HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: sara@castle.ed.ac.uk (Swamp Thing)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: Cool Spots for Bis (Was the War Between Us
Date: 26 Aug 92 19:47:22 GMT
Organization: News Addicts

pclary@radish.csc.calpoly.edu (Ellen Clary) writes:

>That wouldn't happen to be the one of vanilla Sara bending over a
>newsrack on the street with STella behind her with whip poised
>overhead....  Would it?  (This must be giffed! - Someone wrestle
>Sara's pictures away from her when she gets back to Edin<mutter>.)

Bah, you let the cat out of the bag; and calling me vanilla as well, hey
don't tell everybody, they might all want one.  (Sara says, hopefully)

Sara
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Newsgroups: soc.bi
From: Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (Albert Lunde)
Subject: Re: Assorted ramblings (long)
Followup-To: soc.bi
Originator: lunde@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
Reply-To: Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (Albert Lunde)
Organization: Ministry of Silly Walks
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 03:35:56 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.104116.1@oread.cc.ukans.edu> 
 matthew@oread.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>In article <1992Aug23.192833.6408@news.acns.nwu.edu>, 
 Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (Albert Lunde) writes:
>> Then too, Peg is still mostly off-line and some of the notorious flirts
>> seem to be gone for the summer. (While others -- our world travelers --
>> our busy with each other.)  I admit I haven't done my share of flirtation
>> and light fluffy conversation -- can I make it up to you all somehow ? ;)
>
>	Matt looks up, slightly startled.  But then he walks over to
>Albert's little part of the net.room and smiles.  "Why Albert, I do
>believe you can cheer me up...."
>	Albert--I trust you can figure out what happens next?
><hugs...and so much more...>

 Ooh! Young Master Chatterly, how big you've grown...
whatever will we do about it! 

(Come over here; I believe this requires a closer examination...)

;) ;)

 
Albert (all tied up in work) Lunde

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From: osmith@acorn.co.uk (Owen Smith)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: Hi again
Date: 26 Aug 92 16:28:15 GMT
Organization: Acorn Computers Ltd, Cambridge, England

In article <1992Aug25.143350.7773@visix.com> owen@visix.com (Owen Thomas)
writes:

>Hey, y'all, it's me again.  You know, the much-less-interesting
>Owen.  (Hi, Owen/Gwen; my vote's for keeping your name, but
>I'm obviously prejudiced.)  Anyway, I just couldn't avoid posting
>when there were all these articles with the subject "Owen."

Ye gods! There really are two of us! Can the world take the strain? :-)

Owen.
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From: cjohnson@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Coe Salzgeber)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: trainspotting
Date: 3 Sep 92 21:49:08 GMT
Organization: Cow Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA

Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (Albert Lunde) said...
>In article <1992Aug31.221219.22221@midway.uchicago.edu> orc@usite-next.uchicago.edu (David Parsons) writes:
>>   Obviously, I didn't leave a good enough impression when I last visited.
>>I'll have to do better ("Wild-eyed American arrested while trying to hijack
>>Beyer-Garratt from railway museum."  "Melbourne trolley taken for joyride
>>by typical citizen of surviving superpower."  "American run over my
>>Alco C636 while trying to snap pictures of mining train") next time I'm
>>on the other side of the world.
>
>"Mysterious hot tub discovered on rapid transit light rail.", "Engine
>driver discovered bound and gagged."
"...but driver claims every minute was enjoyed."
:^)
-Coe
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Newsgroups: soc.bi
From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov ( Scott Dorsey)
Subject: Re: (re) Introduction
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 14:57:47 GMT

In article <1992Sep3.201309.20595@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> crabtree@drivem.enet.dec.com (Alyson Crabtree) writes:
>
>	To make a long, painful story short, let's just say I emerged 
>	_fairly_ unscathed with DEGREE IN HAND last June (hoorah!) and 
>	have moved to Colorado to partake of the "real world" of software 
>	engineering and to have my weekends and evenings free to climb 
>	mountains, play on Usenet, and do the Timewarp once again!  :)

Welcome back to the net!  <snuggle> <murfle>
--scott
Xref: sparky soc.bi:11849 alt.polyamory:1166
From: cjohnson@zeus.calpoly.edu (Coe Salzgeber)
Newsgroups: soc.bi,alt.polyamory
Subject: Re: Bi pamphlet - enough already! 8->
Date: 3 Sep 92 23:05:27 GMT
Organization: Cow Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA

woodhous@latcs1.lat.oz.au (Joe P Woodhouse) said...
>[here's the cool bi pamphlet...]

>Q. But isn't it a transition to being lesbian or gay?
>
>A. Maybe for some people. Some lesbians or gay men "come out" as 
>Bisexual first, but many Bisexuals remain bisexual for the rest 
>of their lives.

Maybe it has to do with how much i dislike the "just a transition"
stereotype, but i would point out here also that some people come
out as gay or lesbian first, and then realize that they are still
attracted to motos, and finally settle into a bi identity.

>Q. Haven't they received a lot of publicity for spreading AIDS?
>
>A. Bisexuals have been targeted as scapegoats by people who 
>think of AIDS as being a "Gay disease". Bisexuals are thought to be 
>a "bridge" group between the heterosexual and homosexual 
>communities.
>
>Let's get things straight (forgive the pun). One thing spreads AIDS 
>- transmission of fluids. The AIDS virus neither knows nor cares 
>what your sexuality is. Safe sex will go a long way towards 
>helping stop the spread of AIDS - and it's the straight community 
>who needs to pay attention to that.

This may make some peoples' minds shut off, singling out the straight
community, when some people are convinced that the focus on AIDS belongs
in the gay community.  How about something like "All people, straight, 
gay, or bi, need to pay attention to that."?  Or "and the straight 
community needs to adopt safe-sex practices, as the gay community has"
(focusing on the fact that the gay community has already made great 
strides, and now the straight community must catch up)

>   So, did we totally botch it up then? 8->
>
>Joe (& Karina who deserves a mention too, wouldn't be a pamphlet without
>     her).

You both did a lovely job, cuties :^)

-Coe
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From: jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: Cracker crumbs and where to put them
Date: 4 Sep 92 16:06:52 GMT
Originator: jrk@sperwer.cwi.nl

In <1992Sep3.113333.49608@ccvax.ucd.ie>, pflynn@ccvax.ucd.ie (Peter Flynn, Official Muffin-sampler) writes:
>Huh? There is a medical condition (something Latin, doubtless...Kay?)
>involving tightness of the foreskin: in those cases it has to be removed
>or excruciating agony will follow when an erection occurs.

Phimosis, or paraphimosis, the difference between the two being that in
the latter case the foreskin is only just loose enough to allow being
forced back, resulting in strangulation of the glans, and great difficulty
in restoring the normal configuration.

[Insert urban legend involving prolonged paraphimosis -> loss of
circulation -> gangrene -> explosive haemorrhage.]

Er, ulp.

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From: sbit37@uxb.liv.ac.uk (Paul Gould)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: alt.lycra?
Date: 24 Aug 92 22:26:59 GMT
Organization: The University of Liverpool
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Owen Smith (osmith@acorn.co.uk) wrote:
>In article <1992Aug23.154338.27970@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> SA121@phx.cam.ac.uk
>(Arrowsmith) writes:
>
>>>In article <17972@acorn.co.uk>, osmith@acorn.co.uk (Owen Smith) writes:
>>>> Has there been anything entertaining on alt.lycra yet?
>
>>Hmmm, the finger of suspiscion appears to be pointing at UKNet
>
>The finger of suspicion ALWAYS points at UKNet. They seem to censor
>everything they think they can get away with censoring, particularly in the
>alt heirarchy. alt.polyamory isn't getting through either.

Now that's interesting. alt.polyamory is certainly at this site (I just
checked the active file), but alt.lycra isn't. this suggests that
there's another reason for alt.polyamory's absence from your site, Owen.

Paul (who is too shy to go & buy some Lycra leggings, but is still
thinking about it)
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From: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk (Clive Grace)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: Appreciate Me Now and Avoid the Rush!
Date: 23 Aug 92 10:30:00 GMT
Reply-To: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk



[Ellen writes]
>Then there's always:
>The 'someone-please-remind-me-of-what-country-I'm-in-so-I-know-what-to-
>call-that-item-across-the-room-without-folks-laughing-at-me' syndrome.

