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LONDON (Reuters) - Forget expensive presents or costly
jewelry. Wining and dining is the best way for men to
woo women, scientists said Tuesday.

Researchers at Imperial College London developed a
mathematical formula and modeled courtship as a
sequential game to find the best way to impress the
ladies.

Their results show that offering an expensive present
signals the man's serious intentions but he must be
wary of being exploited by gold-diggers who will dump
him after receiving the gift.

"Guys are less likely to offer expensive gifts to
females they don't have a long-term interest in. And
girls won't be impressed with cheap gifts. By offering
expensive but worthless gifts, such as dinner and
theater trips, the male pays no cost if the invitation
isn't accepted," said Dr Peter Sozou, of University
College London (UCL).

If women are not interested they are unlikely to
accept the invitation, according to the research
published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal
Society of London B.

The researchers said giving gifts was a feature of
courtship in humans and other species to impress
females. Physical attraction is an important element
but offering gifts also helps.

"Our analysis shows there is evolutionary logic in men
'burning money' to impress the girl," said Professor
Robert Seymour of UCL's department of mathematics.

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The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.~ Betty Grable

If I wanted your opinion, I'd remove the duct tape and ask you for it.~ Me
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Oh Lilith,Please accept this card as a token of my attempt to woo you.Just one more punch and you get a free oil change and lube job. Please don't be a gold digger who will dump me after you get your free oil change.

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Sex is one of nine reasons for reincarnation.The other eight are unimportant...Henry Miller

Thought this was a certain someone's plea on how to woo a woman!

I agree! I'm not one for diamonds anyway. Give me food & booze!

And if that doesn't work...offer to sleep with their dog. :grin:

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.

We know you better than that, WI. You just want to sleep with their sheep.

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On the kinkometer, my kink measures as a sine wave.

He said

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.

I love this phrase: "expensive but worthless" LMAO.

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"Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't, and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, then let it, and if you have to wait for what you really want, take the time because nobody said that life would be easy. They just promised it would be worth it." ~ Unknown author