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From: Ross Ridge <ross@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: Can you accept criticism ? (was Re: Why lurkers lurk ...)
Organization: ZOOiD BBS
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 08:29:08 GMT

Ross Ridge <ross@zooid.guild.org> writes:
>Actually I've forgotten it.  All I can remeber is that she desparately
>wanted to avoid you.

fredw@mks.com (Fred Walter) writes:
>Geez, it's bullshit stories like this that help explain some of the crap
>I frequently run into. Aside from female family members when I was growing up,
>I've only had female roommates twice. Once, about 7.5 years ago, and you
>have never talked with her, and my current one, who's only been my room-mate
>for 4 months, and I doubt you've ever talked with her (seeing how you've
>not been geographically in a position to talk with her).

Maybe she wan't your roommate then...

>A personal pet peeve of mine is gossip. Every so often I hear from friends
>of mine what their friends (people who don't know me well, or, even more
>amusing, people who don't know me at all, people who have never even met me)
>say about me. Nameless people, because my friends won't tell me who is
>spreading the bullshit about me, because they don't want to get in trouble
>with those friends. And my friends are amazed (as am I) at how little truth
>there is in the stories.  Is this common, or do the friends of my friends
>contain a larger than normal percentage of gossiping liars ?

Aren't you glad I'm not doing it behind your back?

>>I don't worry about how it comes across, I just try be honest. 
>
>How it comes across is important if you want the other person to actually
>listen to what you are saying.

That's up to them.

>"I think you're mistaken about what you just said in reference to me."
>is more likely to be heard than
>"You are lying."
>
>Now that I've said the above to you, tell me again that it does not matter
>how criticism is presented.

I didn't say it didn't matter, I said I don't worry about it.

							Ross Ridge

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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jdnicoll@watyew.uwaterloo.ca (James Davis Nicoll)
Subject: Re: 'What the hell kind of a world do we live in...'
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 04:16:15 GMT

In article <=mvn12g@lynx.unm.edu> blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
>
>Ever have one of those weeks?
>Two of my close friends, in just the past 2 weeks, have both been diagnosed
>with cancers. One with cervical, one with a cancerous mass in his Thyroid
>gland. 

	I announced loudly that I  did not  believe my week could get
worse about a month ago (Business really sucked) and the very *next* day
my aunt discovered my mother's several day-old  corpse,  still sitting 
watching TV (Although  not as attentively as was her past custom).

	The police asked  brilliant questions like 'When you entered the
house, was there anything inside which upset you?'. The doctor who signed
the death certificate arrived after four  or  so  hours; he  took a minute
to examine the body, and did not bother to turn the engine off in his  car.
The policewoman  who  escorted  the funeral  procession did  *not* bother
to  escort anyone but the hearse, and  the driver apparently was  under
the  impression he  was in the Grand Prix, judging by how close he came to
requiring Mach numbers to  register his velocity. We  lost half the 
procession. 

	Darn spiffy coffin, though, and the graveyard is, well, quiet.

>Prompted the one with cervical cancer to say 'What the hell kind of a world
>do we live in where 25 year olds get cancer?'
>Any answers? Didn't think so... (1/2 :)
>sigh.
>r.

	No-one reading this today will be around to remember it in the
22nd Century. At best we can get 11 decades or so, and most of us won't.
Cancer at 65 isn't  any 'fairer' than at 25, nor are things like heart
attacks, strokes, car accidents or violence. *No-one* gets out alive.

	No pleasantries or comforts offered, I'm afraid, because I don't 
believe any exist to be offered on this subject.

							James Nicoll
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
Subject: Re: Can we can the suck-up bit?
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 09:47:57 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.193125.4264@gvl.unisys.com> liz@prc.unisys.com (Liz Loquacious) writes:
>In article dbj@cs.washington.edu (Dave Johnson) writes:
>|> In article liz@prc.unisys.com (Liz Loquacious) writes:
>|> >
>...stuff deleted...
>|> >lawn maintenance he's taken to cutting the portion of my lawn which is 
>|> >adjacent to a lawn which he gets paid to cut and it takes about 20 minutes
>|> >off my lawn cutting time since he now does this.  I'm not offended at all.
>...stuff deleted...
>
>|> 
>|> Aha!  No wonder the excrutiatingly sensitive James got LJBF'd!
>|> Liz found a lawn-mowing SLUT!
>
>And I even get to see the sweat bead up on his bare tanned chest as I
>watch him from my bedroom window, going back and forth, not missing a single 
>blade....I forgot all about James....

