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- From: jsp@uts.amdahl.com (James Preston)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: Financial first-date negotiations
- Message-ID: <095M03fBc6=w00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 21:19:49 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.164644.1059@walter.bellcore.com> <102842@netnews.upenn.edu> <102845@netnews.upenn.edu> <1992Dec22.000021.14160@cs.ucla.edu>
- Reply-To: jsp@pls.amdahl.com
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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- gds@york.cs.ucla.edu (Greg Skinner) writes:
-
- }In article <102845@netnews.upenn.edu> crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
- }>Well, I asked around a little bit this weekend on this topic, and
- }>wasn't able to uncover a single opinion like the ones I'm hearing in
- }>this group. Most people I talked to -- male and female -- expressed
- }>some degree of amazement, confirming my theory that this is a
- }>cross-planetary discussion.
-
- }Perhaps this is because some of us, instead of accepting traditional
- }roles, have chosen to question those roles and define roles for
- }ourselves more to our liking.
-
- Jeez, do you think you could be just a little more arrogant about this?
- How about starting up a seminar series to teach us po' fokes, trapped
- in our miserable, confining, traditional roles, how to properly question
- and then define our roles in order to become one of the truly enlightened,
- like yourself? You could call it, "The One True Way to Obsessive Penny
- Counting, or How to Stop Wasting Time Dating People Who Might Actually
- Like You for Yourself".
-
- }I'm happy that you're happy.
-
- }I thought from postings of yours in other newsgroups that you might
- }be more sensitive to some of these issues.
-
- Hit him, Lauren. Just haul off and whack the boy upside his head.
-
- --James Preston
-