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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: 25 Jan 93 23:35:44
- Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
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- References: <JMD.93Jan22123711@lion.bear.com> <1993Jan23.054644.17038@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- In-reply-to: ron@turing.toronto.edu's message of 25 Jan 93 19:43:44 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.144344.27709@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> ron@turing.toronto.edu (Ron Wessels) writes:
-
- martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
- >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
- > < deleted >
- >
- >Wow. Who does this remind me of?
-
- To be perfectly honest? Me. I'm glad to know I'm not the only person
- that has discussions over whether "many" is more than "several", or who
- proceeds to compute an approximate number when told that there are
- "a ton of cats up for adoption".
-
- Oh, no, you're not the only one to do that, not at all. I would bet
- most of the "core" posters on here have done that, because we're all
- pretty verbally oriented, clearly.
-
- The part that seemed reminiscient of someone in particular is the part
- where they (1) over-literalized (2) transformed your statement into a
- crisp black-and-white statement (3) realized that wasn't precisely what
- you meant, and (4) proceeded to announce that you *lied* to them.
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- to resist the temptation to laugh uncontrollably. Amen." -- Rob T
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