From: Ben Ryan (mobius@core.binghamton.edu)
Subject: Re: TAN: Cryptonomicon 
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan
Date: 1999/09/14 



On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Bill Garrett wrote:

> Jamie Bowden <jamie@saisun31.larc.nasa.gov> writes:
> } [...] I know there are intelligent and
> } aesthetically pleasing women around.  Ask one out.  No is the worst that
> } can happen.
> 
> That's easy for you to say.  I'll bet *you* have never asked a woman
> out just to have her scream, "Aieee! By asking me on a date, you
> slime-dripping pustule, you have insulted me, my family, my country,
> and my gods.  Prepare to die!" and then pull out a pair of hunting
> daggers and chase you around the room trying to slice you into ribbons.
> 
> Fuck. I hate it when that happens.

        But to see you both still together is just so life affirming. 

-- 
Ben Ryan                           http://www.core.binghamton.edu/~mobius
"Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to
delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one while depreciating the
other." -David Hume