Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site unirot.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!caip!topaz!unirot!pooh From: pooh@unirot.UUCP (Pooh @ The Soup Kitchen) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: catching up Message-ID: <177@unirot.UUCP> Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 21:13:18 EST Article-I.D.: unirot.177 Posted: Mon Oct 28 21:13:18 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Nov-85 00:35:51 EST Organization: The Soup Kitchen, Piscataway NJ Lines: 54 Keywords: is bird doggie attached? It's been a while since I've been able to post, due to technical difficulties (where's that silly EDITOR on this machine??), so I'll throw in my .02 cents on everything: Re: Bird Dog Can you say "needs attention badly"? I have observed that most people go through stages in their life. In adolescence, they are terribly afraid of being different, and try to conform as much as they can. In the late teens and early twenties they are suddenly scared to death of being *the same*, so they froth at the mouth and go through all kinds of shenanigans to prove how much of an individual they are. Bird Dog appears to be in this stage, and appeals to anyone who really wants to look down his nose at the rest of the world. (It's nice to be different, but if you can be BETTER, so much the better!) After that you generally settle down and do what you want, regardless of whether it makes you the same as everyone else or different. Re: horses as vibrators I find it hard to believe that anyone in their right mind would be so impractical as to bother with the care, feeding and upkeep of an animal that, at best, makes a LOUSY vibrator, when you can mail-order a cheaper one that you can keep in a drawer for weeks without feeding. Re: Being Attached I also find that if someone is Significantly Attached, he will generally let me know one way or the other--either by starting a sentence with, "My wife/girlfriend/lover/woman and I . . ." or, more directly, by talking about the relationship he's involved with. On the other hand, men who *aren't* attached and want to make sure I know it will talk about how tough it is being single (:-), or talk about their EX-whoever (emphasis on the EX). It's a good bet (at least for me) that if a man doesn't make anything known one way or the other as we're getting to know each other, he's just not interested in anything romantic, so whether he's attached or not is of little importance. Another reason someone might not mention his status is less common, but still happens--I have a friend who never said anything about his past, and finally confessed to me that he has *never* had an SO. He never said anything because he was embarrassed to admit it. I'd like to make my public congratulations to Mamaliz and Mg here at the Soup Kitchen, who left me to boot this machine and feed the cats while they ran off and got married. . . Pooh topaz!unipress!pooh topaz!unirot!pooh Hank, you mutated my world--what's the occasion?