From: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (dreas)
Subject: Re: Upper Midwest
Reply-To: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 00:22:42 GMT

In article 801@unix.portal.com, mzank@shell.portal.com (matthew c zank) writes:
>k206027@smog.DKRZ-Hamburg.DE (Bakayaroo Banzai) writes:
>
>>In article <C0H9vA.G0o@unix.portal.com> mzank@shell.portal.com (matthew c zank) writes:
>>>Does anyone know why the upper midwest is so awful for meeting
>>>anyone? like i mean there is just no one here.
>>>--
>>>Matthew Zank * Eau Claire, Wisconsin
>>>------------------------------------
>
>>Matt, Matt, Matt...
>
>>I would have figured that you got all of this whining out of your system
>>over in alt.personals by now... 
>
>>One more time:
>
>>UW Eau Claire has a very high female to male ratio due to the schools
>>of Nursing and Elem. Ed. programs. Go hang out on Water St. 
>
>>If you want drunk, overweight, and desperate go to Shenanigan's...
>
>>If you want drunk, upwardly mobile, and disdainful go to Cameraderie or
>>Hooligan's...
>
>>If you want drunk, artsy, and dressed in black spandex go to the Joynt...
>
>>If you want drunk, athletic, Good Ol' Girls go to Wagners 53 1/2
>>Lanes...
>
>>If you want sober, responsible, lifetime companions stop wallowing
>>in self-pity and develop a personality that attracts members of the
>>opposite sex (honesty, respect, sense of humor, etc...)
>
>
>As I SAY for the last time, the bars are USELESS VERY USELESS, I have
>snice it was lawful for me to step in a bar, have tryed bars, i have
>stoped about this time last year, because I have no luck witn, and now
>I have this outlook. AS far I see bars are noting but meat markets where
>if you are not mr atlas, women will not give you the time of day.
>The whole thing is bars are the only place to meet anyone here in wisconsin.
>So have have better thing to waste 10 ro so bucks.

Oh, come, come now!

*I* ain't no Mr. Atlas.
*I* ain't no Greek Gad.
*I* ain't no nuthin' special.

I'm just a guy, see?
Bars ain't no nuthin' like USELESS VERY USELESS!!!!!!!!

(*click!*)

Only mentally crippled cretins would discount something that
they haven't tried to do well. Attitude, and not muscle, is what
makes a man successful with MOTOS, IN MY NOT SO HUMBLE EXPERIENCE.

The bar scene is a treat! You have to get into it, and it can take 
MANY YEARS to catch on to the nuances of bar life. The place I go to is 
just like "Cheers" on TV! Everybody's a regular, and everybody knows
your name. I've been going to the place at least once a week for four
months, except when I was away on my road trip.

Now I'm in there every night, and there's a special lady who also hangs
out there. I am slowly getting to know her, and all systems are go
right now. No pressure, and no "pick ups." 

You just have to be genuinely interested not only in her body, because
that's secondary, but the lady's personality and what's on her mind. If
you're not whining at her, both of you will have a good time when you
spring for her favorite drink. You must be able to get her laughing and
interested in what you have to say. If you say interesting or humerous
things, she WILL be interested AND enjoying YOUR company! 

Most importantly: don't be shy, don't brag, and don't be nervous.
You don't just want to get laid. You want to be her good friend, primarily.
The rest takes care of itself, more or less. If it doesn't than there are
other women who hang around in your favorite bar.

I will not reply to any more of your contributions to this particular
conference, Matt, because if you have any difficulty with these blatantly
SIMPLE concepts, you have BIG PROBLEMS.

I suggest that you get professional psychiatric help, because anyone
who whines like *you* do incessantly about such trivial things is most
certainly clinically depressed.

BTW, *I* know something about this, having been there AND done that!!!!

(*whoosh!*)

dreas