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From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Subject: Re: Changing standards of female beauty
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:42:44 GMT

In article <C0C5Fy.9DD@fig.citib.com> glp@fig.citib.com (Greg Parkinson) writes:
>|> To each his own.  I once had a hunky houseguest I was slobbering over
>|> until I noticed his bottle of "Oil of Olay" on the nightstand.  That took
>|> care of my ardor rather neatly.
>Let's be fair here.  Some of us have skin which
>doesn't respond well to cold dry air, so in the
>winter we use moisturizing creams.

This was in the summer, in 95+ degree heat and 90% humidity, and the
man was not suffering from ichthyosis.  (And for the curious, Greg, who
can use as much Oil of Olay as he wants without changing my appreciation
of him, was not my houseguest at this time.)

>Different skin types respond differently, and when you find
>something that works, you stick with it.  It may
>be that Oil of Olay worked for your houseguest;
>would you have preferred him to have dry, flaky,
>uncomfortably itchy skin?

Isn't that what it means to be manly?  Seriously, I'm really not talking
about treating or preventing dry skin here.  We're talking serious
cosmetics cases.

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
From: Paco Ojeda <ffoogg@macmailgw.dfci.harvard.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: REQUEST: MOW Update & # for Official Travel Agents
Date: 7 Jan 1993 14:02:46 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation
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Greetings!
Could anyone please post any updated information regarding the schedule
of events at MOW? Also, I seem to have misplaced the toll-free number for
the official travel agents that was posted here a couple of weeks ago.
Could anyone please repost it as well?

Thanks!

Paco
From: sfsmith@mail.sas.upenn.edu (Sandy F. Smith, Jr.)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: And Coors said....(was Re: Colorado Replies)
Date: 6 Jan 93 21:58:00 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <1ice41INNhvo@transfer.stratus.com>, pfieland@citron.sw.stratus.com (Peggy Fieland) writes:
> 
> I, too, wrote about 14 letters.  I got a phone call from Coors pretty
> much right away.
> 

OK, I'm curious:

What did the folks at Coors tell you?

Did they express sympathy?  Did they say something about the money they've
tossed at various gay organizations in an effort to buy back the allegiance
of gay/lesbian beer-drinkers?  Did you ask them about how the members of the
family that owns the brewery voted (I doubt it was against, but I'm open to
surprises)?

Or did you tell them that from now on, you were going to cry in your Bud?

Btw: none of the local bars that serve Coors Light have stopped serving it.
How about in your neck of the woods?

__________________________________________________________________________
Sandy F. Smith, Jr. ___________________________sfsmith@mail.sas.upenn.edu
Graduate Division, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
16 College Hall, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6378.  (Opinions mine, not Penn's)
From: tdbear@dvorak.amd.com (Thomas D. Barrett)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Wil Wheaton at MacWorld!!!!!
Date: 10 Jan 93 23:41:15 GMT
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas

In article <mattm-090193162226@mcmelmon.apple.com> mattm@apple.com (Matthew Melmon) writes:
:)> It's moments like this (Wesley's MacWorld expose') that I get down on
:)> my knees and thank the powers that be that I work in a Intel(tm)
:)> compatible world :)
:)
:)Hah!  I pick my nose at you, you Milli-Vanilli-of-the-microchip-man,
:)you.  Your taste in young lovelies is as your taste in chip
:)architectures - how do you zay in Amerique, "Like piss?"

Well... just for that I won't talk to you about our Moto deals in the
works.  AND, just forget about me sending you that special GIF that came
through a sub-space channel last week from Data (He captured Wesley
and... well, you don't get to see it or hear about it).  So there!
You, you, vegesexual you! I even bet you are one of those GREEN
apples!  ICK!

