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From: ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams)
Subject: Re: Desperation (was Re: Commitment--The C-word?)
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 07:47:05 GMT

In <1992Sep8.190517.27011@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> smith@comm.mot.com (Jeff Smith) writes:

>In article <ewillims.715969109@unix1.tcd.ie>, ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:
>|>  I have been told by a source in
>|> the advertising business that they sometimes use men's legs (shaven) for 
>|> advertising hosiery as they are generally longer! (*GRIN*)

>Yikes! From now on, I'm only going to look at hosiery ads that include the
>whole body! Scary...

	And can you just imagine having to admit to someone who asks
you at a dinner party what you do, in fact, do for a living!? (*laughter*)

 
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
Subject: Re: "try becoming obsessed with..."
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 11:54:48 GMT
Organization: Bill 'n' Opus for Prez

In article <4!ynrc=@lynx.unm.edu> blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
>
>Its a lot like, believe it or not (and this is for the programming types out
>there :) learning how to program. I can teach somebody the basic steps involved
>in programming without to much difficulty. But Programming by rote is like
>Dancing by rote- sure all the steps are there, but you look really silly doing
>it. And, like dancing, the best coders I've seen make it look so easy- there is
>a 'natural flow' in how they code. Dance breaks down that way (well, formal
>dance does). When you're coding you think 'Oh, a loop goes here' and don't worry
>about the direct mechanics of the loop. When dancing, think 'Oh, that little
>spin move thingy goes here' instead of 'I gotta put, lesee, right foot, step,
>left foot, spin? was that it?'. So you don't get the 'little spin move thingy'
>exactly right. So? Do you worry when you mis-place a semi-colon in a loop? No-
>because as you get better at coding, the mechanics of a loop are automatically
>filled out in your head as you go through that section of code, just as when
>you getter better at dance, the mechanics of that 'little spin move thingy'
>become automatic. See- being a programming dweeb does have its advantages :)

<wild applause!>  You sure hit the nail right on the head!
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

IRWTFM -- and that ain't fun
From: dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: E.W. - Musk, garlic, pizza and other smells....
Date: 14 Sep 92 14:30:47 GMT
Reply-To: dhardin@spcink.bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

In article <1992Sep12.011322.15240@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> ron@turing.toronto.edu (Ron Wessels) writes:
>In article <lb1e24INNf38@news.bbn.com>
>dhardin@spcink.bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) supposedly writes:
>>The male equivalent to attract women is patchouli oil, I gather.  At
>>least my ex wore it and it always seemed to work for him.
>
>Ok, who are you, and what have you done with the real Dawn?
>
>You gave yourself away by talking about "your ex" without using words like
>"scum", "kill", "maim" or "castrate".  In fact, the reference is positively
>neutral bordering on complementary!  Clearly a forged posting.  :-)

I didn't think mentioning my husband's ability to attract women while still
married to me was particularly complimentary, but perhaps standards are
different.

But actually, one of his friends offered to have him killed for me a while
back and I'm very pleased that I had the presence of mind to say "no, but
thanks for thinking of me."  (I was afraid this guy would screw up, you see.)

Dawn
"Oh, Time!  Of all the dwellers here below 
You only elevate buffoons or fools,
Or him whose anus as an inkstand serves."
The Perfumed Garden of the Shaykh Nefzawl, translated by Sir Richard F. Burton
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Subject: Re: Courtship Generic Algorithms
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 03:40:33 GMT

dy@depsych.Gwinnett.COM (Dr. Yes) writes:
>Kevin Brown writes:

>I've tried several churches.  Nobody talks to you except old men...

>>This seems to depend.  I'm not religious, so such an option is
>>completely out for me.  Unfortunately, I suspect that the atheist
>>groups are mostly male.  :-)

>I'm not religious either, but if it's legitimate to fake
>confidence why not religious faith as well?

*laugh*  the good Doctor has a point, Kevin.  If you are willing to
fake even emotions, why not a bit of religious fervor?

