HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Subject: Re: Gravely Mixed Up
Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 23:16:46 GMT


In article <5012@news.duke.edu> John_Graves@cellbio.duke.edu
writes:

>In article <1992Aug31.175032.14385@macc.wisc.edu>
>anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:

>>In article <4997@news.duke.edu> John_Graves@cellbio.duke.edu
>>writes:

>>>So, I'm not going to discriminate against your
>>>"non-religious" type of religious beliefs, i.e.  I will not
>>>hold it against you that you do not see yourself as
>>>"religious."

>>*You* will define my beliefs?  That's beyond belief!!

>I'm not sure I understand this though.  I've made no attempt
>to "define" or even list your beliefs.  I have categorized
>them in a way that I have been taught to do.

Not taught enough, then, or at least not learned.
*Whatever* my beliefs are, you insist that they're religious
beliefs, don't you?  If yes, then you're defining my
beliefs, which is a preposterous thing for you to entertain.

"Nonreligious religious beliefs" is oxymoronic.  Anyone who
talks like that has lost touch with obvious reality.

>In a system in which all beliefs are religious based, then a
>person who thinks they are non-religious has "non-religious
>labeled religious beliefs."

More sophistry.  You get paid for that?

>If you choose to call your belief system whatever, it does
>not prohibit others from labeling it differently.

Did I say it did?

>We can discuss the the meanings, usages, and even claim they
>are faulty or useless, but to suggest that I am defining
>your beliefs because I categorize them for use in discussion
>is to assume that there is some essential nature to your
>beliefs that demands a particular labeling.  I reject that
>idea.

It's not worth arguing over.

>The postmodern mind is often seen as bizarre by those who
>are not postmodern.

Utter nonsense, front to back.

>Essentialists and nominalists often have a hard time
>understanding how the other can possibly take such views.

You're lost in abstractions, young man.  Get your feet back
on the planet if you hope to save your sanity (it may be too
late).

>But finally just let me get one thing clear:

I suppose you ask because you're genuinely interested,
but ...

>You are indeed saying that you are religious, that is to
>say, a holder of religious beliefs and a doer of practices
>based on those beliefs?

... I've said (repeatedly) that's a private matter, not ...

>If that is not what you mean by having religious beliefs,
>then we have a need for further clarification.

... a matter for discussion.

<> Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist,
<> but in the ability to start over.
<> -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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From: twpierce@amhux1.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
Subject: Re: Question about Microsoft Corp.
Organization: Amherst College, Amherst MA
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 18:25:30 GMT

I lust for the Left Coast, but I am starting to think of pinpointing
the spots that would put sufficient distances between me and Sarver
and me and Melmac.  Unfortunately, I suspect the resulting space would
not contain very many interesting sites.

-- 
____ Tim Pierce                / "I don't know how much support NAMBLA
\  / twpierce@amherst.edu      /  has in the gay community."
 \/ (BITnet: TWPIERCE@AMHERST) /   -- Clayton Cramer, August 1992
Xref: sparky soc.motss:37958 alt.sex:28185
From: rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue)
Newsgroups: soc.motss,alt.sex
Subject: Re: Sexual Consent form #314159 (Crossposted from hell)
Keywords: consent, form, sexual, humerous, silly, serious
Date: 2 Sep 92 13:44:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Sep2.134416.26071
Reply-To: nweaver@ocf.berkeley.edu
Followup-To: misc.test
Organization: insert anything here

nweaver@ocf.berkeley.edu (Nicholas Weaver) writes:

	More trash.  Keep it out of soc.motss

BBC
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From: glp@fig.citib.com (Greg Parkinson)
Subject: An obvious solution
Originator: glp@merlin
Organization: Citibank IBISM
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 13:49:48 GMT


1. When nelly queens display themselves for public view,
all the non-nelly closeted gay men think there are no
other "normal" guys like them, so they stay in the
closet.

2. Society sees only these nelly queens and therefore
thinks badly of all gay men (lesbians have their own
reasons for being bad, I guess.)  Straight society 
doesn't see all the "normal" guys.

It would seem that we are stuck with all the normal
guys in the closet, except:

3  All these "normal" closeted guys talk to each other
about how much they hate the nelly queens.  Therefore,
they know other normal gay guys exist and should be
able to all come out and provide other normals and
straight society with the role models that are so 
desperately needed.

