HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: grismore@adobe.com (Doug Grismore)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Translation (was: Re: Having a good day...can you?)
Date: 8 Jan 93 19:04:18 GMT
Followup-To: ba.singles
Organization: Adobe Systems

In article <C0Fvv4.7u8@amd.com>, jmw@angelo.amd.com (John Wincn) wrote:
> 
> In article <grismore-050193101048@gutzon.mv.us.adobe.com> grismore@adobe.com (Doug Grismore) writes:
> 
> >Frankly, I feel like a wierdo to be in a good mood around here.  (there, I
> >opened myself up to an onslaught...let's see who responds...)  Anyway, just
> 
> Translation: "Somebody please flame me so that I know that I am alive, am
> 		posting worthless drivel which proves that I have enough 
> 		cortical activity to press consequtive keys on a keyboard, 
> 		and I can thereby draw some attention to myself."
> 
> There.  Happy now?

Nice to know I was right about something...I was complaining about how many
of the ba.singles regulars have to be hostile view everything negatively. 
Impressive that John jumped right in there and validated my test.  Have no
need to draw attention to myself - I'm happy about me and what I stand for,
I don't need anyone else to validate me.  Again, part of the idea behind my
post.  Obviously that's something we don't share, John.

Have a nice day, everyone!

- Doug
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Turning 30!!
Date: 6 Jan 93 17:55:28 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <76146@apple.apple.COM> erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp) writes:
>In article <184793@pyramid.pyramid.com> mwoo@pyrnova.pyramid.com.pyramid.com (Margaret Woo) writes:
|>In article <76133@apple.apple.COM> erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp) writes:
|>>In article <72871@cup.portal.com> DeadHead@cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong) writes:
|>>
|>>>	What kind is your convertible? I have always wanted one, too! But the
|>>>thing is they dont make much money sense because they are always financial
|>>>liabilities (until you pay the whole thing off) and they depreciate quickly.
|>>>Financially it's a lousy deal -- but it's just so much fun! I want a red 
|>>>little miata, I am still debating if I should do that or not.
|>Do it!  Do it!  I did, and I *LOVE* mine...
|>
|>>
|>>Drool, drool.  I've always wanted a Miata.  Red.  <sigh>
|>Do it!  Do it!  Do it!  
|>
|>Red is *the* color for a little roadster...
|
|How true.  But I don't currently have an SO to help me show it off!  :(
|Any volunteers??  :) :)

Try First St. and Santa Clara.  If all you want is a hood ornament you can
probably buy one down there.

Newsgroups: ba.singles
From: desiree@netcom.com (Desiree Champagne)
Subject: Re: Translation (was: Re: Having a good day...can you?)
Summary: Hey Meeesstter, bring back my roll 
Organization: Clairol Test Laboratories
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 23:45:21 GMT

In an article Doug Grismore sez:

>Mr. Wincn sez in response to Grismore's original statement of feeling
>like a wierdo in these-here-vicious-parts cuz he's in a good mood...

>> Translation: "Somebody please flame me so that I know that I am alive, am
>> 		posting worthless drivel which proves that I have enough 
>> 		cortical activity to press consequtive keys on a keyboard, 
>> 		and I can thereby draw some attention to myself."
>> 
>> There.  Happy now?

>Nice to know I was right about something...

	Self-validation.  Good.  Very good.  Now care to explain what it
is that you believe you were right about?  In detail.  500 words or less
will probably suffice.  And no ascii-kissing.

>I was complaining about how many
>of the ba.singles regulars have to be hostile view everything negatively. 

	Uh.  Take Two?  No can parse this too well.  But I'll presume
that you meant to say "...regulars have to take a hostile, negative
view to everything".  Close enough?  Okay.

	Actually I thought that Mr. Wincn wrote something that was pretty
funny and was an original translation of what you said.  Obviously you
have a different take on that.  Openforum, openforum.

>Impressive that John jumped right in there and validated my test. 

	Well, c'mon on now Doug -- you *were* screaming to have
somebody do it.  Mr. Wincn only granted what you were asking for.  I
think that was very kind of him.  If you were to ask me (which I know
you didn't, wouldn't and most certainly couldn't), I would say thank
you, give him a bow and a check for a grand.  

	But a hint:  Please feel free to play "testing the old-timers"
but don't cry when they suddenly turn the tables and you become the
lab rat...

> Have no
>need to draw attention to myself - I'm happy about me and what I stand for,
>I don't need anyone else to validate me.