You can always join a Unitarian church, or, better yet, a Fellowship.
In my fellowship we have about half christians, the other half an
eclectic mix of atheiests, pagans, and the occasional felinist.  As a
friend put it, one has all the social support of a church without
the religion.  Unitarians take a do-it-yourself approach to religion.)
-- 
Kiran Wagle <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: A lurker goes to California
Date: 14 Sep 92 03:18:21 GMT
	<1992Sep11.130922.4057@desire.wright.edu> <27xnw9.gerg@netcom.com>
Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
In-reply-to: gerg@netcom.com's message of 14 Sep 92 00:45:44 GMT

In article <27xnw9.gerg@netcom.com> gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews) writes:

   >Well, it's nice to know somebody in this group can be labeled net.genious, and
   >knows everything.  

   Yes, and apparently we can't say that about *you*, now can we?

   (By the way, it's "genius".)

Unless, of course, you're Wile E. Coyote.

"Are you in, genius?"
--
Charles R. Martin/(Charlie)/martinc@cs.unc.edu/(ne crm@cs.duke.edu) 
O/Dept. of Computer Science/CB #3175 UNC-CH/Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175
H/3611 University Dr #13M/Durham, NC 27707/(919) 419 1754
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"I am he who walks the States with a barb'd tongue, questioning every
one I meet,/Who are you that wanted only to be told what you knew
before?/ Who are you that wanted only a book to join you in your
nonsense?"  _Leaves of Grass_ xxiii.4.
From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: A lurker goes to California
Date: 14 Sep 92 14:03:08 GMT
Organization: AT&T

In article <27xnw9.gerg@netcom.com> gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews) writes:
>In article <1992Sep11.130922.4057@desire.wright.edu> wall@hel4.brl.mil (Jeff Wall) writes:
>
>	"Okay, here is a "description" of what I look like, beginning
>	with the most important stuff first:
> 
>	My measurements are 44, 22, 36, and I have pert DDDDD breasts.
>	I don't ever actually wear bras, though, because my nipples are
>	constantly springing erect and tearing holes in them.
> 
>	Once I snapped a bra strap and broke a picture window. Luckily, I
>	was thrown clear by the recoil.
> 
>	I'm so horny that anything can set me off. I am reminded of sex by
>	any object that is either concave or convex.
> 
>	For example, I had to give up driving a stick shift because my
>	panties, when I used to wear them, would be drenched with glandular
>	secretions the second I touched the shift lever. I still feel faint 
>	every time I put the gas nozzle in to fill the tank of my pink camaro 
>	with the fold-down quadraphonic vibraseats and white mink seatcovers.
> 
>	My hobbies are putting nail polish on my toes, reading Frederick's of
>	Hollywood catalogues without moving my lips, and wiggling.
> 
> 	I look like a cross between Ellen Barkin, Madonna, Cher, Melanie
>	Griffiths, and the first and second prizewinners at the annual Macon,
>	Georgia Watermelon Festival.
> 
>	I believe in dreams too. I write them down in a little diary in
>	which each "i" is dotted with a tiny valentine. When I was very
>	young I had a dream that told me I am destined to marry a genius
>	whose initials are "J. W." and I have been saving myself for him
>	ever since.
> 
>	By the way, I can suck the chrome off a sears trailer hitch.
> 
>	And I typed this with my nipples."
> 
>
>
>You hear that Jeff?  You might have a chance....
>
>(and yes, James, she has a seester)

I've always repected Tyger.
 
