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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Friday 15 September 2006 08:23 \__
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>> Ray Ingles <sorceror@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> On 2006-09-14, Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> I think Andrea could be a he, not a she. Some Italian first-names have
>>>> 'a' endings for males, for example.
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> Yes, it was clarified soon thereafter.
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>>> Like my father-in-law. My wife told about the couple times they got
>>> crank calls for "Ann-dree-a" (in a heavy-breathing tone) and they'd hand
>>> the phone to her dad, "On-dray-a". Very quick hang-up after that. :->
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>> Hahah! That's pretty good :-)
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> Mewonders if this group ever drove off female participants. I see this
> problem in some mailing lists. Well, we still have Jeanette... and Gary.
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There've been a couple of females here, but in the main, if you see
a female nym here, it's likely to be a guy pretending, in particular,
most likely to be gary stewart having one of his girly days. This is,
of course, common to most of the technical industries generally, where
there are mostly males and a few females.
Mrs Mark thinks that on average, women are more risk averse than men,
which impacts their choice of leisure activities and work significantly.
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