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From: thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow)
Subject: Re: men in their thirties who never dated
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 03:01:44 GMT
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
Keywords: lime pie
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In <1992Sep25.235130.18575@odin.corp.sgi.com> lana@magenta.corp.sgi.com (Lana Mountford) writes:

>I work in Silicon Valley, and the general
>topic of social conversation is -- you guessed it -- our respective
>companies.   

Sheesh!  This is a better thing to talk about than sports???

Rob T  ("Shop talk!  Run away!!  Run away!!")
--
Rob Thurlow, Networking Technical Leader
Convex Computer Corporation, Richardson, TX
(214) 497-4405
From: diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: men in their thirties who never dated
Date: 28 Sep 92 19:11:19 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

In article <ewright.717696345@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:

>However, there are other 
>people out there who would like to honestly and openly discuss issues
>in soc.singles that they cannot discuss without being howled down by
>Charlie Martin and the wolf pack.  They would lose. 

Ed, there are two problems with this reasoning.  First of all, since
we're communicating in a written medium, it is impossible for anyone to
be drowned out; if there are a bunch of people out there that want to
discuss certain issues, no one can stop them.  The worst that anyone
can do is try to intimidate them into shutting up- and that's what
kill files are for!  Secondly, as far as I can tell (note: this is
a statement of my OPINION) right at the moment this discussion is not
about an 'issue', it's about you personally.

>If there is even a remote chance that I can convince just one
>person on the net that it *isn't* okay to treat someone like scum
>just because of his or her appearance, and one person suffers less
>because of it, I consider that worth my efforts.   

This is a pretty good reason.  I'm just not sure that your methods of
persuasion are likely to bring about the results you desire.  If you'll
read back through this argument, there are people who AGREE with this
point (that physical appearance should not be much of a consideration when
selecting a romantic partner, that the parts of a person's 'appearance'
that matter don't have much to do with basic phenotype, etc.) who still
find your posts difficult to cope with.   I'm one of them!  My most 
serious relationship to date was with a man I found not only not attractive
but actively ugly the first time we met.  Even when you're preaching to
the converted, you're having trouble.  Perhaps your style could use
some polishing?

Why are you willing to be so open-minded about looks, but not other aspects
of a person's makeup?  As you say, there's a lot of physical room between
Slug of the Century and Arnold S., but there's also a lot of room between
the 'serving wench' you described in a previous post and women with both
ZERO interests in sports and doctoral degrees in one of a few disciplines.
Would you reject a woman just because she liked to go to the occasional
baseball game, if she also enjoyed some of your favorite pursuits and
was willing to discuss them and participate in them with you?

>Do you spend all of your time "out there looking?"  Or do you
>concentrate your efforts on those times when there's a reasonably 
>probability of meeting someone?  

No, I spend some of it in here looking. :-)  Seriously, no, I don't, but
I'm not the one with the problem, so what I do isn't pertinent.  

				--Diamond

diamond@acpub.duke.edu |  "*Think* before you ask these questions, Mitch."
Elizabeth S. Abrams    |   			--Chris Knight
From: aaron@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: The Engaged Psychobitch from Hell Syndrome
Date: 28 Sep 92 11:28:26 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Emma Williams (ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie) wrote:
: >I've seen it.  I don't know "how", but it is, therefore it is
: >possible.
: 
: 	I still reserve judgement till I've really seen it work
: myself...I've seen it attempted and end in total unmitigated
: disaster!
: 


	I've seen it attempted as well ('open' relationships) and it
	is extremely confusing when it 'breaks up'. The two concerned
	still slept together after breaking up, only now they were
	supposed to be friends rather than lovers although I was confused
	as to what the difference between what was happening at that point
	and what had gone before actually was (!!???!!).

	In the end she found someone else with which to have a monogamous
	relationship (he dumping his live-in girlfriend of three years
	in the same week her mother died) leaving the man rather confused
	with lots of other people saying that he shouldn't be upset because
	the relationship had been over for ages although he had been getting
	conflicting messages.

	My advice: don't try it kids.

