HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: gds@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Greg Skinner)
Subject: Re: men in their thirties who never dated
Originator: gds@oahu.cs.ucla.edu
Reply-To: gds@cs.ucla.edu (Greg Skinner)
Organization: in your face!
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 92 17:03:51 GMT

In article <ewright.717559558@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
>Okay, you want statistics?  Consider this...

>* There are roughly a million people living in Dallas.
>* Roughly half of those (500,000) are women.
>* Maybe a fifth of those are between the ages of 25 and 35 -- 100,000.
>* About a third of those are single -- 34,000
>* Probably half of those are without a boyfriend at the present time
   -- 17,000. 
>* Over half of them have gone to college -- 9,000.
>* But fewer than half of all people who start college graduate -- 4,000.
>* Maybe one in five college graduates goes on to get a graduate degree -- 800.
>* Perhaps one out of every ten graduate degrees awarded to women is
>  in science or engineering -- 80.

>Now, realistically, I don't assume more than 10% of the women I am
>interested in will be interested in me.  You would no doubt claim
>some phantasmagorically higher figure, like 99 or 100%.  But we are
>still talking about somewhere between 8 and 80 women who are somewhere
>out there amongst a mass of one million people.

From what you've posted here, it would seem that your requirements have
just about priced you out of the market of available people (assuming
that your argument is correct).  My advice to you would be to consider
whether all of these requirements are actually necessary for you to
have a working relationship.  For example, you might meet women who
are intelligent, but didn't go to college, say, because they had to
work to support their families.  Such a woman might return to college
if she had a supportive partner.

--gregbo
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (Andreas  Tovornik)
Subject: Re: men in their thirties who never dated
Reply-To: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 04:06:40 GMT

In article 19862@access.digex.com, huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:
>In article <1992Oct1.020850.11906@sol.UVic.CA> atovorni@engr.UVic.CA writes:
>>         (all kinds of nonsense deleted)       
>>
>>  Ed. I read your article about doctors & moderate exercise.
>>Good one. You forgot one datail: Drinking two 12-ounce beers a day
>>has been statistically proven healthier than abstaining from 
>>alcohol completely.
>>
>>  Only goes to show that moderation is healthier than going gung-ho
>>and healthier than not partaking at all.
>>
>>   HMMMMM wonder if they'll prove that for my smoking habit.
>
>Well, stress kills, so to the extent that your body is resistant to the
>known dangers of smoking, it might be a life-lengthener.  Right now (as
>far as I know; I haven't read today's newspaper yet), there's no way to
>predict who's resistant and who's not.
 
Guess I'll wait and see.

>However, I've read that smoking can be detrimental to male sexual performance,
>so it could interfere with another good stress-reliever.

Well, I must confess two things about that. When I was a young teenager, I
had two problems: Premature ejaculation and my nose would run in a smoke-
filled room along with my eyes watering.

One winter day in 1978 I was a strapping lad of fourteen at a ski chalet.
Everybody smoked there and I had watering eyes and a nose that ran like
a waterfall. I went outside and wandered around to clear my eyes and this
girl followed me. She offered me a smoke and I refused. She said that she
had had the same problem before she started smoking. Being young and
impressionable (and she was cute and I was fourteen...), I joined them 
'cos I couldn't beat them. 

Almost fifteen years later, The doctor says I have good lungs despite a
pack a day(and I have tried to quit with lifesign twice, no good) and you
know what? premature ejaculation has not been a problem the whole time!

Andy.

PLEASE EXCUSE MY OBVIOUS IGNORANCE.



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From: dbj@cs.washington.edu (Dave Johnson)
Subject: Ipisissimus
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 15:03:58 GMT

In article <1992Oct2.123956.11914@cbfsb.cb.att.com> jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) writes:
> Ipisissimus of the Inner Order of Sesquipedalian Fruitcakes - IIOSF XOX Dawn
  ^^^^^^^^^^^

  Where does he get those wonderful words?

  Just a minor quibble here, Rev. Jimmy--shouldn't this title
  belong to your beloved Eddie?
-- 
  Dave Johnson

"You're not too smart, are you?  I like that in a man."
    --Kathleen Turner in Body Heat 
Xref: sparky soc.singles:26877 misc.kids:24864
From: crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,misc.kids
Subject: Re: BARBIE DOES IT AGAIN!!!!
Date: 1 Oct 92 20:18:28 GMT
Followup-To: soc.singles
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <1992Oct1.164641.13426@nynexst.com> clare@nynexst.com (Clare Chu) writes:
>>
>>at some of them, but I personally don't have a problem with "math class
>>is hard."  I might, however, suggest something like "That shower felt
>
>  or "Math class is hard, but I'm good at it because I study."

My office came up with a few suggestions:

"I'd like to bake some cookies now!"

"I want to have babies!"

"Ken is a wimp!"

