HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jwall@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jeff Wall)
Subject: Re: doesn't it piss you off when.....
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Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 20:49:33 GMT

In article <JULIE.93Jan22132550@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu> julie@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (Julie Wright) writes:
>jwall@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jeff Wall) writes:
>
>>I think that's called fishing for a compliment :-)
>
>No no no, it's called fishing for a drink!

Bartender!!!  Bring this lady a drink.

>>>Well, at least you're no longer a Baltimoron.
>
>>You're not a Balitmoron if you're outside the beltway are you??
>
>Certainly not.  Pretty soon you'd end up including people from Warshnin.
>We have our standards, you know.  

I got lost in Washington one time (DC not state).  It was not a pleasant
experience.  I know why they call it the murder capital of the world.

Cheers,

Jeff Wall

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder)
Subject: Re: what is attractive ?
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:11:39 GMT

In article <9008@news.duke.edu> diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams) writes:
>In article <ewright.727736220@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
>
>>feet to make them appear smaller and more attractive.  In the United 
>>States, just 20 years ago, it was generally accepted that women should
>>be soft, rather than the "hard bodies" popular today.  Muscles on women
>>were considered unattractive.

>I've always thought that the best example of this was the whole tanning
>phenomenon... until relatively recently, women in Western societies attempted
>to appear as pale as possible (and did things like take milk baths to try
>to lighten their skins).  

The Shelly Duvall look.  I'm still trying to figure out this whole
I-just-walked-out-of-a-frying-pan-in-the-desert/tanned-to-the-marrow
look.  Maybe it's just me, but I have hard time with young women who
have skin like my grandmother, nicely tanned though it is.  And before
you ask, that's right: my grandmother has an excellent tan.


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From: brent.mason@uuworld.via.mind.ORG (Brent Mason) 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: vitamin B
Date: 19 Jan 93 18:53:00 GMT
Reply-To: brent.mason@uuworld.via.mind.ORG (Brent Mason) 
Distribution: world
Organization: Micro Exchange - Kenwood, CA - 707-833-4032

> From: an2260@anon.penet.fi
  > Newsgroups: alt.sex,alt.baldspot,soc.men,soc.singles
  > Subject: vitamin B
  > Message-ID: <1993Jan17.032610.16802@fuug.fi>
  > Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 19:18:41 GMT
  >
  > Is it true that vitamin B (in all of it's forms) can prevent hair loss?
  >
  > Just heard it from a barber.

  Well I have been taking a B-complex every day for quite a while and
well...   no luck yet.. the forhead keeps getting larger!!

Brent Mason
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From: jmd@bear.com (Josh Diamond)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Stef Vs. Phantasm 3-D
Date: 22 Jan 93 15:38:21 GMT
Organization: Bear, Stearns & Co. - FAST
In-reply-to: jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu's message of 21 Jan 93 20:37:00 GMT


In article <1993Jan21.203700.76993@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH) writes:

   When phantasm@iastate.edu writes:
   >>After seeing such, Stef, a quote comes to mind that you might like to know...
   >>     When I play with my cat, who knows whether she isn't
   >>     amusing herself with me more than I am with her?

   stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) replies:
   >Really. Must we hierarchicalize the amusement factor that various species
   >derive from each other?

   I see it now: "Women whose cats are 'Control Freaks'...on the next 'Geraldo.'"
Or better yet, "Toonces: The Topping Cat"...

Spidey!!!

--
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: smith@ecs.comm.mot.com (Jeff Smith)
Subject: Re: SM ISO MAIL
Organization: Gagging Sloth Records
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 16:51:41 GMT

In article 16585@auspex-gw.auspex.com, johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:

>First of all,  with the emergence of the anonymous posting service personal
>ads are finding their way onto soc.singles with great frequency.  As a
>result, a neophyte reader is going to see them and might figure that they
>are acceptable here.

Not likely, if they read any of the articles *after* the personal!