Things can be changed; the "normal" guys just want
the nelly guys to make all the sacrifices.

As if any of this was true, of course.
-- 
Greg Parkinson                  Phone: 212-657-7814  Fax: 212-825-8607
Citibank,111 Wall Street        E-Mail: glp@fig.citib.com
New York, New York  10043
The opinions expressed are my own and not those of the big 'ol bank.
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From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Subject: Re: Gai Pied news items, 30th July 1992
Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 16:27:09 GMT


In article <icumenin@vadier.gr.osf.org> emcmanus@gr.osf.org
(Eamonn McManus) writes:

>Here are some news items from the 30th July issue of Gai Pied,
>France's main gay weekly.  [...]

Thanks, there was lots of interest there.  One thing about
French (one of your passions, I know):

>   T-shirts with the inscription
>  "Queen for 40 years"

>  [The T-shirt inscription is rendered as "Une reine de 40 ans"
>  without saying what it was in English, so I am guessing.]

Could "une reine de 40 ans" also mean "a 40-year-old queen"?
I'm thinking by analogy to "une reine d'un certain age" = "a
middle-aged queen".  If not, how *would* one say those
things, which would certainly make sense to us in English?

I could envision something like:

(you introduce me, looking my finest, to Alex)
   "Voila Jess, c'est une reine de 100 ans"
(I laugh, putting out my hand to Alex, but speaking to you)
   "Tais toi, tu m'as folle, saloppe!"
(turning to Alex)
   "Il est tres mechant, n'est-ce pas, cet Eamonn!
    Mais qu'il a bien choisi, je vois!  Que tu as de larges epaules!
    Et des yeux maron [no s, I believe]!  Tu veus me prendre a la
    Sainte Chapelle?" :-)

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From: lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard)
Subject: OCT 10 for march(s) against hate?
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 03:11:09 GMT

So far everyone has suggested oct 10th.

If your interested in this idea either helping to organize one in
your area or interested in going to one let me know. So far I've
had 7 replies (all positive) but 7 people in the street arn't going
to get media attention :-)

Any comments from GLAD/QN/ACT-UP representatives?

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From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Buck Rogers (was: research on the gay male voice)
Date: 23 Aug 92 21:19:24 GMT
Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Aug23.211924.19529
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA

In article <13474.2a97c129@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu> msp@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu (Michael S. Pettersen) writes:
>Wasn't Timothy Dalton the leader of the hunky winged men?  He's the only 
>memorable thing I can recall from the movie.

No, that was Brian Blessed as Prince Vultan.  Timothy Dalton was Prince Barin,
who didn't have wings or strut around half-naked in a leather harness.  I never
payed enough attention to him to understand exactly what his role was.

-- 
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Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Subject: Re: musical finale
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 02:32:21 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.015649.18226@syacus.acus.oz.au> brent@syacus.acus.oz.au (Brent Davies) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug24.070421.5492@syacus.acus.oz.au> brent@syacus.acus.oz.au  
>>(Brent Davies) writes:
>
>>}      --Honegger's "Adagio for Strings"
>          ^^^^^^^^
>
>(*gakk!*) Did I write that?  I meant Hovahness.  (sp?  Good lord, Jess, help?)

That was Samuel Barber.  I suppose they're both Armenians in their own way.

Oh my, that would only work if they were both Bulgarians...

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
From: roger@quantime.co.uk (Roger Phillips)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Researcher coming to Berkeley
Date: 4 Sep 92 13:50:13 GMT
Reply-To: roger@quantime.co.uk (Roger Phillips)
Organization: Quantime Ltd, London (software for market research)

In article <1992Sep4.023358.28566@quantime.co.uk>,
roger@quantime.co.uk (Roger Phillips) writes:
> An (Australian) linguist
> (or sociologist? or psychologist?  Damn, I've forgotten!)

She's a philosopher (of a contemporary and interdisciplinary kind).

