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- From: dswt@bnr.co.uk (Stewart Tansley)
- Newsgroups: alt.romance,soc.singles
- Subject: Re: net.hugs?
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- Date: 17 Nov 92 18:55:41 GMT
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- In article <31517@hydra.Helsinki.FI> taina@cs.Helsinki.FI (Juha Taina) writes:
- >In <13NOV92.21925419.0026@lafibm.lafayette.edu> CE42@lafibm.lafayette.edu (CE42000) writes:
- >
- >I'd like to ask why people share *hugs* and *kisses* on the net. What
- >is the value of them? Would you also hug and kiss a stranger in real
- >life?
- >
- >Juha Taina taina@cs.helsinki.fi Phone: +358-0-708-4247
-
- Juha, it's because most of the folks on the net are *Americans*. This
- explains an awful lot of the strangenesses, not just the profusion of hugs &
- kisses.
-
- Weird lot, but basically a decent enough bunch, IMHO. ;-)
-
- Now the Finns, they're all really, like, cooool, man.... ;-) Positively Artic,
- in fact. (Sorry, I had to do it!)
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