HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Subject: Re: deformities and perversions
Keywords: selectivity, sociobiology, complexity
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 07:36:25 GMT

dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes:
>When I first met my sweetie, I thought he was the funniest looking thing
>I'd ever seen.  I came home from our first date and told my housemate that 

Geez, Dawn, I thought he was quite good-looking.  You must have
mindbogglingly high standards for male physical attractiveness.  

Of course, as lovely and talented as you are, 
I suppose you -can- have such high standards.... 

>him home with me to find out.  And then somewhere along the line I started
>to really like everything that I thought was ugly before and a little 

Hmm, this seems to confirm what a friend said recently: that women
find men they like physically attractive.  Well, I guess there are two
such women.

-- 
Kiran Wagle                             <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
P.O.Box 2083 Bloomington IN 47402-2083      (812) 336-7478 [8p-1a EST]
From: pbreton@asylum.UUCP (Peter Breton)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Net.assholes
Date: 14 Aug 92 19:43:23 GMT
Organization: Epilogue Technology Corp.

>From: lairdpg@lub001.lamar.edu

>Dawn, the more I hear from you, the more convinced I am that you just don't
>live up to morals.  It is awful to think of such!  <<< SHAME ON YOU!! >>>
>Now to think, a single gal chasing a married man???  If you were in his
>wifes' shoes, would you mind sharing your husband?  Woudln't you have a few
>names for her.... Like W*ore and B*tch and stuff?

>Tell us about yourself - do you do the nasty?  Do you have a firm, round
>butt?  Do they stick out when someone rubs them?  Enquiring minds want to
>know!

>flat men or round men, etc....  I even questioned her on that same question,
>but I tried to do it more subtle and gentle, small women always respond very
>positiverly to gentle |)  But for me, it would be true statistically or any
>other way, cause I digs short gals!@!!!!!!!!!!!  They are sooo sexy and lively!
                                  
>More than a mouthful is a waste!   Yea have to get real close

>"... the meaning of life is t find a nice gal, who will take care of you,
>owns a liquor store, doesn't get as drunk as you and loves to give lip service!
>Now that makes me happy!"


>Oh my gosh!  You must live up there where they have to pump daylight in, too!
>I'll bet you are getting tired of reading those old Penthouses, huh?  They
>say there is a female behind every tree, only problem is, there is no trees,
>huh?  I'd like to find a female to also "share the ups and downs" of life, as
>well!!! <<<<<EVIL GRIN>>>>>


>Hey Juha!  'Member that old adage, "They all lookalike" (

>What do the finnish women look like (  Are they foxes, babes, should I jump
>like a frog?  Is it hammer time (

[more asshole quotes ommitted]

**********************************************************************

  Here's a little something from an ex-lurker:

  This guy is, by far, the stupidest, most obnoxious net.asshole I've seen
yet. Hey, buddy: pinheads like you give Texas a bad name.  

>...hope you enjoyed the flames, and you have a nice day, don't forget,
>though----------> Grow a d*ck, fellow!  (HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHHEHE)

  Ditto.

>> to be polite and interesting, instead of just being "ourselves"? That's 
>> SOOOO artificial!

>No, we don't have to use one of those things!  I like the real thing! 

  Yea, I'm sure you do... up the butt.
From: stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Various ramblings...
Date: 18 Aug 92 07:41:54 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

hymowitz@whatever.cs.jhu.edu (Hymie!) writes:

>it's luck that i had calculus first period instead of third
>it's luck that at camp in 1985, i went to a movie festival 
>it's luck that, in both cases, they were also single, and attracted to me.

Yep.

>it's luck that i was able to figure out (very quickly) the things that
>they liked, so i could make them happy and keep them for a while.

Probably not.

Romantic relationships are like card games: a little luck and a little
skill. Knowing which is which can help.

Stef
stef@apple.com
--
It may be that your whole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning 
to others.    /fortune
From: stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Commitment--The C-word?
Keywords: commitment,marriage,reluctance
Date: 18 Aug 92 08:03:45 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes:

>I think just about anyone who's
>been badly hurt in the past is going to either jump head first into
>anything that comes along, or back off in fear when what looks like
>a "sure thing" comes their way.