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From: mam3@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (MARY A. MITTNACHT)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Too Much of Anything is ...
Date: 5 Sep 92 03:50:12 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <1992Sep3.142709.25575@cbnewsd.cb.att.com>, nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com
(nancy.l.colucci) writes:
>Well I'm not sure about the attributions here, but somebody said:
>>>
>>> Trust me, it's good but only up to a point.  When instead of finding *your*
>>> hand sliding under and inside your pants, like Al Bundy, you find *her* hand
>>> there -- and all the time -- then you begine to realize the ramifications of
>>> the situation you're in.  There just comes a point when you say, the hell
>>> with it, remove your clothes and just walk around nude the whole time you're
>>> indoors for her benefit, so that she can claim what she feels is rightfully
>>> hers without the clothing obstructing her persistent efforts.
>
>(Note no smileys, so ...)
>
> And then somebody else said:
>>it really does sound quite horrible. :)
>
>And I hereby declare:
>
>Either the "she" in the first post has some real deep emotional problems,
>or she's got some physical condition that could probably be sated with a
>good supply of "D" cells.
>
>Sure, lots of folks here who are currently without a sex partner and feel
>a need for one might read the first paragraph and go "oh, you poor THING!
>So much SEX!  A steady wad and you're complaining!  Woo-ee, send it my
>way bay-bee!!  Hubba hubba hootchie cootchie!!  I'm here, I'm sexed, I'm
>ready!  Neener!!"
>
>But take the scenario a step further.  You're IN that situation.  You've
>gotten yourself into this monagamous commitment with someone and now
>you find that their life revolves around sex.  They don't care to talk
>about their day or hear about yours, they won't play Checkers with you
>or watch an old movie on cable, they don't want to go on the bike trails
>with you to feel the wind in their hair ... all they want to do is have
>constant body contact.  All the time, everywhere.  Even at your mother's.
>
>I have to wonder about people who'd be happy in that situation, as opposed
>to those who *think* they'd be happy in that situation.
>
>
>-Nance
>--
>Nance Colucci  *^*^*^*^*^*    o__    *^*^*^*^*  |  Work that body!
>att!ihlpk!colucci            _.>/               | Stay fit for life.
>                            (_) \(_)

>
Hello,
I'm new to this discussion group, but this conversation has peaked my
interest.

If you had to eat chocolate cake for every meal, wouldn't it get boring?
If you had to 'put out' every time your partner had the 'urge', could you do
it?
Where does individual human sexuality have a place in a relationship?

Obviously, both sides of the relationship need to be considered, 'HIS & HERS'!
-- 
==================================
Mary Ann Mittnacht
(215) 758-4674  x84674
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From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Desperation (was Re: Commitment--The C-word?)
Date: 9 Sep 92 18:36:17 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <ewillims.716024825@unix1.tcd.ie> ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:
|In <1992Sep8.190517.27011@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> smith@comm.mot.com (Jeff Smith) writes:
|
|>In article <ewillims.715969109@unix1.tcd.ie>, ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:
|>|>  I have been told by a source in
|>|> the advertising business that they sometimes use men's legs (shaven) for 
|>|> advertising hosiery as they are generally longer! (*GRIN*)
|
|>Yikes! From now on, I'm only going to look at hosiery ads that include the
|>whole body! Scary...
|
|	And can you just imagine having to admit to someone who asks
|you at a dinner party what you do, in fact, do for a living!? (*laughter*)
 
Nah, that's only my nighttime job.  I was corresponding with this woman
and was telling her about how I had played in two dart tournaments last
week, taken a 2nd and a 1st place and made $45.  She told me that she
entered a "hot legs" contest and won $100 in one night.  I think I'll
start doing "hot legs" contests instead of dart tournaments.

-- 
+==========================================================================+
| John Fereira     | Auspex Systems | "Auspex does not share my opinions.  |
| johnf@auspex.com | Santa Clara CA |  So Why am I still working here?"    |
+==========================================================================+
From: gds@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Greg Skinner)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: "want" vs "need"
Date: 9 Sep 92 19:57:43 GMT
Reply-To: gds@cs.ucla.edu (Greg Skinner)
Organization: in your face!
Originator: gds@oahu.cs.ucla.edu

In article <72185@apple.Apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
>Someone who balanced looking-for-a-cure-for-cancer against
>looking-for-an-SO might choose the former under either of these
>circumstances: they don't much care about an SO and are much more
>interested in studying cancer. Or they have decided that sacrificing the
>possibility of an SO will motivate them more strongly in their study of
>cancer.

It is possible that the person feels that their chances of finding an
SO and building a solid relationship with said SO are less than their
chances of discovering a cure for cancer (or even making any kind of
breakthrough), so they decide to pursue the cure for cancer.  Or, they
may feel that they won't be able to balance the demands of a
relationship with the demands of intense study, and decide to put off
relationships until they have made some kind of breakthrough.

>Personally I dont understand the latter sort of mindset, but it has been 
>a popular choice over the centuries and it probably is an effective
>motivator.

