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An Oil Town Where Men Are Many, and Women Are Hounded
The New York Times ^ | January 15, 2013 | JOHN ELIGON

Posted on 01/16/2013 6:24:45 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

On a dance floor in Williston, N.D., where single men say there are not enough single women.

WILLISTON, N.D. — Christina Knapp and a friend were drinking shots at a bar in a nearby town several weeks ago when a table of about five men called them over and made an offer.

They would pay the women $3,000 to strip naked and serve them beer at their house while they watched mixed martial arts fights on television. Ms. Knapp, 22, declined, but the men kept raising the offer, reaching $7,000.

“I said I make more money doing my job than degrading myself to do that,” said Ms. Knapp, a tattoo artist with dark streaks in her light brown hair, a bird tattoo on her chest and piercings above her lip and left cheekbone.

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To: MinorityRepublican

Scarcity can make even an inferior product attractive in certain markets.


61 posted on 01/17/2013 6:54:39 AM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: Dead Corpse
Scarcity can make even an inferior product attractive in certain markets.

She's a Willston 10!

62 posted on 01/17/2013 10:00:32 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

From that picture? At best a “last call” 7. Unless she’s GTG from the neck down.


63 posted on 01/17/2013 10:14:27 AM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: Dead Corpse
From that picture? At best a “last call” 7. Unless she’s GTG from the neck down.

Okay, she's a 7 in Washington, D.C., a 5 in New York City, but in Williston, North Dakota? Why, she's a 10!

64 posted on 01/17/2013 10:22:38 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

5 points for breathing.
5 points for being at least cosmetically female.


65 posted on 01/17/2013 1:45:21 PM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: Vigilanteman

[ But I might sell them inflatable babes ]

Can THAT be taxed?.. Inflatable babes?..
MAybe thats the next outrage to come from Stockton..


66 posted on 01/17/2013 2:00:26 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Dead Corpse

There you go, that what happens when you live in a boom town.


67 posted on 01/17/2013 2:18:17 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Two guys on a dance floor. Advertising? Brokeback Dakota?

Sounds like a business opportunity for someone to bring his “pretend wife” and introduce her around.


68 posted on 01/21/2013 9:36:44 AM PST by Terry Mross
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