HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Subject: Re: Lurkers...
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 10:46:50 GMT

rock@medch.b17a.ingr.com (Chris Hudson) writes:

>If this is who I *think* it is, I answered that first post, too.  However, she
>*did* write back, though that time I don't think I answered back

Yup, it is.  The untruth in my original account was that she tried to
write back, but she needs a bang address to reach me, and so it
bounced.  I never have seen what she wrote in reply to that first email....

-- 
"Arthur bruised his upper arm."
-- 
Kiran Wagle     <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>     (812) 335-0420
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: fredw@mks.com (Fred Walter)
Subject: Re: Where the best posts come from
Keywords: intelligence insight
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 04:02:05 GMT

blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
>drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max) writes:
>>I don't get it. Why all of a sudden are you trying to get my attention?
>Isn't it obvious? They want to help you build your house...

No-No-No, that's not it. They want her to help them build their house :-)

	fred "I'd rather buy than build; too much work building one" walter
-- 
Disclaimer: everything I write is my *personal* opinion and does not represent
or reflect the opinion of the company which employs me.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: wtr@mitre.org (Bill Ralston)
Subject: Re: Mexican food in Boston?  Blecch!!!!
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 22:07:50 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.223614.25162@linus.mitre.org> I said:

>It's called Mole sauce and it is *good*.  There's a southern mexican style 
>restaurant here (Boston) that serves dishes with that and other 
>Aztec-style dishes that is really good (perhaps an excuse in itself for a 
>Boston-Boink).  In addition, the Mole sauce has seemed to have an 
>aphrodisiac effect on the ladies I've taken there. Heh heh heh...

in article <l9pr67INNfr9@news.bbn.com> dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) said:

>While I'm pleased that there's *some* decent Mexican food in Boston (and 
>where is this restaurant?) only an idiot would come to Boston for the
>sole purpose of eating Mexican food, cause this just ain't the right place.
>(I was strongly considering ending the above sentance just before the last
>"for" but Karen is still miffed at me for the "Bostonians have pickles
>up their rear" remark and, in the interest of not being waylaid in the 
>elevator by someone with kosher dill in hand, I regretfully refrain.)

to which I say:

OK, point taken; Boston is not the place for Mexican food.  The place I'm 
referring to is Cafe Mexico in Harvard Square, Cambridge.  Cafe Mexico is 
an exception to the general rule, however, and maybe one of the few places 
in the country one can get mole sauce in a restaurant.  Given the ongoing 
discussion of the aphrodisiac effects of chocolate & mole sauce, surely 
this is some redeeming factor in Boston's favor.

BTW, I always did wonder where the dill flavor came from

Bill
---------------
wtr@mitre.org
** Opinions are mine only, and not my employer's **
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Re: afternoon delight -sort of
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 12:45:27 GMT

In article <14414@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
>In article <1992Sep1.182039.29970@CERIS.Purdue.EDU> dheisler@CERIS.Purdue.EDU (Dave Heisler) writes:
>|
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>
>blrchd. shreechh.
>
>"Dr. Dutton, Dr. Dutton.  Please report to your office immediately.  A
>patient from soc.singles is in desparate need of your services."
>

 Isn't that special. I often wonder about those people that
work for Purdue chicken. Only the freshest kills.. and all that.
 
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From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Re: Las Vegas
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 19:47:57 GMT

In article <X4J4PB1w165w@wildrose.infoserv.com> rkf@wildrose.infoserv.com (Ray Fink) writes:
>cfg@cray.com (Cindy Glass) writes:
>
>> (Unless 'down the road' means at *LEAST* a 2 hour drive away!!)  You 
>> can keep the glitzy neon out of my dreams - thank you very much James!!
>> ...... 
>> On the other hand - if you want to join in - how about a sporting goods
>> retail/rental place.  Put on your jeans and flannel shirt - you might
>> even get to help 'first time rock climber females' get fitted for their 
>> climbing harnesses and 'baby climbing shoes'! :)
>
>Some bad news for you, Cindy (and James).  Neon, lots of neon lycra, is
>de rigeur for sport climbers out here (Idaho/Wyoming) nowadays.  
>Clerks in sporting goods stores are expected to be wearing the latest,
>of course, so the jeans&flannel routine doesn't sell much softwear.
>
>Now, shall we check the fit on those lycra tights?

