HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: rip@sequent.com (Paul T Taylor)
Subject: Re: Combined Report on the Australasian mini-Chat
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 18:17:42 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.082224.4586@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> rmair@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ross Mair) writes:

**bunch deletedededededededededdd**

>>>Ross: Hi All, I should start by pointing out that this post is written
>>>whilst wearing no underwear......... (Now that should get you all
>>>talking!!!!  :-) )
>>>
>>>(BTW Rip - that's no male *or* female underwear!)
>
>>**bunch deleted**
>
>>So, if it wasn't male or female underwear, just what *kind* of
>>underwear aren't you wearing?
>
>He just doesn't get it - does he!!

OK!!  Thank you very much for pointing that out!!  You don't have to
rub my nose in it!  *sheesh!*

>*NO* underwear whatsoever.....

I sure hope you don't try to zip you pants up to fast....

>Just a very tight pair of lime green short belonging to Clare's brother.
>(The choice of dry clothes was not wide, but I was thankful for anything
>dry, regardless of what it looked or felt like!)

Was Clare's brother aware of this?  Are you sure they were Clare's?

>>are long lost family or something.  You meet, hug, and you go about
>>like you all grew up together.... 'S great!
>
>Definately - it was great! I couldn't believe we got on so well, esp
>given that meeting new people can terrify me!

But these aren't new people!  Well at least they aren't really
strangers...

rip

Semper ubi sub ubi...
-- 
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
From: rmair@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ross Mair)
Subject: Re: Its Chat Time!!!!!
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 07:23:25 GMT

ssalter@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (-=[SLS]=-) dissapoints us:

>puter@orphan.nashvil.ingr.com (PuterDude) profusely 'peaks:

>>|	Julie is a major babe but she's mine so just enjoy the view.
>>
>>I'd enjoy it better without all those material things in the way...
>>She could give a fashion show (like those VH-1 thingies) in some
>>of her black thingies...

>Uh....no.

No fashion show of Julie's black thingies....

That's it! I'm not com.... attending.  :-)

--
Ross
Official Personal Bodyguard to Lis, the Good Romantic Witch
***********************************************************
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat,soc.singles,alt.romance
From: maci9154@mach1.wlu.ca (macivor dawna)
Subject: Re: Guy troubles - They Can Be fixed you know...
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 21:01:26 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.223945.15676@mtu.edu> bacon@mtu.edu (Jeff Bacon) writes:
>In article <C0FtAB.AIG@mach1.wlu.ca> maci9154@mach1.wlu.ca (macivor dawna) writes:
>>>Being a Guy is NOT what it use to be....
>>So what in the world do all these debatable points have to do with the
>>problem I'm having?  Am I missing the point or something?  I'm totally lost!
>>
>>Smiles,
>>  Dawna =)
>
>
>I think you'll find that we don't know what the point is anymore. :)
>
>-bacon

I wish someone could have warned me....    =)

Smiles again!
  Dawna =)

Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
From: jrsalt@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Julie Salter)
Subject: Re: ASexual Encounter
Organization: Salter, Inc.
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:18:56 GMT

lf@marooned.berkeley.edu (LexicographicalFiend) shares: 

>Darren wonders:
>>Wasn't Julie cloned already, a few months back? Maybe we don't have to 
>>bother Julie and get Steve's permission again, we can just use Julie's
>>clone to clone her...
>
>Durn.  I thought I'd secured my ARCreplicator properly (ie. encased it
>in lead and concrete, then dropped it into the deepest OceanGorge on
>the map).
>
>[LF suddenly remembers something and ducks into his Closet.  The
>sounds of SeriousRummaging follow, then "OhGawd!"  LF emerges, shaken.]
>
>Where's my *other* ARCreplicator?!?!?!

Lf!  Calm down.  Its ok.  There's been a mistake.  

See, there was an ATTEMPT to clone me, but Steven put a stop to it by
threatening to chop someone's fingers off.

So, fortunately, there's still only one of me to terrorize the world! ;)

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Julie Salter<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
            President, Romantic Fire Association
  Wife of the Official Fireside Sex Advisor..AKA: Steven Salter
"Look into my eyes...you will see....what you mean to me......"
>>>>>>>>>>>>>email: jrsalt@silver.ucs.indiana.edu<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
From: robg@citr.uq.oz.au (Rob Geraghty)
Subject: Re: Holiday blues
Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 04:02:51 GMT

verwey@acs.ucalgary.ca (Mary-Ann Verwey) writes:
>Uhmmm yea, more of a large matter though :) Oh well... maybe I
>will win the lottery (grins at Rob) who knows, and then if I do I
>can visit all of my friends the are around the globe... 

