Conference back40::soapbox

    
    well I blow that study to shame, hell, I have 11 beers in two nights.
    I guess I blew the married part as well. If I had sex 7 times a month
    I would be happy.

    
      Didn't they also say you watch 25 hours of TV a week ?  This seems
     incredibly high to me.  Also, doesn't 30K sound low ?
    
      bb

    Seven times a month???

    
    Actually 30K seems rather high.  Remember, most people don't work in
    the industry in which we work and in the geograpphy's where we work.  I
    think we have an unrealistically high expectation of salaries.
    
    
    Mike 

    
    << Also, doesn't 30k sound low?
    
    well bb we can't all be pulling down the 60-70k you boys do. hell,
    we probably qualify for poverty for christs sake.

    
    	Well, I'm 26, lost my virginity at 16, won't comment on the sex per
    month :), make under 30K per year, and was married at age 20. I guess
    I'm kinda average. :)
    
    
    jim

    
    
    	oh, and I watch about 8-10hrs of TV per week.
    
    

>	You also have about 11 beers a week.

Lots of guys don't drink beer, eh? 

For that 7 times a month, does anybody else have to be around for it to
count?

TTom

    I do 7 times every two weeks and make more than 30 k (combiened income)
    per year. but I do not drink or smoke.

    I wish I were average :-/

    that's bizzare! i bought a twelve pack of Coors light last weekend and
    drank 11 of them... scary.

    .11
    
    It took you ELEVEN of the things to discover that Coors is worse than
    coyote piss is reputed to be?

    >> For that 7 times a month, does anybody else have to be around for it
    >> to count?
    
    I hope not! 
    
    If they do I'm in serious trouble..

    >I hope not! 
    
    >If they do I'm in serious trouble..
    
     Otherwise you're an overachiever, right?

    Oh Chip!  Say it isn't so!  Coors Light?  Eeesh.  That is definitely
    above average bad.  

    Frankly, I'm surprised it wasn't Piels Light. :-)

    
    No Women's Health writer?  How am I supposed to know if I'm average or
    not, then?
    
    
    

    >>  No Women's Health writer?  How am I supposed to know if I'm average
    >>  or not, then?

    my, my, my... i'm feeling so, so serf-ish, so under-exposed to the
    finer things that other half enjoys. oh woe is me. what am i to do?
    
    eat veal maybe? vote for Dole? hmmmm, let me think this through, but in
    the meantime why don't all of you take a flying leap and stop picking
    on the lower class, pretty please...

    >> finer things that other half enjoys
    
    SO answer me this... are you the opposite sex, or am I?

    I`m the right sex.

    As long as you know your station in life, Chip.  :-)

    .20 please read the last sentence.

    
    .19
    
    chip, why don't you tell us how you *really* feel.

    -1 well i would have, but the mods would have just deleted it for 
    <r.o.> so i passed :-)

    
    
    Yer way above average, mz Deb......

    >> .20 please read the last sentence.
    
    This IS the last sentence.
    
    *8)

    >my, my, my... i'm feeling so, so serf-ish, so under-exposed to the
    >finer things that other half enjoys. oh woe is me. what am i to do?
    
     Belly-ache. Why not? It's your field of expertise.

    ooooo, bleeding to death now. someoneplease dial 911.

    
    average household/family income is 38k.
    
    

    -1 Schmidt drinking bottom-feeders! 

    
    
    I'm definately odd then
    
    
    Lost my V at 23, married the same woman at 25, have only had it 4 times
    in the last 6 months, and drink at least 11 beers a week, that's
    European strength beer not the Coyote pee referred to earlier.
    
    But then we have combined income of around $80K, so maybe there's an
    advantage to be practically celibate.
    
    
    
    Conrad

    >>  But then we have combined income of around $xxK, so maybe there's
    >>  an advantage to be practically celibate.
    
    
    	Lemme tell ya, if celibacy and bein' broke are related, then my
    virginity has probably grown back.

The base note doesn't talk about combined income.

| <<< Note 650.6 by SUBPAC::SADIN "Freedom isn't free." >>>


| I guess I'm kinda average. :)

	Never would have thought that.... ;-)

| <<< Note 650.30 by SWAM1::MEUSE_DA >>>

| average household/family income is 38k.


	Gee, if that is true, then the average woman must make 8K a year. :(

	Lost my virginity at 18, and again at 26. 

    
    	RE: .37
    
    	Oh, you did that "2nd virginity" thing?
    
    
    	RE: .36
    
    	I don't think the calculation for a female's income is as simple
    	as household's - man's averages.  A household could be just a
    	woman,  whose income would therefore be under "household".
    
    	I'm almost positive it is lower than the man's average, but I
    	don't know how much lower.
    

| <<< Note 650.38 by BUSY::SLABOUNTY "Don't like my p_n? 1-800-328-7448" >>>


| Oh, you did that "2nd virginity" thing?


	Yeah....1st one was with a woman, 2nd one was with a man.

    >-1 Schmidt drinking bottom-feeders! 
    
     You're the one who's hypersensitive about imagined class slurs. I
    don't suppose it's ever occurred to you that I don't give a fig about
    one's purported class. Just what IS your problem?

    nothing Mark, so please retract you head from your butt and try and
    spot a sense of humor. must be dark up that highway anal-man...

    Yeah, sure, Chip. Recriminate at will, then claim it's just humor when
    questioned. Ho ho, that _is_ a hot one. Problem for you is the humor is
    unintentional.
    
    >must be dark up that highway anal-man...
    
     I defer to your expertise on the subject.

    you can be a truely sad human being for someone with your intelligence.
    
    that was such a poor recovery attempt even _i_ would not have entered
    it.
    
    keep trying, someone may believe you.

| <<< Note 650.41 by WMOIS::GIROUARD_C >>>

| nothing Mark, so please retract you head from your butt and try and
| spot a sense of humor. must be dark up that highway anal-man...

	Thanks Chip... I needed a laugh! :-)  

| <<< Note 650.42 by WAHOO::LEVESQUE "memory canyon" >>>

| >must be dark up that highway anal-man...

| I defer to your expertise on the subject.

	Chip is gay?

    not that i know of. maybe he's confusing me with my brother?

	Oh... is your brother gay....or does he have his head up his butt a
lot? :-)

Guys, guys, please play nice or we'll have to call your moms!  :)

    why is it that every day when i pass the grill line 
    down in the cafe that 90% of the people queued up for 
    cheeseburgers, french fries, onion rings, and steak 
    bombs are men?

    
    
    <-----
    
    because their Budweiser tumors aren't big enough?????
    
    hth...
    

    
    Because the women are all at the salad bar 8^(.
    
    

Because women are conditioned by society to think that thinner is better.

    
    What I wouldn't give for a big fat poutine and a beer right now 8^q.
    

Sounds like I should spend more time at the salad bar.

Belly up to the salad bar?

    no, it's because even though men know that stuff is
    bad for them, they like the taste of it.

    
    So if you knew, why'd you ask 8^)?
    

>Because women are conditioned by society to think that thinner is better.

But, thinner is better. IMHO

    because i needed input from my brothers and i
    was wondering if any replies would come close
    to the badforyou/tastesgood immediate gratification
    idea.  however, i must say, that in my 18 years of
    corporate cafe experience, a heck of a lot more
    men frequent the salad bah today than in yesteryears.

You mean it's too late for me to start hangin out at the salad bar?

    i've been seeing a lot of prostate ads lately and i 
    think this is a very good thing, too.  

    >why is it that every day when i pass the grill line 
    >down in the cafe that 90% of the people queued up for 
    >cheeseburgers, french fries, onion rings, and steak 
    >bombs are men?
    
     I dunno, but I think it's related to the fact that 90% of people who
    take the elevator rather than the stairs (and aren't obviously impaired
    or carrying/dragging/pushing something) are women. Mebbe men figure the
    exercise they get by taking the stairs rather than the elevator
    entitles them to splurge? :-)
    
     Or maybe it's because 90% of the people who eat "in" are men.

    
    I never take the elevator 8^p!
    
    

    
    
    Just an aside about men and their "health" (bodily speaking :)
    
    Had to pick up something at Rite-Aid last night (approx. 6:00 P.M.) and
    passed the Greeting Card/Candy aisle....
    
     Guess what??  
    
    Musta been 10 guys (no women) in the aisle looking for Valentine Cards
    and/or candy!!
    
     Nothing like waiting til the last minute... (is that a guy thing??)
    
    :)
    

    you have elevators?!  
    
    also did you know that as far as 'intrusive' examinations
    are concerned, men prefer male doctors and women prefer
    female doctors.

    
    So, YOU weren't there to pick up a card or candy, were you, Andy 8^)?
    

    
    >So, YOU weren't there to pick up a card or candy, were you, Andy 8^)?
    
    Nope... did that the night before... ;) ;)
    
    Just stopped by to pick up that bottle of French Bitter for my rocker
    ;) ;)

>    i've been seeing a lot of prostate ads lately and i 
>    think this is a very good thing, too.  


  is somebody selling them?

>But, thinner is better. IMHO

Tell it to Karen Carpenter.

    
    	Hey, it's not all bad ... she doesn't have to pay taxes any more.
    

    I think Spam is one of those things that taste great but bad for you
    type foods.

    Well Glen, my brother is gay and he does have his head up his butt
    a lot. does this constitute a perfect package? :-)

>   <<< Note 650.64 by SOLVIT::KRAWIECKI "He's no lackey!! He's a toady!!" >>>
>    
>    Just an aside about men and their "health" (bodily speaking :)
>    
>    Had to pick up something at Rite-Aid last night (approx. 6:00 P.M.) and
>    passed the Greeting Card/Candy aisle....
>    
>     Guess what??  
>    
>    Musta been 10 guys (no women) in the aisle looking for Valentine Cards
>    and/or candy!!
>    
>     Nothing like waiting til the last minute... (is that a guy thing??)
>    

    yep;  I noticed it to; I had my VD stuff done a week ago. Like a good
    boy. 
    
    T'was a good VD day too, today I can  hardly walk!
    
    *8)

    <-- hee hee
    Well, I know *I* slept in today...

    
    	Where *is* that "things I did not care to know" note ?
    
    	BTW, on the topic, when this was aired on TV, Matt Lauer
    	said, "Seven times a month ?  Is it really that low ?"
    
    	

    
    | I think Spam is one of those things that taste great but bad for
    | you type foods.
    
    "Sometimes life calls for deeper answers."
     

| <<< Note 650.73 by WMOIS::GIROUARD_C >>>

| Well Glen, my brother is gay and he does have his head up his butt
| a lot. does this constitute a perfect package? :-)

	Hee hee hee..... sounds like me sometimes.... :-) 

    Matt Lauer belongs in the moist boinkable topic IMHO

<---YES! And I think he is already there!