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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.singles
Subject: Re: Regarding Regard's Re-Guardian Problem
Message-ID: <1013@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Feb-86 19:29:38 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 12 19:29:38 1986
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In article <803@hou2g.UUCP> scott@hou2g.UUCP writes:
>
>> "Never, ever, ever, ever ask permission.  You don't want to extend
>> to the other party the power to grant or deny permission."
>> 				--Kort's Law of Dealing with Authority
>
>"It's easier to be forgiven after the fact than to get permission 
> in the first place."
>
>				--Berry's corollary to Kort's Law

I can certainly testify to the validity of these laws.  A good friend of mine
made a deal with a local sandwich shop owner (Daddy Cool's in Redondo Beach)
to paint a large advertising 'logo' on the side of his building.  He wanted
to do it *right* so he went to the local chamber of commerce, to get his
design *approved*.  Of course, they jacked him around for awhile, and finally
stated that he couldn't paint a sign that covered more than 1/4 of the wall
rather than the whole wall as he originally intended.  It was obvious that if
he had just painted the damn thing, no one would be the wiser, but the 
local *authority* just loved to exert their *power* in this situation, and
force modifications to the original design.

Keith Doyle
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