HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Re: a question in search of an answer!!!
Keywords: men
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 14:05:09 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.192546.14699@noao.edu> morin@noao.edu (Marg Morin) writes:
>
>IMHO, this dilemma is a result of a closed-minded, double-standard
>popular in our patriarchal society. As long as I've been sexually
>aware, the men I've known have fantasized about seeing two women in
>a sexual encounter or 'having' two women in a menage-trois (sp?).
 
Worked for me.
 
>When I have questioned this line of thinking (especially indicating
>that it's physiologically more feasible for two men to satisfy one
>woman), the general reaction is that two men together is strickly
>gay or gross. It makes no sense to me .. and I think it's time to
>fight the double-standard.
 
Hallelujha.
 
>
>People should stop viewing two women on the dancefloor as an
>intriguing sexual perspective, and recognize that two *dancers*
>are there to enjoy dancing and the music ,,, not to entice
>a pick-up.
>
>That's my $.02
> MARG MORIN  "Call me M"		(morin@noao.edu)  

Ya mean like no throbbin bobbins allowed?
 
================================================================================
 Ipsissimus of the Inner Order of Sesquipedalian Fruitcakes - I set'r free.Nyuk
 Sesquipedalian's 'R' Us. ZX-10. DoD#564. There ain't no more.
================================================================================
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: dbj@cs.washington.edu (Dave Johnson)
Subject: Re: Money and the Single World (was: Education and the Single World
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 17:04:53 GMT

In article <1duqatINN335@FUNCTOR.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU> loosemore-sandra@cs.yale.edu (Sandra Loosemore) writes:
>                              I don't have extravagant spending habits
>myself, but since I usually have more money than I know what to do
>with I never worry too much about budgeting or running around trying
>to find the best deal on something I do want to buy.  

Sandra, will you marry me?  Or at least "keep" me?
-- 
  Dave Johnson

"You're not too smart, are you?  I like that in a man."
    --Kathleen Turner in Body Heat
From: tps@jptcs.COM (Tim Sailer)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: being between "Just Friends" and "relationship" and "kill me".
Date: 10 Nov 92 20:34:31 GMT
Reply-To: tps@jptcs.com
Distribution: na
Organization: JPT Computer Solutions, Port Jeff Station, NY
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

james.j.dutton (jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com) wrote:
: Which brings up another interesting topic. Why do you think (apart from the
: fear and preoccupation) hamsters are usually brown on top and white on
: the bottom? Do you think they believe in themselves or figure it's just
: an illusion? I'll post a summary starlit night later. 

Could it be because I turn the toaster oven on broil instead of toast?
I hate it when the bottoms don't get done! :)

-- 
Tim Sailer
JPT Computer Solutions - SCO Sales/Consulting/Administration and Mangling
Port Jefferson Station, NY
(516) 331-9001
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Argh! Total, Complete misery.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 22:18:08 GMT

In article <1992Nov6.061049.23905@samba.oit.unc.edu> Bathsheba.Grossman@launchpad.unc.edu (Bathsheba Grossman) writes:
>>>Trygve   (Who doesn't mind being in captivity from time to time, but
>>>          prefers thick, soft cotton rope--handcuffs tend to be 
>>>          uncomfortable and too small while scarves tend to tear if
>>>          I start to struggle at all.) 
>
>Nylon stockings also work ok, though perhaps not if you're built to
>conquer European civilization. 

Hmmmm...never tried those before--though I have trouble imagining they'd
be all that strong.  (Not sure that I'm up to conquering European
civilization at the moment--maybe I'll start light with just a
civilized European for the moment....) 

>My problem is what to tie _to, as the nomadic lifestyle doesn't include
>four-posted heavy-framed pickled-oak beds.  I'm thinking of running
>carriage bolts through the floor but don't know that mon cher landlord
>will understand.

Well, you can always stain a couple of two-by-eights and attach them to
a few sheets of plywood, making a waterbed frame--not too much less
nomadic than a futon, but much easier to sink eye-bolts into.

