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In soc.singles, dennisp@kpc.com (Dennis Preston) writes:
 >In article <1992Aug14.214619.17280@cbnews.cb.att.com> eleanor@cbnews.cb.att.com (eleanor.j.evans) writes:
 >>In article <1992Aug14.152600.8055@kpc.com> dennisp@kpc.com (Dennis Preston) writes:
 >>>I'm new to this group, but I live in Denver and I'd love to do a boink.
 >>>Preferably in Winter. dennisp@kpc.com
 >>
 >>Gee, if I lived in Denver, I'd prefer to do a bunk in the winter.
 >>Preferably to St. Thomas.
 >
 >**minor flame**, *no afterburners* Only CO.wimps leave when it gets cold.

I live a short distance away from Denver, and I LOVE the winters here.  :-)
Maybe I'm strange, but I'd never consider leaving our winters behind for a
tropical place like St. Thomas unless it was for a visit of a week or less.

When it gets cold, I just throw more wood on the fire and snuggle that much
closer with another appropriate warm body!!!   **BIG SMILE**

Bill
wjb@hpisla.lvld.hp.com

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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.)
Subject: Re: Exactly what I mean by "unattached"...
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 09:49:13 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

a koan: (for Kevin, who needs it)

...And it came that one day Mummu visited the house of a certain monk. The monk
was sitting on the floor, staring at a rose on the table in front of him. Mummu
asked the monk, "What are you doing?". The monk replied, "I am studying this
rose". Mummu sat at an empty table and began to stare at Nothing. The monk
asked Mummu, "What are you doing?". Mummu replied, "I am studying the mind."

Later, Mummu came to visit the monk again. The monk was sitting on the floor,
staring at a rose on the table in front of him. Mummu asked the monk, "What are
you doing?". The monk replied, "I am this rose." Mummu joined the monk at the
table and began to stare at the rose. The monk asked Mummu, "What are you
doing?". Mummu replied, "I am studying the heart."


r.
"On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur;
 L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
 What is essential is invisible to the eye."
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Various ramblings...
Date: 18 Aug 92 21:44:56 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Aug18.193424.40831@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.ibm.com writes:
|> >> [And yeah, a couple of drinks does cushion the blow a bit
|> >
|> >That's why alcohol and sex don't mix!  :-)
|>
|> Did Mr. Happy tell you that?
|>
|> And you said he doesn't talk :-/.  You really need to make him scream
|> once in a while ;-) to keep him really happy!
|
|I tried, but he just throws up.  :-)
 
You'd throw up too if someone grabbed you by the neck and tried to jerk 
your head off.  There, there now Mr. Happy, no reason to get upset.  

Oh no, he's getting mad again.  His face is turning red.

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| John Fereira            "Is that all you ever think about?"                |
| johnf@auspex.com                                                           |
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From: luzenko@catfish.ocpt.ccur.com (Bill Luzenko)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Married Men and Single Women
Summary: more proof of bitch theory
Date: 12 Aug 92 19:14:08 GMT
Organization: Concurrent - Oceanport NJ


You can say all this confidence mumbo jumbo nance! but the facts speek otherwise
see this article 39549 and it's another testimony yes yes!
From: lairdpg@lub001.lamar.edu
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Marcia needs some johnson love, huh?
Date: 15 Aug 92 23:53:08 +1700
Organization: Lamar University - Beaumont

In article <1992Aug15.011759.18394@fid.morgan.com>, sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart) writes:
> In article <1992Aug13.183243.1434@lub001.lamar.edu>
> lairdpg@lub001.lamar.edu writes:
>>In article <9208130108.AA29117@regal.cisco.com>, mlb@cisco.com (Marcia Bednarcyk) writes:
> 
>>Whatsa good ratio?
> 
> 1 to 1 usually; sometimes I'm feeling kinky.
> 
>>More than a mouthful is a waste!
> 
> You have no imagination.
> 
>>> Add :-) :-) :-) and :-) liberally. Serve with tongue in cheek.
>>
>>How 'bout tongue in ear (
> 
> Which is better depends on whose cheek (and which one).
> 
>>"... the meaning of life is t find a nice gal, who will take care of you,
>>owns a liquor store, doesn't get as drunk as you and loves to give lip service!
>>Now that makes me happy!"
> 
> I'm so glad you're happy.  Now maybe you'll stop posting.
> 
>>Oh Marcia, what *ARE* we gonna do wit you (
> 
> I strongly suspect that in your case, *NOTHING*.
> 
> Seth		sethb@fid.morgan.com

Can't a guy post something in rec.soc.singles without some other guy getting
all upset?  I would hope so, anyway.  But I guess not.  Even though I am happy,
I just don't think I will stop posting.  Oh yea, I *NEVER* wanted to do
anything with Marcia.  Just a figure of speech.
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Exactly what I mean by "unattached"...
Date: 20 Aug 92 23:18:44 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Aug20.155943.11997@ucunix.san.uc.edu> cordelkj@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Kevin John Cordell) writes:
>I have known a few people that go to these cons (sci-fi) and told me
>that the reason they do it to meet people, and hope that they score.