Someone posted an article to soc.women a while back about a woman who
left her husband and children in the USA to pursue advanced research
in Switzerland.  (At least I think that was what it was; perhaps
someone could refresh my memory.)  Anyway, her reasons for doing so
were because she felt she had never previously had the opportunity to
do that kind of research, and felt the opportunity would never come
again.

--gregbo
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: fredw@mks.com (Fred Walter)
Subject: A Different Flavour (was Re: leg shaving)
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 16:47:43 GMT

hoyle@beaufort.sfu.ca (Michelle Hoyle) writes:
>Michelle -- A Quirky Blonde Sysop of a Different Flavour
                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Almond ?

Or, even better,

Banana ripple ?

	fred "Mmmm Mmmm Good" walter

-- 
Disclaimer: everything I write is my *personal* opinion and does not represent
or reflect the opinion of the company which employs me.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: fredw@mks.com (Fred Walter)
Subject: Re: Can you accept criticism ? (was Re: Why lurkers lurk ...)
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 21:45:33 GMT

jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH) writes:
>It'll happen, so I side with "Wild Oscar" - "the only thing worse than being
>talked about is not being talked about."

I have another friend who said something similar - she'd rather be known and
hated then not known at all. Personally, if I easily could, I'd take being not
known and not talked about. I've had the 'being talked about' experience and
you, who believes that you'd rather be talked about (and disliked) ... probably
have never had people that you don't know go out of their way to hurt you,
and/or hinder you.

	fred "Wanting to swim in a sea of anonymity" walter
-- 
Disclaimer: everything I write is my *personal* opinion and does not represent
or reflect the opinion of the company which employs me.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Re: SHOULD I CALL MY EX-GIRLFRIEND? Let Jim do it.
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 18:43:29 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.175716.6271@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com> shear@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeff Shear 3769) writes:
>
>I broke up with my girlfriend about 2 months ago. Since
>then I haven't spoken to her.  I would like to call her
>just to say hi and see how she's doing--sort of to salvage
>a friendship out of a 6 month relationship.  It just seems
>so stupid that two people spend so much time together and
>then all of the sudden they never talk to one another again.
>She hasn't called me and I haven't called her.  Any advice
>out there would be greatly appreciated. I suppose that I 
>haven't called her because I'm afraid to find out how she
>might react to my call.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jeff

Post the number and I'll check it out. Just to make sure it's cool.
 
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: pekka@tmt.tele.fi (Pekka Ahonen)
Subject: Re: Tallllll women....
Organization: PTT Finland, Telematics
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 11:25:30 GMT

>In article <1992Sep3.182717.24436@javelin.sim.es.com>, gclapp@javelin.sim.es.com (Glenn Clapp) writes:
>
>>Aaah yes.  Tall women.  How would it be?  I know some, dated some.  Most
>>of them that I know are in their teens!  (bummer).  The rest?  Not one
>>thing in common.  I once told myself I'd only date >6 footers, then 5'10,
>>now no such limits.  I have found the average and even shorter women to
>>be much more fun (and more readilly available).  But... tall women... *sigh*
>>
>>Glenn
>>6'10"  (209 cm)


Hey, don't worry, maybe you'll get lucky as my friend who is about 200
cm and he married a woman who is 140 cm!
Now they've been married already 5 years and they seem to be happy.
They don't have any kids tho', wonder why :-)

BTW
He couldn't find a woman that short :-) in Finland, so he had to find
himself one from Thailand.

PS
Someone asked if all the tall men are in US of A.
There are also tall men (and women!) in Finland. I think that I'm
about the average height (or perhaps a bit short) 183 cm.

PSS
The tallest women must be in Estonia, all of them seem to be taller
than me (even my girlfriend :-)

- Brandon
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: fredw@mks.com (Fred Walter)
Subject: Re: Can you accept criticism ? (was Re: Why lurkers lurk ...)
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 22:06:46 GMT

Ross Ridge <ross@zooid.guild.org> writes:
>Maybe she wan't your roommate then...

Or maybe she didn't know me at all, and was talking about someone else.
Or maybe you don't know what you're talking about.
Or maybe you should stick to stuff you can look up in a book so you don't
have to reley on an obviously shitty memory.