See the movie _The Lawnmowerman_, now available on videotape, for information
on how to handle this situation.

>Liz Loquacious - actually Mr. Cxxxxxx (to protect the innocent) is doing
>                 this in his retirement; he's got kids my age.  I like
>                 older men but....

Frasier, a lion, was the equivalent of an 80-year-old man when he arrived
at Lion Country Safari in 1971 and the keepers, as a joke, placed him with
a pride of lionesses who had already rejected some young lions.  Someone
forgot to tell Frasier, though.  The lionesses began chewing his food for
him (he was almost toothless), and two would press against each side of his
body when he tried to take a walk.  Frasier, the Sensuous Lion, sired 35 cubs
in 16 months and was voted Father of the Year in a congressional resolution.

-- Herb Huston
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: liz@prc.unisys.com (Liz Loquacious)
Subject: Re: Boston Boink - Highlights
Followup-To: soc.singles
Keywords: Hairless Wonder, Police, Bananas
Organization: Paramax Systems
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 21:01:16 GMT

In article <14648@auspex-gw.auspex.com>, johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
|> In article <1992Sep15.162713.7107@cbfsb.cb.att.com> jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) writes:
|> |Cute blonde?
|>   
|> Anyone we would like to know, and more importantly, does she have any
|> seesters?

You'll have to ask Gal but I can't say whether or not he'll answer you!
He'll probably want to keep this info for himself.

|> |Karen Gorman??? Karen Gorman????????????
|> | 
|> Yea, that's no fair.  Why won't you talk about Karen Gorman?

Well, as Dawn alluded to by calling it the WildGooseChase Boink, Karen
was always gonna be there but managed to not show up for anything.  We're
wondering if she's an AI program or a creation of Dawn's so that Dawn
can express multiple personalities on the net.  The messages left on Bob's
answering machine were pretty convincing (and quite loquacious, if I do
say so myself :-)), but she never did appear.

Liz Loquacious
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max)
Subject: Re: Desperation (was Re: Commitment--The C-word?)
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 17:07:07 GMT

In article <1992Sep8.190517.27011@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> smith@comm.mot.com (Jeff Smith) writes:
>In article <ewillims.715969109@unix1.tcd.ie>, ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:
>|>  I have been told by a source in
>|> the advertising business that they sometimes use men's legs (shaven) for 
>|> advertising hosiery as they are generally longer! (*GRIN*)
>
Someone told me that alot of the phone in 900 number companies (you know
the ones I mean) use men cause their voices are deeper and sexier sounding
and they know more about what men want to hear. Ah well maybe its an urban
legend.

Max
From: ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: E.W. - Weddings....
Date: 11 Sep 92 10:17:57 GMT
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin

In <1992Sep10.153722.1100@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> tang@akofin.enet.dec.com (Gabe Tang) writes:


>>Gabe writes:
>>>	Hmmmm, seems like you've been hanging around the wrong type of
>>>	Irishmen. Almost all the ones I know of, just-over-on-the-boat,
>>>	and most 1st/2nd generation Americans seem to have a certain affinity
>>>	to the game. 
>> 
>>	Hey, they don't count as Irish!  Only people born and bred in
>>Ireland are considered to be Irish.  They are Americans who just happen
>>to have Irish ancestry!

>	Whaddayamean......just-over-on-the-boat doesn't count as being Irish??

		Sorry, I was referring to the 1st/2nd generation 
	Americans, not the ones who just emigrated!  Mind you, I have
	a friend who claims that even they are not Irish any more as 
	they aren't paying taxes over here to support the economy and 
	are also responsible for the brain drain. I don't agree...it's
	not their fault....it's the government's fault!


