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- From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: Honesty, Your word, and Trust -- a crisis?
- Date: 23 Jan 93 13:29:13
- Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
- Lines: 23
- Message-ID: <MARTINC.93Jan23132913@grover.cs.unc.edu>
- References: <JMD.93Jan22123711@lion.bear.com> <1993Jan23.054644.17038@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- In-reply-to: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu's message of Sat, 23 Jan 93 05:46:44 GMT
-
- In article <1993Jan23.054644.17038@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
-
- This reminds me of someone I know who has severe, debilitating attacks
- of anal retentiveness; this tends to result in conversations along the
- lines of
-
- "I'm going out to pick up a couple of CDs; want to come along?"
- "Which two CDs are you going to buy?"
- "I haven't decided yet; I'll probably figure that out after I have
- a chance to see what they have."
- "Then how do you know you're going to buy two?"
- "I don't; I feel like buying some, but I might not even find any
- that I like."
- "You said you were going to buy a 'couple'--that means two;
- exactly two. So you lied."
-
- Wow. Who does this remind me of?
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