HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: probst@selkirk.sfu.ca (Scott Probst)
Subject: Re: Serotonin and the single male
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 03:09:17 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.203729.24791@CERIS.Purdue.EDU> dheisler@CERIS.Purdue.EDU (Dave Heisler) writes:
>I have read in a few places that males with wives or
>girlfriends have higher levels of the brain chemical
>serotonin. ( i probably have the spelling wrong )
>
>anyway, it seems to generally improve your social standing
>among females.
>
>Is this hope for Nice Guys everywhere?
>
>Anybody had this kind of therapy?
>
>Does it count for insurance purposes?
>
this is interesting news. it would follow then that situations where
the operation of seretonergic systems are interfered with could affect
one's stocks with females - perhaps to increase and improve them [if this
were for some reason desired - ed].

what affects seretonin-based brain systems?  well, lack of sleep can do
this, as can some drugs, prime amongst them being lsd. now if you could
combine the two, perhaps in some social situation... then, you might
be onto some sort of treatment program.

worth a thought.


  "Remember, sooner or later, we all enter the
   food chain, and not always right at the top."         - Dr H. S. Thompson
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: probst@selkirk.sfu.ca (Scott Probst)
Subject: Re: Mega-stud seeks large woman....
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 03:48:53 GMT

In article <thurlow.726549166@convex.convex.com> thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:
>In <1993Jan7.073357.12621@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> mhull@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr Mj Hull) writes:
>
>>Hi! I'm a 23 year old engineer who is looking for a casual relationship
>>with a beefy woman. I'm 6'1, weigh 70kg and have brown fuzzy hair. Looks are
>>not important! Needless to say, I'm guaranteed disease-free, so sex may be
>>frequent and violent. I think you'll particularly enjoy Fluffy, my pussy. If
>>you live too far away, I'd be pleased to enter into an email exchange of
>>fantasies.
>
>Soc.singles is not the right place for this personal ad.  Please send 
>it to alt.personals or soc.penpals.
>
you mean you didn't like that?


		e-mail: probst@fraser.sfu.ca

  "Remember, sooner or later, we all enter the
   food chain, and not always right at the top."         - Dr H. S. Thompson

Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.romance
From: eomiya@borland.com (Elliot Omiya)
Subject: Re: Where did you meet your SO? 
Originator: eomiya@genghis.borland.com
Organization: Borland International, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 23:34:56 GMT

I met my SO while she was waiting tables in her sister's restaurant last
summer.  She somehow had to work her tables and convince me she had a brain
on her shoulders (she's a teacher) which wasn't easy, because it's a busy
place.


Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder)
Subject: Re: Her mother wants to kill me
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:10:11 GMT

In article <93009.122558GWOODS@NDSUVM1.BITNET> Gregory L. Woods, Jr. <GWOODS@NDSUVM1.BITNET> writes:
>In article <1993Jan9.044341.29342@zip.eecs.umich.edu>,
>sitar@oosik.sprl.umich.edu (Robert J. Sitar) says:

>>5. What might have triggered the downward slide of your relationship with
>>her mother?

>     Your guess is a good as mine, but as I do think her mom
>is afraid of Angela going away. She doesn't want to lose Angela. I
>know once she looked me in the eye and said "You are trying to
> tear angela and I apart, but it will never work, we are as clsoe
>as a mother and daughter can be. I made myself a promise
>when I had Angela that noone would ever come between us"


Wee-ooo-wee-ooo-wee-ooo.  This is the sound that big, flashing, red
sirens make, Greg.  

Run away.  Her mother has a big knife.
-- 
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Gary L. Schroeder  		|  If this .sig causes dizziness or  
schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov         |  vertigo, dicontinue use and consult    
Brookhaven National Laboratory  |  your physician. 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: macl6441@mach1.wlu.ca (macleod heather)
Subject: Re: Bonjour!!!
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 01:50:40 GMT

