HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: rkf@wildrose.infoserv.com (Ray Fink)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: What we find attractive
Keywords: nice lungs, there
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 92 23:23:03 MDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Wild Rose Refugee Camp

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

> Here are some results from various psychological studies expressed as
> correlation coefficients:
> 
> +0.2 level: physical traits, i.e., people tend to select mates who look
>             like themselves!
> 
> The physical traits included height, weight, hair color, eye color, and
> skin color.  However, they also included nose breadth, earlobe length,
> wrist circumference, distance between eyes, and lung volume.  One of the

Lung volume?!  The mind boggles....could this be a surrogate for
physical fitness?   Capacity for heavy breathing?  ;-)  

A pickup line I've never heard:  "Wanna compare lung volumes?"

-- Ray

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci)
Subject: Re: Good movies ...
Organization: AT&T
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 13:31:02 GMT

In article <1992Oct2.174532.235874@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH) writes:
>>Someone asked for suggestions for movies to see on a date.  Here's
>>my three cents:
>>-Sneakers (good especially for the computer-interested)
>>-A League of Their Own
>>-Single White Female

Add to it, after last Friday:  Husbands and Wives.  It stars Woody and Mia
and we got some REALLY good chuckles out of it.
>
>The ultimate date movie now in theaters.."The Last of the Mohicans."

Has anyone taken in riverboat gambling?  The one in Joliet is pretty
expensive and you're herded like cattle, but we're trying Davenport
this weekend.  Just thought I'd ask.

-Nance
-- 
Nance Colucci  *^*^*^*^*^*    o__    *^*^*^*^*  |  Work that body!
att!ihlpk!colucci            _.>/               | Stay fit for life.
                            (_) \(_)                           
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From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Re: relationship gone to pot?
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 12:39:56 GMT

In article <1992Oct1.212146.16302@cheshire.oxy.edu> ac@cheshire.oxy.edu (Aileen Cho) writes:
>
>   Thanks for the input. Actually, in response to that last post including
>presumed dialogue between me and him, well, damned if we even talked _that_
>much. And excuse me, but I had no intention of ever wanting him to quit.
>Sometimes I smoked it too. But yes, we didn't communicate very well, and 
>the harder it was to say anything to each other, the more he would take off
>and smoke with other people and talk less and less to me. I don't care that
>he smoked it every day, but there obviously had to be a choice for him. NOt
>both. I suppose it can affect your libido?
>  I'm being a bit sensitive here, but it's because one of the things I try
>hardest to do in interaction with others is _not_ to try and change their
>lives for them. Maybe be a part of that life, but not force it to change.
>   Thanks to all the sympathizers, advisers, etc.
>                                                --ac
>
 
 Your very welcome.
 - MR. SENSITIVE

 
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
Subject: Re: More on guys who aren't dating Ed Wright
Organization: Bill 'n' Opus for Prez
Distribution: soc
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 15:25:16 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.111306.28803@spider.co.uk> ivan@spider.co.uk (Ivan Reid) writes:
>
>By the way, someone could start up "alt.ed-wright", which could grow
>through the years into mythological status, with people eventually
>forgetting who or what the original reason for the group was - a bit
>like having a street named after you. Go for it Ed!

Unfortunately, no.  Remember a movie called _Terminator_?  Well, I'd be
willing to bet that Ed Wrong would still be posting to a.e-w year after
year after year after year......


<BOOM> <BOOM> <BOOM>  Run!  It's Ed Wrong in a bunny suit!
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

Who needs Lime Jello [tm]?  We had lasagna.....
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.)
Subject: Re: men in their thirties who never dated
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 92 10:07:42 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <ewright.717559558@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
>In <MARTINC.92Sep26115753@grover.cs.unc.edu> martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
>>Ed, you know what?  There are something like 5 million people in the Bay
>>Area.  Big-time attendance at a Giants game is something like 40,000.
>Have you ever heard of television, Charlie?  Do you know it's not
>actually necessary to *go* to a baseball game in order to watch it?
>Did you know that the World Series and the Super Bowl are the highest
>rated programs on network television.  What?  They aren't?  I'm just
>making that up because I'm a jerk?  Yeah, yeah, that's the ticket.

