HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
Subject: Re: embarrassment du jour
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 09:41:08 GMT

In article <92198@netnews.upenn.edu> crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
>Funny, I just had a similarly humiliating fashion experience.  Must be
>something going around this week.   
>
>I go out to buy a pretzel.  I'm wearing a very full skirt.  Bright.  Lots
>of flowers.  I'm walking across the street, I get to the sidewalk and I
>walk over a subway vent.  A subway car comes.  The skirt flips up.  Not
>just a little bit up.  Way up.  Over my head.  I am disoriented.  I push
>the skirt down, thinking this is just a passing breeze.  It flings back up
>again.  I am slow to catch on, so continue hobbling across the vent (my
>foot is in a cast), pushing the skirt down in front as I go.  Meanwhile, I
>am mooning the faculty club.  Eventually I realize I need to get off the
>vent.  
>
>I hobble up to the pretzel vendor and say to her, "This didn't happen."  She
>replies, "No, it certainly didn't."

There's an important detail missing from this story.  On behalf of the male
readership (I know better than to try to speak for the women), I'll ask:
Were you wearing underpants?

>A very kind man behind me assures me it was just like the Marilyn Monroe
>poster.  If I weren't dating someone, I'd marry that guy.

Time to rent _The Seven-Year Itch_ again.

-- Herb Huston
From: wjb@moscom.com (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: relationship gone to pot?
Date: 15 Oct 92 14:10:16 GMT
Reply-To: wjb@moscom.com
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford NY
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.3 beta PL7]

Kevin Cameron (kevin@clsi.COM) wrote:
: Dead give-away of a mathematician Trygve - you can have 100% too for trying to
: apply logic to personal relationships.
Well, you certainly wouldn't expect someone to pay money for a dead 
mathematician...
-- 
Who needs lime jello?  We had lasagna...
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Bill de Beaubien / wjb@moscom.com 
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.sex,talk.abortion
From: jewell@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Larry Jewell)
Subject: Re: More Questions we all wanted to ask
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 00:11:52 GMT

rogers@ial1.jsc.nasa.gov (mister rogers) writes:
 
> yes, i make a lifestyle choice to live near an airbase. i control 
> that, i take the risk. i also control exactly where my dick is at 
> all times.

Great, tell me how to keep mine from getting tangled in the leg-hole of 
my briefs!

I can see this group is still taking the "high road" as defined by
politics.

Larry J








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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (Andreas  Tovornik)
Subject: Re: Qui est le plus MUSHY?
Reply-To: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 02:05:28 GMT



In article 6045@news.duke.edu, diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams) writes:
>In article <Bw5qoH.L7v@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
>
>>Naw.  I want it NOW.  
>
>>Kiran Wagle                           <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
>
>
>Oh, Kiran, when you talk that way I... I... am overcome! You MAN.  :-)
>
>				--Diamond
>
>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


One more point for the ladies, sports fans.

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: carl@sscl.uwo.ca (Carl Kaufmann)
Subject: Lasagna (was Re: Best of Friends)
Organization: Soc.Sci.Comp.Lab., U.West.Ont.
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 17:50:48 GMT

In article <4614@moscom.com>, wjb@moscom.com (Bill de Beaubien) writes:

irrelevancies removed

> Who needs lime jello?  We had lasagna...
> -------------------------------------------------------------

Unfortunately, I had to leave early.

How was it?

