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From: keithg@cnmhnet.UUCP (keith garrard)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Karaoke
Date: 29 Sep 92 23:13:33 GMT
Organization: California-Nevada Methodist Homes

In article <1992Sep28.141811.10658@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes:
>In article <108@cnmhnet.UUCP> keithg@cnmhnet.UUCP (keith garrard) writes:
>
>>I will say this about Nancy, though, she *is* interesting to read.
>>an interesting angle on things.  
>All right suck-head, and just what the *hell* do you mean by THAT??

I meant, that Nancy Colucci is never middle of the road 
on anything.  She is either to the far right, or to the
far left.  I wonder who she is going to vote for in the
upcoming Presidential Election?  She is going to have to 
decide one way or the other.  This will be an interesting
test for her.  Can she go one way or the other?  Will
she be split in half?  Is this scenario what they mean by
a split ticket?  Hmmmm...
--Keith

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
Subject: Re: Exercise mania ( was: The great fitness debate)
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 11:22:43 GMT

In article <1992Sep30.025430.4896@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> hankd@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (Hank Dietz) writes:
>These comments about exercise being so important really bother me.
>
>I'm 32 years old, exercise mostly as a side-effect of doing things that
>I like to do, and am noticeably more fit than many of the people I know
>who aggressively exercise for the sake of exercise alone.  What's more,
>I don't cause myself injury on a regular basis, while my seriously
>exercising friends often break bones, pull muscles, etc.  It might be
>true that exercise helps, but MODERATION is the key.  Overly intense
                                                              ^^^^^^^
>exercise is a great way to do serious harm to yourself -- although the
>endorphins (spelling?) might make that feel good anyway.  ;-)

Unless one is training for the Olympics, extensive, rather than intensive,
exercise should be the way to go.  I worry about folks over the age of about
30 who jog, not because of heart attacks (remember Jim Fixx?) so much, but
because of damage to the feet.  Remaining ambulatory in old age is known to
be a life-lengthener, and healthy feet would seem to be a requirement for
maintaining that daily constitutional.

-- Herb Huston
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From: nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci)
Subject: Re: Humans as Physical Creatures.
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 13:52:36 GMT

In article <x+-pn_b@lynx.unm.edu> blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
>In article <ewright.717782850@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
>>Read the quote from Wilson's book once again.  The selection
>>characteristics used by the hominids that man descended from
>>were hunting skills, political leadership, and toolmaking. If
>>apes have different criteria, it is not directly relevent.  Since
>>humans are not descended from apes, we could not have inherited
>>it from them.
>
>Excuse me? What did humans evolve from, Newts?
>Your blatent ignorance in simple biology negates any claim you might have
>made concerning the biological functions/activities of animals, humans
>included.

According to the several hundred hours I spent sitting through
various anthropology lectures during my undergrad days, humans, though
primates, did NOT evolve from apes.  Humans, that is Cro-Magnons, evolved
from other hominids, if I remember correctly.  The artistic renderings of
Neanderthals and Autralopithacines, etc, we see in museums were created
using the skeletal remains as a basis, and since early hominid jawbones
were larger and the frontal lobes were much more pronounced than ours, 
they resemble apes ... but they were not.  It is also assumed that they
were much more "hairy" than we are and are shown that way. 

Saying humans evolved from apes is like saying deer evolved from giraffes.
No.

-Nance
-- 
Nance Colucci  *^*^*^*^*^*    o__    *^*^*^*^*  |  Work that body!
att!ihlpk!colucci            _.>/               | Stay fit for life.
                            (_) \(_)
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Asking advice
Date: 29 Sep 92 22:57:12 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <90937@netnews.upenn.edu> crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
>In article <14828@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
|>In article <117@cnmhnet.UUCP> keithg@cnmhnet.UUCP (keith garrard) writes:
|>|it is a generally accepted Psychological Theory, that 
|>|Public Displays of Affection [PDA] are a symptom of insecurity
|>|on the part of one or both of the parties involved.
|>
>>And some people just like touching the person they like. 
|>
|
|Yay!  A sane response!

I must be slipping.  Is there somethin' goin' round?

