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- From: bhv@areaplg2.corp.mot.com (Bronis Vidugiris)
- Subject: Re: How come?
- Organization: Motorola, CCR&D, CORP, Schaumburg, IL
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:04:47 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.180447.24824@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>
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- In article <4439@unisql.UUCP> wrat@unisql.UUCP (wharfie) writes:
- )
- ) How come if you go out to lunch with a bunch of men, you get
- )the check and it's, like, forty bucks so you go "Right, 10 bucks each,
- )I'll leave the tip" but if you go out to lunch with a bunch of *women*
- )it's, like, "Well, *I* had the chopped liver and the small ice tea so
- )I owe $4.97" and "*I* didn't have any dessert so I only owe $3.23" and
- )so on until you're waiting for someone to whip out the ol' Hewlett-Packard
- )with 59 programmable functions and figure it out to the 9th decimal
- )place? Why is that, huh?
-
- Actually, I used to do the HP bit when I was younger, but it was just
- too much work and I stopped.
-
- BTW - the official inflamatory answer to your question is 'It's because
- men are sooooo rich, and women are sooooo pooooooooooor'. :-) (??)
-