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- From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
- Subject: Re: *How* did you meet your SO (And do they know?)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.195139.10843@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
- References: <1993Jan21.012353.19212@panix.com> <1993Jan21.195934.5683@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <93021.163647SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 19:51:39 GMT
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- In article <93021.163647SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> Graydon <SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> writes:
- >In article <1993Jan21.195934.5683@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu
- >(trygve lode) says:
- >>
- >>Trygve (But most of all, I'd like to know the identity of the mysterious
- >> tall, attractive woman with long blonde hair who has been
- >> convincing people that she's my girlfriend--as far as I know
- >> I've never seen her, but I keep running into people who mention
- >> that they've run into her.)
- >>--
- >
- >I think this is evidence of a cunning plan - either some subset of
- >your friends wants to make you a bit twitchier than you already are,
- >*or* the TAWWLBH has dark, nefarious plans that involve marriage, and
- >she figures that a little conceptual momentum on the part of your
- >social surrounds wouldn't hurt.
- >
- >Repeat something often enough and you start believing it - she's just
- >practicing on your friends before getting to you.
-
- Actually, the mysterious TAWWLBH hasn't made it to anybody I talk to on
- a regular basis; it's a little bit weirder than that--it's always people
- that I might run into once a year or so or friends-of-friends who call
- me looking for a phone number or someone I haven't seen in years who
- mention her to me.
-
- >Graydon, who is occaisionally a touch paranoid...
-
- Generally a trait conducive to a slightly longer life....
-
- Trygve (Speaking of paranoia, when one of my brothers was learning to
- drive, I explained to him my philosophy of driving as if everyone
- else on the road was out there for the express purpose of killing
- me and if I ever stopped paying attention to them, they would
- make some sort of vehicular attempt on my life. He accepted this
- concept but decided instead that, even in driving, the best
- defense is a good offense--and the most important element in
- attack is surprise, independently developing the art of Ikky-Thump
- in an unexpected, automotive direction.)
- --
- Up next: Modern-day Tarzan lives in New York parking garage!
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