posted December 30, 2005 11:40                      

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Originally posted by Demosthenes:
Scanning a room, a guy sees Christina Aguilara, Paris Hilton, and someone with a monitor tan and little-to-no makeup. Guess what 95% of men aren't goign to react to. It's basic physical attraction, and don't try to convince me that, if you were single, you'd throw Kate Moss out of bed, because I wouldn't believe you in a million years.

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posted December 30, 2005 13:26                         

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Originally posted by The Famous Druid:
While not wanting to disagree with your basic point, your choice of examples is poor.
Kate Moss and Paris Hilton?
Eeewwww !

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posted December 30, 2005 13:58                      

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Originally posted by Richard:

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Originally posted by Cap'n Vic:
I've had blackouts that have lasted longer.....really.

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Wow, that's a load of drugs and or alcohol... or both.

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posted December 30, 2005 15:56                         

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Originally posted by Demosthenes:
Again with how different you are from all other men. I'm not buying it.

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posted December 30, 2005 16:02                         

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Originally posted by dragonman97:
Quoth Demosthenes
Guess what? I show up to programmer's groups and LUGs in jeans and a t-shirt and I'm just another face. I've shown up on my way to a club or somesuch in fitted clothes and a little makeup, and suddenly they're all asking me what I think of their code. Geeks are visual creatures just like any other man. It's been proven that men react to visual stimulation more than anything else. I would love to see you argue those studies.


Hmm...funny...I'd wager it'd go slightly the other way around with me. Show up as you would at the LUG, and I'd whip out my iBook, and ask if you might fancy a glance at some cool stuff. Show up otherwise, and I'd probably ask you if you were interested in some coffee.

(Actually, I'm pretty damn partial to a good espresso any which way. )

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posted December 30, 2005 16:28                      

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Originally posted by Demosthenes:

Also, some guys are just plain attracted to girly-girls. One of my exes is obsessed with Asian girls, because he claims that they're "the girliest of all," and you can "just toss them around in bed." He's one of the geekiest kids I know, and he wants nothing to do with the women on his programming team. In fact, he doesn't want a woman, he just wants a girl who won't make him work for anything.

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posted December 30, 2005 18:44                      

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Originally posted by ChildeRoland:
Demosthenes, you need to lighten up. Much of what GameMaster said is true for a select group of people.

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posted December 30, 2005 19:59                      

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Originally posted by Rhonwyyn:
When was "access" a thing? I've heard of "accessory," but not an "access." You can say "I have an excess of such-and-such," but that's a different spelling and a different part of speech. :confuzzled:

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posted December 30, 2005 20:55                         

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Originally posted by alfrin:

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Originally posted by Rhonwyyn:
When was "access" a thing? I've heard of "accessory," but not an "access." You can say "I have an excess of such-and-such," but that's a different spelling and a different part of speech. :confuzzled:

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I request access into your cave.
Do I have access to your savings fund?
Do I have access to your chasity belt? Grant me access.

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posted December 30, 2005 20:59                         

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$dict access

Access \Ac*cess"\ (#; 277), n. [F. acc[`e]s, L. accessus, fr.
     accedere. See {Accede}.]
     1. A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission;
        accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince.
        [1913 Webster]

              I did repel his letters, and denied
              His access to me.                     --Shak.
        [1913 Webster]

     2. The means, place, or way by which a thing may be
        approached; passage way; as, the access is by a neck of
        land. "All access was thronged." --Milton.
        [1913 Webster]

     3. Admission to sexual intercourse.
        [1913 Webster]
     4. Increase by something added; addition; as, an access of
        territory. [In this sense accession is more generally
        used.]
        [1913 Webster]

              I, from the influence of thy looks, receive
              Access in every virtue.               --Milton.
        [1913 Webster]

     5. An onset, attack, or fit of disease.
        [1913 Webster]

              The first access looked like an apoplexy. --Burnet.
        [1913 Webster]