Have you ever heard of Real Life, Edward?
Have you ever been to a ball game? Experienced the sights, sounds, smells,
flavours, activities? Bit into a dog you could swear has been boiling since
the Kennedy administration, smothered in mustard and kraut, a tepid drink
nearby, as the pitcher takes his time, delivers a well timed pitch that the
batter swings and takes the ball over the fence? The roar of the crowd as the
ball flies out of the park? The excitement in the air?
Television is a poor mirror for reflecting real life.
r.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: schock@flip.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Craig-Richard Schock)
Subject: Re: The Engaged Psychobitch from Hell Syndrome
Reply-To: schock@flip.cpsc.ucalgary.ca
Organization: University of Calgary Computer Science
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 21:30:37 GMT

In article <ewillims.717611115@unix1.tcd.ie> ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma  
Williams) writes:
>	Alright, maybe that works for you and if so, well who am I
>to gainsay it for you, but all I feel is that if I am "serious"
>about a lover then I could not in all conscience have affairs
>outside of that relationship because I would feel that I wasn't
>devoting all my love, attention and time to the person I made
>the commitment to in the first place.  I would feel that it wouldn't be 
>at all fair to them; if they are deserving of my deep love then they
>deserve the best I can give them.  I couldn't give them the best of
>myself if I was having to divide myself between others too.

Yup...  we are different people with different opinions on this, which is  
perfectly fine.  I can certainly understand and respect your point of view.   
It is as valid as the many other points of view I've heard on this topic.  
(This is essentially what I wanted to say with my first post on this topic.  I  
hope I didn't make it sound like I felt your point of view was "wrong".  Sorry  
if I did.)

Craig
From: diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Nice Guys (noooooooo!)
Date: 6 Oct 92 14:59:31 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

In article <1992Oct5.225338.8571@cbnewsm.cb.att.com> Marc@cbnewsm.cb.att.com writes:

>We can see what 'CLASSIC' disorder you suffer.

By saying this guy was 'suffering'from a 'disorder', I was half making a joke,
half using the words as shorthand for 'this guy's actions fit a stereotype
discussed extensively on this group'.

For the record, I probably suffer from LOTS of classic disorders; no one's
beating down my door right at the moment, nor has anyone been doing so
any time recently.  However, I refuse to concede that I'm a cruel person
because I refuse to date someone for his PERSONALITY, for Pete's sake.
I wouldn't expect someone who didn't like my personality to date me.

					--Diamond


P.S.  I suspect you could find at least as much clinical evidence for
NiceGuy-ism as you can for lots of things that are actually in DSMIII-R,
but I haven't done any research so I can't say for sure.

diamond@acpub.duke.edu |   The soul may choose its own society and shut
Elizabeth S. Abrams    |   the door, but the body gets thrown into bed
		       |   with the damnedest people.  --Peter Beagle
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (Andreas  Tovornik)
Subject: Re: Nice guys getting flamed (was Re:Relations
Reply-To: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 06:43:31 GMT

In article 7962@ac.dal.ca, brentaa@ac.dal.ca (brent, eh?) writes:
>>>> In article <1992Oct2.160621.7921@ac.dal.ca> brentaa@ac.dal.ca (brent, eh?) writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>P.S.    If you do dump him, I'm available, and I love to talk...... ;-)
>>>>  
>>>> Get back to the Nice Guys [tm] thread where you belong.
>>>>  
>>>> Greg
>>>
>>>sorry Greg, Nice Guys[tm] are everywhere nowadays, there's nowhere you can
>>>escape us.........HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!
>>>				-brontosaur the Nice Guy?    who knows....
>>>
>>  
>>  Nice Guys[tm] always tickle themselves pink. It is good they enjoy
>> their own company.
>> 
>Of course we enjoy our own company, think we'd want to hang around with
>any other losers...:-)  (of course, being a Nice Guy[tm], I mean that in
>a totaly non-judgemental or prejudicial sort of way)
>
>besides, the girls love Nice Guys[tm],I wouldn't want to be anything else
>(I've tried, I know)
>
  Hey, Bronto Breath! Guess you don't understand what a NICE GUY [TM]
is. He is the despicable whining creature that begs girls to go out 
with him, and can't accept the fact that the girls don't want to go
out with despicable whining creatures.

  I used to be one years ago, but gave up. Since then I'm more successful.

Andy.

IGNORANCE disclaimer applies.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Subject: Re: Ipisissimus
Organization: Indiana University
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 08:53:24 GMT

jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james j dutton) writes about ipisissimus:

>Well that particular one was sent to me as a little present. From an old
>friend. OK. From someone a little more then a friend. OK. From an intimate
>acquintance. OK. From a hot toe tapping goddess of love. OK. From the
>sexual as well as intellectual be all of end all's. OK. From the very being
>of my pores, the essence of all thats pure and good

>Actually Dawn sent it to me. I've never met her.

