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. . .