Incidentally, John makes a good point about the anonymous posting service.
Personally, I consider this a good reason to vote against allowing anonymous
postings in this newsgroup.

jds

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From: sethb@panix.com (Seth Breidbart)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Credibility and Trueness
Date: 27 Jan 93 01:59:50 GMT
Organization: Society for the Promulgation of Cruelty to the Clueless

In article <1993Jan25.202114.1328@netcom.com> barry@netcom.com (Kenn Barry) writes:
>In article <ewright.727981082@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
>>In <1993Jan25.051224.25468@netcom.com> barry@netcom.com (Kenn Barry) writes:
>>>	Seems Charlie owes me a sheepskin. Ed, here's your clue: 4 dates
>>>does not constitute a relationship, 
>>
>>The dictionary defines relationship as follows: a romantic or 
>>passionate attachment.  No mention of time.
>
>	So go beat off with a dictionary. Any normal human being could
>probably figure out for himself that there's a qualitative difference
>between going out with someone 4 times, and having a major involvement.

Not necessarily.  (Hell, am I agreeing with Ed here?  Oh well...)

Several years ago I had an involvement with someone that was
_definitely_ a Relationship, even though there were only four dates
(and numerous phone calls, etc.).  She lived 800+ miles away, and we
didn't get to see each other that often.

It happens that each of those dates was at least a weekend long, but
the argument was over counting them :-)

Hell, I know one couple that could probably claim to have had _no_
dates, but still a relationship:  they've been together for several
years now, and may not have been out of each other's company since
they first met :-)

Seth
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: amy@lloyd.Camex.COM (Amy Lindsay)
Subject: Re: Trygve's shower
Organization: Camex Inc., Boston MA
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 14:54:30 EST

In article <1993Jan24.075322.5600@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
>In article <1993Jan22.195808.6839@lloyd.Camex.COM> amy@lloyd.Camex.COM (Amy Lindsay) writes:
>>Hmm.  Do they have to make a choice?  It's not like you're in the same time
>>zone or anything.
>
>Nah, if you've got enough minions, there's no reason you can't station
>some at each location.  

I just picked up a few more.  They were having a sale.  They're on their
way... and no fair bribing them with hot fudge sundaes.

>>Yup.  "Amy and her Amazing Psychic Minions.  Next on Oprah."
>
>But is there a book in the works?  "Women who have minions and the
>men who...?" 

Fly with them!

>>falling into.  (...And I have been making an effort to keep the good glass
>>cutters from falling into it, so you'll just have to focus it somewhere
>>ELSE.)
>
>Oh, that must be the Minkowski space vortex spilling over into toolboxes
>again--at least now I know where those glass cutters have been coming 
>from.  Obviously, this just means I need to get a considerably bigger
>toolbox.  (How tall are you, BTW?) 

5'4", but that's irrelevant anyway, as I'm also spacially transcendental.

Being fictional and all.

>>Well, I am planning on flying to Albany in a couple of weeks.  Is that
>>close enough?
>
>Nope; at least until I'm healed up to the point where I can do things 
>like walk again, you'll have to come *much* closer than that. 

Hmmm, probably the closest I can get at the moment would be Harrisburg.
Otherwise, I'd have to rent the plane for longer than just one day and I
really can't afford that with my job going away... or not.

Unless, of course, you can reverse the polarity on that vortex thing and
send me a new alternator...

>>>Trygve   (You can trust me--I'm a doctor.)
>>
>>I don't like doctors.  Can't we play something else?  (And why is it that
>>you never let ME be the doctor, anyway?)
>
>Happy to take suggestions for other things to play (I suppose we could
>borrow Stef's uzi and play Post Office).

Well, you know her better than I do.  You ask.

>Trygve   (But did I ever say that I wouldn't let you play doctor--after
>          all, since I'm still laid up with a broken-into-bits leg, I
>          couldn't very well turn down such an offer.)

