[lit-ideas] Re: A Gricean Analysis of Personal Classifieds

  • From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:23:21 -0400



On 7/13/2010 5:18 PM, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx wrote:
"Caring male, 44, 5' 11", stocky build, goatee beard, seeks similar female for good 
relationship".

---- What does 'similar' mean? Is she expected to have a goatee beard,  too?

Yes, but not on her face. For people who are scared of love, scared of rejection, or scared of loss of control -- there is always the recourse of sex with clones. Who could be less threatening to "you" than "you"? Guess again.


Yours in ontological relativism,
Quine the Swine
(guilty of killing Quilty)
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