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From: rmair@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ross Mair)
Subject: Re: Love Making & Sleep
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 12:01:50 GMT

darren@waikato.ac.nz writes:

>And another question- what if you couldn't find someone to make
>love to in the first place? Does this mean you just don't sleep?

Um, yes.. it has been known to happen.
3 hours lying in bed thinking "What the hell am I wasting my time like
this for?"
.... along with other thoughts, too... :-)

--
Ross
Official Personal Bodyguard to Lis, the Good Romantic Witch
***********************************************************
Organization: Masters student, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
Date: Mon,  4 Jan 1993 02:52:59 -0500 
From: Richard Iswara <ri0a+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Best Place for a Sunset...
	<1993Jan1.222034.21069@sequent.com>

rip@sequent.com (Paul T Taylor) writes:
> In article <1993Jan1.165617.2547@mtu.edu> bacon@mtu.edu (Jeff Bacon) writes:
> >>Well, on the GrandScale aren't we all related?  Animals, vegetables,
> >>and minerals?  Didn't we all come from the same cosmic dust?
> >
> >well then we've sure committed a lot of incest over the years haven't we?
> 
> Yes, and we are all going to burn in Hell for it too....  Gawd, it's
> going to be fun!
> 
> rip(looking forward to seeing everyone in B&B's Paradise....)

Deducing from these statements that B&B's Paradise is going to be the
most sucessful resort in the human history, RickI hastily liquidates 
his LifeMonies and proceeds to spend every last penny on B&B's Paradise
stocks. 

RickI, the RoadRunner
I might be going to hell, but I'd like to mount a hostile takeover before
then. Somehow the thought of ownership of the company comforts me.
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
From: rip@sequent.com (Paul T Taylor)
Subject: Re: anti-happy people attack ARC
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 22:51:06 GMT

In article <93007.133133IDJMW@ASUACAD.BITNET> <IDJMW@ASUACAD.BITNET> writes:
>yes yes, i admit it, i'm anxious, i'm angstful, i'm depressed, but i'm
>recently dumped on. it's not my fault!! i swear!!
>
>i've had all the romance beaten out of me.....
>
>
>j.

Sa'll right.  When I first joined this group, I had just gotten a
divorice from an un-happy marriage.  We have all been dumped, been
dumped on, and occasionally dumped on others at one time or another.
The best thing about the people here, is that they are willing to
share experiences, and shoulders that other groups are not.  If you
need to unload any old 'baggage' this is the place to do it.  We take
people at face value here and don't try to second guess, or for the
most part, judge.

Hope you are able to get over it...


rip
-- 
Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant
intelligence.
                -- Henrik Tikkanen
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
Date: Sat,  9 Jan 1993 18:31:30 -0500 
From: Richard Iswara <ri0a+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Who am I?
	<C0LMBw.y2@news.cso.uiuc.edu>

Who am I? Why am I here?? 
By repeating those immortal questions of Adm. Stockton (was it him??? Oh
heck, Perot's VP candidate, whoever he is) I'll start my introduction.
I'm Richard Iswara, given a nickname of RickI by the master himself, LF.
I'm a grad student in Carnegie Mellon, but not in CS dept. (Thank God)
I started posting here since last March, but has been lurking since the
previous December. That was the time of LF birth, during the legendary
FoodFight where Steven dance Nekkid on the Salad bar, Jules, 'Chelle and
Deborah's tushes were wriggling under the table (or was it others?? I 
remember Deb's but not sure of the others) and AtomoCodPieces start
being forged. Well, anyway I started by sending a lot of Valentine
messages (btw, isn't it time to start compiling that list again??) to
the people here. Then I emerged, start posting and went to the First
BloomingtonChat. It was because of an incident there that Mary sez reminded
her to a certain RoadRunner episode that I took up the CallSign. It was
after the Chat that I applied to the RFA, posted my application story
which had no fire/flame scene of any kind (I was ignorant of that 
condition at the time) but fortunately the others kinda look the other
way and accept my story and title. And so it went until Lis start to
enforce the condition rather ruthlessly during her tenure as the Prez
of RFA (she's not only good with brooms, but also with whips and FeatherOf-
Doom too). Well anyway, my title is safe right now. All in all it was
a good year. I saw SexySecretaries vs. ButtSisters, Dukes of ARCLand,
LF demise and rebirth with a SweetSpot, LF and GOGIL duel of songs,
the Revelation of the FirstARCFamily (you know, Missing Pa, Ma the Heavy-
Handed, Rip... etc), TushContest and many things more. I guess that's it.

