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From: pw@panix.com (Paul Wallich)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Name That Diamond!
Date: 4 Sep 92 18:34:31 GMT
Organization: Trivializers R Us

In article <ewillims.715604484@unix1.tcd.ie> ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:
>In <kiran.715593963@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
>>I don't know what the big deal is about Michelle Pfeiffer.  
>>She hasn't looked good since she grew her hair out.  
>>Now Diana Rigg, there's an attractive woman.
>
>	So my parents thought too and named me after her character
>"Emma Peel" in the Avengers.  Well, to be totally honest, that was
>why my father wanted to name me Emma! (*GRIN*)  My mother wanted 
>to name me that after the novel of the same name by Jane Austen.
>I know which one I'm most like! (*laughter*)

Egad! Will everyone who was probably watching the Avengers while
Emma was conceived raise their hands? It's the odd comment like
this that makes one suddenly feel ancient. (At least we can hope
she knows who the Beatles were...)

paul
From: jis@panix.com (Jack Szwergold)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Summary: dating a friend
Date: 26 Aug 92 03:45:25 GMT
Organization: Panix, NYC

In <29038@hydra.Helsinki.FI> taina@cs.Helsinki.FI (Juha Taina) writes:
>The other day I asked people if they would date a friend.  I got *three*
>replies.  Two would date a friend, one said that too much friendship
>is a bad thing.

I think that if you HAVE been good platonic friends for a long time, then
become more than "friends" can be incredibly awkward.   I would say no. 
To much at stake, such as losing the original friendship.  Trust me, I've
discussed this with my best friend (Who happenss to be a girl) in depth. 
It won't work.....

But....

If you really, both feel the urge to go further with your relationship, do
it.  Too often, I find that friends try to force a romantic relationship
only when they are 1) lonely 2)desperate 3) on the rebound 4) all of the
above.   This is NOT a good situation at all.  No relationship, no matter
how petty or how deep can ever be forced.  It takes time....

And that rule applies to any relationship, anywhere, anyhow......

See ya.....

Jack Szwergold
jis@panix.com
"A woman needs a man, like a fish needs a bicycle...."
From: pw@panix.com (Paul Wallich)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Seesters, I want the seesters.
Date: 31 Aug 92 21:19:25 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Trivializers R Us

In article <1992Aug31.184149.17277@cbfsb.cb.att.com> jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) writes:
>In article <1992Aug31.173144.27067@gvl.unisys.com> liz@prc.unisys.com (Liz Loquacious) writes:
>>
>>How could you even suggest that I might participate in
>>such a lewd activity, such debauchery! 
>>My place or yours?
>>
> What say the park? High noon? I'll bring the chandelier. You bring the
>rope?

I'll have you know that according to the Supreme Court the appropriate
location for high noon is Times Square, but only if you are at the same
time engaging in a valid political dialog.

paul
From: aahz@netcom.com (Aahzmandius)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: lurkers and parties and cons - oh my!
Date: 1 Sep 92 02:08:20 GMT
Organization: Bill 'n' Opus for Prez

In article <14382@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
>In article <85ucqB1w165w@wildrose.infoserv.com> rkf@wildrose.infoserv.com (Ray Fink) writes:
>|stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
>|> How about "I like to watch" ? :-)
>|Probably much more effective than "Could you make me some food?".
>How about a button which reads, "Will Post for Food".

The ProblemOlderWoman already does that.
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

So much Astroglide.  So little time.
From: wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Houghton and dah UP (was Re: Las Vegas )
Date: 31 Aug 92 00:37:18 GMT
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Kiran Wagle (kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu) wrote:
: wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien) writes:
: >I think it's the heaviest lift bridge, though not the longest.  It replaced
: >a bridge which rotated, until it didn't and was hit by an ore-carrier. This
: >was considerably before my time;  I've never figured out how people got back
: >and forth while they built the new one :-)
: 
: Drove around?  Or can you do that?

Nope.  I figure they probably got a ferry, but that's just guessing.