-- 
+==========================================================================+
| John Fereira     | Auspex Systems | "Auspex does not share my opinions.  |
| johnf@auspex.com | Santa Clara CA |  So Why am I still working here?"    |
+==========================================================================+
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From: jmd@bear.com (Josh Diamond)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Embarrasment of the Day
Date: 25 Sep 92 16:24:47 GMT
	<#c9n+zq@lynx.unm.edu>
Organization: Bear, Stearns & Co. - FAST
In-reply-to: blowfish@carina.unm.edu's message of 24 Sep 92 08:33:00 GMT


In article <#c9n+zq@lynx.unm.edu> blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:

   Last time I tried to point out that a woman was 'exposing' herself, I
   got accused of being a lech and voyeur. Funny thing is, that same sort
   of thing also happend the time before, and the time before that.
   Pretty soon I just gave up.

Is it possible that to these women you showed up as a 'lech and
voyeur'.  Maybe something about your method of communication?

Spidey!!!

--
 /\ \  / /\  Josh Diamond                                          jmd@bear.com
//\\ .. //\\ AKA Spidey!!!                        ...!ctr.columbia.edu!ursa!jmd
//\((  ))/\\
/  < `' >  \                                              Do whatever it takes.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jderagon@nyx.cs.du.edu (John Deragon)
Subject: Bar/Club Scene
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 05:32:16 GMT


	Howdy,

	I have a question regarding the Bar/Club scene.
I recently broke up with someone after a 4 year relationship, 
and just starting to go out to bars/clubs again with my friends
in the hope of meeting someone new.

	I was at a very happening bar the other day, the kind
where they serve all the beer you can drink for 5 bucks all night
long, so needless to say everyone is feeling good. ;-)

	This place caters to the college crowds, and the average 
age there is 21-25 I would guess.  Anyway, I went there with some 
male friends, and they all went their ways persuing someone or something
and I was hanging out watching the bouncer throw people out the door
for something or another, when I glance over and see a group of girls/
women [insert politically correct statement] staring at me.  Now let
me define what I mean by staring...

	They are standing in the every prominent circle-o-defense(tm),
where they can sucessfuly fend off unwanted attacks from drunken men,
and I look over and the two that were facing me I found were looking at
me, and when I glanced at them, they would look away.  This happened
about 4 or 5 times, when I would look away, and they would look at me,
I would look back, they would look away..

	The bottom line is 4 out of the 5 were staring at me,
(maybe because I was the soberest male in the place), and I am there
trying to figure out the best way to approach this.  What does one
do in a situation like this?  Do I just walk up to this circle-o-defense
and say "Hi... blah..blah...blah".


	Thats the bottom line, if you see someone making eye contact 
with you in a bar/club scene what do you say, how do approach this
situation?   

	The way I basically handled it is, I walked over to the 
pretiest one, and said, "Hi, my name is John...", and things sorta
just rolled on from there.

	When I got home, I thought there had to be a better way,
or line to use in a situation like that.  I was ofter told that
the best line-of-attack is humor, as puts the situation on a non-
threating mode, and eases the tensions, but it is awful hard to think
of a cunning/funny/witty line in the heat of the moment.

	Any suggestions?

	J-

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From: GCTHORNE@idbsu.idbsu.edu ("Broward " Bail Out " Horne")
Subject:      RE: Acceptance!
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 92 17:40:29 MST
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From: loosemore-sandra@CS.YALE.EDU (Sandra Loosemore)
Subject: Re: Acceptance!

>I seem to be managing to hang out on campus forever myself (without
>even trying very hard!), and it's not all it's cracked up to be.  You
>get old, the students stay eternally young, and you see all the people
>your own age settling down with "real" jobs and getting married and
>moving out into the suburbs.  It can be a pretty lonely life.

>-Sandra the cynic

       Yeah?  Well, Corporate America ain't either.  I'll take a
       campus ANY day.  HERE I get to do all kinds of interesting
       and complicating things, worthy of my skills.  At
       SAVIN/LITTON/TERADYNE/HP ( choose one )  I got a line.

       Pssst.  plus I get paid more, now.  :)

       "REAL jobs" ?

       HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!  I don't THINK so!
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From: schock@flip.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Craig-Richard Schock)
Subject: Re: The Engaged Psychobitch from Hell Syndrome
Reply-To: schock@flip.cpsc.ucalgary.ca
Organization: University of Calgary Computer Science
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 21:17:15 GMT

In article <1adcf0INN688@golem.wcc.govt.nz>  writes:
> Experience can be a wonderful thing!    ;->

(Spoken in a propper irish accent)

"Ahhh yess...  Experience is a fine thing... a fine thing indeed!" :-)

It's a wonderful teacher.

> Rachel                           "Supergoof!"
>                                     -  -
>                                     O  O
>                                       >
>                                      \_/
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From: nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci)
Subject: Re: Two's an aphrodisiac
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 18:04:49 GMT

In article <1992Sep29.005752.17390@pica.army.mil> schico@PICA.ARMY.MIL (Stephen Chico (CCAC) <schico>) writes:
>
>3.  You may also be more relaxed in approaching or conversing with MOTAS
>because your not trying to woo them, therefore conversation and
>attitude can be more natural {Attractive Vibes enhanced}.

Interesting.  Other than my loved one, my very best male friends are
the SO's of female friends of mine.  In one case, though, this proved
caustic.  "She" was leery of the friendship between "he" and I because
a score of years or so ago when he and I were in college, we had a very
brief relationship.  We met many years later and became Friends, which
is the point in time I met her.

To make a long story very short, his and my friendship caused her so
much anxiety that I had to cease knowing both of them lest be falsely
accused, which I was.  There was no other way.

-Nance
-- 
Nance Colucci  *^*^*^*^*^*    o__    *^*^*^*^*  |  Work that body!
att!ihlpk!colucci            _.>/               | Stay fit for life.
                            (_) \(_)                           
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From: chrud@oakhill.sps.mot.com (David Chrudimsky (AMCU Circuit Design))
Subject: Re: Bar/Club Scene
Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin Tx.
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 14:57:24 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.053216.10909@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jderagon@nyx.cs.du.edu (John Deragon) writes:
>
>	When I got home, I thought there had to be a better way,
>or line to use in a situation like that.  I was ofter told that
>the best line-of-attack is humor, as puts the situation on a non-
>threating mode, and eases the tensions, but it is awful hard to think
>of a cunning/funny/witty line in the heat of the moment.
>

Hmmm, interesting.  My first instinct IS to approach the situation with
humor.  Unfortunately, once the smiles are over, I seem to be in the
same boat as before.  I don't really know what to say next.  I could
make another joke, but it didn't really break the ice the first time.

If I could only get into their minds to know what they were thinking...

-chrud


-- 
   David Chrudimsky                                chrud@sol-tx.sps.mot.com
 Motorola Inc. Austin
  '89 Kawasaki EX500                   Who want's to live forever??  -Queen
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: shannah@netcom.com (Teri Miller)
Subject: Re: BARBIE DOES IT AGAIN!!!!
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 19:51:14 GMT

In article <4312@moscom.com> wjb@moscom.com writes:
>Kiran Wagle (kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu) wrote:
>: But--math class _is_ hard!  I never did figger out algebra.  
>: 
>
>Guess that says something about Barbi.  For the record, though, it's
>certainly a stupid thing to be telling to most of the young female
>population.  Someone ought to tell the Enquirer that Mattel is trying
>to brainwash the American Female Youth.  That'd produce some 
>interesting headlines...

Well, and there seems to be a lot of discussion going on about 
whether or not math is hard, and whether it's worse to have Barbie
say it's hard or easy.

What about having her say she *likes* math?  That wouldn't lead
kids for whom math is difficult to think they are stupid, and it
doesn't lead to an unfortunate stereotype.
From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: men in their thirties who never dated
Date: 30 Sep 1992 18:06:13 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

In article <5683@news.duke.edu> diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams) writes:
>ANYWAY.  Anyone out there got any good techniques for soliciting backrubs
>from total strangers?

No, but I know a deeply intimate way to engage in backrubbing that makes the
usual style look aloof in comparison.

