Well, he did write speeches for Nixon.
> What about the 23% who prefer the company of a sexy hamster?
23% of what? Hamsters?
> I hereby petition the bureau to replace POSSLQ with AASSLQ: Animal of
> the Appropriate Sex Sharing Living Quarters.
Huh huh. Heh heh. He said AASSLQ.
> And there are those 18% of necrophiliac-americans whose civil rights
> must be defended. I mean, who are we to to judge those who happen to
> be turned on by a nice firm corpse?
You know, the terminally-inconvenienced never turned me on.
> I hereby cancel the previous motion and demand that the bureau replace
> POSSLQ with TASSLQ: Thing of the Appropriate Sex Sharing Living Quarters.
That's a helluva way to talk about the living-impaired.
> Darn, there are about 34% whose sex life involves non-gendered things,
> such as the Usenet alt.binaries.pictures hierarchy and a big pillow.
Rob, you need to come back from Europe, buddy.
> And 15% have no "living quarters" as such but have to survive on the
> street, under a bridge, wherever.
15% of the world is homeless? What are the other 85%, homely?
> I hereby waive the previous demand and order the bureau to replace
> POSSLQ with a noun sufficiently generic to offend no-one: "stuff".
As in, stuff it?
> PS: In answer to the question that started this, Myriam is indeed my
> SBSLQ now not just a g.f. (Sexy Babe Sharing Living Quarters).
Did I ever tell you the two ways to tell if someone's sexy? The first
way is, if they have really poor memory, they're sexy.
I wish I could remember the other way.
> PPS: Where did your 10% come from? If I recall correctly (always a
> doubtful proposition), in anonymized surveys roughly 97% of
> American men claim to be heterosexual, 1.5% homosexual and 1.5%
> bisexual.
10%? I made it up, estimating roughly (when compared with the
population) the number of characters in movies, television,
plays/musicals, dance numbers, and music, who are gay.
97% of American population claims to be hetero, eh? There's one
application of the 3% I don't want to be in... not that there's anything
wrong with it...
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