							One, who was on 
>	one of my teams, was from Dublin and I had great difficulty in
>	understanding him when he spoke quickly. :-}

	I've noticed that before with Americans. They claim that when a 
	group of Irish people are together that we speak too quickly and
	use weird slang.  Hey, we have problems understanding some of 
	your weirder accents too!:>

>>	 I think it goes hand-in-hand with being in a pub with
>>>	a pint in one hand to off-set the weight of the darts in the other
>>>	hand. :-)  
>> 
>>	Nope, the pint in one hand is offset by the weight of the pint
>>in the other hand, not by the darts! (*GRIN*)

>	Welllll, I thought of that later on. Still, over there, you can't
>	be drinking as much if they close the pubs early. In the US, things 
>	go much later into the night. Of course, the beer is lower in alcohol 
>	content, but we drink twice as much to make up for that!  8^*

	Okay, so our pubs close at midnight but the night is by no means 
	over!!  We then hit the clubs which are open till dawn and which
	have wine licences....with the added attraction of good rave music
	and dance music!:)


>>>        Hmmmmmm, on second thought, maybe the ones you've met weren't thinking
>>>	about darts when they saw you! ;^)
>> 
>>	True, very true! (*laughter*)


>	Tell you what, if you ever visit, I'll buy, I'd like to see what you
>	look like with a pint in each hand.......wouldn't be able to slap
>	my free hand....ah, er, I mean dart hand.  :-)))

	Bit difficult as I don't drink beer.....now if it was champagne,
	that'd be a different matter!:)
 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max)
Subject: Re: Where the best posts come from
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 13:40:57 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.132100.10189@cbfsb.cb.att.com> jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) writes:
>In article <1992Sep12.165716.23264@news.acns.nwu.edu> drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max) writes:
>>In article <c5mn-y#@lynx.unm.edu> hays@TECHNET.NM.ORG writes:

>>>I'll mail ya a lizard.  Green racer or horny toad?
>>>
>>
>>Well I'd opt for the green racer but my bet is that james would identify
>>more with the horny toad.
>>
>>Max
>
> Hey. HEY. Hey. In fractions.
> A guy comes over at 10:30 and informs me the ex still loves someone
>and is their a chance of getting together.
>*BANG*

What! She figures its her only way to stay out of jail?

> Susie just called to say Hi.
> BroomHilda be fine.

How about the thigh woman?

> Would that horny toad have any horny relatives?

Most likely.

> Pretty soon it will be time to honker down w someone for the winter.
>Thoughts, reflections.

Well comb up those pretty red pigtails, shine those green pumps, and get a
new pair of candystripe tights, that should improve the reflections and
maybe put some thoughts into the heads of the local pretty girls.

> ex for sale, get your ex. Here you go. That ex looks perfect on you.
> Due to missplaced parts I'm afraid I'll have to invoke our no refund
>no return policy.

Well if you find her someone make sure he's rich.
> 
>Does anyone on here know how I can get a girlfriend(tee hee).

Ah james you greedy thing. Maybe if you got down on your knees and groveled
Dawn would take you back.
From: aahz@netcom.com (Aahzmandius)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Where the best posts come from
Date: 10 Sep 92 03:14:19 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Bill 'n' Opus for Prez

In article <4157@moscom.UUCP> wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien) writes:
>Larry 'Purple' Hays (hays@TECHNET.NM.ORG) wrote:
>: 
>: I'll mail ya a lizard.  Green racer or horny toad?
>
>Good question.  Hey Trygve, got any recipe books that have Lizard Lasagna or 
>something equally possibly palettable?

For that, you'd need a purple, green, and yellow lizard.

<spelling-flame mode off>
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

IRWTFM -- and that ain't fun
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.)
Subject: Re: Tallllll women....
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 92 01:04:06 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <1992Sep4.193544.14412@odin.corp.sgi.com> lana@magenta.corp.sgi.com (Lana Mountford) writes:
>Sheesh!  Where *WERE* all you guys when I was a tall skinny high school kid
>who was *constantly* made fun of because I was so tall??  I topped 5'7" in
>6th grade, and ended up at 5'10" when I graduated (geez -- I just realized 
>I've got another HS reunion coming up pretty soon -- 25 yrs).

I was tall, then, too, for my age. But then, if you had taken a 3-year old
to the prom it probably would have turned more than a few heads :)
(talk about robbing the cradle :)
r.