Hang on there a minute, I'll go get my needles.

			--amy (Oh, you meant a WESTERN medical doctor.)


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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Mocsny?
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 23:11:15 GMT

In article <1993Jan28.141327.848@walter.bellcore.com> nobody writes:
>
>Yes, it is true that Mark Israel is my narcissistic, pit-bull-phobic alter ego
>that emerges periodically to annoy the denizens of soc.singles. Treat him
>kindly since his fragile sense of humor may be irrevocably damaged otherwise.

Happy too--after all, I rather like Mark Israel and am glad to see him 
posting again.

However, since he posted first (one lone message about a week before your
recrudescence), isn't it more likely that you're *his* alter-ego?

Trygve   (I tried to get my ego altered, but the tailor said it was
          too large to work with.)
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From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: La Biere(was: could be worse)
Date: 23 Jan 93 13:18:55
Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
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In-reply-to: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA's message of Sat, 23 Jan 93 00:06:22 GMT

In article <1993Jan23.000622.16488@sol.UVic.CA> atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (dreas) writes:

   >|Pilzn...).
   >
   >Say, Dreas actually *does* no something about beer.  Actually, it's from 
   >Pilzen. Pilsner Urquell.  One of my favorite dart pubs serves it.

   Why thank you, John.
   I was using the Czech(or is that Slovak, I forget) spelling.

Czech it out, Dreas.

   I suggest you inspect the bottle more closely.
   Or did they americanize the the label down your way? 

   It is brewed at the Pilzenski Prazdroj in Pilzn(or Pilzen, both are OK).

I thought it was (even worse) Plzn.

(Great-graddaddy was a Suddetenlaender from Pilsen before the Czechs got
control of the map.)


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      to resist the temptation to laugh uncontrollably.  Amen." -- Rob T
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: barry@netcom.com (Kenn Barry)
Subject: Re: Credibility and Trueness
Organization: QQQCLC
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 05:12:24 GMT

In article <ewright.727932461@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
>I may have said something along the lines of "The longest relationship
>I've ever had a relationship lasted all of four dates."  I don't see how 
>you could equate that with "never having had a relationship" unless you
>graduated from the Charlie Martin School of Mathematics.

	Seems Charlie owes me a sheepskin. Ed, here's your clue: 4 dates
does not constitute a relationship, even if the pleasant sweaty
gymnastics were included. Charlie's right, this does explain your
cluelessness (though not your stubborn insistence that you know what
you're talking about).

						Kayembee
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (Die Fledermaus)
Subject: Re: La Biere(was: could be worse)
Reply-To: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 07:25:43 GMT

(John Fereira) writes:
>(Francois Souchay) writes:
>>(dreas) writes:
>|>> In some article,(Somebody) wrote: 
>|>>Seriously, some of the best beer I ever tasted is American. 
>|>>New Amsterdam (New York City) turned me onto micro-breweries, and I have
>|>>a couple of bottles of Sam Adams in the fridge, cooling as we speak.
>
>Dreas wrote this:
>|>BC has even better micro-breweries.
> 
>Just how many microbreweries have you been to New York?  California?  Which
>micro-brewery is better than the ones there?

Steady on, John.

I was referring to Spinnaker's or Fog 'n' Suds in Vicky.
I find them superior in flavor to Le Cheval Blanc and such places in Monty.

>|Micro-breweries tend to make better beer anyway, unconstrained by the need
>|to pander to the lowest common denominator.
>|St. Ambroise, Boreale, Belle Gueule...... Major reasons to live here. 
>|
>|>Don't forget Kokanee Gold draft...
>|
>|Is Kokanee still around?
> 
>I had a Kokanee Gold draft a few years ago.  I didn't think it was anything
>special.

No it ain't, but it's the best beer at deFox.
 
>It looks to me like another attempt to bash the states.

Why would I go bashin' the States, Man?
Had anyone shown me a fine pub where they make their 
own beer, I would have been happy to sample the wares!