	Obviously you do have a need to draw some level of attention
to yourself.  Otherwise, why do you post?  If you didn't want to draw
the attention to yourself, why didn't you just followup to his
comments in email?  Note that I am not addressing your statements
about your level of self-contentedness etc -- just the idea that you don't
need to draw attention to yourself.  People who post generally like
the attention.  Duhhhh.  It's like a major ongoing orgasm for the ego.

>  Again, part of the idea behind my
>post.  Obviously that's something we don't share, John.

	Don't be so quick to assume something about people based upon
a single post (catch the shoe-string to another thread...).  JMWincn
only showed you a single aspect of his entire being -- just as you've
only shown the rest of us a single aspect of your being...  BTW, don't
try to be sarcastic, it's not nice you know...

Have a *great* day,

Desiree
From: grismore@adobe.com (Doug Grismore)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Cars and Other Fun Stuff (wasRe: Turning 30!!)
Date: 8 Jan 93 19:20:05 GMT
Followup-To: ba.singles
Distribution: ba
Organization: Adobe Systems

In article <76182@apple.apple.COM>, erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp) wrote:
> 
> In article <1993Jan6.185901.8008@netcom.com> desiree@netcom.com (Desiree Champagne) writes:
> >In the original article, somewhere, someplace, I don't know, Ed Carp
> >whines:
> >
> >[comments about Miata's etc. deleted]
> >
> >>|How true.  But I don't currently have an SO to help me show it off!  :(
> >>|Any volunteers??  :) :)
> >
> >	This is rather amusing Eddddiiiiieeeee.  
> >
> >	Didn't you recently post some whiny article about how you
> >got really irritated because society sees single people as having
> >no validity?  Or something to that effect?
> 
> Yes, I did.  The post you quote above was meant to be a humorous response,
> indicated by the ":)" at the end.  Did you miss those, or are you being
> humor-impaired today?
> 
> >	(Note:  This is an actual attempt to draw you into an actual
> >*discussion* Ed -- let's see if you can do it...)
> 
> A discussion?  Sure.  What would you like to discuss?  The validity of single
> people in today's society?  The effect that Madison Ave. advertising has on
> the societal pressure to get married, or at least have an SO?

I don't know if advertising specifically pressures the single to have
mates.  In certain situations (beer commercials are the first to pop to
mind) you typically see a lot of good looking people bouncing around having
fun together, one on one or in groups, but I RARELY (except in the really
annoying Beck's spots) see a bunch of couples getting together for beers. 
Champagne ads are totally the opposite, however (guess it's a target market
thing).  Being single and being alone are two different things, though, (at
least for me...) and it's this difference that seems to make *all* the
difference in this discussion (should it go somewhere beyond the challenge
to *have* a conversation...)

I would, however, partially agree with Ed's specific reaction to driving a
Miata around, with a caveat.  (I might be in trouble for this, but hey, I'm
being honest).  Driving around in a stylish convertible by yourself is fun.
 Driving around in a stylish convertible with a(n) SO could be more fun,
could be less fun, depending on many circumstances.  Driving around in a
stylish convertible with someone that (insert societal faction here) finds
incredibly attractive would garner more attention from (insert members of
said societal faction) and if that was what you were into, then that would
be even *MORE* fun.

However (again), that ain't necessarily true either.  If I felt like
getting a little mountain road action in, I wouldn't have as much fun with
an SO or someone that (you know what to insert) would find attractive
because they'd probably be too busy yelling "look out" or "slow down" or
something of that nature; as a result, being alone would be more fun for
me.

Funny how it all depends on your perspective.

Having a *great* day...

- Doug
From: erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Turning 30!!
Date: 5 Jan 93 22:22:12 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Bleeding Edge Technologies - 'Sliding Down The Razor Blade Of Life...'

In article <72871@cup.portal.com> DeadHead@cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong) writes:

>	What kind is your convertible? I have always wanted one, too! But the
>thing is they dont make much money sense because they are always financial
>liabilities (until you pay the whole thing off) and they depreciate quickly.
>Financially it's a lousy deal -- but it's just so much fun! I want a red 
>little miata, I am still debating if I should do that or not.

