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From: mcarey@eng.auburn.edu (Martin T Carey)
Newsgroups: alt.romance,alt.romance.chat
Subject: The Shadow.......
Date: 21 Aug 92 19:21:22 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Auburn University Engineering

(A deep fog settles in on a darkened city street.  Eerie music is playing in the
 background, which unsettles even the most stable of nerves.  A sinister laugh
 is heard.......)
MuaaaHaaHaaHaaHaaaaaaaaaaa......(the sound fades out)
(An announcer's voice can be heard saying...) 
WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEARTS OF MEN?
(A somewhat deep voice says sinisterly...)

THE SHADOW KNOWS...... (MARVEL Comics)

Mhuaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahhahahahaha...............*sneer* *double sneer*
*evilest of all sneers*

I've been following your group for a little while and by far the AR and ARC
 groups are two of the most interesting groups around....*grin*

I'd like to tell you a little about myself,  but first (if I may quote
 Shakespeare):
          "Here come and sit, where never serpent hisses,
	   And being set, I'll smother thee with kisses;

	  'And yet not cloy thy lips with loathed satiety,
	   But rather famish them amid their plenty,
	   Making them red and pale with fresh variety,
	   Ten kisses short as one, one long as twenty.
	   A summer's day will seem an hour but short,
	   Being wasted in such time-beguiling sport.'"

Beneath this Shadow's mask, I am but a humble graduate student trying to finish
 my research and write a Thesis...Aaaaaaaaaah...*thud* Sorry, slipped on what
 appears to be very old chocolate syrup, oreos, and *yeech* rotten strawberries.

Well anyway enough of me, except for one other small note for those of you in
AR group, in answer to the question of a favorite fantasy...

	MY favorite fantasy involves me and my RP near a small waterfall
	with a small grassy meadow and pool of water nearby....
	OF COURSE, there is very little clothing involved and there is
	lots, (and I mean a lot) of energy and desire.   

Enough for now......WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEARTS OF MEN?

			.......THE SHADOW KNOWS.......Muahaahahaha...

(The shadowy form of man disappears into the night and if you listen real close
the sound of humming can be heard......It sounds a lot like Billy Joel's 'This
is the Time')

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From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: Re: general
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 21:05:13 GMT

Sriram Sadagopan (SADAGOPAN@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu) wrote:

: ohio state univ,columbus.i'd like to know if girls

Yes.
-- 
Ed Carp, N7EKG     erc@apple.com                801/538-0177
"This is the final task I will ever give you, and it  goes  on  forever.   Act
happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love,
and do what you will."           -- Dan Millman, "Way Of The Peaceful Warrior"
From: grendel@canetoad.UUCP (Rage y Romance)
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: Re:  just another musing on LJBF....
Distribution: world
Date: 21 Aug 92 22:28:58 EDT
Organization: The Satellite of Love

In article <RFROST.92Aug22065218@spam.maths.adelaide.edu.au> rfrost@spam.adelaide.edu.au (Richard Frost) writes:
>In article <(funny squiglies)> ae498@yfn.ysu.edu (Dawn Bott) writes:
>
>>   Found this quote in  _A Curmudgeon's Garden of Love_ :
>>
>>
>>       "No woman ever hates a man for being in love
>>	with her; but many a woman hates a man for
>>	being her friend."
>>
>>			      -- Alexander Pope
>
>1) Nightclubs are probably not a great place to meet wonderful people.
>2) Being able to find professional employment will suddenly make me that much
>	more acceptable.
>3) I should join some hobby/whatever/community-work clubs.
>
>True?
>Sorry for all the cynicism, its just today. (Well this year, really).

First off, I'd like to say don't apologize for saying how you feel; it's
o.k. to purge once in a while.

Secondly and lastly cause I'M ONLY GOING TO SAY THIS ONCE: 1,2 and 3 are
most certainly right and have BEEN right for AGES!!! When Nightclubs
stopped being a place to go and dance AND meet people and just turned
into the latter a quiet, desparation prevades EVERY one of them that
you have the misfortune of going into alone. What do we know about
desparate people? They're only thinking of themselves and therefore
make for a poor relationship.
Quite simpley, if #2 is true for the person you're persusing YOU DON'T 
WANT TO GET TO KNOW THIS PERSON BETTER. THEY ARE SHALLOW FUCKS. #3 merely
refers to the fact you can meet people by getting involved with people.
When you're in a club or envolved in some sort of community activity
you are not soley thinking,"Would this person like me?Is this person
envolved?Do Iseempushy?AmImakingagoodimpression?". Which when you take
a long hard look at that you see is a lot of shit to think about and
still act like yourself.
 