: 
: >As for eating places, the Library is definitely worth the trip.  If you like
: >folk music, try for Thursday and sit upstairs.  At least, that's when Gary
: >Tunstall used to play when I was there...
: 
: I've heard of it but not been there, alas.
Next time.  It's worth it. :-)
-- 
"Bless me, Father; I ate a lizard."
"Was it an abstinence day, and was it artificially prepared?"
-------------------------------------------------------------
Bill de Beaubien / wjb@moscom.com 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: walter (Walter Lego)
Subject: Re: Newspaper ads - code words?
Followup-To: soc.singles
Reply-To: nobody
Organization: Twisted Pair Inc.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 18:26:01 GMT

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?

						Walter

What disclaimer?
From: diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Desperation (was Re: Commitment--The C-word?)
Date: 30 Aug 92 20:59:30 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

In article <71749@apple.Apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
          (stuff from Doug Rudoff deleted here)
>
>No, you weren't supposed to ask her. I only disagreed with your assessment 
>that she was desperate. It simply looked to me (based on your previous
>post) as if she liked you. 
>
>After reading your previous post, it occurred to me that if other people 
>equate simple interest (wanting physical contact, phone calls) with
>desperation, and run for it when they encounter what they think is
>desperation, then it is no wonder so many people get LJBF'd -- perhaps they 
>lose interest in MOTAS who are interested in them, because they equate it with
>desperation, and only pursue those who are standoffish.
>
>I know that's not what you did in this instance. But it makes me wonder. If
>that's what's happening, it's a shame...
>
>::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
>Stef                  It is Maya! Dost thou not know her?
>stef@apple.com        Illusion -- dreams -- phantoms.
>                      But, to the wise, Maya is more.     Holst, "Savitri"
 
I sorta feel obliged to say *somthing* after all this disparaging talk about lurkers- hi,
everybody!  Boy, it sure is bright out here- it was darker under my rock. :-)

Anyway, I found this post interesting, because somebody pointed out to me recently that I've been
doing exactly what's described above; interpreting interest as 'desperation' and pursuing
only people weren't acting interested.  This, as you might guess, is not terribly effective,
and yet, as irrational as it  seems, I'm doing it myself and I've observed many of my friends doing
this too.

Anybody else noticed this tendency in themselves, or in others?  I can'd decide if this happens
because of Groucho Marx Syndrome ("I wouldn't want to date anyone desperate enough to have me")
or because standoffish people are a challenge, or what.  Any ideas?  (And any rehabilitation
suggestions for a sufferer)?

					Diamond
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Subject: Re: Desperation (was Re: Commitment--The C-word?)
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 06:23:57 GMT

diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams) writes:

>I haven't asked anyone out because I don't *know* anybody yet.  I'm pretty
>forward, but I draw the line at mugging complete strangers (although

You must meet loads of men during your daily activities.  You don't need
to know them in order to ask them out and spend time getting to know them.  

>Eating alone isn't much fun, though.  

Huh.  Don't let people around here know that; you'll be labelled "needy"...

>Especially since I can't afford to buy furniture, and my new apartment 
>is full of fleas, so I'm sort of camping in the dining nook... 
>not only is the company boring, but the ambiance lacks a trifle. :-) 

Well, you certainly can't serve guests without a tablecloth (says
Robert Farrar Capon in _Party Spirit_)  but a tablecloth can cover a
wretched table.

As for the company, I'm sure you're quite charming.  

And ambience depends on the company, after all... ;)
-- 
Kiran Wagle     <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>     (812) 335-0420
From: jis@panix.com (Jack Szwergold)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Name That Diamond!
Date: 4 Sep 92 16:25:48 GMT
Organization: Panix, NYC

>	So my parents thought too and named me after her character
>"Emma Peel" in the Avengers.  Well, to be totally honest, that was
>why my father wanted to name me Emma! (*GRIN*)  My mother wanted 
>to name me that after the novel of the same name by Jane Austen.
>I know which one I'm most like! (*laughter*)

So I guess you either go out with guys who wear bowlers and whack people
with umbrellas, or you sit around most of the time wistfully think aboout
love and life. 
:)

Jack
jis@panix.com

PS: At least your dad didn't name you after Patrick MacGoohan.....