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: Larry Margolis <margoli@watson.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: What knockers!  Crreak.
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 05:12:13 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  <1992Sep4.052547.12561@samba.oit.unc.edu>  Bathsheba.Grossman@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bathsheba Grossman) writes:
>
> As often as not, a guy will open the door, put his back against it, and
> look me in the eye, smirking and waiting for me to brush my tits over
> them, knowing that I have to go through the damn door. I have about a
> half-acre of personal body-space, and if I want you near me I'll let you
> know.  So it makes me want to drop everything I'm carrying and spend
> about five minutes picking it up, so he'll have time to realize what an
> obnoxious move that is.

Five minutes with a bird's-eye view, and you think this is going to
*discourage* someone like that?

Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max)
Subject: Re: Heinlein
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 16:29:39 GMT

In article <MARTINC.92Sep14220719@grover.cs.unc.edu> martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
>In article <1992Sep14.162004.24489@muppet.bt.co.uk> bart@muppet.bt.co.uk (Tim) writes:
>
>   God help us all then. All the Heinlein I ever read, apart from the
>   odd short story was like having your eyes sucked out.
>
>   Dare I say pedestrian narrative ? Soporific definitely.
>
>Dare I say "eat toad flesh and die, heretic british person"?
>
>You bet.

Now really guys, I mean I liked Heinlein when I read him in Jr High/high 
school and I remembered his books with a great deal of fondness but then
reread a couple several yrs ago and I must say I thought they were well a
bit unsophisticated in their vision of social and political life and I
would agree with pedestrian narrative as well.

Orson Scott Card beats Heinlein all to hell for interesting Sci Fi IMO.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: smith@comm.mot.com (Jeff Smith)
Subject: Re: chemistry / love at first sight : fact or fiction?
Organization: Gagging Sloth Records
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 13:06:48 GMT

In article <1992Sep7.022243.29268@peponi.wcc.govt.nz>, parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz writes:
 
|> 
|> I'm beginning to think there *is* no such thing as love at first sight.

You're right, there isn't. There's only attraction at first sight (do believe
otherwise is to say you can love someone purely on a physical basis, which I
don't believe for a minute). Love at first sight is a misnomer for instant
attraction which coincidentally happens to blossom into something more. 
My opinion, as always...

jds

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From: drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,talk.bizarre
Subject: Answering a Frequently Asked Question
Date: 9 Sep 92 10:09:09 GMT
Organization: Castle WetWare Philosopher and Sniper



In article <1992Sep5.010753.10450@sfu.ca> probst@selkirk.sfu.ca
writes:
] i'm sorry, i have to do this... i can work out most of the (tm)s, like 
] ToolOfTheDevil (tm), but what *exactly* does ProblemOlderWoman mean? i realise
] this is a devastating self-exposure of ignorance, but it's been eating away
] at me (the question, not the... oh, hell).
] 
] bombard away, it's friday and i'll be back tomorrow...
 
scott,

many persons have been, like you, concerned about 
the notion ProblemOlderWoman and the intrinsic MEANING
behind it all....

Well functionally it stems from the lack of suitable 
terms of endearment for said woman, as 'SO', albeit nearly
an anachronism of the youthful days when person were involved
and first seeing that there needed to be some 
GenderAffectionalRaceNuetralAgeFreeClassConsciousNonSocioEconomicOppressiveForwardLookingProgressiveGeoPoliticallyRelevantToken
that concisely denoted the person one was 
'hopping like the bunnies' without being
morosely Sexually Explicit, and containing the
ambience of deep Philosophical Import consistent
with the consciousness expanding understanding of 
the interdependency of all things bright and 
beautiful as Only Youth and Ignorance can understand,

just didn't cut it.

I mean, Lets Be HONEST here, She's old enough to 
be the mother of my children!

RP: Romantic Partner, or so they tell me, is also a NeoLogism
that has taken some vogue amongst those wishing to restore 
Classical Roman Imperialism and the Oppression of a 
PostModernNeoFascistMoralDegeneracy[1] Upon a Free Europe
Liberated At Sword Point By My Gallant and Noble Germanic
Ancestors from the despondency of Tyranny!!!!