CatGuy
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* See how the heart reaches *  Carl Kaufmann   * No one has to do anything, *
* out instinctively, for no * Soc.Sci.Comp.Lab * except bear consequences.  *
* reason but to touch.      *    U.West.Ont    *                            *
*       -Kate Bush          * carl@sscl.uwo.ca *       -Me                  *
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: dks@sr.com (Dave K. Sprow)
Subject: Re: Dating an older woman
Reply-To: dks@srhqla.UUCP (Dave K. Sprow)
Organization: Silent Radio, Los Angeles
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 20:30:15 GMT

In article <Bvr349.40z@access.digex.com> huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:
>In article <hoyle.718309423@sfu.ca> hoyle@beaufort.sfu.ca (Michelle Hoyle) writes:
>>As a female, I just thought that I would drop my $0.50 into the conversation.
>>I'm not a man, but I did have a common-law marriage with a man who was 8
>>years older than myself.  We did not dissolve our relationship because of
>>the difference in ages.  In fact, unless other people commented upon it,
>>we did not notice.  I think that the age difference actually benefitted us
>>both in a lot of ways.  For example, he was much more calm and patient, whereas
>>I was more excitable and outgoing.  We complemented age with youth and came
>>up with a wonderful working combination.  I certainly have no regrets and
>>now, as friends, we still get along wonderfully well despite the age gap.
>>  
>>I have to wonder though, how large a gap is too large?  I recently watched
>>a few talk shows on television on topic.  Shirley (A Canadian talk show)
>>had couples with large age gaps and Oprah Winfrey had younger men dating
>>older women.  The largest age gap on Shirley was an 16 year old girl
>>dating a man in his late thirties, early forties.  The man was old enough
>>to be her father, but her mother approved, and they were going to get
>>married.  That's quite a substantial age gap.  Is that right?
>> 
>>On Oprah, one of her guests was a man in his twenties dating a woman
>>in her forties.  The woman had a daughter who was in her early twenties.
>>The daughter was almost the same age as the man her mother was dating and
>>she found this quite upsetting.
>>
>>Is 8 years too much?  No, not for me.  Is 23 years too much?  Well, I have
>>to stop and contemplate.  How about for you?
>
>Couples' ages correlated at the +0.9 level, but there does seem to be a
>trend toward husbands being older than wives.  Average age at first marriage
>in the U.S. is 23 for men and 20 for women, so if Joe Normal marries Jane
>Average, he's going to be 3 years older (I wish I had more comprehensive
>statistics on this).
>
>Aristotle recommended that husbands be 19 years older than their wives.
>Actually he was more specific; he suggested that men marry at the age of
>37 and women at 18.  He justified the age difference on the grounds that
>the couple would be entering their sexual decline together.
>
>-- Herb Huston

That's interesting, never having heard this before.  Makes some sense on a
superficial level, but doesn't take into lots of other stuff, the most
obvious being the ages of sexual peaking and the incredible variarance
in libido in all ages in both sexes.  I think the latter and finances
'cause more problems in realtionships that anything else.

I'd say guys and women, if you find a partner whose libido matches your
own closely, hand on to him/her!!  (shallow, aren't I?  :-)

David S.
From: hymowitz@whatever.cs.jhu.edu (Hymie!)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: oops
Date: 9 Oct 92 02:42:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: blaze.1992Oct9.024204.12024
Reply-To: hymowitz@cs.jhu.edu (Hymie!)
Organization: Creative Sensualities dept, Jacquie's House of Underwear

my apologies for not noticeing that soc.singels was part of that
family values nonsense.  i'll take more care to check the newsgroup
lines.

--hymie
hymowitz@cs.jhu.edu                                         hymie@jhuvms.bitnet
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From: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (Andreas  Tovornik)
Subject: Re: BARBIE DOES IT AGAIN!!!!
Reply-To: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 18:47:19 GMT

In article 792@wtcd.DaytonOH.NCR.COM, achaulk@wtcd.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Alex Chaulk) writes:
><1av1h4INNceu@network.ucsd.edu> <1992Oct7.164651.4587@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
><1992Oct8.074136.7232@newstand.syr.edu>
>Sender: 
>Reply-To: achaulk@wtcd.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Alex Chaulk)
>Followup-To: 
>Distribution: na
>Organization: WIN Management Services - Dayton, OH
>Keywords: 
>
>    [Talk about youngster not fighting]....
>   
>  Then there was last weekend when my friend got his lip split open by
>some rugby players trying to throw peanuts down his friend's cleavage.  I say
>that peanuts and cleavage are hardly worth getting a split lip over.  There's 
>a distinct difference betweeen fighting for your honor and dignity and
>fighting because you think you're tougher than the next guy.  
>
 
   Isn't it more dignified to not fight and say nothing, maintaining your 
composure? I may look like the ultimate coward, but what did the friend 
with the cleavage have to say when the nuts were thrown. Did your other friend
try to play the knight in shining armor by stepping into the situation?

