Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site houxz.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!houxz!disc From: disc@houxz.UUCP (S.BERRY) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Rings and Bar Pickups Message-ID: <1031@houxz.UUCP> Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 14:13:30 EST Article-I.D.: houxz.1031 Posted: Thu Jan 17 14:13:30 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 18-Jan-85 02:48:55 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 44 => Helen Anne => Nice, snobbish friends you have, pal. So there *is* something wrong with => married people, then? Yes. They (along with people having a "steady") often have much less time to spend with even their GOOD friends, much less finding time to get to know new ones. => The point was that the ring can serve as a "parasite repellent" when someone => wants nothing beyond another notch on his bedpost. It can also serve as a repellant to people interested in meeting you and becoming friends--those who feel married people often don't have the time to make the investment in friendship worthwhile. => BTW, I am not averse to striking up => an *intelligent* conversation with a male in a bar, but the sad fact is that => these are few and far between. I sincerely hope you meant that intelligent men are few and far between IN BARS (and with some of the bars I've been to, I'd have to agree--maybe you go to the wrong bars? :-)) => Furthermore, I never said I *frequent* these places. Where in the h*ll did => you get that one? He didn't. He just said that people who frequent such places are not likely to be there just for the atmosphere. Reread the original posting. => It seems to me that someone's preference for privacy at a supposedly private => table... At a PUBLIC bar? :-) => After all, what is there to judge my by besides pretty face, nice body, => clean hair? Certainly I don't have a mind, sense of humor, or emotions. Of course you do; next time you're in a bar, wear these on the outside. Then people won't have to bother to get to know you enough to find out. Scott J. Berry