>This life of solitude and studious labor I'm leading seems pretty cool so
>far, except that when I'm under stress I don't get tension headaches, I get
>tension backaches. 

And I have the perfect cure.
From: julie@amazon.chem.columbia.edu (Julie Wright)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Book Rec.: _Bodies: Overcoming the Tyranny of Perfection_
Date: 7 Oct 92 03:14:09 GMT
	<1992Sep30.174714.2900@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1acs1tINNmkj@uwm.edu>
	<JMD.92Oct5173602@lion.bear.com> <Bvoyz7.BJz@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Organization: The Cultural Elite

kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:

>The four food groups are actually Pizza, Chocolate, Ice Cream, & Barbecue.

But... how can a perfect diet (ha!) not contain any maple syrup?

Or is that just a Healthy Beverage?

---Julie
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From: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (Andreas  Tovornik)
Subject: Re: a new thread, see what you think....
Reply-To: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 05:17:30 GMT

In article 7902@ac.dal.ca, brentaa@ac.dal.ca (brent, eh?) writes:

>	I have been experiencing an interesting, (and discouraging) trend
>in my relationships.  Here's the scenario, I'm going out with a girl, and 
>things seem to be going fine.  Not perfect, of course, but no major problems
>that I'm aware of..
 
Or so you thought, pally-boy.

>O.K., so here's where it gets screwy...the girl then goes on a little trip
>for a couple of weeks or a month.  When she gets back, I get the feeling 
>that something has changed, but I can't put my finger on it....  She proceedes
>to string me along for a week or more, then comes up with the always
>popular `lets just be friends' line.  

What happens if you go to another town to work on a contract for three 
months and come back to the girl you lived with for a year?
You were so looking forward to getting home and being with her. Then as
you slip the key into the front door.....It doesn't fit.

>	I have a couple of theories about this...1. The women did a lot of
>thinking about the relationship while away,(maybe too much..) and 
>decided that it wasn't worth it, then couldn't bear to tell me when they got
>back and saw how happy I was to see them, and so made it worse by stringing
>me along.....2. Something happened on the trip that changed them, and made 
>them less interested in the relationship.(I know this happened in one case, 
>i.e. she met someone else while away, though I found this out much later...)
>3. After not being in touch with the SO, the woman loses or forgets the 
>closeness and other associated feelings that are a part of the relationship, 
>and has a hard time reestablishing them when they get back....

Yes, all this and more.
Typical excuses with   
things I should have
said:                                        
                        - I got lonely so when George down the hall asked
                          me over for a coffee I went to bed with him.
                        * Yeah, coffee with spanish fly, ginseng and
                          yohimbe root.  

                        - He does cocaine but I'm gonna have his baby
                        * Now that's one hell of a "blow" job.

                        - When I called your mother she said you found
                          somebody else.
                        * Not when I pay the rent and live in a mineral
                          exploration camp with 15 other guys 200 miles
                          from the nearest town.

                        - I just don't love you anymore, you alcoholic.
                        * On two beers a day, sure....sure.

Don't try to explain any of this slop, it just happens.

Andy.

PLEASE EXCUSE MY OBVIOUS IGNORANCE.
From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: men in their thirties who never dated
Date: 26 Sep 92 21:05:48 GMT
	<MARTINC.92Sep26115753@grover.cs.unc.edu>
	<1992Sep26.165359.16509@news.acns.nwu.edu>
Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
In-reply-to: drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu's message of 26 Sep 92 16:53:59 GMT

In article <1992Sep26.165359.16509@news.acns.nwu.edu> drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max) writes:

   In article <MARTINC.92Sep26115753@grover.cs.unc.edu> martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:

    is that we DON'T think you have trouble finding someone
   >because you aren't pretty enough, aren't smart enough, don't have enough
   >talents or skills, aren't athletic enough, or any of the other excuses
   >you've found.  It's because you're a jerk.

   But Charlie, I thought the jerk always gets the girl? 

Okay, bad choice of derogatory terms.  But "jerk" as opposed to "Nice
Guy[TM]" I now understand in terms of my own perception as a nice-guy-
in-recovery: that is "jerk" means NOT a spineless mass of terror that
cannot see *anything* as horrible as screwing up a relationship with a
Real Live Girl.

