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From: motani@watson.ibm.com (Muiz Motani)
Subject: Re: Homesickness!
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 22:51:09 GMT
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.037 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: motani@vnet.ibm.com (Muiz Motani)
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

In  <thurlow.714947137@convex.convex.com>  thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:
> In <SCHOCK.92Aug25232424@fsd.cpsc.UCalgary.ca> schock@cpsc.UCalgary.ca (schock) writes:
> 
> >WoW!  Try out SaltSpring Island, British Columbia, Canada.
> ....
> >ohh...  I miss 'ol SaltSpring Island already.
> 
> (sigh)  So do I.  Dammit, the one period in my life I'm not free to go
> back home, and people are talking about the Canadian Rockies and about
> Banff and about the Gulf Islands! 

Sighhhhhhhhhh....Now you've got me going! I miss the Gulf Islands so much that 
even my machine on the LAN is named after one of them: GABRIOLA!

> Anybody got a real good homesickness remedy?

Yes......just bake yourself a batch of Nanaimo Bars and enjoy!

__________________________________________________________________
Muiz Motani                     
IBM Canada Lab                  motani@vnet.ibm.com
Distributed System Products
From: diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Diamonds
Date: 2 Sep 92 22:50:59 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

In article <1992Sep2.181953.20637@beaver.cs.washington.edu> dbj@cs.washington.edu (Dave Johnson) writes:
>In article <1992Sep2.073804.19451@zooid.guild.org> ross@zooid.guild.org (Ross Ridge) writes:
>>I'd say keep the name and find a better song.  Maybe Pink Floyd's
>>"Shine on you Crazy Diamond", or the Beatle's "Lucy in the Sky with
>>Diamonds".
>
>Or how about David Bowie's "Diamond Dogs", or Joan Baez's 
>"Diamonds and Rust"?  Whoops, getting a little depressing again.
>-- 
>  Dave Johnson

I like "Diamonds and Rust", and although it is a depressing song, it's
not anywhere near as depressing as "Diamond Smiles".  Hm.  It's a thought.
I've never heard "Diamond Dogs", as I'm not really a Bowie fan.  "Lucy
in the Sky with Diamonds" and "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" are good songs
too, but I'm still not sure that any of them convey my personality that
well... and if I'm going to go to the trouble of choosing a creative 
userid it might as well be apt, right?  (I mean, I've never taken LSD.
so "Lucy... " can't be too appropriate, and I have NO IDEA what "Shine
On... " is about)!
 
				Diamond  (What the hell.  I'll MAKE
                                          it mine. :-))
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: smith@comm.mot.com (Jeff Smith)
Subject: Re: I AM *NOT* AN AI (or a turing test)
Organization: Gagging Sloth Records
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 19:11:51 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.110328.5850@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>, allisson@turing.toronto.edu (H. Allisson Roome) writes:

|> That should do it.  Besides, how could I have pictures of me deep
|> throating a banana if I wasn't real.

You have a point.  The day I find an AI program that can do that
will be the day I quite happily start dating software!

jds

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                               * Health and knowledge and wealth and power,
Jeff Smith                     * Passion and poems and sex
smith@fl08-g.comm.mot.com      * I wear a smile like a leather glove,
                               * I won't shut my mouth for less.
                                                - shriekback
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From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Commitment--The C-word?
Date: 25 Aug 92 23:50:42 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Aug25.212738.15278@odin.corp.sgi.com> lana@magenta.corp.sgi.com (Lana Mountford) writes:
>the way I (and, it appears, Nancy) feel are ...
>*and* have some mileage on them. :-)
 
James,

   Just in case you had any ideas you should forget about Nance and Lana.
Once the mileage builds up they start blowing gaskets,  leaking oil, and
are generally unreliable.  In your weakened state due to being due on the
rebound I wouldn't want you to make any rash decisions.


