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- From: pratt@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Vaughan R. Pratt)
- Subject: Re: TO ALL !!!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.200348.11913@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
- References: <1gtunkINN3h5@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Dec19.022327.1125@leland.Stanford.EDU> <BzIFH7.9AL@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 20:03:48 GMT
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- In article <BzIFH7.9AL@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca> deghare@daisy.uwaterloo.ca (Dave Hare) writes:
- >I think I speak for a sizable minority of this newsgroup when I state that
- >I would like anybody who wants to wish me a nice day to just go to hell.
- >Not all of us have "nice days" and it is simply damnably insensitive
- >of all you jerks to suggest that we should have nice days.
-
- This would be the sizable minority living north of Lake Erie by choice,
- I take it. Wishing you lot a nice day is about as meaningful as
- wishing the rest of us should win the lottery.
-
- To the ESFJ's cheery "Good morning," INTP's have been responding on
- their bad days with "Go to hell" since before sailors were cheerfully
- greeting Prometheus each morning as they sailed past his rock.
-
- The script continues, "Can I get you some coffee?"---"Bah, humbug."
- These popular rhetorical devices for establishing mood can be enlivened
- by an occasional interchange in the order of "Go to hell" and "Bah,
- humbug".
-
- Adding insult to your injury is the dreadful prospect that the ESFJ
- greeter might really mean it and be depressed at the thought that a
- fellow creature might not be having a simply wonderful morning. INTP
- greeters are much more tolerable in this regard: you know that they
- derive a certain satisfaction from your disclosure that you are having
- an even harder time getting your morning jump-started than they.
-
- Season's greetings/Pi is transcendental/Drop dead (circle one)
- --
- Vaughan Pratt Fun is not having it
-