From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Thu Jan 02 2003 - 21:36:25 MST
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
>> Hey, most of us have done it.
>
> Speak for yourself. I assure you that I have never once found it
> necessary to invent a tall tale in order to pick up chicks at a singles
> bar.
Eliezer, you are one of those rare people who tell
the perfect unvarnished truth, but to the chicks
it would *sound* like a tall tale designed for
picking up chicks. {8^D
See Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman".
His life was so wildly implausible, whenever he
told the truth, the women would spurn him as a
spinner of yarns, and not particularly convincing
ones at that. So Feynman went into a bar with two
graduate students, told the absolute truth, the
grad students both agreed everything he said was
perfectly accurate. The chicks spurned all three
as raving lunatics. {8^D
Which leads me to ask: What if Cinderella had been
an atheist? Would she have been visited by her
fairy evolution mother?
Happy New Year everybody! spike
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