HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.romance,alt.romance.chat,soc.penpals
Subject: Re: Do you have a good pickup line?
Date: 30 Dec 92 00:50:25 GMT
Followup-To: soc.singles
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <Dec30.003237.35917@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> cs151kx@lamar.ColoState.EDU writes:
 
|	I would like to make a composite of all the pick up lines that you 
|	have heard in your life and how they have come across. 
|		LADIES, THIS MEANS YOU TOOO! LETS HEAR 'EM
|
|		WHAT IS THE CRAZIEST LINE YOU HAVE EVER HEARD?
|		DID IT WORK?
 
.... the rest deleted for those with weak stomachs.

This is too easy...Hey, D. is this your doing?  ColoState?  I thought you
said something about a California school.

-- 
+==========================================================================+
| John Fereira        | Auspex Systems | "Ask me about my vow of silence." |
| johnf@auspex.com    | Santa Clara CA |                                   |
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From: jsp@uts.amdahl.com (James Preston)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Picking up the Tab (was: Re: What is gold-digging?)
Date: 23 Dec 92 00:16:35 GMT
Reply-To: jsp@pls.amdahl.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

krw@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (keith.r.smith) writes:

}In actual practice, when I invite a woman out, I am _prepared_ to foot
}the tab, but hoping that the woman will be nice enough to kick-in
}a portion of the funds (at least, the first time, anyway).  
}Someting on the order of, "I'll spring for the dinner, and you can
}spring for the show".  If she does _not_ "step forward", then at the
}end of the date, when we are both telling each other how nice a time
}we had, then if she does not come out and offer to treat me the next
}time, I will suggest it.
}If she looks at me like I'm crazy, it's "hasta la vista, baby".

You must get in a lot of practice on that line.  You're saying that at
the end of the first date, you will actually say to the woman something
like, "I had a wonderful time.  I'd like to see you again, but only if
the next time it's your treat"?  Ok, that's probably unfair, I'm sure
you're more diplomatic, so it would be more like, "I had a wonderful
time.  Would you like to go out again sometime, but as your treat?"

Still, however diplomatically you may put it, I have to say that actually
suggesting that your date treat you the next time is one of the most crass
things I've ever heard of.  But then, I suppose that given how vitally
important this "issue" is to you, how your date reacts serves as an
effective filter for you.

--James Preston

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Why there might be a need for a (Pre-Sex Contract)
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 17:48:38 GMT

In article <1hb4joINN3vc@sauna.cs.hut.fi> Tapani.Otala@hut.fi writes:
>
>In article <1992Dec23.075900.21777@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
>>
>>Well, I'm pretty much your regular, average guy. 
>			    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Hah, yeah right, and I'm Elvis Presley.  I'm not dead, I
>just age extremely well.

Elvis?  Is it really you?  This is an incredible stroke of luck--there's
a question I've been dying to ask of you:  "what happened to Dan Mocsny?"

>"Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves,
>and how little we think of the other person."
>	- Mark Twain
>
>It might not be PK to quote Twain, but then again I never claimed
>I was PK, or even wanted to be.

Actually, I'm fond of quoting Twain myself (there are even a few quotes
of his lurking in my randomsig file), but in this case I have to differ
with him--I think there are lots of better techniques for good breeding.

Trygve   (Now if only I could remember whom I loaned my copy of "Letters
          from the Earth" to.)
--
      Running a household isn't an easy job:  cleaning, washing,
ironing, putting socks in drawers and shirts on hangars--jobs that are
just too tough for a man to do.  That is, until now--with Pink &
Pecker's new line of "Do it Himself" household tools, almost any man
can do those difficult household chores nearly as well as a woman.
"Do it himself" household tools are made with extra-large handles to
fit the larger, clumsier hands of a male, have fewer delicate
controls, and come in a variety of manly colors, including camouflage,
woodgrain, lumberjack-shirt plaid, and safety orange.
 
