HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: m1nss01@fed.frb.gov (Neil S. Seftor)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Dating an older woman
Date: 7 Oct 92 13:19:48 GMT
Reply-To: m1nss01@fed.frb.gov (Neil S. Seftor)
Organization: Federal Reserve Board, Wash, DC

In an article, Michelle Hoyle wrote:
> Life stages?  Equal standing?  How do you measure something like 
> that?
> 
> On the other hand, I think that you might have something with your
> "equality".  For the most part, I don't feel very comfortable with
> people who are near my age.  The simple reason behind this is that
> they are not, to my mind, as mature/serious as I am.  They appear to
> be children worried not beyond their decision of what to wear on the
> morrow, whereas I am their parent concerned with finances, rent, and   
> coping with a job and studies at the same time.
> 
> Legally, anyone over the age of 18 (or 19 in some provinces) is an
> adult, but being an adult is a state of mind, not a state of
> physiological being.
> 
> Michelle -- QBS

I seem to have the same problem, but to a different degree.  I find that
people *my* age are not mature enough for my tastes, and I tend to be as
you are, concerned about the realities of life and not having my head up
in the clouds.  So, what should someone in my situation do?  My only 
option is to try to find someone compatible, and have them get to know 
me without knowing/caring about my age ... this is not an easy task.  It
seems that I'm stuck waiting for the people my age to get to the level
of maturity I have ... and that's depressing.  I believe in that being
an adult is a state of mind, but if that is true, why do so many people
put such emphasis on physical age?

	- Neil

-- 
"Give light and the people will find their own way."
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: More on guys who aren't dating Ed Wright
Date: 12 Oct 92 19:13:50 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

julie@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (Julie Wright) writes:
|
|	IMHO, "Wright" is a bad last name to have.
|
Could be worse.  I have a cousin whose last name is Cox.

-- 
+==========================================================================+
| John Fereira     | Auspex Systems | "Auspex does not share my opinions.  |
| johnf@auspex.com | Santa Clara CA |  So Why am I still working here?"    |
+==========================================================================+
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: WANTED WOMAN 27 +
Date: 15 Oct 92 19:28:12 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <TLEONE.92Oct14183621@jade.tufts.edu> tleone@jade.tufts.edu (Trudilyne Leone) writes:
|now this coment makes me a little bitter.  you do not think that there are
|mature women to be found?  Perhaps that you have not looked in the right
|places.  Perhaps that you frequent bars and other pick-up joints.

Are you saying that you can't find mature women in bars or other pick-up
places? (HINT: some people consider grocery stores as good places to meet
members of the appropriate sex.)

-- 
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| John Fereira        | Auspex Systems | "Ask me about my vow of silence." |
| johnf@auspex.com    | Santa Clara CA |                                   |
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From: pickerig@dns0.bham.ac.uk (Mr. G. Pickering)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Asking advice
Date: 16 Oct 92 08:37:52 GMT
Organization: The University of Birmingham, England
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

If you can't argue your point....abuse someone why don't you!

--
Guy Pickering
Electronic Eng, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham. ENGLAND
G.PICKERING@uk.ac.bham  or pickering@uk.ac.bham.eee
--
"Simpleton?...Now I know that means something bad." - Kelly Bundy
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.romance,alt.romance.chat,talk.bizarre
From: dave@bradley.bradley.edu (David Vessell)
Subject: Re: How long has it been?
Organization: Bradley University
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 16:42:20 GMT

mneeley@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark Neeley) writes:

>How long has it been since you were kissed by a member of
>the opposite sex?
>
>	Mark (almost a year)

Nine months, five days.

Bleah.

