home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Path: sparky!uunet!digex.com!huston
- From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
- Subject: Re: Blood types
- Message-ID: <Bxv2xo.EFs@access.digex.com>
- Sender: usenet@access.digex.com
- Nntp-Posting-Host: access.digex.com
- Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
- References: <lg8potINNhhj@news.bbn.com> <lgfg3aINN603@news.bbn.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 13:03:22 GMT
- Lines: 27
-
- In article <lgfg3aINN603@news.bbn.com> dhardin@spcink.bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes:
- >In article <lg8potINNhhj@news.bbn.com> ahsiung@labs-n.bbn.com (Anita Hsiung) writes:
- >>
- >> Type Personality
- >>
- >> A Love a person forever, wait for someone forever
- >
- >Nope, my ex was type A.
- >
- >> O Warm, logical
- >
- >Well, that describes me perfectly, so maybe there's something to be said
- >for it. :-)
- >
- >Are you willing to settle for a couple of counterexamples or do you want
- >it logically shot down? It seems to me that the fact that type O blood
- >is the majority, but very few people are warm and logical would shoot this
- >in the foot right away. Sounds more like it's trying to flatter the majority
- >of the listeners (AB is only 2% of the population, so few listeners are going
- >to be called fickle.)
-
- If this blood/personality stuff is folk wisdom, it can hardly be old folk
- wisdom, as Karl Landsteiner only discovered these blood groups in 1900.
- Blood transfusions were quite a gamble before then.
-
- -- Herb Huston
- -- huston@access.digex.com
-