[Calling occupants of interdisciplinary crafts...]
-- 
Roger Phillips                            roger@quantime.co.uk
"Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was --
like eating an egg without salt." -- Rudyard Kipling
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From: buckmr@aix.rpi.edu (Ron Buckmire)
Subject: Re: Barbara Bush is a piece of shit.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 22:25:29 GMT

lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) writes:
>>RON BUCKMIRE, 11 Colvin Circle, Troy, NY 12180-3735. ``D.C., April 25 1993''
>>vox:(518)-276-8910 fax:(518)-276-6920 buckmr@rpi.edu buckmr@rpitsmts.bitnet
>>Anne-Imelda Radice, President Bush's appointee to head the National Endowment
>>for the Arts, has been described as ``the Lesbian Clarence Thomas''.

>	How is she that? Because she's a sellout? I guess if she is,
>then she would certainly qualify as Politically Correct by Bush
>administration standards.
She's a lesbian but as acting head of the NEA has denied funding to the
NAMES Project [they run the AIDS Quilt] and to artists who have had explicit
[read homoerotic] sexuality in their work. She has given money to both the
Human Rights Campaign Funs and the National Conservative Action PAC. The 
woman is *slime*!

-- 
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uunet!rpi.edu!buckmr||buckmr@rpitsmts.bitnet||buckmr@rpi.edu||+1 518 276 8910
According to the January 5, 1992 _New York Times_ 0.1% of all abortions in the
United States occur in the third trimester.
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: robertl@luciano.Stanford.EDU (Robert Lodenkamper)
Subject: Re: Too straight looking to be gay??? (was re: UNGAY GAY)
Organization: Stanford University
	<1992Aug24.044354.1301@reed.edu> <1992Aug24.052459.17731@macc.wisc.edu>
	<1992Aug23.042028.14018@amhux2.amherst.edu>
	<1992Aug24.005105.19272@microsoft.com>
	,<1992Aug24.191923.6957@microsoft.com>
	<1992Aug28.033552.27972@microsoft.com> <vanyel.715024092@camelot>
Distribution: usa
Date: 28 Aug 92 15:26:44

In article <vanyel.715024092@camelot> vanyel@camelot.bradley.edu (Alan
Williams) writes: 

   [Before I being, I'd like to note how ironic it is that I can
    *discuss* this stuff with Bob while Arne sees fit to do little
    more than rant....] 

So what.  There have been hundreds of responses to Bob Sarver.  If
they were all "discussions" or "rants" or flames or any one thing,
the tedium would long since have become completely intolerable.  

There is no reason to believe "reasonable discussion" is superior to
other styles of expression, even if the only purpose of the responses
is to educate either Sarver or like-minded muffins (which is clearly
not the case).

Speaking from my own experience, I found the effort of figuring out
why apparently innocent queries and statements often got flamed by the
heavyweights (Clay Bond and others) more educational than reading
rational discussions (which too often make my eyes glaze over in
boredom).  Your mileage (and the mileage of the audience) *does* vary,
so the variety of responses is not a defect at all --- it's a great
boon.

- Bob
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: jontom@HQ.Ileaf.COM (J.T. Kittredge)
Subject: Garth Brooks on "Freedom of Choice"
Reply-To: jontom@ileaf.com (JT Kittredge)
Organization: Interleaf, Waltham, Mass
Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.52.65 of Mon Apr 22 1991 on kontrol (berkeley-unix)
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 13:20:36 GMT

Sorry if this has already been commented on.

This morning I read an article in the _New York Times_ (2 September
1992, page C13) on the country singer Garth Brooks. The gist of the
article is how Mr. Brooks' spectacular success is affecting his
carreer. ("Garth Brooks is the record industry's equivalent of a
900-pound gorilla, in a position to do whatever he wants whenever he
wants to do it.")

Apparently this has lead him to write more pointed songs:

   On "The Chase," Mr. Brooks has a series of serious songs dealing
   with such subjects as date rape to racial prejudice. One piece
   "Freedom of Choice" talks about just that. "The song is about the
   choices people make, whether it be partners taken in life by
   homosexuals, or interracial couples," Mr. Brooks said recently in a
   telephone interview. "I think the Republicans' big problem is that
   they believe family values are June and Walt [sic] and 2.3
   children. To me it means laughing, being able to dream. It means
   that if a set of parents are black and white, or two people of the
   same sex, or if one man or one woman acts as a parent, that the
   children grow up happy nad healthy: that's what family values are.
   It's possible to hear the song and not get that message, but that's
   what I mean. My thinking is that if I get shot down for saying
   this, I need to be away from the people that object. You have to
   do what you believe."