Hey not fair Mary-Ann!  *I* had the big Lotto win all lined up and you
go and steal it from me ;-)

(I don't really mind which of us wins as long as one does ;)

>SNUGS
*WARMSUMMERYSNUGS* from Oz where the temperature is 30 degrees on the
*positive* side of the scale.  Unlike Calgary!  Brrrrr....

Rob
Official Journeyman-Harper of the RFA

--
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Rob Geraghty               | 3 things are important to me 
robg@durian.citr.oz.au     | The gift of love, the joy of life
CITR                       | And the making of music in all its forms
From: dch@rodan.UU.NET (Dan C. Horner)
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
Subject: Whoa... Bad trip tommy...
Date: 10 Jan 1993 21:31:00 -0500
Organization: UUNET Technologies Inc, Falls Church, VA, USA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net

Ever have one of those <pause for a breath>

WeirdlyUninterestingSociallyDeviateUsenetNews in the Back of your 57
ChevyTypeExperiences ?

Well, how about when your news reader runs through your posting regionals
and your newsfeed contains roughly 4500 groups ?

I'll just go get a coke while that fucking mess scrolls by thanks...

Blade
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From: jrsalt@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Julie Salter)
Subject: Re: Its Chat Time!!!!!
Organization: Salter, Inc.
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:40:09 GMT

lisad@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (Lisa Dominique) shares: 

>Hey GEMR!!  My cohort to Chicago!!   *Inside chuckles*
>(Where am I?  Where am I?  *laughter*)

*giggle*  You silly Lady.  I KNEW meeting Blade you mess you up! *snicker*


>
>You know, I think my copy does show Steven and Julie feeding
>each other strawberries.... and Steven lovingly touching the
>tip of Julie's nice with a chocolate covered Strawberry and
>licking it off.   *sigh*   They were falling in love and it
>was the first weekend of Spring.   How romantic!  

*happy sigh*  That's right.  I was hooked after that weekend.  I knew
that we had something very special beginning that would most likely never
end.  Being newly divorced, you would think that that would scare the
holy geebies out of me (like it did poor Steven), but, it was wierd.
I was never more sure of anything in my whole life as I was this relationship.
And as its turned out, I was right.....of course ;)~~~

The difference with THIS chat....this MY house too!  OUR home.  I suppose
the biggest change is that the cabinets are a little more organized and
poor Steven has all his clothes all crammed in the closet (mine take up 90%
of it).

>No kidding!!  He was so funny!!   *sigh*
>We all miss him so much.  *sniff*

Ditto, Sis.  He's still funny, he's just so far away! :(


>The feeling of love and friendship just filled our spirits and
>lasted for months, it really did.  It left feelings that no
>words can describe, and I'm not exagerating either.  It was
>just wonderful!!

Lots of folks shared that same feeling.  I floated on air for weeks after.
And I built some friendships that I think I will always have...:)

>
>*blush*     Watch this!!    The GRW does a triple whirly in the
>sky, whooshes down quickly (hang on Phantasm!!) and waves
>her Golden Wand, showering Mary with Golden Majique Romance Dust,
>then *swoosh* back high in the sky, doing another triple whirly.

*giggle*  I love it.


>Phantasm and the GRW can be heard from far away....
>"Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!"     :-)

There she goooooooes!!!


>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Julie Salter<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
            President, Romantic Fire Association
  Wife of the Official Fireside Sex Advisor..AKA: Steven Salter
"Look into my eyes...you will see....what you mean to me......"
>>>>>>>>>>>>>email: jrsalt@silver.ucs.indiana.edu<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
From: kkwwkk@mixcom.com (TA Shaw)
Subject: Re: Its Chat Time!!!!!
Organization: Milwaukee Internet Xchange BBS, Milwaukee, WI U.S.A.
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 19:39:49 GMT


Jules of IU sez:
> Steven is a major hunk.
>But he's mine so forget it.

Damn!!!!!

BDC(ountMeInAtTheMomentButThatIsSubjectToChangeAtAnyMoment)

P.S. Due To Job Uncertainties
-- 
  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: bacon@mtu.edu (Jeff Bacon)
Subject: Re: Its Chat Time!!!!!
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 00:19:23 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.201025.6590@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> lisad@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (Lisa Dominique) writes:
>>and what were you doing in that shower to take so long?!
>Jeff!!  I was alone in the shower.  Darn it all.  Figures.
>Just my luck....    *wink*

hmmm.

>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*

On second thought, I think I'll rent a hotel room. I need my sleep.

