Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site allegra.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!root From: root@allegra.UUCP (Allegra Staff) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Forwarded Message Message-ID: <2715@allegra.UUCP> Date: Sat, 18-Aug-84 03:05:07 EDT Article-I.D.: allegra.2715 Posted: Sat Aug 18 03:05:07 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Aug-84 02:28:22 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 21 I have the vague impression that an earring in the right ear means gay, and in the left ear means straight. Then again, I have gay friends who wear earrings in their left ear. "Gee, I think it depends on which coast you are on", say some. Matt Dillon's left ear is pierced, Rick Springfield's (sigh) right ear is pierced. Does that mean one of them has to be gay, or is "Teen Beat" just slide-flopping some of their photos? This is a symptom of a general problem. Every time we think of a code signal, rock stars start doing it, and then the teenage boys start doing it and before you know it, guys are getting propositioned on their High-School field trips to Greenwich Village! How can we stop these straight guys from copying our superior fashion sense? Come on you computer scientists! What is the algorithm for telling someone you are gay in a way that only another gay can recognize? Dropping hairpins is only a heuristic. The "gay philosophers" problem is NP complete, "Lance"