PPS:  Michelle Pfeiffer is good looking... at times, but then she look's
like hell at other times also.  Hey, at least she'd human.  I mean even
Claudia Schiffer looks like crap when she wakes up.....

PPPS: I knew a girl in High School who would constantly tell me that she
would never let her husband see her without makeup on, and would go as far
as waking up an hour before he does to do this.  I don't know if that's a
threat, compliment or what....

PPPPS:  Not like this has anything to do with anything, but I also knew a
girl in elementary school who ate lip balm (Chapstick) ever day after lunch.
You may vomit now if you like.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux)
Subject: Life's Little Joys as we grow younger
Organization: Castle WetWare Philosopher and Sniper
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 14:07:48 GMT

Was: Subject: Re: Do true babes improve with age?
Coud Have Been Subject: Sorry, Kiran is no FratBoy

stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
] kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
] 
] >many women over some age, say 30 for instance, seem (how shall i
] >put it gently... oh heck) stuffy, stodgy, less alive, they just don't
] >seem as much fun as younger women, who seem in general to have a lot
] >more energy.  
] 
] You're sounding rather like FratBoy.

Nope, Not Fully BrainAddled With the Ignorance of Youth....

] >Since an exuberant passion for life is one of the things i find most
] >attractive, I can understand at least this appeal of a younger woman.  
] 
] It seems awfully superficial to measure someone's passion for life by the
] amount of energy they have at any given time.


Once upon a time I had the grave misfortune of
being thirtysomething married with children and
a college freshman to boot....

The most distressing part in it all was this young
college co_ed sat next to me the first day of the
first class of the term... and with the regularity
of the matter my Knee Locked Up on me....

charming Moment, as My books tossed off those 
silly DeskChairOid things, into the aisle next
to her..... I felt relieved, and amused to be
acting like a Freshman Again.....

Unfortunately needing to walk with a walking
stick, regardless how elegant, just does not
give one that vibrant sense of youthful ignorance.

Now life has moved on and My ProblemOlderWoman is
still suffering from HeteroSexuality....

and ....

oh what was that little whipper snapper's question?

ciao
drieux






-- 
If I have Told You Once, I've Told You a Thousand Times:
To Keep Good Girls From Going Badm
Put them back in the Refrigerator.
This Also Works for Stale NFS Handles.
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Las Vegas
Date: 26 Aug 92 22:21:08 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <4033@moscom.UUCP> wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien) writes:
|Cindy Glass (cfg@cray.com) wrote:
|If I could just figure out how to do everything I do via modem... or internet...
There are a few things that I do that I would definately not prefer to
do via modem...
-- 
+============================================================================++
| John Fereira            "Is that all you ever think about?"                |
| johnf@auspex.com                                                           |
+============================================================================++
From: rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu (Michael Rawdon)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: How'd You Get Here?? (Was:Lurkers)
Date: 31 Aug 92 19:29:23 GMT
Reply-To: rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu
Organization: University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Dept., Madison, WI

In <14378@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
>In article <1992Aug30.210542.19542@cs.wisc.edu> rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu writes:
>|I read about 70 newsgroups, though only a few in any depth.  I'm also an
>|advocate of the "better newsreaders solves newsgroup volume problems,
>|splitting the group does not" philosophy.

>We could use you over in the rec.music groups.  There are probably more
>new newsgroup proposals there than any place else on the net.  Now that 
>school is starting again that will probably increase again by December.

I was a very vocal opponent of rec.music.rush (which was defeated on its first
vote, but for all I know there may have been a second by now).  I was also a
vocal opponent of alt.music.rush, which was created over many loud
objections, and I refuse to read or post to the group.

But I sadly don't read either rec.music.misc or alt.rock-n-roll deeply
enough any more to get embroiled in many of the split flamewars there...

