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From: lab@qubix.UUCP (Larry Bickford)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: S-B-W-T-H-I-W-M vs. M-B-W-T-H-I-W-S
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Date: Thu, 15-Dec-83 00:55:34 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 15 00:55:34 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 11-Dec-83 00:45:48 EST
Organization: Qubix Graphic Systems, Saratoga, CA
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OK,OK already. Gimme a chance to re-ice my igloo, and I'll try to clear
up a major misunderstanding about my followup.

Some have said (by mail if not on the net) that my article was along the
lines of single-but-wish-the-heck-I-were-married (how many of you knew
what the abbreviations meant?).

Not really. The hailstones flew because someone else kept trying to
spread the idea that most married people are really married-but-wish-the-
heck-I-were-single, an attitude I have found NOT to be the case more
often than the media would like to admit (after all, how many $$ do
stories about happy, contented, peaceful families bring in?).

If you would all remember the topic that got this going (whether to hire
a single or a married), the original author favored the single because
he saw married people basically as MBWTHIWS. My point is that if he knew
a greater number of happily married people, he wouldn't have that attitude.
Further, someone who has made a marriage happy and successful - in the
face of all the aches it brings - has learned through experience a lot
that would be valuable to me.

SBWTHIWM? No, because that would probably result in me being MBWTHIWS.
Opinion: Marriage may help one lonely person, but probably not two.
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The 4C igloo of Larry Bickford, ihnp4!decwrl!qubix!lab