-bacon
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
From: jrsalt@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Julie Salter)
Subject: Re: QUESTION....
Organization: Salter, Inc.
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:06:21 GMT

verwey@acs.ucalgary.ca (Mary-Ann Verwey) shares: 

>Hmmmm, uhmmmm.... hmmmm.... good question... I imagine romance
>has a different definition for everyone.

Agreed.

>envelops you when you love someone dearly... I see romance very
>clearly seen between Steve and Julie Salter... they are so
>romantic :) 

Thank you Mary-Ann.  Steven is a very romantic man.  Did you notice his
response to this thread?  It brought tears to my eyes....because I know
he really feels those things.

Romance can be shown to a loved one in so many ways.  To me, when I get 
home and the kitchen is super warm and I know its much too warm for Steven
but he built up the fire for ME...that's romance.  A tender touch to the
face as you are walking by; a bouquet of dandilions picked while mowing
the lawn; shared tears of happiness; sharing deep dark secrets; admiring
a beautiful flower together; paying attention to me rattle on about my
day; making love when you don't really feel like it; him washing my hair in the
shower......all those things are little in themselves...but they express the
love that is there....and to me..THAT is romance...an expression of feeling.
And thus, since those feelings don't go away, there's no reason for those
little things to stop happening.


>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Julie Salter<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
            President, Romantic Fire Association
  Wife of the Official Fireside Sex Advisor..AKA: Steven Salter
"Look into my eyes...you will see....what you mean to me......"
>>>>>>>>>>>>>email: jrsalt@silver.ucs.indiana.edu<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat,alt.personals,soc.singles
From: miedaner@ubevx1.unibe.ch (Emanuel J. Miedaner)
Subject: Re: Merry Christmas!
Reply-To: MIEDANER@BIBL.unibe.ch
Organization: University of Bern, Switzerland
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 13:47:10 GMT

In article <1992Dec23.205811.12273@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>, jturner@lonestar.utsa.edu (John M. Turner) writes:
>In article <1992Dec23.023141.4195@mtu.edu> bacon@mtu.edu (Jeff Bacon) writes:
>>The subject says it all. Take care one and all! And no being down!
>>(That can wait til after the holidays...:) )
>>
>>-bacon
>>I ain't Santa, thank God - that boy's gotta have a massive cholesterol problem
>
>Either that, or a dynamite dental plan!
>(sorry, heard this on the radio)
>
>John "J.T." Turner
>who needs to put up his Christmas tree in the next few days or so...
>----
>jturner@lonestar.utsa.edu - John Turner
>
>Cogsworth:  Well, your Highness, I must say everything is going just
>            swimmingly.  I knew you had it in you ah ha ha...
>Beast:      I let her go.
>Cogsworth:  ..ah ha yes, yes.  Splen-... You, what?  How could you do that?
>Beast:      I had to.
>Cogsworth:  Yes, but but... but, WHY?
>Beast:      Because, I love her.
>(From "Beauty and the Beast")
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
From: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Subject: Re: Shhh (ARC) Attack
Reply-To: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:35:14 GMT


Jody Namio writes:
|>geez, guys....

Yes?

|>my "angst" isn't necessary directly related to the status of, lack of,
|>or departure of an SO in my life. sometimes it is. sometimes i don't
|>know if i ever want an SO again. sometimes i feel such an ache for
|>lack of an SO its a physical pain. thats the way it goes, i guess.
|>i wish i could be more optimistic about having another person in my life,
|>or about another person WANTING to be in my life. that's the part i find
|>hard. if another person wants to be in my life, what's wrong with him??

Who says there has to be anything wrong with him?  Maybe he's just the kind
of person who wants to make you happy; maybe he sees things in you that you're
too close to see.  I don't know, I'm just throwing out ideas here...

|>moved to arizona from minnesota almost three years ago to be with
|>someone who, when i got here, decided he didn't want to take the
|>responsibility for having got me here. decided that it was okay to
|>ignore me and treat me like an afterthought but show up at the door
|>a few times a month for a physical part of a relationship. i sent

The cad.

|>him away. met and fell in love with someone i still have feelings for
|>but have been treated in ways by this person that causes me to no
|>longer trust him, trust his actions, trust the things he tells me
|>or trust him enuf to tell him how i'm feeling. don't know if that
|>trust can be rebuilt or rekindled, or whether its just gone.

