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From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Subject: Re: Bananas
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 09:02:20 GMT

>>pw@panix.com (Paul Wallich) writes:
>>>a kind, gentle, tolerant person as Max would never be jealous.
>kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
>>You forgot "sweet"... and "cute" too.

pw@panix.com (Paul Wallich) writes:
>I didn't forget.	I just didn't want to sound like a suckup.

Is is sucking up if it happens to be the truth?

For example, if I suggested that someone was lovely and talented, and
cute, and PERKY even, and it were true, would I be sucking up?

Naaah, just asking to be flamed.
-- 
Kiran Wagle     <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>     (812) 335-0420
From: jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Friendly Cities
Date: 25 Aug 92 18:59:18 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University


tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
>>A friend of mine was having an apartment-warming party that was near
>>downtown, so it was a bit of an adventure locating a parking space;
>>eventually I settled on one that was just a few blocks away from his
>>apartment.  Going to and from the car that night, three people I'd
>>never seen before simply started talking pleasantly to me ("hi!  How're
>>ya doing?  Etc.").  And so, I thought to myself, that it must be that
>>you just happen to live in a less friendly part of the universe and
>>ought to move to Denver.

gds@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Greg Skinner) writes:
>Is Denver friendly to everybody?  Does every person get spoken to by
>passers by on the street?

New York's got that beat - that town is so friendly that there doesn't even
have to be another person around for people to converse on the street.
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From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Hark tis it the wind.
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:19:49 GMT

In article <l9khviINNjfn@news.bbn.com> dhardin@spcink.bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes:
>In article <1992Aug25.084901.21032@walter.cray.com> cfg@cray.com (Cindy Glass) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug25.125315.28635@cbfsb.cb.att.com> jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
>>
>>>Since I'm basicly pretty romantic and some would say sensitive
>>>I'll open a used car lot down the road with lots of little flags
>>>and blinking neon lights. I'll wear dull yellow plaid suits
>>>smoke a big cigar and tell bad jokes(yea yea I know).
>>>Who said progressive and romance can't stroll hand in hand?
>>
>>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>[I'm from Wisconsin - we put *LOTS* of "OOOOOO's" in our words!! :) ] 
>>(Unless 'down the road' means at *LEAST* a 2 hour drive away!!)  You 
>>can keep the glitzy neon out of my dreams - thank you very much James!!
>
>Hey Cindy, this is james on *good* behavior.  You haven't heard yet about
>the cat-house, the used motorcycle lot, and the target shooting field.
>And he did tell you that you were going to be babysitting his kids when
>he's interviewing prospective employees, right?  (And james is very
>thorough when it comes to interviews.)  And you wouldn't mind
>putting up a couple of his biker friends when they come to visit, right?
 
Biker friends would be nice. Friends wouldn't be bad either.(As james goes
for the sympathy boink. Sly - no?).
 
>They're almost no trouble at all, when they're not drunk.  Don't worry,
>I'm sure you and james will get along just fine.
>
>Dawn
 
 No no Dawn don't try to set me up out of the gutter. You where the
only one that really understood me. *SNIFF* *GURGLE* *BLUBBER* Its,
its, OK, I'll be fine. No, no you've got your own life to lead. Don't
worry your pretty little head about me. Nor your calves/calfs whatever.
I'll (squeezes one sole tear that roles down cheek before casting
itself to ground, obliteratingly shattering into a thousand points of
.... I lost track for a minute) manage somehow.
Go. Go now before we both do what we know will be wrong.
Thats it. Don't turn back. Parting is such sweet....
Hi Cindy. What be shakin.

 
================================================================================
 Sesquipedalian's 'R' Us. ZX-10. DoD#564. There ain't no more.
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From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Subject: Re: Kiran Wagle
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 08:18:00 GMT

wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien) writes:

>I do wonder why Prakash attacked Kiran's posting
>style publicly rather than via e-mail, though.