Yup, that's Dawn all right.  
-- 

Kiran Wagle                           <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
From: stan@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Stan Horwitz)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Does anyone understand?
Date: 1 Oct 92 22:03:22 GMT
Organization: Temple University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Andreas  Tovornik (atovorni@engr.UVic.CA) wrote:
: In article 1@woods.ulowell.edu, cotera@woods.ulowell.edu () writes:
: >Why is it that women tell me that any woman would be proud to go out with me,
: >then they proceed to turn down my advances? I know they are not lying  (that
: >is, they actually believe what they are saying).
: >--Ray Cote 
: 
:    Yes, the same thing happened to me. I stopped being aggressive about
: the whole advance thing, and things work better now. Play hard to get,and
: likely women will try harder to get you.
:    It appears that people want something only when they know they can't 
: have it.
: 

I think there's a more fundamental problem involved here. Most women are 
nuts. That's all. It seems that every female I meet thinks I'me a great guy,
but won't go out with me because she's hooked on some do nothing, go nowhere
loser. Not that I'me better than anyone else, but I am a hell of a lot better
than many guys I know at treating a lady, the trouble is that there aren't
too many lady's out there who are sane enough to see a good opportunity
and take it when the opportunity presents himself.

This statement comes from my personal experience and that of many friends,
both male and female. Maybe I'me being foolish, but perhaps one day, one
of the few sane females and I will happen to meet and hit it off in a
very special way, but it hasn't happened thus far.

Stan
From: craig@kralizec.zeta.org.au (Craig Dewick)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: E.W. - Our system crashed and I've missed all the follow-ups : (
Date: 30 Sep 92 05:41:23 GMT
Organization: Kralizec Dialup Unix Sydney: +61-2-837-1183 V.32

ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:

>I'm very distraught as our system crashed this weekend and all the
>articles about Irish Spring and Moose, Wolf and Sex, etc.... are
>gone, lost in the black void, never to return.....I have no idea
>either what they said :-(

>Let me know if I missed anything really unmissable!

Hmmm. You missed heaps, but most of it was drivel (like most netnews!). Good to
hear that you're still there, as your input to this newsgroup adds that little
piece of magic to what can be such a difficult subject to discuss.
-- 
 Craig Dewick               |      - Railway Preservation Industries P/L -
 Send email to:             |      actively supporting the preservation of
 craig@kralizec.zeta.org.au |           Australia's railway heritage.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.)
Subject: Re: Humans as Physical Creatures.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 06:11:56 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <ewright.717782850@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
>Read the quote from Wilson's book once again.  The selection
>characteristics used by the hominids that man descended from
>were hunting skills, political leadership, and toolmaking. If
>apes have different criteria, it is not directly relevent.  Since
>humans are not descended from apes, we could not have inherited
>it from them.

Excuse me? What did humans evolve from, Newts?
Your blatent ignorance in simple biology negates any claim you might have
made concerning the biological functions/activities of animals, humans
included.
You tell me your source for such statements, and I might take you seriously
once again. If your source is the judeo-christian bible, I'll point out now
that there are literally hundreds of quotes of bibilcal characters praising
beauty (human) in one form or another- and I would love to hear you counter
those....

r.
Xref: sparky soc.singles:27105 alt.romance:12307 alt.romance.chat:19154 talk.bizarre:33013
From: brentaa@ac.dal.ca (brent, eh?)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.romance,alt.romance.chat,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: How long has it been?
Date: 6 Oct 92 17:27:23 -0300
Followup-To: soc.singles,alt.romance,alt.romance.chat,talk.bizarre
Distribution: na
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <1992Oct6.134605.16183@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, mneeley@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark Neeley) writes:
> How long has it been since you were kissed by a member of
> the opposite sex?
> 
> 	Mark (almost a year)
> 
I feel sorry for you mark, that is definitly far too long
of course, it's been almost three days for me, and I consider that
to be far too long as well......;-)
					-Brontosaur the ladies dinosaur
From: taina@cs.Helsinki.FI (Juha Taina)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Book Rec.: _Bodies: Overcoming the Tyranny of Perfection_
Date: 2 Oct 92 22:59:45 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki, Finland

Emma writes about Trygve:
>Nonono! You are definitely perfect!  Join the club!:)

Perfect people are boring.

Juha
-- 
Juha Taina | taina@cs.helsinki.fi | Phone: +358-0-708-4247
From: thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow)
Subject: Re: What car is best?
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 17:38:47 GMT
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
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              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In <1992Sep28.142848.10998@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes:

>Not many.  Hondas aren't classics yet, you see, because even the
>earliest ones are still being driven.  When I was in the market for a
>car last year I couldn't help noticing that the oldest cars you see
>next to you in traffic are the Hondas.

I have to disagree with you, Nance: the oldest Hondas died pretty
early.  Before 1980, Hondas were bloody awful for a Japanese car.
Their quality control was suspect, so you never knew if you'd get
one whose main crankshaft bearing would seize while you were driving
down the 401, flipping the car around backwards in a heartbeat.

