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From: bandy@lll-lcc.UUcp (Andrew Scott Beals)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Emily Post on "No"
Message-ID: <160@lll-lcc.UUcp>
Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 15:54:06 EST
Article-I.D.: lll-lcc.160
Posted: Thu Feb 20 15:54:06 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 23-Feb-86 06:02:49 EST
References: <167@axiom.UUCP> <1271@lll-crg.ARpA> <305@unirot.UUCP>
Reply-To: bandy@lll-lcc.UUCP (Andrew Scott Beals)
Organization: Lab Comp Center, Lawrence Livermore Labs
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Summary: ask three times
Disclaimer: paraphrased from memory

In article <305@unirot.UUCP> pooh@unirot.UUCP (Pooh) writes:
>A close friend and I were discussing what we do if a person we ask
>out says no the first time, or stands us up. [...]
>
>What does everyone else think?  If you are told "no" the first time,
>do you give up? [...]

Emily Post says that one should ask (for a date) three times (assuming
that there is a reasonable explaination given) and then give up.

She also mentions that one should be Introduced to someone that one
would like to ask out -- a chance meeting on a bus or a train isn't
sufficient reason...

>Birthdays are like men. . .
>We'd like to give 'em up, but they're so darned much fun!

Happy birthday, Pooh. How do you like being odd again?

Odd myself,



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