Just be. I don't mean this in any metaphysical sense, I mean the second
 you only look at people as prospective mates and don't just look at them 
as people you're meeting they can...feeeel it and sometimes that's just too
soon for the person you're attracted to. (When I say "too soon" I mean they
may not be looking for a relationship.) 

So what happens is, the person you're attracted to just shoots you down
because most of humanity just doesn't know really how to phrase the 
word "maybe" so that it DOESN'T sound like they're more obligated than
they want to be. Thus, the answer just becomes no.

Just be, babe; gently, softly walk around being so confidently YOU
women like me just won't be able to resist.

Remember:
"Sweet darling
 Don't you know that we're no different to anyone
 We stumble
 We falter
 But we're no different than anyone"

	and

"Dying is easy it's living that scares me to death"
--

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 And I see him, the HIM in big impressive     | canetoad!grendel@uunet.uu.net
 letters. And he owns me, I mean the way      |
 pigeons own N.Y...damn I'm had again."       |
Newsgroups: alt.romance
From: ae498@yfn.ysu.edu (Dawn Bott)
Subject: Re: Vacation..all i ever wanted...
Reply-To: ae498@yfn.ysu.edu (Dawn Bott)
Organization: St. Elizabeth Hospital, Youngstown, OH
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 13:55:52 GMT


In a previous article, ccolling@nyx.cs.du.edu (Lady Firebird) says:

>ae498@yfn.ysu.edu (Dawn Bott) writes:
>>
>>I need some honeymoon destination ideas.....and i know
>>i can count on this bunch!  =)
>
>It would help if we knew what you were looking for ina destination....
>
>Lady Firebird
>
>

At the risk of sounding completely undecided and phlematic...
the truth is i don't know...but being forced to think about it ;)

i would have to say the following:

a place to be unbothered by modern life as we know it (no NYC!)
beautiful scenery  (natural or man-made)
fresh air.....
and good food  =9  !!

it can either either hot or cold there...we want to get married
in december..BTW....

thanks for all your ideas so far!  =)


-- 

             Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.

                      -- OSCAR WILDE --
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: Re: What is love?
From: ecuckow@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Date: 21 Aug 92 16:25:35 EDT
Organization: Wesleyan University

I've recently discovered "Letters to a Young Poet" by Ranier Maria Rilke. I'm
sure some of you have read this; if you haven't, do. The following is an
excerpt from the seventh letter (May 14th, 1904).

	To love is good: love being difficult. For one human being to love
	another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the
	ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is
	but preparation.

- elizabeth
From: fsjm1@acad3.alaska.edu
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: fantasies
Date: 19 Aug 92 07:26:26 GMT
Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks

Just because you asked . . .
I would like to make love
on the hood of a car
at outside
at night
in a ragin' thunder and lightning storm
From: dswt@bnr.co.uk (Stewart Tansley)
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: Re: Is there a *good* way to say LJBF?
Date: 17 Aug 92 18:15:22 GMT
Reply-To: dswt@bnr.co.uk (Stewart Tansley)
Organization: BNR Europe Limited, London Road, Harlow, Essex, GB

In the referenced article therrien@harris.mlb.semi.harris.com (Patty Therrien) writes:
>Is there a *good* way to say to someone, "Let's just be friends"?
>
>Patricia Therrien (Patty)	 |Internet therrien@harris.mlb.semi.harris.com

There have been some good answers to this. I thought I'd better respond too,
as a well-known moaner about being LJBFed:

- I like the one that goes 'lots of talk & explanation -- grind the LJBFee
  into acceptance by words'.  :-)

- I like the one that goes 'help the LJBFee find an RP'.

- I like the one that goes 'stop doing things as 2 people; go as groups only'

I'm sure these will be adequate. Sure, if I was LJBFed with these I'd
still be disappointed, but not so much as I have been...

