HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: tedwards@src.umd.edu (Thomas Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: chemistry / love at first sight : fact or fiction?
Organization: Systems Research Center, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 10:21:34 GMT

In article <ewillims.715512049@unix1.tcd.ie> ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:
>In <1992Sep2.182348.14407@CERIS.Purdue.EDU> dheisler@CERIS.Purdue.EDU (Dave Heisler) writes:
>>     so i have  a question to all those who have had/has SO's.
>>     Was there a "chemistry" when you first met? 

I've never had love or chemistry at first sight, since looks are
low on my scale of things I fall in love with.

I have had chemistry at first sight, but never mutual!  I've had a
woman who I met at a scifi/fantasy con room while she was flirting
with about 5 guys at the same time, and I said hi to her from across
the room.  Later that con, she pseduo-arranged to get a ride home w.
me, and after a bit of cajoling I decided to, and discovered
during the car ride she was the kind of person I was looking for.
After that we lasted 2.5 years...

Then I met someone at a dance.  She was your typical shy girl with
glasses, not dancing, but sitting down on a chair reading the local
paper.  I saw her, and tried to get her to talk to me.  She didn't like
the idea of me trying to get her to dance, and rebuked me.  But I
prevailed.  Eventually she mentioned a Rennaisance Festival, and I
mentioned I was into medieval fighting groups.  Then she said
"Oh, so you're a real person," and we dissapeared up into her room...
that lasted one year.

-Thomas
 resident technoshaman


Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: wtr@mitre.org (Bill Ralston)
Subject: Re: Tallllll women....
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 23:22:59 GMT

in article <1992Sep15.161057.3422@das.harvard.edu> gal@das.harvard.edu 
writes:
]
]In article <1992Sep14.183709.28194@cs.yale.edu> 
loosemore-sandra@CS.YALE.EDU ](Sandra Loosemore) writes:
]>wtr@mitre.org (Bill Ralston) writes:
]>
]>   Liz, you terrible tease, luring us drooling nerds to the Boink and 
then 
]>   wearning pants all weekend!  :)
]>
]>Hey, speak for yourself, Bill!  I may be a nerd but I don't drool. :-)
]>(Or at least not over Liz's legs....)
]
]Uh-oh. Bill, whose legs do you think she was drooling over?

(1) OK, OK that should have been "drooling nerd" - I (always) speak only 
for myself.
(2) For the record, the only things I saw drooled upon were the alligator 
and the bananas.


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wtr@mitre.org
** Opinions are mine only, and not my employer's **
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Can we can the suck-up bit?
Date: 10 Sep 92 18:33:39 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <18maakINN15e@peponi.wcc.govt.nz> parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>In article <72206@apple.Apple.COM>, stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
>
>>Using a friend's classification of mammary size (tits, breasts, boobs, 
>>and gazongas), mine are breasts. 
>>
>That's all very well, but the word "gazongas" I don't find particularly
>complimentary.

Aw reet.  Tits. Two of my favorite subjects.  Just curious, where do 
hooters fit in?

>And for all the discussion (drooling) over breast size, I find that although I
>get a lot of comments (mostly silly words like "gazongas") most guys I've
>heard talking and talked to don't like huge breasts (in NZ, anyway).  They seem
>to have no use other than novelty value.

Those NZ boys have no imagination.

Ironically, last night on the show the Rosanne Barr is on they had an 
episode where Rosanne went in the hospital for a breast reduction.  Before
the operation a few of her friends were in the hospital room reminiscing
about tits and they mentioned just about every euphamism that I've heard.
The pointed out that "fruit" was often used to describe a womans breasts.
Melons, cassabas, pinapples.  Not to mention, a nice pair.


-- 
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| 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: hays@TECHNET.NM.ORG (Larry 'Purple' Hays)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: BOINK! BalloonBoink, Coming soon!
Date: 8 Sep 92 18:47:45 GMT
Reply-To: hays@TECHNET.NM.ORG
Organization: New Mexico Technet   Albuquerque, NM

In article <72060@apple.Apple.COM>, stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
>hays@TECHNET.NM.ORG (Larry 'Purple' Hays) writes:
>
>>In article <=jlnjqa@lynx.unm.edu>, blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
>>>
>>>This is an official announcement of the upcoming Net Event, the BalloonBoink!
>
>>Joe Bob says check it out.
>
>How many breasts?

I'm bringing both of my own personal ones and all the loose spares I can get
my hands on...

>How many dead bodies?

I'm bringing both of my own personal ones and all the loose spares I....  uhhh,
never mind.  Ignore that.  Thanks.

>Will there be CartoonCharacterBalloon Fu?

Yes, YES YES!!  Oh *GOD* **YES**!!  (what is CartoonCharacterBalloon Fu,
grasshoper?  Does it have buddha-nature?)

