"Cheap date" redux

[Tom Zurinskas]

In Coventry, UK, the restaurant had "skate" on the menu.  I told my wife, "That's too expensive.  I'm a cheap skate eater."

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
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> Poster: Jonathan Lighter
> Subject: Re: "Cheap date" redux
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> We all know what "cheap" can mean. Hence the difference of opinion.
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> JL
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> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:20 AM, George Thompson
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>> Poster: George Thompson
>> Subject: Re: "Cheap date" redux
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>> The one time I can recall hearing a woman describe herself as a "cheap
>> date" was decades ago; the speaker was a colleague, with a grown daughter,
>> who was joking about how quickly a drink or two went to her head.
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>> This was not in connection with any program of seduction on my part.
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>> GAT
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>> George A. Thompson
>> Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
>> Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Wilson Gray
>> Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 11:14 pm
>> Subject: "Cheap date" redux
>> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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>>> Somewhen, a few years back, I wondered aloud what motivate a woman to
>>> define herself, of her own free will, as a "cheap date," when the
>>> phrase is an insult. The consensus reply of both men and women was
>>> that the phrase is *not* derogatory. So, why *shouldn't* a woman
>>> define herself as a "cheap date," if she so wishes?
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