Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!rbutterworth
From: rbutterworth@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ray Butterworth)
Newsgroups: ont.singles
Subject: Re: BIMS, TROLLIPS, BABES : Women of Our Time
Keywords: asinine, orthography
Message-ID: <34644@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 90 17:01:24 GMT
References: <5093.25e9b314@uwovax.uwo.ca> <90Feb27.102759est.6481@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: rbutterworth@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ray Butterworth)
Organization: Math Faculty Computing Facility, University of Waterloo
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In article <90Feb27.102759est.6481@neat.cs.toronto.edu> gara@theory.toronto.edu (Gara Pruesse) writes:

>May I add that I find the 4223_5114's posting offensive.  Was it posted to 
>bait women?  And people used to wonder why women didn't post here much...

Other than the spelling, how was it offensive?
The names are feminine in form, but the definitions can just as easily
be applied to males.
I think we have all met people fitting the first two definitions,
and I certainly wouldn't mind if people thought I belonged in the third:
> >3) BABES (aka the Real Thing) Babes are the cream of the crop.  Babes are
> >usually HOT (not solely in the physical sense either, I can think of lots of
> >babes that are really quite ugly, but this in no way detracts from their
> >attractiveness).  Babes are cool in the sense that they are real people,
> >ordinary perhaps, but unique in their own way.