From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject: Re: boys in their thirties who never dated
Organization: AT&T
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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 18:35:34 GMT

In article <ewright.717696345@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
>In <5608@news.duke.edu> diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams) writes:
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>>Ed, this brings to mind something I've been wanting to ask you.  
>>Why do you like to read/post on soc.singles?  
>
>First of all, some people consider it worthwhile to defend their
>positions even if they're not likely to gain anything from it
>personally or even convince anyone else that they're right.  To
>quote Jefferson Smith, "Sometimes lost causes are the only ones
>worth fighting for."
 
 Teach us to walk the walk Oh hallowed be they name.

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>Secondly, I was not the person who originally started this thread.
>Someone else asked a question, and got a few flames in response,
>but no one has even addressed his comments to the original poster 
>lately because as soon as I posted it was, as Dawn Hardin said, wiping 
>the saliva from her chin, "open season on Ed Wright."  If I went away 
 
 She is the godess of the Pagans. She will roast with the others.
 
>in frustration, I would not lose anything.  However, there are other 
>people out there who would like to honestly and openly discuss issues
>in soc.singles that they cannot discuss without being howled down by
>Charlie Martin and the wolf pack.  They would lose. 
 
 Father Edward shall smote the deamons. Long live Father Edward.
 Pa rump pum pum pump.
 
> 
>Finally, I am far from being the only person who the physical fitness
>movement attacks for not having a perfect body.  Indeed, it's hardly
 
 Your on your own on this one Uuummmmmm.
 
>possible to watch television without seeing commercials that tell you
>how out of shape Americans are, how they need to exercise more, all the
>awful things that are going to happen if they don't, etc.  Many people
>are less capable of withstanding this abuse than I am.  I have seen
  
 You are the rock by which the shattered souls of despondancy and the
meek shall over come. Beholden Edward V. Wright. Smote thine enemies.
 
>people -- friends of mine -- become dangerously depressed because of
>it.  If there is even a remote chance that I can convince just one
>person on the net that it *isn't* okay to treat someone like scum
>just because of his or her appearance, and one person suffers less
>because of it, I consider that worth my efforts.   
 
 For his is a giving nurturing love. Save us Eddie, Eddieeeee, Eddieeeeee.
 
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>>Ed, maybe you ought to think about why you're spending so much of your
>>time *here*, bitching, instead of spending it out there looking.  
>
>Do you spend all of your time "out there looking?"  Or do you
>concentrate your efforts on those times when there's a reasonably 
>probability of meeting someone?  
 
 To look and share with one would be to steal from all the others.
Bow now brown cow. I slaughter these cats in the name of Edward.
Bwahhhhhaaaahhhhhaaaaa.
 
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