Who threw the first punch?

I would have just left and had a better time someplace less obnoxious.

Andreas.    




Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: smith@comm.mot.com (Jeff Smith)
Subject: Re: The Engaged Psychobitch from Hell Syndrome
Organization: Gagging Sloth Records
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 21:33:59 GMT

In article <1biej9INNaqc@uwm.edu>, markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:

|> Higher divorce rates, and all the other social phenomena of today that people
|> would falsely point to as indications of social and institutional breakdown are,
|> in reality, quite natural and inevitable consequences of the highly singular
|> historical change our entire civilization is going through.
|> 
|> They are not "problems", they're not "caused" by anyone, they cannot be
|> "solved".  They are the inevitable consequences of the nature of our time or
|> any other similar time of the past or any other similar time yet to be.

Bullshit. Maybe if you throw in a few more polysyllabic words we can declare
you an expert and put a "Dr" in front of your name.

jds

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                               * of your kind?  Huh, rave-boy?
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From: 01ksdavis@bsu-ucs.uucp (Rebel without a clue.)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.romance,alt.romance.chat,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: How long has it been?
Date: 14 Oct 92 01:08:42 GMT
Distribution: na

In article <1992Oct11.193855.15489@ultb.isc.rit.edu>, adw3345@ultb.isc.rit.edu (A.D. Williams) writes:
> In article <1992Oct8.164220.472@bradley.bradley.edu> dave@bradley.bradley.edu (David Vessell) writes:
>>mneeley@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark Neeley) writes:
>>
>>>How long has it been since you were kissed by a member of
>>>the opposite sex?
>>>

	Five hours and thirty odd some minutes ago.

	(Not a relative, same person as the time before.)

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From: brentaa@ac.dal.ca (brent, eh?)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: More Questions we all wanted to ask
Date: 13 Oct 92 00:50:17 -0300
Followup-To: soc.singles
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <14955@auspex-gw.auspex.com>, johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
> In article <1992Oct10.010216.165546@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.ibm.com writes:
> |In  <Bvs0Js.F81@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>  jewell@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Larry Jewell) writes:
> |>
> |> > yes, i make a lifestyle choice to live near an airbase. i control
> |> > that, i take the risk. i also control exactly where my dick is at
> |> > all times.
> |>
> |> Great, tell me how to keep mine from getting tangled in the leg-hole of
> |> my briefs!
> |
> |I find a velcro strap just above the knee keeps it out of harm's way.
> |
> 
> The only problem with that arrangement is that when you become aroused
> by an attractive woman in front of you, you end up kicking her in the
> shin.
> 
Well, when I tried it, I got that really annoying RRRRIIPPPPing sound....
It didn't matter in the bars, cause you couldn't hear anything anyway
but when we got home, you could hear it loud and clear...
maybe we could get some of that nifty silent velcro that they developed
for the millitary...:-)
In the meantime, remember, size doesn't matter, and neither does flavor, 
it's all a matter of taste....
					-Brontosaur the DickSizeWarMonger
From: lindsay@green.cs.wisc.edu (Joe Lindsay)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Define "Single"
Date: 16 Oct 92 07:40:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.lindsay.719221228
Distribution: usa
Organization: U of Wisconsin Madison - Computer Sciences

rock@medch.b17b.ingr.com (Chris Hudson) writes:

>never seems to work out.  Maybe I should try Matchmaker,  

A great idea if you happen to live in Texas!
For us cheeseheads on the other hand...