Trygve   (Or pick up one of the many waterbed frames that show up at
          garage sales where people pretty much just want them hauled
          off--and then donate it to someone else next time the urge
          to peregrinate overcomes you.)
From: todd@chester.cms.udel.edu (Todd Sanders)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: girl/lady/female  boy/guy/male
Date: 9 Nov 92 23:42:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.BxH37C.n4H
Reply-To: todd@chester.cms.udel.edu
Organization: Marine Studies, University of Delaware

With  all seriousness implied, and absolutely NO desire to instigate a flame war, I wish to 
ask a question pertinent to the age.  It will come in two parts;  first how I became confused, 
and second what do others think:

Here we go.

This summer I dated a very nice person. She was extremenly intelligent and extremely committed to her
beliefs.  Her major point of involvement was women issues, their involvement with politics and their 
involvement with social issues.  To her, a most degrading statement was to reply to her as a girl,  She was
a woman.  She was offended when the term   MANkind was used, PERSON kind was more appropiate.
I think you get the picture.  I respect this point of view, as being her point of view and she has every right 
to posess it.  Her "goal" is to have the Dec. of Indep. changed to ... All PERSONS are created equal..., so on
and so forth.

I have been talking with a collegue, whom is female, and find that when ever I use gender-neutral terms, she 
tries to comfort me and explain that she does not need for me to maintain my neutrality when we talk.  She knows
who she is and that she is a woman. She is not offended by terms like Mankind.  The only difference between the
two women I discuss is that the second person is in my opinion, much more confident in her self, as a person.
They both are extremely respectable persons.

So I ask this group, which has a large % of female participants,  is gender neutral terminology to be expected?

Thanks, and God helping this will not flame off.

Todd
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.)
Subject: Re: SWF iso S*M to be SO
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 06:53:25 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Distribution: na

In article <1992Nov10.214736.7825@cbfsb.cb.att.com> jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) writes:
>>>        I'm enjoy cycling, swimming and skiing and am in very good
>>>shape I ride a 12 speed about 46-63 miles every day but am not
>>>particularly athletic
>>Whoa.  46-63 miles every day?  If this isn't athletic, what is? 
>>Power-lifting dump trucks with one hand?
>What no 300 mi days? Sheesh.

Even worse, no seesters.
r.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: liz@prc.unisys.com (Liz Loquacious)
Subject: Re: Last Philly Boink Announcement
Followup-To: soc.singles
Keywords: Boink, sensitive, fun
Organization: Paramax Systems
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:28:14 GMT

 jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) writes:
|>  liz@prc.unisys.com (Liz Loquacious) writes:
|> >
|> >This will most likely be the last Philly Boink announcement that you see.
|>  
|> Say it ain't so Joe.

I had no idea you would take it so hard James. 

|> >included.  There will be an after dance party back at Sheba's place
|> >which will include a poker game hosted by the sensitive James Dutton!
|> 
|> Hey watch it.

I'm soooooooo sorry James.  Did that offend?  I should have known that you
don't like attention drawn to yourself like that.  It might cause you to be
victimized by some heartless poster and you might never get over it.  Come 
here, let me make you feel all better....

Liz Loquacious - Countdown!
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: julie@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (Julie Wright)
Subject: Re: PRES DEBATE
Organization: Maple Syrup Eaters
	<##cqfzk@lynx.unm.edu> <BxJvs2.KE9@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
	<92316.215155SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 23:24:06 GMT

Graydon <SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> writes:

>Kirian, how many dead lakes constitue something wrong?
>Ever looked at the price over time curve for maple syrup?

WHAT?!?!  Maple syrup's endangered?  Where are my Congresscritters' 
addresses?  This is dreadful!

>What constitutes certainty of harm?  The supremacy of anerobic
>organisms?

I just typed in my opinions on this subject, then deleted them when
I realized I was boring even myself.  :)  I hope everyone out there
is properly grateful.

---Julie
-- 
* loris, n.     Any of several small, nocturnal, arboreal primates of the *
* genera _Loris_ and _Nycticebus_, of tropical Asia, having dense, woolly *
* fur, large eyes, and a vestigial tail.  [French, probably from obsolete *
* Dutch _loeris_, simpleton, clown.]    ---- American Heritage Dictionary *
From: pdsmith@bbn.com (Peter D. Smith)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: PRES DEBATE
Date: 10 Nov 1992 23:28:55 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
Reply-To: pdsmith@spca.bbn.com (Peter D. Smith)
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

In article <1992Nov10.160948.6969@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu> rickh@ldgo.columbia.edu (rick healy) writes:
>                         Come on guys, it's pretty fundemental physics.
>You don't need a model to tell you that CO2 is a greenhouse gas.  The models
>are specifically used for determining to what extent the warming will be;

The planet is like a bridge: we want to use it and not have it fall down.

