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From: jss@brunix.UUCP (Judith Schrier)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Fishing for Bicycles
Message-ID: <8381@brunix.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-Jun-84 21:27:46 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 14 21:27:46 1984
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Ok, sports fans, here I am with the definitive answer again. Not so very
long ago, almost anyone hearing "A woman without a man is like a fish..."
would have immediately filled in the "natural" ending "...out of water."
The humor of the "new" ending depends, as does most humor, on being
unexpected. Once we get past expecting the "natural" ending, and being
surprised, we stop being amused and begin to notice all the deep psychological
problems, such as women being selfish if they don't need men (!).

judith (now a mother-in-law) schrier
brunix!jss