"Bryan" wrote:

> On Jun 2, 12:05 pm, "Felice" > wrote:

>> Oh, good grief, Bryan! Is Barb a pig, too? How can you bear to hang
>> out on rfc with the rest of us porkers?

> These analogies aren't perfect, but they are illustrative. Getting
> on
> the NG and posting about this great new dish one has concocted is
> like
> a guy saying that he went out and met this amazing gal, and they
> stayed up all night making love. Posting about a new, creative
> recipe
> that just didn't turn out well is like that guy saying that he met
> this gal, and talked to her all evening, and he really thought there
> was a spark there, but then he finds out that she's happily married.
> A lady from the Upper Midwest posting about making a hot dish with
> leftovers and condensed "cream of" soup is like the guy saying that
> instead of going out, he just stayed home and masturbated.
>
> His autoerotic evening might even have been somewhat pleasurable,
> but
> is it really the sort of thing one has any business calling
> attention
> to?
>
> --Bryan

I have no answer this time, Bryan, because your comparing a
cream-of-soup hot dish to masturbation leaves me speechless.

Felice