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From: valentin@public.BTR.COM (Valentin Pepelea)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A2091 conclusions
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Date: 28 Apr 91 08:53:37 GMT
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In article <20988@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell
Jesup) writes:
>
>	No, I'm sorry, I've tried but I can't be any vaguer.  You know, being
>vague is an artform, and I'm afraid the experts all get jobs as spokesmen.
>Poor engineers like me try our best, but I'm afraid we can't always meet
>their quality levels for vagueness.
>
>	;-)

No, no, no. you're missing the point, Randell. You achieve the supreme level
of spokesman when you master the ability of saying something that is understood
in one way by the public, when in fact it means another. For example, if you
want to say

"This (product) is a piece of shit, and it stinks!"

as a cultured engineer you would probably say

"This is a piece of fertilizer, and no one can abide by its stench."

But a high ranking monk accepted into the order of spokesmen would say

"This is that which makes things grow and flurish, and no one can abide by it."

You will know that you have mastered this technique when your boss comes into
your office and chastizes you for giving out faulty information, when in fact
you were right on the mark.  :-)

Valentin
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