"It is not the concrete, material results of one's life that are
important, for all such things can be destroyed, lost, or dissipated
rapidly; it is rather the quality of our acts, of our struggle, of our
motives, of our love, of our perseverance that is truly significant."

"Party down!"



-- 
Lauren Crawford  //  crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu

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From: CENG51@maccvm.corp.mot.com (Craig Witkowski)
Subject: Re: Cars and such
Organization: Motorola
Date: 29 Sep 1992 09:04:15 CDT

>I found this string over in ba.general and thought it would be more
>appropriate here...

>|>>Happy owner of a new Mitsubishi Expo.
>|>
>|>Happier owner of a new Mazda RX-7.  Wanna drag for pink slips?
>|>
>|
>|Confident owner of a new Sears Riding mower. Yeah, I wanna race for pink slips

>I thought about taking up his challenge but I'd rather race for blue teddies.
>--
>+==========================================================================+
>| John Fereira     | Auspex Systems | "Auspex does not share my opinions.  |
>| johnf@auspex.com | Santa Clara CA |  So Why am I still working here?"    |
>+==========================================================================+
>

In response to the Sears mower driver,  he/she should be fair about it
and give the "rice riders" :-) two leaf bags and the brake head start! :-)


Craig Witkowski, CENG51@maccvm.corp.mot.com
From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,misc.kids
Subject: Re: BARBIE DOES IT AGAIN!!!!
Date: 3 Oct 1992 16:35:50 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

In article <1akbd1INNqt@uwm.edu> markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:
>Or "if they taught sex in high school like they taught math, teenagers wouldn't
>get pregnant anymore."

In article <1992Oct3.150040.23414@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> ren@Turing.ORG (Karen Prestemon) writes:
>Why does she have to be subject specific at all?  Why can't she just talk
>about how rockin' school is, or how she's studying for the SAT's?
>Why does she have to be such a BIMBO??

That utterance is an indictment of math teaching, not it the victims, the
so-called bimboes.

It sells well because it supports, and is virtually the anthem, of the quiet
rebellion conducted by teens against their learning environment.  Mr "We don't
need no ejucashun" Bart Simpson is a cultural icon for precisely those
reasons, and rightly so.
From: rkf@wildrose.infoserv.com (Ray Fink)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: a BalloonBoink preliminary report
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 92 23:01:18 MDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Wild Rose Refugee Camp

Most of you missed a great time at the BalloonBoink in Albuquerque this 
past weekend.  Words fail when describing the Balloon Fiesta (I personally 
wore out the words "incredible" and "amazing"), and cameras were severely
strained to capture the spectacle.  The other boink activities: great
Southwestern cuisine (green chiles in everything except the chocolate
sauce, mmmm, now if I can just figure out a recipe combining grapes and green
chiles :-), the first net.band, Santa Fe.   And the traditional boink
activities as well!  Kudos to Larry and rON. for organizing a superb
event.  Now if I could just get caught up on sleep....

-- Ray
From: hankd@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (Hank Dietz)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Exercise mania ( was: The great fitness debate)
Date: 1 Oct 92 02:21:33 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <MARTINC.92Sep30103840@grover.cs.unc.edu> martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
>In article <1992Sep30.025430.4896@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> hankd@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (Hank Dietz) writes:
>   ... It might be
>   true that exercise helps, but MODERATION is the key.  Overly intense
>   exercise is a great way to do serious harm to yourself -- although the
>   endorphins (spelling?) might make that feel good anyway.  ;-)
>
>Wow, the all-or-nothing crowd are really out in force today.  Everything
>above is true -- and none of it contradicts the idea that exercise is
>important to health.

My mistake.  I didn't know "MODERATION" meant "all-or-nothing."

Thank you for proving my point about EXCESSIVE EXERCISE being an
obsession/addiction for some people....

							-hankd
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From: CENG51@maccvm.corp.mot.com (Craig Witkowski)
Subject: Re: The Engaged Psychobitch from Hell Syndrome
Organization: Motorola
Date: 28 Sep 1992 07:10:57 CDT


>   Okay, okay, I feebly wave my arms from underneath a
>mountain load of other people's comments on my questioning
>of polyamory.....it can work for others evidently....I
>surrender!:)   BUT, I still stick firmly to my opinion that
>it could never and would never work for me...I'm far too
>possessive!^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^

Sounds like fun to me Emma! Possess me, please! :-)



Craig Witkowski,  CENG51 @maccvm.corp.mot.com


"If sex is a pain in the ass,  you're not doing it right!" - Anonymous
(Or you need more lubrication! - CW :-)  )
From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: The Engaged Psychobitch from Hell Syndrome
Date: 3 Oct 1992 15:42:46 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

In article <ewillims.718043711@unix1.tcd.ie> ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:
>	Oh I see!  So, there's no point in making a "serious commitment"
>in any average relationship because the person in question has only a one
>in 5 billion chance of being perfect for you so therefore it's not
>worth bothering?

