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- From: diana@wetware.com (CatWoman )
- Subject: Re: On Being Single
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.193638.18269@wetware.com>
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- Organization: Castle WetWare MouseCatcher
- References: <1993Jan25.030906.16272@wetware.com> <MARTINC.93Jan25103759@grover.cs.unc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:36:38 GMT
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- martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
-
- ] drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:
- ]
- ] martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
- ] ] Being "single" I presume implies "not in a monogamous relationship" or
- ] ] at least "not in a committed long term relationship" whether we mean Ed
- ] ] Wright the pinnacle of human evolution or Ugh the Cave Person.
- ]
- ] I think it would be safer to start with the
- ] bare bones minimum of:
- ]
- ] "Not Currently in a Contractual Arrangement with
- ] another Person, such as is exclusionary of other
- ] personal relationships with a potential or actual
- ] sexual component."
- ]
- ] Like yourself, I am divorced, and hence no longer in
- ] a contractual arrangement, as stipulated above. Hence
- ] I am 'single' - I am in a Protracted arrangment with
- ] a ProblemOlderWoman, But until she finishes the
- ] preliminary readings, including, but not limited to
- ] Hofstatder's GEB, we are not in a position to discuss
- ] the nature of Completeness or Closure.
- ]
- ] What I want to know is if that means you're in a protracted relationship
- ] with Aahz by transitivity.
-
- Nope - it means that he spends his "free time"
- with me while I draw complete circles around
- him.
-
- Oh - that was protracTED, not protracTOR...
-
- Okay - he spends his free time explaining to
- my cats why they aren't supposed to be doing
- the "live performance" of Schroedinger(sp?).
-
- Diana
-