-- 
Michael Rawdon	    rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu  [Note new address!]
University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Department, Madison, WI

RandomSort:  It sorts numbers in constant order time, but does not guarantee 
correctness.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: orc@usite-next.uchicago.edu (David Parsons)
Subject: Re: Powerful forces of nature conspire
Organization: Ministry of Skritching
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 03:17:09 GMT

In article <ztbntwj@lynx.unm.edu> blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
|Oh, yeah, and what is a 'sweltering hot' day in Wisconson? 
|50 degrees?

   Tch.  Obviously never looked at weathermaps.  In Wisconsin, 80-99 is
sweltering hot and 100+ is waytoofuckinghot.

   Unless you were talking 50 Centigrade, which is wee bit warmer than
most anyplace on this planet gets.
                __
  david parsons \/ orc@pell.chi.il.us
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: cfg@cray.com (Cindy Glass)
Subject: Re: Las Vegas
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 1 Sep 92 07:26:21 CDT

rkf@wildrose.infoserv.com (Ray Fink) writes:
>cfg@cray.com (Cindy Glass) writes:
>> (Unless 'down the road' means at *LEAST* a 2 hour drive away!!)  You 
>> can keep the glitzy neon lights out of my dreams - thank you very
>> much James!!
>> ...... 
>> On the other hand - if you want to join in - how about a sporting goods
>> retail/rental place.  Put on your jeans and flannel shirt - you might
>> even get to help 'first time rock climber females' get fitted for their 
>> climbing harnesses and 'baby climbing shoes'! :)
>
>Some bad news for you, Cindy (and James).  Neon, lots of neon lycra, is
>de rigeur for sport climbers out here (Idaho/Wyoming) nowadays.  
>Clerks in sporting goods stores are expected to be wearing the latest,
>of course, so the jeans&flannel routine doesn't sell much softwear.

Well, Ray, there is always the possiblity that this place just 'might'
be SOOOOOOOOOOO (there goes that Wisconsin accent again) far out of the
way, that there 'might' be neon lycra in the store - but, I'll be damned
if I have to wear it to have somebody else buy it!  It kind of becomes
a 'capitive audience' situation.  Heck, you slap the name of some place
on some piece of clothing and 'they' will buy it anyway!

>
>Now, shall we check the fit on those lycra tights?
>
>-- Ray

Didn't Stef mention something about taking this to alt.lycra.fetish or
something?  Geeze Ray - do you say this to all the females you meet!?!

Cindy
From: stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Las Vegas
Date: 30 Aug 92 22:14:15 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:

>In article <71743@apple.Apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
>|Stef                 Cum deliramus,
>|stef@apple.com       ea numina significamus             --"Profuit ignaris"
>                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>I don't know what this means but it sure sounds like see explain in explicit
>detail.

I'm not sure what the last half of your sentence means, but here is
a detailed translation (someone with a better poetic sense than I is
welcome to supply a more elegant translation).

cum = with or by. deliramus = we go crazy, we run riot. ea numina = the 
gods' will. significamus = we signify, denote, become, announce. "It is 
when we run riot that we signify the gods." Or "By running riot, we do the 
will of the gods." Or "It is when we run riot that we announce the will of 
the gods." Or "By going crazy, we signify the will of the gods." 

"Profuit ignaris," "12th century poem of sexual invitation written by a 
churchman to some young women who are behind the walls of a cloister. 
The speaker turns his simple request into an elaborate argument considering the 
purposes of love as the guiding principle of nature and the cosmos." --
Leonard Barkan, THE GODS MADE FLESH: METAMORPHOSIS AND THE PURSUIT OF 
PAGANISM

Explicit detail about what happened as a result of the poem's being written
is left to your imagination.

I knew my four years working at a university press would come in handy
someday.

--
Stef                 "What would *you* call the creation of the universe?"
stef@apple.com       "The Horrendous Space Klablooie!"             
                                                              - Watterson
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Subject: Re: Mexican food in Boston? Blecch!!!!
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 08:40:31 GMT

thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:

>True.  With Legal Seafood (or the omnipresent Pizzeria Uno's (belch),
>who needs Mexican in Boston?