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

   "SShhhhhhhhh.  Be vewy vewy quiet.  I'm hunting wabbits."  - E. Fudd
From: rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu (Michael Rawdon)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Las Vegas Revisited
Keywords: Ick, yuk, ptooie
Date: 14 Sep 92 15:30:38 GMT
Reply-To: rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Dept., Madison, WI

In <1992Sep14.025757.18261@bmerh85.bnr.ca> myhui@bnr.ca (Michael Hui) writes:
>In article <1992Sep14.014721.22606@dgbt.doc.ca> michele@dgbt.doc.ca (Michele Guillet) writes:
>>In article <1992Sep13.095109.10266@walter.cray.com> cfg@cray.com (Cindy Glass) writes:
>>>Yes - "RANDY - Randy" has struck again - complete with details
>>>of his relationship with his SO - problems of her divorce and 
>>>a GIF!
>>>Again - parts of it were a form letter - 'what a guy'!
>>Glad to know I am not the only one.

>Is this the latest trend? Send a GIF of yourself along with your
>proposition to be someone's new penpal? What's next? Use the nation's
>scarce network resources to run dating agencies, complete with MPEG
>movies?

I haven't seen any movies yet, but the dating services already exist.

By the way, if the net can support alt.sex, talk.bizarre *and*
rec.arts.startrek and still leave enough bandwidth to play netrek where
crippling packet delays are the exception rather than the rule, the network
resources can't be *that* scarce. :-)

-- 
Michael Rawdon				 rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu
University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Department, Madison, WI

No optimistic outlook survives contact with the human race.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: smith@comm.mot.com (Jeff Smith)
Subject: Re: Believe in youself, dammit!
Organization: Gagging Sloth Records
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 20:42:54 GMT

In article <1992Sep13.213227.1867@samba.oit.unc.edu>, Bathsheba.Grossman@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bathsheba Grossman) writes:

|> >>and brush them off.  I won't put any *real* feelings into this until I
|> >>sense something like that from the person I'm dealing with.  But I'll
|> >>learn how to fake it (if necessary), so I can entice her into developing
|> >>such feelings, so I can bootstrap the whole process without risking my
|> 
|> Oh, Kevin, this is a disgraceful thing to say.  This attitude is totally
|> subversive to any kind of affection or trust.  What makes you think you
|> deserve something you're not willing to give?  Mark my words - for
|> anything worth having, you'll pay, and pay, like we all do.  Yes, you're
|> one of us, will or nill.  But unless and until you lose this "faking it"
|> business, you'll attract no one but a few idiots, and get no good even of
|> them.

I think this is probably the wisest thing I've heard all day. Congratulations.

jds

PS: Stop right there with the suck-up comments, net.people...I just don't care...

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From: wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: General topic to break the monotony
Date: 12 Sep 92 04:44:43 GMT
Reply-To: wjb@moscom.com
Distribution: na
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

james.j.dutton (jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com) wrote:
: Now keep in mind I'm only repearting hearsay. I watch lots and lots of
: news. The news is my life. I wanna be a news cameraman when I grow
: up and I just realized it.

Who wants to grow up?  Certainly not I.  Then I'd have to go read more serious
newsgroups, like talk.bizarre.

Bill
-- 
"Bless me, Father; I ate a lizard."
"Was it an abstinence day, and was it artificially prepared?"
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Bill de Beaubien / wjb@moscom.com 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tang@akofin.enet.dec.com (Gabe Tang)
Subject: Re: Where the best posts come from
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Distribution: na
Date:  8 SEP 92 16:47:38 EST


re: (Ron Wessels) 
>jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) writes:
>> Sorry I was up most of the night during a thunder storm because
>>my 2 year old insisted a tomato was going to get her.
> 
>Isn't it "tomatoe"?  :-)
> 
>Ahhh, what I'd give to be attacked by a tomato, tart, pair of melons,
>and/or various other food groups.

	Yes, but how about those other items such as pickles, cukes and
	Italian eggplants? Now, them's the kind of food stuffs that I'd
	stay away from. :-}  and don't forget about them prickly pears!!!! ;p
		

	

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: c71@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (David Nordfors)
Subject: Sex & Moose & Wolf (was Re: Desperation 
Reply-To: c71@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 10:41:00 GMT

kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
>You don't know bad breath until you've been kissed by an honest carnivore.
 >In Finland, they make pizza with reindeer and cloudberries.
 
That's a good idea! Too bad about the wolves' breathes, though. I'll try to avoid them on the dance floor. Back to pheromones: Do youbelieve that humans are turned on by pheromones, or have we developed so far in our civilisation that social factors ( like if you look like a photo-model, or if you are a rock-star) totally dominate? The question is, of course, not completely black-or-white. Animals get turned on by visual stimulation, too. 

