From: rmeadows@coplex.com (Richard Meadows)
Subject: Hackers too boring for dates. DOCUMENTED!
Summary: Hackers disriminated against by dating service
Keywords: hackers  dates  Moody  geeks  nerds
Organization: Copper UNIX/USENET Services
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 22:50:57 GMT

I now have written published evidence(?) of discrimination against us nerds 
hackers or geeks as the case may be.  In the SUN, Vol.10 - No. 13, March 
31, 1992, p. 15, bottom left:

              COMPUTER HACKERS NIXED FOR BEING BORING DATES

     A DATING AGENCY won't play Cupid for computer hackers - because 
    they're too boring!
    "They're good at their jobs but the can't mix with other people," 
    says Beth Moody, who runs a video dating service in suburban 
    Chicago.
     "They're just a waste of time. I don't care if it's a male or 
    female computer hacker who wants to sign up.  I don't want them 
    because they have no personality and they hurt my business.
     "It's pathetic. Some of these poor guys can't even talk to a 
    camera, let alone a woman. I've had people quit the club after 
    viewing the tapes.
     "That's when I made the no-hacker rule. I'm looking for exciting 
    singles who want to make a love connection - not a nerd who can 
    only talk about the latest computer software."
     Some hackers are striking back at Beth's claims.
     "So maybe we're not so romantic, but we're just as interesting as 
    anybody else," say computer whiz Donald Jessen, 28. "We just talk 
    about things like new programs or imputting data instead of what 
    football team is going to win the World Series.
     "What's the point of having a video dating service if you can't 
    talk about the things you like? We shouldn't be punished for 
    having brains."

This is EXACTLY the way it was written/printed in the SUN.  I did not 
change delete or add anything.

Well now it is obvious good old Beth sure doesn't know any of us or that 
none of us have used her dating service.  Of course I was about half way 
convinced the story might have a shred of truth in it till I came to the 
statement about ..."football team is going to win the World Series."  Too 
pat.  

So what do you all say?  Perhaps we should find out if Beth Moody exists; 
she has a dating service; attempt to join; then sue her for discrimination 
against a minority class of people.  Or maybe we could just put our nerd-
ness, hackerism, and/or geekness to good use and see what good old Beth 
thinks about us after that.

Oh, you ask what am I doing reading such a rag?  Looking for trash like the 
above.  This issue also had: Space aliens buried under Empire State; 44 
y.o. mom who marries a 14 y.o.; how the bible can make you a great lover; 
and my personal favorite, the CONDOM ALLEGEDLY FOUND IN BREAD, urban leg-
end, in the genre of KFC fried rats and mouse in the coke bottle.

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