The very first mathematical models of scratches (a rather important problem
to engineers) said that a pin-scratch on a bridge would cause it to fall
down.  Like the above comment, the model modeled "pretty fundimental
physics."  The model (like all models) neglected some crucial aspects of
iron (in particular, the model assumed that the iron wouldn't stretch).

On the other hand, the first mathematical models of suspension bridges,
also based on "fundimental physics" said that the Tacoma Narrows bridge
would stay up.  Once again, some crucial aspects were missing (in this
case, the model ignored stability).

The moral?  That action is premature.  Once the atmospheric models can
predict the climate of the last century, I'll start to believe them.


					Peter D. Smith

ObSingle -- you know what really gets my goat?  How baseball players, when
on base, advance on the next plate before the ball is pitched.  It just
doesn't seem right.
From: souchay@CAM.ORG (Francois Souchay)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: What do you Am men think about Am women?
Date: 10 Nov 92 23:09:26 GMT
Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada

In article <1992Nov7.005730.17744@news.acns.nwu.edu> drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max) writes:
>
>Max- who's been too busy to keep up with this grop lately
						   ^
						So That's where Danny
						Quayle found the 'e'!
Francois.:
From: tps@jptcs.COM (Tim Sailer)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Hey!
Date: 9 Nov 92 07:47:35 GMT
Reply-To: tps@jptcs.com
Organization: JPT Computer Solutions, Port Jeff Station, NY
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Julia Smith (jsmt@troi.cc.rochester.edu) wrote:
: >Well, now I won't have to resort to email to all of you! :D
: >
: Coming through on this end, Tim.  but does that mean I'll never
: hear from you in private?  This would truly be a tragedy :(
 No... private is always better, and it keeps the rest of <glancing
left and right, and whispers> "Them" guessing as to what we're up
to! :)

G'night, M'Lady...

Tim
-- 
Tim Sailer
JPT Computer Solutions - SCO Sales/Consulting/Administration and Mangling
Port Jefferson Station, NY
(516) 331-9001
From: dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Education and the Single World
Date: 12 Nov 1992 18:57:15 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
Reply-To: dhardin@spcink.bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

In article <cacqncc@lynx.unm.edu> blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:

>For most of the rest of us, namely myself, I'll take 'intelligent' over
>'educated' any day o' the week.
>Any goober with half a brain, perseverence and luck can get a college degree.

The important question is WHY doesn't this intelligent person have a college
degree?

If the answer is:

A) Got an OK job, never had time to go back;
B) Field of interest is something that isn't adequately taught in a classroom;
C) Learned more on the field than he'd learn in a class;

then I'm fine with it.

If the answer is:

A) Doesn't like to read;
B) Doesn't like to work;
C) Doesn't like to think;

then forget it.

If the answer is:

A) Thinks he knows more than the professors anyway;
B) Thinks that college exists to socialize people into conformist sheep
   to serve the needs of coporate America;
C) Thinks he'd probably just get thrown out for chaining himself to 
   something or other;

then it breaks down into sort of a flow chart.

He knows what he's talking about               He's repeating something he
                                               heard in a bar.
________________________________               _______________________________

He might be       He's probably                He might be an  He probably
really cool       an adolescent                adolescent      already flunked
and interesting.  dickhead with                dickhead with   out.
                  pre-schizo                   pre-schizo
                  tendencies.                  tendencies.


Dawn

(PS My mutant sweetie is getting his masters, which avoids the whole sticky
issue of where I'd put him.)


"Hello death, goodbye Avenue A.  I'm getting tired of waiting, tired of
being afraid.  Joseph Campbell gave me hope and now I have been saved.
So I sing hello death, goodbye Avenue A."  "Folk Song" by Bongwater.

