HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: labson@borneo.corp.sgi.com (Joel Labson)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,soc.penpals,alt.romance,alt.romance.chat
Subject: Re: SM ISO MAIL
Date: 21 Jan 93 17:40:36 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.


|> 
|>    i am a single asian indian male, 25, who is seeking a lady,
|> preferably
|>    asian indian,  between the ages of 18-30 for some good, clean fun.
|> i am in
|>    San antonio, TX, and am quite lonely as i do not know many people
|> over here.
|>      if anyone out there meets these qualifications, please reply. 
|> lets have
|>    some fun!!  life is too short to be alone.
|> 
|>    i would appreciate some email from anyone who is interested.
|> 
|> They _still_ don't get it.
|> 
|> Doesn't anyone actually read this group (soc.singles) before posting
|> here?
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> Spidey!!!
|> 
|

************************************************************************
*******

MAYBE THIS PEOPLE REALLY ARE ** NOT ** SINGLES !!!!!!!!!
Xref: sparky soc.singles:37712 alt.sex:43024
From: drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.sex
Subject: FeMale TransVestitieISM
Date: 24 Jan 93 07:21:27 GMT
Organization: Castle WetWare Philosopher and Sniper

stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
] drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:
] 
] >p1: the more interesting question is why is it that
] >when women cross dress no one even pauses to think about it
] >at all anymore?
] 
] Speak for yourself. I certainly notice it. The thing is, wearing jeans and
] a t-shirt is not cross dressing. Don't most male cross-dressers wear 
] symbolically feminine clothes? Likewise, I don't consider a woman to be 
] cross-dressed unless she's decked out in symbolically masculine clothes 
] like a pin-stripe suit, wingtips, and fedora. 

DING!

Thank you for Playing....

If You will Go Back to the Time BEFORE the
ModernSeXularHumanistScum Corrupted the
Moral Fiber and Fighting Will of this Great NATION
with floridating the Water, and Other Efforts to
Foul Our Precious Bodily Fluids, you would NOTICE
that 'T-shirts and Jeans' were ONCE traditionally MALE Attire....

Just Because SOME FEMALES get a Sexual Thrill out
of Dressing up Like James Dean! Does NOT mean that
they are Sexually NORMAL!!!!!

{Yes, AHHZ, I can understand that as a Toady of
the Decadent Roman Imperialist Kultural Oppression
you would OPT for their Degenerate Opinion that
pants were 'feminine' but that MERELY goes to
SHOW how DEPRAVED THEY WERE!!!!!! Read Your Bible BOY!}


ciao
drieux

ps: there was also article in Komsomolya about
how Blue Jeans and Rock -n- Roll were Part of
Kapitalist International Zionist Plot to Undermine
Moral Fiber and Fighting Will Of Young Soviets....


-- 
MajorModernDayProblems: 

sometimes, a thing will happen after another thing, 
and they may not be connected..... 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: gdb15@grebe.cl.cam.ac.uk (Guy Barry)
Subject: Re: SM ISO MAIL
Reply-To: gdb15@cl.cam.ac.uk
Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 16:52:56 GMT

In article <thurlow.727887882@convex.convex.com> thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:
>
>Dreas, I itch whenever I see stuff based on racial stereotypes.
>Certainly people laugh, I do at some of the milder forms too, but
>that one was well over my line.  You have not gone that far before
>that *I've* read.

I also thought Dreas's posting was in rather poor taste.
Unfortunately, I can't help giggling every time I think of it.  What
an un-PC sense of humour I must have.

--
Guy Barry, University of Cambridge | Phone: +44 (0)223 334757 
Computer Laboratory                | Fax: +44 (0)223 334678
New Museums Site, Pembroke Street  | JANET: Guy.Barry@uk.ac.cam.cl 
Cambridge CB2 3QG, England, UK     | Internet: Guy.Barry@cl.cam.ac.uk
From: brent.mason@uuworld.via.mind.ORG (Brent Mason) 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Breaking up is hard t
Date: 23 Jan 93 19:58:00 GMT
Reply-To: brent.mason@uuworld.via.mind.ORG (Brent Mason) 
Distribution: world
Organization: Micro Exchange - Kenwood, CA - 707-833-4032

TL> From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
  > Subject: Re: Breaking up is hard to do....
  > Message-ID: <1993Jan19.223308.9869@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
  > Right now the only female virgin I know just turned fifteen (and, well,
  > terribly ageist as this might sound, I would feel uncomfortable doing
  > anything more intimate than buying a milkshake for someone that age).