I was particularly heartened that a pop idol went out of his way to
give this message. It makes up for all the venom from the likes of Mel
Gibson. Maybe I need to start listening to country music.

			*****

On an unrelated note, the homosexualization of the _New York Times_
continues apace. When they fall, they fall hard.

On Wednesdays the _Times_ has a feature called "Metropolitan Diary"
where readers write in cute, light-hearted pieces of humourous
encounters they've had recently in the city. The emphasis is on cute
(the humor can sink to the "Reader's Digest" variety.

Several weeks ago (sorry I can't give the date) they had a piece
something like the following:

   Every morning I go to the same place for a cup of coffee, sugar and
   no cream. The young woman at the counter takes great pride in
   recognizing me and remember my order. Every morning she says, "Here
   you are, straight and black." I have to restrain myself from
   answering, "No dear, just the opposite."

It's coy, but I thought it a landmark as an example of what's a fit
subject for polite, mild humor these days.

Yours in motss, JonTom

-- 
"'Life is distracting and uncertain'
  she said, and went to draw the curtain" - The Eleventh Episode, Edward Gorey
From: bob@atlantis.CS.ORST.EDU (robert s. richardson)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Visiting California Sept 9-14, Need Info
Date: 3 Sep 92 19:28:01 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Computer Science Outreach Services - Oregon State University

A friend and I will be traveling through California to Pasadena from
Wednesday, Sept 9 to the following tuesday.  We are looking for inexpensive
places to stay along the way (especially in San Francisco). We would also
love to meet folks who can show us around both S.F. and L.A.

As far as cheap hotels go, there are three criterion: Low cost,
cleanliness, private restroom.  (Or, if some kind soul would like to
offer a room, that would be most appreciated! (Especially if it
has a dungeon... but I digress) )

Our trip is taking us from Corvallis, OR to Pasadena for the World
of Commodore-Amiga exposition on the 11th through 13th, though I
may only attend one day.  We should be arriving in SF late wednesday
night or early thursday morning, and we'll be sightseeing, then take
off for Pasadena early Friday.  It might be fun to go out in LA to
motss oriented attractions Friday night.  I'll be attending the show
and visiting relatives whom I've never met on Saturday afternoon and
then either A) Taking off in a mad dash to SF to go out there Saturday
night, or B) Staying that night and taking off Sunday morning.  We
will have Monday and possibly Tuesday to spend in SF.

If anyone has any suggestions as to what to do, where to go, what
to see, who to do... (oops, biases showing!), please let me know. All
input is appreciated.

Bob Richardson
bob@atlantis.cs.orst.edu
(503) 758-5018

THANKS ALL!
From: nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: the openness of USENET
Date: 26 Aug 92 23:52:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: reed.1992Aug26.235207.3732
Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR

In article <1992Aug26.173544.14997@spdcc.com> fredh@spdcc.com (Fred
Huntington) kindly says to Bob:
>But I support you in whatever you want to do.  

wow, I wish I were a fly on the wall in *their* budoir.
-- 
                __
nelson@reed.edu \/        It's a sky blue sky, the satellites are out tonight
From: exukev@exu.ericsson.se (Kevin Autrey)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Barbara Bush is a piece of shit.
Date: 26 Aug 92 13:27:50 GMT
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems

In article <dmnyg+h@rpi.edu> buckmr@aix.rpi.edu (Ron Buckmire) writes:

>Didn't anyone notice she wore that red "AIDS" ribbon during her speech but
>when George and the kids came on to the stage it was gone?
>-- 
>RON BUCKMIRE, 11 Colvin Circle, Troy, NY 12180-3735. ``D.C., April 25 1993''

Newsweek did - in it's Conventional Wisdom Watch section at the
beginning of the current week's issue.  On the Mary Fisher (HIV+
Republican speaker at the convention) plug, Newsweek said something
like "But Barbara, what happened to the AIDS ribbon?".  I was glad to
see *some* media coverage of the hipocrisy of her ribbon-wearing
actions.

