HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Subject: Re: That wacky electoral college
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 00:49:09 GMT

thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes about congresscritters:

>I'm a little torn, actually; I think part of the problem is that they're
>too prone to do pet-tricks-for-votes-and-PAC-money right now.  Cutting
>then loose from that might well be a feature.

Clinton has proposed limiting PAC contributions to the $1000 that
individuals are limited to.  Perhaps a simpler solution would be to
ban outright all campaign contributions by organisations, and limit
individual contributions to a more reasonable (and affordable by the
middle class) $100.  If organisations choose to support a particular
candidate, they could do it by buying their own ads and endorsing him,
rather than by contributing to the candidate's own efforts.

(Btw, PACs were an unintended consequence of the last round of
campaign-finance reform, in the post-Watergate days.  A good argument
IMO for leaving well enough alone.)
-- 

Kiran Wagle                           <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: PRES DEBATE
Date: 5 Nov 92 17:39:45 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.


In article <1992Oct30.190013.36641@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH) writes:
|>"I am going to vote for Bush."
|
I heard something interesting on the radio this morning.  Bill Clinton
had fewer popular votes than Dukakis did in his landslide loss. 


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Newsgroups: soc.singles,general
From: amundsen@molbio.cbs.umn.edu (Craig Amundsen)
Subject: Re: Nightline and Presidential Cantidates
Organization: U of MN Herbarium
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 13:50:56 GMT

In article <1df4jjINNim8@aludra.usc.edu> ecayce@aludra.usc.edu (Edgar Cayce) writes:
>Hey how do I post a message that is NOT a follow-up to a previous post?
>--Confused
>

RTFM

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From: neilfp@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Neil F. Palumbo)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: WHAT DO... AMERICAN WOMAN
Date: 6 Nov 92 14:35:30 GMT
Organization: Temple University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

ADAM@EDEN.GARDEN wrote:
: American woman
: get away from me
: American woman
: mama let me be
: ...
: You're no good for me
: I'm no good for you


HEY, THEN GO HOME!
From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Monogamy, Polygamy, and raising children (Was: Falling in Love
Date: 8 Nov 92 01:27:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: grover.MARTINC.92Nov7202700
	<1992Oct29.194227.14843@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
	<1crvu5INN61s@agate.berkeley.edu> <73943@apple.Apple.COM>
	<MARTINC.92Nov3082849@grover.cs.unc.edu> <74008@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
In-reply-to: stef@Apple.COM's message of 4 Nov 92 20:16:49 GMT

In article <74008@apple.Apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:

   martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:

   >In article <73943@apple.Apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:

   >   I have seen some unhappy single-parent families and some happy ones.
   >   I've also seen some unhappy two-parent families and some happy ones.

   >Wow.  Talk about using parallelism.  How long did you have to search for
   >wordings that would make that come out?

   No time at all. Editors do it in parallel naturally.

Then how do explain those whitespace rivers?
--
		Charles R. Martin/(Charlie)/martinc@cs.unc.edu
     Dept. of Computer Science/CB #3175 UNC-CH/Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175
	    3611 University Dr #13M/Durham, NC 27707/(919) 419 1754
     "Oh God, please help me be civil in tongue, pure in thought, and able
      to resist the temptation to laugh uncontrollably.  Amen." -- Rob T
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: ron@turing.toronto.edu (Ron Wessels)
Subject: Re: British men
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
Distribution: na
Date: 13 Nov 92 15:50:42 GMT

In article <25628@sybase.sybase.com> mysti@sybase.com (Mysti) writes:
>So are you disagreeing with the reality of the statistics or no?

Probably.

Now, if I can only remember where I left that damn cat!

-- 
Ron Wessels		University of Toronto		ron@turing.toronto.edu
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: rridge@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ross Ridge)
Subject: Re: Fueling the Canadian Ire
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: Tue, 10 Nov 92 20:46:20 GMT

>Allisson  (I'm not Canadian; I only post from an acount there)

rridge@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ross Ridge) says:
>I'm Canadian; I just don't post from an account here.
>(*) but not me.

andy <2893684@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> writes:
>  ^
>  | that's because you don't live here:)

I do live here.  I just post from the states.  See my sig.
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From: jsmt@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Julia Smith)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Do you remember 1970 to 1980?
Date: 12 Nov 92 02:16:03 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)

In article <9211112207.AA06353@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com> GCTHORNE@idbsu.idbsu.edu writes:
>
>      As part of an impromptu research project, I'd like to know what
>  YOU think the single most important ( dramatic, traumatic ) event of`
>  1970 to 1980 was.
>
Junior High School.  
  
Oh, you meant for the nation?
Hmmmmmmm...  In my house, we cheered when Nixon resigned.  Does that
count as drama?
  
