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Subject:Re: Procreative? Let's do audience analysis!! From:DURL <durl -at- BUFFNET -dot- NET> Date:Fri, 17 Oct 1997 17:14:39 -0400
It would depend on your audience & how amenable he or she was to
receiving the information. In case of a certain level of user resistance,
some suggestions are:
(He to an uncertain she) "Just think--a little boy just
like me to love"
(She to an uncertain he) "Oh, leave it just this once"
Friday and I'm outta here!!
Mary Durlak
East Aurora, New York (near Buffalo)
durl -at- buffnet -dot- net
On Fri, 17 Oct 1997 barryk -at- MDHOST -dot- CSE -dot- TEK -dot- COM wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Oct 1997, Leslie Bythewood wrote:
>
> > Look at it this way: Would a husband and wife say to
> > each other, "Let's go procreate," when "Let's have a baby" is simpler
> > and more direct, if not more romantic?
> >
>
>
> I like: "Hey babe! Lets make a baby".
>
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