-- 
=========*davE*.....making the world safe for intelligent dance music.=========
        Shut up. Consume. The comfort you've demanded is now mandatory.
--------------------------{dave@bradley.bradley.edu}---------------------------
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From: 01ksdavis@bsu-ucs.uucp (Rebel without a clue.)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.romance,alt.romance.chat
Subject: Cool .sigs  was RE: How long has it been?
Date: 13 Oct 92 00:14:02 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.035928.8080@ac.dal.ca>, brentaa@ac.dal.ca (brent, eh?) writes:
> In article <1992Oct12.093536.13144@phillip.edu.au>, t8914179@phillip.edu.au (John Whale) writes:
>> -- 
>> John Whale.
>> 
>>                            -.                       .-
>>                        _..-'(                       )`-.._
>>                     ./'. '||\\.       (\_/)       .//||` .`\.
>>                  ./'.|'.'||||\\|..    )o o(    ..|//||||`.`|.`\.
>>               ./'..|'.|| |||||\`````` '`"'` ''''''/||||| ||.`|..`\.
>>             ./'.||'.|||| ||||||||||||.     .|||||||||||| ||||.`||.`\.
>>            /'|||'.|||||| ||||||||||||{     }|||||||||||| ||||||.`|||`\
>>           '.|||'.||||||| ||||||||||||{     }|||||||||||| |||||||.`|||.`
>>          '.||| ||||||||| |/'   ``\||``     ''||/''   `\| ||||||||| |||.`
>>          |/' \./'     `\./         \!|\   /|!/         \./'     `\./ `\|
>>          V    V         V          }' `\ /' `{          V         V    V
>>          `    `         `               V               '         '    '
>> 
>> 				   "VAMPIRES!"
> 
> WOW! This definitly has my vote for .sig of the month
> It may not be original, but it gets A+++ for style!
> 					-Brontosaur wishes he could do that!
-- 
	You know, I have been developing a .sig collection of some really cool
sigs.  I have a scanned Amiga logo converted to ASCII (somebody else did all
of the work) I have the bottom border of the American TV show Mystery Science
Theater 3000, and others.

	maybe we can get a new newsgroup alt.sigs?  Opinions?
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|2000HD	1MbRAM//                                Hot VWs               1973     |
|1084s       //  Only Amiga makes it possible,    \/   Take 2 home-   311      |
|Oki 20   \\//   All others make it plausible.   \/\/  They're small.          |
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From: wjb@moscom.com (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.romance,alt.romance.chat,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: How long has it been?
Date: 12 Oct 92 14:08:29 GMT
Reply-To: wjb@moscom.com
Distribution: na
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford NY
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.3 beta PL7]

Mean Green Dancing Machine (aahz@netcom.com) wrote:
: Sounds like a couple of pythons getting friendly.  Except for the 'warm'
: part, of course.
Two pythons getting friendly in a microwave?
-- 
Who needs lime jello?  We had lasagna...
-------------------------------------------------------------
Bill de Beaubien / wjb@moscom.com
From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: HI, I am a HOMOSEXUAL! Send me mail
Date: 13 Oct 1992 03:45:11 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

In article <1992Oct12.131404.203070@uctvax.uct.ac.za> krgjus01@uctvax.uct.ac.za writes:
>Sorry to get your cock up but I prefer fucking women up the ass !!
>But I'd like to know from an expert in the field - how the fuck do you get the
>shit off your dick ?
>
>advice would be greatly appreciated .

Well for one perhaps you can complete the punchline to question:  What's got 3
black legs, 3 bent knees, and is full of shit?

Seen anything resembling this particular monstrosity lately?
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Unique Hobby
Date: 7 Oct 1992 12:52:06 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

To: mcsweinberg@memstvx1.memst.edu
-> I am in desperate need of a article topic for a class. The assignment
-> is to write on a person with a unique or different hobby. If anyone
-> has a hobby they would like to share and be willing to be e-mail
-> interviewed about please contact me. The article is due in less than
-> a week.

In article <15970.1335.uupcb@spacebbs.com> mike.mcaulay@spacebbs.com (Mike Mcaulay)  writes:
>I swallow live, flaming rats.

I design and fabricate slutty women's fashions for my female friends so when
they go out to a hot dance spot wearing nothing but the tight-fitting, skimpy
clothing item I designed for them they can tease the hell out of the male
patrons of the bar and turn them into whimpering masses of protoplasm with
their highly erotic visual appearance.

Yeah.  Um.  How's that for a hobby.
From: stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Qui est le plus MUSHY?
Date: 15 Oct 92 19:25:34 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (Andreas  Tovornik) writes:

>I was wondering what your thoughts were on sentimentality as a function
>of gender. I don't care if you use sweeping generalizations, or you get
>down dirty and specific.

>My biased view is that despite Victorian myths, Men are generally more
>prone to sentimentality than women. This is not to say that some women 
>cannot be more mushy than some men.

I think that there is far more variation between individuals 
than between sexes. If men seem more mushy to you, it is probably
because sex-role stereotypes state that men are not supposed to be mushy at
all. So any mushiness is more noticeable. Whereas women are supposed to be 
mushy according to the stereotypes, so any non-mushiness is more
noticeable.

I've known mushy and non-mushy people of both sexes. I've even (*gasp*)
known a single individual to act mushy sometimes, and not mushy at other
times.

--
Stef					"One of us has to be a pragmatist."
stef@apple.com				"Nonsense!"
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
Subject: Simian crease (was Re: Open letter to Edward V. Wright)
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 11:48:50 GMT

In article <MARTINC.92Oct13102312@grover.cs.unc.edu> martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
>Fun story.  It'd be even better if I knew what a simian crease was.

I'm sorry that you missed the "Ugly hands" thread.

The following is an explanation of the simian crease.  Anyone wishing to skip
it should take appropriate action.

The palms of your hands have flexure lines.  They form a pattern but differ
slightly from one person to the next.  This is what enables people called
palm readers to make a living; they "read" your palm for character traits
after you have placed some cash into their palm.  What the flexure lines
really are are skin hinges that allow your skin to bend when you flex your 
fingers or your thumb.  Most people have two flexure lines running roughly
perpendicular to the fingers, one from the radial (thumb-side) edge and
the other from the ulnar (pinkie-side or karate-chop) edge, that pass each
other and terminate near the middle of the palm.  This is the human pattern.
However, monkeys and apes have a single flexure line running right across the
palm from the radial edge to the ulnar edge.  And so do about 4% of humans, 
about 6% of males and 2% of females (more sexual dimorphism).  It's just
more evidence that there are ape genes swimming in the human gene pool.

-- Herb Huston
From: crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Female geeks
Date: 14 Oct 92 17:20:42 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <ewright.719078781@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:

>The soc.singles PC line goes like this: Spending time improving
>your appearance does not reduce the number of hours you have
>available for reading and learning.  Since you cannot improve
>your mind with maximum efficiency at all times, spending hours
>in front of the makeup mirror provides the necessary "down time"
>you need to recharge.  

Well, I'm, like, rilly into learning, and I get everything I need to know
from watching Geraldo, which I can do when I'm putting on my makeup and
moussing my hair; when I blow it dry, I have to turn up the volume pretty
loud, which pisses off the people upstairs who for some reason don't
*like* Geraldo, but that's OK, people have to be willing to suffer to
improve their minds, so what I mean is that I don't, like, use a makeup
mirror for downtime or anything, I use it to improve my mind, sort of,
which you can tell because I can write these rilly long, deep sentences.

Plus, it reduces stress, improves your
>state of mind, and allows you make more productive use of the
>time you do spend reading and learning.  Thus, you can get more
>total "mental enhancement points" if you spend a few hours every
>day painting your face.

I think that's rilly, rilly true; thanks for sharing that with us, Ed. 
Right now it only takes me about, you know, five minutes or so, but maybe
I should make it longer, try more layers and colors and things, and
enhance my mental points more.  I will rilly look into this.