RickI, the RoadRunner

Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
From: lisad@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (Lisa Dominique)
Subject: Re: Oh Puter, Its Chat Time!!!!!
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 21:51:35 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.163608.1974@orphan.nashvil.ingr.com> puter@orphan.nashvil.ingr.com (PuterDude) writes:
> Julie Salter <jrsalt@silver.ucs.indiana.edu> wakes me up better
>	than this darn coffee...
>
          (lots deleted for space)

>| So, what do ya all think?  Wanna have chocolate dipped strawberries again;
>| a bonfire complete with the Good Romantic Witch sprinkling us with majique
>| dust (she agreed to do so!);


>Dusted in person? REALLY? *MELT*

Absolutely!!  Hey, EVERYONE at the very first Annual Fireside
Chat at Steven's was dusted, some several times....
Hope you can make it there Puter!!   Bring PuterGal!!
She'll have a great time too!!  

>No wonder I can't get those fire started. I was addin' lighter fluid,
>when it shoulda been shampain!
>
>Here's a maybe, y'all.

I sure hope that "maybe" turns into a "YES"!!

       ** Bewitching Huggs to All **  

   and especially to Puter and PuterGal....

Lis, The Official Good Romantic Witch
and Honoured Former President
of the Romantic Fire Association

p.s.  Heaven is a *Hug* and a *Smile*
      the Joy of Music and the Beauty of Silence
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Thursday, 7 Jan 1993 13:18:48 MST
From: <IDMLH@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
Subject: Re: anti-happy people attack ARC
 <1993Jan07.194901.25355@mixcom.com>

<TA Shaw writes:  Maybe in alt.angst they are as happy, romantic, and full
<of love as we claim to be.

Perhaps.  In fact, now that I think about it I'm sure they are.  The problem
is that they can't or won't let it out.  They've either been "thrice burnt"
as Jody (IDJMW) has been or have some other circumstance that does not allow
them the luxury, yes I say luxury, of expressing or experiencing happiness.
They believe that happiness is trivial, non-essential, part of living that
is completely without purpose.  To be happy, to them, would be surrendering
to society.  And since, to them, society is filled with a bunch of complete
idiots with absolutely no capacity for intelligence, they'd rather stay
outside and press their nose against the glass.  Yet when caught with their
nose against the glass...they'll deny their presence there...that would mean
that they actually do have those feelings of happiness...GASP!

-Michele
-Bouncing off the walls and loving it
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
From: bacon@mtu.edu (Jeff Bacon)
Subject: Re: Love Making & Sleep
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 00:21:13 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.201540.6728@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> lisad@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (Lisa Dominique) writes:
>Lis/GRW the sex maniac suggests:

hmm.

>>>If you are still not relaxed?   Make love again and again
>>>and again!!   You'll get relaxed eventually.   :-)~~~~
>>not necessarily...
>:-(     But I want more!!  

we can't always have everything we want.

>> besides, what do you do if YOU'RE not relaxed but your
>>partner has become TOO relaxed? Thus do I offer alternatives...
>Oh, yeah....good point.... What if I want more and he doesn't.
>    **** BEG !! ****              *insane hysterical laughter*

doesn't work if he's asleep.

>>I might also suggest a bike ride.
>On the serious side, I agree with Julie.... Only something
>like that I'm just too shy to discuss over the net.  *blush*
>Also, if "that" doesn't work, reading or playing the acoustic
>usually relaxes me....  Just a suggestion.

depends on the person.

-bacon
don't look at me
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
From: lisad@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (Lisa Dominique)
Subject: Re: Its Chat Time!!!!!
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:10:25 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.174403.23117@mtu.edu> bacon@mtu.edu (Jeff Bacon) writes:
>In article <1993Jan11.171248.3530@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> lisad@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (Lisa Dominique) writes:
>>>>Gosh I hope so.  I was sorta counting on you to cook the hamburgers!
>>>Oh goody!  Does this mean I can come back up there and mess up your kitchen
>>>again to make breakfast tacos?
>>Yummmmmmmmm!!  That sounds good to me.  You made some great
>>tacos last year, only I missed out and was showering....by the
>>time I got to the kitchen all was left was strawberries, and
>>whipped cream, and melted chocolate.  Of course, that was good
>>too!!   :-)  