%cross-ref
female;hetero;zip-between(50000,59999);non-smoker;single
%quit

0 users found.

*sigh*
I guess that means I'll have to resort to barhopping! :-)

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 It washes over me
 Keeps me feeling warm at night"
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From: petonic@hal.com (Michael A. Petonic)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: older women
Date: 14 Oct 92 02:29:35 GMT
Reply-To: petonic@hal.com (Michael A. Petonic)
Organization: Henry's Laughing Gas Co., Inc.

In article <92284.2346012893684@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> 2893684@QUCDN.QueensU.CA writes:
>OK, here's my situation. I'm a 23 year old student. Over the past year or so
>I've grown very close to a woman who's 39 (turning 40 in 6 weeks). We've become
>very good friends and talk every day. We didn't tell each other our ages for
>the longest time (she's very insecure about her age) and things were on the
>verge of getting serious when she insisted on knowing my age and backed off
>when I told her (this was about 6 months ago). We've remained good friends,
>if anything we've gotten closer and we are very fond of each other but she
>does have serious hang ups about my age. She has gone out with younger men
>before as much as 10 yrs younger but not this young.
>
>We relate very well, she doesnt see me as immature at all and our friendship
>is balanced and devoid of power games etc and their is mutual respect.
> I'm also not pressuring her at all though we do discuss the situation from
>time to time. So what do I do. Do I wait and hope she comes around? Do I
> put matters on the table in a serious discussion and risk harming our
> friendship?  Do I just give up any hope of a serious relationship with her?
>  time
>to time.


In short, give it up. 

Well, you wanted a short answer, right?  

Actually, that would be my advice, because if she's letting the age
thing get to her before you two've had a chance to flounder through
the early follies of romance then it will more than likely play a
stronger roll in the future.  And it could be that you two might be
looking for different things, or perhaps that's what she perceives.

When I was 22, I dated an older woman (27, not too large a diff).  We
were lying in bed doing the pillow talk thing and then she says, "When
I'm 30 you'll be 25."  I said, "Yeah, so what."  She continues, "Well,
if you want to leave me then it's not fair."  Whatever.  That might
give you a clue as to her insecurities.  She ended up marrying a man
who was near 40.  Near predictable.

-pet-
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                     Director of Dangerous Activities  [ACK to GeoffK@ism780c]
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From: lawrence@ctron.com (Gary St. Lawrence)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: shattered ...
Date: 5 Oct 92 17:57:33 GMT
Reply-To: lawrence@olympus.ctron.com (Saint)
Organization: Cabletron Systems INc.

I'm a 30 yo male and I'm in that "shattered" stage having just lost my SO 
(and fiancee) of two years. Details are irrelevant. Needless to say, I'm
about as low as I've ever been.
I'm not looking for someone to take her place, but I do need someone to talk
things over with and somehow I find the anonymity and objectivity of 
someone on the net to be comforting.
If you are a single (unattached/uninvolved) female, 25-35, who's been
where I am now, could you reply? There are a lot of questions a woman in
your position could probably answer for me.
If I sound a little less than emotionally crippled by all this, it's 
because I've been here twice before. All three say it's never me or anyting
I did or said, just a change of heart on their part.
I'll be up front that I would like to settle down (bachelorhood after 15
years sucks). Maybe that's my problem?
Are monogamy and commitment dead in today's society? Do women no longer 
want someone to treat them well, with respect, care and love? Am I just
so long out of the singles scene that I don't know the concepts anymore?
These are the things I'd like to talk about.
Please respond by E-mail, there's no sense airing our psyches for the 
Net to pick through (and you know there are those out there who would
have a field day with someone's feelings).