-- 
+============================================================================++
| John Fereira            "Is that all you ever think about?"                |
| johnf@auspex.com                                                           |
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From: gds@LA.TIS.COM (Greg Skinner)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Desperation (was Re: Commitment--The C-word?)
Date: 2 Sep 92 17:47:09 GMT
Reply-To: gds@la.TIS.COM (Greg Skinner)
Organization: Trusted Information Systems, Inc., Los Angeles, CA

In article <kiran.715453016@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Kiran Wagle writes:
>lana@magenta.corp.sgi.com (Lana Mountford) writes:
>>The point I'm trying to make, I think, is that there are some people who
>>honestly believe they are not whole persons unless they have a MOTAS in
>>their lives.  They will do anything (just about) to make sure they are in
>>some kind of relationship at all times, even to the point of staying in a
>>bad one because they really believe that they can't be "whole" without a
>>relationship.  I don't happen to feel that way.  
>Do you think there's something wrong with people who feel that they
>(or their lives) are not complete without a (happy) relationship?

I'd like to take a stab at this.

I think it is perfectly normal and reasonable to feel "lacking", in
some sense, if you do not have a happy (healthy) relationship.  I
believe this is so because human beings in general have a basic need
for companionship -- the kind that comes from a SO.

However, if you let the "lack" you feel control you to the extent that
you can't function reasonably on a day-to-day basis, or you cause
yourself to suffer by getting in and staying in destructive
relationships, that is unhealthy.  I think that's the distinguishing
factor Lana and others have been trying to point out.

--gregbo
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark)
Subject: Re: Powerful forces of nature conspire
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 17:47:55 GMT

>In <1992Aug27.104954.26803@uwm.edu> markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:
>>It was 60 in February and it doesn't snow much here anymore.
>
>>And that's no joke.

In article <ewillims.715001870@unix1.tcd.ie> ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:
>	No snow???  Well, that's another one crossed off my list 
>of places to live!
>
>	What is the point of living somewhere you can't 
>occasionally look out the window and see white flecks of 
>silence blanketing the world?  Or be able to roll around
>in it and laugh with the sheer joy of living?

Emma, oh sweet Emma.  You haven't truly been alive until you've had the
opportinuty to enjoy the rapture of the experience of walking in tennis shoes
against the wind for two miles in a blizzard.

Of course this is nothing.  I used to walk 4 miles to school and 6 miles back
when I decided to take the long route, and for lunch 1 mile to the other house
and 1 mile back.
From: wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Kiran Wagle
Date: 1 Sep 92 21:03:52 GMT
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Dawn Hardin (dhardin@bbn.com) wrote:
: That's easy.  He mistook Kiran for a female, remember?  When he got corrected,
: he thought he'd made a fool of himself and he got pissed and he attacked.
: Maybe Kiran should start posting under the name "Rocko Studly" to prevent
: this from happening again.

Ah, got it.  He thought he'd made a fool of himself, but he wanted to be sure?
-- 
"Bless me, Father; I ate a lizard."
"Was it an abstinence day, and was it artificially prepared?"
-------------------------------------------------------------
Bill de Beaubien / wjb@moscom.com
From: wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Bananas
Date: 26 Aug 92 17:57:33 GMT
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Stef Jones (stef@Apple.COM) wrote:
: swann@acsu.buffalo.edu (Stephen Swann) writes:
: >Well, using your teeth would make it a major cringe for all the guys
: >in the room.  :-)
: 
: *Most* of the guys.
: 

Which exceptions did you have in mind?
-- 
"Bless me, Father; I ate a lizard."
"Was it an abstinence day, and was it artificially prepared?"
-------------------------------------------------------------
Bill de Beaubien / wjb@moscom.com 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Re: Seesters, I want the seesters.
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 18:41:49 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.173144.27067@gvl.unisys.com> liz@prc.unisys.com (Liz Loquacious) writes:
>In article <1992Aug31.145355.3738@cbfsb.cb.att.com>, jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) writes:
>|>  
>|> Liz I find it attrocious, the demeaning manner in which you have
>|> assaulted the sensibility's of my young motorbiking companion.
>|> Have you ever Lambada'd?
>|> 
>
>How could you even suggest that I might participate in
>such a lewd activity, such debauchery! 
>My place or yours?
>

 What say the park? High noon? I'll bring the chandelier. You bring the
rope?
 
