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From: randyc@autodesk.com (Randy Clark)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: be kind to small furry animals
Date: 26 Aug 92 01:19:18 GMT
Organization: Autodesk, Inc., Sausalito, CA


In article <1992Aug24.053228.3750@reed.edu> nelson@reed.edu
(Nelson Minar) writes:
>In article <64524@cup.portal.com> ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:
>>Why bother with smiley faces?  Sentient readers don't need them.
>
>Because morons can send your postings off to irresponsible
>organizations with enough context stripped that the only way to read
>it is the way the moron read it. Then these organizations can send
>your message to your boss and try to get you prosecuted.
>
>Oh, didn't I post this already?

	You did post this story -- your sarcastic comment
	about uses of gerbils that some morons (as you say)
	took seriously -- and I meant to tell you earlier
	that I got a very good laugh out of it.

	I'm sure it was no great fun for you, at the time.
	But I too have had political run-ins with the humor
	impaired, so I'm laughing in sympathy, believe me.
>
>ObMotss - if a person posts to soc.motss "I am gay", is that enough to
>assume that they are out and not have to hide their sexuality for
>them? Could I, in good conscience, send mail to their postmaster and
>mention a soc.motss posting?

	Personally, I think this "ObMotss" question addresses
	just the same issue as your gerbil story.  Freedom of
	speech implies freedom to be misunderstood and to be
	quoted/reported.  If there's something I *really* don't
	want to be repeated or known, then I try to keep my
	mouth shut.  Otherwise, it's best to assume things will
	get around.

	The Net, in particular, is not secure; few computers are.

	Consider that there are thousands -- if not tens of thousands
	-- of readers you don't know about.  And in my case, living
	in San Francisco, a significant overlap between my Net
	friends and my non-computer friends (I can hear stories
	bouncing back to the Eagle now ... and that's not even a
	bar I go to often).

	So to answer your question concisely: Yes.
>                __
>nelson@reed.edu \/                   There is absolutely no other possibility

	-R


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From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Too straight looking to be gay
Date: 2 Sep 92 04:50:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Sep2.045053.9154
Distribution: usa
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA

In article <vanyel.715405912@camelot> vanyel@camelot.bradley.edu (Alan Williams) writes:
>What *is* the issue, Jess?  That I don't think like you do?  That my
>personal preferences, formed with the foreknowledge that something could
>change them, are *wrong*?

Nope, that's not the issue.

>If you can't accept my dislike of a certain type of behavior, that's *your*
>problem.  *I* don't let it cloud my impressions of other people.

Priceless.

>Oh, really?  I've said *continually* that I don't like a certain form of
>*behavior*.

Yawn.  Tell us something new.

>You've chosen to extend this beyond that comment and
>continually accuse me of latent homophobia because I actually, Havens
>forbid, have a *preference* about something.

No, Alan, that has nothing to do with it.  You really don't have a clue,
do you?

>Why *must* I be neutral about a particular kind of behavior, hmm?

Nitwit.  No one said you had to be neutral.

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From: jf@threel.co.uk (John Fisher)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: British spellings
Date: 4 Sep 92 14:17:51 GMT
Organization: 3L Ltd, 86/92 Causewayside, Edinburgh EH9 1PY, UK


In article <305030008@hpopd.pwd.hp.com>,
apm@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Andrew Merritt) writes:

> Another spelling difference I noticed in a thread a couple of weeks ago:  in
> the UK 'jewellery' is used for both the body ornaments themselves and the
> art of making them, whereas in the US, if I understand correctly, the former
> is spelled 'jewelry' and the latter 'jewellery'.

I had to look this up.  The, hrmph, OED says that
`jewellery' derives from `jeweller' and `jewelry' from
`jewel' but makes no distinction in meaning, apart from
saying that `jewelry' is more poetic and is nothing to do
with jewellers. 

There now.