People "hope that they score" whether they are going to a con or not.

Isn't it obvious that the purpose of going to a SF-con or whatever-con is
to meet people.  One would assume that the people have a common interest.
If people at SF-cons have a common interest in Science Fiction does that
mean that people that go to Boinkon's have a common interest in boinking?
If you're not going to a con to meet people why bother having one.  You
can just continue to communicate with others via the net, or email, or
as penpals or whatever.

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| John Fereira            "Is that all you ever think about?"                |
| johnf@auspex.com                                                           |
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From: kevin@nuchat.sccsi.com (Kevin Brown)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Exactly what I mean by "unattached"...
Date: 17 Aug 92 20:41:01 GMT
Organization: I can't see any in the immediate vicinity...

In article <1992Aug16.212239.16621@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.IBM.com writes:
>At least two of my long-term relationships started out as friendships.

Interesting.  How well-developed were these friendships when the romance
started?

>Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)


-- 
				Kevin Brown

			    kevin@nuchat.sccsi.com
			    kevin@taronga.taronga.com
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: Larry Margolis <margoli@watson.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Various ramblings...
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 05:21:11 GMT
Reply-To: margoli@watson.IBM.com
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: The Village Waterbed

In  <1992Aug17.225608.27064@mks.com>  fredw@mks.com (Fred Walter) writes:
> kevin@nuchat.sccsi.com (Kevin Brown) writes:
>
> >physical condition, which for me is relatively poor 6'3" tall, weigh 220 lbs
>
> Are you close enough to work to try bicycling to work ? Or do you do anything
> that could (with some change) be made into exercise ?

Great idea - when I rode my bike to work and school every day, I was in
great shape.  It was after they moved the work location 40 miles away
and I had to start driving that I started to go to pot.  :-(

Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: puter@no1home.nashvil.ingr.com (PuterDude)
Subject: Re: Exactly what I mean by "unattached"...
Keywords: Newsgroup?
Organization: None, today. Thank you.
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 13:21:11 GMT

 nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) squeezes tush...

> jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) asks sexually...

>> dhardin@spcink.bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) asks a question...

>>>(Or am I not allowed to talk to you, james?)

>> Of course you can talk to me my little cumquat.
>> So anything about your new relationship you'd like to discuss, of
>>a sexual nature?

>Aw God, James James.  It's the green-eyed monster rearing it's ugly
>head?  Yeah pumpkin, I've been there.  I know.  I know.  But don't
>worry.
>
>There there, put your little head on my shoulder, yeah.  Consider this
>a pat on your bottom.  *Whoops!*  Sorry about that squeeze ...

Can you say....   Alt.Romance.Chat in Soc.Singles?   I knew you could!

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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: ericm@microunity.com (Eric Murray)
Subject: Re: Married Men and Single Women
Organization: MicroUnity Systems Engineering Inc.
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 00:29:22 GMT

In article <2216@catfish.ocpt.ccur.com> luzenko@catfish.ocpt.ccur.com (Bill Luzenko) writes:
>
>You can say all this confidence mumbo jumbo nance! but the facts speek otherwise

Isn't it amazing how some people can hide in their rooms, and when Truth
comes knocking at their door, say "Go away!  I'm looking for the truth!"

At least this one writes short postings, instead of 260 line ones.


>see this article 39549 and it's another testimony yes yes!

Bill, article numbers are different at each site.  Use the
message id ("<2216@catfish.ocpt.ccur.com>" is the one of yours that
I'm responding to).  That's what the software uses to i.d. messages.


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  Eric Murray                                             ericm@microunity.com
    This package contains one (1) Usenet news posting.  Do not eat.
From: dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: WAS re:men in their (A New DAWN!)
Date: 14 Aug 1992 13:31:09 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
Reply-To: dhardin@spcink.bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

lairdpg@lub001.lamar.edu writes:

[obnoxious drivel deleted because I can't stand to read anymore]

So yesterday you tell me that I don't have any morals because you can't get
a joke and today you decide to make a lot of obscene remarks and flame
everyone in sight in a singularly graceless manner without the courtesy
of signing your name?

