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Originally Posted by manaboutown
In my experience women are like buses. You get off one, another comes along.
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Originally Posted by manaboutown
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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Originally Posted by Boomer
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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Originally Posted by manaboutown
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.
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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.