampyres must be fed carefully. Regular consumption of champagne and garlic
is especially important in their diet. Celery is not advised: the bog vampyre
may decide to consume the blood of the person offering this ghastly vegetable.
From: chris@unicorn.resun.com (Chris Von Hendy)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: Bethan's Birthday Greetings
Date: 17 Aug 92 02:52:32 GMT
Reply-To: chris@unicorn.resun.com
Organization: Metalogic, S.a r.l.
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.5v3


In article <memo.566504@cix.compulink.co.uk> (soc.bi), cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk (Clive Grace) writes:
> [raises baton to the virtual sky]
> 
> Hippo Birdy Two Ewes,
> Hippo Birdy Two Ewes,
> Hippo Birdy, Dear Ewe,
> Hippo Birdy Two Ewes

Yoks, my idea has been stolen.  I demand an e-flirt in payment.
> 
> Hope it was a stunner of a birthday Bethan.

I hope so, too.
> 
> Hugs

And more hugs, a few slurps and nibbles for good measure.
> 
> Clive
> 

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Chris Von Hendy            "If we shadows have offended,
Escondido, California       Think but this, and all is mended,
ncr-sd!blkhole!chris  or    That you have but slumbered here,
chris@unicorn.resun.com     While these visions did appear." Puck
From: cen@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: Chicago - Party City?
Date: 16 Aug 92 09:45:04 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620


 woodhous@latcs2.lat.oz.au (Joe P Woodhouse) writes:
> elle@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
> You might be surprised how many we could rustle
>up for a Chicago party!

If you have it during the next week, I'll be very peeved indeed. One of my 
brothers is in Droidsville (St Charles, Illinois) for some company training &
I don't want him having more fun than me (he might die of the shock, poor lad).

He'll likely be infesting a bar or two in Chicago, & he took Kateri's address.
I'd better warn her!

Tanaqui

"I'm so happy, cos today I found my friends; they're in my head     _Lithium_
 I'm not sad, and just maybe, I'm too plain for all I've said"       Nirvana
From: aag@aber.ac.uk (Angela Gilham)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: Iseult, Tanaquai and crutches (was: That bloody War )
Date: 13 Aug 92 03:26:31 GMT
	<iw.713632206@tosser> <1992Aug12.223456.23190@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
Organization: Computer Science, University of Wales, Aberystwyth

In article <1992Aug12.223456.23190@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> 
tweaver@nyx.cs.du.edu (T.C.Weaver) writes:

   I didn't exactly plead innocence... I accused you of attacking the 
   aura of such that I maintain so carefully & exactly in public |-)

   Tanaqui

Er, what aura of innocence might this be? I certainly don't remember 
seeing you in possession of an aura of innocence in a public area, 
and I was watching very carefully ;-)

Ang (Anybody want to write Chapter 5 of my thesis?)
--
Angela Gilham.                 \ aag@aber.ac.uk \ "You should have fallen in
Department of Computer Science  \                \ love with a happy man, if 
University of Wales, Aberystwyth,\ +44 970 622433 \ you wanted happiness. But
Penglais, Aberystwyth,            \                \ you fell for the breath-
SY23 3BZ. United Kingdom.          \                \ taking beauty of pain."
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: Appreciate Me Now and Avoid the Rush! 
From: pclary@radish.csc.calpoly.edu (Ellen Clary)
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 21:30:48 GMT
Organization: Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA - aka Barnum & Bailey

orc@usite-next.uchicago.edu (David Parsons) wrote...
>[Orc offers to be a UK delivery Person]
>   And as a side benefit, you'd also get a visit from a wandering Orc,
>who would *shamelessly* try to recruit you into being a trainspotter and,
>failing that, would happily go and watch trains, 

Far be it for me to gossip shamelessly, but....
Orc didn't do any trainspotting on his visit to the bay area.
(He actually had to stoop to the level of counting BARTs as trains.)
(For those not in this area, seeing a BART train is about as remarkable 
as seeing a city bus/coach)

>(Though, come
>to think of it, I don't really have to be *in* the UK to become dialectally
>(is that a word? If it is, I'll bet I misspelled it) confused, as certain
>uk.bi'ers have already noticed...)]

You too huh?
Then there's always:
The 'someone-please-remind-me-of-what-country-I'm-in-so-I-know-what-to-
call-that-item-across-the-room-without-folks-laughing-at-me' syndrome.

Ellen
From: dente@els.ee.man.ac.uk (Colin Dente)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: Tech Post, no content whatsoever (was Re: Alt.sex.wizards)
Date: 17 Aug 92 12:00:25 GMT
Reply-To: dente@els.ee.man.ac.uk (Colin Dente)
Organization: Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Manchester

In article <1992Aug16.040050.3664@latcs1.lat.oz.au>, woodhous@latcs2.lat.oz.au (Joe P Woodhouse) writes:
|> dente@els.ee.man.ac.uk (Colin Dente) writes:
|> >Colin
|> >(Who cut his teeth on a 6502, and was only introduced to the likes of VMS, unix
|> >and DOS when he started working in a university).
|> 
|>    Oh, I'm sobbing in relief. I thought I Was The Only One Like This... 8->
|> 
|>    (I *still* have maybe 50 double-sided disks full of Apple II games...)

Aaahhh those were the days...  Actually, the only AppleII game I can remember
was the maze game where you were chased by ants, and it actually said "We
gotcha" when they caught you - not bad considering the fact that all you
could do was click the speaker.