	
			Aaron Turner


	
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
Subject: Re: What we find attractive
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 10:06:21 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.125547.3934@umr.edu> bolsen@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Brian Olsen) writes:
>In article <1992Sep28.101825.2248@access.digex.com> huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:
>>In article <1992Sep27.234044.27503@umr.edu> bolsen@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Brian Olsen) writes:
>>>In article <1992Sep27.181250.26579@access.digex.com> huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:
>>>>Here are some results from various psychological studies expressed as
>>>>correlation coefficients:
>>>>
>[deleted stuff]
>>>
>>>By the way, how do you measure your finger?  From the middle of the
>>>knuckle?
>>
>>Good question!  Since my hands are still covered by muscle and skin, I
>>measured from the flexure line at the base of the finger.
>>
>>>If so I should have women falling all over me on that alone
>>>(12.4 cm left, 12.5 cm right).  Any takers?
>>
>>Well, those studies indicate that women with long fingers should be attracted
>>to your long fingers and you to theirs, not that everyone is going to find
>>long fingers attractive.  Perhaps more pertinently, did you take lessons
>>on the piano, harp, or guitar?
>>
>>-- Herb Huston
>
>Hmmmm....yes, I took 5 years of piano lessons and then continued
>myself.  I also play a couple of renaissance instruments:  viol da
>gamba (both bass and treble), and I occasionally recorder (but my first
>love is to sing, beyond the math/EE thing, that is...).

"Hey, guys, it's not how big they are but how skillfully you can use them."
--Anonymous

>I do notice,
>however, that one of my requirements for being physically attracted to
>someone I see involves the general shape of their hands...in fact, it
>can be one of the major disqualifiers in my book (makes me sound
>superficial, huh?)

No, merely human.

-- Herb Huston
From: cfg@cray.com (Cindy Glass)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Not sure.
Date: 30 Sep 92 20:19:54 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.

In article <1act37INNmmv@uwm.edu> markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:
>In article <1992Sep30.183058.18803@cbfsb.cb.att.com> jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) writes:
>>
>>Dear Abby,
>> I wonder if you can help me with a problem I've been having.
>>You see I'm really not into this fitness thing. I don't see what
>>people get out of it. I mean health clubs are just full of these
>>obnoxious stuck up guys in love with their own bodies. The women are
>>just more of the same. They don't care about their minds elst they
>>would not waste time in health clubs the'd be at the library.
>
>I have 2 degrees, soon to have a third, taught myself Calculus in a couple
>evenings at 16, know several languages, have excellent artistic ability,
>am a highly lucid writer, calculate square roots in my head, read
>encyclopedias, dictionaries, yearbooks and history books simply for the
>enjoyment, constantly browse through the entire (reachible set of) contents of
>all the machines located at this node, exhaustively browse through entire
>sections of the library on frequent occasions, read machine binaries, and
>I'm currently working on 3 software consulting projects, 2 business projects,
>2 class programming projects, 1 class paper, and 1 class report.
>
>I love to lift weights, and much of the above first occurred or was greatly
>accentuated/accelerated after working out.
>
>So you're going to tell me that the mind atrophies? :)
>
>(smashes that 100 word sentence barrier!)


Mark - 
 
  I think it has been awhile since you have had an English class, hasn't it?
You might want to go back to English 101 and work on those 'run on' sentences,
they tend to look REAL bad on the resume - providing you ever get over 
being a professional student! (Errrrrrrrr studnet.....net.stud....)

  :-)
From: brentaa@ac.dal.ca (brent, eh?)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: a new thread, see what you think....
Date: 2 Oct 92 16:20:15 -0300
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <m#ap+_j@lynx.unm.edu>, blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:

(Previous stuff deleted) 
> Pretty simple, I think. She gets the opportunity to spend some significant time
> away from you. Decides that she likes it. Takes off.
> How to fix?
> Give her (or your next her :) more space. Encourage her to take a day off or
> two from the relationship. Don't be calling her every day. People need vacations
> away from one another- even the closest couples I've known.
> You'll find things to be much stronger that way, and not as easy to break
> apart when she has to go away for a more extended period.
> r.
> 
	Well, I figured that out for myself after the first time that it 
happened.(of course, my next girlfriend complained that I wasn't paying enough
attention to her...sheesh!)  Still the same thing happened....
	Nice try though.....:-)
					-Brontosaur can't get it right...