-- 
|Tom Barrett (TDBear), Sr. Engineer|tom.barrett@amd.com|v:512-462-6856 |
|AMD PCD MS-520 | 5900 E. Ben White|Austin, TX  78741  |f:512-462-5155 |
|"No is yes, And we're all free" ---Tracy Chapman, "Why?"              |
|My views are my own and may not be the same as the company of origin  |
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From: fjvwing@cs.vu.nl (FJ!!)
Subject: Re: Should I be doing this?
Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:56:49 GMT

bcapps@agora.rain.com (Brent Capps) writes:
>mara@panix.com (Mara Chibnik) writes:
>[discussing teasing and voyeurism]
>>I'm not going to promise to stop it unless I get a serious request
>>to do that, but I _will_ restrain myself.   Some. [ ;-)]  

>Hmmm.  Mara, I read this post, scratched my head, read it again, started
>to followup, canceled it, scratched my head some more, canceled a reply,
>and now I'm just perplexed.  I just can't figure out what you're driving
>at.

Mara,

Let me first throw some warmness around: you know I love you here. You
are one of the people who should be in the cabal if there were one. I
just love those little messages I get from you (they are contributing
to making answering my e-mail a full time job, but I'm not
complaining). In fact, your encouragement is one of the things that
made and make me very confident in posting those messages of mine where
I open up totally for longer than a page.

So in the light of that, I have only one comment on your post where you
are worried that your occasional teasing or voyeurism may be looked
upon in a negative way:

			Honey, are you kidding?
								FJ!!
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From: ry@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (ryerson.schwark)
Subject: Re: Congratulating (het) parents on their new baby
Organization: UNIX System Laboratories, Summit, NJ
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 23:35:00 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.183950.22054@gordian.com> mike@gordian.com (Michael A. Thomas) writes:
>Gramma in a fit of undeniable crankyness (ryerson.schwark) writes:
>  Gramma's going to the Beehive State! Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!

I'll die first.  Well, maybe if they send me a pair of those handsome 
Mormon boys to minister to me.  I think I need lots and lots of deep
intimate ministering.

Ry
ry@usl.com
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From: glp@fig.citib.com (Greg Parkinson)
Subject: Re: Year of the Queer
Originator: glp@merlin
Organization: Citibank IBISM
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:33:39 GMT


In article <1ikvnkINN6qv@mizar.usc.edu>, adolphso@mizar.usc.edu (adolphson) writes:
|> In article <C0HozE.q8@fig.citib.com> 
|> glp@fig.citib.com (Greg Parkinson) writes:
|> 
|> > Watch it.  *Lots* of us were Valley Boys at one
|> > point.  Toluca Lake/North Hollywood/Burbank area,
|> > to be exact.
|> 
|> But did you have a choice, or were you there because
|> your parents lived there?

I was born there, at a hospital in Glendale - 
Physicians & Surgeons, I think.  When I was 13
my parents fled to Corona del Mar in Southern
Orange County where all was Comfort and Ease.

You couldn't pay me to live in Southern California
at this point.  

-- 
Greg Parkinson                  Phone: 212-657-7814  Fax: 212-825-8607
Citibank,111 Wall Street        E-Mail: glp@fig.citib.com
New York, New York  10043
The opinions expressed are my own and not those of the big 'ol bank.
From: joe@spdcc.com (Joseph Francis)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: For a limited time only
Date: 5 Jan 93 17:00:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: spdcc.1993Jan5.170000.11182
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA

In article <C0Dy6w.9KL@agora.rain.com> bcapps@agora.rain.com (Brent Capps) writes:
>In my mail today was a catalogue for one of those mail order music
>outfits that advertise along with the Ginzu knives and the Bamboo
>Steamers on WTBS.  Thumbing through it, nestled among the ads for
>Slim Whitman (He Had The Number One Record In England For More Weeks 
>Than Even Elvis And The Beatles!) and Pan Flute Masterpieces is this
>priceless gem:
>
>	     * * *  ACCORDION PARTY  * * *
>   Here's a "listening treat" like you've never heard.
>   The truly captivating sound of massed accordions
>   playing the most loved and most famous songs ever
>   written is simply spellbinding.  If you like the
>   romantic carefree "take me away from it all" sound
>   of a single accordion, you love this accordion band.
>   Just read the list of titles below.  You get 30
>   different songs and medleys.  Each song is one you
>   know and love.  What fun you'll have with this
>   extraordinary album.  Be sure to order yours today.