Yes, this puzzles me too.  I can't imagine why anyone would waste
their time getting all riled up about postings to the net when they
could be finding some sweet woman to take on a picnic.

Oh well, de gustibus non est disputandum, as they say.
-- 
Kiran Wagle     <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>     (812) 335-0420
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From: rudoff@mdd.comm.mot.com (Doug Rudoff)
Subject: Re: Lurkers...
Organization: Motorola, Mobile Data Division - Seattle, WA
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:31:04 GMT


I guarantee that no one wants all the lurkers posting. There are
already too many messages per day. A ten fold increase caused by all
the lurkers posting would not be helpful.
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From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Why do the lurkers / so furiously lurk together?
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 18:58:07 GMT

In article <kiran.714834593@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
>
>Would you be bothered if 85,00 invisible people eavesdropped on your
>conversations?

Heck no--it just appeals to my ASCII exhibitionistic tendencies.  I'm
quite flattered to think that at least some of them out there (hopefully)
find me entertaining enough to read what I write.

Trygve   (Veteran Cosmic Poster?)
From: barry@netcom.com (Kenn Barry)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Desperation (was Re: Commitment--The C-word?)
Date: 27 Aug 92 03:22:38 GMT
Organization: QQQCLC

In article <1992Aug26.204706.29105@mdd.comm.mot.com> rudoff@mdd.comm.mot.com (Doug Rudoff) writes:
>Given my
>complete lack of success in pursuing women who aren't interested in
>me, I look at it as a sign of desperation. Maybe we just have
>different definitions of desperate.

	Yours seems to be "being attracted to someone who isn't
attracted to you". I don't agree with that definition, but even if we
use it, there's another thing that's confusing: in your anecdotes (the
1st two, at least) you describe women on a first date with you. Your
analysis of the incidents seems to imply they must have _known_ you
weren't attracted, and pursued anyway. But my reading of your anecdotes
detected no basis for this conclusion. So I'm just curious; did I miss
something? Was there some revealing detail you accidentally overlooked
mentioning? Did you believe, when the incidents took place, that these
women must have known of your lack of interest? If so, why?

						Kayembee
From: drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Mea Culpa
Keywords: cynical net.veterans
Date: 1 Sep 92 19:37:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Sep1.193702.22862
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.

In article <71891@apple.Apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
>
>--
>Stef                            Carpe diem (fish for ten cents)
>stef@apple.com                                  --Usenet Oracle
>
>                                (After all, if you _were_ seizing the 
>                                 day you wouldn't be sitting in a dumb 
>                                 office somewhere glugging out of a mass-
>                                 produced coffee mug with some methadone-of-
>                                 the-masses slogan on it.) -- pw


Ah my coffee cup has a fish on it (tail is the handle) does that count for
seizing the fish by the tail? Sorry Paul no chicken heads today. Haven't
seen a chicken head around here lately just alot of DNA (well okay if you
want to call microgram amounts alot its alot of DNA).
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From: pirmann@porthos.rutgers.edu (David Pirmann)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.romance,soc.women,ny.general,nyc.general,ny.wanted
Subject: Re: Where to go on a date
Keywords: new york, good impression, sos
Date: 4 Sep 92 19:46:57 GMT
Followup-To: soc.singles
Distribution: usa
Organization: Rutgers University LCSR

jpw@lorelei.ece.drexel.edu (Joseph Wetstein) writes:

>Help! 
>Could anyone please suggest some nice places to go on a date in New York city?
>Manhattan, Bklyn, Queens... Ignoring the usual touristy things, St. d'liberty,
>Ellis Isl., I would like some ideas to help me make a reasonable impression.
>I would appreciate any help that you can offer, and e-mail would be great.


