Re: Slightly puzzled

["Edward Franks" <xyzzy@ponyexpress.net>]

Nathan Mates <nathan@visi.com> wrote in article
<52hen2$fun@darla.visi.com>...

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>    I tell the truth and the facts. If that insults and is negative on
> somebody's little dreams, tough.  Being nice is a subset of the
> truth. If you can't stomach the truth, that is YOUR problem, not
mine.

Mr Mates,
	Perhaps you should consider _this_ quote from Robert A. Heinlein for
your .sig:  `Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to
avoid excessive wear.  Honorifics and formal politeness provide
lubrication where people rub together.  Often the very young, the
untraveled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as
"empty," "meaningless," or "dishonest," and scorn to use them.  No
matter how "pure" their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery
that does not work too well at best.'.


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Edward

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