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From: aaron@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Tallllll women....
Date: 4 Sep 92 08:50:05 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

I find tall women in general more attractive than short (all other things
being equal). I'm quite capable of finding shorter women cute but I tend
to have an almost irresistable urge to pat them on the head.

	Aaron Turner(6'2'')		aaron@minster.york.ac.uk
From: gds@LA.TIS.COM (Greg Skinner)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Where the best posts come from
Keywords: suckups
Date: 31 Aug 92 17:36:35 GMT
Reply-To: gds@la.TIS.COM (Greg Skinner)
Organization: Trusted Information Systems, Inc., Los Angeles, CA

aahz@netcom.com (Aahzmandius) wrote, in response to enigma@halcyon.com (Matt Luders):
>>In my humble opinion, the most interesting posts come from stef@apple.com.
>>She's thoughtful, articulate, and witty--a clear, strong signal in a
>>cacophony of noise.
>9.1 on the Suckup Scale.

Isn't it possible that someone just might possibly enjoy and
appreciate someone's postings, with no ulterior motives?  I'm a little
disappointed to see that anyone who gives someone a compliment here is
labeled a suckup.

--gregbo
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.)
Subject: Re: Boink?
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 92 06:12:48 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Distribution: na

In article <4080@moscom.UUCP> wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien) writes:
>Aahzmandius (aahz@netcom.com) wrote:
>: I'm going to be traveling back East to Detroit and Toronto at the
>: beginning of October; won't be long enough in Detroit to have a Boink
>: (though I'd like to meet people), but if there's enough interest maybe
>: something can be arranged in Toronto.
>: I'll be in Toronto from Oct. 1 to 4, then in Detroit until the evening 
>: of the 5th.
>Well, Contradiction Twelve is in Niagara Falls from Oct 2-4 :-)

Nifto- and the Albuquerque BalloonBoink (attend! attend!) is also from
October 2-4. We'll have to set up a net-link somehow- make this a big
boink! Sound good?
r.
(BalloonBoink! Albuquerque NM- Oct 2-4! Write me for details!)
From: wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Powerful forces of nature conspire
Date: 28 Aug 92 19:05:44 GMT
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Mark (markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu) wrote:
: 
: If I were single and had plenty of free time, I probably would have been
: laid. :)  However, I'm involved with a special woman at this time.

The arresting officer was female? :-)
-- 
"Bless me, Father; I ate a lizard."
"Was it an abstinence day, and was it artificially prepared?"
-------------------------------------------------------------
Bill de Beaubien / wjb@moscom.com 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams)
Subject: Re: Cooking for 1!
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 10:54:16 GMT

In <kiran.715585755@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:

>lana@magenta.corp.sgi.com (Lana Mountford) writes:
>>everything comes out at the right time -- these are preludes to the
>>*real* fun!  I select the wine, get 1 extra bottle of it, and start

>*laugh* The Galloping Gourmet used to say, A splash of wine for the
>pot, a swig for the cook and was quite drunk by the end of the
>taping.  He eventually, I think, developed a drinking problem.  So I
>hear anyway, this was before my time.  

	Actually, it's a pity you don't get the British TV channel
called BBC1 as there is a chef there called Floyd who travels all
over France and Spain cooking dishes in the rural areas.  He is 
absolutely hilarious!  He is always slugging wine and talking to
Bruce, the cameraman, and is often quite the better for the wine
by the end of the programme! (Euphemistically speaking!:)
 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: zagar@chester.cms.udel.edu (Randy Zagar)
Subject: Re: The Chocolate Urgies
Reply-To: zagar@chester.cms.udel.edu
Organization: Marine Studies, University of Delaware
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 19:46:18 GMT

It is known that consuming chocolate causes the brain to produce certain
chemicals that are also produced (naturally) when a person is 'in love'.
(the romantic/erotic kind :-)

Is it any wonder, then, that chocolate is the gift of choice on valentines' day ?

