Subj : Re: Tom Cruise, this episode was all your fault! To : alt.tv.er From : Dropping The Helicopter Date : Sat Oct 15 2005 00:42:55 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.er Mark Nobles wrote: > Sharon Three wrote: [snip sexual harassment] > Men are not, despite the constant > assumption by women, able to read minds. Whoah - you mean it's just *me*?!? ;-) >> and I don't think a guy with his professional rep and experiences >> would be so stupid as to risk it all even if he is a bit socially inept. > > Here's an example of the punishment I mentioned - calling him stupid > and socially inept for asking out a woman who doesn't want to go out > with him. Sharon III called my mother "stupid" for getting an MRI. Consider the source here dude. >> I was waiting for Dubenko to tell her at the end that he was only joking >> and that he hoped she'd think twice before poking her nose into people's >> personal business again. Abby has always treated him with something >> bordering disdain, ignoring his lectures to the residents, walking away when >> he's talking but suddenly she's addressing him by his first name and asking >> why he was visiting the oncology unit? As for Dubenko asking her for her >> services, well, Abby does have the 'second date rule' and, since he bought >> her a burger and fries when they were doing the research last year, a cup of >> coffee could constitute a second date. > > A cup of coffee is not a date. It's caffeine. > Um... I think you must have missed the part where he asked Abby if she would do the bone dance with him before (and after) he had prostate surgery. That's (I think) what Sharon III is talking about. > And while we're on the subject of sexual harassment, why aren't you > complaining about Abby fixing Dubenko up with the "therapist"? > Certainly she is sexually harassing him at least as much as anything he > did harassed her, even by your bizarre standards. Actually in that case, Abby would be guilty of... um, what's the legal term for "pimping"? So I think that's actually worse from a legal standpoint. From a show standpoint, the only person that has reason to complain about such matters is Kubiak, because he's the only one to ever appear on the show who *hasn't* boned and/or been boned by more than 50% of the other characters. .