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- From: dks@sr.com (Dave K. Sprow)
- Subject: Re: What is attractive to women?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.212048.6740@sr.com>
- Reply-To: dks@srhqla.UUCP (Dave K. Sprow)
- Organization: Silent Radio, Los Angeles
- References: <1992Nov18.203319.22569@b8.b8.ingr.com> <>> <7260@news.duke.edu> <lh1stdINN3gt@news.bbn.com> <1992Nov23.180428.9394@b8.b8.ingr.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:20:48 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov23.180428.9394@b8.b8.ingr.com> larry@b8.b8.ingr.com (Larry Billings) writes:
- >> In article <7260@news.duke.edu>, diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams)
- >> writes:
- >> > 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
- >> |>
- >> |> 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
- >> |> but this often backfires when someone decides
- >> |> to call me Liz in attempt to sound friendly (and earns, instead, my
- >> |> hostility).
- >>
- >
- >Yes, but have you ever had people argue with you about what your name is?
- >My parents disliked nicknames and mostly named us kids short versions of a
- >name or short names with no common nickname. My birth certificate (yes I can
- >prove I was not found under a rock) has Larry on it (my middle name is top
- >seceret info, but is similarly short) and people have refused to believe that
- >I'm not turely a Lawerence.
- >
- >Larry (just Larry) Billings
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- Being a David, most people ask whether I prefer Dave or David. I say David,
- except you see in the heading the my SysAmd *didn't* bother to ask!! Grrr
- And then there's only 1 person in the world who ever got away with calling
- me Davey, but when *she* said it, well....
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- David (anybody else calls me Davey is dead meat) S.
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