Drool, drool.  I've always wanted a Miata.  Red.  <sigh>
-- 
Ed Carp, N7EKG                    erc@apple.com                   801/538-0177
"This is the final task I will ever give you, and it  goes  on  forever.   Act
happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love,
and do what you will."           -- Dan Millman, "Way Of The Peaceful Warrior"
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Oxymorons, and other important trivia
Date: 5 Jan 93 17:47:52 GMT
Distribution: ca
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <Jawara-040193124340@jawara.apple.com> Jawara@Applelink.Apple.COM (Ron Drake) writes:
|In article <16148@auspex-gw.auspex.com>, johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
|wrote:
|> 
|> In article <1992Dec30.020025.5721@finch.scac.edu> jimmy@finch.scac.edu (Jimmy Tubbs) writes:
|> >In article <16093@auspex-gw.auspex.com>, johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
|> |>[...]  It said
|> |>that "everyone goes to PJ's on Wednesdays".  Sounds to me like an invitation
|> |>for ba.singles for HumpdayBoink at PJ's.
|> |
|> |Uh oh -- now the normal people are going
|> |to have to find all new places to go to.
|
|There's hardly anyone normal at PJ's on Wednesdays or any other day. Try
|Cheers on El Camino in S'vale for "normal".

I suppose that all depends on what each persons idea of "normal" is.  What
kind of place is Cheers?  Would one be likely to find real, down to earth
people there, or is this just another dance/pick-em-up place? 

-- 
+==========================================================================+
| John Fereira        | Auspex Systems | "Ask me about my vow of silence." |
| johnf@auspex.com    | Santa Clara CA |                                   |
+==========================================================================+
Newsgroups: ba.singles
From: rohwerwd@netcom.com (Mr. Tickle Monster)
Subject: Re: Oxymorons, and other important trivia
Organization: The Tickle Palace - Moonyvale, CA
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 04:25:15 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.072643.4153@netcom.com> oleg@netcom.com (Oleg Kiselev) writes:
>In article <16203@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
>>Thanks for the warning about locus though.
>
>Except for a few bizarre episodes of trying to bend over backwards for their
>main customer, Locus was not a company that practiced censorship or was
>particularly fascist.  They were on the record as being against employee
>drug testing.  
>

     I do not know anything about Locus except the information posted in
this thread.  At least the company stood for something right: No employee
drug testing.

-- 
    Reggie elected into Hall of Fame!    +---------------------------------+
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 /   // Mr. Tickle Monster   // Amiga ++---------------------------------+
|  \X/   W. David Rohwer   \X/  3000  /  Internet: rohwerwd@netcom.COM  /
+------------------------------------+---------------------------------+
From: DeadHead@cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Oxymorons, and other important trivia
Date: Mon,  4 Jan 93 13:48:13 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: ba
  <1992Dec30.095803.25140@netcom.com> <72631@cup.portal.com>
  <1992Dec31.031338.21615@netcom.com>

>DeadHead@cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong) writes:
>>>>
>>
>>	I thought this was the fun thread until I came upon the hostile
>>stuff between the parties you mentioned. Sigh. I hope people take this
>>shit less seriously, and have fun with it instead. After all, they are just
>>words, words, words...
>
>Desiree is always hostile...you get used to it after a while...
>
	Oh well. I thought hostility was a guy thang, and goils often were
the providers of harmonizing energy in this world.  Tsk Tsk. My naivete.
I suppose I should re-read the Helen of Troy myth ;-)
	
>Tyger
>-- 

----
/bruce	"So which amy fischer story won? ABC's or CBS'?"
Newsgroups: ba.singles,alt.romance,alt.romance.chat
From: kkwwkk@mixcom.com (TA Shaw)
Subject: Re: Needing help greeting 30!
Organization: Milwaukee Internet Xchange BBS, Milwaukee, WI U.S.A.
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 03:52:39 GMT


Hi 30!  How are you doing?
or
Hola treinta!  Como esta? [speeling flames can go directly
to /dev/null]
or
Ack Thffpt!!!


BD(a)C(at)

-- 
  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: ba.singles
From: desiree@netcom.com (Desiree Champagne)
Subject: Re: Perfect Match (was-Re: If he bothers you...)
Summary: Twiddledum and Twiddledee.  WHACK!
Organization: Boredome Has A New Limit
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 00:19:38 GMT

In article <76138@apple.apple.COM> erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp) shows what
a sucker he is with:

>$10 says that Des won't even acknowledge my presence. 

	Of course I won't Carpy.  I have never done so in the past, why
should I start now?

> On the other hand, I
>will smile at her and say hello.  Unlike some people, I was brought up to
>believe that ignoring other people was rude, tacky, and in very poor taste.
>Open hostility in public is rude and uncouth.

