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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
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Subject: Re: convincing
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Date: Thu, 30-May-85 21:36:37 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 30 21:36:37 1985
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["Would you eat a doormat that ate bark and fungus?"]

>                                                                      Most 
> recently, I've spent the last 20 or so months constantly trying to convince
> somebody (both verbally and otherwise) that she really is a desirable person,
> but I'm *still* not sure she believes it.

Statements with "is" are meaningless.  More specifically, you can hardly
prove an abstraction like "she is a desirable (to the general public) person."
You can easily prove that _you_ desire her.
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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