--- In [email protected], "lurkernomore20002000" <steve.sun...@...> wrote: > > The thing is, that Jerry was so anti mood making, more of > the low key type. I have to think that he probably felt > the standing O went on too long by about one minute.
Any relatively modest person is going to find that long an ovation uncomfortable. You quickly begin to look silly when it goes on and on like that. But I'll bet he also recognized and appreciated that the folks applauding were not just expressing their affection for him but also making a statement to the TMO that they hadn't been happy about his being excluded for so long and were delighted that things seemed to be opening up. > Plus, it just seemed ingongruous to see Jerry in that > environment. Kind of like, these other guys weren't a > "pimple on the old man's ass". Again, I think he realizes things are changing. And he's not so impossibly modest as not to be aware that his renewed participation would be an asset to the movement. Joe asked what Jerry would say in private about the raja/ royalty stuff. I'm just guessing, but I'll bet he'd say not to worry, that it wasn't going to last much longer. Basically, I doubt he would have attended that gathering if he didn't feel the movement wasn't beginning to shift direction. I suspect that was a big part of the reason for the general ebullience in the room too. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but that was the feeling I got from that video.
