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From: pooh@unirot.UUCP (Pooh)
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Subject: Re: Emily Post on "No"
Message-ID: <306@unirot.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Feb-86 10:47:54 EST
Article-I.D.: unirot.306
Posted: Fri Feb 21 10:47:54 1986
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References: <167@axiom.UUCP> <1271@lll-crg.ARpA> <305@unirot.UUCP> <160@lll-lcc.UUcp>
Reply-To: pooh@unirot.UUCP (Pooh)
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In article <160@lll-lcc.UUcp> bandy@lll-lcc.UUCP (Andrew Scott Beals) writes:
>In article <305@unirot.UUCP> I writes:
>>
>>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.

No fair, Bandy!  I asked what YOU think!

And can you really bring yourself to ask three times?  After one no,
no matter what the reason, my courage begins to falter. . .

>
>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...

Ah, but how about meeting on the net?  :-)  Booter, can you trot out
that electronic handshake again?  Or how about a hand kiss?

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

Why, thank you, Bandy.  I doubt that I've ever been anything BUT
odd, though. . .

Pooh
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