Reminds me of when I performed "El Pato Electronico" by some
unnameable Argentine composer: 15 oboes, 2 english horns, and Oboe
d'amore. It had a subtle charm all its own. <cough> To frighten the
horses we would play it sometimes /without vibrato/ (shrieks from
backstage).
-- 
US Jojo; damp, slighly soiled, but tasty nonetheless.
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From: buckmr@rpi.edu (Ron Buckmire)
Subject: St Patrick Day Parade dispute OVER!
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 22:12:20 EST
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Just heard:

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has given the parade permit to an inclusive 
group that WILL allow gays to march in the parade on March 17th.

More later.
   
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 earn one-tenth of the world's income and own 1% of the property."--Naomi Wolf
From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Arne Adolphson, Moron At Large
Date: 13 Jan 93 04:25:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: spdcc.1993Jan13.042523.19900
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA

In article <73464@cup.portal.com> Furr@cup.portal.com (George Dalton Madison) writes:
>and I skip the article.  If Portal had killfiles, you and
>Arne would probably be in mine.

Learn UNIX, George.  The Truth will make you free.  :-)

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: tcarlin@athena.mit.edu (Thomas B Carlin)
Subject: RE: Doogie Howser - Doogie does good
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:19:35 GMT

>>I hear from a co-worker that last night's episode of
>>Doogie Howser, M.D. dealt with a straight man overcoming
>>his phobia of having a gay room-mate.  I didn't see it;
>>did anyone else here?

I caught this episode while channel-surfing (Warner Cable must have been
what Bruce Springstein had in mind when he wrote "57 Channels and
nothing on").

Very tastefully done.  Almost too - the "gay" character was as
unoffensive and vanilla as they come.

Anyhow, the jist of the episode was:

Vinny lives with a complete slob.

Gay Character's (whose name I either didn't get or promptly forgot)
roommate had just moved out, and offered Vinny the space.

Vinny jumps at the chance, hugs Vanilla and says "I just love this man"
to Doogie.

Vanilla says "I love you too"

Vinny soon learns after moving in from a female neighbor that Vanilla is
gay.  Vinny says something to the effect "by that you mean happy". 
Vinny gets reality check.

Vinny decides to start showering at Doogie's from now on.  Is afraid that
Vanilla will come after him.  Doogie tells Vinny, in a nut shell, that
he is being an idiot, and that if this is really a problem he should
confront Vanilla.  Vinny keeps repeating "what am I to do, the guy is in
love with me".

Vinny confronts Vanilla.  Tells him that he is a virgin, and the idea of
having a gay roommate will only add to his difficulty in curing this
problem.  Vanilla tells Vinny that he's not his type, professes to not
be promiscuous, believes in monogamy, and is also a virgin.  Vinny
shakes Vanilla's hand just as dormmates pop by to ask Vanilla if he
wants to play basketball (or something like that), Vinny QUICKLY removes
hand and introduces himself with the addition of being proudly, or
blantantly heterosexual.  Everyone looks at Vinny blankly.

Vinny comes off as a schmuck, although well on the road to
enlightenment, Vanilla as a real positive role model
(but, like I said, he is such this bare-foot-boy-with-cheek-of-tan
suburbanite boy scout that even my grandmother would have liked him!).

Good show for the show.

Tom Carlin
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From: rjwill6@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams)
Subject: Re: Goodbye for now.
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, California
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 19:06:50 GMT

> d000dlphi@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu (David Speakman) writes:

>Well, break is over for me.
>I might not be posting again for about 4 months.
>(work is such a bitch!)
>Anyway, I'll see (read) all of you wonderful people in May!

Whaddya mean *May*???  Won't we see you in person at the
March on Washington on April 25???!!!

Rod (blithely assuming he's included in the set of
     "you wonderful people")
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From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Subject: Re: Seid umschlungen, Millionen.  Diesen Kuss der ganzen Welt!
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 14:47:09 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.060354.28964@netcom.com> jfh@netcom.com (Jack Hamilton) writes:
>I just saw Tim Miller's latest performance work, sex/love/stories, at the 
>wonderful Josie's Caberet and Juice Joint in San Francisco.  It will be 
>performed again in San Francisco next Wednesday through Sunday.  Call
>415/861-7933.  Those of you who live in the Bay Area and don't know where
>Josie's is will have their queer cards revoked shortly, but for any
>visitors who may be coming into town, it's at 3583 16th (near Market and
>Noe and the AIDS Garden).

You're talking about _My Queer Body_, I guess.

Interestingly, yesterday's Sunday NY Times talks about it somewhat
favorably in the Arts section.

I saw it a few months ago in Boston, and wondered what all the fuss was
about.  It's your generic "I love our cocks and orgasms" gayman performance
piece.  Miller is quite engaging and ingratiating, but as an idea, it's
_old, old, old_, and it's too shallow an observation to make an entire
1 hour+ work out of it.  The big controversy around this was that Miller
was denied NEA funds, but I was considerably less outraged after leaving
the theater.

>Don't go if you're shocked by nudity or profanity. 

Well, there is some nudity, but this is hardly erotic (Jack would agree, I'm
sure), the profanity is incidental (akin to the occasional profanity found
here), and the net effect is incredibly conservative, at least if the audience
is full of out lesbians and gay men.

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: jclander@symphony.mitre.org (Julian C. Lander)
Subject: Re: I am confused
Reply-To: jclander@symphony.mitre.org (Julian C. Lander)
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean, Va
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:01:15 GMT

In article <1isfdpINNado@spim.mti.sgi.com>, dauber@tattoo.mti.sgi.com (Jeff Dauber) writes:
|> 
|> Either all my friends are ganging up on me trying to sidle me with
|> a new personality, or I have been missing something.
|> 
|> In the last week, several people have told me that when they think of
|> my personality/interpersonal-style,  I remind them of Mary Poppins.
|> 
|> Does anyone have any idea:
|> A) is this a good thing?
|> B) what it means?
|> 
|> 
Well, it depends. Are they referring to the book or the movie?

In the book, MP is a rather strict and emotionless person.  Although the
adventures are fantastic (literally), MP herself is not particularly attractive
to a child.

If, on the other hand, the reference is to the movie, you are dealing with
the Julie Andrews complex.  They mean that they have never known you to
go to the bathroom.  (I'm a Julie Andrews Blinding Victim.  Mary Poppins
came out when I was 5, and I've been in love with Ms. Andrews every since.
And, yes, I will concede that she probably does go to the bathroom.  But 
I'll guarantee it never smells.)

Yours,
Julian C. Lander
jclander@mitre.org

Newsgroups: soc.motss,sci.med.aids
From: chris@cpp.uucp (Chris Bartlett)
Subject: Safer Sex Videos: Any resources ?
Followup-To: poster
Note: Copyright 1992, Dan R. Greening. Non-commercial reproduction allowed.
Keywords: safer sex, video
Archive-Number: 6751
Organization: Critical Path Project
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:31:09 GMT

I'm looking for safer sex videos of any sort, or published
criticism of such videos.

Can anyone suggest a resource ?   Thank you.
-- 
Chris Bartlett     			1-215-922-5597 (vox)
Project Director			1-215-922-6762 (fax)
The SafeGuards				1-215-922-7999 (TDD)
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From: roger@quantime.co.uk (Roger Phillips)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Arne Adolphson, Merman At Large
Date: 13 Jan 93 02:57:31 GMT
Reply-To: roger@quantime.co.uk (Roger Phillips)
Organization: Quantime Ltd, London (software for market research)

[Recycled text; apologies to all users of threaded newsreaders
who thought they were going to get a finely turned
dissection of Gene's article.]