-RZ

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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: morton@rtpnet06.rtp.dg.com (John R. Morton)
Subject: Re: Commitment--The C-word?
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 10:02:03 GMT
Organization: Data General Corporation, RTP, NC.

Women talk about meeting "Mold-me-the_way_you_want_to" women, and go on
to discuss it. Now, guys should be jealous ! Guys do not have what it
takes to do a " Mold-Me " Guy !
While women meet this with a " lets understand " attitude,
guys do television crap when facing a "Mold-Me! guy"
Women are more whole, more together somehow ......
From: dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Kiran Wagle
Date: 31 Aug 92 14:30:34 GMT
Reply-To: dhardin@spcink.bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

In article <kiran.715076280@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
>wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien) writes:
>
>>I do wonder why Prakash attacked Kiran's posting
>>style publicly rather than via e-mail, though.
>
>Yes, this puzzles me too.  I can't imagine why anyone would waste
>their time getting all riled up about postings to the net when they
>could be finding some sweet woman to take on a picnic.

That's easy.  He mistook Kiran for a female, remember?  When he got corrected,
he thought he'd made a fool of himself and he got pissed and he attacked.
Maybe Kiran should start posting under the name "Rocko Studly" to prevent
this from happening again.

Dawn
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
Subject: Re: Las Vegas
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 10:20:57 GMT

In article <4065@moscom.UUCP> wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien) writes:
>Hunh.  Small world, isn't it?  That makes you the second person from 
>soc.singles that I know has been there, and I'm not sure how close
>Cindy has been/will be on her trip to dah great U.P.

According to my trip logs, I stopped for lunch in Houghton on August 23,
1987, while driving from Iron Mountain to Duluth.  While this might seem
odd, it was because I was taking the Lake Superior Circle Tour (or whatever
it's called).

>I think it's the heaviest lift bridge, though not the longest.  It replaced
>a bridge which rotated, until it didn't and was hit by an ore-carrier. This
>was considerably before my time;  I've never figured out how people got back
>and forth while they built the new one :-)

I added the Portage Lake Vertical Lift Bridge to my collection.  My guess
would be that a ferry was used between Houghton and Hancock (note to Finns
on soc.singles: Lots of Finns settled in Hancock).

>As for eating places, the Library is definitely worth the trip.  If you like
>folk music, try for Thursday and sit upstairs.  At least, that's when Gary
>Tunstall used to play when I was there...

No record of where I ate, but I do remember eating a pasty.

-- Herb Huston


Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: smith@comm.mot.com (Jeff Smith)
Subject: Re: Powerful forces of nature conspire
Organization: Gagging Sloth Records 
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 19:01:53 GMT

In article <ewillims.715001870@unix1.tcd.ie>, ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:
|> In <1992Aug27.104954.26803@uwm.edu> markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:
|> 
|> 
|> >It was 60 in February and it doesn't snow much here anymore.
|> 
|> 	No snow???  Well, that's another one crossed off my list 
|> of places to live!
|> 
|> 	What is the point of living somewhere you can't 
|> occasionally look out the window and see white flecks of 
|> silence blanketing the world?  Or be able to roll around
|> in it and laugh with the sheer joy of living?
|> Or build snow people and fortresses and have snowball fights?
|> Or sled down hills and plough into high drifts at the bottom
|> spraying white powder everywhere so you have to blow it
|> off your eyelashes?

Ha! All these are reasons why I go back home at Christmas time.
Driving in it and having to look at it for weeks after it's turned
grey with mud and grease from the streets are why only stay for a
week!  Give me sunshine any day...

jds

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                               * Health and knowledge and wealth and power,
Jeff Smith                     * Passion and poems and sex
smith@fl08-g.comm.mot.com      * I wear a smile like a leather glove,
                               * I won't shut my mouth for less.
                                                - shriekback
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From: bruce@supr.scm.liv.ac.uk (Bruce Stephens)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Please Help Me!
Date: 2 Sep 92 16:35:31 GMT
Organization: Centre for Mathematical Software Research, Univ. Liverpool, UK

>>>>> On 29 Aug 92 23:27:29 GMT, chinj@acfcluster.nyu.edu said:

> A friend of mine told me about this newsgroup and said
> I could meet some interesting live people here that are
> nice and careing.  So, I figure I give it a try and perhaps
> it could ease my mind.