	Call it whatever you want.  I prefer to say that I just don't have
time to waste chit-chatting with people that bore me.  

	If you wish to label me as rude and uncouth, I really don't give
a fig.  Your opinion of me is totally worthless. 

	Now, if you're not going to come back with something more fun to
play with, I'm going to bow out of this little fest... 


Arf Arf,

Desiree

Newsgroups: ba.singles
From: bob@netcom.com (Bob Becker)
Subject: Chick 'n Dudes '93 - The Boink
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: ba
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:58:12 GMT


I just left Harry's Hofbrau.  We have a private room reserved from
6:00PM to 10:00PM on Saturday, January 16 so it looks like the first
boink of 1993 is underway.

Harry's Hofbrau has great low-budget bulk food at reasonable
prices and a full bar with beer in real glass pitchers if you're
into swilling brewskis.  The food is all cafeteria style so 
we don't have to worry about collecting money or dinner checks.

Now all we gotta do is get people to show up.  There have been lots
of new names appearing on many of the messages so if we can 
encourage the new names to show up, we can attach faces to names.

I'd appreciate some sort of RSVP from those who are planning to 
attend just so I can make sure enough people are coming to make
it all worthwhile.

Now if some of you more controversial types will show up, it could
get VERY interesting fast.  Fun, too!  Bring boxing gloves.
From: erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Singles services - Together
Date: 12 Jan 93 07:23:01 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Bleeding Edge Technologies - 'Sliding Down The Razor Blade Of Life...'

In article <1993Jan12.053419.24885@netcom.com> desiree@netcom.com (Desiree Champagne) writes:
>In article <C0q3wt.8wr@rahul.net> kpapai@rahul.net (Ken Papai) incoherently
>attempts to make a point (I presume) with:

>>Yeah right "Desiree" ...
>>Yeah right ''Desiree''
>
>	(Actually I only quoted back those two lines (which were the only
>two he wrote, other than the following one) because I really like to
>hear people "Yes, Desiree, that's right"... Give me the ultimate power
>trip...)

Yes, Desiree...  (repeat 1000 times, or until you get warm fuzzy feeings)  :)

BTW, on the *original* thread, I think that $1500 (or so) is a bit steep - but,
then again, I have better things to spend my money on than giving it to some
company to get a date/mate/whatever.  Like *furniture*...  :)
-- 
Ed Carp, N7EKG                    erc@apple.com                   801/538-0177
"This is the final task I will ever give you, and it  goes  on  forever.   Act
happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love,
and do what you will."           -- Dan Millman, "Way Of The Peaceful Warrior"
Newsgroups: ba.singles
From: hjb@netcom.com (H. J. Bae)
Subject: Re: Cars and Other Fun Stuff (wasRe: Turning 30!!)
Organization: Peaceful Star Project
Distribution: ba
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 07:45:27 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.044719.27115@netcom.com> bob@netcom.com (Bob Becker) writes:
>
>I'm stunned.  Who is this person?
>
>My best guess would be a paranoid male in a drug induced stupor.
>

well, dick head, for that is your true name, a puny little hypodermic
dick head at that, why not add something of substance to the discussion,
instead of blathering away ignorant observations. now fuck off [tm]

love
hwajin


-- 
hjb@netcom.com
From: erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Cars and Other Fun Stuff (wasRe: Turning 30!!)
Date: 6 Jan 93 21:59:26 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Bleeding Edge Technologies - 'Sliding Down The Razor Blade Of Life...'

In article <1993Jan6.185901.8008@netcom.com> desiree@netcom.com (Desiree Champagne) writes:
>In the original article, somewhere, someplace, I don't know, Ed Carp
>whines:
>
>[comments about Miata's etc. deleted]
>
>>|How true.  But I don't currently have an SO to help me show it off!  :(
>>|Any volunteers??  :) :)
>
>	This is rather amusing Eddddiiiiieeeee.  
>
>	Didn't you recently post some whiny article about how you
>got really irritated because society sees single people as having
>no validity?  Or something to that effect?

Yes, I did.  The post you quote above was meant to be a humorous response,
indicated by the ":)" at the end.  Did you miss those, or are you being
humor-impaired today?

>	(Note:  This is an actual attempt to draw you into an actual
>*discussion* Ed -- let's see if you can do it...)