If it's a nice day (sunny, not too hot), take her to the Cloisters /
Fort Tyron Park in Manhattan... Trust me :-)  Not too crowded, nice park,
nice view of the Hudson, and if you like medieval art, you can't beat
it. Check out the tapestries....

dave
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: escotoR@moravian.edu (Randall Escoto @ Moravian College Vampire CS Dept.)
Subject: Re: What knockers!  Crreak.
Summary: doors
Keywords: Doors
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 13:54:30 EDT

In article <1992Sep4.052547.12561@samba.oit.unc.edu>, Bathsheba.Grossman@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bathsheba Grossman) writes:
> 
> As often as not, a guy will open the door, put his back against it, and
> look me in the eye, smirking and waiting for me to brush my tits over
> them, knowing that I have to go through the damn door. I have about a
> half-acre of personal body-space, and if I want you near me I'll let you
> know.  So it makes me want to drop everything I'm carrying and spend
> about five minutes picking it up, so he'll have time to realize what an
> obnoxious move that is.  I try not to complain, because guys are all
> oversensitive about this one thing, but it totally bothers me.
> 
  Not waitaminute waitaminute. This method of opening doors for women
is just plain not the nice way to open a door. But I guess they must not
be nice guys. ;>

> Just flip the door back and let me catch it, like you'd do for anyone who
> was a person instead of a woman.  And apply the principle broadly.
> 
  Oh thats not really necessary... A guy can easily open the door for you
and hold onto the handle, thus being nice enough to open it for you (for me
its just common coutesy no matter who I am with) and nice enough not to, um,
compromise you.

> -Sheba
> "Something makes me fumble
> For a key, to a door, that's wide open"		-The Police

  Just my 2c worth...
  (BTW: This is my first post here so please be gentle? ;>)

-Randy, just Randy
-Moravian College  Bethlehem, Pa.
-Internet: escotoR@moravian.edu

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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: buick@belay (Patrick D. Buick)
Subject: Re: Powerful forces of nature conspire
Organization: Belay Enterprises Inc. Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:22:45 GMT

In article <thurlow.715104771@convex.convex.com> thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:
>In <ewillims.715001870@unix1.tcd.ie> ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:
>
>>	What is the point of living somewhere you can't 
>>occasionally look out the window and see white flecks of 
>>silence blanketing the world?  Or be able to roll around
>>in it and laugh with the sheer joy of living?
>
>(sigh)  Nice ode to winter; it makes me glad to think I'll be back
>in Edmonton, a place that has a real winter, for Christmas :-)
>
>Rob T
>--
>Rob Thurlow, thurlow@convex.com
>Across the evening sky, all the birds are leaving
>But how can they know it's time for them to go?		- Sandy Denny

Really, Edmonchuk.. I mean.. Edmonton.. wow..  Yep, here in Calgary
we only get hints of winter.. a week of 40 below, then 20 above,
then.... gads who knows what... 

Neat place, Edmonton, at least *there* they have some appreciation of
Jazz and Big-Band music... not much happening here... yet... :-)

[Big Sigh... looks over at upright piano and jazz music books...
  decides to do the CD thang instead, no trio to make a quartet here...
  Vacant stare, lowers head, look of thoughtfulness, sigh...]

On to more messages....
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max)
Subject: Re: Newspaper ads - code words?
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 19:43:24 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.182601.738@walter.bellcore.com> nobody writes:
>In article <DMASON.92Aug26131409@plg.waterloo.edu> dmason@waterloo.edu (Dave Mason) writes:
>>
>> I have a friend who wanted to place a newspaper ad to the effect:
>>	Attractive woman likes sex. call 555-5555
>>
>> I suggested that:
>>	a) the paper probably wouldn't accept it (conservative area)
>>	b) she'd probably mostly get people who weren't what she wanted
>>
>> Any suggestions on how to phrase this?
>
>Attractive woman, children not always the goal, call 555-5555
>
>>
>> For background, she is moderately conservative: she's dated 5-8 men
>>in the last 2 years, some of them 10 or more times and hasn't had sex
>>with any of them (she is quite prepared to have sex with one of them,
>>but he's not available for that).  She is a very attractive,
>>wonderful, professional, 35 year old, wants to get married & have kids
>>but has had trouble meeting men of a similar mind.
>
>Does she have a sister for Brother james?
>

One where children are never the goal? He already has enough of his own.


Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart)
Subject: Re: Powerful forces of nature conspire
Organization: my opinions only
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 21:28:04 GMT

In article <1992Aug29.174755.6782@uwm.edu> markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:

>Of course this is nothing.  I used to walk 4 miles to school and 6 miles back
>when I decided to take the long route, and for lunch 1 mile to the other house
>and 1 mile back.

I only had to walk 2 miles each way.

But it was uphill both ways.

Seth		sethb@fid.morgan.com
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.)
Subject: Re: Where the best posts come from
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 92 16:39:20 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Keywords: intelligence insight

In article <1992Sep1.143328.16047@news.acns.nwu.edu> drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max) writes:
>>>> A little note though, the most interesting posts come from "Angelwing".
>>>In my humble opinion, the most interesting posts come from stef@apple.com.
>>>She's thoughtful, articulate, and witty--a clear, strong signal in a
>>>cacophony of noise.
>>Well, _I_ think the most interesting posts come from Max. I haven't
>>heard anything about chicken heads in ages and ages.
>I don't get it. Why all of a sudden are you trying to get my attention?

Isn't it obvious? They want to help you build your house...
:)
r,
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: rickk@netmbx.netmbx.de (Rick Kuhlbars)
Subject: Re: Commitment--The C-word?
Organization: From Below Das Boot
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 08:38:59 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.204558.3436@news.acns.nwu.edu> drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max) writes:
>Besides there is a middle ground in all this. Many women, I for one, am
>willing to make some changes in order to be able to live with another
>person. Not just any other person but someone that I think is worth making
>some of those changes for. I fully expect that he will also be making some
>changes in his life to accommodate me. Being unable or unwilling to do this
>generally makes one unfit for any kind of a shared life. 

The statement above exactly reflects my thought on this subject.  An
independant woman will be creative  in the relationship process and perhaps
expose me to new things in life (and vice versa) and therefore keep the
relationship exiting.  Many people confuse willing to make changes with
willing to do anything the man/womans wants and will therefore shatter 
any initiative a guy will take.  What I enjoy (and miss) is the interaction 
between two people in that regard.  Give and Take is the delicate balance 
of the relationship.

Later,
der ricker



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From: liz@prc.unisys.com (Liz Loquacious)
Subject: Re: Seesters, I want the seesters.
Followup-To: soc.singles 
Organization: Paramax Systems
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 17:31:44 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.145355.3738@cbfsb.cb.att.com>, jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) writes:
|>  
|> Liz I find it attrocious, the demeaning manner in which you have
|> assaulted the sensibility's of my young motorbiking companion.
|> Have you ever Lambada'd?
|> 

How could you even suggest that I might participate in
such a lewd activity, such debauchery! 
My place or yours?

Liz Loquacious
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max)
Subject: Re: Can we can the suck-up bit?
Keywords: encourage friendship?
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 13:20:23 GMT

In article <kiran.715316945@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
>
>And some people misinterpret being helpful as attempting to control.
>Guess the easy solution is to stop being helpful.

Whoa up there Kiran. If you are talking about the situation that I
described surronding the building of my house then it is you that has
misinterpreted what I said. I talked about a specific set of
characteristics that some men (and probably women) display when involved or
trying to get involved in a relationship. I did not extend this to include
general helpfulness or niceness or simple good will. I'm helpful, I like it
when others are helpful, but I don't like it when someone tries to control me
by undermining my own abilities in order to be helpful to me. It is not so
black or white but many shades of grey.

Max
From: wkaufman@us.oracle.com (William Kaufman)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Where the best posts come from
Date: 4 Sep 92 02:59:12 GMT
Organization: Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores CA
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user
              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.