The complete set of "Do it Himself" household tools includes:
 
   *  A "Do it Himself" Iron, featuring an extra-large 'shur-grip'
      handle and Pink & Pecker's exclusive 'no-burnz' built-in
      smoke alarm
 
   *  A "Do it Himself" Mop, the only mop with enough enough flashing
      LED's and large exposed lugnuts for a real man to use
 
   *  A box of "Do it Himself" laundry detergent, the only laundry
      detergent that smells like a man and still leaves in those
      important grease stains that prove his masculinity
 
   *  The "Do it Himself" cooking kit--no mamby-pamby quiches or sissy
      appetizers, the "Do it Himself" cooking kit contains 100 recipes
      for char-broiled steaks, baked potatoes, and man-sized TV dinners
 
   *  The "Do it Himself" sewing kit--featuring a needle the size of a
      pencil with an eye even a man could thread--plus thread strong
      enough to hogtie a calf
 
Don't forget--Father's Day is coming up soon.  Get your man his own set
of "Do it Himself" household tools.  He'd thank you for it, except that
real men just grunt when accepting gifts.  That's "Do it Himself"
household tools--ask for them by name.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: cocoa@netcom.com
Subject: Re: Fetishes?
Organization: none
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:16:16 GMT

In article <thurlow.724802009@convex.convex.com> thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:
>In <1992Dec16.020043.21531@netcom.com> cocoa@netcom.com writes:
>
>>So there's all this argument about intellectual, physical, etc., button-pushing
>>and fetishes and what does it.  Weirdly enough, my physical fetish is,
>>round, plump shoulders.  Does anyone else find this extremely attractive?
>>Or am I just too weird?
>
>After some of the discussions I've had with people I've come to know,
>not much is going to faze me.  If you want to earn the weirdness award,
>you're going to have to go a _lot_ further than that :-)

Well, I also have this thing about whipped cream and toes.  Can't go much
further than that (the toes are at the end you know).  Is that far enough?

So what's the prize?

Just me,

little 'e'


-- 
*  *  *    Chocolatier at Arms, and Castle Wetware Liason            *  *  *
*  *  *    e-mail: cocoa@netcom.com   -    voicemail: 415-337-4940   *  *  *

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Re: Women, Cats, & Chocolate
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:55:51 GMT

In article <21DEC199211532244@acad3.alaska.edu> ftlao@acad3.alaska.edu (OSSANDER LINDA A) writes:
>In article <1992Dec21.194651.2145@netcom.com>, aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine) writes...
>>In article <20DEC199219303987@acad3.alaska.edu> ftlao@acad3.alaska.edu (OSSANDER LINDA A) writes:
>> 
>>  [lots of drivel deleted]
>> 
>>>AGAIN " I AM SORRY FOR ABUSING YOUR FEELINGS"
>> 
>>Look, you dumb broad, this is soc.singles, the biggest flamefest outside
>>of r.a.s not devoted strictly to flaming.  If you don't want to get with
>>the program, then stay the fuck out of here.
>>-- 
>>                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernste
>
>Hello Aahz...
>
>Gee you could have fooled me..
>
>NOW!!! You listen to me and let me make myself perfectly clear..
>I am a single and I WAS NOT flaming anyone! I was simply responding to what
>someone else wrote to me.  If you do not like it then that is your problem,
>Do I make myself perfectly clear??
>
>As for being a dumb  broad..I think perhaps you are a real PRIZE..And you do
>need to learn  a few manners! If you wanna take this any further you have my
>e-mail address cause I should like to tell you a thing or two.
>So please KNOCK OF THE CRAP!!!!!!
>
>                            -Linda-
 
HEY, you two lovebirds, get a room.

 
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From: jsmt@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Julia Smith)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Attraction -> Acquiantance or vice versa?
Date: 21 Dec 92 21:18:48 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)

In article <1992Dec20.062849.4378@microsoft.com> jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer) writes:
>In article <1992Dec11.014850.11707@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> jsmt@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Julia Smith) writes:
>>
>>News Flash - Women are PEOPLE, not just potential mates or partners.
>
>Why Julia, you sound just like the only real, unchanging difference
>between women and men is the plumbing.
>
>;>
>
Not at all.  It would be just as ridiculous to argue that all men
are exactly the same by virtue of their plumbing.  I have met enough
boys who's only claim to manhood is their ability to piss standing up -
it just aint enough to bet the ranch on.
  