--John
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: emcmanus@gr.osf.org (Eamonn McManus)
Subject: Forty years a queen
Organization: Open Software Foundation Research Institute, Grenoble
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 13:14:34 GMT

I wrote:
>>   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.]

anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) asks:
>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".

Certainly.  In fact, I asked a French colleague who thought that using
it to mean "a queen for 40 years" was pretty iffy at best.  I assume
therefore that the Gai Pied journalists had difficulty coming up with
a French equivalent to "40 years a queen" (which Roger Phillips
informs us was the original English wording) that it would make sense
for a 40-year-old Queen (in our sense) to wear.

[I have *got* to do something about those sentences!]

>    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?" :-)

Vu que j'essaie de supprimer mes tendances pedantes, je ne corrige
qu'une seule erreur: Alex n'a pas les yeux marron.  Malheureusement,
car je les adore; mais personne n'est parfait.

         ,
La Reine Eamonn Premiere, Souveraine des Pederantes, Monarque des
	Traductions Douteuses

[Oh, I can't resist pointing out something Jess probably already knew:
"Tu veux me prendre a la Sainte Chapelle?" can mean "Do you want to
fuck me at the Sainte Chapelle?"]
From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Too straight looking to be gay??? (was re: UNGAY GAY)
Date: 28 Aug 92 20:28:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Aug28.202850.18626
Distribution: usa
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA

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....]

There's irony here, but not where you think.

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Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Subject: Re: Come out!  come out!  (was Re: Barbara Bush is a ...)
Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 13:25:49 GMT


In article <1992Aug28.114226.3339@nwnexus.WA.COM>
elf@halcyon.com (Elf Sternberg) writes:

>In article <1992Aug28.040233.28708@macc.wisc.edu>
>anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:

>>God, you mean some of us *are* getting it on?  That's a
>>relief!  There's hope after all.  :-)

>Thank God for the smiley, Jess!  Come on, you must get at least an
>offer a day!

(Mashing metaphors:) You can't eat offers, but if that was
one, let's get crackin'!


<> Silence keeps us all in darkness, we can't change things
<> overnight!/ But we can shed a little light, Be Political
<> not Polite! -- Romanovksy & Phillips
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Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: rjwill6@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams)
Subject: Re: Morrison & Foerster: any comments?
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Francisco
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 16:03:20 GMT

> drp@dosbears.uucp writes:
>> lxfogel@srv.PacBell.COM (Lee Fogel) writes:
>>> wjw@leland.Stanford.EDU (Wilhelmus Johannes Wytenburg) writes:

>>>A general question to all the motssies out there:
>>>Does anyone have any info about or experience with
>>>the EOE/non-descrimination policy of the law firm
>>>Morrison & Foerster?  Any comments about good, bad,
>>>or indifferent experiences are welcomed.
>>
>>My wife works for them and she has often commented on
>>how gay-positive they seem to be.
>
>Isn't there usually a MoFo contingent in the Parade? Or
>is that a different law firm?

It's the same firm.  They have great T-shirts with "MoFo Homo"
on 'em.  Morrison Foerster has the reputation of being the
most gay-friendly of the larger SF-based law firms, and the
one that G/L employees of other firms hold up as an example
when they're negotiating improvements with their own bosses.
I believe they have several out-of-the-closet partners.
They've also been major supprters of the AIDSWalk here for
years.
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Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: brent@syacus.acus.oz.au (Brent Davies)
Subject: Re: Too straight looking to be gay??? (was re: UNGAY GAY)
Organization: Australian Centre for Unisys Software, Melbourne
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 01:52:04 GMT

anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:

[re: Bob "TQ" Herself]
>He seems to be in a kind of feeding frenzy.  Rather than
>talk *to* him (amples evidence suggests it's what he's
>after, being right and all that stuff), I suggest talking
>*past* him.  Talk to the rest of the people out there, be an
>antidote to Sargon's pollution, that sort of thing.  He'll
>lose interest if no one strokes the verbal extension of his
>Big Manly Tool.