       Good for you!!!!  A little respect can go a long way in todays
world, there never seems to be enough of it to go around.

       Brent Mason
---
 . BABBLE v1.0 . I'm sure it's clearly explained in the Zmodem DOC's
 . KMail 2.94  Micro Exchange
             
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
Subject: Re: Credibility...
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 05:45:45 GMT
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In <MARTINC.93Jan23124248@grover.cs.unc.edu> martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:

>Being "single" I presume implies "not in a monogamous relationship" 

Can't count very well, can you Charlie?

Single means "one."

Not single means "more than one."


Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Ed Bites me.
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:45:05 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.202114.1328@netcom.com> barry@netcom.com (Kenn Barry) writes:
>In article <ewright.727981082@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
>>In <1993Jan25.051224.25468@netcom.com> barry@netcom.com (Kenn Barry) writes:
>>>	Seems Charlie owes me a sheepskin. Ed, here's your clue: 4 dates
>>>does not constitute a relationship, 
>>
>>The dictionary defines relationship as follows: a romantic or 
>>passionate attachment.  No mention of time.
>
>	So go beat off with a dictionary. Any normal human being could
>probably figure out for himself that there's a qualitative difference
>between going out with someone 4 times, and having a major involvement.
>And if he couldn't, having that fact confirmed for him by more
>experienced parties should do the trick.
>
>>You shouldn't try using big words like that unless you know
>>what they mean.
>
>	Ed, go fuck yourself; no one else will.
>
>						Kayembee

Hi Kayembee.

 
================================================================================
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 Sesquipedalian's 'R' Us. ZX-10. AMA#669373 DoD#564. There ain't no more.
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (Die Fledermaus)
Subject: Re: what is attractive ?
Reply-To: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 00:31:22 GMT

In article ME7@portal.hq.videocart.com, dfuller@portal.hq.videocart.com (Dave Fuller) writes:
>
>  I have a question that i have never been able to get an answer for.
>
>  Does anybody know why they are attracted to certain people ? This includes
>only physical features: gender, eyes, body, hair, etc. etc.

I see it as combination of all of the above AND attitude.

>  I still don't know why certain women are attractive to me. Sure, i can
>say WHAT it is, but why is it those things ? Other people don't find
>the same people attractive in the same way.

The old eye of the beholder argument. See above.

>  How much of what we find attractive is conditioned ?

I don't know. I guess it depends on how much TV you watch.

>  I've heard the phrase "Gays make the choice". I think not. 

There is no such thing as a "gay." Some people have impulses that
are stronger in one direction than in another. People choose to act
on one set of impulses or another, or none.

They either lie to themselves by choosing against their stronger impulses
or are true to themselves and choose against the weaker ones...

>  Does anybody think they can actually say 
>"I know why I find x and y to be attractive" ??

See my answer to the first part of your question.

dreas


Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: wtr@mitre.org (Bill Ralston)
Subject: Re: Valentine's Day Personal Ad
Followup-To: soc.singles
Organization: MITRE
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:40:05 GMT

In article <106459@netnews.upenn.edu>, crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren
L. Crawford) wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi.  I'm not too young, not too old, with long blond hair.  Unless you
> prefer dark brown hair, in which case it's dark brown......

 [lot's deleted]...

> You are male, and you have a pulse.
> 

Hi Luaren.  I trie to sent you e-mail, but it bounced and I couldnt figure
out how to work the intranet addressing (although since I have no life I've
written a program (in basic, of course) to scan all net news postings for
keywords like blond, naked, free, etc.), so insteads I'm post a reply here
since I sure the hole world wants to read it anyways and I think we must be
realy computable because I just like to be myself and really enjoy the same
stuff you do and it sounds like we could really hit it off, so just email
that you love me too and I'll hop on the train and be right there after I
finish crossposting my valentines poem to all the soc.groops.

*hug*
Bill


P.S. I have a pulse, but no heart.