>and what were you doing in that shower to take so long?!
>
>-bacon
>just another enquiring mind

Jeff!!  I was alone in the shower.  Darn it all.  Figures.
Just my luck....    *wink*

To be totally honest, we had to take turns showering, so I 
suppose I should have woke up sooner.... but when there are
strange noises in the night, it is hard to go to sleep.
*chuckle*

Lis, The Official Good Romantic Witch
and Honoured Former President
of the Romantic Fire Association

p.s.  Heaven is a *Hug* and a *Smile*
      the Joy of Music and the Beauty of Silence
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
From: ssalter@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (-=[SLS]=-)
Subject: Re: FORGET ROMANCE TRY LUST
Organization: OFSA
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 14:26:32 GMT

Dracula@f4.n290.z1.aisbbs.com (Dracula)
>HEY PEOPLE FORGET ALL ABOUT ROMANCE IT'S D-E-A-D
>PEOPLE JUST WANT SEX LIKE ME AND FORGET ALL OTHER FEELINGS
>SO BE IT 
>*ORIGIN-- MY MOUTH NOT YOURS
>SO DEAL WITH THAT PEOPLE
>


oh HERE is that post! Hmmmm...no comment really needed here since Drac
is so obviously wrong. Deal with that? Sure , no prob....*click*
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
From: kkwwkk@mixcom.com (TA Shaw)
Subject: Re: Best Place for a Sunset...
Organization: Milwaukee Internet Xchange BBS, Milwaukee, WI U.S.A.
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 19:48:12 GMT


Mary writes:
>>rip(looking forward to seeing everyone in B&B's Paradise....)
>Uh oh...GEMR yells: BLADE AND BDC -- you didn't tell me that Rip was
>coming too...

Well Ms GEMR, ya didn't ask!!!

[ripster, why didn't you make reservation.  Everyone has reservations
about coming to B & B's Paradise ...]

Bruhahahahahahahaha

BDC
-- 
  May I walk in beauty.  Make my eyes      | TA Shaw          |        oOO 
  ever behold the red and purple sunset.   | shaw@mixcom.com  |  _____ OO 
  Make my hands respect the things you have+------------------| (_/-\_)..
  made, and my ears sharp to your voice - Chief Yellow Lark   | ==(0).
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
From: psnow@cwis.unomaha.edu (Paul Snow)
Subject: Re: anti-happy people attack ARC
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 01:04:04 GMT

bacon@mtu.edu  writes:
> In article <93012.092048IDJMW@ASUACAD.BITNET> <IDJMW@ASUACAD.BITNET>Jo writes:
> >do you think a backrub/massage will help my deflated romance balloon?
> >at least it might help with this terrible crick in my neck!
> >
> >jo
> 
> It might help the neck. I wouldn't count on it helping the deflated
> balloon. (It might, it might not. Smart move: stick with what you know,
> let whatever else happen as it may.)
> 
> -bacon
> pessimist at large

Good advice bacon... 

Most times.. romance waits until you are ready.. and most time that takes time

Then when you least expect it... romance comes in roaring (or steals in softy)
and the wait becomes quite worth it.. and the experience from previous 
relationships become a strength on which to build the present...

Happy thoughts...

Paul.. a man in love...

+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Paul Snow     **HUGS**       email to: psnow@ns.ccsn.edu                    |
|Official Cloud-  **SMILES**     Don't feel a fool tripping over your feet,  |
|Watcher of the RFA  **  8-)  **    when your eyes are fixed on the clouds...|
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+   

   ...Remember, a rainbow may end in a pot of gold,
        but it begins in the clouds...
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
From: pcxsws@unicorn.nott.ac.uk (S.Ward-Smith)
Subject: Re: repost of that silly story
Organization: Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 18:49:06 GMT

In article <1993Jan9.215307.20561@mtu.edu> bacon@mtu.edu (Jeff Bacon) writes:
>In article <C0JqoI.JJp@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> jrsalt@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Julie Salter) writes:
>>*sniff* *Honk* *sniff*
>
>Steve, get the tissues...can't have the prez making a mess of herself.
>
>>Jeff, that was lovely.  I read every word.  And yes, you definitely qualify
>>for membership into RFA....*sad smile*
>
>sad?
>you didn't write it. :)
>
>-bacon
>if word of this ever gets out my image will be ruined

`Fraid it is much too late for that now.
We all know now that its just a front.

