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From: nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci)
Subject: Searching for the Perfect Turkey
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 20:05:25 GMT


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From: rohwerwd@netcom.com (W. David Rohwer)
Subject: Re: nkill  (Was: Re: KILLING a Poster rather than a Post)
Organization: Netcom - San Jose, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 07:19:27 GMT

In article <6935@grus.cs.nps.navy.mil> shimeall@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (timothy shimeall) writes:
>In article <1992Nov8.051923.13546@netcom.com> rohwerwd@netcom.com (W. David Rohwer) writes:
>> Now, some of my wished for nkills:
>>   nkill -POISON SLOWLY PAINFULLY  Anti-Choicers@USA
>>   nkill -POISON SLOWLY PAINFULLY  Censorshipers@USA
>user rohwerwd killed, process ends
>
>Why do people propose to end censorship by censorship?
>				Tim

     Why ask why?  Bud Dry.  :)

     Why do people infringe on other's rights?

     I see it this way.  I will try to defend my rights against people
who try to take them away and then try to take away their rights for
punishment reasons.  A prime example occurs when the state sentences
a convicted person because of the crime that person committed.

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From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
Subject: Re: PRES DEBATE
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 13:17:44 GMT

In article <1992Nov4.171823.7753@b8.b8.ingr.com> larry@b8.b8.ingr.com (Larry Billings) writes:
>In article <Bx5uC3.4LG@access.digex.com>, huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:
>> None of these problems (global warming, ozone depletion, rainforest
>> destruction) can have a lasting solution without human population control.
>> Since George Bush is one of the two chief obstacles, that's why I voted
>> against him a few hours ago.
>
>Please excuse my Obvious ignorance, but pray tell just how is George Bush
>one of the "two chief obstacles" in the problems of WORLD OVERPOPULATION???????

Trygve Lode answered this quite well.  The only thing I have to add is that
the other chief obstacle is Pope John Paul II; there's nothing I can do about
him, though.  (Tearing his photograph doesn't seem terribly useful.)

>Last time I heard, America (certainly USA) was not even on the list of 
>countries with overpopulation problems, and in fact that the US population
>was on the decline.

Assuming that immigration and emigration are ignored, the U.S. is still
experiencing a natural increase in population.  The rate was 0.63% during
the first quarter of 1989.  It's small but non-negative.  Nevertheless, the
U.S. population uses a disproportionate share of the world's natural resources.

However, the comparable rate in Kenya is about 4%.  This means that Kenya's
population will double in 18 years (approximately and ignoring immigration
and emigration).

>                     Average number of children per family in now at 1 2/3,
>that says we are not even replacing ourself [ie. two parents to be replaced
>by two kids].

Average family size in the U.S. in 1988 was 3.17, but without knowing the
average number of adults I can't make it jibe with your figure.  However,
natural increase is simply the net of the birth rate and death rate.

-- Herb Huston
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From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Subject: Re: PRES DEBATE
Organization: Indiana University
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 00:25:51 GMT

huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:

>And in the process produce a disproportionate share of the world's pollution.

I don't know about that, I'd like to see some numbers.  Eastern Europe
is horribly polluted, and there are vast regions of the world where
wood is burned for cooking and heat.  Is wood smoke less polluting
than gas and oil smoke?
-- 

Kiran Wagle                           <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
From: jmd@bear.com (Josh Diamond)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Philly Boink
Date: 9 Nov 92 22:25:20 GMT
Organization: Bear, Stearns & Co. - FAST
In-reply-to: wall@hel4.brl.mil's message of 9 Nov 92 16:08:47 GMT


In article <lft38fINNbic@news.bbn.com> wall@hel4.brl.mil (Jeff Wall) writes:

   Hey Liz I keep trying to respond to your email but my machine doesn't
   seem to like yours.  Do you have another address or someone who can
   forward messages.

I too am planning on coming in for the Boink -- I didn't realize that
this would be possible until yesterday...

Liz -- please either email me with info about the boink, or repost.  I
will probably be able to come down from NYC for saturday night, at
least...

Spidey!!!

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From: loosemore-sandra@cs.yale.edu (Sandra Loosemore)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Money and the Single World (was: Education and the Single World
Date: 13 Nov 1992 12:28:44 -0500
Organization: staff hacker @ Yale Haskell project
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In-reply-to: dbj@cs.washington.edu's message of Fri, 13 Nov 92 17:04:53 GMT

dbj@cs.washington.edu (Dave Johnson) writes:

   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 never worry too much about budgeting or running around trying
   >to find the best deal on something I do want to buy.  

