The first incident occured with the casual picking up of an old notebook en route to a meeting, and flicking through to find a blank page on which to make notes. A puzzling list of initials and pseudonyms presented itself on one of the pages until she realised - it was an attempt at reconstruction! Somewhere along the line, whilst on the phone no doubt, she'd tried to recall the parade of lovers past to ascertain whether they numbered too many, too few, or too right to be for real.
The second incident arose from a report on Health24 concerning an American survey into the number of sex partners of a sample of 6000-odd people, aged from 20 - 59, which found that 29% of men and 9% of women had had at least 15 partners during their lives.
"Gmf!" snorted Gramsci. "Either a significant proportion of the males sampled were gay, or not everyone is telling the truth! That gender discrepancy is a little large!"
"Or," countered the Cow, "the 9% of women have had wayyyyyy in excess of 15 partners, while the men are hovering at 15 or 16 each. Or, of course, the women - being American - are not the preferred partners of the men sampled: perhaps if they sampled women from some nationality where sex enjoyed at much attention as shopping, they'd get a better sense of balance?"
"Guess that puts the spotlight back on Africa," beamed Gramsci. "So, how many names were listed in your notebook?"