>It depends on an individual's reflex style.  Boing.

The idea is to learn to put the foot back onto the floor after the knee has
jerked.

--
Stef                 After many years of study, scientists have determined  
stef@apple.com       that dogs bark "just for the hell of it." -- Smithsonian
From: kgorman@star-trek.bbn.com (Karen Gorman)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Las Vegas
Date: 22 Aug 92 13:27:36 GMT
Reply-To: kgorman@BBN.COM (Karen Gorman)
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: archive.bbn.com

In article <1992Aug21.213353.1705@news.acns.nwu.edu> drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max) writes:
>
>Anyone else getting what appears to be an email form letter come-on that
>starts something like, I read one of your posts and thought it was
>interesting....  ?  Just curious.



Yes.  I've gotten 2-3 of them this week.


Karen
From: nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Commitment--The C-word?
Date: 20 Aug 92 13:43:31 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: AT&T

In article <1992Aug19.174715.25011@sfu.ca> probst@fraser.sfu.ca (Scott Probst) writes:
>In article <1992Aug19.134728.25390@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes:
>>Nobody but a really insecure individual with lots
>>of problems would chose to live off another person and expect the situation
>>to work out well.
>>
>if two people come to some arrangement where one earns most of the money, and 
>the other does 'everything else', is this a case of someone choosing to "live
>off another person"?

You care to give an example scenario here?  Are you per chance talking about
the man who goes out and earns money and the woman who raises the kids and
keeps house?

I think both of those "chores" (if you would) should be shared responsibilities
by both members of the couple.

I'd like to hear your definition of "everything else" please?

>besides the fact that it seems difficult to live off even
>one good income these days in such situations, is the person who is "not
>working" such a parasite as you seem to be saying?

Depends on how they spend their day.  BIG question there.

>i'm uncomfortable with the implication that the person who
>stops working for a wage, perhaps leaves a career, and undertakes all these
>much-less-recignised responsibilities is somehow taking the easy way out.

Again.  Could you elaborate on these "much-less-recognized responsibilities"
and why some households can run efficinetly with only one person doing
all of them *plus* the breadwinning *plus* the childraising?  Hmmmm?

-Nance
-- 
Nance Colucci  *^*^*^*^*^*    o__    *^*^*^*^*  |  Work that body!
att!ihlpk!colucci            _.>/               | Stay fit for life.
                            (_) \(_)                           
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: dhar@oregon.uoregon.edu (Sanjay Dhar)
Subject: Re: men in their thirties who never dated
Organization: Materials Science Institute
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 10:02:23 GMT

>Easy to say.  I assert: they _must_ have something wrong with them,

so why don't u enlighten us all & tell us what is wrong with them.

>since many of them do not put all of their energies into other things,
>and furthermore, many people who _have_ done this still have found
>partners.  Try and prove me wrong.  :-)  (Sorry, just feeling
>argumentative.  This is glib advice from someone who has (presumably)
>never been in the position she is describing.)

>>people.  They've been in grad school, or they've been starting a business,
>>or whatever it is that they thought was important, and they've never really
>>talked much to people.  

>Might I suggest that a simple explanation for this is that they have
>not had anybody to share themselves with?  Or perhaps they are simple
>people who don't have a dark side to "share."

Didn't know that one needed a dark side to date. what kind of men do u know/
date????

>Again, glib advice but unfortunately, it doesn't work that way in the
>world as I know it.

so how does it work?(especially for the simple men with no dark sides)

>Kiran Wagle                             <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
>P.O.Box 2083 Bloomington IN 47402-2083      (812) 336-7478 [8p-1a EST]

sanjay.
From: palou@osnome.che.wisc.edu (Ignasi Palou-Rivera)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: cooking newsgroups??
Date: 17 Aug 92 20:48:30 GMT
	<1992Aug15.041340.6496@midway.uchicago.edu>
	<14088@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chemical Engineering
In-reply-to: johnf@Auspex.COM's message of 17 Aug 92 17:39:48 GMT

In article <14088@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:

>   I don't recall exactly how many they had but I remember that they had 8
>   different "stouts" on tap.  They had 6 or 7 different Pilsners from 
>   Czechoslovakia.  Not just Pilsner-Urquell.  They had Duvel from Bulgaria.

