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  2. From: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (JOSEPH T CHEW)
  3. Newsgroups: misc.writing
  4. Subject: Re: "Wow! You're a writer?"
  5. Date: 12 Aug 92 20:48:36 GMT
  6. Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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  8. Message-ID: <25436@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
  9. References: <57680018@hpscit.sc.hp.com> <BsuMty.JC4@well.sf.ca.us> <s0067284.713623707@ursa> <BsvK6y.341@unx.sas.com>
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  13.  
  14. My daily requirement of humility was administered one day by the
  15. Critter Sitter -- the person who waters the plants and feeds the 
  16. pets while you're traveling.  Making small talk after negotiating
  17. how often the catbox ought to be cleaned, she said that she was
  18. studying to be a programmer.  Then she asked me what I did.
  19.  
  20. "I write user manuals."
  21.  
  22. "Ooh! Yuck!" 
  23.  
  24. Joe
  25. "The pallid pimp of the dead-line/The enervate of the pen" --Robert Service
  26.