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- From: mysti@sierra.sybase.com (Mysti Rubert)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: The Classiest Pickup Lines
- Message-ID: <28450@sybase.sybase.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 19:13:37 GMT
- References: <1993Jan7.112846.1@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz> <16266@auspex-gw.auspex.com> <MARTINC.93Jan17112511@grover.cs.unc.edu>
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- In article <MARTINC.93Jan17112511@grover.cs.unc.edu>, martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
-
- |> Call me Charlie. Or Charles. Or Sue. Just ANYTHING but Chuck.
-
- I guessed right! I suspected it would bug you!
-
-
- |> I forbear from suggesting that aberrant capitalization (like "jag" for
- |> "Jag") impedes written communication only with some effort.
-
- Looks like it was too much effort, as you didn't actually succeed in forbearing
- did you? Surely you recognize a neglectful typo as being different from
- habitual obfuscation. Well, maybe you don't!
-
- Your grasp of the obvious, and tediously unimportant, is so consistent
- as to amaze.....
-
- |>
- |> Anyway, since subtlety didn't get across, let's take another run at it.
- |> Tell me a situtation -- other than "how much for a piece of ass,
- |> sweetheart?" -- in which a pickup line is used solely for purposes of
- |> sex, and I'll tell you if it's inherently unclassy.
-
- Dearheart, it has been clearly established that the phrase "pickup line"
- means "line used to initiate a negotiation for sex between strangers".
- That is it's primary goal, not it's sole purpose. Very few forms of
- communication (none that I can think of) serve any single purpose.
-
- Anyway, if you say you don't feel they are inherently
- unclassy, do please provide a sample of what you believe to be classy.
- I can't be expected to conjure up an example of the proposition you are
- putting forth, especially as I don't believe they exist and so naturally
- wouldn't look very hard for them!
-
- |>
- |> Is bringing a purple unicorn into a bar solely for purposes of sex
- |> inherently unclassy?
-
- I guess that depends on whether you boff the unicorn right there in
- the bar or not. I feel purple unicorns in any particular instantiation
- are in fact too gooey-sentimental new-agey to be classy, but I'm willing
- to recognize that as a personal judgment call and not a necessary attribute.
-
- Cheers.
-
- --
- ========================
- Mysti Rubert, Oaktown, California
-
- "It's not the men in my life, but the life in my men." Mae West
-