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Archive name: menwomen.txt
Authors name: Calcite (Rusties & Eddies BBS)
Story title : Men and Women are NOT Alike

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Sure, you thought you already knew that. But now we have
proof!   After countless hours of surveys and studies on
the following topics, these facts have emerged.

Relationships:
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First of all,  a man does not call  a relationship a re-
lationship.   He refers to it as  "that time when me and
Susie were doing it on a semi- regular basis.     When a
relationship  ends,  a woman will cry and pour her heart
out to her girlfriends, and she will write a poem called
"All  Men  Are  Idiots."   Then she will get on with her
life.

A man has a little more trouble letting go.   Six months
after the  breakup,  at  3:00am  on a Saturday night, he
will call and say,  "I just wanted to  let  you know you
ruined my life,  and I'll never forgive you,  and I hate
you,  and you're a total floozy.  But I want you to know
that there's always a chance for us."   This is known as
the "I Hate You/I Love You" drunken phone call, that 99%
of all men have made at least once.  There are community
colleges  that  offer  courses to help men get over this
need; alas, these classes rarely prove effective.

Sex:
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Women prefer 30-40 minutes of foreplay. Men prefer 30-40
seconds of foreplay.    Men consider driving back to her
place as part of the foreplay.

Maturity:
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Women mature much faster than men.  Most 17-year-old fe-
males can function as adults. Most 17-year-old males are
still  trading  baseball  cards  and  giving  each other
wedgies after gym  class.   This is why  high school ro-
mances rarely work out.

Handwriting: 
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To their credit,  men do not  decorate their penmanship.
They just chicken- scratch.   Women use scented, colored
stationary  and  they  dot  their  "i's" with circles or
hearts.   Women use ridiculously large  loops  in  their
"p's" and "g's".  It is a royal pain to read a note from
a woman.   Even when she's  dumping  you,  she'll  put a
smiley-face at the end of the note.

Bathrooms:
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A  man  has  six  items  in his bathroom - a toothbrush,
toothpaste, shaving cream,  a razor, a bar of Dial soap,
and a towel from the Holiday Inn.  The average number of
items in the typical  woman's  bathroom is 437.    A man
would not be able to identify most of these items.

Groceries:
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A woman makes a  list  of things she needs and then goes
to the store and buys these things.    A man waits until
the only items  left in his  'fridge are half a lime and
some mold. Then he goes grocery shopping. He buys every-
thing that looks good.    By the time that a man reaches
the  checkout  counter,  his cart is packed tighter than
the Clampett's car on  Beverly  Hillbillies.  Of course,
this  will  not  stop him from going to the 10-items-or-
less lane.

Going out:
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When  a  man  says he is ready to go out, it means he is
ready to go out.    When a woman says she is ready to go
out, it means she WILL be ready to go out,  just as soon
as she finds her earring,  finishes putting on her make-
up....

Cats: 
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Women love cats.  Men say they love cats, but when women
aren't looking, men kick cats.

Offspring:
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Ah, children.  A woman knows all about her children. She
knows about dentist  appointments  and  soccer games and
romances and best friends and favorite foods  and secret
fears and hopes and dreams.    A man is vaguely aware of
some short people living in the house.

Low Blows:
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Let's say a man and  a woman are watching a boxing match
on TV. One of the boxers is felled by a low blow.    The
woman says, "Oh, gee.  That must hurt."  The man doubles
over and actually FEELS the pain.

Dressing Up:
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A woman will dress up to go shopping,  water the plants,
empty the garbage,  answer the phone,  read a book,  get
the mail. A man will dress up for: (1) Weddings, and (2)
Funerals.

David Letterman:
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Men  think  that  David Letterman is the funniest man on
the face of the Earth.   Women think he is a mean, semi-
dorky guy who's got a gap in his front teeth and  always
has a bad haircut.

Laundry:
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Women do laundry every couple of days.   A man will wear
every article of  clothing he owns, including his surgi-
cal pants that were "hip" about eight years ago,  before
he will do his laundry.    When  he  is  finally  out of
clothes,  he  will  wear a dirty  sweatshirt inside out,
rent a U-Haul and take his mountain  of  clothes  to the
laundromat. Men always expect to meet beautiful women at
the laundromat. This is a myth.

Weddings:
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When reminiscing about weddings,  women talk about  "the
ceremony." Men talk about "the bachelor party."

Socks:
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Men wear sensible socks. They wear standard white sweat-
socks. Women wear strange socks.  They are cut way below
the ankles,  have pictures of clouds on them, and have a
big fuzzy ball on the back.

Nicknames:
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If Gloria,  Suzanne,  Deborah, and Michelle get together
for lunch,  they will call each other  Gloria,  Suzanne,
Deborah, and Michelle.  But if Mike, Dave, Rob, and Jack
go out for a brewski,  they will affectionately refer to
each other as Bullet-Head,  Godzilla,  Peanut Brain, and
Useless.

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