On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 22:08, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> Kind of things that are dangerous to believe when they come
> second-hand, especially from a male/childish set of coworkers :).
Agree. After what I was once accused of by allegedly sober mature
adults, being declared gay would be fairly mild. Besides, any accuser'd
be struggling to find anyone who (a) knew me and (b) believed them. (-:
I've suffered three rounds of serious "conviction by rumour" so far in
my life, perhaps the funniest was being accused of sleeping with a
cousin (although nobody would ever actually come out and say it) who
subsequently fell pregnant<*> by another completely different cousin
who, it later turned out, had been shafting her for many years. Very
pretty girl, great friend too, would make an outstanding programmer if
she ever decided to do that. The rumours continued even after both the
cousin concerned *and* my wife had roundly abused the principal rumour
mongers, but they stopped fairly smartly not long before the delivery.
Cheers; Leon
<*> French is bizarre, English is much worse. What do we say, "Oops,
I tripped and fell pregnant?" (-:
