Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!dartvax!betsy From: betsy@dartvax.UUCP (Betsy Hanes Perry) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: PMS Message-ID: <3488@dartvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 13:38:01 EDT Article-I.D.: dartvax.3488 Posted: Thu Aug 15 13:38:01 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 01:03:14 EDT References: <934@druxo.UUCP> <1765@mnetor.UUCP> <399@timeinc.UUCP> Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 55 > (I've included the original text at the end.) Mr. Greenberg's algorithm is interesting. It reminds me of the grad student who jumped up from his test skin shouting "Eureka! A hippopotamus!" "How do you know it's a hippopotamus?" asked the prof. "Well, it was swimming when I caught it, it's a mammal, and I've ruled out the possibility of its being a whale because it doesn't have baleen!" Mr. Greenberg in 'ruling out possible causes of bad temper' has forgotten a surprising number of cases, notably: 8a-8000a Is she coming down with measles? Mumps? Flu? Encephalitis? ... etc. 8001a-80,000a Before she came to work, did she have difficulties with her spouse? her child? her cat? her car? 80,000a-800,000a At work, has something gone wrong to which Mr. Greenberg wasn't witness? Not to mention the plain old Excuse #1: She's just in a bad mood. There are thousands of reasons why any given woman (or man) may be in a bad mood, picky, anxious to be difficult. Only one of those reasons is PMS. After all, do you assume that every chubby woman is pregnant? Ross Greenberg says: > I have a special technique that I use for determining when a woman > is going through a particularly nasty bout with PMS. I'll use small > words for you: > > 1) Compare woman's personality to her usual personality > 2) Is it about normal? If yes, then jump out of loop > 3) Is she acting weird for no apparant reason? > 4) If there does seem to be a reason, then jump out of loop > 5) Is she irritable? Does she post nasty things to the net > on discussions that are already played out? Does she > use coarseness when she doesn't have to? Is she looking > for any opportunity to jump down someone's throat? > 6) If no, then leave loop > 7) Is she Sophie Quigley? > 8) If yes, then leave loop > 9) It now becomes reasonable to assume that the woman *may* be > suffering from a nasty bout of PMS. > > Now, try to be nice, huh? I will if you will. -- Elizabeth Hanes Perry UUCP: {decvax |ihnp4 | linus| cornell}!dartvax!betsy CSNET: betsy@dartmouth ARPA: betsy%dartmouth@csnet-relay "Ooh, ick!" -- Penfold