Tell me about it, I still have a really hard time when ordering vegetables
in the US, all the @*&^%#* names are different - after day one, I realised
that Zuccini was in fact Courgette (and not, as I had previously imagined,
some italian sausage), Eggplant was in fact Aubergine. 

When you came over, I also remember having a confusing ten minutes walking
round the food mall (supermarket) with Ellen trying to find the UK
equivalent of Graham Crackers.

And while we're on the subject, shall I pop over and pick up that bumper
pack of Oreos? :-) In my current state of mind all I really want to do is
sit in front of TV, with a glass of milk and make like a couch potato -
and it would be so much nicer with a box of Oreos! Calvin and Hobbes style.

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From: pflynn@ccvax.ucd.ie (Peter Flynn, Official Muffin-sampler)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: Dialects
Date: 27 Aug 92 17:04:19 GMT
Organization: University College Dublin

In article <1992Aug27.043140.11511@microsoft.com>, georgere@microsoft.com (George V. Reilly) writes:
> pflynn@ccvax.ucd.ie (Peter "Errol" Flynn, Official Muffin-sampler) writes:
> ) Ditto. It's become habitual now to slip into USA terminology and spelling
> ) when I write for North American readers (pace Canadians), but anyone brought
> ) up on British English will likely still use BE constructions as the giveaway.
> ) One reader has already mailed me with a reprimand for saying "high school" :-)
> 
> He means me.  I asked him if he was a closet Yank.  (He also
> said "Mom" in the same paragraph.)  I didn't think anyone would
> have had much of a problem understanding "senior school" or
> "secondary school" (or "Mum" or "Mam").

Yep, you dere :-)  Trouble is, neither "senior school" nor "secondary school"
are frequently used here unless in a discussion of educational method. Just 
"school", because a university or college is *not* a school here, it's a 
university or college. "Mom" happens to be more used in our family than "Mam",
"Mammy" or "Mum".
 
> which constitute the bulk of Usenet postings.  I think it's
> more interesting if people are talking and writing in
> different, mutually intelligible dialects.

Maybe we could try and confuse the Yanks, I guess.

> Sure, amn't I just trying to promote a bit of diversity.

Now that's one word you *won't* here from a BE or AE speaker.

///Peter
From: rsr@soda.berkeley.edu (Roy S. Rapoport)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: Time to start the weekend!
Date: 30 Aug 1992 03:36:46 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Aug28.192354.1@oread.cc.ukans.edu> matthew@oread.cc.ukans.edu writes:
->	Yes, I'm still in a good mood, and I have to thank everyone
->here for that--and people say flirting isn't good for you!  Well, I
->don't know about Alfred, Roy, or Steven, but I'm feeling *much*
->better....

Ha!! This is going to be *the* best weekend ... 

->	<A few people come over.  Matt smiles, opening a bottle of Dom
->Perignon and pouring it into a narrow flute.  He smiles again>  To the
->weekend--may every fantasy you have come true!  <Raises champagne

Hmm ... let's see ..

On Sunday I turn 21 ... and am planning a great dinner with my sorta-SO ... 
My emotional First ... 

And then ...

When I was considering the possibility of me not being
absolutely-entirely-straight (in other words, bi :) ), there was one person
who helped a lot ... (let me rephrase that ... * A LOT *) ... That was M.
Lloyd ... who was in England at the time.

And this weekend (maybe ... could be next week) I get to meet him ...

Life is just incredibly good.

(Mike is probably one of the three most important net.people who contributed
to the way I developed over the last three months ... And I plan to meet all
three people ... )

Oh, have I mentioned life's great?

It is, you know ...

-roy ... who's very very happy.