"Nice"? "Caring"?  Doesn't sound like at least 50% of soc.singles.
alt.romance.*, maybe.
--
Bruce
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Where the best posts come from
Date: 31 Aug 92 20:40:21 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <=yhn7z+.aahz@netcom.com> aahz@netcom.com (Aahzmandius) writes:
>In article <-xhn_lp.barry@netcom.com> barry@netcom.com (Kenn Barry) writes:
|>Sheba's the best poster in the newsgroup (though she doesn't post
|>enough).
|>
|>Hey, aahz, what's my suckup score on this one?
|
|Maybe 2.4, at best.  A good suckup needs a lyrical quality to it.

2.4 is a bit high.  Try pointing your toes next time.  and Never 
underestimate the importance of a good dismount.
-- 
+============================================================================++
| John Fereira            "Is that all you ever think about?"                |
| johnf@auspex.com                                                           |
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: schock@cpsc.UCalgary.ca (schock)
Subject: Re: pizza and chocolate and cheese - oh my!
Organization: The University of Calgary
	<dhar.29@oregon.uoregon.edu> <kiran.714655313@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
	<1992Aug24.121445.1172@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 05:35:54 GMT

In article <1992Aug24.121445.1172@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> hymowitz@whatever.cs.jhu.edu (Hymie!) writes:
>   can anyone suggest an aphrodisiac other than the 'big three' for those
>   of us unable to enjoy the finer (i.e. dairy) things in life?

>   (and please don't mention those damn pills you see on tv.  they aren't
>   strong enough for me, and quantities don't seem to help.)

According to "The Way of Herbs" by M. Tierra, the following herbs are 
aphrodisiacs:

	Common Name	Latin
	-----------	-----
	damiana		Turnera diffusa turneraceae
	false unicorn	Chamaelirium luteum liliaceae
	ginseng		Panax ginseng araliacea
	angelica	Angelica archangelica umbelliferae
	astragalus	Astragalus membranaceus leguminosae
	kava kava	Piper methysticum piperaceae
	burdock		Arctium lappa compositae

I've never used these herbs so I'm sure of their safety.  I know that
prolonged usage of kava kava will cause a build up of liver-toxic 
substances so if you are planning to use some, please make sure to 
do some research on them.  I've included their latin names so that
you are sure to be researching (and purchasing) the correct herbs.
Wouldn't want to make yourself sick. :-(

On the other hand...  a nice dinner, some Grand Marnier or Bailey's,
some pleasant conversation or a back/body massage (giving or 
receiving) always seem to do the trick for me :-)

>   --hymie

Craig
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: smaus@nyx.cs.du.edu (Scott Maus)
Subject: hi you all!!!
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 16:44:17 GMT


Just thought I'd let all the women know that there is a lonely heart
waiting for a name to be put on it!! Would love to hear from all you
lonely ladies out there!! My interests include movies, reading, spending
time together with that special person, and meeting and making new
friends!!

If you are interested and would like to communicate through the Postal
System, email me at smaus@nyx.cs.du.edu and I'll give you my address and
phone number to that special lady!!

Sincerely,

" Mystery Man "
S
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Horny monks. Aren't they all.
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 12:40:17 GMT

In article <4034@moscom.UUCP> wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien) writes:
>james.j.dutton (jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com) wrote:
>:  
>:  Deep feelings if I'm not mistaken.
>:  Must be the Monk in me. Eh brother Walter?
>:  Monks do it more profoundly.
>:  
>
>Hunh.  I thought monks did it with spirit. *shrug*
>Bill de Beaubien / wjb@moscom.com 

I like your slogan better. With spirit then.
 
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