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Mary Ogden on 10/18/99 12:22:36 PM
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Hooser/HOU/ECT@ECT, Robert Walker/HOU/ECT@ECT, Kimberlee A 
Bennick/HOU/ECT@ECT, Shawna Flynn/HOU/ECT@ECT, Susan Flynn/HOU/ECT@ECT, Kaye 
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Subject: Male phrases

>    >     "I'M GOING FISHING"
>     Translated: I'm going to drink myself dangerously stupid, and stand
by
>     a stream with a stick in my hand, while the fish swim by in complete
>     safety."
>
>     "IT'S A GUY THING"
>     Translated: "There is no rational thought pattern connected with it,
>     and you have no chance at all of making it logical".
>
>     "CAN I HELP WITH DINNER?"
>     Translated: "Why isn't it already on the table?"
>
>     "UH HUH," "SURE, HONEY", OR "YES, DEAR"
>     Translated: Absolutely nothing. It's a conditioned response.
>
>     "IT WOULD TAKE TOO LONG TO EXPLAIN"
>     Translated: "I have no idea how it works."
>
>     "I WAS LISTENING TO YOU. IT'S JUST THAT I HAVE THINGS ON MY MIND."
>     Translated: "I was wondering if that redhead over there is wearing a
>     bra."
>
>     "TAKE A BREAK HONEY, YOU'RE WORKING TOO HARD."
>     Translated: "I can't hear the game over the vacuum cleaner."
>
>     "THAT'S INTERESTING, DEAR."
>     Translated: "Are you still talking?"
>
>     "YOU KNOW HOW BAD MY MEMORY IS."
>     Translated: "I remember the theme song to 'F. Troop', the address of
>     the first girl I ever kissed and the vehicle identification numbers
of
>     every car I've ever owned, but I forgot your birthday."
>
>     "I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT YOU, AND GOT YOU THESE ROSES." Translated:
>     "The girl selling them on the corner was a real babe."
>
>     "OH, DON'T FUSS, I JUST CUT MYSELF, IT'S NO BIG DEAL."
>     Translated: "I have actually severed a limb, but will bleed to death
>     before I admit that I'm hurt."
>
>     "HEY, I'VE GOT MY REASONS FOR WHAT I'M DOING."
>     Translated: "And I sure hope I think of some pretty soon."
>
>     "I CAN'T FIND IT."
>     Translated: "It didn't fall into my outstretched hands, so I'm
>     completely clueless."
>
>     "WHAT DID I DO THIS TIME?"
>     Translated: "What did you catch me at?"
>
>     "I HEARD YOU."
>     Translated: "I haven't the foggiest clue what you just said, and am
>     hoping desperately that I can fake it well enough so that you don't
>     spend the next 3 days yelling at me."
>
>     "YOU KNOW I COULD NEVER LOVE ANYONE ELSE." Translated: "I am used to
>     the way you yell at me, and realize it could be worse."
>
>     "YOU LOOK TERRIFIC."
>     Translated: "Oh, God, please don't try on one more outfit, I'm
>     starving."
>
>     "I'M NOT LOST. I KNOW EXACTLY WHERE WE ARE." Translated: "No one will
>     ever see us alive again."
>
>     "WE SHARE THE HOUSEWORK."
>     Translated: "I make the messes, she cleans them up.
>