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From: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: modesty
Message-ID: <1166@burl.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Mar-86 14:49:38 EST
Article-I.D.: burl.1166
Posted: Thu Mar 27 14:49:38 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 28-Mar-86 20:55:23 EST
References: <1144@burl.UUCP> <62800007@ism780>
Reply-To: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Organization: AT&T Technologies, Burlington NC
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In article <62800007@ism780> jimb@ism780 writes:
>STOP THE PRESSES.  A genuinely modest person -- whether accurate in their own
>self-appraisal or not -- IN THE MIDDLE OF AN INTELLIGENTLY COUCHED POSTING,
>has seen fit to downplay their own capabilities without the slightest hint
>of irony or sarcasm.  I suspect that interrogation of the author would also
>reveal a lack of belief that she holds charter on Holy Writ, Revealed Truth,
>or the Font of Wisdom....

Well, I know Laura Watson (burl!lkw) somewhat (although I've never had the
pleasure of interrogating her  ;-), and I can say with authority that
she is as genuinely modest as you say -- and her postings make her intelligence
and fun nature self-evident.

But why be modest?  I get lots of important neck muscle exercise just holding
my swollen head up here at my terminal all day.  I get arm muscle exercise
from holding this large mirror up in front of me at regular intervals all
day.  I get leg muscle exercise from strutting up and down the halls here
like a peacock; sharing my glorious visage and form with my fellow employees.
I get.....

Co-worker: "Curtis, wake up! Wake up! You're back in Kansas...er...Burlington!"

Curtis: "I had the most amazing dream!  I was intelligent, and witty, and
	 good-looking, and ..."
-- 

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