Blind date etiquette ... UPDATED

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A wealth of useless pointless information?

 

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Be polite and emboss your zipper in Braille.

 

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Drinks at one place with an option for dinner within walking distance always worked for me.

I probably went on a dozen blind dates in a 2 1/2 year period. Not sure why I usually agreed, but my female friends and the significant others of my male friends tended to be pushy yentas.

Some were awful (I think that I wrote here about the anti-Semitic vegetarian), some were OK and the last one 10 years ago turned out to be Mrs. W.

 

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I thought of that as I typed it. One of many J.D. moments in my day.

 

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Check with the person arranging the set-up that your date is not a 30-plus-year-old virgin.
Otherwise, you could end up on the Internet being guilt-tripped into pursuing a relationship that doesn't include sex.

 

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Bless you, Buck.

Bless you.

 

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Wonderful.

 

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I'd go with 30-minute emergency phone call. If the date's going well and the chemistry's great, turn the phone off before the 30-minute mark.

If your "emergency phone call" friend hears the phone immediately go to voice mail, he knows the date's going well and he doesn't bother them. If the phone rings and the dude on the date answers, follow through on the plans to get out of the date.

Of course, that's a suggestion from an amateur who has even less of a clue about these things than Mikey does. Take it with a grain of salt as big as Prince Fielder's posterior.

 

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On the brighter side, I think I found someone on the board who's as big a geek as I. That's right, Sam Mills. I'm calling you out. On a dating advice thread, you throw out the Yoda "Do or no not, there is no try" quote?

Wow. You've got a complete set of the action figures, dontcha Sammy?

 

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Come on, now, Moddy. I thought you knew women better than that. Our phone calls are set up for the first 15 minutes.