I'm sure you mean Duvel from Belgium (-:

>   | John Fereira            "Is that all you ever think about?"             |

Ignasi.
--
Ignasi Palou-Rivera		palou@osnome.che.wisc.edu
Dept. of Chemical Engineering, U. of Wisconsin, Madison.
From: jgh1+@pitt.edu (John G Hardie)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: talking in stores (was: Re: Finding Romantic Partners (long))
Date: 12 Aug 92 16:45:08 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

--In response to my silly article, Trygve Lode writes:
>Maybe you just look too scary or unapproachable or you're just holding
>the banana the wrong way.

I guess that's it.  I didn't know that there was a prescribed method
for banana holding.  Is it like semaphore?  Can you send messages?
Apparently, today's college educations don't teach you the critical
facts necessary for survival in the modern world.  On the other hand,
a Pentecostal lab partner once told me that I looked a little like
Jesus having a bad day.  Wonderful.  Maybe I wasn't holding the banana
the wrong way after all - perhaps my physiognomy was a putoff. ;-)

For what it's worth, your banana line cracked me up so badly that I had
to put my head on my desk until I could breathe again.  This immediately
caused speculation among my coworkers about why my face was all red
and I couldn't talk.  Thanks.  A lot.  Really.

John
(who hasn't been able to take anything seriously for at least a week)
-- 
jgh1@vm1.cis.pitt.edu

	Give me chastity and continency, but do not give them yet.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: allisson@turing.toronto.edu (Allisson Roome)
Subject: Re: Exactly what I mean by "unattached"...
Organization: Some and growing
Date: 19 Aug 92 20:29:37 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.223928.14426@fid.morgan.com> sethb@fid.morgan.com 
(Seth Breidbart) writes:
>In article <hk0ms3-@lynx.unm.edu> blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.)
>writes:
>
>>Personally, I would >love< to have an 'in' like this. Many people (and I
>>speak from my personal experiences here), are lacking in the Self-Confidence
>>arena for the simple reason that we (I) hate to think that my casual 'Hi'
>>is going to be interpeted as "I'm an evil demon from Hell, have 13 Unnamed
>>Diseases and want to drool on your breasts". The reaction from a lot of
>>women that I've gotten on occassion has been as if I had said that instead
>>of just 'Hi'. 
>
>Have you ever tried just that?  You might be surprised at the result.
>(Some women do have senses of humor, you know.)
>

You know I've been thinking about that line that you think your "hi"
might get interpreted as .. "I'm and evil demon .... breasts" and I
have to admit that if you or some other reasonable person were to come
up and say that to me, I'd want to get to know you better - granted
some of the friends I have who are "hyper-Christian" might try to save
you for that  demon bit but doin't judge me by them -- I even asked a
couple of my other female friends about the line and they agreed that
if someone came up to them in a social situation and said that or a
varient they would also be intrigued - granted some of these people are
those that go to Cons and Renn. Faires or just genuinely unique.

Allisson
-- 
allisson@turing.toronto.edu (new address) H. Allisson Roome
"Everything that you teach you are learning. Teach only love, and
From: rkf@wildrose.infoserv.com (Ray Fink)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Commitment--The C-word?
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 21:09:32 MDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Wild Rose Refugee Camp

nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes:

>That is freaking hysterical.  If I got married right now without any
>prior legal arrangement, I'd possibly be signing over half a house, half my
>pension, half a car, my life insurance and future inheritance, and a
>good number of my CDs.

*good number* of your CDs?  I want custody of *all* of them, you can have 
reasonable visitation rights (like when I say it's ok), and you 
damn well better make your CD support payments or I'll have your ass 
thrown in jail!

:-)

Seriously, I'm glad to see some women achieving economic power, and the
financial status where they now face some of the same commitment risks 
that men traditionally have had to face. 

Some of those risks really suck.