David


Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: misrael@csi.uottawa.ca (Mark Israel)
Subject: Re: "want" vs "need"
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Ottawa
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 03:40:08 GMT

In article <5145@news.duke.edu>, diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams) writes:

> I don't think "I need an SO in order to be happy" means "I need an
> SO to experience any happiness at all", which is how you are 
> interpreting it.  If I'd just found a cure for cancer, I'd be happy, 
> but I'd be *happier* if I had a family to tell about it when I got 
> home.

   Suppose you had a *choice* between finding a cure for cancer and 
having a family.  Which would you choose?  If you knew for sure that you
*could* find a cure for cancer, wouldn't choosing not to find it make 
you unhappy?

> A group marriage or whatever would be okay too- I just think it's less
> likely.

   I think *likelihood* is the key here.  It's *not likely* that I'd
find a cure for cancer.  It's *more likely* that I'll find an SO.
That's why I'm planning to devote time to the latter -- even though
I regard the former as more desirable.

> For me, the most *desirable* MOTASs would be ones that I loved.

   Suppose you were omniscient or something, and you *knew* that the
MOTAS you didn't love were not inferior to the MOTAS you loved.
Wouldn't that make you feel a *little* bit silly?

> I suppose that I wouldn't have to limit that to ONE significant person
> (Howard Family-type group marriages would qualify, in my book).

   Pardon my ignorance; who are the Howard Family?

> Sex for sex's sake is okay as far as it goes (as someone wise once 
> said, bad sex is still a lot better than lots of other things :-))

   Only because if it's *really* bad, you don't call it "sex".
	
> but ultimately that's not what I'm looking for.

   Same here!

misrael@csi.uottawa.ca			Mark Israel
Sunbeams brightly play, where Fancy's fair pavilion once is pight.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: SHOULD I CALL MY EX-GIRLFRIEND?
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 23:03:59 GMT

In article <6251@gemini.cs.nps.navy.mil> haight@cs.nps.navy.mil (timothy haight) writes:
>Don't call your ex.  It's very hard for lovers to return to just being
>friends.  You must realize that even though you may have accepted the
>change, perhaps they haven't.  Contact can be very painful -- for both
>of you.
>
>It's best to just get on with your life.

Dunno 'bout that--actually, I've almost always gone practically immediately
from lovers back to friends when the change happens and it seems to be
relatively easy for all concerned.  (Indeed, many of my close friends are
past lovers--it gives us an added dimesion of shared experience and
intimacy beyond what comes from always being just friends with someone.)

The qualities I desire in a lover are also qualities I desire in a friend
and not generally ones I'm in any hurry to get rid of just because the
nature of the relationship has shifted.

Trygve
From: liz@prc.unisys.com (Liz Loquacious)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: "try becoming obsessed with..."
Date: 15 Sep 92 17:28:02 GMT
Followup-To: soc.singles
Organization: Paramax Systems

In article <4!ynrc=@lynx.unm.edu>, blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
|> 
	..Ron writes about dancing and little spin move thingies.

He's tall AND he dances...you're killing me Ron!  ;-)

And Mark, if you want to dance and find ballroom dancing that tough you
really should try contra dancing.  I've heard it said that if you can walk
you can contra dance.  You can get fancier with it as time goes on and you're
more comfortable with it but you get to meet people right away!

Liz Loquacious
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: shear@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeff Shear 3769)
Subject: SHOULD I CALL MY EX-GIRLFRIEND?
Organization: NCR (Torrey Pines Development Center)
Disclaimer: This posting does not neccessarily reflect the opinions of NCR.
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 17:57:16 GMT


I broke up with my girlfriend about 2 months ago. Since
then I haven't spoken to her.  I would like to call her
just to say hi and see how she's doing--sort of to salvage
a friendship out of a 6 month relationship.  It just seems
so stupid that two people spend so much time together and
then all of the sudden they never talk to one another again.
She hasn't called me and I haven't called her.  Any advice
out there would be greatly appreciated. I suppose that I 
haven't called her because I'm afraid to find out how she
might react to my call.

Thanks,

Jeff



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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: smith@comm.mot.com (Jeff Smith)
Subject: Re: Desperation (was Re: Commitment--The C-word?)
Organization: Gagging Sloth Records
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 20:29:53 GMT

In article <1992Sep12.170707.23454@news.acns.nwu.edu>, drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max) writes:

|> 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.

I heard that too. In fact, one of those bogus "news" shows (A Current Affair
maybe?) had a special on this guy who was supposedly really popular as a
pretend-female phone sex dude (what exactly *do* you put down as a job title
anyway?!). They played tapes that sounded female, but whenever they showed
him speaking in his pretend voice, it just sounded like a man speaking in
a falsetto...I wasn't impressed.