**********************************************************************
* Steve Ward-Smith,         * Official Alchemist of the RFA.         *
* Ubiquitous Postgraduate,  ******************************************
* Department of Chemistry,  *"Standing on a golf course dressed in   *
* University of Nottingham, * PVC,I chanced upon a golf girl selling *
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Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Friday, 8 Jan 1993 10:47:02 EST
From: <IO11283@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
Subject: Re: anti-happy people attack ARC

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Date: Friday, 8 Jan 1993 10:41:25 EST
From: <IO11283@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
Subject: Re: anti-happy people attack ARC

But what can you expect from a bunch of professional whiners? They'd have a hec
k of a lot more fun in life if they realized that optimism, romanticism, and a
good hunk of swiss chocolate are better pasttimes than trying to drown everyone
 in their miseries.  These people should realize noone loves a convinced victim
, and it's so much more fun to be lightherarted.
More smiles in the direction of alt.angst.
-Jennifer, who is sorry to have offended the brother who was miserable in the m
ilitary- I really only meant some humour by it.  (* BIG HUGS and TOOTHY GRINS t
o him*)
From: 9999cs02@dt3.dt.uh.edu (Tina Marie!)
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
Subject: Re: Trademark..
Date: 12 Jan 1993 21:29 CST
Organization: University of Houston-Downtown
Distribution: world
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News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41A   

In article <LF.93Jan11054845@marooned.berkeley.edu>, lf@marooned.berkeley.edu (LexicographicalFiend) writes...
>TM reveals:
>>	   I have no set fee....you just have to keep me happy....you know,
>>love, charish, all those types of things...
> 
>(1) Do not fold, spindle or mutilate (if she folds herself in use tho...).
>(2) Do not immerse in water (chocolate is an AppropriateSubstitute).

	Oh no, please inmerse me in water!  I love hot tubs, swimming pools,
etc...

>(3) When in use, please be quiet (!!!).
> 

	Again, please don't!!

Tina Marie
Official TradeMark of ARC/RFA

"And love made death an illusion" -- Chthon, Piers Anthony

Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
From: puter@orphan.nashvil.ingr.com (PuterDude)
Subject: Drive to the Bahamas
Organization: Intergraph
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:41:02 GMT

 bacon@mtu.edu (Jeff Bacon) would like to wet his... uh, feet
| puter@orphan.nashvil.ingr.com (PuterDude) writes:

|>I need a lover that will drive me to the Bahamas.
|that'd be a neat trick if I ever saw one.

We have plenty of room in the back seat. You pay half, and bail the 
water out the hatch...

-- 
(Puter is a deranged individual at puter@orphan.nashvil.ingr.com)
There is no conflict between liberty and safety.  We will have both or neither.
								-- Ramsey Clark
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
From: kkwwkk@mixcom.com (TA Shaw)
Subject: Shhh  (ARC) Attack
Organization: Milwaukee Internet Xchange BBS, Milwaukee, WI U.S.A.
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 15:30:40 GMT





ICSJM from ASU writes:

[seems like everyone coming down on this idjmw lady, 
Well it ain't easy posting personal stuff, and Jody did post
stuff very personal to her.

[OR is she right and we think or fantisize that ARC is such a 
[happy place for us.  
I don't think ARC is an happier place than any other groups I
read.  But some people may feel that is the HAPPIEST place on
the net.  That's cool.

[Maybe we should
[be in her group, but then if we did that there wouldn't be an ARC.
Well, if I wanted to be alt.angst, I would subscribe to it.  But I don't
do I won't.  If you don't want to be in ARC, unsubscribe.

[I started a controversial subject, the other day, and my God, the roof fell
[half the people in this group, had nothing but negitives to say.
And the other half?  Heck I don't even know what you started that was
controversial, but I wonder if it matches a thread of about two years
ago concerning "Whether or not affairs are justified", the old timers
may remember the flames I received for my stance on that one, but I'm
still here.

[After you think about that, maybe you aren't as happy as you think.  
You may be surprised at what I think.  I don't think I'm overly
happy, overly angry or overly sad.  But I do experience all of the
afore mentioned emotions on a regular basis.

