PDA

View Full Version : Actuarial Sighting - NYT SundayStyles, pg. 2

Area Man
11-24-2002, 11:01 AM
OUCH!! (http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/24/fashion/24DAT2.html):

The fact that 16.6 million Americans visited matchmaking Web sites in September alone, a figure from ComScore Media Metrix, has made Internet dating seem almost stigma-free, which means, among other things, that the opportunity for false (or at least massaged) self-advertisement is now nearly without limit. In the virtual world, a 5-foot-6 actuary can too easily masquerade as a 6-foot-3 cardiothoracic surgeon who sculptures.


Well, better a 5-foot-6 actuary than a journalist who uses "sculptures" as a verb. :roll:
moot
11-25-2002, 09:14 AM
I like statues
E. Blackadder
11-25-2002, 09:17 AM
Yes, but this is the NYT. So you need to adjust the assumed standard downward.
Mulan
11-25-2002, 12:28 PM
Why would I (who is very close to being a 5'6" actuary) WANT to be 6'3"??? :o :-? :P
E. Blackadder
11-25-2002, 12:58 PM
You could reach the dishes in the top cabinets. Besides, there's a correlation between height and mathematical ability. :D
Maine-iac
11-25-2002, 01:16 PM
Why would I (who is very close to being a 5'6" actuary) WANT to be 6'3"??? :o :-? :P

As a 5'3" actuary, I often wish for an extra foot to avoid those nasty collisions when two short people round the corner of a cubicle aisle from different directions. Anything 6' or more and I could see who was coming. :D

Plus, at 6'3", my current weight would make me downright svelte, if not emaciated!
Daria
11-25-2002, 04:56 PM
Plus, at 6'3", my current weight would make me downright svelte, if not emaciated!

I hear ya sister!
mona
11-26-2002, 06:00 PM
As a 5'3" actuary, I often wish for an extra foot to avoid those nasty collisions when two short people round the corner of a cubicle aisle from different directions. Anything 6' or more and I could see who was coming. :D


Unfortunately, you can only see the other tall people coming. Thus, you end up feeling like a water buffalo as you round the corner and mow down the petite person who was innocently trying to get to the printer/copier/coffee. :) :oops: