yeah, you're right. Great story.
On Sun, 2 May 2010, Bill Gallik wrote: > Spiro wrote: > "never show how easy it is, they don't." > > But what you do when you need their eyeballs to help get the job done? > > Reminds me of a story my Grandfather Visocky used to tell me about his father > (my great-grandfather Visocky). > > Seems that my Great-Grandfather Visocky was a major in the Austrian Imperial > Army and being a commissioned officer naturally was able to read. From the > story, one of Major Visocky's troops had gotten a letter from his girlfriend > or wife -- at any rate it was a feminine significant other of some sort. > Since this trooper could not himself read he approached my Great-Grandfather > with the following request, "Sir, would you please read this letter to me? > And please don't listen?" > > ---- > Holland's Person, Bill > E-Mail: [email protected] > - "With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another." > - German Aphorist, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799) > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >
