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#8377 10/26/00 08:10 AM
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>some sort of standard reference text

No, more a fashion accessory. I looked it up on Amazon and see you can get the book, the tape, the video, the computer game, the t-shirt, the set of matching towels ...

It's a bit like Bridget Jones, eventually you have to read it, otherwise you don't understand the references people make to it.

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What do you think about "The Selfish Gene"?


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Poster Sex-

All I think of when I see this thread is this year's "Wonderbra" poster which featured a Wimbledon tennis player. It shows the power of advertising. I just can't take it seriously!


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What do you think about "The Selfish Gene"?

The book or the idea? Actually I think that both are great. I am a huge fan of Dawkins and have read most of his stuff. Of course, The Selfish Gene was published in the mid/late '70s, so may be slightly out of date - though I think they have done a revised edition recently. I am currently tempted to buy the (apparently) more scholarly follow up - The Extended Phenotype (published 1981 or some such). Let's see. Evolution fascinates me, and I'm currently in the middle of two books on it...

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Was it just any old Wimbledon player - or was it the one and only Kounikova, over whom so many men seem prepared to drool, dribble, spout drivel etc?


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>over whom so many men seem prepared to drool, dribble, spout drivel etc?

Precisely, poster sex !



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why didn't you ask me to?

Brilliant!
Give me a simple little story like that rather than an ocean of books any day!

(Martian) Fish on a (Venusian) Bike




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Avy, if you can't get hold of the books various people have mentioned, you could try a search on Google with the terms psycholinguistics, male, female. Not all the references will be spot on, but trust in serendipity.

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Thanks all


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..And he says, in honest perplexity,
why didn't you ask me to?

..They must have been married for more than seven years .
No, I don't think that this has much to do with psycholinguistics. I would file it under "defence mechanisms".




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I think the woman in question would be helped enormously by this advice and the updated version also included:
http://users.erols.com/cozy/50swoman.html


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