One more comment -- someone talked about "gradually remove oneself from
the LJBFee's life". This is fine as far as it goes, but to show caring the 
LJBFer *must* explain to the LJBFee what they are doing & why. What has riled 
me most about my LJBFers is the way they don't explain what they really feel 
or what they think of you. They just ignore you & the situation. (And folks 
expect me to be *friends* after this!)

Oh, and for the record, I must agree with the point that *often* (ok, not
always), the LJBFee feels 'they have a chance' because the LJBFer has
given them more attention than perhaps they should have. This is also
what's happened to me. People who give lots of attention & warmth should
not get all huffy when they have to LJBF someone & then that someone feels
hurt. Be careful out there folks! :-)

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Newsgroups: alt.romance
From: puter@no1home.nashvil.ingr.com (PuterDude)
Subject: Re: fantasies 
Followup-To: a posted article
Summary: Sumalice, Sumbob, Sumchris
Keywords: Master, Yale, tumblers, etc.
Organization: None, today. Thank you.
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 17:18:53 GMT

 nelson@eastrg1.cray.com (Christine Nelson) heats up with...

>okay...
>
>what are some of your favourite fantasies?  (ie. unusual places 
>for making love, particular scenarios, etc...)

1) To find a woman that can spell. :)

2) To be married to a beautiful woman, to be surrounded by family
and friends, to own my own home, to enter my car in shows and win 
trophies, to have my health, to be heavily investing in our future
so that I may retire early.... Wait, I'm already livin' that one! :)

3) To have been in a position to have saved my boy's life.

>because everyone is always looking for 
>new ideas

Everyone? Really? :) Well, a new idea would be...
	Think of all the drive-ins now-a-days. You have drive-in fast
food, drive-in groceries, drive-in bankin' and bill-payin', drive-up
telephones, all for keepin' the driver in the car. Now if there was a
drive-in/up "service" window for...
	Well, you finish the thought. ;-)

-- 
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Newsgroups: alt.romance
From: cfar@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov (Carol Farquhar)
Subject: Re: PMS
Organization: NASA/MSFC
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 18:58:14 GMT

afdenis@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Stephen Dennison) writes:



>Or, at the very least, you don't get paid for it unless you're *built* like 
>John Holmes. :-)

Don't you wish?  ;-)  Do you faint when you get an erection?  Oh, sorry.
To hear you talk you've forgotten what that's like.  ;-)


>Oh, I've been told that I have a rather sexy voice on the phone... uh... 
>anybody lurking out there want to back me up on this ? :-) :-)

What shameless fishing.  You do have a very sex voice (for a yankee).
You gotta quit talking through your nose, though.  :-)

Carol "caveat emptor" Farquhar
-- 
Carol Farquhar-New Technolgy,Inc    = "The degree of a peoples civilization is
Huntsville, AL                      =  reflected in its attitude towards 
cfar@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov           =  animals."
Opinionated ravings are all mine!   
Newsgroups: alt.romance
From: ae498@yfn.ysu.edu (Dawn Bott)
Subject: Re: Love at first sight?
Reply-To: ae498@yfn.ysu.edu (Dawn Bott)
Organization: St. Elizabeth Hospital, Youngstown, OH
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 15:53:24 GMT


In a previous article, kleiner@nexus.yorku.ca (Ron_M_Kleiner) says:

>For those of you who are married (or close to it):  Was there love at 
>first sight for either of you?  Both of you?  I'm particularly interested
>in those cases where one partner was infatuated from the beginning but
>the other was not.
>
>
Well...what about love at first internet?  ;)

the first sight just confirmed it!





nauseating happy at the mo',


Dawn

>

-- 

             Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.

                      -- OSCAR WILDE --
Newsgroups: alt.romance
From: kjell@elixir.e.kth.se (Kjell Rilbe)
Subject: RP vs. SO
Organization: Dept. of EE, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 07:05:08 GMT

Hi folks!
Now, that I have the correct meanings of these abbreviations, I must say
I agree with the .sig I saw (who was it?) that says something like
"Stamp out SO" and suggesting we use RP instead. 
"Romantic Partner" does sound a bit more, well, romatic. :-)

>RP	Romantic Partner
>SO	Significant Other

So, I guess if I ever get to that point in life, I'll refer to her
as my RP.

Just some thoughts....

