Posted on 09/17/2005 6:59:48 AM PDT by teldon30
Dear Amy: I'd like to be in a relationship again, but I never even get asked out (unless you count frisky 85-year-olds and drunks at the corner bar). I'm a 32-year-old woman who's happy, sociable, and attractive. (I paid for college by modeling and continue to take care of myself.) I'm second-in-command at a big company, financially secure, and own a beautiful home. How can I meet men in general, and more specifically, men I'd actually want to date?
Deluxe Chopped Liver
Dear Deluxe: To scare away vampires, it takes garlic and crosses, which make ugly bulges in sleek, satin evening bags. Luckily, all you have to do to scare away men is pull out a business card that says ''senior vice president.''
''Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac,'' said Henry Kissinger. Sure it is — unless you're a woman. Research by Stephanie L. Brown and Brian P. Lewis, published in Evolution and Human Behavior (Nov. '04), seems to confirm what many lonely women at the top already know: When guys go for the woman in the boardroom, it isn't the woman running the meeting but the secretary who wheeled in the coffee and croissants before it started.
Sure, plenty of men will scamper up the corporate ladder for a one-night stand. But, according to Brown and Lewis' study, men looking for dates or relationships tend to prefer their subordinates to their colleagues or bosses. The researchers hypothesize that men evolved to want women they can control as a means of guarding against ''parental uncertainty'' — unwittingly raising kids fathered by the Neanderthal next door as their own. Brown and Lewis think this may also explain why men are suckers for ''behavioral expressions of vulnerability'' — women who act like they might not be able to make it across the street
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Ha ha! Shame on you for denying them their hoped-for opportunity to go on at length about what slugs men are!
I'm going back and forth on October...but December is almost certain. Lot of stuff going on at the office right now. I'll let you know if October is on. ;)
This little nuance is lost on 1/2 of the population. You are correct, sir!
Glad to help ya out! ;o)
Me neither. Unfortunately his behavior and the lack of a wedding ring was misleading to me. After that little 'scene' I was relieved it went nowhere before it even started.
Yes, Pugetopolis has grown like a weed, but it is still one of the most beautiful parts of the USA. Too many liberals, but were working hard up here to impart some common sense!
It's cloudy and 60 up here. I have an excuse! LOL
Because it's fun, Mr. J! Though I love politics, this is always my favorite topic! We are doing God's work, I like to think! ;-)
;-)
It's about 90 and perfect here in Scottsdale - probably the nicest Arizona day I've ever experienced. So I guess I should be out on the golf course, but I'm feeling lazy, today. ;)
Sure - the bill is "younger men who are sick of the airheads and like a mature woman." There are some, but many men (of all ages in fact) aren't sick of airheads at all and have no undue fixation on mature women.
"Run away!"
A "Sex in the city" fan is one of my red flags. Not someone that has similar value as me, time to move on (and quickly).
I'm suprised you aren't in a cocktail lounge eyeing the talent! LOL
Call me kooky, Mad Ivan, but I think she really likes you! ;-)
tet68,
Yep, basically the same thing I call hoe cakes, only I use cornmeal.
I could live off of jerky, love the stuff.Do you make your own? Deer?
I can make all kinds of breads in a Dutch oven. I also cook some on open coals.
Honey I have caught a many striped bass. The state I live in has several big mountain reservoirs, full of them (I live on one of them). We had the world record for landlocked stripers twice in the 1990s here.
I also caught a boatload of them a few years ago while at a convention in Virginia Beach, Va. Was fishing the riprap and me and two guys on the boat were pulling in 12- to 16 pounders every cast. My arms hurt for a week. But it was a blast.
A few years ago I did quite a bit of fishing below the big power dams -- what they call here "fishing the boils."
It can be quite dangerous and I almost went over once and learned a lesson. Basically, when they are generating below the dams you run your boat up over the churning water, cut the motor, and drift big shad behind you (we net our own shad).
You get hung up a lot and I thought I had hooked another rock and told the guide "dang, I'm hung again."
Bout that time my line started moving against the current and I realized this wasn't a rock. Took awhile but I pulled in a 16-pounder.
I love every kind of fish, trout, largemouth, smallmouth, stripers, redfish, bluegill, speckled trout, etc.
I was in Alabama last week and my cajun brother-in-law (he's from Louisiana) cooked us up a big mess of fish. That man can fry the best fish in the world.
Do you turkey hunt? It's addictive. I've hunted for alligator (in Lousiana), quail, duck, bear, deer and turkey. I didn't say I killed all of that -- but have hunted all this at one time or another.
Nothing like watching a big old boss gobbler strut his stuff in gun range is there?
Unless I am seeing someone for lunch or something, or my galpal visits me from LA for a long weekend, I am usually home all morning and all afternoon 6x a week in my pajamas, shave & shower around 4pm during the newsbreak during The Savage Nation, and go out and tackle the Las Vegas strip in the eves!
Either that or I usually stay home and watch episodes of Get Smart I recently dubbed to DVD. ;-)
Good gravy, pal - when visiting friends ask me to take them to a local strip club, I sincerely tell them that the action is much better at my local supermarket! While they tend to not take their top off for $20, you can meet them for coffee sometime and hey, the night is young!
Agreed. I've moved on. She hasn't, I think.
Regards, Ivan
Kudos! I never let a little deception get in the way of a tender memory, you know! :-)
No worries - just keep me posted! Hope all is well!
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