In article <C0LHH6.2r5@mach1.wlu.ca> veen2976@mach1.wlu.ca (veenstra christopher) writes:
>In article <1993Jan9.041600.4046@sol.UVic.CA> atovorni@engr.UVic.CA writes:
>>In article Iyw@mach1.wlu.ca, veen2976@mach1.wlu.ca (veenstra christopher) writes:
>>
>>This is the the most original        Ca c'est le posting le plus original
>>posting of this kind in the          de ce genre dans l'histoire recente de 
>>recent history of soc.singles.       la groupe de nouvelles, soc.singles.
>>
>Thanks!!				Merci, beaucoup!
>
>>                                  
>>Oh, no! Not another NiceGuy[TM]      Merde! Pas encore! Un autre JoliGars[MD]*
>>
>
>Yeah, I know, but there are some      Oui, je le sais, mais il y en est 
>still around.                         plusiers.
>
>>
>>Or not.                              Ou pas.
>>
>
>Yea, looks to be the response I'm     Comme toujours.
>getting.
>
>Chris 
>
>
Chris, c'est tellement dommage que tu n'as pas recu beaucoup des responses.
Malheureusement, mon francais n'est pas tres bien, mais je veut beaucopu
continuer notre correspondence en anglais.  Heather


Xref: sparky soc.singles:36215 alt.religion.computers:949
From: drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.religion.computers
Subject: Why They Laugh
Date: 12 Jan 93 11:58:20 GMT
Organization: Castle WetWare Philosopher and Sniper

jhawes@srd.bt.co.uk writes:
] 
] I was once talking to someone about my computer which was, "only running
] off a floppy, but will soon have a big hard drive, with lots of ram."
] 
] Why did they laugh ?

Because RealMen[tm] Have BigHardDrives!

RealMen[tm] Sit Around and Ponder What to do with
IttyBittyTeenyWeenieLittle 300Meg Drives!

RealMen[tm] consider mere 600Meg Drives useful
for Little More than BootDevices!!!!

RealMen[tm] Have Lots of Ram! RealMen[tm] Have
Big HulkingHugeHumongousBigBigLarge RAM!!!![1]

RealMen[tm] do Not Touch Floppies, as they are
WimpyWimpyWimpy!!!![2]

But RealMen[tm] Are Secure Enough in their
Personal Sexuality to use ThinNet in their 
homes even if it will confuse the TV CableCompanyDroids!

ciao
drieux

[1] And will on occasion actually tune the NNTP
service so that the X interface to some WIMPY
little XnewsyReadieThingie will Not Suck Up
all the Available HeManManlyBigRam and fail
to let users post for lack of space.[3]

[2] "I will Gladly Pay You tuesday, 
If You can put that on an 8mm NexaByte for me."

[3] RealMen[tm] of course use 'rn' but will support
GirlyBoyNewsReaders for NonHeManManlyTypes, like GirlFriends.[4]

[4] "Want to come up to my place and see my NNTP
configuration files, and my Standing in the 
News Influece Catagory, little girl?" He said,
hoping that she would Not remember what her 
mother had told her about not taking 
posting privileges from strangers.




-- 
MajorModernDayProblems: 

"Let's Get Digital, Digital"
	Olivia Newton TheHideousMachOSFKonspirakii
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
Subject: Ratios vs. contacts
Organization: Don't blame me, I voted for Bill 'n' Opus
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:30:15 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.160724.27202@cbnewsk.cb.att.com> krw@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (keith.r.smith) writes:
>This is all well and good, provided that your daily routine and those hobbies
>that you pursue with a passion are likely to bring you into regular contact
>with like-minded individuals of the opposite sex.  For example, a female
>computer-nerd-techie-type would be likely to come in contact with several
>men on a daily basis during the course of her workday.  Sadly, this is not
>so in the case of the male-of-the-species, because of relative numbers of
>same.  A male hairdresser or clothing salesperson would meet _lots_ of
>women in the course of his workday, for the same reasons. A woman who is
>a die-hard fitness-freak (I can say that 'caus I are a fitness freak) is
>likely to come in contact with several men at workout time during the course
>of any given week (that is, unless she choses to train alone, or at a 
>women-only gym), but again, this is not so for the male of the species.

To a certain extent, if finding an SO is a high priority for you, you
need to find enjoyable activities that suitable matches will be at.

