--- "Lori R. Fye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Catherine wrote:
>
> > If you want the definitive version, you may wish
> to
> > check with Bill Clinton!
>
> I considered walking the four blocks to his house
> during lunch today to ask him ... but in my head I
> kept hearing my dear president (and I do adore the
> man, if not his concept of truth) saying, "I did not
> have sex with that woman!" so I figured I already
> knew
> what he would tell me.
Quite right - it just isn't worth asking him.
Actually, I still like the guy too (even though I'm a
foreigner and it doesn't count).
> I used to be stationed with a woman who hails from
> Georgia, and (in 1984, anyway) she defined "making
> love" to be ONLY when she and her husband had the
> type
> of intercourse that might beget offspring. (I'm
> trying so hard to avoid being crude.) Other
> "pleasures" didn't count as "making love." And in
> her
> mind, if you weren't "making love" with someone
> else,
> you weren't committing adultery.
>
> Is this a perspective unique to the Southern states?
>
It's just a little thing called equivocation - people
can rationalize all they want (and they certainly do!)
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