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Re: BEING SHORT

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From: Cindy Strnad
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 00:00
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Where is this venture capitalist? Tell him to give me a call!

Cindy

Todd Gillespie <zentodd@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu> wrote in article
<5b7mr7$ahb@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>...
> F. Calderon (fmartin@herald.infi.net) wrote:
> : Frank Calderon wrote:  
> 
> : As someone who's 5'9"  (OK, OK, I'm actually 5' 8-1/2") I thought I'd
throw in 
> : this little bit o' info:  
> 
> : 20/20 (on ABC) had a story about short men and their dating problems
this 
> : Friday night (think their producers might be reading some of these
posts?).  
> : And guess what they found?  Most women prefer tall men (surprise,
surprise)!  
> 
> : They had a group of men in a room, with one short man in the middle,
and a 
> : group of women in another room looking through a two-way mirror at the
men.  
> : The women were asked which men they would date.  None picked the short 
> : guy--even after they were told the short guy was an M.D. who had
written a 
> : successful book, yatta, yatta.  
> 
> : They did this several times with different guys (including different
short 
> : guys) and different women.  In one particular case, they were told the
short 
> : guy (who happened to be 5 feet tall this time) was a venture capitalist
who 
> : became a millionaire at 25--and they STILL wouldn't go out with him!  
> 
> : Unbelievably shallow, I think...
> 
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From: "Cindy Strnad" <cstrnad@gwtc.net>
Subject: Re: BEING SHORT
Date: 1997/01/12
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