I think this is wise.  It was after I'd agreed yesterday with Bob Donahue's
exhortation to steer away that I read your post noting that, in fact, 
there is probably a heap of good information being distributed as a
result of this thread.  So I've changed my mind:  instead of *losing*
this, let's *use* it.

--Brent
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: psp@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (P.S. Powledge)
Subject: Re: Redefining masculinity
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 19:43:39 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.195159.14434@microsoft.com> bobsarv@microsoft.com (Bob Sarver) writes:
>I shudder to think how deliberately unaware you strive to make yourself.

Whereas it just comes naturally to you, huh?

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Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: buckmr@aix.rpi.edu (Ron Buckmire)
Subject: Re: EEO Poll... please read
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 23:25:10 GMT

tdbear@tandon.com (Tom Barrett) writes:

>Hi folks...

>First off, please do not do a follow-up to this.  If you
>choose to respond electronically, please netmail to
>"tdbear@tandon.com".  I would much rather you send snail mail
>(the reason will be clear in a moment), so please send to: Tom
>Barrett; P.O. Box 87; Moorpark, CA 93020.

>I want to build a library of actual EEO policies and also
>information on the corporate climate and general area climate
>for companies in the technical areas (not just limited to
>computers) as well as universities and colleges.  The library
>will be donated to a national g/l technical organization.  You
>do not have to send me your name or address, but I will be
>happy to accept it and it will not be released to anyone else
>(it would come in handy if I have any more questions, etc.).

larry@bradley.bradley.edu where are you?? :-)

[Haven't seena listing of the non-discrimination list in quite awhile. Seems
like Cincinatti Bell should be added]
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From: Furr@cup.portal.com (George Dalton Madison)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Folsom ST Fair
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 21:01:14 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <exotica.715281359@milton>

Tsilke Pearlman writes:
>See yez there!


Which reminds me....


Since Brian Gollum will not be around to suggest and organize the
usual dim sum do for motssites and motssoids during that
timespan, I am wondering if there is anyone else in SF or nearby
willing to take up this mantle?  

Perhaps something other than dim sum could be arranged, so as not
to impinge too deeply on Brian's "turf."  ;-) 

 
() I think *true* happiness can only be found in the wanton
() indulgence of animals.
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Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: tdbear@tandon.com (Tom Barrett)
Subject: Re: move to canada, eh?
Organization: Tandon Corporation, Moorpark, CA
Distribution: soc
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 19:03:20 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.941.54425@dosgate> "paul bobbitt" <paul.bobbitt@canrem.com> writes:
>Given that fact, perhaps some of you exhausted American Gays should
>consider visiting Canada for the next 10 years or so.  We'd love to
>have you, and it probably won't be long before same sex marriages are
>allowed up here, so we could get you across the border that way...

Well... I might consider that if I could get a job... don't
know of many board/system design houses iup your way.  Does
Canada have a "Silicon Valley" of sorts?

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Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: katbea@auto-trol.com (Kathy Beatty)
Subject: Re: Is Pat Robertson for real??
Organization: Auto-trol Technology Corporation -- Denver, Colorado
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 15:17:53 GMT

carlson@ab24.larc.nasa.gov (Ann Carlson) writes:
: 
: I know that my position here isn't generally respected and that many
: aren't willing to believe in anything good for LGB people comming out
: of the church, but I think think that *is* good news in continuuing
: vocalness of the viscous-right crowd.  I've noticed a lot of the 
: normally silent, more moderate, christians who have woken up to the
: fact that they can not afford to be silent about the issues.
: 

I hope you are right about this, because my observation has been that
moderate Christians are NOT speaking out. In fact, over in some of the
politics groups, I have, when encountering someone claiming to be a
mainstream Christian, asked directly on the net *why* they are being
so silent about the evils being perpetrated by the KKKristian Right.
Every single time so far, there has been no response whatsoever. 