;>
  
--j
Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:40:41 EST
From: Graydon <SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Ankle bracelets
Distribution: usa

In article <281@cnmhnet.UUCP>, keithg@cnmhnet.UUCP (keith garrard) says:
>
>with flat shoes.  If you want to see something really bad, look at those
>women who have permanent "ankle bracelets" tattooed on their ankles.
>Give me a break...
>--Keith
>
(smiling sweetly)
Which leg?
Above or below the knee?

Graydon
Newsgroups: soc.singles,soc.women,soc.men,misc.legal,alt.abortion.inequity
From: margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis)
Subject: Re: Pro-Choice Parents != Bad Parents
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 07:10:42 GMT
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.16f by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: margoli@watson.IBM.com
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: The Village Waterbed

In <1993Jan3.012313.21866@zooid.guild.org> Will Steeves <goid@zooid.guild.org> writes:
>whedon@netcom.com (Bill Whedon) writes...
>>Stuff above having been deleted for clarity, I would simply inject the thought
>>that most of the men coming down on the "pro" side of the contract issue are
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>of a sort best nut-cut and non-procreative.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Not at all.  *I* have a baby daughter, whom I *did* want, but I also support
>the right of men and women to decide when they should be parents.
>
>
>>I'd certainly not like to have
>>any one of them as _my_ father.  Bunch of priggish anal-retentive gits.
>
>Neither of your parents is "pro-choice" then, I take it?

He said "on the 'pro' side of the *contract* issue".  What does this have to
do with "pro-choice"?
--
Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: desiree@netcom.com (Desiree Champagne)
Subject: Re: Newspaper "personals"
Summary: I've got six hours to waste
Organization: Yowsa
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 16:14:55 GMT

In article <1992Dec26.082658.1422@galaxy.gov.bc.ca>
 aguilbault@galaxy.gov.bc.ca brings back the old thread:

>Serious Question: Do newspaper "Personals" advertisements work? 

	Depends on what your objective is.  To meet people?  Probably.
To find that "special" one?  I dunno.

> What kind
>of experiences (good and bad) have _net_ people had? 

	Same as anything else.  I placed one (on a bet) about six years
ago.  I got around 85 responses.  Most of the men I met were pretty cool.
Bad thing:  most were psyshrinks.  (I still haven't figured that one out
but I did get a lot of free therapy out of the deal.)

> What techniques can
>make them work better?

	Blatant references to sex.  Humour.  Alliteration.

Whatever,

Desiree


P.S.  Lance?  Are you still out there?  


Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.romance,alt.romance.chat,soc.penpals
From: gcary@src.honeywell.com (Greg Cary)
Subject: Re: Do you have a good pickup line?
Organization: Honeywell Systems & Research Center
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 21:43:26 GMT

"Did you hurt yourself when you fell from heaven?"

"What screws like a tiger and winks?" (follow it up with a wink)
(I've never used that one ;-)

-- 
Greg Cary  gcary@src.honeywell.com    office: (612)782-7683  FAX: (612)782-7438
Honeywell Systems & Research Center MN65-2500
3660 Technology Drive, Minneapolis, MN 55418
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: New Relationships...
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 00:08:09 GMT

In article <JULIE.92Dec16162148@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu> julie@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (Julie Wright) writes:
>tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
>
>>   Trygve   (Who doesn't feel the need to leap into bed immediately with
>>	     a romantic partner, but who has found that if it doesn't happen
>>	     right away (without pressure from my end), the relationship
>                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>	     is probably doomed to a quick death.) 
>
>I see -- you feel that if it's necessary for _you_ to sit on _her_
>ribcage, it's just not going to work out.

Alas, I believe this is true--though at least I would be willing to visit
her in the hospital afterwards.

Trygve   (Not sure I'd sign a pre-sit agreement, however.)

