[net.social] beauty is as ...

colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) (05/21/85)

[Hey, you!  You selfish scumbag!  Why don't you go wear contact lenses?]

> > I know that when I'm low on self-esteem, often a good workout and knowing
> > that I can rely on my body and my health helps.
> 
> My, my!  Philosophies of the "me" generation.  Whatever happened to the old
> traditional way, to go out there and do good deeds?  That way, you may also
> be attractive because you are a nice person.
> Of course, you could ... wear blue-green contact lenses...

Going out and doing good deeds doesn't make anybody nice.  (But meeting people
that way sometimes does.)

I've known a lot of do-gooders who were incurable nerds.  People who act
out of duty are usually bad company.

		"Raised in a bottle, and stayed there too."
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel