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Article #53Re: Taste Wine! Dance the Tango!
From: Douglas Meier
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 00:00
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In article <j-germuska-2406961625380001@slugworth.acns.nwu.edu>, Joe Germuska <j-germuska@nwu.edu> wrote: >In article <4qf06f$3en@tepe.tezcat.com>, sarlo@tezcat.com (sarlo) wrote: > >>You forgot that you have to be 50+ years old, be a "professional", have a >>tan so you look like a leather bag with eyes, be part of one "society" or >>another, and if you're a woman, you have to have eye makeup caked on your >>face so thick you can't see. > >I don't fit into any of the categories you list. I'm 24, no society would >have me, and who could have a tan this summer? I took the winetasting >class, and it was pretty fun. Heck, the fee equals about what you'd pay >to drink as much wine in a bar, and although the ambiance isn't the most >suave, I learned just enough to be dangerous. The instructor doesn't >exactly prepare much in advance of the classes, but he can ad lib fairly >well... > The Latin Dance class rocked, too, (well, 6/8 time isn't all that common in rock, but you know what I mean) and I'm much younger than 50, have the "computer geek pallor," belong to no societies other than a few secret ones (surely you've read the Illuminatus trilogy... then again, you're probably not cleared for that), and women with heavy eye make-up just aren't my scene. On top of that, I don't like granola, eat yogurt only in private, and don't own a pair of Birkenstocks. So give it a shot! Besides, if a Right-Wing-One-Man-Hate-Group-Bent-On-World- Domination can enjoy those sorts of things, perhaps anyone else can, too! -- Douglas C. Meier All standard disclaimers apply. Student Consultant, ACNS Northwestern University dmeier@merle.acns.nwu.edu
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 114017,ab6ed6ee072f9715 X-Google-Attributes: gid114017,public X-Google-Thread: f972c,ab6ed6ee072f9715 X-Google-Attributes: gidf972c,public X-Google-Thread: 10e835,ab6ed6ee072f9715 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e835,public From: dmeier@merle.acns.nwu.edu (Douglas Meier) Subject: Re: Taste Wine! Dance the Tango! Date: 1996/06/25 Message-ID: <4qnng9$iff@news.acns.nwu.edu> X-Deja-AN: 161972201 references: <nicoled-2006961625180001@homer.cao.nwu.edu> <4qf06f$3en@tepe.tezcat.com> <j-germuska-2406961625380001@slugworth.acns.nwu.edu> organization: Northwestern University, Evanston IL newsgroups: nwu.general,chi.general,chi.places