--j
From: aaron@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: That wacky electoral college
Date: 5 Nov 92 14:07:44 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England

Lauren L. Crawford (crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu) wrote:
: Most people who voted yesterday did not vote for Clinton.  With 44% of the
: vote, Clinton got more votes than each of the other candidates -- he beat
: Bush by about 5 points.  But in terms of electoral votes, he won by a
: "landslide."  

In Britain the proportion of votes cast for the Conservative party
have been the same for the past three elections, but they have gone
from a landslide in 1983 to barely a majority this year. It's a funny
old world, isn't it. By convention the monarch then asks the leader of
the party with the most seats to form a goverment, but this convention
has been flouted even in the comparatively recent past. The prime minister
can be any member of Parliament, Commons or Lords and the cabinet may also
be drawn from it. Members of the Lords are not elected and so in theory the
UK goverment need not be elected by the people. Certainly there are members
of the cabinet (e.g Lady Chalker of Wallasey who used to have a seat until
the last election). 

It all makes the US system seem much more egalitarian and much simpler as
most of the important parts of our electoral system aren't written down.

		Aaron		aaron@minster.york.ac.uk
Xref: sparky soc.singles:30155 ba.singles:2081
From: bob@netcom.com (Bob Becker)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,ba.singles
Subject: Re: Where to meet women?
Date: 9 Nov 92 20:42:37 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

OK  I will give you the benefit of my years of experience.....

The question is "Where to meet women?" but it could be applied
to just about everyone, so let's change it to "Where to meet
members of the appropriate sex?"

The answer, as many of us know, is everywhere.  But you just gotta
get out and see and be seen.  IT'S A NUMBERS GAME, FOLKS!
Very simple...  Go out and meet as many people as you can.
Say "Hello!" to EVERYBODY.  You have lost nothing if they don't say
"hello" back.  But eventually, somebody will say "hello" back,
the sparks will fly, and you will have attained "True Love and
Everlasting Happiness."

The main point, though, is to get out and do "things".  Lots and
lots of "things".  Smile, be friendly, and TL&EH shall be yours.
From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: elections
Date: 8 Nov 92 19:52:23 GMT
	<15335@auspex-gw.auspex.com> <MARTINC.92Nov6104428@grover.cs.unc.edu>
	<BxBCyE.EC1@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
In-reply-to: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu's message of 6 Nov 92 21:27:50 GMT

In article <BxBCyE.EC1@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:

   martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:

   >right -- or he'll be another Carter, we'll be in deep shit in four years
   >and the Republicans will have a lock on the Presidency for your lifetime.

   The Republicans won't have a lock on the Presidency until they throw
   out the empty-headed dues-payers like Bush, the evil self-servers like
   Baker and Darman, and the far right as well, and become a party of
   limited government and free markets, instead of a party of rich people
   and big business.

Well, this includes the hope and expectation that Jack Kemp will whup
Pat Robertson.  I'm with Tsongas and Rudmann (sp?) on this one: either
the Republicans will become what you suggest, or the Democrats will --
or a third party will, and *they'll* have a lock on the presidency for
your lifetime.

   >Remember what Moynihan (sp?) said earlier this week" "Oh, shit -- now
   >it's *our* deficit."

   Yup.  A little present from Reagan and Bush. 

Look up who had the last balanced budget.
--
		Charles R. Martin/(Charlie)/martinc@cs.unc.edu
     Dept. of Computer Science/CB #3175 UNC-CH/Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175
	    3611 University Dr #13M/Durham, NC 27707/(919) 419 1754
     "Oh God, please help me be civil in tongue, pure in thought, and able
      to resist the temptation to laugh uncontrollably.  Amen." -- Rob T
From: drg@candidus.ma30.bull.com (Daniel R. Guilderson)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: SWF iso S*M to be SO
Date: 11 Nov 92 16:24:06 GMT
Organization: Bull World Wide Information Systems, Billerica MA USA

In article <97009@netnews.upenn.edu> crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:

   Whoa.  46-63 miles every day?  If this isn't athletic, what is? 
   Power-lifting dump trucks with one hand?

Let's define what is not athletic (let's call it anti-athletic) and go
from there.

If you can rest your head on the remote and change channels at will
you are anti-athletic.  And proud of it.
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Last Dance for Now
Date: 12 Nov 92 01:50:38 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Nov11.212005.7485@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes:

|I just wanted to let you all know that while I've enjoyed the
|discussions of the past few weeks, I'm changing to an assignment
|for about a year that will take me away from regular net access.

Good luck in your new venture. Sincerely.

|Take care and don't flame each other *too* much ...

Of course we won't.  We'll want to save up a few for when you get back.

