Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!ut-sally!pooh From: pooh@ut-sally.UUCP (Pooh @ the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen) Newsgroups: net.singles,net.social Subject: Re: Salemanship (Warning: long, but entertaining!) Message-ID: <2292@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 10:11:40 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-sally.2292 Posted: Mon Jul 8 10:11:40 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 06:51:17 EDT References: <968@peora.UUCP> <1424@mtx5b.UUCP>Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 36 Xref: watmath net.singles:7720 net.social:809 From postnews Mon Jul 8 09:09:24 1985 > Frank Silbermann: > > As I grew up, I automatically adopted my parents' style, which they > got from their parents, which ultimately derived from Eastern European > superstitions about the evil eye. . . > If ever you admit that > things are going too well, or that your are too satisfied or comfortable, > the evil eye might hear you and realize that he has forgotten to torment > you lately. If that happens, the good times are over. > > Gentiles that I grew up with in Palatka Florida didn't understand this > attitude. Oddly, they found being around me to be unhealthy and depressing. > They preferred a more Protestant attitude like Rev. Norman Vincent Peal's > "The Power of Positive Thinking." > > Let's get back to social relations. If you tell a woman or yourself, > that you're just looking for an easy lay, that's all you'll get, > if you get anything at all. But if you tell her that you respect her, > that this is no common fling, that she really means something to you, > well who knows? MAYBE such a relationship WILL grow, after all! > If not, well, you tried! > Well, Frank, maybe the best thing to do is to tell her that, and then complain to your friends about how she doesn't like you and it's not going to work out! :-) A Funky Little Jewish Princess, Pooh pooh@ut-sally.ARPA pooh@purdue-ecn-cb.ARPA ut-sally!pooh pur-ee!pooh Roly-poly fish heads are never seen drinking cappuccino in Italian restaurants with Oriental women. . .