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From: amc@whuts.UUCP (Andy Cohill)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Nominally single????
Message-ID: <286@whuts.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 07:20:02 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 18 07:20:02 1985
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I ask:
> >"...we have some people who are nominally single, while others are
> >really single..."
> >^^^^^^
>>What's the difference?

And get told...
> 
> 	Single:  unmarried (currently unmarried, I suppose, as the term
> divorcee is now archaic)
> 
> 	nominally Single:  unmarried but enjoying a close relationship with
> an SO (possibly living together but with at least two abodes)
> 
etc., etc., etc....
> 
> 	Isnt this complicated?
> -- 
>                Hunter Scales

Yes, it is complicated, and I might add, ridiculous. 
There is nothing quite like hair-splitting to keep us from the
really important topics, like color analysis and dressing for
failure. While we're at it, let's discuss how many angels can dance
on the head of a pin, and how many chucks a woodchuck would chuck if
a woodchuck could chuck wood.

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possibly try to suggest that they apply to other men, women, cats,
dogs, slugs, former SOs, extraterrestial beings, God, his backyard, 
his tablesaw, his stuffed penguin (Opus), or any other animate or
inanimate object here, there, or anywhere, including other galaxies,
alternate universes, and different time dimensions.
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Best regards,
Andy Cohill     {allegra|ihnp4}houxm!whuxl!whuts!amc


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