Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxa!ajf From: ajf@pyuxa.UUCP (A Figura) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Re: Yet another new reader. Keywd: GIRLS Message-ID: <1146@pyuxa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 12:53:57 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxa.1146 Posted: Tue Mar 5 12:53:57 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Mar-85 05:12:11 EST References: <731@decwrl.UUCP> <745@amdcad.UUCP> <627@mhuxt.UUCP>, <1253@sunybcs.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 35 Chris Kay@sunybcs.UUCP seems confused. He writes: > > Phil Ngai writes: > > > Picking up girls, is that like when you visit someone and they > > > have this cute 9 month old daughter and you want to hold her so > > > you go over and "pick up a girl"? > > > > Actually, Phil, I think the phrase is more commonly used for > > the attempted activities of 15 to 18 year old boys. > > I did say that I am a graduate CS major. Now, unless I am some > kind of Boy-wonder, that would make me 22-24. I am 24. ^^^ Hmmm - interesting - this 24 year old male doesn't like to be called a boy. Thats understandable. Lets see what else Chris has to say... > To me, the word "woman" connotes a person who is 5 - 7 years > older than me. I DON'T know why; it just does. So, a 24 year old male is not a boy. But according to Chris, a woman up to the age of approximately 30 years old is still a girl. Yeah, that sure makes perfect sense to me! > > Just where is the dividing line anyway? > I just don't know. Easy (?) to answer - do you call your males friends "boys"? Probably not, since you don't consider yourself, at 24, to be a boy. Well then, is the cutoff between "boys" and "men" also equal to your age + 5? Since you probably will answer "no" to this question as well, why have a different definition or a different set of values for females? Al Figura @ Bellcore "Happiness is a warm Aardvark!"