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Do any of these patterns involve dancing?

 
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So what kind of dating patterns are included? Even us married guys are always on the lookout for romantic patterns to apply to our wives
 
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I think married folks should stick with the "distributed dating patterns" if you know what I mean. Messing about close to home will always cause a system crash, and then you have to spend bloody ages reinstalling the OS from scratch. And you know what that's like, some services just never run the same, and there's never that same comfortable feeling that you really know what's going on in there.
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Originally posted by Bert Bates:
So what kind of dating patterns are included? Even us married guys are always on the lookout for romantic patterns to apply to our wives


Now I'm intrigued. As a Swing dancer myself, I imagine that "dating patterns" is a fertile territory for gags about Swing, the Java thing, and Swing as in "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that Swing. de dop de dop..."
I sure wouldn't mind if the author would give us some more to go on.
 
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If one is going to connect to new clients, well, yes, do the distributed thing, preferably with a foreign key. However one can apply the patterns to an existing connection successfully. I left out the Structural Patterns category this time, waiting for another book, but when that comes out there'll be "Preemptive Contradog" which can prevent many a night in the doghouse. And of course "Fifth Position Break" and "Interested Listener" are popular anytime all the time.
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Originally posted by Simon Roberts:
I think married folks should stick with the "distributed dating patterns" if you know what I mean. Messing about close to home will always cause a system crash, and then you have to spend bloody ages reinstalling the OS from scratch. And you know what that's like, some services just never run the same, and there's never that same comfortable feeling that you really know what's going on in there.
Cheers,
Simon

 
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As we had rammed home had when Dan the Dancins Swede visited last month, any guy who's a swing dancer just needs to strut his funky stuff and the girls will be in big piles all over him. Alternately there are three patterns to apply:
* There�s No Business Like Show Business
Stride into the dance place with three or four of your female friends, and dance up a storm. Then, suitably impressive, sit at the bar for a while to see what happens.
* Swinging With Girls of Unknown Pleasure
Go out alone and dance your brains out. This strategy comes from Swinging With Girls of Unknown Pleasure [Maassen].
* Swinging Show Business (Combination of Show Business and Unknown Pleasure)
Go out alone without your friends and just dance your brains out with women you know and leave. Then the next week, just come back and sit at the bar.
As for swing jokes aka vs AWT, well, one can talk about whether Swing is superior to, say, SalSA or Ball.RM or whatever. The main thing is to implement DancesThatAreDoneInPublic and after that you're golden.
Fifth Position Break is highly flexible and distributable as well. If you're always on the road teaching or implementing Java Internals or Blade Server or whatever, there's often a bar with a free swing or salsa lesson somewhere near your hotel.
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Originally posted by john prieur:

Now I'm intrigued. As a Swing dancer myself, I imagine that "dating patterns" is a fertile territory for gags about Swing, the Java thing, and Swing as in "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that Swing. de dop de dop..."
I sure wouldn't mind if the author would give us some more to go on.

 
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Well, Interested Listener is a requirement just for peace at home. You do Interested Listener in a microarchitecture with Fifth Position Break (private dance lessons then dancing) and, say...oh, Cary Grant Helper (lots of chair pulling out stuff that implements Gentleman 1.0) then you're in good shape.
The next book will include structural patterns such as Preemptive Contradog and an assortment of giftgiving patterns. There will also of course have to be Post Event Contradog. Oh, and another Structural pattern I cut was Axis of Influence,which is to impress upon your mate's friends how impressive you are through making darn sure they know you implement Cary Helper, P Contradog, Interested Listener, and 5th Pos Break. Then they will continually make sure your mate knows she's insane for ever just being mad at you. ;>
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Originally posted by Bert Bates:
So what kind of dating patterns are included? Even us married guys are always on the lookout for romantic patterns to apply to our wives

 
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Howdy Y'all,
I could not resist this one for too long, since I love to dance. So does my wife, but she gets irritated by my particular style (or lack thereof).
At my wedding in 1984 I was accused of dancing with a chair for a partner. Well at least I couldn't be accused of stepping on her toes!
Now that I am an old man, I need extra energy, besides those Vodka martinis to keep on dancin' 'till way after midnight. That's why I got BAWLS. Now don't jump to the conclusion that I'm some male chauvinist with a foul mouth!
If you've got the chutz'pa (not sure about the the English spelling), click on the BAWLS.COM link above and navigate to BAWLS.COM > FUN STUFF > AUDIO/VIDEO and you'll see what I'm taking about.
Dance all night!
I'm sure there are patterns buried somewhere in this post, but I did not get much sleep last night, and it's almost time to head to the orifice for another fun filled day of non-stop consulting here in the beautiful Berkshires!
[ December 04, 2003: Message edited by: Howard Kushner ]
 
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Just wanted to clarify that dancing as specified in Fifth Position Break is a structured type of dance, not freestyle. You'll get points for freestyling of course, but the particular "ahooah!" reaction from women is gained via salsa, swing, ballroom, etc. There are also a lot of free or cheap public lessons for these dances which are really great places to meet women.
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Originally posted by Solveig Laura Haugland:
Just wanted to clarify that dancing as specified in Fifth Position Break is a structured type of dance, not freestyle. You'll ...


Hi Solveig,
Could you pls. elaborate more on this structured type of dance?
Doug.
 
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Well, first you get into this kind of big wire suit. Then you get hooked up to the collective. Oh, wait, that's something else.
I just mean rather than strutting one's funky stuff, while it might be quite funky, one will more likely be a very desirable and scarce resource with the ladies if one can:
salsa
swing
rhumba
foxtrot
waltz
do that one where you put the rose in your teeth
and or all of the above.
Here's a random geek-specific example. Phil Heller (of RHE and Grandfather Dragon fame) was out here in Boulder a couple years ago. A bunch of us went to the Broker for salsa night and the man was overrun by women asking him to dance. He's damned good, of course, and is able to be glib and chatty too, but the dancing was the Key. He didn't know anyone here, or at least not single women, but he just came into town, showed up at salsa night, and could definitelyhave parleyed (sp?) at least one of those connections into a date the following friday night.
Solveig

Originally posted by Doug Wang:

Hi Solveig,
Could you pls. elaborate more on this structured type of dance?
Doug.

 
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