Whereas I see Ed as potentially one of those Nice Guys but more like one
of those fellows you see around who wear all black clothes, get all
hollow-eyed, and go around telling everyone they meet just how morally
reprehensible they really are, but then the whole world is shit anyway,
and there is no hope of changing things so we might as well all kill
ourselves now.  They usually don't bathe enough either.
--
Charles R. Martin/(Charlie)/martinc@cs.unc.edu/(ne crm@cs.duke.edu) 
O/Dept. of Computer Science/CB #3175 UNC-CH/Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175
H/3611 University Dr #13M/Durham, NC 27707/(919) 419 1754
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"I am he who walks the States with a barb'd tongue, questioning every
one I meet,/Who are you that wanted only to be told what you knew
before?/ Who are you that wanted only a book to join you in your
nonsense?"  _Leaves of Grass_ xxiii.4.
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.sex
From: olt@elwood.isgs.uiuc.edu (Scott Olt)
Subject: Re: Dealing with the Ultimate Basis of Proof and Proveability
Organization: Madame Tinkertoy's House of Blue Lights
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 06:08:04 GMT

<ANNE@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> writes:

>tjg2946@ritvax.isc.rit.edu says:
>>What is the different between a woman and a light bulb?
>>You can unscrew a light bulb!  (GRIN)

>I see someone else watched that stupid movie over the weekend too.

Which stupid movie was that?


--
Scott Olt
Illinois State Geological Survey
olt@elwood.isgs.uiuc.edu
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From: hays@TECHNET.NM.ORG (Larry 'Purple' Hays)
Subject: Re: Adventure on the docks
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 00:40:56 GMT
Organization: New Mexico Technet   Albuquerque, NM
Reply-To: hays@TECHNET.NM.ORG

In article <72725@apple.Apple.COM>, stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
>
>                  P I P P I   L O N G S H O R E M A N
>
>mel@niblick.ecn.purdue.edu (Meloney D Cregor) writes:
>
>>Sheesh.  Ya go away for a while and come back and Larry and Aahz are
>>down on the floor together.
>
>>What has this group come to......
>
>That's OK. They're down here giving me a...um, a backrub.

Actualy, I sorta specialize in feet.  Stinky job, but somebody's gotta . . . 

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Larry 'Purple' Hays                                        hays@technet.nm.org

                 "Better than sex" - A satisfied customer.
From: taina@cs.Helsinki.FI (Juha Taina)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Marriage
Date: 29 Sep 92 13:44:57 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki, Finland

In <1992Sep29.131945.8766@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes:
>In article <BvB9Au.uo@inews.Intel.COM> gbennett@frx781.intel.com (gbennett) writes:
>>
>>I would like to pose a hypothetical question to any single willing to
>>respond.  Here it is:
>>   Would you be willing to give up a career, a new home, and a new car
>>   for an everlasting and loving marriage?

>Doubt it.  Why give up my home?  To live in a tree and eat berries?
>I wouldn't mind doing that if it is all we could afford, but I need to
>know a little more about this scenario to answer honestly.  If this
>guy is expecting me to give up everything I own to go live with him
>in the Outback and do scientific research, maybe, if the subject was
>of interest to both of us.

I agree with you.  Once I have a reasonable level of living I'm ready
for a serious relationship.  I wouldn't give up everything just for
love.  In the long run it would cause real troubles.

Still, I know a lot of people that have actually done something like
this.  A woman that I know was ready to give up everything for
his man.  The man himself wasn't ready for to compromise much.  What
will happen in their relationship if the guy stays that stubborn?

Juha
-- 
Juha Taina | taina@cs.helsinki.fi | Phone: +358-0-708-4247
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From: sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart)
Subject: Re: Bar/Club Scene
Organization: my opinions only
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 23:21:15 GMT

In article <2@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
writes:

>She gave a nice friendly wave when I left.
>
>Question: Was she laughing at me or with me?  

More important, she wasn't _leaving_ with you.

Seth		sethb@fid.morgan.com

(Actually, I agree with John, that the line worked; she was probably
laughing with him.  Some straight lines are just too good to pass up.)
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