Legal's and No-Name's stars are plummeting and Dolphin's is rising fast
(according to Sandra--Hi! and various rec.food.restaurants ppl.)

-- 
Kiran Wagle     <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>     (812) 335-0420
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Subject: Re: Name That Diamond!
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 08:06:03 GMT

diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams) writes:
>(I think the fact that I don't look much like Michelle Pfeiffer
>was one of the biggest problems in the relationship).

*snort*  You're not serious?  
In that case you are probably much better off without him.

I don't know what the big deal is about Michelle Pfeiffer.  
She hasn't looked good since she grew her hair out.  
Now Diana Rigg, there's an attractive woman.

-- 
"Pedigree, n.  The known part of the route from an arborial ancestor
 with a swim bladder to an urban ancestor with a cigarette."
 ............................Ambrose Beirce, _The Devil's Dictionary_
-- 
Kiran Wagle     <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>     (812) 335-0420
From: pw@panix.com (Paul Wallich)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Finding Romantic Partners (on the net)
Date: 27 Aug 92 19:46:15 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Trivializers R Us

In article <1992Aug26.110643.6071@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> allisson@turing.toronto.edu (H. Allisson Roome) writes:
>In article <1992Aug24.223555.20414@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.ibm.com writes:
>>In  <4015@moscom.UUCP>  wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien) writes:
>>> H. Allisson Roome (allisson@turing.toronto.edu) wrote:
>>> : Now, Larry, you promised that you wouldn't lock me in the hammock swing
>>> : again with the handcuffs ...
>>>
>>> Leg-cuffs this time?
>>
>>Don't encourage her; she's just trying to make Paul jealous.  :-)
>
>Umm .. how could I do that?  I never knew friends got jealous over their
>friends liasons ... besides, I know where my heart is and it's not NYC.

Have I just been LJBF'd in front of 100,000 people?
It's a good thing I'm an equanimatous and thoroughly
non-jealous, unpossessive human being (not to mention
still slightly dazed with lack of sleep after the Bonnie
Raitt/Lyle Lovett concert -- my friend JV, who got the other
last-minute ticket, opined that Lyle is what you would get if
kd lang and Bruce Springsteen had a kid and gave it up for adoption
to Peewee Herman... but that's another story)

paul     ask me about columbus, i dare ya
From: rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu (Michael Rawdon)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Powerful forces of nature conspire
Date: 30 Aug 92 20:53:00 GMT
Reply-To: rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu
Organization: University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Dept., Madison, WI

In <1992Aug26.235716.25668@walter.cray.com> cfg@cray.com (Cindy Glass) writes:
>rON (blowfish@carina.unm.edu) writes:
>>Oh, yeah, and what is a 'sweltering hot' day in Wisconson? 
>>50 degrees?

>A 'bit' warmer than that - 50 degrees is about what I found in
>New Mexico when I was there at the end of May!!

But that was Celsius, right? :-)

-- 
Michael Rawdon	    rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu  [Note new address!]
University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Department, Madison, WI

"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't
 even know existed can render your own computer unusable."
			- Leslie Lamport, as quoted in CACM, June 1992
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: aahz@netcom.com (Aahzmandius)
Subject: Re: I AM *NOT* AN AI (or a turing test). Yeah right.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 18:31:42 GMT
Organization: Bill 'n' Opus for Prez
Distribution: na

In article <1992Aug26.162746.7578@news2.cis.umn.edu> lsmith@giga.cs.umn.edu (Lance "Squiddie" Smith) writes:
>
>Just a bit of net.history:
>
>The only known AI to post to the net was Project Desiree from SRC. All 
>other AI rumors have proven to be false. The last word was that the AI
>technology involved with Project Desiree had been adapted to an overseas
>amphibian experiment. Details remain elusive.
>
>And now you know the rest of the net.story.

???  Maybe you mean "SRI"?  In any case, Project Desiree was moved back
to the States for a brief period, then back overseas again.  It is not
certain what the project is doing, but it is certainly not amphibious
anymore.
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

So much Astroglide.  So little time.