But What can I say, It just doesn't seem to sit well....

So in keeping with the Ever Expanding Need for Clarity of Vision
and ForeSight, we have added unto the KorektTerms:

ProblemYoungerMan, ProblemYoungerWoman, ProblemOlderMan....

Which Still retain certain fundamental Gender/affectional Nuetrality.

It is still Possible for a Lesbian Trapped in a Man's body to
have a meaningful relationship with a woman who has latent
Gayboy in Bondage tendancy, and they need merely indicate that
one is the PY[WM] and the the other the PO[MW].

Its Progress without having to go too far.

ciao
drieux


[1] ok, the greeks can now stand up and say "AMEN!"
please sit down, the wind is blowing up your toga
and we wouls still wish to contemplate the thoughts
of Beauty....



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To Keep Good Girls From Going Bad,
Put them back in the Refrigerator.
This Also Works for Stale NFS Handles.
From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Blind dates scare me!
Date: 14 Sep 92 13:42:31 GMT
Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
In-reply-to: stef@Apple.COM's message of 14 Sep 92 08:51:07 GMT

In article <72347@apple.Apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:

   Welcome to soc.singles. We're all normal here. 

The amazing thing is that she appears to have typed this with a straight
face. 
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From: pw@panix.com (Paul Wallich)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Desperation (was Re: Commitment--The C-word?)
Date: 13 Sep 92 22:24:38 GMT
Organization: Trivializers R Us

In article <eaP2qB1w164w@depsych.Gwinnett.COM> dy@depsych.Gwinnett.COM (Dr. Yes) writes:
>aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine) writes:
>> In article <1992Sep12.123111.948@access.digex.com> huston@access.digex.com (H
>> >Humans, being mildly polygynous as evidenced by sexual dimorphism, are
>> >going to exhibit male competition for females.  This does not have to
>> >mean that males will fight.  Competition can take the form of elaborate
>> >displays to attract the interest of females.  This is what keeps Porsche
>> >dealers in business.
>> 
>> Hmmmm.....what about the females who buy Porsches?
>
>Alfred Adler called it "the Masculine Protest."  They want some of
>the perks males have, which is one of the motivations for the
>women's movement.

Are you sure it isn't "piston envy," and having despaired of
finding a man who will give them them rpm's they want, they
decide to acquire same themselves? (Eventually this interpretation
requires reconceptualizing an infant as a substitute car; I leave
that as an exercise for the reader.)

paul
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: rickk@netmbx.netmbx.de (Rick Kuhlbars)
Subject: Re: What knockers! Crreak.
Organization: netmbx, Berlin, Germany
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 13:44:54 GMT

In article <29124@hydra.Helsinki.FI> taina@cs.Helsinki.FI (Juha Taina) writes:
>In <18kf7uINNpap@agate.berkeley.edu> jbecker@ocf.berkeley.edu (Jane Becker) writes:
>I can see why some guys occasionally do that accidental elbow contact. 
>First, they must get something out of it, which might indicate that they
>don't have a satisfactory sex life.  Second, they don't realize or don't
>care that the collision might be painful or at lest irritating.  I
>wonder how many guys would enjoy elbow collisions to his balls. 
>Probably not too many. 
>
I'm starting to feel this discussion is getting quite overrated.  I
personally can see this type of behaviour happening.  But is it 
something that happens really a lot?  

If you really want to touch a womans breast try:

"Hi! You're interesting.  How about a cup of coffee!"

You're success rate might drop drastically but at least you have a 
real shot at it and perhaps the woman you meet is nice as well. 

>An elbow-breast collision is quite safe for the guy.  He can always
>claim that it was an accident.  It's pretty hard to claim that a real
>squeeze was an accident.  So, he will get away from sexual harassment. 
>Still it doesn't change the fact that such behaviour is harassing.

Good point.  Can't really think of anything you can do to prevent
guys from doing this, but I'll promise you this: Next time I'm in
Finnland I'll make an extra effort not to bump into anyone and look
straight ahead.

BTW, for someone that doesn;t like to be harrassed it was pretty
gutsy putting your phone# in your sig.

Cheers,
der ricker
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