/Kjell Rilbe


Newsgroups: alt.romance
From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: Re: PMS
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 17:31:40 GMT

Kitty in the Middle (tyger@netcom.com) wrote:

: >Or, at the very least, you don't get paid for it unless you're *built* like 
: >John Holmes. :-)
: 
: Naw, you don't need to be hung like a horse, you just have to be willing to
: to hump like one with a camera millimeters away from your naughty bits...
: terribly romantic..:P

I saw a JH movie a while back.  The women he was giving it to didn't look like
they were particularly enjoying it.  Maybe there *is* such a thing as "too
much".  :)

...but to hear some women talk ... I doubt it.
-- 
Ed Carp, N7EKG     erc@apple.com                801/538-0177
"This is the final task I will ever give you, and it  goes  on  forever.   Act
happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love,
and do what you will."           -- Dan Millman, "Way Of The Peaceful Warrior"
From: jxh@math.ksu.edu (James C. Hu)
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: Re: WHAT IS LJBF???????!!!!!!
Date: 14 Aug 1992 00:18:33 -0500
Organization: Dept. of Mathematics, Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: hilbert.math.ksu.edu

Amy M. Wisotsky (amymw@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu) has already corrected
Kjell Rilbe (kjell@elixir.e.kth.se).  I thought since he had
a list, I would add a few to it:

LJBF 	Let's Just Be Friends
IMO 	In My Opinion
IMHO	In My Humble Opinion
RP	Romantic Partner
SO	Significant Other
LDR	Long Distance Relationship
BTW	By The Way
FYI	For Your Information

Are there others that cause potential confusion to new readers?  I'm
sure there is a list somewhere on the net...
-- 
James C. Hu (jxh@math.ksu.edu), 1804 Denholm Dr., Manhattan, KS 66502
"If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it
isn't, it ain't.  Thats logic." - Lewis Carroll
Opinions expressed are mine.  Let me know if they are someone else's.
From: jlewis@astro.as.arizona.edu (Jeff Lewis)
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: LJBF and Happiness
Date: 17 Aug 92 18:23:27 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Since this LJBF thing seems to be a popular topic and becasue 
I got some great respones to my last post..well I have had time
to think..so just let me ask this...I have been wondering if
the reason I hear LJBF so often is that maybe I need to more
selfish ... meaning I should worry a little more about if I
am happy and not overly concerned with a possible SO
being happy..after all I guess you cannot FORCE someone to be
happy.  
So..I am wondering if people view one who is not concerned about who
pays...or who said what first...or any of those other score
keeping things..as just someone they can be friends with...and really
nothing more?
Someone once told me that I deserve to be happy...but I am the most
content when I can make someone else happy...is this being romatic
or just plain stupid?


jlewis@astro.as.arizona.edu is Jeff L. Lewis

Quote of the day -
 "Fate is just the weight of circumstances"

Fact of the day -
 "Remember Posting is about as private as screaming from a
  mountain top..." 
 
~
Newsgroups: alt.romance
From: kuykerc@eng.auburn.edu (Ritsuo C. Kuykendall)
Subject: Romane..lost..Found???
Reply-To: kuykerc@eng.auburn.edu
Organization: Auburn University Engineering
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 02:26:33 GMT

Hello.  I'm new to this group.  
I was wondering if anyone has advice for me.

My problem:  Several years ago, I was very romantic (so said my fiance').
I woke up one morning and it seemed that I had lost that romance.

Is there any way I can find it again???

Help...

Newsgroups: alt.romance
From: st1o4@rosie.uh.edu (Ortiz, Jose)
Subject: Information request..
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 19:56:00 GMT

I realize my request may be a little off-topic, but since there's been
some recent discussion about television and movies, I was wondering if
anyone could supply a list of the movies in which Barbara Hershey has
starred.  I've seen her in only one and would like to see her in others.
Thanks in advance!

Newsgroups: alt.romance
From: usenet@inesc.pt (USENET News System)
Subject: Re: What is LOVE ?
Reply-To: jota@iguana.UUCP (Joao Pedro Martins)
Organization: INESC - Inst. Eng. Sistemas e Computadores, LISBOA, PORTUGAL.
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 18:19:44 GMT

	I really don't understand why people keep tryin' to define what love is.
	It is pretty obvious, at least to me, that each individual has its own
	definition. It's like discussing one's tastes or actions. 