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: hymowitz@whatever.cs.jhu.edu (Hymie!)
Subject: Re: The Four Food Groups (was: something else)
Organization: Creative Sensualities dept, Jacquie's House of Underwear
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 01:02:25 GMT

and lo, there was much rejoicing among the people, as
nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes:
>In article <Bvoyz7.BJz@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
>>jmd@bear.com (Josh Diamond) writes:
>>>I always believed that a good breakfast must contain the four food groups: 
>>>	Caffiene, Salt/Preservatives, Fat, Sugar, Carbohydrates

>>The four food groups are actually Pizza, Chocolate, Ice Cream, & Barbecue.

>Oh pfui.  The four food groups are lobster, bagels, pistachio nuts, and
>chocolate pudding.

>In college they were caffeine, ketchup, nicotene, and weiner winks (dorm
>food.)

ah, bright college days...

macaroni-n-cheese, pizza, ice-cream, caffeine.

which did wonders for me when i became lactose intolerant...

--hymie
hymowitz@cs.jhu.edu                                         hymie@jhuvms.bitnet
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If I weren't afraid you'd laugh at me, I would run and take all of your hands
and I'd gather everyone together for a day. And when we're gathered, I'd pass
buttons out that say, "Beautiful People." Then you'll never be alone, 'cause
there'll always be someone with the same button on as you.            --Melanie
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From: nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: men in their thirties who never dated
Date: 29 Sep 92 13:24:28 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: AT&T

In article <1992Sep28.234241.420@linus.mitre.org> wtr@mitre.org (Bill Ralston) writes:
>>superior morally because you are going to be alive and well and contributing
>>to the lives of people ...
>I'm calling you on this one.  I can think of a large number of people who 
>work in Washington DC (e.g. the large number of rather pot-bellied (or is 
>that pork-bellied) congressmen) for which the world would be a better 
>place if they all just died of obesity! :-/

Why wish death?  Why not wish that they spend the rest of their lives
working out and staying healthy and getting out of politics?  Whoever
these people of which you speak are, they probably have families and 
friends who love them.  Let's not be selfish.  :-)

-Nance
-- 
Nance Colucci  *^*^*^*^*^*    o__    *^*^*^*^*  |  Work that body!
att!ihlpk!colucci            _.>/               | Stay fit for life.
                            (_) \(_)                           
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From: crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.romance,alt.romance.chat,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: How long has it been?
Date: 6 Oct 92 16:01:34 GMT
Followup-To: soc.singles
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <1992Oct6.134605.16183@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mneeley@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark Neeley) writes:
>How long has it been since you were kissed by a member of
>the opposite sex?
>
>	Mark (almost a year)

Just under three hours.


-- 
Lauren Crawford  //  crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu
From: hymowitz@whatever.cs.jhu.edu (Hymie!)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: net_sex
Date: 3 Oct 92 20:27:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: blaze.1992Oct3.202739.1531
Distribution: usa
Organization: Creative Sensualities dept, Jacquie's House of Underwear

and lo, there was much rejoicing among the people, as
gtagle@hounix.org (Gerry Tagle) writes:
>Anyone out there have a fantasy
>to share with me? 

i had always kinda dreamed that poeple would stop posting personal ads.

and i always liked the idea of people who quote 100 lines of text and 14
lines of .sig only to add a line of comment and another 14 lines of .sig
being forced to read war and peace and write a book report for the next day.

--hymie
hymowitz@cs.jhu.edu                                         hymie@jhuvms.bitnet
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From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Birthday Party Reminder
Date: 26 Sep 1992 10:38:27 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: ca
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

In article jimmy@finch.scac.edu (Jimmy Tubbs) writes:
|> Why?  They're all the same: fat, oblivious, unattractive, smelly, nerds
|> with no social skills whatsoever.
|> 
|> If someone brings a liposuction machine, you can have a 
|> "Suck-the-Cellulite" party.

