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From: taina@cs.Helsinki.FI (Juha Taina)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Fall classes have started
Keywords: satire
Date: 15 Sep 92 17:17:08 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki, Finland

In <1992Sep15.115413.16611@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> ron@turing.toronto.edu (Ron Wessels) writes:

>Hi.  My name is Ron, and I have a question for this board.  Why is it that
>women always prefer jerks to us nice guys?  Every time I've gotten involved
>with someone, she always leaves me for some other guy who treats her really
>rotten.  Why is that?

Hello Ron,

"Always"  is a strong generalization.  Some women like jerks,
practically all women like interesting people.  "Being nice is not
enough (originally from Pooh, right?)".

>And they always seem to be older guys, too.  I don't understand that.
>Everyone knows us younger guys have more stamina than those old fogeys.
>They're well past their prime and are going senile.

A few female friends of mine have said that they wouldn't date guys of
their age because the guys are too childish.  These friends of mine are
fairly young, usually under 25.  An older person is not necessary
senile, and he has probably learned a lot from life.  Never
underestimate experiences.

>So anyway, does anyone have any idea where I can meet women?  Do singles
>bars work?  I don't seem to be meeting any new people.  Anyone have any
>suggestions?

Wherever you are comfortable.  The worst thing you can do is to start
activities only for meeting women.  It's fine to try something new, but
you have to like it.  If you are comfortable in singles bars then go for
it.

>And once I meet someone, what should I say?  What sort of opening lines
>work well?  Guys, what lines have worked for you?  And how about you
>girls ... what lines worked well on you?

Again, whatever feels natural.

Juha (SWM 25 NISO A) :)
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From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: General topic to break the monotony
Date: 9 Sep 92 00:06:01 GMT
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Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
In-reply-to: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com's message of 8 Sep 92 17:56:57 GMT

I dunno about you guys, but if I'm at 500 feet -- or even 475 -- and the
plane goes go the ground, I'm giving the chute a try.

As to what happened to the plane -- from the angle of plane to ground,
odds are excellent that it was a simple takeoff stall.  Was it a gusty
afternoon?
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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.
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From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: What knockers!  Crreak.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 04:08:45 GMT

In article <1992Sep7.025433.429@peponi.wcc.govt.nz> parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>
>I've had guys stick their elbows out purposely to brush my tits as I walk past. 
>How can they possibly get off on elbow contact?  The last I heard the elbow was
>not an erogenous zone and it's rather painful to collide with one with your
>spongy bits!

Obviously, you've just never had anyone stimulate your elbows properly.
(Amazing just how many erogenous zones there are that people don't even
notice.)  Still, it's probably worth noting that colliding with spongy
bits is not the proper way to stimulate either the elbow or the spongy
bits in question.

Trygve
From: kramersc@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Scott C. Kramer)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Tallllll women....
Date: 8 Sep 92 04:35:27 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

In article <bvqn1mb.aahz@netcom.com> aahz@netcom.com (Aahzmandius) writes:
>In article <1992Sep7.104529.5451@uwm.edu> markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:
>>
>>Well.  How is 6'2" from your perspective?
>>
>>Personally, I'd love to be intimidated by a woman who towers over me in
>>height (without her heels on), wearing heels to furher the disparity.
>
 Well, if you feel you are intimidated by women as such, make sure
 you don't get near females who play basketball who are taller than
 you or they might slam it over you(hahahhahhaha)
 
>How 'bout a 5' woman on stilts?
 I think that could be kinda scary if you are not careful either...
 I would love the challenge personally....

>-- 
>                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
>                             @netcom.com 
>
>Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6
>
Me too.
>IRWTFM -- and that ain't fun

Fun, it is excellent...cowabunga, dude..

Scotto
kramersc@expert.cc.purdue.edu

"Born an Illini,
 Boilermaker by the grace of God"
From: jmd@bear.com (Josh Diamond)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: NEW YORK, NEW YORK.....
Date: 16 Sep 92 01:16:23 GMT
Organization: Bear, Stearns & Co. - FAST
In-reply-to: jis@panix.com's message of 15 Sep 92 17:33:31 GMT


In article <1992Sep15.173331.4533@panix.com> jis@panix.com (Jack Szwergold) writes:

   Hey... aren't there any people out there from N.Y.C.?

   C'mon lurkers, live a little.....

Well, I don't think I count as a lurker (perhaps an sometimes lurker)
but I live and work in NYC.

						Spidey!!!