   Sandra, will you marry me?  Or at least "keep" me?

Sorry, Dave.  I *do* tend to shop around for the best deal when it
comes to SOs, rather than take home the first one who happens to show
up!  Gotta make sure I get a quality product, sturdy and reliable with
a "Good Housekeeping" seal of approval and a money-back guarantee!  :-)

(And anyway, I'd expect my partner to be able to "keep" himself....)

-Sandra the cynic
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: larry@b8.b8.ingr.com (Larry Billings)
Subject: Re: PRES DEBATE
Organization: Intergraph
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:50:11 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.194613.21760@netcom.com>, aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine) writes:
> 
> Because Mr. Baker, as former President Bush himself put it, would be

He is NOT former President Bush until mid Janurary.

> -- 
>                          --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)

Newsgroups: soc.singles,general
From: don@island.COM (Don Hermes)
Subject: Re: Nightline and Presidential Cantidates
Organization: /usr/local/rn/organization
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 00:03:49 GMT

In article <1d6u8nINNbh@gap.caltech.edu> corbetew@cco.caltech.edu (Corbet E. Wilcox) writes:
>
>I have heard bad rumers that Clinton did not attend any classes or take
>any exams while he was at Oxford.  Does anyone out there know if he 
>received college credit for his time there?
>

If that were true we would have heard about it back in August.

Don
don@island.com
From: tmyers@unlinfo.unl.edu (tim myers)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: a question in search of an answer!!!
Date: 9 Nov 1992 19:58:21 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln	
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: unlinfo.unl.edu

brentaa@ac.dal.ca (brent, eh?) writes:

>In article <644@ka2qhd.de.com>, bill@ka2qhd.de.com (Bill Luzenko) writes:
>> (about a male dancing with a male and being called queer)

>The only solution I have found is to go to places where there are fewer of
>those closed-minded doorknobs around to bug you.  One of my favorite haunts
>is a local dance bar that is gay/straight, and men dancing together, whether
>they are gay or not, is a common sight.  Nobody there makes any judgements
>about anything that anyone else does.  Of course, you do have to fend off
>the occasional advance of other guys, but if you are secure in your masculinity
>Which you must be to dance with another guys, it's no big deal.

Another solution would be to change styles of dancing, from one to one to more
group oriented dancing such as square dancing, folk dancing, English country
dancing, etc. These dancing situations provide situations with a much wider
range of levels of intimacy. Also, it is not unusual for a guy or a girl to
fill in a missing spot of the opposite gender.

--
--
Toli the Curious, Shire of Mag Mor, Kingdom of Calontir
Tim Myers, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska
tmyers@unlinfo.unl.edu
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From: tyger@netcom.com (Kristen Kohlbecker)
Subject: Re: PRES DEBATE
Organization:  The following is all GERG'S fault!  
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 01:09:22 GMT

(W. David Rohwer) writes:
>tyger@netcom.com (Kitty in the Middle) writes:
>>
>>Bush/Quayle
>>Seymour/Herschensohn
>>
>>So there.
>>
>
>     Weren't the election results great.  The old-fashioned, social intrusive,
>hyprocritical pro-life Republicans lost.

Okay...clarify something for me...(if you can do it politely, that is...) As
I understood things, it was James Baker III, not Bush that apporved the keynote
speaker for the convention. If this is the case, why is the hate and bilge
spewed by that *idiot* being laid at Bush's feet? 

It's distressing that people can't differentiate between one person and the 
group as a whole. It is even more distressing that Republicans for Choice
and other such groups within the party as well as Bush himself didn't speak
out against such extremist views. Had he, he might have been returned to 
office. 

As for the senate critters, I take comfort in the fact that I will be able to
vote against Feinstein again in just two years. We'll see who crows then, eh?

  Tyger
Republicans for Choice, Santa Clara

>       /  Voting For: Perot, Boxer, Feinstein, 161 (Dr. Assisted Death) /
>      /  Voting Against: 164 (Term Limits), 165, 166                   /
> /   //  W. David Rohwer   // Amiga       UUCP: apple!netcom.com!rohwerwd |

Well, we seem to agree on the measures anyway...:)


-- 
      Kristen Kohlbecker    And I would choose to be with you
      tyger@netcom.com      That's if the choice were mine to make   
                            But you can make decisions too
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: larry@b8.b8.ingr.com (Larry Billings)
Subject: Re: PRES DEBATE
Organization: Intergraph
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 22:32:36 GMT

In article <thurlow.721079711@convex.convex.com>, thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:
> In <1992Nov3.165358.22372@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> smith@comm.mot.com (Jeff Smith) writes:
> 
> >This is certainly true. Ithink the U.S. economy has far too much momentum
> >for one person to be "completely responsible" for it. I do believe that
> >Carter's policies were in part responsible for that particular trend, however.
> 
> Yeah, I'll easily agree with all of this.  Carter had some good ideas,
> but I think he was a very poor delegator, and wound up in real trouble
> when he tried to tackle everything himself.  If his implementation had
> been better, he might have earned a second term.