-- Ray

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: Larry Margolis <margoli@watson.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Finding Romantic Partners (long)
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 16:59:47 GMT
Reply-To: margoli@watson.IBM.com
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: The Village Waterbed

In  <kiran.714483423@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>  kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
> capnal@aqua.whoi.edu (Al Duester) writes:
>
> >If it's good enough to make a woman look me in the eyes after one
> >bite and say "You're a Domestic God!", then I don't care what it's
> >called! You can argue semantics, I'll cook for the women.
>
> How many relationships have you gotten by being a Domestic God?

I had a few people stay with me for a few days because the magician
was taping a show in my loft.  The two guys only ate hamburgers and
pizza.  One night after the magician's assistant (& girlfriend) had
made them hamburgers, I made a nice romantic dinner for her and we
had Greek salad and spagetti and sipped wine while they were working
right next to us.  A year later, they had broken up, and we got
together.  And the rest, as they say, is history.  :-)

Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: graydon@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Graydon)
Subject: Re: Finding Romantic Partners (long)
Organization: M.B. Cormier INC.
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 10:41:34 EDT

aahz@netcom.com (Aahzmandius) writes:

> In article <1992Aug20.183428.135449@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu
> >stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
> >
> >>Since it seems that USENET is an environment where some of the women prefer
> >>intelligent men, perhaps we can conclude that a man's chances of meeting a
> >>woman by posting *intelligent* things to USENET are greater than 0%.
> >
> >I guess this is still purely hypothetical, though.
> 
> Nope.  Not hypothetical.  Definitely not..... Uh, excuse me, the
> ProblemOlderWoman is calling.
> -- 
>                          --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
>                              @netcom.com 
> 
> Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6
> 
> "I 'got a life'.  Now what?"

Going to stick my neck a long way out and disagree with Stef about
this; I don't think they're looking for intelligence, I think they
are looking for someone-bright-enough-to-talk-to, who is also
balanced.  Since most of the women on the net seem pretty sharp
(the ones who post, at least), there is an inteligence selection
going on, but in the context of a selection for having-something-
interesting-to-say-that-isn't-*too*-crazy.

I think, anyway.

Gradyon

        Graydon the Curious         /graydon@micor.ocunix.on.ca
  Skraeling Althing, EAldormere, MK / "Nihil est quin obsisti possit"
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: graydon@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Graydon)
Subject: Re: Finding Romantic Partners (long)
Organization: M.B. Cormier INC.
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 11:54:44 EDT

kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:

> >But my universe isn't Trygve's either (women don't do blatently sexual
> >things to men they don't know well in mine, and they do in his).
> 
> I don't know anyone but trygve from trygve's universe.
> 
> -- 
> "Tapirs are animals used in geography books. Geography could be taught
>  without Tapirs but it would not be the same. Geography with Tapirs 
>  gives children the right start in life. If they go wrong later on, 
>  it is not the fault of the Tapir." ...Will Cuppy
> 
> "We are told the pangolin/Has a way of wangolin/ Every opportunity/To
>  prove it can with impunity/Stand on the side of a tree, as shown./Why 
>  is not known." ...Roy Blount, Jr.
> -- 
> Kiran Wagle                             <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
> P.O.Box 2083 Bloomington IN 47402-2083                  (812) 335-0420

I've had someone come up to me, smear chocolate sauce on my neck,
and proceed to lick it off.  I had been introduced to both of them
before, but I would have had difficulty remembering their names
if asked suddenly.

It *can* happen, really it can.  Please don't ask me *why* it
happens; I am quite sure by now that they answer does not fit in
my head.

Graydon

        Graydon the Curious         /graydon@micor.ocunix.on.ca
  Skraeling Althing, EAldormere, MK / "Nihil est quin obsisti possit"
From: dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: men in their thirties who never dated
Date: 12 Aug 92 16:28:49 GMT
Reply-To: dhardin@spcink.bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

In article <1992Aug12.130525.28732@cs.tcd.ie> droe@cs.tcd.ie (David Roe) writes:
>In article <l8fjapINN2dn@news.bbn.com> dhardin@spcink.bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes:
>>
>	[stuff deleted]
>>Since the kind of counseling that she used to do is now illegal, she thought
>							 ^^^^^^^
>
>I read this a few times, but I still dont get it, how can counselling be
>illegal?? Please elaborate.

