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- From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
- Subject: Re: Credibility...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.084008.7501@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
- References: <lm8bdaINN8tu@news.bbn.com> <ewright.727988060@convex.convex.com> <9084@news.duke.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 08:40:08 GMT
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- In article <9084@news.duke.edu> diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams) writes:
- >In article <ewright.727988060@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
- >
- >>Most people who say they are happy being single do not mean they are
- >>happy having no interaction with the opposite sex (assuming they are
- >>heterosexual).
- >
- >Ed, I don't think anyone who's said that they're happy being single has
- >meant that he or she is happy having no interaction with the opposite sex.
- >In fact, I think Trygve listed the opportunity to interact with many
- >members of the opposite sex as an *advantage* of being single. (Correct
- >me if I'm wrong, Trygve.)
-
- No argument here--in fact, if Ed needs more convincing on this matter,
- he's welcome to fly up here to Denver and I'll arrange a demonstration.
-
- Trygve (Why, I'll even make this offer open to people other than Ed.)
- --
- How many IBM employees does it take to change a light bulb?
- 100. Ten to do it, and 90 to write document number GC7500439-0001,
- "Multitasking Incandescent Source System Facility," of which 10% of the pages
- state only "This page intentionally left blank", and 20% of the definitions
- are of the form "A:...... consists of sequences of non-blank characters
- separated by blanks."
-