How did you guys learn so much about makeup, anyway?






-- 
The trick of reason is to get the imagination to seize the actual world --
if only from time to time.     -- Annie Dillard, "An American Childhood"
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Subject: Re: How long has it been?
From: dayrton@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Date: 9 Oct 92 10:14:45 EDT
Followup-To: soc.singles,alt.romance,alt.romance.chat,talk.bizarre
Distribution: na
Organization: Wesleyan University

In article <1992Oct6.134605.16183@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, mneeley@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark Neeley) writes:
> How long has it been since you were kissed by a member of
> the opposite sex?
> 
> 	Mark (almost a year)

Oh....about 20 minutes....  <big happy grin>


Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Dating an older woman
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 22:52:37 GMT

In article <6325@arccs1.fed.FRB.GOV> m1nss01@fed.frb.gov (Neil S. Seftor) writes:
>In an article, Michelle Hoyle wrote:
>> 
>> On the other hand, I think that you might have something with your
>> "equality".  For the most part, I don't feel very comfortable with
>> people who are near my age.  The simple reason behind this is that
>> they are not, to my mind, as mature/serious as I am.  They appear to
>> be children worried not beyond their decision of what to wear on the
>> morrow, whereas I am their parent concerned with finances, rent, and   
>> coping with a job and studies at the same time.
>
>I seem to have the same problem, but to a different degree.  I find that
>people *my* age are not mature enough for my tastes, and I tend to be as
>you are, concerned about the realities of life and not having my head up
>in the clouds.  So, what should someone in my situation do?  My only 
>option is to try to find someone compatible, and have them get to know 
>me without knowing/caring about my age ... this is not an easy task.  It
>seems that I'm stuck waiting for the people my age to get to the level
>of maturity I have ... and that's depressing.

Hmmmm...reading this message, it dawned on me that, by and large, I
seem to be getting involved with younger women, sometimes as much as
ten years younger than me (which puts them over 18, but just barely)
and I haven't felt that they weren't mature/serious enough for me.
Now, I suppose that the 21-and-under types that I've been involved 
with have included a higher percentage that have owned their own
businesses than the population in general so maybe they were more
mature, but more likely this just means that I'm much less serious/
mature than the general population.

Trygve   (Who hasn't quite fully realized that he's over 18 now.)

Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.romance,alt.romance.chat,talk.bizarre
From: amirza@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Anmar Caves)
Subject: Re: How long has it been?
Organization: Indiana University
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 18:58:37 GMT

In article <1aukolINNe69@uwm.edu> markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:
>In article <1992Oct6.172723.7982@ac.dal.ca> brentaa@ac.dal.ca (brent, eh?) writes:
>>In article <1992Oct6.134605.16183@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, mneeley@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark Neeley) writes:
>>> How long has it been since you were kissed by a member of
>>> the opposite sex?
>>> 
>>> 	Mark (almost a year)
>>> 
>>I feel sorry for you mark, that is definitly far too long
>>of course, it's been almost three days for me, and I consider that
>>to be far too long as well......;-)
>
>Nothing is more pitiful than someone who is so desperate to be with someone
>else in order to get away from himself that he can't stand to be a year
>without a his obligatory female kissthing to provide that needed distraction
>from his fundamental emptiness inside.
>
>And the irony of this is that a lot of the so-called "ladies' men" will agree
>with this.
>
>I see nothing wrong with being away from romantic involvement or sex for a
>few years at a time.

I don't know what to say about this one.  Since my ex-wife
"discovered" me at age 17 (until then I'd only had fantasies about
women), I've never been without romantic involvment or sex.  I don't
consider myself a ladies man by any stretch of the meaning, and I know
I am not spiritually empty.  I guess I won't know until I spend some
significant time alone.  I do know that when I was alone I didn't have
that feeling of emptiness, and that on occasion I need to spend time
with myself to keep me happy.