In article <1992Sep26.022526.27025@gvl.unisys.com> liz@prc.unisys.com (Liz Loquacious) writes:
>With a name like Tubbs you come out with this??
>
>Liz Loquacious

If names are self-descriptive, what do we do with you?

(You must look a lot like your sisters and mother :))
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: "Raistlin Majere" <p00139@psilink.com>
Subject: Re: Nice Guys (noooooooo!)
Organization: Tower of High Sorcer - Palanthas
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 00:44:44 GMT
X-Mailer: PSILink (3.2)

>DATE:   24 Sep 92 18:20:45 GMT
>FROM:   Michael Gordon Weaver <weaver@jetsun.weitek.COM>
>

>    The guy is in a classic bind. Imagine a gambler, who has lost a lot
>of money, but stays in the game because he is sure that he will win
>it all back. 

	FOLD! FOLD!! FOLD!!! - obviously the man isn't a 
	gambler.

The more that he loses, the more important it is to win
>back what he has lost, and so he continues to lose. This guy is like
>that. He has put a lot of effort in to this (perhaps most of the effort
>went into convincing himself to risk rejection), and he has lost a lot
>of self-esteem. 

	That's not all he'll lose before she's through with
	him............
*****************************************************************************
		"We've all got it comin' sometime, kid."
					- Clint Eastwood, "Unforgiven"
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		Raistlin Majere @ Tower of High Sorcery - Palanthas
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: hays@TECHNET.NM.ORG (Larry 'Purple' Hays)
Subject: Re: Adventure on the docks
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 15:37:02 GMT
Organization: New Mexico Technet   Albuquerque, NM
Reply-To: hays@TECHNET.NM.ORG

In article <1992Sep23.150328.20981@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>, mel@niblick.ecn.purdue.edu (Meloney D Cregor) writes:
>In article <g46n-tb@lynx.unm.edu> hays@TECHNET.NM.ORG writes:
>>In article <pw6n5lp.aahz@netcom.com>, aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine) writes:
>>>>                  P I P P I   L O N G S H O R E M A N
>>Apparently, you and I both ended up on the cutting room floor.
>
>Sheesh.  Ya go away for a while and come back and Larry and Aahz are
>down on the floor together.

Join us!  Join us!

>What has this group come to......

Same as it ever was...

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Larry 'Purple' Hays                                   hays@technet.nm.org

This ain't no party.  This ain't no disco.  This ain't no foolin' around.
From: myhui@bnr.ca (Michael Hui)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Acceptance!
Date: 27 Sep 92 20:08:11 GMT
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa, Canada

Today, GCTHORNE@idbsu.idbsu.edu ("Broward " Bail Out " Horne") wrote:

>From: loosemore-sandra@CS.YALE.EDU (Sandra Loosemore)

>>I seem to be managing to hang out on campus forever myself (without
>>even trying very hard!), and it's not all it's cracked up to be.  You
>>get old, the students stay eternally young, and you see all the people
>>your own age settling down with "real" jobs and getting married and
>>moving out into the suburbs.  It can be a pretty lonely life.

>       Yeah?  Well, Corporate America ain't either.  I'll take a
>       campus ANY day.  HERE I get to do all kinds of interesting
>       and complicating things, worthy of my skills.  At
>       SAVIN/LITTON/TERADYNE/HP ( choose one )  I got a line.

The key is to stay long enough in school and launch yourself into
industry at the right entry level. Then, you'll find lots of
complicated and interesting things to do. Of course, a lot also depends
on your motivational level once you're in industry, and on how quickly
you learn on the job and adapt to the environment, rather than blindly
apply the same political skill set you learned at school. The two
environments are not the same.

Or, you can be like me: take evening graduate-level courses while
working full time, and even enroll in other undergraduate programs
part time in another completely different field, only attending
classes at night. I believe this is the best of both worlds.