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From: Bathsheba.Grossman@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bathsheba Grossman)
Subject: Re: Sex & Moose & Wolf
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 05:29:11 GMT

Tally another vote for smelly men - pheromones work.  With fake scent, it
feels like I'm dealing with a scratch-n-sniff picture, when what I'm after
is a hairy animal.  Even a man who showered since he last sweated is
definitely working at a disadvantage.  
Then there's the identification factor.  After leaving my XSO, I
found that I'd become erotically bonded to his brand of shaving cream -
very embarassing in polite society.

-Sheba
"Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires." -Blake
What to do? all my desire is to murder an infant in its cradle.
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From: smith@comm.mot.com (Jeff Smith)
Subject: Re: "want" vs "need"
Organization: Gagging Sloth Records
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 21:40:20 GMT

In article <5145@news.duke.edu>, diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams) writes:
|> In article <1992Sep6.031510.5670@csi.uottawa.ca> misrael@csi.uottawa.ca (Mark Israel) writes:

|> >   Suppose you didn't have an SO, because you were in a (hypothetical)
|> >society where people never went steady.  But any time you wanted, you 
|> >could enjoy the company of a desirable MOTAS.  Would you be happy?

The key is in that word "hypothetical."  If such societies are so satisfying,
why are they hypothetical?  I'm not aware of any "successful" society (i.e.
experiments that peter out after a couple years, etc. don't count)...anyone
that knows differently, please pipe up. Sure they sound good, from a distance,
but in general, that's just not the way we're programmed. Simply being in the
company of some random MOTAS is *not* the goal here!

|> No, I wouldn't, and I suspect that this is where the true disagreement lies.
|> A world like the one you describe doesn't sound *bad*, and I certainly
|> don't have any problem with anyone who'd prefer to live in that world
|> than the one that actually exists.  However, I'm just not wired that way.

And I suspect very few people are, regardless of what they may claim. It's
another of those "grass is always greener" cases, I expect.

jds

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From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Re: Help. Please?
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 14:51:14 GMT

In article <1992Sep7.111721.7030@uwm.edu> markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:
>In article <1992Sep7.012702.9315@bsu-ucs.uucp> 01ksdavis@bsu-ucs.uucp writes:
>>	BTW-during the talk, I found out she is in one of my classes.  As a 
>>matter of fact, I sat next to her last Thursday.  I did have trouble taking down
>>notes for some reason.
>>
>>	Help!  Please?  Anybody else been here, know what I am talking about, or
>>is here right now?  What are you/ did you do about something like this.
>>
>>	She has hurt me before.  Really bad.  Yet, like some demented moth, I
>>fly suicidally towards the flame.
>
>After class (while everyone is still there) take her in your arms, pressing
>your bodies tight against one another and give her a long and passionate kiss.
>Several minutes later, after you're both done kissing, say to her "If you want
>more where that came from, you know where to call me."
>
>This, Mr. Moth, will truly test your resolve in buzzing the old flame.
 
 You might want to follow her around all the time. You know, in case she
ever needs anything. You should also wear bright red lipstick. Girls like
it when a guy cares about his appearance.
 I hope I've helped. Keep us posted.

 
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From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
Subject: Re: Desperation (was Re: Commitment--The C-word?)
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 16:49:46 GMT

In article <1992Sep12.174915.28091@uwm.edu> markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:
>In article <1992Sep12.123111.948@access.digex.com> huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:
>>Competition can take the form of elaborate
>>displays to attract the interest of females.  This is what keeps Porsche
>>dealers in business.
>
>In article <_nwny9h.aahz@netcom.com> aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine) writes:
>>Hmmmm.....what about the females who buy Porsches?

While putting the kids through college, the Porsche dealer can still indulge
in the luxury of haircuts and shoeshines.

>What about well-built studs who bike (and get speeding tickets) instead of
>drive?

Risk-taking is another form of male sexual display.  The Project Mercury
astronauts had no shortage of female companionship.

>The nicest looking Porsche still can't bring a woman to climax ...

Creating interest and sustaining it are different problems.  A survey of
male Porsche owners showed that most were rather dull fellows (Trygve Lode
must not have been part of the survey).  Of course, for the philanderer
the second problem really doesn't exist.

>... nor can the
>deliciously appealing visual form arouse an insatiable craving for male flesh
>coarsing throughout her body bringing her to knees in utter devastation.

I'll have to defer to the women of soc.singles on this one.