Actually the probabiliy of someone being a perfect match is more like 1/1000
or so.  Probably even a lot more, like 1/100.

Really, I'd say 1/1000, because then the probability of finding two perfect
matches at once would be like 1/1000000, which makes the event about as common
as observation suggests. :)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jdnicoll@watyew.uwaterloo.ca (James Davis Nicoll)
Subject: Spiffy Engagement Gifts (was The Engagement Ring Question) 
Keywords: Ring
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 16:07:19 GMT

	I'd opt for a small nuclear device. Ephemeral, but nuclear
fireballs are damned pretty, at least when viewed from the outside.

							James Nicoll

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From: wjb@moscom.com (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Best of Friends
Date: 6 Oct 92 12:45:37 GMT
Reply-To: wjb@moscom.com
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford NY
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.3 beta PL7]

Andreas  Tovornik (atovorni@engr.UVic.CA) wrote:
: 
: HERE'S THE READERS' DIGEST VERSION, SPORTS FANS:
: 
: 
: >You waffle on your position.  You say something in one post,
: >then appear to deny it in another, then reaffirm it in another.
: >You refuse to allow yourself to be pinned down on anything.
Consider politics as a career.  Especially this year.
: >
: >You lie.
Consider politics as a career.  Especially this year.
: >
: >You lie about things I have said.
Hmm.  I could keep repeating the above after every point.  Consider it 
written thusly.

-- 
Who needs lime jello?  We had lasagna...
-------------------------------------------------------------
Bill de Beaubien / wjb@moscom.com
From: nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci)
Subject: Re: Humans as Physical Creatures.
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 14:06:25 GMT

In article <91011@netnews.upenn.edu> crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
>In article <1aantgINNfda@golem.wcc.govt.nz> parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>>
>>I agree - I'm NOT athletic and don't intend to become so, therefore I'm not
>>interested in athletic men because I *know* we'd drive each other crazy.
>
>Well, here's another angle.  I'm definitely not athletic, have no interest
>in athletics, never have, probably never will.  But _every_ man I've dated
>has been very athletic, including the man I'm currently seeing.  He swims
>a mile a day, lifts weights, etc.  We've driven each other crazy on
>occasion, but not because of our different approaches to exercise.  Go figure!

My LO wasn't too terribly athletic (in terms of sports) when I met him.
As time passed and we spent more of it together, though, our interests
kinda mooshed together.  He went out and bought skis and a bike, and I
listen to Steve Dahl.  :-)

-Nance
-- 
Nance Colucci  *^*^*^*^*^*    o__    *^*^*^*^*  |  Work that body!
att!ihlpk!colucci            _.>/               | Stay fit for life.
                            (_) \(_)
From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Exercise mania ( was: The great fitness debate)
Date: 1 Oct 92 02:58:28 GMT
	<1992Sep30.025430.4896@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
	<MARTINC.92Sep30103840@grover.cs.unc.edu>
	<ewright.717886539@convex.convex.com>
Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
In-reply-to: ewright@convex.com's message of 30 Sep 92 20:55:39 GMT

In article <ewright.717886539@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:

   Hank Dietz writes:

   >   It might be
   >   true that exercise helps, but MODERATION is the key.  

   And (Charles R. Martin) responds:

   >Wow, the all-or-nothing crowd are really out in force today.  Everything
   >above is true -- and none of it contradicts the idea that exercise is
   >important to health.

   A guy says that *moderation* is the key and Charlie accuses
   him of being part of the "all-or-nothing" crowd.  And since
   it wasn't me whose position he misstated this time, Charlie
   can't even use the "you misstated mine first" line this time.

I say that everything he said is true.  Have I misquoted him by agreeing
with him?  Fascinating.
--
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
H/3611 University Dr #13M/Durham, NC 27707/(919) 419 1754
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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.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
Subject: Re: Embarrasment of the Day
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 92 06:25:54 GMT
Organization: Bill 'n' Opus for Prez
Distribution: na

In article <JMD.92Sep25144654@lion.bear.com> jmd@bear.com (Josh Diamond) writes:
>
>I think she would definitely label you a letch.  She'd be right.
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
No, that's the Dreaded Triple-D's job.  Fortunately, she's gone.
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

Trying to be happy is like trying to build a machine for which the only
specification is that it should run noiselessly.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
Subject: Re: E.W. - Women's cycles...
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 17:08:59 GMT

In article <ewillims.717420893@unix1.tcd.ie> ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:
>In [1992 sep24.195257.11072@wetware.com] drieux@wetware.com (drieux,
>just drieux) writes:
>>ps: why is it that women seem to 'know' when its
>>that time of the month for themselves or another woman,
>>but men, in the main seem to be ClueLess, and taken
>>somewhat by surprise......
>
>	Women, funnily enough, are quite sharp about relaising that it's
>the time of the month for themselves....gosh, I wonder how we manage that
>feat?!:)
>
>If women live or work together, then their cycles tend to adjust so that
>it happens at the same time for them, all due to a nasty little trick 
>of nature so that we will all be fertile at the same time so that one
>man can impregnate lots of us and we can all have babies at the same time
>and help mind each others' and all so the species will be propagated....