Michael MY Hui          myhui@bnr.ca           Ottawa Canada
From: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Help! Over the counter nausea medication?????
Date: 29 Sep 92 20:11:36 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.6x+p#d=.aahz
Distribution: na
Organization: Bill 'n' Opus for Prez

In article <14819@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
>In article <thurlow.717393705@convex.convex.com> thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:
>|>Edward Wright posts again.
>|>Mikeeeeeey posts again.
>|Raistlin Majere, you forgot Raistlin Majere.  Just when you thought
>|it couldn't get any worse ...
>Yes it could.  Ted Kaldis could start posting to soc.singles again.

Say!  Has Teddy K*ld*s met Mutlu yet?
-- 
                         --- 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.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart)
Subject: Re: Asking advice
Organization: my opinions only
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 21:15:57 GMT

In article <117@cnmhnet.UUCP> keithg@cnmhnet.UUCP
(keith garrard) writes:

>however, it is a generally accepted Psychological Theory, that 
>Public Displays of Affection [PDA] are a symptom of insecurity
>on the part of one or both of the parties involved.

Speaking from my own personal experience, bullshit.

Then again, the only Generally Accepted Psychological Theory that
seems at all believable is the First Law of Animal Behavior (which
applies to humans as well): "Even under the most carefully controlled
scientific conditions, animals do as they damn well please."  The same
rule applies to inanimate objects as well; in that case, it's called
"Murphy's Law".

>  Consequently, the old
>cliche that states "...the meek shall inherit the earth..."
>has merit.

I think the experience of this group is that if the meek want to
inherit the earth, they'd better do it this generation (since they're
not going to have another :-)  At least, that's true for me.

Seth		sethb@fid.morgan.com
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: hankd@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (Hank Dietz)
Subject: Exercise mania ( was: The great fitness debate)
Summary: Do, but don't overdo
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 02:54:30 GMT

These comments about exercise being so important really bother me.

I'm 32 years old, exercise mostly as a side-effect of doing things that
I like to do, and am noticeably more fit than many of the people I know
who aggressively exercise for the sake of exercise alone.  What's more,
I don't cause myself injury on a regular basis, while my seriously
exercising friends often break bones, pull muscles, etc.  It might be
true that exercise helps, but MODERATION is the key.  Overly intense
exercise is a great way to do serious harm to yourself -- although the
endorphins (spelling?) might make that feel good anyway.  ;-)

						-hankd
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams)
Subject: Re: The spice of life
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 17:22:29 GMT

In <1992Sep29.162306.13106@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:

>In article <ewillims.717614514@unix1.tcd.ie> ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:
>>In <1992Sep25.183620.1769@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
>>
>>>unapproachable; maybe you need to try looking less intimidating like I
>>>do (dressed all in black, 6'4", 250#, fangs (no, I'm not kidding about
>>>the fangs part--kinda silly for a strict vegetarian to have fangs, but
>>>they actually do come in useful)).
>>> 
>>>Trygve
>>
>>	Aha!  Now I know why you have a dungeon in your castle!:)
>>Vampires always need them.  Vampires are also extremely sexually
>>and sensuously attractive!:)  Vampires don't eat meat either.
>>
>>Mmmmmm.........:)

>Hmmmm...well, that could explain a lot--my habit of staying up through
>the night and sleeping late, the level of endurance, and my fondness for
>nibbling on necks (and other areas as well).  Now I guess the thing to
>do is start working on the whole changing-into-a-bat thing; just think
>how much I could save on airfare!


	Yeah, but getting the hang of it in the beginning is a pain....
you keep wobbling off course and crashing into trees!:)
Anyway, a wolf is much sexier....(*GRIN*)
 

>Trygve   (I just hope a king-sized watercoffin isn't too untraditional....)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart)
Subject: Re: Cars and such
Organization: my opinions only
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 21:17:45 GMT

In article <14822@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
>I found this string over in ba.general and thought it would be more 
>appropriate here...
>
>|>>Happy owner of a new Mitsubishi Expo.
>|>
>|>Happier owner of a new Mazda RX-7.  Wanna drag for pink slips?
>|>
>|
>|Confident owner of a new Sears Riding mower. Yeah, I wanna race for pink slips!

OK.  You won.  You're fired.

Seth		sethb@fid.morgan.com

Newsgroups: soc.singles