* If my employer knew what I was posting, I'd probably be unemployed *
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: phantasm@iastate.edu ()
Subject: Re: Midwestern SWM ISO Upbeat SWF
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:32:34 GMT

barry@netcom.com (Kenn Barry) flames a personal in the wrong newsgroup:

>>> This group ain't for personals; what you've just done is equivalent to 
>>> standing on the lettuce cooler in a supermarket and yelling,
>>> "anybody wanna go out with me?"

I reply:

>> Do you know this from personal experience?

ra@asuvax.eas.asu.edu (Starcap'n Ra) writes:

>      That's twice now, phantasm, that in this
> forum you've come up with the incredibly lame
> rhetorical pseudo-device of suggesting that
> someone must have done something himself or
> herself in order to have knowledge about it.

I do not suggest that someone must have done something for themselves to
have knowledge about it... While you may have been dropped on your head as
a child while I was not does not imply that you know more about it than I
do...

>      I'm wondering, are you really stupid
> enough to think it's a legitimate argument,

I do not suggest what you claim, and therefore do not claim it as an argument
at all...

> or do you hold the members of this newsgroup
> in such little regard that you actually
> believe you can sell them with such nonsense?

I hold only a few members of this newsgroup in low regard...

>      Or perhaps now that Pee Wee "I know you are
> but what am I" Herman is no longer on the air
> you are vying to fill the void.

Never... While I may have my suspicions, I am not certain what you are...

>>> Only _this_ supermarket has about 80,000 people in it. Nice work, sport.
>>> Hope you keep your brains in a safe place when you don't have 'em with you.
 
>> Perhaps among those 80,000 people, one or two will not share your views...

>      Two?  Who's the other clueless one,
> besides yourself?

While I may have my suspicions about who the clueless people on the net are,
I do not volunteer their names... I will leave that up to them...

>> I hope he keeps his brains safe as well... I would guess you [Kenn]
>> are prowling to find some...

>      Well you'd guess wrong, phantasm, but
> that comes as no surprise with your record
> so far.

I am glad to hear I am wrong about Kenn... Fortunately I have friends like
you to correct me if I overstep my bounds...

May Fortune smile on you all...

phantasm
From: sgokhale@lonestar.utsa.edu (Shashank S. Gokhale)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: SM ISO MAIL
Date: 24 Jan 93 19:12:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: ringer.1993Jan24.191234.28053
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

In article <16585@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
>First of all, I don't condone posting personal ads in soc.singles.  That
>said:
>
>In article <1993Jan22.040131.21412@sol.UVic.CA> atovorni@engr.UVic.CA writes:
>>In article 10561@ringer.cs.utsa.edu, sgokhale@lonestar.utsa.edu (Shashank S. Gokhale) writes:
>|
>|>hey you yes you. why do you make fun of people like this?
>|
>|I will attempt to answer your question because you are the only one in
>|history to reply to one of these very volatile flames. Man, do you have
>|guts!
>
>Volitile flames?  Hardly. I'll elaborate in a minute.
>
>|Essentially, soc.singles is a discussion group where regulars go around
>|exchanging ideas about any topic that comes to mind. I would have blasted you
>|no matter what you wrote because what you wrote was a PERSONAL AD!!!!
>|
>|I am giving you a clue: soc.singles regulars like myself get extremely
>|PISSED OFF when they see personal ads.
>
>I'm not sure that you should be speaking for soc.singles regulars when you
>make the claim that they get extremely PISSED OFF by the mere appearance
>of a personal ad in soc.singles.  I seriously doubt that a whole lot of
>people were even mildly annoyed by his ad.
>
thanks for supporting me on this john. i psted the same thing earlier but i
didnt include enough of your posting. but thanks dude!!
Newsgroups: soc.singles,soc.penpals,alt.romance,alt.romance.chat
From: nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci)
Subject: Re: SM ISO MAIL
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:28:20 GMT

In article <C19GCo.DE7@cen.ex.ac.uk> st92rcn@cen.ex.ac.uk writes:
>My name is rachel and I want your body

Hi Rachel.  My name is Nancy, and if you want a body like mine that bad
I suggest you climb some stairs, do some bike-riding, and use those cross-
country skis for something other than supporting your food cache.

Unless you already do that stuff.  Then it's the luck of the draw.

