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- From: infante@acpub.duke.edu (Andrew Infante)
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- Subject: Re: Credibility...
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 20:17:33 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan23.061659.17967@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
- >
- >So, I'll rephrase the question--how is the experience of a hot fudge
- >brownie sundae vs. the experience of a good pizza so different from
- >the experience of being single vs. the experience of being not-single?
- >(Please, if you could, answer what you know I mean by this question
- >rather than locate some irrelevant point and expound upon that.)
- >
- >Trygve (Hmmmm...I've got some records where the rights to the music
- > are owned by the "Misery Loves Company.")
- >--
- >"All syllogisms have three parts
- > Therefore, this is not a syllogism."
-
-
- Well, Trygve, that could be either an easy or a hard question to answer.
-
- First, one has to look at the situation where one will be eating these
- two items (or not, depending on your choice, which is possible too.)
-
- However, you can't be single and not be single, but you can eat both
- the pizza and the hot fudge sundae (kinda like "having your cake...")
- :)
- Anyway...
-
- I, for one, if not for many, have certain cravings and happen to dislike
- eating certain things, sometimes, as most people probably do (is this time
- for another survey? BTW, what kinds of toothpaste do you use...:))
- SO...
- When I want something salty, and I have a choice between pizza and a
- sundae, I'd choose the pizza (I don't like those dessert pizzas, I think
- pizza is meant for a snack or meal, not dessert, but that's me.)
- and if I wanted something sweet, I'd eat some candy (I like ice cream
- just fine, but for some reason, maybe all that FAT, I don't eat it
- as often, as say, Jerry. 8+)
-
- So, maybe my answer is moot.
-
- But, with each item comes a compromise. Suppose there was only pepperoni
- pizza, you're really not into pepperoni that much (I won't go into
- details I can't understand :), and you want something salty, but the only
- other thing to eat is the sundae. What do you do?
-
- The answer my friend, is blowing in the wind, the answer is...
- dependant on whom we're talking about.
-
- For those people who tend to get stuck in ongoing relationships where
- there is no give or take, and you either stick it out or get hurt, those
- people will either eat nothing or suffer with the pepperoni.
- For those people who are a little wishy-washy about decisions and
- don't tend to get many choices in the first place, if they can't have
- both, really can't eat pepperoni, they're only choice is to eat the
- sundae because it would be impossible for them to pass up such
- an opportunity.
-
- Ok, so what does this have to do with being single or not single...?
-
- I don't know. I got lost halfway through this posting, so if you can
- make something out of it, be my guest. :)
-
- later.
-
- andy.
-
- who would take the pepperoni pizza over the sundae every time,
- but you already knew that.
-