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From: jeff@utastro.UUCP (Jeff Brown the Scumbag)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: didactic if low humor
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Date: Sat, 28-Sep-85 21:12:21 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 28 21:12:21 1985
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[--glomp--]

I don't know if the comic strip "Cathy" has a wide readership
among net.people, but last Friday's (9/27) strip was one which
someone with a warped sense of humor (first person singular
pronoun here) would find hysterical.  (I also wonder how much
of a relevant lesson there is here for single men.)  In a nutshell,
Cathy enters her living room where her part-time SO is sitting reading.
She tells him bluntly to leave her home, immediately, now that she
knows what kind of man he is.  This baffles him completely and is
(as near as he and the reader can tell) entirely unprovoked.
It takes 3 (of 4) panels to rout the guy completely.  Finally, alone
in the last panel, she explains: "A man has 500 chances with my
heart but only one with my toilet seat."  I haven't seen that kind
of point made in such a memorable fashion (and one which the gutless
Austin paper will print!) in a rather long time.


Jeff Brown the Scumbag
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		jeff@astro.UTEXAS.EDU
Astronomy Department, U. of Texas, Austin


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