Well, not at exactly the same time, but a 2-3 day interval to allow for
male recovery would be optimal.

>bleah!

I agree.  There's been too much of that propagation going on for too
long now.

>Well, men tend to 'know' when it's our time of the month whenever we get
>irritated over something thick that they have done!:)

That seems to happen continually during the month, though.  However, you 
should be wary of a man who keeps offering to take your temperature and 
then records the results on a calendar.

By the way, right now is the time of year that hormone levels in the human 
male reach their seasonal peak (Tennyson was no biochemist and was quite 
wrong about spring and a young man's fancy).  Sperm levels don't reach a 
seasonal peak until June, though.  Since this information might conceivably 
be of some practical use to someone, it is offered as a public service.

-- Herb Huston
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From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
Subject: Re: What we find attractive
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 09:59:03 GMT

In article <1992Sep27.191605.3256@tamsun.tamu.edu> peram@cs.tamu.edu (Suresh B Peram) writes:
>In article <1992Sep27.181250.26579@access.digex.com> huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:
>>Here are some results from various psychological studies expressed as
>>correlation coefficients:
>>
>>+0.9 level: religion, ethnic background, race, socio-economic status,
>>            age, political views.
>
>I am Hindu, my wife a Christian;
>I am Indian, she is white;
>age : (?) she is 8 months older than I am.
>political views : I am a Democrat, she is a Republican
>
>correlation : 0.1

Your sample is too small for any statistical results to be meaningful.

>>+0.4 level: measures of personality and intelligence, e.g., extroversion,
>>            neatness, and IQ.
>>+0.2 level: physical traits, i.e., people tend to select mates who look
>>            like themselves!
>
>We don't look like each other.

Have you measured and compared nose breadths, earlobe lengths, wrist
circumferences, interocular distances, lung volumes, and the all-important
middle-finger lengths?

>Oh, BTW, we find each other very very attractive

That's nice.

-- Herb Huston
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: kevin@clsi.COM (Kevin Cameron)
Subject: Re: a doomed relationship?
Originator: kevin@dubhe
Keywords: argg beautiful women I love
Organization: CAD Language Systems Inc.
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 14:03:49 GMT


In article <1992Sep30.215945.13983@resumix.portal.com>, ganz@resumix.portal.com (Jonathan Ganz) writes:
> Well, I'm in this situation. If someone would like to offer
> some meaninful comments, I probably don't want to hear them...:)

  [Lots deleted]

I should be so lucky,


Kev.

-- 
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From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Not sure.
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 18:30:58 GMT


Dear Abby,
 I wonder if you can help me with a problem I've been having.
You see I'm really not into this fitness thing. I don't see what
people get out of it. I mean health clubs are just full of these
obnoxious stuck up guys in love with their own bodies. The women are
just more of the same. They don't care about their minds elst they
would not waste time in health clubs the'd be at the library.
 
 I've tried to discuss this with other people but all they do is
ridicule me and attack me. Some even quote the DUMB (ha ha heeeeeee
whooooeeeeee) book of fitness. Like those doctors at the university
know more then me. It's like they have all fallen for the propaganda
promoting healthy life styles. Why can't they see this is a smoke
screen put out by the beef industry and the american dairy assoc(ada or
as I like to call them daa(ha ha heeeee whooooeeee)).
 
 Another thing my work as a programmer often requires me to work
with sports related injury's not to mention my work at the
bookstore. Why in the name of Buddha don't these people see
how superficial their quest for the advertisers perfect body is?
 If they where nearly as smart as some of them think why can't they
see it is superior to let your body atrophy. It helps the brain.
All the studies show this.
 
 Another thing I have a skin condition and there is no known way I
can bath. Nada. Zilch. No sponge bathes. No alcohol. No aloe.
No water and a sponge. In fact if water touchs me I melt. Like sizzle
sizzle pointy hat, you know that sort of thing. Why I can't tell
you the number of times deoderant has nearly taken my life.
 
 By the way I never read your column because you never tell the truth,
you can't spell, you take everything out of context and your clearly
not as smart nor as gracious as I. In fact I know your not trying
to help me but trying to ridicule me along with all your friends.
You can try to run me off but I won't be run off. You will never
control me again Dear Abby. I will win inspite of you.
 
                                   Until tomorrow,
                                       Eddie Von Bullogh.
 
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