					Sign me,
					Confused ..... again.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Re: Ipisissimus
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 13:06:33 GMT

In article <1992Oct9.202428.26419@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> allisson@turing.toronto.edu (H. Allisson Roome) writes:
>In article <1992Oct6.002213.14345@linus.mitre.org> wtr@mitre.org 
>(Bill Ralston) writes:
>>I hate to do it, but I've had to take over as the treasurer, since the 
>>IIOSF lost (or will soon, anyway) all his money playing poker at a Boink.  
>>If you have two seesters, send one to me and one to the IIOSF.  If you 
>>only have one seester, send it to the IIOSF and send me a check for your 
>>bank balance.  If you don't have any seesters, borrow some.
>
>Hmm, sounds like a high stakes game to me - will it occur at the
>Philly Boink by chance?  Especially since I know the entertaining and
>elusive James will be in attendance.
 
 The first episode of cops was in phila. I'm not coming anymore.
Too scared.
 
>
>So what are the stakes and can anyone join in -- or is it one of
>those male-bonding type activities?
 
 Veemon, we want the Veemon.
 I believe you'd be the sixth. Seven is usually a 7card limit.
 
>
>Sorry, I don't have any seesters (at least that I know of) but I'm
>willing to open with 3 pounds of bananas (and not to be outdone by Mel
>- I'll scrounge up the fondue pot and make chocolate fondue, dip the
 
 Can you cook meat in that there pot?
 
>banana, remove the chocolate in one elegant motion (exerting me
>"freedom of expression" again), and then  eat the banana in a fashion
>not suited for viewing by smalldren.  Will that do?
 
Works for me.
 
>
>Yes, I am back - I will however have a new account once my password
 
Velcome , Velcome.
 
>allisson@turing.toronto.edu (new address)       H. Allisson Roome
>"Teach only love, and learn that love is yours and you are love."(A.C.I.M/p.92)

 
Words that I live by.
 
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Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.romance,alt.romance.chat,talk.bizarre
From: dahead00@nx28.mik.uky.edu (Zippidy Do Dah)
Subject: Re: How long has it been?
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 16:15:44 GMT

In article <1992Oct9.125743.203045@uctvax.uct.ac.za>  
krgjus01@uctvax.uct.ac.za writes:
> 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)
> > 


> Mark!!!
> 
> I think it is time you accepted that you are GAY and give up .

SERIOUS FLAMAGE UPCOMMING

I think you are a stupid, pompous, moronic, insensitive, offensive,  
asshole, etc...........   Here is some guy with a definite lack of social  
activity in his life and you drop down and presume to know what his  
problem is and how to solve it!! I THINK NOT you toady pinhead sliming  
your way out from under whatever rock or swamp gas dwelling you came from  
to offer this worthless bit of drivel..... GET YOUR OWN DAMN HOUSE IN  
ORDER BEFORE OFFERING THIS ADVICE TO MARK... And next time show a little  
compassion for your fellow human beings ( that is assuming you are a  
member of the human race)....

INFERNAL FIRE BREATHING MODE OFF

Sorry about that previous heat to the rest of the Netters out there but I  
got a litte steamed.  The main thing is for Mark to keep trying for  
whatever it is that he is seeking and to not get discouraged or give up  
and stop short of his goals.

(And yes I do belive a persons sexual choice is their own {be it HOMO,  
HETERO, BI, ANIMAL, VEGTABLE, MINERAL, ETC....} and should not be dictated  
to by others) So no flames from PRO/ANTI gay forces 8-}  ...



Zippy D Who is going to bacome a monk now that the Monkee's disbanded
From: 881638P@ACE.Acadiau.ca
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Define "Single"
Date: 16 Oct 92 13:53:02 GMT
Followup-To: soc.singles
Distribution: usa
Organization: Acadia University

In article <1992Oct15.221958.8177@ac.dal.ca>, brentaa@ac.dal.ca (brent,
eh?) wrote:
> (by the way, are there any other readers of this group who live in
> Atlantic Canada???...just curious...)

YES

> Email builds friendships, and some Boinks may led to relationships, but I 
> inagine that most of the chonically single are looking for things a 
> little closer to home...:-)
> just my two cents worth....
> that's 1.6 cents american  
> 					-Brontosaur the chronically single
Newsgroups: soc.singles