-- Herb Huston


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From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Subject: Re: Brodney Beats on L.A.P.D
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 10:21:42 GMT

GCTHORNE@idbsu.idbsu.edu ("Broward "Layman" Horne") inimitably writes:
>       Yo, baby, yo, baby John!  Of course I got laid.  I got laid
>   months ago!  More importantly:
>       Bip! Bip! Bip!  BEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPP!!!!
>       We have lock-on!

Let me be the first to congratulate you.  
Was she a victim of the baseball bat?

>       I'm absolutely astounded that I've been listed as MIA.  I mean,
>   isn't that the whole POINT of this newsgroup?

Oh, you can still hang around.  Just try not to snicker too much.

Too bad we don't still have you and Mysti to liven things up around here...
-- 
Kiran Wagle <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max)
Subject: Re: Wolf Park? (was Re: Desperation)
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 20:33:54 GMT

In article <kiran.716500491@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:

>
>(One of the many nice things about wolves is that they don't bark.)
>
Well mostly they don't I guess but try to tell that to the red wolf pups I
helped raise. The big timber wolves didn't seem to bark much but it sure
was noisy around there (this was in OR) whenever they heard a train whistle.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Tallllll women....
From: kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay)
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 06:03:36 GMT
Organization: The Old Frog's Almanac, Vancouver Island, CANADA

In article <18m1soINNr0u@peponi.wcc.govt.nz> parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz writes:

>In article <1992Sep08.193923.2921@oneb.almanac.bc.ca>, kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay) writes:

>>Why one would strike me that way, and one would not, I cannot say; I suspect
>>that there may be some primoral threat to the male personna in all of this,
>>unless I'm just a wimp. I liked her, and thought of her as a friend, but I
>>got _very_ uncomfortable when she stood directly in front of me to chat -
>>territorial imperative, perhaps?

>Perhaps with the beautiful one you weren't looking at the overall picture?

I would like to _think_ I was, but you may be right.

>If the bigger one was as big or bigger than you, you felt like millions of
>women to all over the world who are physically overpowered by men.
>Imagine going through life when EVERYBODY was bigger than you?
>Fortunately I don't have that problem.

She wasn't "bigger", as I was taller, but she was heavily built and solid -
I found that threatening, in a non-threatening sort of way :-)

I don't often run into people taller than I am, although I know there are
lots of them around... thanks for the comment <sheepish grin inserted here>
- I never have thought about how the women felt :-)

...watch that head, eh? scars on the forehead aren't hip in our society :-)

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From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: uh oh...
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 22:59:17 GMT

In article <kiran.716380822@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
>hymowitz@whatever.cs.jhu.edu (Captain Action Figure (tm)) writes:
>
>>tentative phone calls to each other.  finally, she found the nerve to
>>come out and say 'look, i'm not doing anything, you're not doing anything,
>>let's get togetther and do something.'  so she'll be here about a half-hour
>
>Pull the other one.  Everybody knows women never ask men out.

Come on, Kiran, I take it you've never actually had female friends?  
I find that, in most of my conversations with available female friends,
the subject of who they've asked out lately and what happened and who
they're thinking of asking out comes up very frequently.
From: jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Can you accept criticism ? (was Re: Why lurkers lurk ...)
Date: 5 Sep 92 18:23:04 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

fredw@mks.com (Fred Walter) writes:

>A personal pet peeve of mine is gossip. Every so often I hear from friends
>of mine what their friends (people who don't know me well, or, even more
>amusing, people who don't know me at all, people who have never even met me)
>say about me. Nameless people, because my friends won't tell me who is
>spreading the bullshit about me, because they don't want to get in trouble
>with those friends. And my friends are amazed (as am I) at how little truth
>there is in the stories.  Is this common, or do the friends of my friends
>contain a larger than normal percentage of gossiping liars ?

The world is a sea of dirtmongers. The key phrase is "friends of friends",
where spreading trash aboput you is like shooting a tin can on a fence.