However, I will claim that "ratio" is far less important than "contact",
the number of people you meet.  Although I enjoy it immensely, dancing
has proven to be a poor place for me to meet people, because my hearing
impairment makes it difficult to converse.  Yet, I've gone to ballet
classes, where the ratio is extraordinarily high.

OTOH, I've done extremely well on the Net, despite the ratio, for two
reasons: 1) posting in a group like s.s gains me access to thousands of
females, and 2) I'm a witty and literate writer.

Just as a side note, I've also got useful interpersonal skills, but you
can read my .sig for those.....
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

Virtual anniversary: 7 days ago
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: veen2976@mach1.wlu.ca (veenstra christopher)
Subject: Re: Bonjour!!!
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 22:09:45 GMT

In article <MARTINC.93Jan9142949@grover.cs.unc.edu> martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
>Hey, don't stop, guys!  This interlineal French lesson's great!
>--

Hmmm, well, okay.  Maybe I should post |   Hmm...eh, bien.  Peut-etre, je
again, I still haven't gotten any      | dois l'ecrit encore, je n'ai pas
response from the original posting. Oh | recu des lettres.  Eh bien, peut
well, maybe all the computers in       | etre tous les ordinateurs en
France have gone down for the week.    | France ne marche, non-plus.  Je 
Well, I'll give it a few more days.    | pense que j'attendai plusier 
And I'm sorry, but I seem to have lost | jours.  Et, je m'excuse, j'ai
my french reference book.              | perdu mon livre qui s'agit de
                                       | Francais.

Till later,                               A plus tard,

Chris                                     Chris
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (dreas)
Subject: Re: Any Available Jewish Men Out There??
Reply-To: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 03:17:34 GMT


Astronomy was mentioned in this thread.
Sorry if I'm about 209 articles behind.

I promise to catch up, honest I do! </.Q
                                        \
       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

About astronomy:

Good joke material for those first dates, IMMHO. </,)
More seriously? Look for Mars at its closest
tomorrow night at midnight if the sky's clear.

Today is the 7'th if you're behind like me.
Mars should still be good for awhile anyway.

dreas

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (dreas)
Subject: Re: ISO APOLLO
Reply-To: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 23:23:43 GMT

In article LJ10717@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM, LJ10717@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM () writes:
>
>ISO APOLLO- are you out there?
>
>Subject - Oracle (EYEBALL)(VIRGINIA)(ONI)(SYSTEMS)
>
>Please respond - <> Diamond

ISObabe, Is that you, Pussycat?

dreas           If the schoolwork gets you down,
                then we'll throw it on the fire,
                and take the car downtown...          -David Bowie
From: nin15b63@merrimack.edu (The Wolf)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: finding it when ya ain't lookin'
Date: 7 Jan 93 17:56:38 GMT
Organization: Merrimack College, No. Andover, MA, USA

In article <1993Jan6.202451.16366@cbnewsd.cb.att.com>, nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes:
> I went with two fellow students; one female and one male.  We sat as
> a little group drinking our punch for awhile and he got up and said
> "Well, I won't be talking to you ladies much because I'm going to mingle
> with some other people, so please just ignore me until it's time to
> leave."  We were both a little amused as we watched him go stand by
> groups of people who didn't know him.  He'd just stand there, watch
> everybody for awhile, and them move on.  Within ten minutes he was
> back over by us.
> 
> Ever meet someone who has an obvious problem exiting a conversation?
> Or who wants to talk about the fact that you're having a conversation?
> You hear stuff out of them like:
> [...]
> [When there is a pause in verbiage] "Well!  So much for small talk.  What
> does everyone want to talk about now?"

You've hit up on something upon which others have also been hitting in the
threads on meeting people: It can be easier to do something when your focus
isn't immersed on whether/how well you are doing it.  In your example, a person
is so intent on the *idea* having a conversation, that s/he loses focus on any
actual conversation.

In the thread on meeting people, posters have been emphasizing things like
getting involved in activities which are interesting anyway, or using the
immediate situation and just "going with it".  What people seem to be saying is
that when one is not caught up in meeting someone, that's when s/he meets
someone.  It might seem like a paradox, but try it; it has been my experience.  