-Nance 


(of COURSE I'm smiling.)  :-)
-- 
-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+
Nance Colucci                                      att!ihlpl!colucci
"My employer loves me."
-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+-+*+
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux)
Subject: Re: Most Pressing Social concern
Organization: Castle WetWare Philosopher and Sniper
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 05:07:21 GMT

barry@netcom.com (Kenn Barry) writes:
] In article <1993Jan19.233424.17088@wetware.com> drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:
] >Ok Komrade Berry, We all want to KNOW,
] >Who was that Mysterious 'Ms Money Penny'
] 
] 	So, that's what clued you in! Not the thin cover story, not the
] pocket pager that played "Hail to the Chief", not the microphone in the
] corsage, but the _name_. We'll have to see about that.

So In SPITE of everything I have told you
about being involved with the InTelCommunity,
you have gone off and become the BoyToy of
some HideousHeinousHeroine of some Dime Store Spy Novel!!!!

] 	Not me, guy. I sold out. Every Man hath his Price, and the
] Konspiracy bought me long ago. Cheap. For a Penny, one might say :-).

Honey, We Knew You Were a CheapHussySlut,
we just didn't Know HOW CHEAP!


ciao
drieux


-- 
MajorModernDayProblems: 

sometimes, a thing will happen after another thing, 
and they may not be connected..... 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Operation Valentine's Day !!!
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 08:16:20 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.152226.1@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz> quirke_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>] ag936@yfn.ysu.edu (Lance Durden) writes:
>
>]]all: valentine's day is 3 weeks from today on sunday, february 
>]]14th. i SINCERELY desire that every lady in the world receive a 
>]]valentine from me. you may choose to assist me by posting the 
>]]enclosed valentine at sites i cannot readily access. the subject
>]]line should read "A Valentine For My Tall And Beautiful
>]]Soulmate !!!". thank you for your assistance in this ambitious
>]]endeavor. -lance-
>
>   I have this picture of him receiving 3.2 billion cards stating "thank you
>for your lovely valentine", all marked postage due...

Awwww...how sweet.  Alas, I think Lance's plan is fatally flawed and
will not achieve the distribution he desires.  Yet, all is not lost--
all we need is to edit it a little so that it'll be slightly more 
effective.  Ah, let's see....

"Eight-year-old Lance Durden is currently suffering from terminal cancer;
 before he dies, he hopes to fulfill his lifelong dream--to get into the
 Guiness Book of World Records for receiving the most cards from 
 throughout the world.  Please, make as many copies of this appeal as
 you can and distribute them to all the gullible people you know.  
 Remember, this is your chance to make a dying boy happy." 


Trygve
--
"Why I had accepted my frat brothers' dare to sign up with an
 inter-species computer dating service I'd never understand--oh, I know
 as well as anybody that the decendants of the plethora of ambitious
 genetic experiments of the past century were as intelligent as anybody
 else and sometimes surprisingly compatible with humans, but I had never
 imagined actually dating one of them--or how I came to be matched to
 something (I hesitate to call her a girl) whose grandfather had been an
 insect in a particularly zealous experimenter's garden, but after
 downing all but the cork of a rather large bottle of distilled spirits
 I hardly noticed the huge segmented eyes and extra legs and, somehow,
 we ended up in bed together that night; and, as she wrapped her
 powerful anterior arms around me and drew me to her chitinous green
 torso, one thought only kept racing through what little consciousness
 was left to me--what was it that my freshman biology teacher had said
 about the mating habits of praying mantises?"
 
(From "Dial-a-Prayer, the story of an insect call girl and what bugs her.")
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
Subject: Re: Honesty, Your word, and Trust -- a crisis?
Organization: Don't blame me, I voted for Bill 'n' Opus
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 13:28:52 GMT

In article <C1HuAw.Ko3@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
>aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine) wonders:
>>ron@turing.toronto.edu (Ron Wessels) writes:
>>>ZZ
>>>:wq
>>>^[
>
>>Wassamatta?  Get stuck in emacs by mistake?
>
>Maybe he asked Alice to post this for him.