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| John Fereira        | Auspex Systems | "Ask me about my vow of silence." |
| johnf@auspex.com    | Santa Clara CA |                                   |
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (Andreas  Tovornik)
Subject: Re: WHAT DO... AMERICAN WOMAN
Reply-To: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 92 02:40:38 GMT

In article 24874@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu, neilfp@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Neil F. Palumbo) writes:
>ADAM@EDEN.GARDEN wrote:
>: American woman
>: get away from me
>: American woman
>: mama let me be
>: ...
>: You're no good for me
>: I'm no good for you
>
>
>HEY, THEN GO HOME!

This was a DAMN GOOD tune by THE GUESS WHO around 1970.
I don't think it was a serious opinion. Like that guitar riff...

I still like American Women, though! :)

...You go hanging around my door,
    Don't wanna see your shadow no more,
    Now Woman, Get away from meeee-hee....

...Bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye...         -The Guess Who
From: blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Net Talk
Date: 5 Nov 92 07:26:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: lynx.5#_qtgh
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <Bx7BE6.3F6@mail.boi.hp.com> morrison@boi.hp.com (Glen Morrison) writes:
>What is a SO?
>And if you know that, what is a LO?
>I've figured out all the other abrevs, IMHO, BTW, etc. 
SO- Significant Other
LO- Lust Object
r.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll)
Subject: Re: Do you remember 1970 to 1980?
Organization: University of Western Ontario, London
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:31:14 GMT

In article <1992Nov12.174549.24150@b8.b8.ingr.com> larry@b8.b8.ingr.com (Larry Billings) writes:
>In article <9211112207.AA06353@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com>, GCTHORNE@idbsu.idbsu.edu writes:
>> 
>>       As part of an impromptu research project, I'd like to know what
>>   YOU think the single most important ( dramatic, traumatic ) event of`
>>   1970 to 1980 was.
>> 
>traumatic: Carter boycotting 1976 Olympics.

	Carter boycotted the Montreal Olympics, as  well as the Moscow
Olympics in 1980? Good thing he didn't take office  until 1977, or there
could  have international effects from his boycott. Any idea  what upset
him?

							James Nicoll
From: martinc@hatteras.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: British men
Date: 13 Nov 92 06:16:20 GMT
	<24721@sybase.sybase.com> <1992Oct23.134654.27612@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
	<thurlow.720025364@convex.convex.com> <25147@sybase.sybase.com>
	<MARTINC.92Oct31152458@currituck.cs.unc.edu
Distribution: na
Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
In-reply-to: mysti@sybase.com's message of 10 Nov 92 04:59:51 GMT

In article <25628@sybase.sybase.com> mysti@sybase.com (Mysti) writes:

   In article <MARTINC.92Oct31152458@currituck.cs.unc.edu> martinc@currituck.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
   >In article <25147@sybase.sybase.com> mysti@sybase.com (Mysti) writes:
   >
   >>   [silly attempts to get my goat deleted]
   >
   >If you don't want it, could I have it?

   I'm going to ignore the straight line set-up here.  If it kills me...

   >   FYI, folks who like to (try to) heap abuse on my head, Susan Faludi
   >   says in "Backlash" that battery by domestic partners was the number
   >   one cause of injury among women in the late 80's.  Put that in your
   >   baseball bat and smoke it.....
   >
   >Susan Faludi says lots of things that other less polemical sources
   >disagree with.

   Are you saying she misquoted or misrepresented the studies she quotes from?

Well, strictly, I'm saying that a number of other sources have said that
the sources she used were flawed.  I'm not keeping up with the stats so
I can't say for sure.  I *am* a little -suspicous- of the statistics, if
only because I've noticed lots of statistics around, e.g., one woman in
four having been raped, where we discover that the definition of "rape"
is very much broader than the legal definition.

   They have been echoed by a number of public service organizations, including
   the group which put billboards up all over (at least) Oakland, to roughly
   the same point.

Putting slogans on billboards neither proves nor disproves them.

   So are you disagreeing with the reality of the statistics or no?

I'm certainly questioning them.  I'm also pointing out that a fair
number of reviewers have questioned them.
--
		Charles R. Martin/(Charlie)/martinc@cs.unc.edu
     Dept. of Computer Science/CB #3175 UNC-CH/Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175
	    3611 University Dr #13M/Durham, NC 27707/(919) 419 1754
     "Oh God, please help me be civil in tongue, pure in thought, and able
      to resist the temptation to laugh uncontrollably.  Amen." -- Rob T
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: daniel@clsi.COM (Daniel Barclay)
Subject: Re: That wacky electoral college
Organization: CAD Language Systems Inc.
	<96094@netnews.upenn.edu> <1992Nov5.174602.21218@b8.b8.ingr.com>
Date: 9 Nov 92 16:55:13

> 4. Line item veto!
(I assume you mean for the president.)  Why are you for this?  What do you
think is good about it (for the country)?  Of course a president and anyone 
who supports that specific president would want the extra power, but doesn't
it shift the power too far?  It seems that it cuts the Congress' power to
reach compromises.  Or is the idea to reduce excessive or unreasonable
compromises?

