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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 09:15:43 -0600
- Sender: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
- From: Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Don't laugh, but
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- On Thu, 21 Jan 1993 ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU wrote:
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- > Don't encourage him! He was talking last night about buying me
- > an OED on CD-ROM for my birthday--but of course it would live w/
- > him, and I could use it whenever I'm with him. Jeeze!
-
- You know, if there's ONE thing that men do which really <pisses me off>,
- (and there's not just one, there's thousands), it's buying a woman an
- ostensible present which is costly and extravagant, which is really for
- themselves. I've seen men give women power tools, special furniture,
- computers, even morotcycles.
-
- -abh
-