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: rickh@ldgo.columbia.edu (rick healy)
Subject: Re: PRES DEBATE
Organization: Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:09:48 GMT

In article < martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin @ UNC Department of Compute)
In article <BxAMyG.7DE@access.digex.com> huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) w
   In article <MARTINC.92Nov4210436@hatteras.cs.unc.edu> martinc@hatteras.cs.unc
   >In article <Bx5uC3.4LG@access.digex.com> huston@access.digex.com (Herb Husto
>   >
>   >   By which time it might be too late depending on whose model is
>   >   correct.  The point of the models is to use climate data from the
>   >   past to attempt to predict future trends.
>   >
>   >But then there's this problem -- at least some models suggest that we're
>   >merely retarding a general global cooldown with greenhouse gases.  What
>   >happens if those models are correct, and we err by "letting" the climate
>   >-cool- too much?
>   >
>   >It seems like -very- bad policy to figure we have to do -something-,
>   >-anything-, when we don't know what the effects will be.
>   I agree, and that was why I didn't recommend any drastic actions.  My
>   sole point was that waiting for ten years might be waiting too long.
>   My recommendation is to refine the models.
>I'm with you on that.  However, that doesn't seem to be the general
>thrust; there's lots of talk about reducing greehouse gases and little
>about putting more effort into the models.

  There's seems to be a perception that if we improve the models they'll 
somehow show us that pumping all that CO2 in the atmosphere won't warm
the planet after all.  Come on guys, it's pretty fundemental physics.
You don't need a model to tell you that CO2 is a greenhouse gas.  The models
are specifically used for determining to what extent the warming will be;
what regions will be affected; how long it will take; and what nonlinear, 
 i.e., non-intuitve, consequences to other eco-systems there'll be, e.g.,
will the ice caps  decrease because of warming and increase the sea level or
will they increase because of higher precipitation and lower the sea level?

You also suggest that doing "anything,something" is bad policy and that
doing nothing but putting effort into these models is the best course.
Yet, just putting effort into the models without cutting emmissions is like
petting the dog before you know he's friendly.  I say cut the emmissions and
put more effort into the models.

-rjh

-- 
Rick Healy
NASA-Goddard Institute for Space Studies
2880 Broadway
New York, NY 10025
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Subject: Re: PRES DEBATE
Organization: Indiana University
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 08:10:11 GMT

huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:

>Nevertheless, the U.S. population uses a disproportionate share of
>the world's natural resources. 

That's right; we also produce a disproportionate share of the world's wealth.  

After all, those resources are being used FOR something.
-- 

Kiran Wagle                           <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: STAB THE HEART OF TEXAS
Date: 8 Nov 92 19:59:39 GMT
Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
In-reply-to: krb@hpuerca.atl.hp.com's message of 8 Nov 92 03:02:40 GMT

In article <BxDn4H.9AK@hpuerca.atl.hp.com> krb@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Kevin Barnes) writes:


   Say what you want about Canada but they do have a great baseball team,
   really great ale(Molsons) and they are generally nice people. I know
   I lived in Ft.Erie for several years.

   Whatever that means.

Is this, like, gonna be on the exam?
--
		Charles R. Martin/(Charlie)/martinc@cs.unc.edu
     Dept. of Computer Science/CB #3175 UNC-CH/Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175
	    3611 University Dr #13M/Durham, NC 27707/(919) 419 1754
     "Oh God, please help me be civil in tongue, pure in thought, and able
      to resist the temptation to laugh uncontrollably.  Amen." -- Rob T
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: kevin@clsi.COM (Kevin Cameron)
Subject: Re: Argh! Total, Complete misery.
Originator: kevin@dubhe
Reply-To: kevin@clsi.com
Organization: CAD Language Systems Inc.
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 15:16:56 GMT


In article <1992Nov4.062914.28363@mikejag.wimsey.bc.ca>, pally@mikejag.wimsey.bc.ca (Pally Hoffstein) writes:
> In article <oneil.720774124@cwis> oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu (Sharon O'Neil) writes:
> >tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
> 
> This is the most positive posting I've seen on this newsgroup since I started
> getting it a month ago. I've been going through my own "aaargh, total, complete
> misery phase" for about a year now and this post has cheered me more than about
> anything else I've read. 
> Sharon, keep posting! We need more like this.