She was a sexual surrogate.  That meant sometimes having sex with men
who had sexual problems so she could teach them to overcome their 
difficulties.  They always had to deal with the occasional police
harrassment, but after the AIDS thing broke the AMA came down
on their butts and said that it wasn't ethical for a counselor to have
sex with a client no matter what the reason.  (Actually, the counselor
and the surrogate were two different people, but now they no longer accept
the idea of surrogates at all.)  If she were to do it now she would either 
get arrested for prostitution or get the clinic shut down.  Or both.
According to my friend anyway, this has a lot more to do with AIDS than
it does with the efficacy or ethics of the counseling.

Dawn
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Subject: Re: Las Vegas
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 12:08:59 GMT

drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max) writes:

>Anyone else getting what appears to be an email form letter come-on that
>starts something like, I read one of your posts and thought it was
>interesting....  ?  Just curious.

I got one that started:
"I read a message you posted and thought it would be fun to contact
 you. I am a relatively new user of the net and enjoy conversing with
 various interesting persons such as yourself. I would be happy to
 trade thoughts with you on any subject you care to discuss."

Now that you mention it, it does read like a form letter, doesn't it?

*laugh*  Did you see the post from another lurker that said that "she"
should be told not to quote 99% of an article for a one line reply?
I was thinking of telling the writer that s/he should ask MaX how often
I have, er, commented on this...

Lurkers can be fun sometimes.
-- 
Kiran Wagle                             <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
P.O.Box 2083 Bloomington IN 47402-2083                  (812) 335-0420
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: probst@fraser.sfu.ca (Scott Probst)
Subject: Re: Commitment--The C-word?
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 19:32:05 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.124644.26008@cbfsb.cb.att.com> jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) writes:
>In article <3532@eastman.UUCP> garrison@kodak.com (Laurie Garrison) writes:
>>
>>ps.  every woman i know with kids who got divorced lowered her standard of
>>	living because she has the kids.  a few ended up on social
>>	services for a time.  i have yet to see an ex-husband go on welfare!
>>	(because of the divorce)
> 
> You left out the part about when she got married she raised her standard
>of living . Maybe she should have considered a career when she was staring
>out the window dreaming about that meal ticket.
> 
"dreaming about that meal ticket"? ... could you expand on this?

-- 
Scott Probst: Brain and Behaviour Laboratory, Psychology dept, SFU
              Graduate Issues Officer, Simon Fraser Student Society.
e-mail: probst@fraser.sfu.ca - ph: (604) 291 3354/3181 - fax: (604) 291 5843
              "yes, well, and here we go again..." - Dr H. S. Thompson
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: hays@TECHNET.NM.ORG
Subject: Re: BOINK! BOINK! BALLOONBOINK IN ALBUQUERQUE!
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 16:48:34 GMT
Organization: New Mexico Technet   Albuquerque, NM
Reply-To: hays@TECHNET.NM.ORG

In article <14105@auspex-gw.auspex.com>, johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
>In article <1992Aug17.220556.26837@asuvax.eas.asu.edu> ra@asuvax.eas.asu.edu (Starcap'n Ra) writes:
>>I must say that either of the two sunsets 
>>beats the piss out of California's.
> 
>Yea, but we've got a better view of the ocean.

True, but we've got more beach.  No Ocean, just beach.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Larry 'Purple' Hays                                        hays@technet.nm.org

Balloon boink!  Oct 2-4, Albuquerque.  Parties!  Breathtaking beauty! Sunsets!
   Mindless interaction with Southwestern geeks!  Bananas!  Nerd Bonding!
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: REQUEST:  TOP 20 WAYS TO ASK A FRESHMAN GIRL OUT
Date: 20 Aug 92 16:54:56 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <9208201553.AA05923@moe.optics.rochester.edu> ng@MOE.OPTICS.ROCHESTER.EDU (Baldwin Ng) writes:

>However, you are right that women don't like guys that just want sex.
 
Unless she's a hooker.

-- 
+============================================================================++
| John Fereira            "Is that all you ever think about?"                |
| johnf@auspex.com                                                           |
+============================================================================++
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