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- From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
- Subject: Re: What is attractive to women?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.231201.16396@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
- References: <7260@news.duke.edu> <1992Nov22.151315.4882@wetware.com> <thurlow.722463831@convex.convex.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 23:12:01 GMT
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- In article <thurlow.722463831@convex.convex.com> thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:
- >
- >People really don't stop to think that a really funny joke they've
- >just thought of based on someone's name or physical attributes has
- >probably been heard by the person in question a thousand times
- >already, and is unlikely to be considered funny.
-
- Almost always true--but every once in a while, I run into an exception;
- I have a customer named Christopher Lee and the first time I talked to
- him I made some small joke about it--and he had never heard of the
- other Christopher Lee or seen any of his movies before. (I did end up
- explaining my "joke" and he ended up renting a movie to find out who I
- was talking about.) A few weeks ago, I teased someone named "Breccia"
- about her name and she'd never even heard of "breccia" before.
-
- Of course, now that I think about it, neither of these people had the
- slightest idea what I was talking about when I made a joke based on
- their name, so they didn't consider it funny either--so maybe your
- point still stands.
-
- Trygve (Now who was it who just posted something about the
- "Mother Lode"?)
-