--
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From: julie@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (Julie Wright)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Hints
Date: 10 Nov 92 17:42:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: cucbs.JULIE.92Nov10124229
Organization: The Cultural Elite

Matt Valentine writes:

Matt says:
>Eventually (after the romance stage) the real feelings  
>should be more important than sex.>

Kiran says:
>What a silly dichotomy.  Why not have the "romance stage" forever?  

Matt says:
>Yes, there still can be romance, but the people should start accepting  
>each other as imperfect. Idealistic visions need to be stepped back to  
>reality otherwise one or both will end up disappointed.

Seth says:
> It's possible to have the initial super-intense feelings, and still
> accept the other person as imperfect.  Wonderful, but imperfect.

Matt says:
>You and Kiran seem to agree, I guess maybe Ive been missing something.>
>Maybe my last SO wasn't so special afterall :-).

Personally, I'm starting to wonder if Kiran's going out with Seth's
XSO.  :)

---Julie
-- 
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* genera _Loris_ and _Nycticebus_, of tropical Asia, having dense, woolly *
* fur, large eyes, and a vestigial tail.  [French, probably from obsolete *
* Dutch _loeris_, simpleton, clown.]    ---- American Heritage Dictionary *
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From: larry@b8.b8.ingr.com (Larry Billings)
Subject: Re: Money and the Single World (was: Education and the Single World
Organization: Intergraph
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 22:11:39 GMT

In article <1duqatINN335@FUNCTOR.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU>, loosemore-sandra@cs.yale.edu (Sandra Loosemore) writes:
> I don't have extravagant spending habits
> myself, but since I usually have more money than I know what to do
> with 

I'l be happy to send you a SASE you can put any excess money into.

> 
> -Sandra




Larry Billings
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From: aaron@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: WHAT DO AMERICAN MEN THINK ABOUT AMERI
Date: 12 Nov 92 11:26:33 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England

: but I'm curious if the reverse is true? Or do you just think American accents
: are plain and boring?  Just curious...

	West better than East IMHO. American accents don't excite me as
        much as the near musical tones of an Irish accent or the slightly
  	rougher edges of Scottish dialect. Of American (in the broadest sense)
	accents I have been exposed to I prefer the softer tones of a
        Canadian or the charm of a Jamaican.

		Aaron 		aaron@minster.york.ac.uk

	"Oh no it's going to snow in the Land of Green Ginger"
		(Best prounced in a Hull accent)
From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Presidential Poll- Some comments from you.
Date: 9 Nov 92 19:31:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: grover.MARTINC.92Nov9143115
	<1992Nov6.171005.19762@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
	<MARTINC.92Nov7202559@grover.cs.unc.edu>
	<1992Nov8.222130.8949@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
Distribution: usa
Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
In-reply-to: sms@cbnewsf.cb.att.com's message of 8 Nov 92 22:21:30 GMT

In article <1992Nov8.222130.8949@cbfsb.cb.att.com> sms@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (steven.m.stein) writes:

   >I think I'm having an extremity pulled here.

   Not by me.  I wouldn't think of doing such a thing.
   (But, which extremity were you referring to, exactly?)

Steve baby, *yours* may be long enough to qualify as an extremity....
but for me this means "arm or leg".

   >   ps
   >   Coming to the boink?  
   >
   >Not unless I rear back, pass a miracle, and have a dissertation draft
   >done by then.

   Does that mean "no"?  

Unless the Good Dissertation Fairy shows up.  And you know how flighty
he is.


   >Won't work.  I never go anywhere unarmed.

   (Does this have anything to do with that "extremity" you were talking
   about?)
   I would agree to leave my weapon at the front door.

See 'extremity' above.
--
		Charles R. Martin/(Charlie)/martinc@cs.unc.edu
     Dept. of Computer Science/CB #3175 UNC-CH/Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175
	    3611 University Dr #13M/Durham, NC 27707/(919) 419 1754
     "Oh God, please help me be civil in tongue, pure in thought, and able
      to resist the temptation to laugh uncontrollably.  Amen." -- Rob T
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: Diane
Subject: Welsh Sheep (Some of my Best Friends....)
Organization: University of Missouri
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 13:42:55 CST

In article <721474019.2486@minster.york.ac.uk>
aaron@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
 
>
>Honestly though I love Wales. Some of my closest friends are Welsh. I love
>the countryside, the throat aching place names, the choral singing, the
>sheep, the sheep, and especially the sheep.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
It sounds like some of your closest friends are sheep.....
Are you this enthusiastic about members of your own species?
Desperately fighting off the mental picture,
Diane
Newsgroups: soc.singles,soc.men,soc.women