>From the "For what it's worth" department:

I don't consider myself a dummy. I may lack knowledge about a subject but I
am not a dummy or an idiot. Ergo, I refuse to buy "**** for Dummies" or "the
Idiot's guide to *****."

Caveat....there are folks out there whom might argue at my assessment of my
intellect, but let's not go there...  :-)


on 1/11/03 10:24 AM, Mledie at aol.com at Mledie at aol.com wrote:

> Henri, geek is a fine word and geeks maybe even good people  and dummie is a
> fine word, or should I say dummy as a singular?  Now if you say one is dumb,
> that has a different connotation, at least to me, having my roots in a
> different language. -Is it you who spells rumour  and humour like this? So do
> I, however, here they think i am aloof if I do that. But that is my school
> upbringing. It lingers.  And why do the English as well as the Americans
> spell "I" with capital letters? Is the "I" more important than the "YOU"?
> 
> Just  an afterthought.
> Marta
> 
> 
> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
> | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.

Harry,


Harry Jacobson-Beyer
Surveyor of the Passing Scene!

http://bellsouthpwp.net/h/a/harryjb/
What a strange, long, trip it is!

remember: it's not how fast you climb the hill that matters, it's how fast
you go coming down!



| The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
| be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.


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