Personally, I'm not sitting around waiting for Christians to clean up
their own house while the KKKristians are dragging us to the gas 
chambers.


Kathy
From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Twin Cities/Rochester, MN (was Just please shoot me)
Date: 26 Aug 92 22:09:28 GMT
Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison


In article <2a9aea62-43c9.6soc.motss-1@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
akcs.toby@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Toby Schneiter) writes:

>Rochester MN [...] is only a few miles outside of
>Minneapolis/St.Paul

About 70 miles.

<> I qualify almost everything I say.
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Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: brent@syacus.acus.oz.au (Brent Davies)
Subject: Re: Homophobe Alert: from s.c.china
Organization: Australian Centre for Unisys Software, Melbourne
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 06:07:23 GMT

lcrew@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Louie Crew) writes:

[Louie is quoting from a homophobic post on s.c.china; these are NOT his words]

>Male "banana"'s ass is valued high by white gay men. The reason for that are 
>two folds. 

Hateful diatribe.  *Wonderful* malaprop.

Brent
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: jefu@nmt.edu (Jeff Putnam)
Subject: Re: more kind words of compassion from an evangalist...
Organization: The Museum of Differential Geometry
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 14:30:40 GMT

In article <nmpynlb@rpi.edu> buckmr@aix.rpi.edu (Ron Buckmire) writes:
>kgdykes@thinkage.on.ca (Ken Dykes) writes:

>>Taken from "The Globe And Mail" newspaper, Toronto, Wednesday, August 26, 1992

>>...WORD WATCH
>>  ...Feminism: is described in a fund-raising letter by U.S. evangelist
>>               Pat Robertson as "a socialist, anti-family political movement
>>               that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their
>>               children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and
>>               become lesbians."
>Argh!!!!! These people REALLY piss me off. And since no-one uses dictionaries
>anymore this is the kind of definition people will ascribe to feminism
>instead of one even remotely close to reality.

Worse!!!!!  These people have a cable channel (the Fambly Channel, ex
CBN) on which they broadcast this propaganda just about every day -
and it is a cable channel carried by just about every cable franchise
in the US.  George Bush (Hmm, "Get me a shrubbery!") has staunch and
active supporters in Pat Robertson and his ilk, and it is going to
amount to free advertising for him from now to the election.  And
since its not Bush's advertising (in fact, as much of it is done on
so-called "news" shows like "The 700 Club"), I doubt that they will be
required to carry an opposing viewpoint.

How could we counter this?  
-- 
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"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always
so sure of themselves but wiser people are full of doubts." B. Russell 

Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: rogerk@queernet.org (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Subject: Re: What's a "beaner"?
Organization: QueerNet
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 17:25:44 GMT

In article <64492@cup.portal.com> ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:
>There's an ad on TV about prejudice and hate.  It starts out with a white
>screen, then the word "faggot" appears in one corner, followed by "nigger"
>in the opposite corner.  Then "beaner" shows up.  What's a beaner?

It's derogatory for "Mexican."
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Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: buckmr@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Ron Buckmire)
Subject: Re: Gay Homophobia [BUSH's Convention Speechwriterc is a FAG!]
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 22:02:27 GMT

rjwill6@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams) writes:

>> buckmr@vccsouth21.its.rpi.edu (Ron Buckmire) writes:
>>Ugh! The latest EXTREME case of homohomophobia [as GENRE cutely coined the 
>>term last year] I have seen recently is the revelation by _QW_ that the author
>>of Bush's convention speech, [Phillip/Roger Nobile (sp?)], is gay!
Correction! Phillip Nobile REPORTED that Ray Price (the author of the Bush
Speech) is homosexual.

So, Mr. Price is the ****head.

