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From: greid@adobe.UUCP (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Opening Lines
Message-ID: <600@adobe.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Jun-85 02:11:58 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 17 02:11:58 1985
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Reply-To: greid@adobe.UUCP (Glenn Reid)
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Organization: Adobe Systems, Palo Alto
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Summary: 

The whole trick to opening lines is just to be an interesting, magical
person who always says the right thing.  Anything can be the right line
if you are cool, and if you are not, quoting Humphrey Bogart or Greg
Woods will not buy you, well, 'tweet', as they say in Maine.

Quick linesmanship boils down to "how fast can you accurately assess this
situtation?"  (and a little bit of "can I stick my nose in without pissing
anybody off?").  Once in, you're on stage, and the first 30 seconds counts.
You have to justify your reason for existence and be able to adequately 
explain why you have just disrupted someone else's life, and you have a 
very short time period in which to be convincing.

In other words, it is a very low probability technique, used to advantage
only by those people who enjoy it, and who usually have very little 
interest in the outcome.

Glenn Reid
(P.S.  These are definitely not the opinions of my employer(s))