     6. A paroxysm; a fit of passion; an outburst; as, an access
        of fury. [A Gallicism]
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  access
       n 1: the right to enter [syn: {entree}, {accession}, {admittance}]
       2: the right to obtain or make use of or take advantage of
          something (as services or membership)
       3: a way of entering or leaving; "he took a wrong turn on the
          access to the bridge" [syn: {approach}]
       4: (computer science) the operation of reading or writing
          stored information [syn: {memory access}]
       5: the act of approaching or entering; "he gained access to the
          building"
       v 1: obtain or retrieve from a storage device; as of information
            on a computer
       2: reach or gain access to; "How does one access the attic in
          this house?"; "I cannot get to the T.V. antenna, even if I
          climb on the roof" [syn: {get at}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  299 Moby Thesaurus words for "access":
     Jacksonian epilepsy, Rasputin, Rolandic epilepsy, Svengali, VIP,
     abdominal epilepsy, accessibility, accession, accretion, accrual,
     accruement, accumulation, acquired epilepsy, activated epilepsy,
     addition, adit, admission, admittance, advance, advent,
     affect epilepsy, afflux, affluxion, aggrandizement, air lock,
     aisle, akinetic epilepsy, alley, ambulatory, amplification,
     aperture, apoplexy, appreciation, approach, approachability,
     approaching, appropinquation, approximation, appulse, arcade,
     arrest, artery, ascent, attack, attainability, augmentation,
     autonomic epilepsy, availability, avenue, bad influence,
     ballooning, big wheel, blaze of temper, bloating, blockage, blowup,
     boom, boost, broadening, buildup, burst, cardiac epilepsy, channel,
     cloister, clonic spasm, clonus, colonnade, come-at-ableness,
     coming, coming near, coming toward, communication, conduit,
     connection, convulsion, corridor, cortical epilepsy, court,
     covered way, cramp, crescendo, cursive epilepsy, defile,
     development, diurnal epilepsy, eclampsia, edema, elevation,
     eminence grise, enlargement, entrance, entranceway, entree, entry,
     entryway, epilepsia, epilepsia gravior, epilepsia major,
     epilepsia minor, epilepsia mitior, epilepsia nutans,
    epilepsia tarda, epilepsy, epitasis, eruption, exit, expansion,
     explosion, extension, falling sickness, ferry, fit, five-percenter,
     flare-up, flood, flowing toward, focal epilepsy, ford, forthcoming,
     frenzy, friend at court, gain, gallery, gangplank, gangway,
     getatableness, gettableness, good influence, grand mal,
     gray eminence, greatening, grip, growth, gush, gust, hall,
     haute mal, heavyweight, hidden hand, high words, hike,
     hysterical epilepsy, ictus, imminence, import, importation,
     importing, in, income, incoming, increase, increment, infiltration,
     inflation, influence, influence peddler, influencer, ingoing,
     ingress, ingression, ingroup, inlet, input, insertion, insinuation,
     intake, interchange, interpenetration, intersection, introduction,
     introgression, intrusion, jump, junction, key, kingmaker, lane,
     larval epilepsy, laryngeal epilepsy, laryngospasm, latent epilepsy,
     leakage, leap, lobby, lobbyist, lockjaw, lords of creation,
     man of influence, manipulator, matutinal epilepsy, means of access,
     menstrual epilepsy, mounting, multiplication, musicogenic epilepsy,
     myoclonous epilepsy, nearing, nearness, nocturnal epilepsy,
     obtainability, obtainableness, occlusion, oncoming, onset,
     open arms, open door, open sesame, opening, openness, orgasm,
     outburst, outlet, overpass, pang, paroxysm, pass, passage,
     passageway, penetrability, penetration, percolation, perviousness,
     petit mal, physiologic epilepsy, portico, powers that be,
     pressure group, procurability, procurableness, productiveness,
     proliferation, proximation, psychic epilepsy, psychomotor epilepsy,
     railroad tunnel, raise, reachableness, reception, reflex epilepsy,
     rise, rotatoria, route, sally, scene, securableness, seepage,
     seizure, sensory epilepsy, serial epilepsy, sexual climax,
     sinister influence, snowballing, spasm, special interests,
     special-interest group, spell, spread, stitch, stoppage, storm,
     stroke, surge, swelling, taking, tardy epilepsy, tetanus, tetany,
     the Establishment, throes, thromboembolism, thrombosis,
     tonic epilepsy, tonic spasm, torsion spasm, traject, trajet,
     traumatic epilepsy, trismus, tumescence, tunnel, turn, twinge,
    ucinate epilepsy, underpass, up, upping, upsurge, upswing, uptrend,
     upturn, very important person, vestibule, visitation, waxing, way,
     way in, wheeler-dealer, widening, wire-puller



From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Access

          1. <language> An English-like query language used in the
          {Pick} {operating system}.

          2. <database, product> {Microsoft Access}.

          (1994-11-08)
From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  ACCESS, persons. Approach, or the means or power of approaching. Sometimes
  by access is understood sexual intercourse; at other times the opportunity
  of communicating together so that sexual intercourse may have taken place,
  is also called access. 1 Turn. & R. 141.
       2. In this sense a man who can readily be in company with his wife, is
  said to have access to her; and in that case, her issue are presumed to be
  his issue. But this presumption may be rebutted by positive evidence that no
  sexual intercourse took place. lb.
       3. Parents are not allowed to prove non-access, for the purpose of
  bastardizing the issue of the wife; nor will their declarations be received
  after their deaths, to prove the want of access, with a like intent. 1 P. A.
  Bro. R. App. xlviii.; Rep. tem. Hard. 79; Bull. N. P. 113; Cowp. R. 592; 8
  East, R. 203; 11 East, R. 133. 2 Munf. R. 242; 3 Munf. R. 599; 7 N. S. 553;
  4 Hayw R. 221, 3 Hawks, R 623 1 Ashm. R. 269; 6 Binn. R. 283; 3 Paige's R.
  129; 7 N. S. 548. See Shelf. on Mar. & Div. 711; and Paternity.

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