In article <la4pdaINNl25@news.bbn.com> dhardin@spcink.bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes:
] 
] Isn't anybody going to mention any men?  How about the sensitive james
] dutton?  Or Steve Swann?  Or James Nicole?  Or.... whoops, I guess it's 
] a waste of time to suck up to the men, huh?

    Not at all.  I'm available for being sucked up to anytime.

    Well, OK, I'll start:

    james, Im constantly amazed by you're eloquent discourses on men in
the 90s.  You're sensitivity really speak's to me, as a man destroyed by
the ravages of female hormones.  You're quirky use of apostrophe's
excite me.  Nowaday's, even a simple, over-heard "sesquipedalian" can
make me tumescent.  I feel empowered, and I have you to thank.

    On behalf of our brothers everywhere, I hope you get your sisters.

                                           -- Bill K.

Bill Kaufman               | "The nimrod writing that issue couldn't write
wkaufman@us.oracle.com     |  evil if he had the whole year and a bathtub
                           |  full of flayed babies."      -- James Nicoll
From: wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Homesickness!
Date: 29 Aug 92 03:23:24 GMT
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Muiz Motani (motani@watson.ibm.com) wrote:
: In  <14348@auspex-gw.auspex.com>  johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
: > In article <1992Aug27.225109.27562@watson.ibm.com> motani@vnet.ibm.com (Muiz Motani) writes:
: > >In  <thurlow.714947137@convex.convex.com>  thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:
: > >> Anybody got a real good homesickness remedy?
: > >
: > >Yes......just bake yourself a batch of Nanaimo Bars and enjoy!
: > 
: > Are these from the town of Nanaimo (east coast of Vancouver Island)?  I was
: > there once.  Did I miss something by not getting a Nanaimo bar?  Actually
: > I did hit one Nanaimo bar.
: 
: Actually, I don't know why they are called Nanaimo Bars. These goodies are 
: typically West-Coast-Canadian, though. I seem to remember some anecdote about a 
: wife of a former Lieutenant Governor of B.C. coming up with the recipie.

So.  What's the recipe?  Failing the recipe, description?
-- 
"Bless me, Father; I ate a lizard."
"Was it an abstinence day, and was it artificially prepared?"
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From: schock@cpsc.UCalgary.ca (schock)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Las Vegas
Date: 26 Aug 92 06:24:24 GMT
	<1992Aug23.214603.13165@uwm.edu>
	<1992Aug23.194241.21010@walter.cray.com>
Organization: The University of Calgary

In article <1992Aug23.194241.21010@walter.cray.com> cfg@cray.com (Cindy Glass) writes:
>   As for the PS - now, why on earth would I want to leave Cray to 
>   build yet *ANOTHER* PC that someone has already thought of....when
>   I leave, it will be to buy a group of cabins in the woods - that 
>   tourists flock to in the summer time and stay away from in the 
>   winters - so I can have my snow falls to myself!!

WoW!  Try out SaltSpring Island, British Columbia, Canada.

	Population (Summer) 14,000.
	Population (Winter)  7,000.

Unfortunately, there isn't that much snow :-( But hey! Let's 
accentuate the positives!  

Ummm.. lemme see. 

Lots of hiking and cycling trails.  Close to other islands with 
more hiking and cycling trails.

Lots of artists.

They have a fantastic health-food store in Ganges (if you're into that kind of thing)

A ferry ride to Vancouver (or Victoria) if you happen to get island 
fever and need to get some city action.

Excellent seafood restaurants!

Sailing and fishing....

Geezz... this list is going to go on forever :-)
 
ohh...  I miss 'ol SaltSpring Island already.



Ahhh Yes... almost forgot.  There is a curse on the island.  If you wear a 
watch, it will mysteriously break.  Oh yeah!  You don't believe me?  I didn't 
believe it either until it happened to me...  really! :-)

Craig
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