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From: takao@ihu1h.UUCP (John Takao Collier)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Opening Lines (and dancing, too!)
Message-ID: <596@ihu1h.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 9-Jun-85 10:53:56 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun  9 10:53:56 1985
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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First a little background information:

I would occasionally drag a friend of mine off to a couple of local
dancing emporiums, and since my friend (who shall remain nameless)
(Hi Jay!) is a lily-livered chicken, I would always be the one that
would ask young ladies to dance.  Here are the usual results:

Me:	"Hi.  Would you like to dance?"
Them:	"No."

Well, once again we were standing around at a local dancing emporium,
and we were not doing any dancing.  Standing around and not dancing
is anathema to me, because I love to dance.  As the night wore on,
the lack of dancing was causing me great mental and physical distress,
so when I spied two young women who were also standing around and not
dancing, I grit my teeth, muttered "Oh what the hell, let's try again",
and walked over to them.

Here's the classic line:

Me:	"Hi, would you like to dance?  I don't even want to talk to
	 you, I just want to dance."
	
Miracles!  They danced with with us.  While we danced, my friend's
dancing partner leaned over (I'm pretty short) and said, "That was
a great line."

And sure enough, the young women danced with us, then after the dance
they moved to the other side of the bar and did not talk to us.
Which is what I wanted, because I'm a dancing sort of guy.

P.S.:  To give credit where credit is due, I must thank my friend
       Jackie for the classic line; she also is a dancing fool,
       so she wanted to have a T-shirt printed with the phrase
       "I don't want to talk, I just want to dance."

P.S.S.:  Hey, if you live in the Chicagoland area, and like to dance,
         give me a call.
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