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- From: clever@sequent.com (Cathy Cleverley)
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- Subject: Re: Honesty, Your word, and Trust -- a crisis?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.175230.28875@torsqnt.tor.sequent.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 17:52:30 GMT
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- ron@turing.toronto.edu (Ron Wessels) writes:
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- >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".
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- >--
- >Ron Wessels University of Toronto ron@turing.toronto.edu
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- He's *not* kidding. However, he does have other redeeming qualities
- :-)
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