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Hehehehehehe...opps, may not be funny to all!!

Enjoy.

Madiba.
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Women Flock to Silicon Valley in Search of Men

November 14, 1999
Web posted at: 12:02 PM EST (1702 GMT)

PALO ALTO, California (Reuters) -- The world capital of technology and
innovation became the site of a more social gathering this weekend as
hundreds of women from as far away as Britain came looking for single men.
With California's Silicon Valley now surpassing Anchorage, Alaska, for the
biggest percentage of unattached men, American Singles held its national
convention here, promising women they could find not just any man, but a
stable man with a steady job, and perhaps even an Internet millionaire.
What many found instead was more women. Attendance at the event was
disproportionately female and many women left early or took to the dance
floor with each other.
Some local women cynically confided to the out-of-towners that the
statistics lied and said that if there was truly a surplus of men, most
preferred a late night in front of a computer screen to a romantic dinner.
"I met some girls who drove down from Portland, Oregon," said one
37-year-old woman from Oakland, California. "They looked incredibly good for
having driven for 14 hours but they were not thrilled when they got here."
By the end of the evening, the women from Portland were nowhere to be found.
Some men admit to desperation
Those women who did stick it out saw the odds improve slightly as the night
went on. Several men on their way home from work dropped in on the party,
saying they were willing to try just about anything to meet someone of the
opposite sex.
"It's absolutely true that there's a shortage of women," said Greg
Friedland, a 25-year-old software developer at Oracle Corp. He came to the
American Singles event with a group of friends who confessed to being
desperate.
"There's so many men here that the women don't have to do anything. They
just sit there looking pretty and the guys swarm around," said Friedland.
Another young software engineer employed at Hewlett-Packard Co said he came
to the convention after striking out in several other venues including a
flower arranging class.
"There's a very poor population of single women in the area," he said. "And
I think the women who are here get hit on so often that they don't come out
much."
The area's lopsided male-female ratios made national headlines this year
after a local newspaper analyzed census data and concluded that Santa Clara
County, California, had the largest concentration of unattached men of any
metropolitan region in the country.
Women warned they may have to share
American Singles founder Richard Gosse seized on the data, offering women
from around the country their registration fee back if they did not meet one
good man.
Later he clarified that he never promised the women would be able to have
that one good man all to themselves, and that a couple of women might end up
meeting the same good man.
Gosse, author of books such as "You Can Hurry Love" and "Looking for Love in
All the Right Places," does not have the best track record with his singles
conventions. He scheduled last year's event in Anchorage on the first day of
hunting season and got three women attendees for every man.
So where were all the men this year?
Gosse once again picked a bad weekend. Sunday marked the start of the Comdex
convention in Las Vegas, the computer industry's biggest trade show, where
hundreds of thousands of high-tech types convene to get a look at new
gadgets and hear luminaries like Microsoft CEO Bill Gates speak.

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