----- Original Message -----
From: "J. van Baardwijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: UN Security Council Reform Re: Just for the record
> At 10:32 02-11-2002 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
>
> >You're awfully dismissive of something someone's put a lot of time and
> >energy into.
>
> I am not dismissing the work Giorgis put into studying the UN. What I am
> saying is that it sounds awfully arrogant when an amateur claims to have
> the One True Answer ("this *is* how <etcetera>" -- notice the emphasis on
> the word "is") and then add that the professionals "haven't figured it
out
> yet".
>
> He could easily have avoided coming across as arrogant, simply by stating
> that *in his opinion* "this is how the UNSC will end up", rather than
> making it look as if he knows better than all those professionals.
John is a lot subtler than you give him credit for. I didn't quite
ROTFLMAO when he wrote "This is how it will turn out", but it is a pretty
good example of dry wit. BTW, dry wit depends on the humor being subtle,
so a smiley is out of place with dry wit.
I think it is ironic that you fault John for making a joke at his own
expense.
Dan M.
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