William Morder wrote: > When I was a child, I used to think that the music and the announcers and > other voices somehow lived inside the radio and TV. Then when I got a bit > older, I came to understand that they sent out their broadcasts from a > studio, a building that was some distance away. Since I had seen > television shows like Ed Sullivan, with musicians playing their songs, I > knew that they had instruments and equipment, but I was puzzled about how > they could change so quickly from one group to another. My theory was that > they must have several different rooms, and that some music group would be > playing in one room while another would be setting up in another, and so > on. > > This is exactly why women tend to humanize us lonely bachelors, and make > them presentable in public, and to brighten up a home; it has something to > do with that tendency. The world would be a very dull place without a > little irrationality to make us bounce through life, rather than scraping > along, in deadly seriousness, freed from superstiton, but weighed down by > the irresistible force of gravity. I would say it is simply pragmatics over mother instinct - it's just nature - be it "God made us so" or Nature or Evolution. regards