Nass contends that demand could be even broader, citing blind dates and most work-related conversations as other applications.

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But like miracle diets and great blind dates, don't get your hopes up.

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Well, I have a few odd hobbies, but this might be the strangest one: I like to send lawyers out on blind dates.

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This was perfectly expressed to me by a 29-year-old female personal trainer in Denver who had experimented with online dating, matchmakers and blind dates.

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Would you get married just after one or two blind dates?

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Sure, she says, during a hurried lunch break, her parents would like her to find someone, and she has gone on a few blind dates, for their sake.

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My only condition for participation in the Courtship Connection is that participants send me emails describing the blind dates, so that I can write a recap (always keeping the participants anonymous).

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But I don't believe in the blind dates.

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It will allow things like instant blind dates.

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Then Woo, because girls who look like Jada and run around in nighties can't meet men, gets fixed up on a blind date with that most hee-larious of all blind dates -- the clumsy nerd.

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