4/25 Hola, I have a Potempkin Date(tm) tonight at the Kabuki theater, Sf.
Any food recommendations in that area? Real restaurant, not burrito
facility or equivalent. Ok tnxx. --psb
BTW, has anyone eaten at the Parkside restaurant on 17th St?
\_ Partha, baby darling. Are you a good kisser? (^_-)
\_ What is a potempkin (sic) date? Are you trying to pass for
straight to your parents or something?
\_ Smack! Nice
\- hmm, that is one interpretation of potemkin date. no, that's
something that looks like a date but isnt. i'm the king of
potemkin dates. anyone been to parkside? --psb
\_ so what's the deal here? Are you paying a whore to go
out with you? Is that where the fake part comes in?
\_ what's the origin of the word?
\- p'kin village (ukraine) -> p'kin thermostat (barrows hall)
-> p'kin date (psb). --psb
\_ In the days of Catherine the Great, her advisors came
up with the idea of building elaborate fake villages
to impress her with how well they were taking care of
the peasants. The inventor of this strategy was named
Potemkin. Now, any elaborate ruse designed to put a
false good front on things can be called a Potemkin
village.
\_ So this means you are trying to impress someone
with a fake social life?
\_ he's trying to impress CSUA geeks by misusing
a term they're unlikely to understand.
\_ it's possible he's attempting to meet demands
from source genetic material
\_ Hmmm. I thought psb was blonde-obsessive. That
does not compute, unless the source has changed
overall parameters. |
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