Yowsir that pinches.
 
Note of interest. Look in sci.research if you wanna read posts
by the guy at Concordia that blew away a bunch of faculty members.
Some posted hours before he went on the rampage.
And you thought r.m. was only about motorcycles.
 
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From: jclark@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (John Clark)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Film suggestions welcomed
Date: 3 Sep 92 23:58:06 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <14438@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
+I don't recall if these were aus film either though I always think Austrailia
+when recalling "The Gods Must Be Crazy" and "The Gods Must Be Crazy II".  They
+are also extremely funny, the social commentary is quite prominant and the
+much can be learned from these documentary style films about tribal culture. 

Uh? Try South Africa. I don't recall that it was even made by a Aus.
movie company, but then I didn't look a the credits that closely and
it has been some time since I've seen either.


(Hint: There aren't any Elephants out on the open range in Africa,
and by the size of the Elephant's ears one can eliminate India.)
-- 

John Clark
jclark@ucsd.edu
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.)
Subject: Re: Open season on straight lines (was Bananas)
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 08:13:07 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <1992Aug28.164736.1288@panix.com> pw@panix.com (Paul Wallich) writes:
>In article <1992Aug28.140247.15277@news.acns.nwu.edu> drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max) writes:
>>Boy have you got me pegged wrong.
>So, Max, how should I have you pegged? A little to the left, perhaps?
>You're gonna have to help if you want the job done right.

Gee, paul, if you don't know by now, ya gotta put the round peg in the not
so square hole.....
r.
From: rkf@wildrose.infoserv.com (Ray Fink)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: attentive dependence
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 92 22:44:20 MDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Wild Rose Refugee Camp

Bathsheba.Grossman@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bathsheba Grossman) writes:

(the >> was me)

>>own; on the hypothesis that women who do "have a life" and can be
>>intensely interested in other things *might* be 
>>(1) less likely to be dependent on my constant attention 
>>(2) more understanding of my own intensity, when it's focused elsewhere
>>(3) a helluva great ride when we're intensely focused on each other 
>
>Good call.  If her life doesn't make sense without you, it's not
>likely to with, vice versa mutatis mutandis.  I think this must be
>very annoying for men, that so many women are other-directed.
>Though on the other hand, with such a woman you'll always come second.

Yes, and they always appreciate that  ;-)

I'm not willing to give up the things that are important to me (like
time with my kids, for example, or some recreational interests) in order 
to make a SO my first priority.  An important and equal priority, but
not first; if I have to choose, I choose me first and time with my
kids.  And I expect the same from anybody else.

That's partly why finding some common interests is important to me:
a way to "time share", if you will.  But also because I find that
being able to share something I intrinsically enjoy (whether it's
carving figure eights in deep powder on a ski slope, or working the
Atlantic Monthly Puzzler, or whatever) with somebody special is a
very romantic occasion for me.

-- Ray

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Re: Where the best posts come from
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 13:21:23 GMT

In article <ewillims.715345812@unix1.tcd.ie> ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:
>In <1992Aug31.145843.12719@walter.bellcore.com> walter (Walter Lego) writes:
>
>
>>*SNORT* Emma gets my vote. The rest of the women just strut.
>
>	I like Walter's posts.  They shine forth with his intelligence!
>						(*GRIN*)

Hey hey hey.
Get a room you two.
 