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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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: probst@selkirk.sfu.ca (Scott Probst)
Subject: Re: chemistry / love at first sight : fact or
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 19:36:22 GMT

In article <1992Sep7.023607.29548@peponi.wcc.govt.nz> parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>In article <1992Sep3.121751.5335@exu.ericsson.se>, exujbl@exu.ericsson.se (Jerry Blackerby 214-907-7810) writes:
>>
>>I met my wife on March 20, 1955.  We started dating one week later.  We
>>were engaged two weeks after that.  We married on July 8, 1955 and celebrated
>>our 37th anniversary this year.
>>
>>It can happen!
>
>Congratulations!  
>
>There is hope for us hopeless romantics who fondly hope
>that love will last.
>
well, having had experience with the instant zap of LAFS, but more recently
with the slow burn of getting to know someone more slowly but with a
quite profound result, it seems to me that the really important thing is
how things work out after the ZAP!, or the build-up, or whatever. i mean,
you can't go around being fixated on some formula of how things are supposed
to work...

can you?

scott -                      why doesn't hunter thompson run for president?
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: ecsd@tfs.com (Eric C. S. Dynamic)
Subject: Re: What knockers!  Crreak.
Organization: TFS
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 12:55:52 GMT

parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
>>stand in the doorway she *will* brush her tits on me as she passes through.
>
>Help me out here, guys (and girls).
>
>I've had guys stick their elbows out purposely to brush my tits as I walk past. 
>How can they possibly get off on elbow contact?  The last I heard the elbow was
>not an erogenous zone and it's rather painful to collide with one with your
>spongy bits!
>
>
>
>Rachel

It might be rude, but it works this way: lateralized males excel at forming
mental models about spatial (volumetric) objects. The breasts brush the
elbow, feeding kinesthetic information (softness, how they move or yield,
maybe warmth!, etc.) in for processing into an image of what it would feel
like to touch them, with a live volumetric model of them, whee!
"Just like the real thing."

Now, anal sex by telephone, can you explain THAT to me?
-ecsd
Xref: sparky soc.singles:24688 alt.sex.bondage:17090
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.sex.bondage
Subject: Re: Rocker, Tell that to My ProblemOlderWoman
Date: 8 Sep 92 18:25:54 GMT
Followup-To: soc.singles
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <thurlow.715661671@convex.convex.com> thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:
|In <1992Sep3.114803.11231@uwm.edu> markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:
|
|>Orgasm probably can't be forced, but ejaculation certainly can.
|
|Actually, that reminds me of the article in misc.handicap the other
|day about electroejaculation.  A fellow was describing how the little
|electrodes were taped to the penis with things that looked like
|Band-Aids, and how the current could stimulate the organ to have the
|desired effect.

I won't tell the whole story but there was a guy near here that had an
electrofetish.  He had this device with a battery and a transformer (one
of them fancy new mareetall devicees I suspect).  In an attempt to improve
the ambience I suppose he climbed up on a high voltage tower and proceeded
to engage in an an autoelectric encounter with himself.  During the "moment"
he lost his balance and fell across two 35KV power lines.  I guess he died
happy.
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| 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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Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: What knockers!  Crreak.
From: parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 03:00:56 GMT
Reply-To: parks_typ@med.wcc.govt.nz
Organization: Wellington City Council, Wgtn, NZ

In article <1992Sep4.210538.234689@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>, jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH) writes:
>Bathsheba.Grossman@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bathsheba Grossman) writes:
>
>>Here's my 2c on the door question - it's time we heard from what is
>>usually referred to as the rabid-feminist perspective.
>
>[Example of Patronizing Door Procedure deleted]
>
>>Just flip the door back and let me catch it, like you'd do for anyone who
>>was a person instead of a woman.  And apply the principle broadly.
>
>I'm going to start slamming them in front of everyone now; it's less subject
>to multiple interpretations. After all, I AM from New York.

OK, ok. ...  I can't resist adding my 2 cents worth ...


I certainly don't find normal door opening insulting.  I would find the
tit-brushing door opening insulting and may well stand on the offender's foot
extremely heavily on the way past.

Personally, I get quite pissed off when people won't make some attempt at
holding the door open for me:  I do that for anybody else.    Most people are
ok - they'll hold the door long enough for me to grab it, which is all I ask. 
People who just let it swing shut on my toes tend to get a sarcastic comment.


- R
From: arcane@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (Kendrick Davis)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: 'scuse me while I kiss this guy !!!
Date: 10 Sep 92 21:58:44 GMT
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida


 
 

 Just thought it would break the monotony of Re: 's!!!


   "take me down to the Paradise City,

             where the grass is green and the boys are pretty"


  etc..

                           -< ARCANE >-