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- From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: net.hugs?
- Keywords: Handy-Wipe, please?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.204858.18298@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 20:48:58 GMT
- References: <1992Nov20.210352.17644@orphan.nashvil.ingr.com> <y-qq9x-@lynx.unm.edu> <1992Nov23.192735.9804@orphan.nashvil.ingr.com>
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- In article <1992Nov23.192735.9804@orphan.nashvil.ingr.com> puter@orphan.nashvil.ingr.com (PuterDude) writes:
- >In article <y-qq9x-@lynx.unm.edu> blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
- >> puter@orphan.nashvil.ingr.com (PuterDude) writes:
- >
- >>>Since you're cross-postin' right back, is your readin' disability
- >>>confusin' you into believin' that ARC and alt.romance are the same?
- >>
- >>Alt.romance.chat was created a number of months back for the sole purpose of
- >>moving a running thread with 'cowpatty' and somebody else out of alt.romance
- >>so they (the alt.romance people) could talk about more important things,
- >>like White Knights and crap like that.
- >>Alt.romance and alt.romance.chat are damn near identical.
- >
- >I'm probably wrong, but I don't see them as "damn near identical". After
- >readin' a.r and ARC (along with soc.singles and soc.couples), I view a.r
- >as a more "mechanical" side of romance, where ARC has the banter. a.r IMHO
- >has more to do with (ie) what color of the rose denotes what emotion,
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- Just write the greeting card company, they'll tell ya that.
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- >engagement present ideas, lists of romantic songs, romantic first date
- >ideas, etc., where ARC contains the banter (running threads).
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- Just like I said same groups.
-
- > I don't view a.r as a "syrupy sweet" group. It mostly contains
- >references for romantic ideas, such as the ones I listed above.
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- I guess my reading disability just kicked in cause the definition
- of syrupy sweet is romantic songs, romantic first dates etc.
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- > ARC _is_ "syrupy sweet", and can be very annoyin'. But, so can
- >a month-long thread on "seesters". :)
-
- Got any? pooperdudettes that is?
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