And Apple disk drives were the business - the worlds least elegant way of finding
track 0 on power up, but they'd read *anything*.  I once saw someone take a
disk, which was folded into four, out of his back pocket, unfold it, put it
in the drive, and boot from it!

Colin

ObBiRef:  Errr... (thinks...):  My best friend Steven had an Acorn Atom, and
I fancied the pants off him.

-- 
  Colin Dente                     | JANET: dente@uk.ac.manchester
  Manchester Computing Centre     | ARPA:  dente@manchester.ac.uk
  University of Manchester, UK    | UUCP:  ...!mcsun!ukc!manchester!dente
   ... Blatantly Bisexual ...     | B3/4 f+ c g+(+) k(+) r s
From: rsr@soda.Berkeley.EDU (Roy S. Rapoport)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Fashionably Bi? :)
Date: 17 Aug 92 12:11:00 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu

cjmchale@dsg.cs.tcd.ie (Ciaran McHale) writes:
>	o Don't assume I am really straight and only claiming to be
>	  bisexual to be fashionable.

*blink*

Umm, I must be more clueless than I thought.

Is it actually fashionable in some areas in the world to be bi?

Gee, *where*?

-roy, who's starting to pack :).

Seriously ... I mean, my current environment is certainly very positive
about these kind of things... but *fashionable*?

*grin*

-- 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Roy S. Rapoport					rsr@ocf.berkeley.edu
Disclaimer:  "It wasn't me!! Must have been a fake posting or something!! I
              would NEVER say something like that!!" 
Newsgroups: soc.bi
From: pwiebe@ecst.csuchico.edu (s mandell)
Subject: Olaf's bikes (was: Re: The War Between Us (long))
Organization: California State University, Chico
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 08:13:47 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.152443.23888@sci.kun.nl> rhialto@cs.kun.nl (Olaf Seibert) writes:
>In article <1992Aug11.215709.1173@ecst.csuchico.edu> pwiebe@ecst.csuchico.edu (s mandell) writes:
>>Ah, but after we tried to ride with me on the back of your bike (those
>>of you who've met us both can get up off the floor now), you should be
>
>Well, ehm, yes, there was this small matter of a slight imbalance of
>the bike. Probably has nothing to do with our difference in weight;
>it must have been a low-quality bike... :-)

Right, that's it, blame it on the bike!  Actually, we didn't try it the
other way around with me pedaling, but then I might have missed my
train.  If I'd missed that one, I would have had to play the after
midnight transportation horror game, so it's probably just as well.
S
From: J.W.Harley@newcastle.ac.uk (Jon Harley)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: Hot Bi Studs (waa: Re; Hot Bi Babes)
Date: 7 Aug 92 16:07:57 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU

osmith@acorn.co.uk (Owen Smith) writes:

>(Ciaran McHale) writes:
>>If I helped educate all the people I met about bisexuality then I
>>wouldn't have time to enjoy my life. Let them _attempt_ to read BAON.
[...]
>>If you can't understand that then imagine you are a regular contributor
>>to, say, the comp.lang.c newsgroup and some person who hasn't bothered
>>even trying to read a book on C programming arrives and says "teach
>>me." Would you?
>
>An interesting and disturbing analogy sprang to mind when I read this. It is
>widely recognised that the only way to learn properly about programming in a
>particular language is to do it. So does the same apply to bisexuality? Does
>a straight have to do it to understand it? [...]

Fortunately, I don't think this analogy holds, for two reasons:

1) Consider the difference between a "reading knowledge" and a "working
   knowledge" of a programming language. I know all the main principles of
   functional languages, well enough to be able to work out what a lisp or
   miranda program does (having read books on them), without ever having
   written any code in them. OK, so to be a good lisp programmer I would
   have to "do it"; but for all other purposes it's not neccessary to do
   it, only to read about it.

2) I think the most useful definition of bisexuality isn't that you have
   sex with both genders, simply that you are sexually attracted to both
   genders. So anyone who has walked down the street and noticed a young,
   attractive MOTOS couple and not been able to decide which of them they
   fancied more, could reasonably define themselves as bisexual. I've got
   a quote filed away somewhere which goes something like "sexuality isn't
   about what you do, it's about how you feel".

You can (if you must) draw a distinction between "bisexuals" and "practising
bisexuals". This is equivalent to the "reading knowledge" and "working
knowledge" of a programming language. People don't need to write code to
understand the general principles, nor sleep with both sexes to understand
the general attraction of it.


>Owen/Gwen (hot horny bi babe)


/jon (practising bisexual - and boy, do I need the practice).
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From: osmith@acorn.co.uk (Owen Smith)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: hot bi babes
Date: 18 Aug 92 15:45:17 GMT
Organization: Acorn Computers Ltd, Cambridge, England

In article <10393@scott.ed.ac.uk> bethan@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Bethan Davies)
writes:

>Hmmm... nice thought, but I think it involves wearing both _at the same
>time_ .... and I _was_ thinking of a very particular pair of lycra
>leggings when I posted that <grin>. They're...umm... *impressive*.
>The ex-SO (Ted) gave me a 'you don't _seriously_ expect me to walk
>around with you in _public_ when you're wearing that' look. I did.
>He suffered.

Tell you what, I'll come along as well and walk around with the pair
of you in public wearing a dress (assuming I can pluck up the courage :-).
With people's concentration and prejudices centred on your leggings, it
may well be easier for me to pass since their collective brain cell
will be distracted :-).

Gwendolin (who definitely needs a larger selection of clothes)