It'll happen, so I side with "Wild Oscar" - "the only thing worse than being
talked about is not being talked about."
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From: weird@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (john.t.erhardt)
Subject: Re: leg shaving
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 14:28:23 GMT

In article <18mbicINN29f@peponi.wcc.govt.nz> parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>In article <1992Sep9.210732.10084@cbfsb.cb.att.com>, weird@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (john.t.erhardt) writes:
>>If he really thinks he shaves because of road rash, he must really 
>>crash a lot.  
>
>
>Please pardon my ignorance, but as someone who's obviously come in halfway
>through the discussion , what's road rash?
>

Well, some bike racers haven't yet learned that you can ride much faster
with the bike upright.  So they try to ride with the bike side ways
on the ground.  Maybe they think they'll be more aerodynamic by being closer
to the ground.  Howver, these bike racers forgot about friction between
skin and ground.  What usually (well always), happens is one's leg, hip, arm,
knee, and sometimes face get scraped along the ground removing such things
as body hair and of course skin.  This leaves what most people call
a scab.

I could have just said road rash = scab but that wouldn't have been as fun.

For your information, at one point in time, I too did not believe the above
statement and had to set up my own experiment.  There are times when others
plan on testing the theory themselves while near me in a race.  Thus, I become
an unvoluntary participant in their experiment. :-)

John
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Tallllll women....
From: parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz
Date: 9 Sep 1992 23:34:38 GMT
Reply-To: parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz
Organization: Wellington City Council, Wgtn, NZ
NNTP-Posting-Host: blade.wcc.govt.nz

In article <gzrnvk-@lynx.unm.edu>, hays@TECHNET.NM.ORG (Larry 'Purple' Hays) writes:

>>It would appear that all the tall men in the world live in the US.
>Yes, along with many of us who are merely 6'
>>Anybody giving away 'plane tickets from NZ => US ???

>No, not exactly GIVING 'em away, but you might be interested in my own
>personal Indentured Servant program.  Shouldn't take you more than oh, say, 
>three years to work off the plane fare, assuming you don't require food
>and lodgings...


That's really VERY generous of you.  




Rachel

"Supergoof"

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From: wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Can we can the suck-up bit?
Date: 9 Sep 92 01:27:10 GMT
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Kiran Wagle (kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu) wrote:
: Where does the lime jello come from?  

Get a lot of it;  put it in a bathtub;  invite your favorite MOTAS.  Several,
if you've a large enough bathtub.  Jump in.  Have fun.  Old fannish 
tradition, rumour has it started by an aside comment by Joe Haldeman at
Discon II, WheneverTheHellThatWas.  The song commemorating the event is in
Westerfilk 1.

Bill
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From: stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Blind dates scare me!
Date: 14 Sep 92 08:51:07 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

un030025@wvnvms.wvnet.edu writes:

>	I got a point that I must make on this blind dating thing. I think that
>it sucks! Every girl that I have ever met on a blind date has been psycho. Why
>do we do this? If anyone know, let me know.
[...]
>	What ever happened to the good old American girl? If there are any that
>are reading this, let me know. I just want to talk to someone I don't know who
>is NORMAL!

Welcome to soc.singles. We're all normal here. 

--
Stef                            Carpe diem (fish for ten cents)
stef@apple.com                                  --Usenet Oracle
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From: walrus@wam.umd.edu (Udo K Schuermann)
Subject: Re: Believe in youself, dammit! (was: Re: Singles Bar)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 18:40:52 GMT

In article <1992Sep15.160244.26147@u.washington.edu> intrigue@milton.u.washington.edu (Angelwing) writes:
>In article <1992Sep14.185125.7164@nuchat.sccsi.com> kevin@nuchat.sccsi.com (Kevin Brown) writes:
>>
>>[........]  However, the last time I put any real
>>feelings into something like this (but didn't get any such feelings in
>>return), it took me *years* to recover, during which I was entirely
>>unproductive.  I can't afford for that to *ever* happen again.
>
>For what it's worth, Kevin, the second time (and third ...) is never
>*ever* as bad as the first real break-up.  I can't say that it gets
>easier, but at least you know that you will live, make it through, and
>that things will get better.  We don't know this the first time our hearts
>get broken.  

Angelwing is right.  After my first crash it took me years to recover as
well, but eventually I *did* reach out again (and it was wonderful and more
intense and rewarding than the first!)  Even though that relationship is
also no more, I did not go down in a fiery ball of flame and suffering as I
did the first time.  The worst mistake you can make is to isolate yourself.
"Tear down the walls!"

>>In any case, like it or not, I'm quite fearful of putting any real feelings
>>on the line without good reason to believe that they'll be returned.  As I
>>said, I can't afford a repeat performance of the consequences I suffered the
>>last time this happened.

I know how you feel, but don't let such feelings get in the way when it
really counts.  You can't win unless you play.

 ._.  Udo Schuermann
 ( )  walrus@wam.umd.edu
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