--
"Next up:  _The Hatchback of Notre Dame_,
 based on the novel by Victor Yugo"
From: rkf@wildrose.infoserv.com (Ray Fink)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Picking up the Tab (was: Re: What is gold-digging?)
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 22:14:09 -0700
Reply-To: wildrose!rkf@infoserv.com
Organization: Wild Rose Refugee Camp

In <1992Dec19.031045.9924@netcom.com> shannah@netcom.com (Teri Miller) writes:
>In article <102647@netnews.upenn.edu> crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:

>>And if a guy on a first date asks me to pay my way, I'll assume I got my
>>signals crossed and he just wants to be friends.  Which may or may not be
>>a disappointment.
>>
>Well, if I'm correct in remembering that Ray Fink is one who likes it
>when women offer to pay their own way, you would both miss out.  That
>would be a real loss, since Ray is a lot of fun, and very attractive,
>too.

Nice words, thanks :-)   In other posts, Teri suggested the wisdom of 
communicating one's expectations beforehand, to avoid some of
these misunderstandings.  I've never asked somebody to pay on
a *first* date, though...at the risk of being somewhat devious, I do
find it useful to learn what their default expectations are in
real time, without any prompting from me.  I realize that's not a very
fair-and-open way to do things, having expectations (of a minority
view, here in Idaho) but not saying anything.  For some reason,
"hey wanna get together for lunch Tuesday" comes out of my mouth
instead of the more informative "you strike me as an interesting 
person and I'd like to get to know you better...wanna split a lunch
tab on Tuesday".  I'm usually not a completely inarticulate nervous
wreck just because I'm around an interesting woman, so my guess is
that there's some fear of rejection on my part; e.g., not willing to
ask for anything that might kill the deal.  Hmmm...

(I'll be away from netnews for a few weeks, missing out on this
thread that won't die...:-)

-- 
-- Ray
From: pooh@Apple.COM (Wendy Nather)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Tell Me Something about Balls
Date: 24 Dec 92 14:31:38 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Internet Refugee Camp

In the referenced article, aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine) writes:
>In article <75897@apple.apple.COM> pooh@Apple.COM (Pooh) writes:
>>
>>I don't know why either, but if I scratch my PSOM's balls
>>in the morning and then bring him a cup of coffee, he's
>>extremely pliable for the rest of the day.
>
>PSOM?

ProblemSlightlyOlderMan, Aahz, where have you BEEN? ;-)

Ah, I know, the Uzi's been distracting you ... never mind.

Pooh
	pooh@apple.com
Newsgroups: soc.singles,soc.men,soc.women,alt.flame
From: tyger@netcom.com (Kristen Kohlbecker)
Subject: Re: Duck and Jive (was Re: Pre-Sex Contract )
Keywords: wholly an asshole...NOT!
Organization:  Funk the Dumb Stuff!
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:51:50 GMT


jjh00@diag.amdahl.com writes:
>rohwerwd@netcom.com (Mr. Tickle Monster) 
>
>   amply demonstrates that all those female posters who took one
>   look at his "pre-sex contract" and said
>     "No way I'd sleep with someone like you, dude"
>   knew _exactly_ what they were talking about:

God save me from people that judge me as you have judged David.
I'm not his cheerleader, as someone suggested in email, and I do indeed
have a problem or three with his PSC. HOWEVER, this whole thing has just
gotten WAY out of hand here.

>>     I would rather die than fuck you.  I saw you at the party and
>>although you are physically pretty, I think that, overall, you are an
>>extraordinarily ugly bitch.
>>
>>>	The subject is dead.  Leave it there.  Understand?
>>
>>     And you lost, bitch.
>
>Wotta maroon.

You know, I was just thinking the same thing, but not in regards to WD Rohwer.

>Reading postings like this makes me sympathetic to those
>women who claim that most men are swine. 

I believe it. You seem to have the same selective reading skills that many such
women seem to have. Desiree's post was almost entirely made up of personal
attacks and ungenerous at best references to his character, etc. WD Rohwer
responded in kind. While it could be argued that Mr. Rohwer's comments were 
better suited to email, I can't believe all of the posts saying what an 
irredeemable asshole he is for posting the way he did. Then I see posts like 
this and I don't wonder so much any more.

