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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!sgiblab!swrinde!gatech!concert!borg.cs.unc.edu!news_server!martinc
  2. From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
  3. Newsgroups: soc.singles
  4. Subject: Re: Honesty, Your word, and Trust -- a crisis?
  5. Date: 26 Jan 93 20:21:51
  6. Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
  7. Lines: 21
  8. Message-ID: <MARTINC.93Jan26202151@grover.cs.unc.edu>
  9. References: <JMD.93Jan22123711@lion.bear.com> <1993Jan23.054644.17038@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
  10.     <MARTINC.93Jan23132913@grover.cs.unc.edu>
  11.     <1993Jan25.144344.27709@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
  12.     <MARTINC.93Jan25233544@grover.cs.unc.edu>
  13.     <ewright.728090833@convex.convex.com>
  14. NNTP-Posting-Host: grover.cs.unc.edu
  15. In-reply-to: ewright@convex.com's message of Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:27:13 GMT
  16.  
  17. In article <ewright.728090833@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
  18.  
  19.    In <MARTINC.93Jan25233544@grover.cs.unc.edu> martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
  20.  
  21.    >The part that seemed reminiscient of someone in particular is the part
  22.    >where they (1) over-literalized (2) transformed your statement into a
  23.    >crisp black-and-white statement (3) realized that wasn't precisely what
  24.    >you meant, 
  25.  
  26.    So, Charlie, do you *ever* say what you mean, or mean what you say?
  27.  
  28.    And just what did you mean by this post, anyway?  
  29.  
  30. No one who doesn't believe that what they read is what I meant would
  31. ever know, would they?
  32. --
  33.         Charles R. Martin/(Charlie)/martinc@cs.unc.edu
  34.      Dept. of Computer Science/CB #3175 UNC-CH/Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175
  35.         3611 University Dr #13M/Durham, NC 27707/(919) 419 1754
  36.      "Oh God, please help me be civil in tongue, pure in thought, and able
  37.       to resist the temptation to laugh uncontrollably.  Amen." -- Rob T
  38.