>>Is this common, or do the friends of my friends
>>contain a larger than normal percentage of gossiping liars ?
>
>Aren't you glad I'm not doing it behind your back?

I'd rather you didn't do it at all. I don't like people who lie about me,
whether it's behind my back or in front of my face. I may have more respect
for the people who can do it in front of my face, but respect won't stop
me from knowing that someone who lies about me is an asshole.

How can you stand to be a liar ?

>>>I don't worry about how it comes across, I just try be honest. 
>>
>>How it comes across is important if you want the other person to actually
>>listen to what you are saying.
>
>That's up to them.

If you don't care if they hear what you are saying, why are you talking ?
Just to hear yourself talk ?

	fred
-- 
Disclaimer: everything I write is my *personal* opinion and does not represent
or reflect the opinion of the company which employs me.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.)
Subject: 'What the hell kind of a world do we live in...'
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 12:49:16 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque


Ever have one of those weeks?
Two of my close friends, in just the past 2 weeks, have both been diagnosed
with cancers. One with cervical, one with a cancerous mass in his Thyroid
gland. 
Prompted the one with cervical cancer to say 'What the hell kind of a world
do we live in where 25 year olds get cancer?'
Any answers? Didn't think so... (1/2 :)
sigh.
r.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Re: 'What the hell kind of a world do we live in...'
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 14:17:50 GMT

In article <1992Sep15.131831.13951@gvl.unisys.com> liz@prc.unisys.com (Liz Loquacious) writes:
>In article <1992Sep14.183131.28794@cbfsb.cb.att.com>, jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) writes:
>|> 
>|> Bill do you go to a lot of party's?
>|>  
>
>The guy can party James....didn't see you at the Boston Boink though.  Missed
>a good one....details to follow!
>
>Liz Loquacious
 
 I think I've been pretty patient. Well????????????????

 
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: sms@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (steven.m.stein)
Subject: San Jose, continued........
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 21:10:12 GMT


I am still coming to San Jose (Scotts Valley) on the 10th.  Although
I need to service another customer while I'm out there.  So.......
I need to be in Milpitas CA. Mon. Sept. 14th  - 16th.  One whole
week.  Sat. and Sun. are still my days.  The others belong to AT&T.
(Except for the evenings of course)

Is there enough to do to keep a guy sane yet entertained??

				Steve
From: stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: BOINK! BalloonBoink, Coming soon!
Date: 9 Sep 92 16:23:56 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

hays@TECHNET.NM.ORG (Larry 'Purple' Hays) writes:

>In article <72060@apple.Apple.COM>, stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:

>>Will there be CartoonCharacterBalloon Fu?

>Yes, YES YES!!  Oh *GOD* **YES**!!  (what is CartoonCharacterBalloon Fu,
>grasshoper?  Does it have buddha-nature?)

>   "SShhhhhhhhh.  Be vewy vewy quiet.  I'm hunting wabbits."  - E. Fudd

Joe Bob describes the best fights in the movies he reviews as <description
of fight> Fu. So ChartoomCharacterBalloon Fu would be a balloon shaped like 
Elmer Fudd hunting down a balloon shaped like Bugs Bunny, and .....
Sshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Mu!

--
Stef                     "The force of gravity on the moon is a fraction of
stef@apple.com            the gravity on the earth, so the moon would not be 
                          able to attract the pen to inself.  Rather, it would
                          only be able to suspend the pen."
                              --The Pen Is Mightier Than the Moon Hall of Fame
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: dennisp@kpc.com (Dennis Preston)
Subject: Re: Hey...where are the Colorado people?
Organization: Kubota Pacific Computer Inc, Santa Clara, CA
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 15:57:59 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.204440.3617@wvnvms.wvnet.edu> un030025@wvnvms.wvnet.edu writes:
>Hello. I am wondering if there is anyone around here from Littleton, Colorado.
>I was just wondering.....See you later....
>
>=-> Bye <-=

I lived in Littleton until my *divorce*, now I'm stuck in Aurora until
new years. After that I'll call Frisco home. (Frisco, CO)
-dennisp@kpc.com