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Week 47 of 1995

Question How do you know so much and do you know anything about what you know?
Signed, joebike@xmission.com

BFD, pal, maybe somebody else cares.

Question Allison,Is there anything in life more important than messing with your windows 95 dial up connection settings and drinking cocoa? If so, please advise immediately.Thanks.
Signed, tcp/ip boy

I haven't answered this question, but you can.

QuestionWhat if Allison were Nosilla, Nosilla were Allison,and Ask Allison were Nosilla Ksa? What would beAllison's first question to Nosilla? Or, wouldAllison ever care to ask Nosilla any questionat all?
Signed, Nosilla Ksa

Well, I certainly don't care. Do you?

QuestionDear Allison,The web page looks good from Singapore. How does itlook there? Cherubial Bliss??
Signed, P Venkatesh Babu

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

QuestionDear Allison,I tried to hook up with the Telnet address bbsw.eyecom.com that i found on your leftovers but i got an error message. How do i get on this chat line?Thanks,
Signed, Accordia

Well, I certainly don't care. Do you?

Question Why aren't there ever guys that do Q&A advice columns? Men have a much more uncomplicated view of the world. Their answers aren't always so confusing an sarcastic. Maybe the world would be a better place, if us guys had the chance to answer people's questions.
Signed, Skale

I haven't answered this question, but you can.

Question Dear Allison, There is this girl in my class, she is so simple and i can't figure her out. What do you think I should do.??>!@#$#@
Signed, Really fucked up

BFD, pal, maybe somebody else cares.

Question Querida Allison! Entiendes espa–ol? Prque las mujeres siempre quieren estar solas y nunca nos dejan a nosotros , los hombres, estar solos.
Signed, drcigna0@alumnos.facea.uchile.cl

I haven't answered this question, but you can.

QuestionDear Allison, Are you really a man impersonating to be this extremely anal-retentive "Allison" that we have cometo know and love?
Signed, Redrum

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

QuestionHey Allison,What's up? What is all this shite about there beingfew/no women on the Net? I am a proud, militantBlack riot grrl anarchist and I'm on the Net!So What Gives?Later Dudette
Signed, Adabrat

BFD, pal, maybe somebody else cares.

QuestionWhat is the best way to pick up girls on the net. All the lines I use only work in person. I would really like to increase the number of women I can reach.
Signed, Toby

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

QuestionHey Allison will you make a contest to win a date with likeAnka did in Details ?
Signed, your favorite fag

BFD, pal, maybe somebody else cares.

Question Was the Castro a let down this year or what?Anne Bolyn and Henry were awesome, however. I thought Crash Worship was playing at the troc to.Oh well, foolish me...
Signed, ghede@well.com

Well, I certainly don't care. Do you?

QuestionWell, Allison.... hi!!O.k., so we don't get to see your photo. O.K. O.K.!But if it's really you who are writing all those "pieces",like the one about Loser here, you sure "read" well!But is it really you? Are you writing them all?Please answer truthfully.
Signed, Admirer

I haven't answered this question, but you can.

Question I was reading thru your column and I was wondering...How can a guy like me find a girl like you on the web to talk to.I like your attitude. Help me out here...
Signed, New User

Well, I certainly don't care. Do you?

QuestionDoes the fact that you answer all your female readers' questions politely and all your male readers' questions rudely mean you're a sexist,or is that a justifiable attitude of revolt against eons of brutal domination by thepatriarchy? Or are you trying to repress asubconscious wish that you'd been born male?Or do you like men really, you just think theyneed a little guidance on the path towards becomingnon-violent, passive and socially-aware citizens?
Signed, Wirehead

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

QuestionAllison, Don't be so hard on people named Rat, that too is my name. Remember that only the Rat lives in both the realm of the Onie and Man at the same time Besides there are people in your very workplace that know rodents are cool. Just ask around.... you will find them... Now for my question, did you have a nice vacation?
Signed, Rat rat@lfucg.com

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Question When you go to the movies, do you buy a large soda even though you know you'll have to pee before the movie is over?
Signed, John Gruber

BFD, pal, maybe somebody else cares.

QuestionDear Allison,Why do all guys have to concentrate on the size of a girls chest? I think there is much more to a girlthan her chest!
Signed, Nicole

I haven't answered this question, but you can.

QuestionDear Allison:How do you make those cool graphicstransparent to the page background?
Signed, Working on

I haven't answered this question, but you can.

Question Why is it that every time I identify myself as a lesbian (which I am) and some guy reads my page or my ad or whatever words I put out there he automatically thinks I just need a good man and/or I must be interested in a threesome with him and his female lover? Isn't there some way to put a posting in the galaxy somewhere that would simultaneously be permanently welded into every man's brain so that when I say I'm a lesbian they know that I mean that I am not looking for a date with a guy????
Signed, looking for lesbians on the net

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Question Are shy girls easier?
Signed, Wanting to **** really shy girl!

BFD, pal, maybe somebody else cares.

Questionallison- is there a mel brooks chat line out there anywhere?
Signed, the waco kid

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Question Ever notice that surfing the web is almost like reading stream of conciousness?
Signed, Mental Floss

Well, I certainly don't care. Do you?

Question Dear Allison
Somewhere in a past one of my past issues of wired,( I think in the street cred section ) there is a small article that speaks of a style of prison withonly one guard that can see all the inmates. What issue is this, what is the name of the concept andwill hotwired put up a search system to help poorsouls like me who have too many back issues to rootthrough them all.
Thanking you in Advance.
Signed, Richard.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

QuestionI like recipes. If you were made of eggs, and a few other 'sassy' ingredients thrown in, what would theybe and what would you be called?
Signed, Just David

BFD, pal, maybe somebody else cares.

QuestionDear Allison: If men are lame (and, do you agree?), what are women? (I would suggest catty, fickle, or capricious.)
Signed, You're never too young to be a cynic.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

QuestionDear Allison, In common parlance,do you think that 35 is over the hill?
Signed, J.D.

BFD, pal, maybe somebody else [an error occurred while processing this directive]cares.

QuestionThere are women engineers out there, I'm one of them, I must say that I agree that it is a very male dominated profession. I used to sit in department meetings in a "major" semiconductor manufacturer and estimated that when I first started that approximately 5% of the engineers were women, and after 10 years, it was 15%. (Not to mention that there were almost NO female managers) I's a slow process, but eventually those science teachers out there will BE women, and then we'll see....
Signed, Cheryll

Yeah, yeah, [an error occurred while processing this directive]yeah.

Question You are looking very saucy in your new picture Allisonhow about we put on some velvet and paint the town.
Signed, delerious

BFD, pal, maybe somebody else [an error occurred while processing this directive]cares.

Question I saw on Hotwired's home page "Allison is looking for chicks on the net" and I thought to myself, "hey, that's nothing new. I've been doing that for about a year now." From the porn chix to the lesbian chix to the women's lib chix, Allison you are the coolest chick I've come across so far.
Signed, Kev

Yeah, yeah, [an error occurred while processing this directive]yeah.