Maybe we should have:

soc.singles.suicidal
soc.singles.depressed
soc.singles.miserable
soc.singles.bored
soc.singles.happy         (just for Nance)

Kev :-)
--
From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: That wacky electoral college
Date: 8 Nov 92 01:28:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: grover.MARTINC.92Nov7202847
	<96094@netnews.upenn.edu> <1992Nov5.174602.21218@b8.b8.ingr.com>
Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
In-reply-to: larry@b8.b8.ingr.com's message of 5 Nov 92 17:46:02 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.174602.21218@b8.b8.ingr.com> larry@b8.b8.ingr.com (Larry Billings) writes:

   2. Set term limits!  
      [Does anyone know the results of the 14 states which had that on the 
       ballot this time?  I haven't heard.]

Passed in all 14 states.
--
		Charles R. Martin/(Charlie)/martinc@cs.unc.edu
     Dept. of Computer Science/CB #3175 UNC-CH/Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175
	    3611 University Dr #13M/Durham, NC 27707/(919) 419 1754
     "Oh God, please help me be civil in tongue, pure in thought, and able
      to resist the temptation to laugh uncontrollably.  Amen." -- Rob T
From: markcb@bedevere.asd.sgi.com (Mark C. Bailey)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: being between "Just Friends" and "relationship"
Date: 11 Nov 92 16:03:42 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: bedevere.asd.sgi.com


I thought I would add my voice of support to Lukas' position.

It is possible to have a relationship without sinking into the
dreaded couplitis.  The key to a sharing loving relationship is
trust and communication if you have both you can be in multiple
relationships.  The problem then becomes giving adequate time
to all persons involved.

I agree that a non-standard relationship confuses people and some will
never understand and some people attack that which they don't understand.
It is a hard road to travel but as long as everyone involved understands
and is comfortable with the situation it can be very fulfilling.

--
markcb@bedevere.asd.sgi.com
Work: 2011 Shoreline Blvd. Mt. View, MS 8U-815 CA 94043-1321 (415) 390-3226
From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Nightline and Presidential Cantidates
Date: 8 Nov 92 01:34:24 GMT
Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
In-reply-to: don@island.COM's message of 6 Nov 92 00:03:49 GMT

In article <1992Nov6.000349.9622@island.COM> don@island.COM (Don Hermes) writes:


   In article <1d6u8nINNbh@gap.caltech.edu> corbetew@cco.caltech.edu (Corbet E. Wilcox) writes:
   >
   >I have heard bad rumers that Clinton did not attend any classes or take
   >any exams while he was at Oxford.  Does anyone out there know if he 
   >received college credit for his time there?
   >

   If that were true we would have heard about it back in August.

Actually, we did.  (In, e.g., the National Review.)  However, what the
original person overlooked was that in the British and/or European
system one doesn't necessarily attend classes anyway.  One has a tutor,
and "reads" the topic, or meets for tutorials, or deals with a
Privatdozent, and eventually takes exams.  (I don't recall what any of
these things say about exams.)  

College credit is also a straw man, since Clinton and other such Fellows
are post-graduate.  Transferring credits from a British school to a US
school is a strange process.
--
		Charles R. Martin/(Charlie)/martinc@cs.unc.edu
     Dept. of Computer Science/CB #3175 UNC-CH/Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175
	    3611 University Dr #13M/Durham, NC 27707/(919) 419 1754
     "Oh God, please help me be civil in tongue, pure in thought, and able
      to resist the temptation to laugh uncontrollably.  Amen." -- Rob T
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Subject: Re: Education and the Single World
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 04:12:29 GMT

martinc@hatteras.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
>blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:

>Any goober with half a brain, perseverence and luck can get a college degree.

>Would someone explain why I'm still here then?

Maybe because you have a whole brain?
-- 

Kiran Wagle                           <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
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From: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,ba.singles
Subject: YKYBRNTLW.... (Re: Where to meet women?)
Date: 11 Nov 92 02:50:09 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Don't blame me, I voted for Bill 'n' Opus

In article <1992Nov11.015417.11404@netcom.com> kehoe@netcom.com (Thomas David Kehoe) writes:
>
>One of friends does something I haven't tried:
>borrow someone's baby (like your sister's) and
>go for a walk in the park or on the beach.
>My friend said that babies attract women like
>magnets.

Hmmmm....first time I read this, I read that last word as "maggots".
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

Trying to be happy is like trying to build a machine for which the only
specification is that it should run noiselessly.
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