-- 
 Andy Harrington                      | nin15b63@merrimack.edu
 Computer Geek                        | aharrington@ldbvax.lotus.com
 Merrimack College, North Andover, MA | I'm too sexy for this network.
From: dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Meeting women in clubs
Date: 5 Jan 93 16:01:42 GMT
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

In article <1ic00bINN44c@mirror.digex.com>, huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:
> In article <C0Bz1L.J5F@cs.dal.ca> earhard@ug.cs.dal.ca (Mark Earhard) writes:
> 
> 5. Pardon me, but I think I might have once been married to you.
> 
> 6. I have evidence that we were lover in a previous life.

I was trying to explain this love/hate relationship that I had with one
friend of mine to somebody and we decided that we had been married in 
a previous life -- it had been an arranged by our fathers, we loathed
each other, and it eventually ended with murder/suicide.  We could never
decide which one of us poisoned the tea though.

Dawn
"What if I had PMS all my life, and told you you looked just like Barney Fife,
What if I twisted it in like a knife, Until it made you cry? Until it made
you lie? Would you still love me?"
"What If..." by Bongwater
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: an4930@anon.penet.fi (Gould)
Subject: New country, new people and I am single
Organization: Anonymous contact service
X-Anonymously-To: soc.singles
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:43:45 GMT

Hi everyone:
	I have a few queries for all you faithful soc.singles readers. I am
a 23 year old male. I am new to this country and I am trying real hard
to meet women. I have been to a dance club only once and I tried asking
some women to dance with me. I was n't very lucky most of the time. I am
an asian Indian  and I wonder whether a different
nationality and skin color is a turn off for many woman. There could
have been nothing wrong with the way I asked them . My English
is excellent. 
I joined a local fitness club  recently, mainly to pump weight and also to
meet women. These places are frequented either by women over 30 or
High school kids. If there are any in my age group they are far and few
in between. Since, I am a new member at this club I really have n't
picked anyone in particular to strike a conversation with. So, my
question to  you is what should I do to meet women in my day to
day life. I work from 9-5 in the day time and I really want to go to the
fitness club 5 days a week . This takes up my entire day. 
 Since, I am away from school for a year I don't have a lot
of guys to hang out with in local bars/clubs. I hate going alone to
these places. Any suggestions.
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Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.sex
From: eomiya@borland.com (Elliot Omiya)
Subject: Re: The Classiest Pickup Lines
Originator: eomiya@genghis.borland.com
Organization: Borland International, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 01:27:14 GMT

My line was "Hi, gorgeous"

(Hey, it worked, you gotta consider it in context!)
From: pooh@Apple.COM (Pooh)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Rob's beard (was Re: Facial hair)
Date: 12 Jan 93 09:23:23 GMT
Organization: Internet Refugee Camp

In the referenced article, quirke_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>> The poor thing put up with two lonely weeks of itchy-face just
>> to surprise me!  Now that it's grown in properly, I think it
>> makes him look like Lenin. :-)
>
>   Poor Pooh !
>   As I recall, Lenin has been sorta saturated with wax, and is slowly
>decomposing in Red Square.
>   So your SO's beard makes him look like a cross tween a wax dummy and a
>pathologist's prize exhibit ?

No, but he has been known to melt when I warm him up ... ;-)

Pooh
	pooh@apple.com
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.romance
From: esper@a1.ima.umn.edu (Dave Sherohman)
Subject: Re: Where did you meet your SO? 
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 01:44:59 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.064348.26971@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> bss2p@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Brent S. Stone) writes:
>As long as Heather got the ball rolling on the 
>subject of meeting people, where you meet your
>current partner?  Theorizing where to meet
>people is one thing, what works is another.  
>So how about some info for the group?

Well, looks like ballroom dancing is the first to get multiple endorsements...
I met Tammy in a ballroom dance class at the U of MN; she was just getting
started, I'd been dancing fanatically for about a year and was the TA and very
willing to stick around after class and help anyone who cared to stay.  A few
weeks into the quarter, several students started staying after class with me;
around midquarters, everyone else stopped sticking around (studying, I guess) -
they never came back.  After the quarter ended, we started going to dances to
stay in practice (I'm carless, so she offered transport).  Through all this,
she was actively trying to avoid getting involved with anyone, and I was pretty
apathetic about whether I was dating or not.  Valentine's day ('92) rolled
around, we were at a '50s dance, and I suddenly noticed that the song had ended,
we weren't dancing, but my arm was still around her as we stood and waited for
the next song.  And that's how it all began...

