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Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- Cecil Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you think misquoting me on GoaNet is a good way > to 'share a good > laugh' please think twice next time. You are not > only endangering my > livelihood you are also putting a shadow on my > relationships with > friends and relatives. ---------------------------------- Dear Cecil, Luckily for me, this is the cyber-age and everything is recorded somewhere in the annals of history. Also luckily for me, I have a razor sharp memory and I'm not in the habit of pulling things out of thin air. In your December article, Decks the Halls with Sticks and Folli, this is what you wrote: --------------------------------- Godfrey Gonsalves, passed the decorated Sequeira and Almeida residences and stopped at Bar Manuel nearby for a drink, and to find out why the whole area was lit up well in advance of Christmas. Godfrey queried the barman Edwin D'Souza who decided to pull the Moidekar's leg and told him that it was a sign of good education. The well educated always put out their decorations early, like in the West. Now our Moidekar Godfrey was quite wealthy, having worked in the Gulf for a good thirty years and having built his regulation RCC bungalow bang on the road in Moira. But Godfrey always carried a chip on his shoulder because of his lack of education. He had just managed to scrape through his SSC exam and then studied AC & Refrigeration at a private ITI before finally getting a lucky break in Bahrain. Godfrey wanted to show that he was as educated as the others so he promptly went home and told his sons and daughters-in-law to put out the Christmas décor. ----------------------------------- Poor Godfrey Gonsalves, the hapless soul who just managed to scrape through his SSC exam. Obviously, all that wealth he acquired in the Gulf, didn't earn him any respect back in Goa, constantly having to carry his back of chips and having to prove himself with Christmas decorations. No need to come back with an apology or a threat, One you're unacquainted with and the other comes too easily to you. By the way, I don't crave as much attention as you give me credit for. You see, unlike you my ego is resilient, not boundless. Selma ____________________________________________________________________________________ Expecting? Get great news right away with email Auto-Check. Try the Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/newmail_tools.html