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From: jrrt@mtuxo.UUCP (r.mitchell)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Complimenting strangers
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Date: Mon, 17-Jun-85 18:43:04 EDT
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	The question is, why not just appreciate silently?  What are we 
	_really_ trying to express by complimenting strangers?
I'm paying a debt.  If you've brightened my day, I'm obliged (by my
personal ocde of conduct) to give a try at brightening yours.  The
best way I've found to do so is to pay a compliment.  

Of course, when I pay a compliment, the other person is under no
obligation to even acknowledge my existence, so no reply is required.
Who was it that said, "When you pay a compliment, don't demand a receipt?"

Rob Mitchell  {allegra,ihnp4}!mtuxo!jrrt

Es un entreverado loco, lleno de lucidos intervalos.
(He is a muddled fool, full of lucid intervals.  *Don Quixote*)