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              would NEVER say something like that!!" 
Newsgroups: soc.bi,alt.polyamory
From: cjmchale@dsg.cs.tcd.ie (Ciaran McHale)
Subject: Re: Bi pamphlet - enough already! 8->
Organization: DSG, Dept. of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 10:27:54 GMT

In <1992Sep2.062910.21253@latcs1.lat.oz.au>
woodhous@latcs2.lat.oz.au (Joe P Woodhouse) writes:
>>>>Q. Doesn't being interested in both genders mean they're only half 
>>>>as interested in either?
>>>>
>>>>A. Most Bisexuals will probably say that when they're interested 
>>>>in someone, they're interested in them 100%. Just like you & I.
                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[discussion about this phrase making assumptions about the sexuality of
the reader]

The phrase is another way of saying "Just like normal folk." Of course,
one shouldn't use a word like "normal" in such a context. An alternative
phrasing might be something like: "Just like most straight people."
Still, that's not perfect either. It might be possible to use a
different type of answer altogether:

	Q. Doesn't being interested in both genders mean they're only
	half as interested in either?

	A. No. Just because you are attracted to, say, both blondes and
	brunettes does not mean that you are only half as interested in
	either.

However, two problems with the above are:

	 (i) "Blondes" and "brunettes" usually refer to women. Rewording
	     into more gender-neutral language might be necessary.
	(ii) A lot of people will strongly disagree with the analogy.


Ciaran.
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Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: The ??? Between Us 
From: cjohnson@zeus.calpoly.edu (Coe Salzgeber)
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 20:44:40 GMT
Organization: Cow Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA
Keywords: *DeFlower* ME will you...

pclary@mushroom.csc.calpoly.edu (Ellen Clary) said...
>orc@usite-next.uchicago.edu (David Parsons) wrote...
>>[about getting another plane ticket to SF, in order to buy a few more
   happy minutes in the hot tub]
>
>If you haven't guessed, Orc admits to being a wee bit implusive...

Proposing marriage, flying about the country at the slightest 
provocation (should try being a planespotter) <duck>
And what was it that he bought at that record store?  Something he
admitted to really not needing, as i recall.

-Coe
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From: pflynn@ccvax.ucd.ie (Peter Flynn, Official Muffin-sampler)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: Appreciate Me Now and Avoid the Rush!
Date: 28 Aug 92 11:13:59 GMT
Organization: University College Dublin

In article <iw.714937735@tosser>, iw@tosser.Rational.COM (Iseult White) writes:
> So, Sara, when do I get my little mercy package of proper chocolate.
> 
> Although Fiona expertly sniffed out some Cadburys Flakes (made in
> Coolock, Dublin, Ireland <sniff> homesickness..) a couple of days ago,
> so I guess the need is not so urgent. 
> 
> Iseult.

You have but to say the word and more Flake will be on its way.
Mail me your snailmail address.

///Peter
From: woodhous@latcs2.lat.oz.au (Joe P Woodhouse)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: hot tubs (was Re: The War Between Us (Long))
Date: 28 Aug 92 00:09:17 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia

cjohnson@zeus.calpoly.edu (Coe Salzgeber) writes:
>pclary@mushroom.csc.calpoly.edu (Ellen Clary) said...
>>This is getting all the more interesting.  Have to think about what
>>to tie him to.  Furniture is kinda scarce around the house at this
>>moment.  We could just tie him to the deck itself....
>
>Hmmm, i was a brownie, but they didn't teach _us_ knots... maybe that's 
>why i prefer velcro :^)

   Oh my Gawd...I'm going to be *velcroed* to the hot tub deck while
Iseult molests me with the rubber foot of her crutch...

Joe.

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Newsgroups: soc.bi
From: tweaver@nyx.cs.du.edu (T.C.Weaver)
Subject: Re: Appreciate Me Now and Avoid the Rush!
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 22:37:31 GMT

sara@castle.ed.ac.uk (Swamp Thing) writes:
>pflynn@ccvax.ucd.ie (Peter Flynn) writes:
>
>>Nothing is innocuous when Tanaqui gets hold of it---I don't know anyone who
>>can cram more cynical indecency into one sentence...
>
>I agree about the former, but as to the latter, *no* - not cynical
>indecency, not at all, just perfectly and naturally indecent indecency.

My fan club and my loyal defenders rolled into one. Ta, Sara.
I still think you're all terribly cynical about me |-)

>But even Girardelli's isn't as good as English, Swiss or Scottish* chocolate.

Hmm. You have Duncan's with.. kiwi. mmmm.

