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Old 10-13-2021, 03:33 PM
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In my experience women are like buses. You get off one, another comes along.


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It is obviously a joke and it has been around a very long time. I have heard it both ways - "Men are like buses..."

It causes me to chuckle now and then as I observe dating happenings in real life among singles I know.

"There are plenty of fish in the sea." is an old saying my mother used when I was young and dating. Same concept.


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Nope. You know darned good and well that it is not the same concept. AND your mother would agree with me.

Boomer

PS: Gentlemen never go out of style.


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The bus and fish adages essentially provide the same analogy in that dating, for both male and female, is like catch and release fishing until you net a keeper. Q.E.D.


Nope. I will not give you quod erat demonstrandum. End of story? Hah! Not even close.

Let’s take a look at what “off” can mean — denotation v. connotation. The word ‘off’ is carrying more with it than simply being a synonym for ‘disembark’ or even a synonym for ‘leave’. . .

Lady Boomer

PS: I am messin’ with you — because you deserve it for this one.

Last edited by Boomer; 10-14-2021 at 08:10 AM.