This worries me about Clinton, in the third and last debate he said he would
be his economic Czar.

> 
> Rob T
> --
> Rob Thurlow, thurlow@convex.com
From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Nightline and Presidential Cantidates
Date: 8 Nov 92 19:40:39 GMT
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	<1992Nov2.203854.23565@cs.ucla.edu> <1992Nov2.213249.10582@dsd.es.com>
	<thurlow.721079418@convex.convex.com>
Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
In-reply-to: thurlow@convex.com's message of 6 Nov 92 19:50:18 GMT

In article <thurlow.721079418@convex.convex.com> thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:


   In <1992Nov2.213249.10582@dsd.es.com> pmartz@dsd.es.com (Paul Martz) writes:

   >So all the pro-Clinton people slam Bush, and all the pro-Bush people
   >slam Clinton. Great. You have each done a fine job of making your
   >respective candidates look favorable.

   Making _any_ of the candidates look favorable this year is just too
   hard.  It's a lot easier making the ones you fear most look as much
   like tha antichrist as possible.

The wierdest part of all this is that it seems no gradation of opinion
is permissible: my own opinion all along was "mnph.  Well, who looks
preferable?  Well, Bush.  Barely.  Only because I don't quite believe in
Clinton's ability to proceed as a moderate in the face of an
increasingly leftist Congress; but then I'm not that fond of Bush
either.  Perot's a nut.  Marrou is all right but I can't quite buy into
the Libertarian ideal of ideological purity. Oh all right."  I think I
pretty much said that.  That doesn't seem to be what people heard.

Similarly, I said clearly that I thought the idea that *only*
Republicans did Dirty Tricks was ahistorical and illusiory; that *both*
parties had their dirty politics.  But what others read -- you know who
you are -- had no resemblance to that.

And people wonder how Sister Soulja (sp?) and David Duke make a living.
--
		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,ba.market.housing
From: karr@cs.cornell.edu (David Karr)
Subject: Re: Response to Hi Ho Silver
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 18:50:13 GMT

In article <1992Nov6.140853.25426@b8.b8.ingr.com> larry@b8.b8.ingr.com (Larry Billings) writes:
>***************************************************************************
>NEWSIG
>Wantad: Single White Male "WITH" job seeks Single Female with job and 2 or
>more kids.  Object: Marriage so we can avoid Clintons tax increases.
>***************************************************************************

I have bad news for you: a married couple who are both well-employed
pay a HIGHER Federal income tax than the combined taxes they would pay
if they were not married.  This is the well-known "marriage tax" which
Clinton will inherit from Bush who inherited it from Reagan who
inherited it from who knows how far back and failed to get rid of it
in 1986.

Secondly, if one of the the two people would have been "single head of
household" if she weren't married, she loses even more by marriage.
Thirdly, if the two of you have comparable incomes, by combining
incomes you increase your chance of being classified as "wealthy" and
therefore subject to a surtax, since in general the tax brackets for
couples are not double those for single people (hence the "marriage
tax" as it exists today).

One way to substantially improve your tax situation is to marry a
woman with kids who is (or will be) without paid employment, or is
severely underpaid.  That is, you have the option of using your
hard-earned dollars to feed, clothe, and house some stepchildren
rather than sending them to the government, if you so choose.

Well, that beats that joke to death.  One last piece of advice: for a
joke to be funny, it has to resonate with reality as we know it.  You
don't get a lot of yuks nowadays by ridiculing people who claim the
Earth is round.

-- David Karr (karr@cs.cornell.edu)




Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: smith@comm.mot.com (Jeff Smith)
Subject: Re: Money and the Single World (was: Education and the Single World
Organization: Gagging Sloth Records
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 18:39:52 GMT

In article <1992Nov12.022122.5197@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>, jsmt@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Julia Smith) writes:
|> So long as we are venturing bravely into questions oft reconsidered...
|>   
|> How important is money to you in considering an SO?  Particularly
|> if you are considering significant financial differences? 
|>   
|> Scenerio 1:  You find out the person you are interested in makes
|>     *quite* a bit more than you do.  Does it make a difference to you?
|> 
Well, lots of guys joke about wanting to find a wealthy woman. In reality,
many of them would probably (maybe?) feel a bit intimidated and insecure about
not being the primary bread-winner. As for me...I don't think it would bother
me.
  
|>   
|> Scenerio 2:  You find out the person you are interested in makes
|>     *quite* a bit less than you do.  Does it make a difference to you?
|> 
I don't think this would bother me either.
  
|>   
|> Have you had someone break up with you over money issues?  Do you think
|> that those of the opposite gender care more or less about money than
|> your own affiliation?