9.1

(mothers *always* like hearing about their kids)
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

Kinky vanilla queer het
From: infante@acpub.duke.edu (Andrew  Infante)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Zen and the art of refrig upkeep (Re: Living alone)
Date: 25 Jan 93 17:55:39 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

In article <1993Jan23.011412.15583@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> mel@niblick.ecn.purdue.edu (Meloney D Cregor) writes:
>In article <1993Jan22.132003.20433@netcom.com> aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine) writes:
>
>>9.6 on the Broad-Band-Come-On scale
>
>Ahwww, come on Aahz!  I'm just getting back into flirting stride.  My 
>flirter got broken and it has just been awful getting it fixed. What with
>not being able to find a manual and then getting parts and you just can't
>imagine the difficulty trying to find someone to fix these things.  It was
>just awful, I tell you.  And I still have to work all the 'kinks' out of it.
				 	      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Do you really want to do that?  

That might take all the fun out of your new and improved 
Flirter [tm].

>
>There.  Do I get extra points for pleading?

Well, I of course cannot offer such things.

But, with your new fangled, modern, updated and revised
Flirter [tm], we are now offering for a limited time only
the brand-spanking new Kinker [tm] to put all those
kinks back into your new Flirter so that you'll not
only appeal to the new hip crowd that can interpret only
those new and improved Flirters [tm], but also drag along
all those who have been attracted to the old style and
flair.

And you thought you could get rid of them! 

later.

andy
.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
Subject: Re: Flirting How To Guide/Backrubs
Organization: Don't blame me, I voted for Bill 'n' Opus
Distribution: soc
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 15:54:01 GMT

In article <1993Jan23.003333.18031@leland.Stanford.EDU> rna@leland.Stanford.EDU (Robert Ashcroft) writes:
>
>Excellent.  Here I've been feeling inadequate, listening to Aahz and the
>others extoll the virtues of backrubs.  I've disliked them ever since I
>was a kid.  My brother loved it, but I'd just squirm out of the way.
>I don't suppose I actively dislike it anymore.  Don't understand it is more
>like it.
>
>I'd like to come out as a take-it-or-leave-it-backrub sort of guy.

Please note that in my original article, I said the following:

"Would you like your feet rubbed?"  At this point, if she's completely
uninterested, and doesn't offer any alternative, you're probably better
off finding someone else (assuming your taste in physical contact is
similar to mine).

#####

In all my searches for female companionship, I've never been interested
in provoking responses in general, only from those females that *I* have
an interest in.  In other words, I look for *filters* that I can
broadcast generally.  One good example is my perennial .sig of the past
two years, "Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6".  It rarely gets a
response from someone I'm uninterested in meeting.

It's not that all of this is calculated, mind you.  It's more that in
communicating with others, we need to constantly choose what aspects of
ours to share.  I simply make some effort to publicize those parts of me
that I think will attract those that I'm attracted to.

While I didn't get into a Relationship until fairly recently, I think
that one *solid* success and a number of good friends is a pretty good
record.
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

Red shirts finish faster.
Xref: sparky soc.singles:37416 alt.postmodern:2846
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.postmodern
Subject: Re: This is the End....
Date: 21 Jan 93 20:03:36 GMT
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.

In article <1993Jan20.221803.23468@wetware.com> drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:
>tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
>] 
>] Not yet, at least--we still have some time before civilization comes
>] down around our ears.  However, once drieuxSpeak starts showing up in
>] prime-time television commercials, I think it's time to worry.
> 
>Trygve,
>
>do political campaign adverts count?

Nope; has to be some sort of consumable item, such as breakfast cereals
or feminine hygiene products.  Or both.

Trygve   (New, improved _Shimmer_ is now a floorwax, dessert topping,
          breakfast cereal, and....)
--
How many Ministry of Truth employees does it take to change a light bulb?
None--there never *was* a light bulb.
From: dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Could be worse (was: Re: Upper Midwest
Date: 21 Jan 1993 15:17:49 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN)
NNTP-Posting-Host: spcink.bbn.com

In article <MARTINC.93Jan20235409@grover.cs.unc.edu> martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
>
>I just tend real strongly to be a top.

I knew there was a reason I liked you.

Dawn
-- 
"You have this adorable and misguided notion that death is something really
radical and cool but I still can't help being attracted to your fresh-faced
uncompromised tatoo-ed rebel stance and god damn, I'd like to help you
sing your tune."  "Folk Song..." by Bongwater
Newsgroups: soc.singles