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From: smith@comm.mot.com (Jeff Smith)
Subject: Re: The Chocolate Urgies
Organization: Gagging Sloth Records
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 19:06:45 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.145041.19239@cbnewsd.cb.att.com>, nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes:
 
|> In this area (the Midwest) we have a store called Waccamaw (formerly
|> called Waccamaw Pottery) that has the coolest imported food section
|> and the best selection of imported chocolates I've come across recently.
|> 

Down here we have a Waccamaw too, but all I've ever seen there are
"household items," etc. Certainly no importat chocalates!  I think I
like yours better!

jds

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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max)
Subject: Re: Where the best posts come from
Keywords: intelligence insight
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:33:28 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.161236.16494@panix.com> pw@panix.com (Paul Wallich) writes:
>In article <1992Aug31.080547.3513@nwnexus.WA.COM> enigma@halcyon.com (Matt Luders) writes:
>>Keith Garrard writes:
>>
>>> A little note though, the most interesting posts come from "Angelwing".
>>
>>In my humble opinion, the most interesting posts come from stef@apple.com.
>>She's thoughtful, articulate, and witty--a clear, strong signal in a
>>cacophony of noise.
>
>Well, _I_ think the most interesting posts come from Max. I haven't
>heard anything about chicken heads in ages and ages.
>
>paul       peg peg peg

I don't get it. Why all of a sudden are you trying to get my attention?
First you accuse me of jealousy when I make a silly comment about Allison's
bannana trick, then being thin skinned for responding with another joke to
Dawn's joke about an old thread (and you men should all be
grateful since it brought little 'e out of semi-retirement, the net being
so woefully short of self proclaimed flirtatious females and all). And then
some silly suckup/sarcastic comment (its hard to tell the difference and
makes no difference even if one could) refering to chicken heads. What's
your point dear? Just looking for a little attention? Are you trying to
figure me out and why would you bother if so? Have I offended you in some
way? Are you just bored and trying to promote some dialog? *sigh* It is
always confusing to me when someone starts paying more attention to me
than is warrented.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Finding Long Romantic Partners
Keywords: Lime Pie 
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 18:51:43 GMT

In article <ewillims.714822159@unix1.tcd.ie> ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:
>In <1992Aug26.043916.8202@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
>
>>Hmmm...I think we need to conduct careful experiments to determine which
>>technique is the most effective.  How's about you show up at my laboratory
>>wearing nothing at all and I'll be there without my sweater and we'll see
>>what happens?
>	
>	laboratory???  Isn't that another word for your dungeon??
>Don't you chain people up in your dungeon? (*GRIN*)

Oh, sometimes--but there are lots of other techniques that I can use to
persuade them not to leave....

>>Trygve   (I'll provide plenty of chocolate sauce.) 
>	
>	Hmmmm.....maybe I'll come after all!:>
>
Guaranteed.  (Or your monkey back.) 

Trygve 

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford)
Subject: Re: Mexican food in Boston?  Blecch!!!!
Organization: Just Things `n' Stuff, Et Cetera, Ltd.
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 01:42:36 GMT

John Fereira:
) Let's see if I got this straight.  If I go to the Boston boink I look for
) pickles.  In Phoenix (or is it Tuscon) it's bananas.   Where is the
) cucumber boink?

Just show up too earlier for the pickle boink, and there you are.

				Matt
	    (who will be in Beantown too early, by a few days)
			 ((B and B town??))
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart)
Subject: Re: I AM *NOT* AN AI (or a turing test)
Organization: Morgan Stanley & Co., New York, NY
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 23:41:06 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.110328.5850@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
allisson@turing.toronto.edu (H. Allisson Roome) writes:

>  Besides, how could I have pictures of me deep
>throating a banana if I wasn't real.

We don't know you have such pictures.  We only know that you claim to
have such pictures; an AI program could make such a claim.

I know you're real for other reasons.  But the 100K lurkers out there
don't have to believe in me, either.