Nope. I tend to think that people who make this a gender issue are trying
to make excuses as to why an ex SO broke up with them.  Just MHO of course.

jds

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                               * Health and knowledge and wealth and power,
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                               * I won't shut my mouth for less.
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Subject: Re: PRES DEBATE
Organization: Indiana University
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 01:22:42 GMT

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

>I'm no friend of Robertson or Buchanan, but to be fair the Democrats
>haven't thrown out Wellstone or ... oh hell, that guy Jane Fonda used to
>be married to.

Ah yes, Tom Hayden, Mr Hanoi Jane.  I don't know which one is worse,
the traitor or the socialist.  Did you know--One of Clinton's two top
economic advisers, Derek Shearer, wrote Hayden's platform some years ago.

They also haven't thrown out a liberal wing much too long to list
here.  In fact, they elected a couple of them to the Senate this year,
and if the DC statehood scam goes thru, they'll elect three more of 'em.

>They both *swear* they're not starting a new party, just trying to get
>their respective parties to move toward the "socially liberal, fiscally
>conservative" position.  (I'm not sure that *is* the "center".)

Well, it may not be the center, but it's certainly a place I'd like to
see a political party.  If they think they can get a party filled with
the likes of Buchanan and Robertson, or Jackson and Dellums, to move
toward that particular center, they're certifiably loony.
-- 

Kiran Wagle                           <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
From: tps@jptcs.COM (Tim Sailer)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: What do you Am men think about Am wome
Date: 9 Nov 92 07:49:20 GMT
Reply-To: tps@jptcs.com
Organization: JPT Computer Solutions, Port Jeff Station, NY
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Julie Wright (julie@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu) wrote:
: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (Andreas  Tovornik) writes:
: 
: >Good topic! This thread hits on the fundamental psychological difference 
: >between the sexes, IMVHO:
: 
: >Women look for love and find sex while men look for sex and find love!
: 
: Guess I'm just demanding.  I look for love AND sex AND Scrabble, myself.

OK... good combo.. but in that order? :)

-- 
Tim Sailer
JPT Computer Solutions - SCO Sales/Consulting/Administration and Mangling
Port Jefferson Station, NY
(516) 331-9001
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: wtr@mitre.org (Bill Ralston)
Subject: Re: **FIRST*DATE*IDEAS**
Followup-To: soc.singles
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 00:33:26 GMT

In article <BxLzJ3.6zI@mail.boi.hp.com>, morrison@boi.hp.com (Glen
Morrison) wrote:
> 
> Ok, so I met this lady about two weeks ago and I'm very interested in her.
> She showed quite a bit of interest in me also.  We've only had one
> long conversation and some short phone chats, but I'm pretty sure she'll
> go out with me. 
> So I need some attractive, interesting first date ideas.  I want to impress
> her, but not overly impress.  Also, while we're on the subject, how about
> some DOs and DON'Ts on first dates. More DOs than DON'Ts please. 
> Oh yea, I forgot to mention we're both in our mid-twenties. 

Don't admit to her that you aren't creative enough to come up with any
ideas by yourself and don't ever admit that you asked the world what you
should do on your first date. :-)

Do be yourself and suggest some things you enjoy.  Have you hit on any
common interests in your conversations?  If she isn't interested in any of
the things you suggest, she might suggest an alternative. (Although in that
case, I'd suspect it's more likely that you don't have any common interests
or she isn't interested in you).

-- Bill (BTW, Do you know Larry?  Montana and Idaho are next door, right?
:-)
-- wtr@mitre.org
   
* If my employer knew what I was posting, I'd probaby be unemployed *
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: ekman@netcom.com (Crossly the Glad-Eyed Bear)
Subject: Re: Do you remember 1970 to 1980?
Organization: Home for the Terminally Infirm
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 14:39:49 GMT

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.

In 1974, in order of importance:

  My Volvo lost a timing gear.
  The dishwasher broke, flooding the kitchen.
  The roof sprung a leak.
  My wife left.
-- 
Crossly the Glad-Eyed Bear              ekman@netcom.com
Home for the Terminally Infirm, Redwood City, California