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- From: diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: What is attractive to women?
- Message-ID: <7260@news.duke.edu>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 22:45:30 GMT
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- In article <thurlow.722367772@convex.convex.com> thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:
- >I had a boss once, "Bob", who thought all "Robert"s liked to be called
- >"Bob" the way he liked to be called "Bob", and he called me "Bob" every
- >time I talked to him through my summers at the pulp mill. To this day,
- >I refuse to answer to "Bob", though I will on occasion ask someone who
- >uses the name "Bob" who they might be referring to if there's no one else
- >around.
-
- Wow, sounds as bad as being named 'Elizabeth' in a decade in which popular
- consensus has decreed that all Elizabeths be called 'Liz'. I often
- introduce myself as Elizabeth Abrams because it sounds more formal and
- adult than Beth Abrams, but this often backfires when someone decides
- to call me Liz in attempt to sound friendly (and earns, instead, my
- hostility).
-
- --Diamond
-
- diamond@acpub.duke.edu | The soul may choose its own society and shut
- Elizabeth S. Abrams | the door, but the body gets thrown into bed
- | with the damnedest people. --Peter Beagle
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