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To: El Cid
Is that a reference to the Tim Blair classic from 2002

I am not familiar with that. I might look it up if you give me more details.

If we look at e-mail and live chat, we can look at it as an extension of the natural tertiary characteristics of the sexes' different ways of communication.

Women uptalk, men shouldn't (unless quoting or caricaturing a woman or weak man). Younger women can be cute when they embellish written letters or even waitress receipts with smiley faces or a heart over the letter "i". Men shouldn't, unless they want others to regard them as effete.

Perhaps a young man court a lady can be excused if he closes his letter (or e-mail) with a couple of "x"s and/or "o"s. That's as far as he should go.
56 posted on 05/23/2024 9:20:02 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana
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To: Dr. Sivana
I am not familiar with that. I might look it up if you give me more details.

Bummer.
I tried to run a search, even on the Wayback Machine and I came up empty.
The article was from 1-22-2002 (timblair.blogspot.com), but I could only find 1-19-2002 at the Wayback Machine - but then a big gap until March...

I'd print the whole routine here - but I only know how to convert Word Text (which is how I copied it back in 2002) to html by brute force (adding in the various html commands on each sentence), and that would take too long.
Oh well, it was actually a pretty funny routine, but not worth the time to dig out or convert.
If you want to try digging, look for 1-22-2002 timblair.blogspot.com. Other key phrases would be Richard Reid, Shoeboy. But just to get a few chuckles, not really worth the effort.

166 posted on 05/23/2024 5:33:53 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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