>* Duncan's of Powderhall - yum!

|-)

Tanaqui

I don't get mad, I get odd
From: osmith@acorn.co.uk (Owen Smith)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Disturbed
Date: 25 Aug 92 20:17:08 GMT
Organization: Acorn Computers Ltd, Cambridge, England

Someone I know of (but never met) has recently commited suicide, and it's
had rather an unsettling affect on me. Oh I'm not suicidal myself, but I'm
disturbed to find for the first time that I understand why someone might do
that, why they just can't face whatever is getting them down any longer.
There are quite a few things getting me down at the moment, as anyone
reading this group recently will know.

Please don't flood my mail with "don't kill yourself!" type messages. I
have no intention of killing myself. It just worries me that I understand
it for the first time. In the past I've always been of the "how could
anyone do that?" school of thought.

Owen.
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Newsgroups: soc.bi
From: orc@usite-next.uchicago.edu (David Parsons)
Subject: Re: 101 ways to tackle sexual harassment?
Organization: Ministry of Skritching
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 17:26:27 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.161813.22943@rat.csc.calpoly.edu> pclary@mushroom.csc.calpoly.edu (Ellen Clary) writes:
|cjmchale@dsg.cs.tcd.ie (Ciaran McHale) wrote...
|><> My eccentricity doesn't come from my bisexuality.
|><> --- David Parsons (orc@usite-next.uchicago.edu)

|It comes from trainspotting.

   Hey, I resemble that remark!
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From: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk (Clive Grace)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: == No Subject ==
Date: 25 Aug 92 16:04:00 GMT
Reply-To: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk


[Ken N Writes]

>My Gosh!  A philosophical freak c(:  with an attitude of 
>"Life is Meaningless".
>No!! Don't jump off the building!!!!  We all love you.... 
>or at least we will pretend like we all love you  (-8 
>(hee hee hee...)

I wrote that after something painful happened to me. I 
reacted in my own way by remembering a fragment from a 
friend who died last year and shoved it in my .SIG. 

Why don't you also react to my other .SIG files? The one 
about horses? Why not make jokes about me loving horses 
more than straight people because I've been hurt so many 
times in the past by "friends" masquerading as straight 
and Bi-positive when all they are, are Straight and Bi-
phobic? Why not make jokes about people who feel trapped 
because after 8 years they see journalism as vacuous and 
inconsequential -- yet need to continue work in that 
medium because of their mortgage. Why not read a few other 
.SIG files from other netters and make jokes about the 
sexually abused, the socially disadvantaged, the lonely, 
the people dying of terminal illnesses the people who feel 
they are trapped in the wrong gender body?

Like people's opinions here, tread very *very* carefully 
when attacking or even making jokes about someone's 
beliefs *(even if it's contained in something as 
"innocuous" as a .SIG file, sometimes someone has had to 
go through a lot in order to put something in their 
postings and I *don't* accept your comments as 
constructive or valid.

Just a joke? Well, in another discussion thread, we've 
been talking about how making a joke doesn't lessen the 
crassness of a particular comment. Congratulations, you've 
just done exactly the same thing.

>NO SIG. FILE AND PROUD OF IT!

Just because you're proud of not having one, don't you 
*ever* rubbish anyone else's.

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From: Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (Albert Lunde)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: Hello everyone!
Date: 1 Sep 92 00:35:59 GMT
Reply-To: Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (Albert Lunde)
Followup-To: soc.bi
Organization: Ministry of Silly Walks
Originator: lunde@casbah.acns.nwu.edu

In article <la4siqINN8ff@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> 
 fishnets@soulsteppin.Corp.Sun.COM (Spanky) writes:
>
><big breath>
>
>Hello!
>
>After reading soc.bi for a coupla months now, I decided that it was time
>to take the plunge and de-muffin.  Everyone here seems like an extremely
>nice group of people, and I wanted to get in on all the hugs ;^) 

Welcome!

*Hug* <snuggle>

>I just recently came out to my dearest love, and boy, what a relief!
>He has been extremely supportive and understanding during this turbulent
>time in my life.  Reading your posts and other peoples' outings 
>has also made it easier for me to understand that it is O.K. to feel 
>attracted to people of all sexes and preferences, and that I'm not
>a "horrible sexual deviant", unfit for human consumption ;^)

In fact, you sound rather tasty...

;) ;)

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