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From: wct1@unix.cis.pitt.edu (William C Tom)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Who's more "helpful?" & Attitudes (Was Re: What does 'UNIX' mean ?)
Keywords: What about your IQ?
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Date: 12 Feb 90 01:26:44 GMT
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Reply-To: wct1@unix.cis.pitt.edu (William C Tom)
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In article <10761@nigel.udel.EDU> berryh@udel.edu (John Berryhill) writes:
>
>When I was barely able to read and I came across a word that I didn't
>know I would invariably ask my father.  I can't recall a single time
>that my father actually told me the meaning of the word that I was after.
>He would always smile and say, "Look it up."   Of course, along the
>way towards finding the word I was after, I would always come across
>many other words that I learned as well.  The end result was a near
>perfect verbal SAT score.

(sigh)
I wasn't going to post anything more on this already overlong thread
...( I know, I know, I helped start it)

BUT, I just can't resist this one......

Did anyone else read the above post and immediately reacted with,
" *SHEESH*, What a dickhead!"  ?






---------------------------Bill