[Tokhtamish]

I once saw a special on HBO about strippers. It focused on one past her sell-by date vainly looking for work. There was a great shot of her waiting to audition at a club contemplating with utter despair the perfectly bodied young girl on the runway. That's her competition and she hasn't a chance.

I mused at the time that it might be a good idea to create a cross training institute for over the hill strippers where they would teach nerdy programmers social and sexual skills and the nerdy programmers would in turn teach them job skills.

[superloser]

A training institute for former strippers sounds like a good idea, if it can be made to fly. Heck, I might sign up for it just to see the social interactions.

Most of the ones I used to know had always known they couldn't do it forever and were trying to build a career elsewhere.

Then again, I wouldn't have gotten such an education if friends of mine and I weren't looking for cheap eats. The club we went to had a full steak dinner for $3.50 a decade ago. Even on a college student's budget, that's cheap eats.