>>So he appreciates that they look good, but he appreciates that they
>>are good more.
>
>Basically, yes. There was almost certainly a lot of kidding around in
>some quarters, as that is endemic to the source - Shirley Yeager and
>"a lot of kidding around" kind of go together, for instance, and we
>know from New Tricks that Erica Hartmann is capable of causing
>mischief even a year and half after the fact and an almost
>unfathomable distance away, which, if she learns that it happened, she
>will regard as an almost unassailable new personal best. :) But
>that's all it was.
>
>>Also the fact that most of them would technically be under aged for
>>him.
>
>Nothing technical about it in a few cases. For instance, in mid-'43,
>when he was there the first time, Lucchini was 11 and Sanya had just
>turned 13 (though in fairness, the former was probably already a
>semiprofessional lecher).
>
>>By a good margin.
>
>Margin, schmargin. When you've been 20 for 400 years, it's not the
>same thing as being 400. :)
>
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Well, when he realizes he's old enough to be their great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather, it helps put things in perspective.

Also, the fact that these ladies have access to heavy weapons doesn't hurt either.... :)

Craig