Seth		sethb@fid.morgan.com
From: wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Seesters, I want the seesters.
Date: 2 Sep 92 22:15:09 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

: Watch as I magically respond to not one. not two, but three posts
: at once:
: B-I-N-G-O.
: Mr Crabbats would be the husband of the lady that always looked
: in the window of Darrin & Samantha Stevens. Get it?
: My hamster's name is (drumroll) - - - - - - Kiran Wagle.
:  
: Thank you. Thank you.

Kids, don't try this at home.  Qualified stunt-posters were used.
-- 
"Bless me, Father; I ate a lizard."
"Was it an abstinence day, and was it artificially prepared?"
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Bill de Beaubien / wjb@moscom.com
From: wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Oh, no! Statistics! Run!! :-)
Date: 28 Aug 92 19:00:59 GMT
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Larry Margolis (margoli@watson.ibm.com) wrote:
: In  <14304@auspex-gw.auspex.com>  johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
: > |] margoli@watson.ibm.com writes:
: > |] >No, women like men with Snap-On tools.  :-)
: >
: > I would have figured the Snap-off quality was pretty desirable as well.
: 
: Bingo - some women like to make sure the tool's safely stored at home
: when their man's not.  :-)

Of course that assumes they didn't come with interchangeable bits.
-- 
"Bless me, Father; I ate a lizard."
"Was it an abstinence day, and was it artificially prepared?"
-------------------------------------------------------------
Bill de Beaubien / wjb@moscom.com
From: wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Where the best posts come from
Date: 2 Sep 92 22:21:19 GMT
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Greg Skinner (gds@LA.TIS.COM) wrote:
: In article <t1hn5dn.catcher@netcom.com> Paul Francisco writes:
: >Hmmm... Well, I've always thought that Greg Skinner has written some
: >great articles, and he does like to sing (there's the lyrics for you).
: 
: Wow, somebody mentioned my name in a post.  Although that doesn't
: quite make me a net.deity, maybe I get to sit at the foot of Mt.
: Olympus ...

Well, that probably depends on who mentioned your name, and how many obscenities
were in the sentence :-)
 
: >So does this get me a high score?  Or does the fact that the plumbing 
: >is wrong eliminate it from contention?
: 
: It entitles you to a rendition of "Take Me Home, Country Roads", if
: you and I are ever in the same city again.

Was that a threat or a promise? :-)
-- 
"Bless me, Father; I ate a lizard."
"Was it an abstinence day, and was it artificially prepared?"
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Bill de Beaubien / wjb@moscom.com 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: Ross Ridge <ross@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: Where the best posts come from
Organization: ZOOiD BBS
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 23:43:12 GMT

In article <-xhn_lp.barry@netcom.com> barry@netcom.com (Kenn Barry) writes:
>Sheba's the best poster in the newsgroup (though she doesn't post
>enough).

dhardin@spcink.bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes:
>Isn't anybody going to mention any men?  How about the sensitive james
>dutton?  Or Steve Swann?  Or James Nicole?  Or.... whoops, I guess it's 
>a waste of time to suck up to the men, huh?

Most men already know they're the best posters.

							Ross ridge


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From: enigma@halcyon.com (Matt Luders)
Subject: Mea Culpa
Keywords: cynical net.veterans
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 21:53:41 GMT

Regrettably, I wrote:

>In my humble opinion, the most interesting posts come from stef@apple.com.
>She's thoughtful, articulate, and witty--a clear, strong signal in a
>cacophony of noise.

aahz@netcom.com (Aahzmandius) responded:
>9.1 on the Suckup Scale.

Kiran Wagel chimed in:
>No, Aahz, this is an easy ten.  You better recalibrate your SuckUpMeter.


*sigh*

No good deed goes unpunished.  Apparently, I haven't been reading this
newsgroup long enough to know that you must never, *ever* compliment a
member of the opposite sex.  My humblest apologies.  It won't happen again.

