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- From: fjvwing@cs.vu.nl (FJ!!)
- Subject: Re: long-term relationships...success stories, please...
- Message-ID: <C02zLH.9ut@cs.vu.nl>
- Sender: news@cs.vu.nl
- Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
- References: <1992Dec17.022140.21531@serval.net.wsu.edu> <RHAYDEN.92Dec24113742@hqsun2.oracle.com> <BzvoK4.537@agora.rain.com> <1992Dec27.155552.20863@spdcc.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:39:16 GMT
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- rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue) writes:
- : Person 1: What do you want for dinner?
- : Person 2: I dunno, what do yOU want for dinner?
- : Person 1: (Realizing that this is an infinite loop)
- : White Castle Burgers it is!
- : That usually prompts Person 2 to think of SOMETHING in
- :short order... :-)
- : Note that this also works in groups of people where N is greater
- :than 2. The person suggesting WCB (or something, like Denny's) has
- :to actually start heading for the car, etc. which makes some of the
- :other people believe [s]he is actually serious about it --- triggering
- :a defense mechanism and hopefully a better suggestion... :-)
-
- Then again, what also could happen is that Person N, N => 2, actually
- likes Denny's, and Person 1 finds him/herself in a dreadfull joint,
- wondering what went wrong....
- FJ!!
-