A discussion?  Sure.  What would you like to discuss?  The validity of single
people in today's society?  The effect that Madison Ave. advertising has on
the societal pressure to get married, or at least have an SO?
-- 
Ed Carp, N7EKG                    erc@apple.com                   801/538-0177
"This is the final task I will ever give you, and it  goes  on  forever.   Act
happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love,
and do what you will."           -- Dan Millman, "Way Of The Peaceful Warrior"
From: mwoo@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Margaret Woo)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: The Ultimate Condom
Date: 12 Jan 93 23:24:26 GMT
Reply-To: mwoo@pyrnova.pyramid.com.pyramid.com (Margaret Woo)
Distribution: ba
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corporation

In article <1993Jan12.220708.22008@netcom.com> bob@netcom.com (Bob Becker) writes:
>In article <1iv6nbINN100@morrow.stanford.edu> HF.HLA@forsythe.stanford.edu (Lisa A. Haupt) writes:
>>Can anyone tell me why they don't make padded condoms?
>>
>
>Not goin' near this one.  Nope.  Not me.  Ain't gonna touch it.
>Uh-uh.  No way, Jose!  I'm outta here.

CHICKEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Margaret
From: DeadHead@cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: Re: Apology, and Good-Bye
Date: Fri,  8 Jan 93 17:15:15 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: ba
  <1993Jan8.230333.28117@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com>

>Mean Green Dancing Machine (aahz@netcom.com) wrote:
>: Butbutbutbutbut.....you're not going to let an *apology* stop the
>: flame-war are you?!
>
>We really shouldn't.  I was going to flame poor miserable akao
>line-by-line, but the pathos and drama of his farewell to arms was so
>poignant that I was afraid it might drive him/her/it to suicide. 
>
	Well...if he does commit suicide we will just have to make sure
that for him the bell tolls...

	(ducking a giant storm of snow balls coming in my direction) Wait!
Wait! Dont hit me! I couldnt help it! How could I have passed a chance [ouch!]
to namedrop!? It is a [Ouch!] perfect set up! Blame Howard first!
>
>================================================================ 
>Howard Stateman    howeird@hpl.HP.COM  [Not an HP spokesman]
>"I have the heart of a little child, and the brain of a genius
>                     -- and I keep them in a jar under my bed"
>================================================================ 
>Anatomically Correct Bulletin Board (415) 8-jovial [Adults only]
>================================================================ 
---
/bruce
Overheard in a literary bar: 	Guy:	"Hey, wanna check out my mortal coil?"
				Gal:	"Oh - Shuffle off."
Newsgroups: ba.singles
From: barry@netcom.com (Kenn Barry)
Subject: Re: Cars and Other Fun Stuff (wasRe: Turning 30!!)
Organization: QQQCLC
Distribution: ba
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 02:28:59 GMT

In article <1993Jan10.232743.401@netcom.com> desiree@netcom.com (Desiree Champagne) writes:
>In an article Doug Grismore writes:
>>I would, however, partially agree with Ed's specific reaction to driving a
>>Miata around, with a caveat.  (I might be in trouble for this, but hey, I'm
>>being honest).  Driving around in a stylish convertible by yourself is fun.
>
>	If driving a Miata floats your boat, sure. Myself I don't
>really like Miatas that much so it wouldn't thrill me in the least
>(sorry Kenn...).  Now if were talking about toodling around in an old
>funky Rolls, that's a different subject.

	S'OK, Des, you're a funky Rolls kinda woman.

>>Having a *great* day...
>
>	Why?  You get laid last night?

	Not in a Miata, for sure - no room ;-).

						Kayembee
From: DeadHead@cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong)
Newsgroups: ba.singles
Subject: A threat to be normal
Date: Thu,  7 Jan 93 14:23:35 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: ba



	He said, "Hello!" (Je t'aime)
	She said, "Hello..." (Au revoir)
	They nodded at
	each other
	And compared singles
	notes
	He talked about Rachmaninoff and Eliot
	She complained about the rain and the
	snows
	They exchanged pleasantries
	And hugged.
	Then he went home and cried.
Newsgroups: ba.singles
From: gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews)
Subject: Re: Gerg's a wimp, but Kaiser's a Doberman...
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Distribution: ba
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 09:07:54 GMT

oleg@netcom.com (Oleg Kiselev) writes:
>gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews) writes:
>>
>>Er...uh...your last SO thought you tasted better than her master? 
>
>Where does it say that one's master should taste better than one's SO? 
>"Better tasting" is not usually one of characteristics people seek in that
>sort of relationships.
>

Ask Ed, not me.

-- 
:::::::::::::::::::  Greg Andrews  gerg@netcom.com  :::::::::::::::::::
It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
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