Just call me the global village idiot.


"Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell!"
 -- Hamlet, Act III, Scene 4.

Matt
:-(
From: neilp@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Postlethwaite)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Lurkers...
Date: 26 Aug 92 19:25:00 GMT
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland

In article <1992Aug25.154359.17510@news.acns.nwu.edu> drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max) writes:
>>Dear Dawn,
>>    I saw your posting on  fear of e-mail ,
>>and I just had to complement you on such a concise and well-thought out 
>>article.  I also feel as you do in this matter.  In fact, since we seem
>>to have so much in common, perhaps we could get together for lunch some
>>time?  If you send me your home phone number by return email, I will
>>call and arrange it.
>>
>>    I'm looking forward to hearing from you.
>>
>>						Sincerely,
>>						Ron Wessels
>
>Either this guy has a female friend who shares her email, posts under a
>female name sometimes, or is the source of all those "please write back to
>me, I'm a nice guy" email messages that I get cause he's got the tone down
>perfectly. 

Or about half way through the piss taking starts ..........

Though one things that put off some lurkers I guess, many of the regulars
or soc.singles 'old timers' (for want of a better word) seem to have their
cliques and are always having their little digs back and forth and I guess
people feel a little left out.

Neil
From: wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: How'd You Get Here?? (Was:Lurkers)
Date: 31 Aug 92 18:55:22 GMT
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Kiran Wagle (kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu) wrote:
: rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu (Michael Rawdon) writes:
: >I read about 70 newsgroups, though only a few in any depth.  I'm also an
: >advocate of the "better newsreaders solves newsgroup volume problems,
: >splitting the group does not" philosophy.
: 
: I'm of the more inclusive "better newsreaders and more focused
: newsgroups solve the news volume problem" philosophy.  For instance, I
: don't read rec.music.classical because I want to discuss more, shall
: we say, obscure repertoire.  I would support splitting that group
: into r.m.c.standard-repertory and r.m.c.interesting.  
: 

I'll definitely second the vote for better newsreaders.  About the only 
groups I try to read every single article in are comp.lang.perl and 
soc.singles.  Everything else I tend to read from the thread level, and
hit anything that looks interesting.  Of course, reading soc.singles
tends to be a full-time thing anyway :-)
-- 
"Bless me, Father; I ate a lizard."
"Was it an abstinence day, and was it artificially prepared?"
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Bill de Beaubien / wjb@moscom.com
From: dbj@cs.washington.edu (Dave Johnson)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Desperation Explained
Date: 3 Sep 92 16:43:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: beaver.1992Sep3.164353.5337
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle

In article <1992Sep3.060123.17116@samba.oit.unc.edu> Bathsheba.Grossman@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bathsheba Grossman) writes:
>
>-Sheba
>"They do respect her, but...they love to watch her strut."	--???

Bob Seger.   
-- 
  Dave Johnson

"You're not too smart, are you?  I like that in a man."
    --Kathleen Turner in Body Heat 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.)
Subject: Re: Tallllll women....
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 92 07:42:40 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <1992Sep2.213938.12050@gvl.unisys.com> liz@prc.unisys.com (Liz Loquacious) writes:
>In article <tvkn3!c@lynx.unm.edu>, blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
>|> They was complaining they can't find good tall men. 
>|> Me? I was screaming here on the other side of the screen 'YO! Over here!'
>What if I got on my tippie toes and hollered over the net "Over here"!
You would have a large amount of guys poking their (little?) heads up
going 'WHERE???' :)

>Liz Loquacious - (5' 10 1/2", a good six foot or more on my toes!)
Sigh! Are you coming, by chance, to the BalloonBoink? :)

r. (BalloonBoink! See upcoming post for details!)
(on a related note, I remember one tall woman I dated who was overjoyed by
the fact that she could wear heels and still feel good about it (ie- not feel
like she was overwhelming her date, height-wise :) ).

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