	(sorry if this is misplaced, after all this is alt.romance. 
	 I'm just stating my *opinion*... and the best definition of love I read 
	 here was the first to be posted: "Temporary insanity" -just for the
	 record-)

*----------------------------------------------------------*
| Joao Pedro Martins, Lisboa, Portugal                     |
|                                                          |	
| "It's not the kill... It's the THRILL of the chase..."   |
| "F*** !" - Jean Claude Van Damme, "Cyborg"               |
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Newsgroups: alt.romance
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 01:40:26 -0400 
From: Rob Earhart <earhart+@CMU.EDU>
Subject: Re: How does this happen?
	<1992Aug13.230151.22356@jetsun.weitek.COM>

  Hmm... I just had a LD relationship end because, as she put it, I HAD
to be cheating on her, because she was so terrible and lousy, and I
could easily find someone better here, and she felt awful because she
was tying me down when I could be having fun, and no variation on the
words, "I love you," would convince her otherwise.

  Sigh. People can be so strange at times. I think that in this case,
she was just too insecure to really, truly, believe that someone could
love her.

  It's been four months, and I still dream of her 'most every night.
Which I suppose gets into another question: What's the average time,
after breaking up with someone one truly cares about, before one starts
having romantic relationships anew? Prior personal experience indicates
a time period of about a year before feeling comfortable about dating
again, which seems a bit long...

  -Rob
From: c91imc@prg.ox.ac.uk (Ian Crawshaw)
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: Re: How long does it take *you* to make love ... ?
Date: 14 Aug 92 16:24:01 GMT
Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK

In article <41476@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> alti@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Thorsten Altenkirch) writes:
> ... Actually I forgot the scene
>where you sit in a cafe with Barbara and discuss the question of
>contraception. Several samples are lying on the table... Maybe we
>should make a film out of this ? ;-)

But *WHO* is Barbara???

Ian.
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Newsgroups: alt.romance
From: panlilio@acs.ucalgary.ca (Victor P. Panlilio)
Subject: Re: WHAT IS LJBF???????!!!!!!
Summary: Other obscure (?) acronyms
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 06:38:51 GMT
Distribution: alt.romance
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta
Keywords: Net acronyms
Followup-To: alt.romance

Okay, NetFolk, what is the meaning of MOTAS? Is that

Members of the Attractive Sex

or what? I would like to know....

Victor the NetNewbie



Newsgroups: alt.romance
From: jcr@mbunix.mitre.org (Rogers)
Subject: Most Romantic Place in the World (Was: Re: Vacation....)
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 15:35:59 GMT

So far we have:

1  ) Fiji (like Tahiti, but less expensive and friendlier)
2  ) The west coast of Ireland, either County Clare or County Galway
2.5) Connemara, Co. Galway specifically.

To which I must add:

3) Les Iles D'Hyeres, off the coast of southern France, near Toulon.
   Specifically the island of Porquerolles. Beautiful mediterranean
   beaches (many providing lots of solitude), a view of the French
   coast, all suitably off the beaten path (while I did hear some
   English spoken on the ferry over, once on the island I heard none),
   plus all the rest of the French Riviera nearby, add up to make
   this the single most delightful (& romantic) place I've ever
   visited. I can only hope to honeymoon in a spot as wonderful.

Happy Travelling!
                  -- Jeff R.
Newsgroups: alt.romance
From: asiivo@cs.joensuu.fi (Antti Siivonen)
Subject: Re: Love at first sight?
Organization: University of Joensuu
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 19:42:48 GMT

kleiner@nexus.yorku.ca (Ron_M_Kleiner) writes:

>For those of you who are married (or close to it):  Was there love at 
>first sight for either of you?  Both of you?  I'm particularly interested
>in those cases where one partner was infatuated from the beginning but
>the other was not.

	Our love (me and April) started at zero sight, when we started to have
	an email conversation and then continued by telephone and letters. Now 
	we're happily engaged and we haven't ever met. 

	Yeah, I knew it from the beginning, but it took time before she get ~
	infatuated, too. 

				Andreas
-- 

		Andreas - Siperian Sirri   Siberian Stint

	No ITU, love, evolution.           Tuusniemi ! Siis imein suut !
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