For one thing, you're not the least bit entertaining.  For another thing,
I was hurt by your remark yesterday, whether it was a bad joke or not.
There are real people reading this group, not just moving targets.  Please 
grow up.

Dawn
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: 6069870@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
Subject: Re: 032 Re: men in their thirties who never dated
Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 20:31:13 GMT

i feel sorry for the poor souls who've never had a woman but!!!!!!!
iiiii am reeeeealy glad i'm a man & you can bet your sweet keester
i'd never want to be cursed by being a woman next time around.
no offense, but you ladies out there are all screwed up.          *

------------------------- Original Article -------------------------


In article <m70mw6l.barry@netcom.com> barry@netcom.com (Kenn Barry) writes:
>In article <92231.39304.6069870@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM> 6069870@LMSC5.IS.LM
>>RE: men in thirty something groups ***
>>
>>is it possible that they are just shy?
>
>	Yep.
>
>>is it possible that they do not have the gift of gab?
>
>	Yep.
>
>>is it possible that most women now days expect too much from a man?
>
>	Could be.
>
>>what is your conclusion?
>
>	I wanna be a woman next time around.





Why wait until next time around?  There is a surgical operation
(SRS Sexual Reassignment Surgery) that can accomplish it in this
lifetime for you.


Never say never. :-)





Karen

Kg@bbn.com
From: stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Finding Romantic Partners (long)
Date: 21 Aug 92 06:45:06 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH) writes:

>stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:

>>Since it seems that USENET is an environment where some of the women prefer
>>intelligent men, perhaps we can conclude that a man's chances of meeting a
>>woman by posting *intelligent* things to USENET are greater than 0%.

>I guess this is still purely hypothetical, though.

Yes - posting funny or titillating things seems far more effective 
(however, these data are not statistically significant).

--
Stef                 "What would *you* call the creation of the universe?"
stef@apple.com       "The Horrendous Space Klablooie!"             
                                                              - Watterson
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: zagar@chester.cms.udel.edu (Randy Zagar)
Subject: I have a stupid question...
Reply-To: zagar@chester.cms.udel.edu
Organization: Marine Studies, University of Delaware
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 14:08:14 GMT

I hanven't been able to figure out what a MOTAS is.  I have a vague idea what a
MOTAS is from the context in which it's used, but I don't know what the letters
stand for.

Anybody interested in enlightening me?

p.s.  please respond by e-mail.
 
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: bross@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Brian J Ross)
Subject: Re: Finding Romantic Partners (long)
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Brock University
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 03:42:58 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.204848.25516@nuchat.sccsi.com> kevin@nuchat.sccsi.com (Kevin Brown) writes:
>In article <16mgp0INNl9v@network.ucsd.edu> mbk@lyapunov.ucsd.edu (Matt Kennel) writes:
>>1) It's not possible to intentionally 'get a girlfriend' everywhere you go,
>>
>>but
>>
>>2) If you even want a chance, you have to work assiduously at being
>>generally social nonetheless.
>>
>
>This is another excellent example of something that appeals to my sense
>of Universal Perversity.  I suspect it's dead-on correct.
>
>Guess this is sort of what everyone has been trying to say, but nobody
>has said it in a way that makes *sense* to me.  This does.
>
>Thanks.
>
>As I read this newsgroup and participate in it, I get an increasing sense
>of the importance of acting.
>
>Do you think acting is an important enough skill that it would be worth
>going to acting school?

Here's a worthy little quote:

	Don't aim at success -- the more you aim at it and make it a target,
        the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness,
	cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the
	unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause
	greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a
	person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same
	holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
	I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and
	go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live
	to see that in the long run -- in the long run, I say! -- success
	will follow you precisely because you had *forgotten* to think about it.

	-- Victor Frankl, _Man's Search for Meaning_

Frankl is the founder of an existentialist approach to psychotherapy. He
developed his ideas as a Nazi concentration camp prisoner.  Recommended reading.