Newsweek really pounded the Republicans and George Bush on the level
of hate espoused at the recent Republican Convention - making several
(what I read to be hostile) references to their new political Family
Values taglines and other anti-gay statements.

__ ____________________________________________________________________
\/ Kevin Autrey / Wk: exukev.ericsson.se / Hm: kevin@batpc.lonestar.org
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From: elliott@leda.princeton.edu (Frank W. Elliott)
Subject: Re: soc.motss statistics for August 1992
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 15:59:32 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.154849.15788@tc.cornell.edu> shore@tc.cornell.edu writes:
>In article <1992Sep1.142319.810@pyra.co.uk>, jimmy@pyra.co.uk (Jimmy Aitken) writes:
>> Author Top 30 (Size)
>>---------------------
>>  8   98686  66 Bob Sarver (bobsarv@microsoft.com)
>
>I am *incredibly* disappointed.  We ALL know that any
>CABAL that is worth ANYTHING WHATSOEVER knows EXACTLY 
>how to go about suppressing dissenting viewpoints.  If 
>our cabal was worth a FRACTION of the bandwidth they 
>consume, this NEVER would have happened.  What RANK
>INCOMPETENCE!!  What INEPTITUDE!!!  I mean, IF WE HAD
>WANTED TO HEAR BOOB SARVER'S OPINION, WE WOULD HAVE
>ASKED FOR IT.  But NOOOOOOOOO, he goes ahead and volunteers
>it, and you lame-os allow him to be heard.
>
>TIME FOR A NEW CABAL!!
>-- 
>"I would promptly inform any homosexual who would dare to proposition
>me that my preference is fisting."  -- Theodore A. Kaldis
>
>       Melinda Shore - Cornell Theory Center - shore@tc.cornell.edu

But, Melinda, you`re top lesbian in the cabal.  Or, given some of your
posts about Bob, was that lesbian top? ;-)

-- Frank
From: Furr@cup.portal.com (George Dalton Madison)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Folsom ST Fair
Date: Tue,  1 Sep 92 20:26:00 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

Jake Coughlin writes:
>Furr@cup.portal.com (George Dalton Madison):
>> Steve, do you have to *work* at being this big an asshole or were
>> you born this way?
>
>he's enrolled in arne's twelve step program.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!

Thanks, Jake... I needed that.  ;-{)##]
 
() It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care
() who gets the credit.
()      -- Harry S. Truman
-----
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From: rtimko@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Roger M Timko)
Subject: Re: Guess my age and win a valuable prize!
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 13:54:47 GMT


dblakele@acpub.duke.edu (Dean Blakeley MD) writes:
>(Egads, what happens with that line of drivel when I reach 40!  (and
>Arnold, be nice <wincing>))

     I'd say that means in 9 years (and 52 days) there'll be some
fortunate men 40 and up in the Durham area.  (Hi Dean..How's life?)

                                                       -Marty
-- 

Martin Timko                       |   "Most good painters don't know what
rtimko@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu   |    they think until they paint it."
                                   |                   - Robert Motherwell
From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Insults
Date: 26 Aug 92 19:53:05 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison


In article <1992Aug26.171437.17717@osf.org> coren@osf.org
(Robert Coren) writes:

]In article <1992Aug26.004907.24970@macc.wisc.edu>,
]anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:

]> Perhaps our friendly bear was referring to Harvard's
]> newspaper, which is not something to be marooned with for
]> long,

]Now this particular solecism is quite shocking, coming from one who is
]usually so careful about his facts. Crimson, Jess, crimson!

(hangs head, blushes crimson)

It's a rocky period.


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From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: crossposting
Date: 26 Aug 92 00:06:10 GMT
Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison


In article <x7anscc.jfh@netcom.com> jfh@netcom.com (Jack
Hamilton) writes:

>I thought this was a particularly interesting thread, not
>because of the contents (which were rather ho-hum), but
>because it was started by someone on CompuServe through a
>mail to news gateway.

I was just thinking about Rob, writing to a friend who just
found out about Rob's being gone, and the next thing I read
was this.  I wonder, if Rob were alive to respond to this,
whether he wouldn't say something like:

How the thread started wasn't really interesting, it was
merely (um...) unusual.

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