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Conference quark::human_relations-v1

Title:	What's all this fuss about 'sax and violins'?
Notice:	Archived V1 - Current conference is QUARK::HUMAN_RELATIONS
Moderator:	ELESYS::JASNIEWSKI

Created:	Fri May 09 1986
Last Modified:	Wed Jun 26 1996
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1327
Total number of notes:	28298

251.0. "Real Men Don't Eat Cliche?" by ZEPPO::MAHLER (Hey Baby Come here often? What's your node?) Sun Mar 22 1987 19:25

    After trying to cheer up a friend of mine last night
    after splitting with an SO [Funny Term I mean my
    parrot is an SO, NO?] I started to make fun of the
    various terms that flow around so often in these
    situations that they are bonafide cliche's.  These
    are most often followed by the oft abused term...

    "We need to talk!"

    
	"I need more space!"

	"We need to see other people!"  [I had Coke coming out of 
					my nose when I saw that new 7-Up
					ad on the telly. You know the one 
					where this kid gets blown off
					by his gal and he decides to go
					run over some chipmunks with his
					macho bicycle?]

	"Your too nice!" I can be an asshole, I swear I can! Give me Time!

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
251.1	Read the new one	VINO::MCARLETON	Reality; what a concept!	`Sun Mar 22 1987 19:40`	7
	See the new book by the same author as "Real men don't..": "Nice Guys Sleep Alone" It makes fun of the same type of cliches. Well recommended. MJC
251.2	<Cliche! Cliche!>	SSVAX::LAVOIE		`Tue Mar 24 1987 14:28`	12
	I'll call. I'm sorry, I didn't know it bothered you. (AFTER you've asked him to stop X times before) I'll tell you next time. I will respect you in the morning. Shoot I used to have a list of these somewhere...... Sunshine P.S The guys who used more than five cliches in one evening got dumped out the door!
251.3	The big call	JUNIOR::TASSONE	Wayside Inn, My favorite	`Tue Mar 24 1987 18:38`	6
	You call someone on the phone and they say, " I was just going to call you". I wonder if you never called them would they have done it?
251.4		GOJIRA::PHILPOTT	Ian F. ('The Colonel') Philpott	`Tue Mar 24 1987 18:38`	4
251.5	Conversation Stopper	PARSEC::TURNER		`Thu Jun 04 1987 22:04`	8
	There's probably a better list for this one, since the O usually isn't S enough to make it bother one. But as long as I'm here... "I'm going to let you go now." Translation: "You're going to let me go now."
251.6	I need time to think about it	SPMFG1::CHARBONND		`Mon Jun 08 1987 15:01`	3
	Is ASTRO::CLICHE still open ? These are all probably covered there, although perhaps in a more light-hearted way.