-- 
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: Larry Margolis <margoli@watson.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Various ramblings...
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 17:17:53 GMT
Reply-To: margoli@watson.IBM.com
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: The Village Waterbed

In  <7sJLPB1w164w@depsych.Gwinnett.COM>  dy@depsych.Gwinnett.COM (Dr. Yes) writes:
> margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis) writes:
>
> > In  <1992Aug15.185809.17611@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>  tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve
> > > You shouldn't be too self-conscious
> > > either--I think it was Fran Leibowitz who observed that few people would
> > > be self-conscious at all if they knew just how little attention everyone
> > > else was paying to them--you'd probably be surprised with just how much
> > > more you can get away with than you'd expect.
> >
> > That's how I finally started dancing a few years back.  I figured that
> > whatever I did couldn't possibly look more ridiculous than what some of
> > the people on the dance floor were doing, and nobody was laughing at *them*.
> > (I suppose a few drinks had helped as well.)  So, I tried it - and I had FUN!
>
> This whole issue of "letting go" or "letting you hair down" is a
> bit more complex than your anecdote might suggest.
>
> The basic paradox is that you are generally advising Kevin to
> ignore reason and use his unconscious and intuitive bells and
> whistles.  But here you reverse the advice and tell him to ignore
> that inner warning signal that tells you you are about to make a
> fool of yourself.

No, there I'm relating an anecdote that relates to trygve's comment.

> Of course you are right

Of course.  :-)

> My reading is that you have at least partly misunderstood Kevin's
> caution.

My reading that you're new to the net if you think that everything
posted to a given thread relates to the original topic of that thread.

> Still Using Waffle 1.64!    | Wafffle, QEdit and Webster's
>                             | NewWorld -- one great menage a
>                             | trois!

Software and a dictionary is your idea of a great menage a trois, and
*you're* giving advice on relationships?  :-)

Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Exactly what I mean by "unattached"...
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 18:33:08 GMT

In article <1992Aug19.044036.5045@nuchat.sccsi.com> kevin@nuchat.sccsi.com (Kevin Brown) writes:
>
>Okay.  The culture I select is...
>
>whatever culture Trygve is in!  They seem to be a laid back, easy-going
>crowd of people.

Well, be careful--remember that along with the various subtle approaches
that women I know are wont to use, some not-so-subtle hints come with the
territory such as a friend of mine displaying her interest in someone who
attended one of her parties by tying him down to the bed and, well, I'll
spare you the details, but keep in mind that you could be risking 
something like that happening to you. 

>And yes, I'll have to change.  I suspect this will take some cash, which
>Trygve will, of course, generously supply for such a noble purpose, right
>Trygve?  :-) :-) :-)

But, Kevin, my point has been that money really doesn't matter in the
mating game--but if it makes you feel better, I'll spot you at least
enough for a local phone call.

Trygve 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Subject: Re: Exactly what I mean by "unattached"...
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 08:55:29 GMT

gds@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Greg Skinner) writes:

>kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Me) writes about Trygve:
>>Only trygve could call this kind of thing "fairly subtle."
>>If these kind of things actually happen to trygve, he must live
>>in some other universe than mine.

>My guess is that Trygve (if he is telling the truth) hangs out with a
>group of people who do this sort of thing fairly regularly.  

>For example, I hear at SF cons, this sort of thing happens pretty
>regularly.  

Yeah, after 12 years of con-going, I also hear that it happens
regularly.  I have learned not to believe everything I hear.

>Most of the women who post, you mean.  
Yes.  Thanks for the correction.

>I wonder if they really believe what he is writing, or if they are
>just hoping he is really legit? (Too good to be true?) 
Too good to be true, IMO.

>Maybe it doesn't even matter.  
You're probably right.  Think I'll go plan a road rally.  (Had lots o
fun in Cleveland at what was once called the Pisswater Road Rally.  Am
thinking of doing it here.  Gotta get a del Sol to drive next year...)

>Another thing that comes to mind is I don't think it's really all that
>great to have lots of sexual opportunities or encounters unless you're
>having them with people you really want to be with.

There are lots of people who would disagree, who would be happy to
have opportunities with people they sort of want to be with or think
are good-looking.  And there are others whose self-confidence could be
given a boost by such encounters. 

-- 
"The Pike is the meanest and most vicious of fresh-water fishes.  
 This is caused by heredity and environment, or unfortunate social
 conditions in the water.  If the other fishes would only be kind to
 him, he would be even meaner and more vicious."
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Newsgroups: soc.singles,soc.couples,soc.men,soc.women,soc.motss
From: ra@asuvax.eas.asu.edu (Starcap'n Ra)
Subject: Re: BOINK! BOINK! BALLOONBOINK IN ALBUQUERQUE!
Followup-To: soc.singles
Organization: soc.singles
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 19:46:59 GMT

swells@triton.unm.edu (Earth-daughter) writes:
> and in new mexico, EVERY sunset is a beautiful sunset.

     I'll vouch for that.  I'll even go so
far as to say that they're almost as nice as
Arizona sunsets.

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