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From: schramm@tymix.UUCP (Steve Schramm)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Dagney, trains and things
Message-ID: <416@tymix.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-May-85 14:28:04 EDT
Article-I.D.: tymix.416
Posted: Fri May 10 14:28:04 1985
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References: <2813@sdcc3.UUCP>, <570@lll-crg.ARPA>, <147@unc.UUCP>
Reply-To: schramm@tymix.UUCP (Steve Schramm)
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In article <2813@sdcc3.UUCP> ec120bgt@sdcc3.UUCP (ANDREW VARE) writes:

>"If ever the pleasure of one has to be bought by the pain of the other,
>there better be no trade. A trade by which one gains and the other
>loses is a fraud."         --- Dagny Taggert
>
>
>Who the H*LL is this Dagny punker and where did he ever study
>economics? Poor Dagny never had much leather fun with his [her?]
>wife, it is PAINFULLY apparent, (argh argh), and probably never
>will if he continues to mentally bleed like that. I feel sorry for
>the chap. Zero sum games occur everywhere...I wonder how Dagny
>sleeps at night ?

While in message <570@lll-crg.ARPA>, Muffy Barkocy responds:

>*LAUGH*.  Well, Dagny Taggart studied economics under Ayn Rand,
>is not likely to have a wife, being female and heterosexual, and
>probably never had much leather fun, and certainly doesn't sleep
>at night, considering she is a character in a book. (_Atlas_Shrugged_,
>in case you're wondering.)
>         Muffy

Furthermore, in message <147@unc.UUCP>, Frank Silbermann postulates that:

>	When judging your personality and character,
>	people are heavily influenced by how good-looking
>	you are.
>Think about it.  Here are a few examples:
>	A beautiful woman who is assertive and willful "has a lot of spunk."
>	An ugly woman who is assertive an willful is a "masculine, castrating
>	bitch."

Now, as we all know, good ol' Dagney was quite an "assertive and willful"
woman while piloting the family train empire, but I've always wondered
whether she "had a lot of spunk" or was a "masculine, castrating bitch."
Tough decision.  :-)

-steve  {allegra, fortune, hplabs, inhp4} oliveb!tymix!schramm
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