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From: seifert@hammer.UUCP (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Yer lookin' at it...(This one-eyed monster.)
Message-ID: <1637@hammer.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 15-Nov-85 01:02:47 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 15 01:02:47 1985
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Today's_slogan: I'm a puppy, not a yuppy!

frye@cuuxb.UUCP (frye) writes:

>>In both cases, there is no hostility or termination of the conversation,
>>but the information is conveyed that the respondee is not [immediately]
>>available for a relationship/casual sex/a wild weekend in Peoria.
                                                           ^^^^^^^
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>Oh well, I suppose that's not as wierd as "BERWYN!?!?"(8-).----

*Anything's* less wierd than BERRRRRRRRRRRWYNNNNNNNNNNNN !

>	Now its time to return to my local friends, perchance to
>share a pitcher of our favorite brew at our local "Cheers". I'll
>propose a toast to you folks. Al'ays proud ta hoist a jar in th'
>name o' me net.friends and them what lives a bit closer.

This local "Cheers" wouldn't be the infamous "Four Lakes Pub"?
(which sadly lost a lot of character when they remodeled it)

Anywho, I cast a vote in support of electronic communication.
Most of my friends are pseudo-randomly scattered around North
America, so forget meeting face-to-face on a regular basis.
(Where *did* I park my Lear jet?)  Many of them keep strange
hours (or not-so-strange, depending on your point of view),
and/or are in different timezones, and/or are never home and
can't talk at work, etc etc, so the phone is less than useful.
E-mail is so much faster than Snail-mail, and I don't have a
termcap for my felt-tip :-) anyway.

Some things are easier and better discussed with e-mail.  You have
time to think about what you want to say.  Other things are
better discussed in real time.  Immediate feedback can be very
helpful.

Sure, given the same person, I'd rather have a SDR than an LDR.
But the women I've met thru the net are so much closer to what
I'm looking for than any I've met at Four Lakes Pub, or the
v-ball courts, or wherever.  As Hawkeye would say, "Finestkind."

(_o_)  &&  :-*
Snoopy (ECS Ronin #901)
tektronix!tekecs!doghouse.TEK!snoopy

"Love is monkey see and monkey do.  That's all it is, Peaches"