NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #20/NN_1992_20.iso/spool/talk/bizarre/29529

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From: [e-mail] (Pope Clifton)
Subject: How to Meet People
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Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 08:59:54 GMT
Organization: talk.bizarre wannabees
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  A couple of weekends ago I spent my Sunday evening at one of
the local clubs, wearing only black drawstring pants, with
curvilinear designs painted across my arms, face, and torso in
luminous paint.  During the portion of the evening when I was
acting in my friend Kit's performance art piece, I additionally
had a nylon stocking over my face to make my features obscure
and snake-like and sandpaper-covered bird perches taped to my
fingers for claws.  I spent a fair portion of the piece writhing
on the floor and making threatening snatches at a white lab coat.

  Now there are THOSE who would remind me that this is not bizarre,
because it could happen to any of us who have arty friends.  And
that's true.  The bizarre part is this:

  While I was in between performances, still bare-chested, and still
painted all over with luminous paint, all kinds of people wanted to
come up and talk to me -- including several very attractive young
women.  I would have thought that my looking generally like a
raving lunatic would have put them off, but it appears to be a point
of attraction.  (A strange attractor perhaps?)

  So, all you college students, if you're too shy to meet people, if
you're too shy to start a conversation with a girl (or boy) of your
interest, get out that luminous paint, strip off your shirt, and
head down to the local dance hall.

  -- Clifton   (I enjoy picturing this.)

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