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Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.romance,alt.romance.chat,talk.bizarre
From: ssalter@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (-=[SLS]=-)
Subject: Re: How long has it been?
Organization: OFSA
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 19:05:42 GMT

jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) wonders:

>In article <BvtDs4.Cx3@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ssalter@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (-=[SLS]=-) writes:
>>>>How long has it been since you were kissed by a member of
>>>>the opposite sex?
>>>>
>>>>	Mark (almost a year)
>>>
>>>Nine months, five days.
>>>
>>
>>Oh, around five hours I suppose. It was one of those kisses meant to
>>last all day until I got off work...Long and slow and sensuous and
>>warm. Her lips sliding over mine smoothly and our mouths parting and
>>tongues slipping out to taste one another...our bodies pressed
>>together tightly....a slow sweet ending to the kiss and deep look in
>>each others eyes and a soft smile as I left the house.
>>
>>why?
>>
>>Steve
> 
>We wondered how much you got out of her purse while all that was going on?
>

No cash, but I managed to palm her MasterCard. 

Steve
From: rkf@wildrose.infoserv.com (Ray Fink)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Balloon Boink report
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 00:02:27 MDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Wild Rose Refugee Camp

johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:

> In article <1992Oct10.063206.937@netcom.com> marcia@netcom.com (Marcia) write
> > Desert sunrises are really very pretty, but they are WAY too early.
>  
> Which reminds me.  Why haven't we heard anything about those incredible
> New Mexico sunsets that were being bragged about?

We can't tell you, you'd accuse us of bragging :-)

-- Ray
From: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Define "Single"
Date: 15 Oct 92 18:32:32 GMT
Organization: Bill 'n' Opus for Prez

{Note: previous distribution was 'usa'.  Although I'm not in the habit
of doing so for this newsgroup, I reset it, and am quoting the entire
article.}

In article <1992Oct14.202321.9570@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes:
>
>I know this has been discussed before, but does the "single" in
>soc.singles mean NOT MARRIED or NOT IN A RELATIONSHIP?
>
>Is there an assumption that all single people want to be not
>single?
>
>Does participation in soc.singles imply that you are looking for
>someone to have a relationship with and want to do so by having
>them send you email?

I think that this newsgroup is for discussion of items that are of
interest to 'single' people, where the precise definition of 'single' is
mostly irrelevent to the nature of most of the discussions.  What
appears to be more difficult to determine is what discussion subjects
belong here.

I don't think that participation in s.s implies that you are looking for
a relationship, but I think that posting anything anywhere on the Net
opens you up to return e-mail.
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

Who needs Lime Jello [tm]?  We had lasagna.....
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From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.romance,alt.romance.chat,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: How long has it been?
Date: 14 Oct 1992 04:03:35 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

mneeley@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark Neeley) writes:
>How long has it been since you were kissed by a member of
>the opposite sex?
>
>	Mark (almost a year)

This question was already raised here 2 years ago.  The answer I gave was 6
hours.  The answer is still the same. :)

------------------------------------------------------------

"The only thing I love more than ambiguity is challenging women."
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
Subject: Re: Good movies ...
Organization: Bill 'n' Opus for Prez
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 04:50:32 GMT

In article <14875@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
>In article <1992Oct2.174532.235874@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH) writes:
>>
>>The ultimate date movie now in theaters.."The Last of the Mohicans."
>>
>>Lots of action, great scenery, a hero and a heroine, drama, good guys and bad
>>guys, redemption of a quasi-bad guy, 
>
>Add some comedy and romance and take away a bit of scenery and you'd 
>have "The Princess Bride".
>
>It may not be playing in the theaters but could always rent it and cuddle
>on a couch.

Yup!  The ProblemOlderWoman and I give it a definite thumbs up.
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

Who needs Lime Jello [tm]?  We had lasagna.....
Newsgroups: soc.singles