Another interesting bit in our meeting...  The first time we danced (about a
week before she started staying after class - she was afraid to dance with 
'the TA') was a waltz.  She told me her name was Tammy, and my first response
was, "You know, there's a waltz by that name."  She didn't know this (of course)
but it is why I remembered her name immediately.  We danced the song (Sunrise,
Sunset), then switched partners.  Guess what the next song was - "Tammy('s in
Love)".  When changing partners again, I mentioned that the previous song had
been the one I was talking about; she'd recognized it, but just hadn't known
it was a waltz.  A couple months later I found out the it was where she'd
gotten her name...

More info than you'd asked for, but I like both stories...

esper@ima.umn.edu
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (dreas)
Subject: The Gypsy Thing
Reply-To: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 01:24:17 GMT


I have just finished placing 4500 miles of road behind me,
and am back to where I started from three weeks ago.

Kalipornja was the kind of place to visit, since I had never 
been there before. It was a refreshing change of pace for the 
most part, and in some ways alarming.

Big cities just move too fast for me to be in them in comfort.
Good thing that the places I visited were not all urban.

Big cities are not the healthiest of places for people to live in.
Typically, there are people there even too weird for my warped 
way of looking at things, and this Gypsy at heart is glad to set
up his tent back here in Vicky again, tending to the minor injuries 
sustained by his 215 eager horses.

Most people that I met were not exactly in their element, and this 
problem has something to do with going through life with blinders
firmly affixed to the temples. The beggars in LA were too pushy, and
many people were too wound up to enjoy the holidays. C'est la vie???

Thank you for the fine food, the floors and couches on which I slept, 
and the times when we were together in pleasant surroundings that were 
sometimes too cold or too hot. I must thank drieux (who is just) for 
suggesting the desert. The oneness with nature is extremely powerful 
there. The rocks were excellent, and maybe I'll go there again to 
celebrate some future Christmas in some future year.

My book is already up to nineteen chapters, thanks to my cousin's
word processor in Tsawwassen, BC. This rush of creativity was partly 
inspired by some of you down in the Golden State. Thanks eversomuch.

This account might not be active for long, as I flunked out of 
the engineering thing. I have a new one in the works, though.

May the year that we are in be better than the one that we escaped from,
and may all the gods be favorable, doing their thing well.

dreas            

In darkness through my being here, away from you;
The bright light of your star confronts me, shining through.   -Procol Harum
                                                    
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: Matt Valentine
Subject: Arm Wrestling (Re: How Strong Should a Man Be?)
Reply-To: valentin@next3.corp.mot.com
Organization: MOTOROLA 
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 23:59:11 GMT

Stef Jones writes
 
> Strong enough to tie me at arm-wrestling.
> 
> --
> Stef           I have a discussion topic I'd like to throw on the floor.
> stef@apple.com                           --Mixed idiom hall of fame

How about strong enough to wrestle you and tie you!!
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: falk@peregrine.Sun.COM (Ed Falk)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Her mother wants to kill me
Date: 9 Jan 1993 06:17:11 GMT
Organization: Sun
NNTP-Posting-Host: peregrine

In article <93008.135510GWOODS@NDSUVM1.BITNET> Gregory L. Woods, Jr. <GWOODS@NDSUVM1.BITNET> writes:
>
>  So any additional questions or does anyone have a suggestion
>for dealing with this rift. I am madly in love with Angela and
>she is in love with me. Any helpful hints would be appreciated.

See her at college while she's away from her mom.  Leave her family
alone.  Watch your back at all times.

		-ed falk, sun microsystems
		 sun!falk, falk@sun.com
To be loyal to rags, to shout for rags, to worship rags, to die for rags 
-- that is a loyalty of unreason, it is pure animal (Mark Twain).
Newsgroups: soc.singles