I plead ignorance, OK?
I'll even buy you a beer someday!

dreas


Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: sethb@panix.com (Seth Breidbart)
Subject: ISObabe
Organization: Society for the Promulgation of Cruelty to the Clueless
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:36:48 GMT

Dreas has been posting about meeting an ISObabe.  Since I missed the
definition of that term, I'll suggest several (number 3 is my personal
favorite).

1. [standards] Someone who meets the International Standards
Organizations specifications for babeitude.

2. [personals] Someone In Search Of a babe.  (This is unlikely; this
meaning might describe Dreas, not the person he's writing about.)

3. [chemistry] Someone who is just like a babe, except twisted.

Seth
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: *** SM ISO SF ***
Date: 26 Jan 93 23:52:43 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1993Jan24.163604.29495@infodev.cam.ac.uk> gdb15@cl.cam.ac.uk writes:
>In article <1993Jan24.113057.21825@infodev.cam.ac.uk> gdb15@cl.cam.ac.uk writes:
|>Is that it?  Have you nothing more to say than that?  "Drop me a line
|>and we'll see what happens."  You can't really argue with that, can
|>you?  What do you want me to say -- "oh no we won't!"?  Or will you
|>suddenly post a profound discourse on the nature of singleness if I
|>drop you a line?  I can't in all honesty say you've added a great deal
|>to the debate, but thank you for your contribution.  Good night.
|
|Sorry, that posting of mine wasn't very funny.  I apologize to
|everyone on the group for inflicting such a pathetic weak joke on them
|(except the anonymous person who posted the personal ad, of course).

Since you were looking for a way to deal with personal ads posted to s.s.
I thought I might point out that since that is a double blind anonymous
system you can flame them via email....anonymously.


-- 
-john
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (Die Fledermaus)
Subject: Re: Living alone and liking it
Reply-To: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 02:38:20 GMT

In article 77220@apple.apple.COM, stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:

>Gosh, I never knew bats could growl so fiercely...

chacun a son gout...

dreas (went a little batty temporarily)

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: eleanor@cbnews.cb.att.com (Piglet)
Subject: Re: SM ISO MAIL
Organization: the house on the corner
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:30:30 GMT

In article <g8n3lx_@rpi.edu> petitc@nuge105.its.rpi.edu (Christopher Jon Petit) writes:
> Errr, I'm not sure if this belongs in this group, but...

Of course it does, silly, all of your dulcet words do.  Well, most of them,
anyway.  Ok, ok, NONE of them, I was just SUCKING UP!  You gotta problem
with that?!?

>"If you want to look for fish, best not to look in desert."

Well, actually that's probably the best place to look for fish.  If you
want to *find* fish, that's another story....altogether..."that's another
story"...


Piglet
From: dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Credibility and Trueness
Date: 28 Jan 93 15:05:47 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN)
NNTP-Posting-Host: spcink.bbn.com

In article <ewright.728178797@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
>
>Psychology denies the existance of free will because its very
>existance is incompatible with the concept.  Once you recognize
>that human beings have free will, you can explain any human
>behavior with one simple explanation: he chose to do it.  All
>the ids, egos, superegos, hobgoblins, and supernatural forces
>that fill psychology books become superfluous.  (And the writers
>of those books lose their source of income.)

The question of *why* he chose to do it is still relevant.  There are
certainly a lot of people who behave in self-destructive ways who have
no idea why they do things that they know will only cause themselves
pain.  Having an insightful third party point these things out to you
and help you discover why you do them is very helpful.  

