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From: greid@adobe.UUCP (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Re: Opening Lines
Message-ID: <607@adobe.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Jun-85 10:51:53 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 21 10:51:53 1985
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Reply-To: greid@adobe.UUCP (Glenn Reid)
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>  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.

This is not to cast a stigma over poor Greg.  It was supposed to illustrate
that even quoting someone as sage as he has proven himself to be is not
always enough.  My apologies to Greg (mail refused to go through) and
anybody who got the wrong idea.

Anyway, it occurred to me that opening lines are usually only used when
you've exhausted all other possibilities, and your options are either to
risk some stupid line or forget all about it and go home.  Many have been
the times that I've thrown caution to the winds, because of a feeling that
if I don't act now, I will never see said person again.  I don't care if
I get to "go home with somebody" or whatever is commonly taken to be the
goal of pickup lines; I just want to increase my chances of seeing her
again, so that the normal ways of getting to know someone are given a
chance.  So I go and make a fool of myself.  I think making a fool of
yourself in an obvious manner is about the best way to meet somebody.
Have no shame.  Not crude, mind you, but foolish.

--from the very SHORT AND TO THE POINT .signature of-- Glenn Reid