[I think idjmw has some guts to post here......cut her some 
[slack.....
I never took any slack from her.  As a matter of fact, I may not
have seen her original post.  The fact that Jody did post, opens you up
for responses, both positive and negative.  

[who knows, there may even be a better group then this somewhere. 
Yeah, it's rec.scuba....;-) 

[May be ARC should not allow anyone in, unless they they show some sign of [prejudice, or bigotry??
They allow me to stay, so what's your problem.  Yes in every group there are
people that feel that their group is best.  There are even lots of people
who feel they can help people with their problems, (in every group), I don't
believe there is any more bigotry or prejudice here than any of the
other groups I read.  

So either stay or go, it doesn't matter much to me.  I will not lose
any sleep over it.  Jody if you care to talk, I've always got an "ear",
and you can check with a few people to see if the "ear" is worth your
time or trouble.  

Hasta Dudes and Dudettes,

BDC

-- 
  May I walk in beauty.  Make my eyes      | TA Shaw          |        oOO 
  ever behold the red and purple sunset.   | shaw@mixcom.com  |  _____ OO 
  Make my hands respect the things you have+------------------| (_/-\_)..
  made, and my ears sharp to your voice - Chief Yellow Lark   | ==(0).
From: darren@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
Subject: Re: Chivalry, Honor, Loss of Life, (Romance?)...
Date: 5 Jan 93 13:29:44 +1300
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <phantasm.726163084@vincent1.iastate.edu>, phantasm@iastate.edu () writes:
> I do not believe romance is dead today... I do not think that the spirit of
> romance will ever be extinguished... I will mourn if that does come to pass...

Oh, the romance of someone mourning the end of romance! What a lovely paradox-
romance cannot die as long as there is just *one* sentient being left to mourn
it if it did! 8-))
Isn't it nice to see Catch-22's working the other way around for a change?

> so far as to the loss of life... I am saddened by the cheapening of the human
> life by the ease with which it can be extinguished today...

It is a fact of Death that Life has always been easily extinguished. This is
just the way of things, Grasshopper.
(Though in fact, I would think that with all our advances in surgery and in-
crease in knowledge about the way carbon-based units work it is actually,
given the right circumstances, harder to extinguish life.)

> 
> Fortunately, I believe the spirit is much harder to extinguish...
Fortunately, I *know* the spirit is impossible to extinguish (IMHO)...
> 
> Until again...
No worries.
> 
> phantasm
-- 
Darren
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From: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
Subject: Re: the obligatory new years stuff
Date: 5 Jan 93 14:20:10 GMT
Reply-To: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

In article <1993Jan4.222223.12119@mtu.edu>, bacon@mtu.edu (Jeff Bacon) writes:
(Stuff deleted for bandwidth preservation.)
|>I can't write. I'm an engineer. it's in the contract.
|>
|>-bacon

HUH?!?!?!?

Since when did being an engineer have any effect on a persons literary skills?
If you didn't have to write as an engineer, no-one could ever learn what you've
done, and the worlds sum total of engineering knowledge would probably consist
of realizing that wood floats in water...  :)

Don't sell yourself short, bacon.  Everybody's got unsuspected talents; yours
might be writing.  Give it a try, OK?  I know that I didn't think I could write
until I tried.  Maybe I'm no John Ford or David Brin, but I think I've got
something to say to the world.

----------------------
Sean Roberts, erratically punctuating...
Yeah, I know my grammar and punctuation are erratic (not erotic, Rip.)  I have
alien thought patterns at times...
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
From: puter@orphan.nashvil.ingr.com (PuterDude)
Subject: Who am I?
Organization: Intergraph
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:03:39 GMT

 cwes1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Clare West) introduces herself to phantasm...

|OK who's next?

Uh, well...   I'm Puter. In real life I work in Nashville, so ya might
see me with a "Suthun" accent. Around here, I'm nobody. I usually drag
a poor soul down into the dungeon, or the mental hospital, or I'll
flirt with whatever lady will allow me. I' married to a wonderful
woman who is sometimes mentioned as PuterGal who tends to *BONK* me
upside the head with a fryin' pan when I get outta line. And if I write
for the Castle, I'm known as Alwir...

P.S. Puter comes from com'puter, and other things...

-- 
(Puter is a deranged individual at puter@orphan.nashvil.ingr.com)
The squeaky wheel gets the grease, but the yapping dog gets kicked.
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat