Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!purdue!ames!claris!sts!octopus!avsd!childers From: childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Franchise Opportunity Message-ID: <2016@avsd.UUCP> Date: 29 Aug 89 15:36:46 GMT References: <434@tp2.Waterloo.NCR.COM> <948@utoday.UUCP> <5862@ficc.uu.net> <949@utoday.UUCP> <2006@avsd.UUCP> <5497@inco.UUCP> Reply-To: childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers) Organization: Metaprogrammers International Lines: 59 mack@inco.UUCP (Dave Mack) writes: >In article <2006@avsd.UUCP> childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers) writes: >>greenber@utoday.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) writes: >>>Well, to tell ya the truth, I was gonna go through the map entries and >>>forward the SA's over to our circ department! :-) >>Idiot. I doubt I'll ever read the rag after reading this. >This is why using smileys in postings is fruitless. People with no >sense of humor simply ignore them and flame anyway. Or perhaps they >have a genetic defect that physically prevents them from >seeing the smileys. Sad. Well, I've explained this to two people this morning, I guess I can make it three easily enough. -=*=- < extracted from private communication with Brad Templeton w/o permission > "Just because you didn't like his joke about pretending to go through the maps for subscription entries doesn't mean you have to tell the world that you won't read his magazine." I've already explained this to one person, so I've got it down pat. He's in a position of high visibility, and thus concomitant responsibility. It is a position that he has deliberately cultivated. I have been so bold as to hold him responsible for his words, in his position. In playing to the masses, he has lost his real audience. At least some of them. All I did was say so. "Besides, not reading the magazine because you don't like a joke from one of the writers is a bit extreme, don't you think?" Whoa. First it's "his magazine", now he's just "one of the writers". -=*=- I am valued by my employers for my ability to accept responsibility, not for my ability to evade it. I value and respect myself for the same reason. This is not a missing sense of humor, it is a refusal to laugh at something that is irresponsible behavior posing as humor. If you are too dense to make the distinction between the two without aid, this is indeed sad. >Dave Mack -- richard -- * Truth : the most deadly weapon ever discovered by humanity. Capable of * * destroying entire perceptual sets, cultures, and realities. Outlawed by * * all governments everywhere. Possession is normally punishable by death. * * ..{amdahl|decwrl|octopus|pyramid|ucbvax}!avsd.UUCP!childers@tycho *