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Article #180Re: The Dreaded Third Date Rule
From: takworld
Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 00:00
Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 00:00
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Alex Osinski wrote: > > chiwito@netcom.com (brian r. mcdonald) wrote: > >Steve Mueller (steve.mueller@caere.com) wrote: > > > >: No, get a Corvette, Ferrari, Porsche, etc. Then put the hood up in a > >: big parking lot and act baffled.... :-) > > > > this'd work, but it's risky. given the ratio of guys-who-know- > >their-way-around-under-the-hood to guys-who-wanna-make-ruth-Think-that- > >they-know-their-way-around-under-the-hood, taking a perfectly operating > >vette and subjecting it to the attentions of a bunch of random males > >trying to impress the owner could well turn said vehicle into something > >which will help the lady in question meet a lot of tow truck operators > >over the next few weeks. some things are better left to the writers > >of Home Improvement and not tried at home. > > > I beg to differ. The game works like this, she finds a place frequented > by the target population of desireable males pulls into the parking lot > and pops the hood and yanks a wire. The first guy to correctly guess (and > fix) what is wrong gets the date. It is all a fairly simple test of what > should be manly knowledge and serves to filter out the less able males in > the gene pool. :> What happens if another woman who knows about cars happens along and fixes said bogus broken car, does the damsel in shining armor win a date too? In this town, it could happen (and the guys might be even more interested in seeing that).
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 110235,17994a2c0807b5c8 X-Google-Attributes: gid110235,public X-Google-Thread: fdc4a,17994a2c0807b5c8 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdc4a,public X-Google-Thread: 1082f5,17994a2c0807b5c8 X-Google-Attributes: gid1082f5,public X-Google-Thread: 10a1d2,17994a2c0807b5c8 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a1d2,public From: takworld <takworld@sirius.com> Subject: Re: The Dreaded Third Date Rule Date: 1996/05/19 Message-ID: <319F840F.5C8A@sirius.com> X-Deja-AN: 155643619 references: <4muuv8$q5s@news.ccit.arizona.edu> <4nb1bm$kih@goonsquad.spies.com> <4nbae7$h0l@gw.home.vix.com> <4nbbqf$8ve@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <4nfrmh$qom@badger.3do.com> <4ni64u$6p0@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <4niafe$1nb@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> <319CFDF0.5DE@caere.com> <chiwitoDrME5H.E3J@netcom.com> <4nmm3j$ea@tribune.concentric.net> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Sirius Connections mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: ne.singles,soc.women,soc.men,ba.singles x-mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win95; U)