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From: inc@fluke.UUCP (Gary Benson)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Matching: A Can of Worms
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Date: Wed, 8-May-85 19:12:48 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  8 19:12:48 1985
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Just a few excerpts:

> 	One interesting theory from social psychology has to do with 
> people "matching" each other.
> 
> 	Perhaps "matching" explains only the initial attraction - naturally
> one's "matching" in looks might not be the best predictor in "matching"
> for personality characteristics.  Or is it?
>
> 	The theory is that because attractive people have always
> been TREATED as though they're OK, they ARE OK.  Perhaps Blonds Have More
> Fun because people *believe* Blonds Have More Fun and therefore *treat*
> Blonds as though they Have More Fun, and therefore Blonds *DO* Have More
> Fun.
>
> 	(Incidentally, what exactly IS an "MOTA"?)
> 
> 						-Noemi Berry
> 


Melanie and I met here on the net about 6 months ago. After trading lots of
e-mail, we started telephoning. Now it's daily, and we actually fell in love
before we laid eyes on each other (or anything else for that matter |-). We
met last weekend, and looks had NOTHING to do with anything. Both of us are
pretty amazed, but feel strongly that this is the way it should be. Theories
be damned, our attraction is based completely on personality. It turns out
that being together in person is pretty important, but only because that's
how you can see facial expressions and body language (which we had already
discussed, so there were no real surprises). She is the most beautiful
person I've ever met, and she tells me similar things. Her beauty is
internal, and I would be very hard pressed to rate her on some sort of
arbitrary "attractiveness scale".

Myself, I use the Budweiser Scale: Mel's a 25.

This is the number of Clydesdales it would take to drag me off of her. |-)

Right, Darling?

Gary Benson  (fluke!inc)
 

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