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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: A question on distances
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Date: Tue, 29-May-84 12:26:09 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 29 12:26:09 1984
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>So you have only met this person over the net.
>Well, good luck.  

thanks, I'm gonna need it.

>One problem that I have had with net-relationships: people
>who relate well with the written word often have problems
>in person.  You sometimes end up sacrificing one talent for
>the other.

If this is going to be any problem at all, it will be not because I don't
relate well in person, but because I am a significantly different person in
the flesh than I am on the network. There has been a large base of fancy in
our correspondence that we will have to overcome to really start learning
about each other. I consider it a starting point for a relationship, not a
relationship itself. 

>(The last guy I met over the net turned out to be inordinately
>fond of other activities when he wasn't logged in.  Let's just
>say that the ONLY time I could be sure of getting his undivided
>attention [after months of dating and being in the same city]
>was when we were logged in!  Commitment means nothing to someone
>who can switch you off and leave the lab.)

I doubt that will be a problem. *snicker* I happen to prefer people to
computers. I've never met a computer that can give a proper massage, no
matter how hard I've tried to teach them. Some things simply won't
automate. I hope.

>What have YOU got against Texas, anyway?  Typical California
>snob: thinks the only spot on earth fit for human habitation
>is on a little strip of land which is going to fall into the
>ocean soon anyway.  

It may fall into to ocean, but at least I don't have to worry about
tornadoes and hurricanes. Mother Nature saves it all up for about one big
rumble a century, and with any luck at all I'll be somewhere else when it
happens. Like in Texas.
-- 
From the closet of anxieties of:			Chuq Von Rospach
{amd70,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4}!nsc!chuqui			(408) 733-2600 x242

I'm sure I have my death ray in here somewhere...