In 1980, their new models were an order of magnitude better than the
old ones they replaced, and they got better every year.  But I'd not
touch a Honda older than that.  Before 1980, Toyotas were was great
and Nissans/Datsuns were pretty good, but Hondas sucked.

Rob T
--
Rob Thurlow, thurlow@convex.com
Across the evening sky, all the birds are leaving
But how can they know it's time for them to go?		- Sandy Denny
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Open letter to Edward V. Wright
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 92 22:30:09 GMT

In article <MARTINC.92Sep30230411@grover.cs.unc.edu> martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
>In article <1acqocINNm9c@uwm.edu> markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:
>
>   In article <1992Sep30.170701.1568@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
>   >I'm not going to...
>   >...and unchanging view of the world.
>
>   Yes!  I don't believe it!  You actually did it.
>
>   We've just witnessed the very first 100 word sentence in the history of
>   computer networking.
>
>   This is truly incredible.  Folks, I though I'd never see the day the 100
>   barrier would be broken.  What stamina this must require!
>
>He cheated: that's two sentences spliced with a semicolon.

Awww, gee, does that mean I have to do it again?  (Hmmmm...maybe I can 
find where I put that nice 540 word sentence in German with the 38 verbs
lined up at the end....) 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: richwing@leland.Stanford.EDU (Rich Wingerter)
Subject: Nance in Pain
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 92 06:42:32 GMT

Warm fuzzies follow:

                                                                   
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Hugs and kisses follow:

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O XHOOXPOEX OYXOOUX OFXEOEXLO XBOEXTOTXEORX O!X O
O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O
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O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O


Does that help?


--Rich Wingerter
(My e-mail to you bounces.)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow)
Subject: Re: Boston Boink - Highlights
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 14:57:18 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
Keywords: Hairless Wonder, Police, Bananas, Salutes
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In <Bv25vp.Cr6@acsu.buffalo.edu> swann@acsu.buffalo.edu (Stephen Swann) writes:

>"His incriminating pictures"?  Hey, you're not the one who has the
>snaps of Allisson the banana fiend, are you?

The very same, sir.  I even tried to get a timed sequence of her most
famous trick so that the true magnitude of her talents will be clear :-)

Rob T
--
Rob Thurlow, Networking Technical Leader
Convex Computer Corporation, Richardson, TX
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From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: men in their thirties who never dated
Date: 30 Sep 92 01:14:57 GMT
	<MARTINC.92Sep27233135@grover.cs.unc.edu>
	<1992Sep29.024031.15354@access.digex.com>
Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
In-reply-to: huston@access.digex.com's message of 29 Sep 92 02:40:31 GMT

In article <1992Sep29.024031.15354@access.digex.com> huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:

   In article <MARTINC.92Sep27233135@grover.cs.unc.edu> martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
   >On the other hand, humans do seem to be *extremely* dependent on vision,
   >more so perhaps than any other mammal.  Not as good as birds, but
   >certainly we depend on vision more than most or all other primates.

   More so than the pro-simians, e.g., lemurs, aye-ayes, pottos, and (my
   favorite) galagos, all of which have wet noses.  About as much as
   tarsiers, monkeys, and apes, all of which, like us, have dry noses
   (colds don't count).

I'm not sure how to measure "dependent on vision".... Or what "most
other primates" really means.

   >Shit, I'm also known for my short thick fingers.

   Look for women with short fingers.  You may already have been doing so
   without realizing it, though.

All that work to set a joke, and see what happens?
--
Charles R. Martin/(Charlie)/martinc@cs.unc.edu/(ne crm@cs.duke.edu) 
O/Dept. of Computer Science/CB #3175 UNC-CH/Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175
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"I am he who walks the States with a barb'd tongue, questioning every
one I meet,/Who are you that wanted only to be told what you knew
before?/ Who are you that wanted only a book to join you in your
nonsense?"  _Leaves of Grass_ xxiii.4.
From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: BARBIE DOES IT AGAIN!!!!
Date: 1 Oct 92 00:33:15 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <1992Sep30.180924.17599@cbfsb.cb.att.com>, joni@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (joni.dunlap) writes:

|>      a product called "Teen Talk Barbie" which says 4 phrases.  One of the 
|>      phrases is "Math class is hard". 

ARRGGGHHH!!!  Are they going to release a "Grad school Ken" which says
"Where are all the babes?"

I could suggest 4 other phrases which would be much better:

1.  "I like Engineers."
2.  "OoooOOoo your Integrals are sooooo goood.."
3.  "Can you really program computers?"
4.  "Let me help you dbx your coredump."