I re-read the Village Voice issue on the REpubloican HateFest. The Donna
Minkowitz piece was hysterical! She went to the log Cabin Convention and 
reported that there was ONE Woman, One Black person and ONE Hispanic person.
It was at a swank inn, which cost $518 for two nights of the convention, in the
Woodlands suburb of HOuston, which some of you may remember is where the thug-
teenagers who beat and killed Paul Broussard [leading to the Houston police 
posing as gay men, in order to try to apprehend bashers] last year.

Gay Republican? puhleeeeeeze.

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From: aberson@enh.nist.gov
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: RE: Redefining masculinity
Date: 1 Sep 92 19:56:49 GMT
Organization: NIST

In a previous article, anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) wrote:
>To my great surprise, the map of dates onto days was the
>same in 1942 as in 1992.  It was then as now a Thursday.

Not exactly.  1942 was not a leap year.

Sim, catching up, hoping he is not repeating what someone else has said.

       Sim Aberson   Ft. Lauderdale, FL   aberson%3328.span@sdsc.edu
"It's always Beach Party Barbie, or Malibu Barbie....  That shit does not
prepare you for the true horror of a real woman's life.  Where is Single,
Abused, Trailer-Park Barbie?"             - Roseanne Arnold
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: balistik@big-brother.nevada.edu (Shawn Hicks)
Subject: Re: The Life of Reilly
Organization: Not yet, but we're working on it...
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 16:29:49 GMT

In article <1992Sep04.022535.12919@microsoft.com>, georgere@microsoft.com (George V. Reilly) writes:
>ry@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (ryerson.schwark) writes:
>) coren@osf.org (Robert Coren) writes:
>) > georgere@microsoft.com (George V. Reilly) writes, wrily:
>) > > Or Wreilly...
>) >Oh, rielly?
>) No. its "O o o o oooooohhhh! Reilly!"
>
>Oh, Ry!  Leeeeeeeeeeeeead us into temptation.

Ry, please, oh please, lead me too!  (I knew I should have bought
that leash and collar at PDX.con. Ry was so fond of the one with
the tropical print...)

>But remember: don't rile Reilly by calling him O'Reilly.

Sigh. I tried for hours to get Reilly riled, and in all that 
time I never said O'Reilly, Oh...Reilly OH...Reilly! *OH*!


Shawn, Not to be confused with Sean, who I haven't seen.
From: jhb@calmasd.prime.com (Jim Bishop)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Publicity
Date: 4 Sep 92 05:36:51 GMT
Organization: -

In article <1992Sep2.190730.15684@PacBell.COM>, 
rjwill6@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams) writes:

> With respect, Nelson, Matthew was referring to Presidential
> politics, not the situation in Oregon.  And, as far as
> Presidential politics are concerned, I think he's correct
> in saying that the parties' support for or opposition to
> L/G civil rights, in itself, has little effect on the average
> voter's propensity to vote for one candidate or the other.

So what are we Rod?  At the risk of sounding boring, I consider myself
an "average" voter and L/G civil rights certainly effects how I vote.
And I believe (perhaps naively if there are many Melmons out there) it
effects the way at least 10% or so of the people vote.

Jim
From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Folsom ST Fair
Date: 1 Sep 92 17:13:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Sep1.171316.10092
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA

In article <65060@cup.portal.com> Furr@cup.portal.com (George Dalton Madison) writes:
>Totally wrong.  I just don't like *SZECHUAN* food, and I see no
>reason whatsoever for soc.motss gatherings to be locked into one
>particular cuisine.

Dim Sum restaurants have the advantage of enormous seating arrangements
at least.  I'd be game for anything, of course. :-)

>>I don't think there's a place which serves peanut butter and jelly sammiches
>>AND has room for 40+ leatherfolk. :-)
>Steve, do you have to *work* at being this big an asshole or were
>you born this way?

I can't help it when there's such a straight man on the other end of
the wire.  I mean this only affectionately, George.  Now let me put
my lobster bib on, and let's hug and make up (eeeeekk!!).

-- 
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