>Joel Hanes

-- 
      Kristen Kohlbecker    And I would choose to be with you
      tyger@netcom.com      That's if the choice were mine to make   
                            But you can make decisions too
      A Tyger and a Lady    And you can have this heart to break 
Xref: sparky soc.singles:34749 alt.pagan:14510 alt.romance:15500 alt.sex:40206 alt.polyamory:2221 talk.religion.misc:24536
From: popec@freeside.com (PopeC)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.pagan,alt.romance,alt.sex,alt.polyamory,talk.religion.misc
Subject: Re: Truth
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 11:30:54 CST
Organization: Rivendell BBS / Hou, TX. / +1 713 941 2236

ivaliote@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Lotus ) writes:

> kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us writes:
> >Yes, this is nice. The greatest beauty therefore is the greatest truth.
> >That is God, the Absolute Truth, Who is absolute beauty.
> 
> How do I know that?
> 
> Matt I. -asking and never answered, by any religion


You gots to exist before you can beautiful or anything else for that 
matter.  Where is your proff God exists?  Or has any of these traits?

Pope c

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From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Cat friends (was Re: What is attractive to "SINGLE" women?)
Date: 23 Dec 1992 12:58:34 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

From ages ago:
>>>>>>>>Cats form clowders, not herds.

In article <ByxHKq.KFw@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
>Ah, somebody has a copy of _An Exaltation of Larks_!  

In article <Byzv4A.924@access.digex.com> huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:
>I'm sure someone has it, but I don't.  My source was _The Book of Lists_.

Kiran:
>(I was wondering last week what a group of cats was called, but my
>copy is well and truly hidden.)

Herb:
>If you eventually find it, it will be in the last place you think to look
>for it.
>
>Lincoln's law partner reported that Lincoln's desk was always cluttered to
>overflowing, but that Abe kept an envelope tacked to the wall with writing
>that said, "If you can't find it anywhere else, look in here."

I have approximately 500 books, but I'm organized so it only took 20 seconds
to run in the other room and get the book.  But I don't see anything on
clowders or anything.

But here's something interesting.  This species of fish has real powerful males
who take harems of 2 to 5 females with them.  The females are terrorized into
staying with the male.  Instead of banding against the master, they form a
hierarchy to keep each other in line.

Then when the male dies, the top ranking female takes his position and she
turns into the new male master.
From: rohwerwd@netcom.com (Mr. Tickle Monster)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: What is gold-digging?
Date: 29 Dec 92 07:03:34 GMT
Organization: The Tickle Palace - Moonyvale, CA

In article <16027@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
>In article <1992Dec21.215254.29553@cbnews.cb.att.com> eleanor@cbnews.cb.att.com (Piglet) writes:
> 
>|Oh, I am steadily working to increase the numbers of women asking
>|men out.  Hey, Kiran, what're you doing Friday night?  Wanna go
>|out or something?  Come on, women, join in with me.....
>
>Hey, why should Kiran have all the fun?  How 'bout some of those women
>asking the rest of us men out?
>

     That would be nice.  However, I believe that there are more men 
on soc.singles than women.  So, if the women asked one man out each, then
a lot of men would be left out or if the women asked more than one man
out each, then there will be zero men left out.

-- 
"Blind faith in your leaders or anything will get you killed." B. Springsteen
                                         +---------------------------------+
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 /   // Mr. Tickle Monster   // Amiga ++---------------------------------+
|  \X/   W. David Rohwer   \X/  3000  /  Internet: rohwerwd@netcom.COM  /
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Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.abortion.inequity
From: stcroix@Cadence.COM (Bill St.Croix)
Subject: Re: Choice as a Reason for not having a relationship(was: Pre-Sex Contract)
Organization: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:19:23 GMT

In article <1h0it7INN2qc@gap.caltech.edu> peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
>
>I don't "approve" of either a verbal or a written contract.  Nor do I 
>think either would be enforceable in the current legal environment.
>(Consider the mess over surrogate motherhood!)
>
>The point I was trying to make is that if people would talk more than 
>perhaps we'd have fewer "accidents", and perhaps when "accidents" did
>occur people wouldn't be quite so nasty.

And if people drove more carefully, we'd have fewer accidents too!  But,
then again, that is why we have INSURANCE on our cars.  The Pre-Sex contract
is just that...insurance, just like a pre-nuptial agreement/contract.  They
work for some people and not others.  It's up to you to make your own
choice as to what YOU want to do.

	Thanks,
	Bill