In article <1io9a1INN3ln@cat.cis.Brown.EDU> ST402341@brownvm.brown.edu
(Gary Byma) writes:
>I am reminded of a similar discussion by my semantics professor,
>who noted that a certain author of a text on semantics would likely be
>stuck on the train because Amtrak used to announce, "Next stop, New
>Haven. All doors will not open." Let's hope that you would have the
>good sense to get off the train, Jess.

Road signs in New Zealand (used to) say "No parking at all times".

-- 
Roger Phillips                            roger@quantime.co.uk
"*the odour of sanctity* a fragrance after death alleged to be evidence
of saintship: facetiously applied to the living who have denied themselves
the sensual indulgence of washing" -- Chambers English Dictionary (1988)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: henry@ADS.COM (Henry Mensch)
Subject: Re: penis size
Organization: Advanced Decision Systems; a div of Booz, Allen & Hamilton
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 01:24:32 GMT

bcapps@agora.rain.com (Brent Capps) wrote: 
->This is my absolute last word on this subject.

thank heavens.

--
# henry mensch / booz, allen & hamilton, inc.  / <henry@ads.com>
# "fight the real enemy."  -- sinead o'connor, and many others.
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: rhb@ucs.usl.edu (Bird Rendell H.)
Subject: Tori Amos
Organization: Univ. of Southwestern La., Lafayette
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 04:18:25 GMT


Since I post just about everything here, I will post these
questions about a recording artist who has captured my heart,
Tori Amos.

Does anybody know anything about her?  Is she British or American**?
Where does she reside?  Is she straight, gay, or otherwise?

These questions are honestly driving me crazy. Can someone help me?
Any information would be greatly appreciated.


Rendell


** - She plays the piano like an American, but she accents some
words as if she were British, yet she includes some "American-isms"
like she were American....
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: michael@resonex.com (Michael Bryan)
Subject: Re: crabs (was Re: Changing standards of female beauty)
Organization: Resonex Inc., Sunnyvale CA
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 10:27:57 GMT

In article <C0qnDA.EtL@world.std.com> entropy@world.std.com (The Entropic one) writes:
>
>So when are they going to make full body condoms for crab protection?

Having just found two of the beasties running loose last night, and doing
the "Nix" thing, I had exactly the same thought...  :-/

-- 
Michael Bryan     michael@resonex.com
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: shore@dinah.tc.cornell.edu (Melinda Shore)
Subject: Re: REQUEST: MOW Update & # for Official Travel Agents
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:18:52 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.080507.19669@flood.com> tom@flood.com (Tom Chatt) writes:
>The problem with camping is that when you get out of the
>urban/suburban area to where you'd find a campsite, you're
>pretty far out of reach of easy public transportation to
>get you into the city. 

That's mostly true, but I do believe that there are some
camp grounds in Fairfax County.  I think that there's still
camping at Lake Fairfax Park, for example, which is near
Reston close to Route 7.  You should be able to pick up
a Metrobus not far from there.

I highly recommend contacting the county departments of
recreation for Fairfax, Arlington, Loudon, and Prince
William Counties.

A really tempting possibility would be to camp near
Harper's Ferry (WV) and take the Amtrak from there (the
station is right at the center of town).  It's a beautiful
area, and I would guess that the train will get you right
to Union Station in about an hour.  Harper's Ferry is one
of my favorite places.

I know far less about Maryland, but I do know that there's
at least private camp grounds near Annapolis, which is
also less than an hour's drive from DC.  And I think that
there's camping near Sugarloaf Mt. in western Montgomery
County.  Again, try the county departments of recreation
for places like Montgomery, Prince George's, and Anne
Arundel Counties.

Being the rugged, outdoorsy-type woman I am, I'm intending
to either camp at the Sheraton (walking distance to Adams
Morgan and some great restaurants) or camp on a friend's
sofa.
--
       Melinda Shore - Cornell Theory Center - shore@tc.cornell.edu