Dawn
-- 
"You have this adorable and misguided notion that death is something really
radical and cool but I still can't help being attracted to your fresh-faced
uncompromised tatoo-ed rebel stance and god damn, I'd like to help you
sing your tune."  "Folk Song..." by Bongwater
Xref: sparky soc.singles:38134 talk.bizarre:46594
From: Cannam@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de (Chris Cannam)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Mushy_O_Phobic v. CloseAirSupport_O_Phobics
Date: 27 Jan 93 10:52:09
Organization: Konrad Zuse Zentrum fuer Informationstechnik Berlin
NNTP-Posting-Host: borodin.zib-berlin.de
In-reply-to: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu's message of Wed, 27 Jan 1993 03:32:23 GMT


kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
   Cannam@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de (Chris Cannam) writes:

   >Can I put in a word for the pommer?

   Sure.  What word would you like to put in for it?

I think `timorousness' is suitably inappropriate.

--
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             minds and replace it with poetry;  on sighting poets it should
               unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra
From: sethb@panix.com (Seth Breidbart)
Subject: Re: A hug for illiterate flamers
Organization: Society for the Promulgation of Cruelty to the Clueless
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:21:59 GMT

In article <JULIE.93Jan26130830@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu> julie@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (Julie Wright) writes:

>	   GAG
>
>	by J.R. Wright

[wonderful poem sacrificed to the bandwidth gods]

I think we have a new net.goddess.

Seth
From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: what is attractive ?
Date: 27 Jan 1993 08:20:26 -0500
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com

In article <C16EsB.ME7@portal.hq.videocart.com> dfuller@portal.hq.videocart.com (Dave Fuller) writes:
}  I have a question that i have never been able to get an answer for.
}
}  Does anybody know why they are attracted to certain people ? This includes
}only physical features: gender, eyes, body, hair, etc. etc.

Well, I'd guess that there are people who *think* they know.  But so what?
Even if they're right, that's only one data point.

}  I still don't know why certain women are attractive to me. Sure, i can
}say WHAT it is, but why is it those things ? Other people don't find
}the same people attractive in the same way.

Well, I hope you're aware that other people are different from you.

Anyway, some studies have been done in this area, and I posted a little on
them a few months ago.  (Perhaps this was before you began reading this
group; have you seen recent references to interocular distances and middle
finger lengths?)  These studies didn't bother polling people to ask them
their preferences.  Instead, they measured various traits of couples and
computed correlation coefficients.

The studies found that people tend to be attracted to people that are like
themselves, e.g., tall people tend to be attracted to tall people.  However,
they also found that some of the traits were those that the subjects were
totally unware of, such as the two mentioned parenthetically above, i.e.,
people with widely spaced eyes tend to be attracted to others with widely
spaced eyes, and folks with long fingers tend to prefer other folks with
long fingers.

Some of this might explain the fascination with incest despite the taboos
against it.  The people most like one genetically are parents, siblings, and
children, each of whom has a genetic relatedness of 0.5.

}  How much of what we find attractive is conditioned ?

Probably less than most people think, but I'm just guessing.

-- Herb Huston
-- huston@access.digex.com
From: quirke_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: A hug for illiterate flamers
Date: 27 Jan 93 15:06:31 NZST
Organization: Welligton City Council, Public Access.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Summary: Well, it looked directed in my direction, so I thought I'd fire back...

ag936@yfn.ysu.edu (Lance Durden) writes:

>                HUGS
>           R. H. Grenville

[Poem deleted on the grounds that diabetics would be threatened]

"It's not, dear Lance" the pundit said,
"that we dislike you, or wish you dead.
"It's just your posts make us ill,
"For of 'romance' we've had our fill.
"Of bunnies and flowers, and cute little rhymes,
"We've railed against so many times.
"The lack of wit, the romantic twaddle,
"of which your poem was a perfect model. 
"On soc.singles, the misogamists foam and lather,
"Always avoiding such twee little blather.
"You'll find a place for all of that"
"on alt.romance.chat"

Tony Q. (not by any stretch of the imagination a poet !)
-- 
Tony Quirke, Wellington, New Zealand (Quirke_A@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz)
"Only the free have disposition to be truthful.
 Only the truthful have the interest to be just.
 Only the just possess the willpower to be free." - WH Auden.