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From: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (the absurdist)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: What now? (Actually: meeting MOTAS)
Message-ID: <674@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 00:01:00 EST
Article-I.D.: uwmacc.674
Posted: Thu Jan 17 00:01:00 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jan-85 01:30:47 EST
References: <2447@umcp-cs.UUCP> <159@moncol.UUCP>
Reply-To: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (Rick Keir)
Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center
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Summary: 

In article <159@moncol.UUCP> john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer) writes:
>I am a personal computer user and regularly call a local BBS. (Think of it
>as a dial-up USENET in microcosm- no pun intended.) One of the groups on the
>system is devoted to trivia and, for a while, seemed to have been vacated
>by all but a young lady and myself.
	{ Nice things happened }
>Well, that's my story. Any others?
>

    A cautionary tale:  There is a board here in Madison called "The Absurd"
run for pure fun.  On it, I noticed many gutsy postings from a woman
who was the only identifiably female voice on the board (most people were
operating under pseudonyms like "Rom Chip");  as a result, she was getting
a lot of semi-humorous flak from the BBSers.  I rather liked her style and 
decided to do something "I've never done this before" that I'd never done
before.  To whit, ask a total stranger out on a blind date.  Actually, it
was fairly tame; some dozen friends of mine, many of whom were on the BBS
also, were going out dancing and I asked her if she'd like to join us.
	Well, I got back a nice reply saying no.  "Things would have to change
significantly in my life to be able to accept your offer" were her words.
	Time passed.  Eventually, I got a message from someone I knew thru
my consulting job here.  He said he'd been corresponding on the BBS with
me both under his own name and under a pseudonym, and wanted to let me
know who he was, since he felt bad about seeing me in person and having
our relation less than "upfront";  and added that the deception had been
unintentional.
	I'm sure we can all guess who he turned out to be.  Yes, the Absurd's
only declared female, the woman I'd asked out for a date...turned out
to be a guy.  
	Wasn't there a rock and roll song called "Mama warned me I'd meet 
girls like you" ?
-- 
"She said Hey babe --- take a walk on the wild side"
				-- Lou Reed

Rick Keir -- MicroComputer Information Center, MACC
1210 West Dayton St/U Wisconsin Madison/Mad WI 53706
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