Jeez.  What is it with some of these guys?  They meet someone special, then
louse up the relationship.  It makes me ashamed to be a man, sometimes.

|>had a date here and there with new people i've met, but have come
|>to the probably erroneous conclusion that these were the types of
|>guys that think its okay to take a woman to dinner or a movie, then
|>try to jump her bones before she leaves the car. i can live without
|>that. i can live alone with my cats the rest of my life before
|>putting up with that.

Sadly, too many man *do* feel that this is the way things work in the
dating game.  I don't know why they think that a woman owes them something
if they take her out.

|>heavy sigh
|>
|>thanks for listening. i'll stop whining now.....

Whining?  I didn't think you were whining.  You presented some pretty valid
points here, without a lot of 'Poor, poor me' talk.  Besides, we're always
glad to listen, right folks?

|>Jo
|>"Can't stop the habit of living on the run"

--------------------
Sean Roberts

The other day, I was looking out my bedroom window to the east while the sun
was setting.  The light turned the clouds the most incredible shade of
lavender that I've ever seen...
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
From: ekman@netcom.com (Crossly the Glad-Eyed Bear)
Subject: Re: What new innovation, software or products do you want to see?
Organization: Home for the Terminally Infirm
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 04:52:18 GMT

In article <sehari.726196441@du139-208.cc.iastate.edu> sehari@iastate.edu (Babak Sehari) writes:
>
>What type of new innovation, software or products do you want to be
>introduced to the market place.

A good pickup line?  Or a good line of pickups.
-- 
Crossly the Glad-Eyed Bear              ekman@netcom.com
Home for the Terminally Infirm, Redwood City, California
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
From: puter@orphan.nashvil.ingr.com (PuterDude)
Subject: Re: Sports-condoms
Organization: Intergraph
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 20:09:08 GMT

|>Q: If Nike made condoms, would there motto still be
|>   Just Do It????

|Rather makes you want to ask if that has any relation to the
|Reebok pump design....

Hey! I look more intimidating in my BVD-Trojans!!!

-- 
(Puter is a deranged individual at puter@orphan.nashvil.ingr.com)
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
							-- Baron de Montesquieu
From: darren@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
Subject: Re: ASexual Encounter
Date: 12 Jan 93 09:59:07 +1300
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <C0p9FK.Mo2@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, jrsalt@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Julie Salter) writes:
> lf@marooned.berkeley.edu (LexicographicalFiend) shares: 
> 
>>Darren wonders:
>>>Wasn't Julie cloned already, a few months back? Maybe we don't have to 
>>>bother Julie and get Steve's permission again, we can just use Julie's
>>>clone to clone her...
>>
>>Durn.  I thought I'd secured my ARCreplicator properly (ie. encased it
>>in lead and concrete, then dropped it into the deepest OceanGorge on
>>the map).
>>
>>[LF suddenly remembers something and ducks into his Closet.  The
>>sounds of SeriousRummaging follow, then "OhGawd!"  LF emerges, shaken.]
>>
>>Where's my *other* ARCreplicator?!?!?!
> 
> Lf!  Calm down.  Its ok.  There's been a mistake.  
> 
> See, there was an ATTEMPT to clone me, but Steven put a stop to it by
> threatening to chop someone's fingers off.
> 
> So, fortunately, there's still only one of me to terrorize the world! ;)
> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Julie Salter<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
EEeek. Fingers? Off? Chop? AAAaarrrrggggh. No, Steve, I didn't suggest we
clone Julie. Honest. Really. Nooooooo, take my toes, my feet my legs, even
my brain (I don't use it) but not my FINGERS! I won't be able to type!
-- 
Ghandalf (the re-incarnation of Ghandi and Gandalf, together)
aka Darren

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Disclaimer: Uh oh.
From: lisad@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (Lisa Dominique)
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
Subject: Re: Love Making & Sleep
Date: 11 Jan 93 16:57:54 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <1993Jan9.214756.20472@mtu.edu> bacon@mtu.edu (Jeff Bacon) writes:
>In article <1993Jan08.145904.3192@mixcom.com> kkwwkk@mixcom.com (TA Shaw) writes:
>>The article I heard about said maing love helps you fall asleep, 
>>providing you were relaxed afterwards.  What about the times, when
>>for whatever reason, you are not relaxed?
>
>um...you get out of bed and wander to the kitchen and get something to eat?
>smoke a cigarette in bed? go watch tv?
>
>-bacon


If you are still not relaxed?   Make love again and again
and again!!   You'll get relaxed eventually.   :-)~~~~

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: verwey@acs.ucalgary.ca (Mary-Ann Verwey)
Subject: Re: Holiday blues
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 93 10:10:07 GMT
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta

In article <1993Jan7.072952.7019@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> rmair@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ross Mair) writes:
>verwey@acs.ucalgary.ca (Mary-Ann Verwey) writes:
>
>>In article <1993Jan6.043311.14796@mtu.edu> bacon@mtu.edu (Jeff Bacon) writes:
>>>In article <robg.726292971@citr.uq.oz.au> robg@citr.uq.oz.au (Rob Geraghty) writes:
>>>>*WARMSUMMERYSNUGS* from Oz where the temperature is 30 degrees on the
>>>>*positive* side of the scale.  Unlike Calgary!  Brrrrr....
>>>
>>>bleah to you too. worse, you're probably talking in celsius aren't you.
>
>>Hi Bacon :)
>
>>Yep, Celsius it is :) 
>
>>MA is totally envious of the positive 30 temps in Brisbane... :P
>
>How about 18 Deg here in rainy Melbourne??

Still much better than the balmy -20C we have here... yep.. the
temperature when up! *MA jumps with joy and shivers*

>Melbourne... terrible one day, shithouse the next!

That bad Ross? 

>I'm quite content with the temp (despite wearing a jumper and drinking coffee)
>if only it wasn't raining. This is supposed to be summer!!
>If its gonna be cold, why not be really cold, with snow!!

Okay... excuse the ignorance but what is a 'jumper'?

Snow... you want snow!!!

MA grins evilly and packs together a huge snowball and throws it
at Ross... "Here... snow!"

>*WARMING HUGS* for MA

MA soaks up the warmth and sighs, her shivers lessening by the
second :) Thanks Ross :)

SNUGS!

Mary-Ann


-- 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mary-Ann Verwey                    Hold on to the shining moments in times
verwey@acs.ucalgary.ca             of darkness, they will pull you through
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Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
From: panlilio@acs.ucalgary.ca (Victor P. Panlilio)
Subject: Re: Return to the Chocovat...
Summary: The Strawberry Helps the Tigger...
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 07:18:41 GMT
Expires: Sun, 31 Jan 1993 05:00:00 GMT
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta
Keywords: chocolate
Followup-To: alt.romance.chat

In article <1993Jan6.075218.26421@cheshire.oxy.edu> johnsons@cheshire.oxy.edu (Sarah Curtis Johnson) writes:
>In article <93Jan05.182230.37250@acs.ucalgary.ca> panlilio@acs.ucalgary.ca (Victor P. Panlilio) writes:
>>
>>Ack, I can't...oof....I can't see....
>>
>>(slips on very slick chocolate-covered floor)
>>Aiieeeee!
>
>Oops.  Too many chocohugs will do that to a person.  Here, lemme give you a
>hand up.  
>*extends helpful hand*
>
>Have to be careful when you're playing near the vat!

Indeed. And pray, tell...*tsup* (Tigger kisses the Strawberry's
helping hand and gets a helping of chocolate on his whiskers),
what possessed you to splash into the chocovat so suddenly, hmm?

*grin*

TiggerV 8^)
From: gklein@uoft02.utoledo.edu (Gary Klein, bear-at-heart)
Newsgroups: alt.romance.chat
Subject: Re: Amendment 2
Date: 9 Jan 93 14:05:54 EST
Organization: Univ of Toledo

In article <Jan08.065849.76737@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>, cs151kx@lamar.ColoState.EDU () writes:
> 		Being that I am from Colorado, i feel that we have the
> 		right to vote however we choose.  If we voted against
> 		special rights for gays, then that is democracy working
> 		for us.  I don't feel that those who feel the need to
> 		boycot us know what they are doing.
>...
> 		If you feel that same way, that gays should not have 
> 		special rights, that is, no more special that the standard
> 		american, I would encourage you to boycott the boycott and
> 		to start with boycotting Coke.  And for that matter, boycott
> 		everyone, and everything, that is in essence boycotting
> 		the American way.  
>...
> 		What do you think?

     FIRST of all, before you go spouting off about "special rights" maybe you
ought to take a minute or two, and read THE ACTUAL TEXT of Amendment #2 that
was subimitted for Coloradoans to vote on.

     NOTHING in the text for that Amendment referred in anyway to anything that
any reasonably literate person would construe to be "special"... unless you
consider Housing, Jobs, and a peaceful existence to be "special".
-- 
"Not your average Leathered Librarian"
      * * * *          Gary Klein,   Business Librarian,   Univ of Toledo
       *   *                     P.O.Box 12650 / Toledo OH 43606
        * *            WORK:   419-537-2629            HOME: 419-243-2740
         *             BITNET: fac2813@uoft01           FAX: 419-537-2726
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