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ASAD quote 10/6/02 (repeat)

Question:

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. –Herm Albright

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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. –Herm Albright

Oh I ought to share this with another of the Usenet boards I read… .there’s one guy who’s very insistent on signing every post "Have a great day!", especially after someone else basically tried to tell him to STFU. Jenn — "The art of kanly still has admirers in the Empire." – Duke Leto of Arrakis

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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. –Herm Albright

ROTFLMHO!!! This is the approach I have taken with a couple of those who were "better than thou" as far as my son…their kids were the ones who bullied my kids (the "Eddie Haskells")…and not just implied but overtly stated that my kids problems were because I was a poor parent. I have been "killing them with kindness" ever since, leaving them sputtering….the best revenge, IMHO. Buny

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Perhaps, the quotation means otherwise. For me, it is mainly a celebration of Hubris. As someone who has ADD, I sorely wish that I could be more of this way. I am like Buny in this regard. I aspire to embrace smugness. My own inability to achive it is my own failing. … … etc….

Now hold on; RL, I’m sorry, but I think I am not quite able to get all I should out of what you wrote, I think. I _do_ feel, if I understand your position on smugness, guilt, etc, that apologizing for the lack of those qualities in yourself is _still_ missing the point. This is like the crotchety old man, strolling thru the parks in summer, cussing the young and sexually active, for embracing and more in public- all because he is jealous of what he has lost or never had. When you jump up away from your honey and call him on it, he says much the same, and apologizes for his own faults. It don’t help, ‘cuz he’s already made your blood boil, and he _knows_ it. So I really think that is missing the point. The point is: if you have a ‘bug’ with an individual, face them squarely and aire your differences, real or perceived. There is a difference between being assertive and agressive. The former creates respect inspite of differences, whereas the latter does nothing of the kind. As always, this is just my own opinion Regards SP — Take out the TRA..ASH to reply

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Now hold on;

What you are saying Stovepipe? I have been reading, re-reading and trying to answer your post for several hours, now. Of what, is Stovepipe aware? What catches his mind’s eye? What is Stovepipe’s song? It is only, just faintly beginning to become apparent to me, mon ami … We might talk the same words but we use very, very different paradigms.   …  I am completely unlike you. My "drift" is not important. That will present problems for you. …   I need to go away and think about this for a bit.

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What you are saying Stovepipe?

… that you should apologize to those two asad’ers for your unkind words and leave it at that. SP — Take out the TRA..ASH to reply

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Perhaps, the quotation means otherwise. For me, it is mainly a celebration of Hubris. As someone who has ADD, I sorely wish that I could be more of this way. I am like Buny in this regard. I aspire to embrace smugness. My own inability to achive it is my own failing. … … etc…. Now hold on; RL, I’m sorry, but I think I am not quite able to get all I should out of what you wrote, I think. I _do_ feel, if I understand your position on smugness, guilt, etc, that apologizing for the lack of those qualities in yourself is _still_ missing the point. This is like the crotchety old man, strolling thru the parks in summer, cussing the young and sexually active, for embracing and more in public- all because he is jealous of what he has lost or never had. When you jump up away from your honey and call him on it, he says much the same, and apologizes for his own faults. It don’t help, ‘cuz he’s already made your blood boil, and he _knows_ it. So I really think that is missing the point. The point is: if you have a ‘bug’ with an individual, face them squarely and aire your differences, real or perceived. There is a difference between being assertive and agressive. The former creates respect inspite of differences, whereas the latter does nothing of the kind. As always, this is just my own opinion

I am sorry, if others misinterpreted what my reply meant…when I said "Love it"…I understood the quote to mean about the same as:  " "Success is the best revenge"… OR "Kill ‘em with kindness…" Basically, when someone tries to keep you down, tells you you will amount to nothing, tries to keep you in a bad mood, don’t give ‘em the satisfaction of knowing they got to you….do your best to rise above it, and succeed *despite* them…or, perversly, *to spite* them… Then again, I always had a tendency to not only "think outside the box", but to say, "what box"???  Sometimes I take a slight perverse pride in being different…and pride is often my downfall… If someone tells me I canNOT do something, I tend to say, "Wanna hide and watch me?" *That’s* why I told Nancy I LOVED IT…it was, to me a re-telling of a couple of tired cliche’s, as stated above….and I am sorry that others might not have seen it that way.  But that is why this group is the way it is–we are all different here, which can lead to discussion, if we are lucky <g — Buny " Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal." ~ Albert Camus

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. –Herm Albright LOVE IT!!!! It’s one of my personal favorites. Its another way of saying that there is a certain amount of personal satisfaction in confidently ramming your own opinion down another person’s throat.  That you would delight in such a thought, doesn’t surprise me. RL Surely, you must be mistaken?

Methinks I annoy the Raving Loonie. Hey, RL, while I can somewhat understand your point in the first sentence, (when it is applied to extreme cases),

Can’t see it, even when applied to extremes. Keeping a positive attitude has nothing to do with shoving anything into any body part, with or without confidence. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I think that the last one, and the whole tone of your reply to this post, are uncalled for. These two ladies weren’t meaning to become fascist dictators, they were meaning to get the asad to THINK and see themselves from new perspectives. And maybe laugh at themselves, and so learn about themselves a bit. These two ladies are top of the line, high quality people, and they spend more time than they have to in aiding people around here; both _on_ newsgroup and _off_. There are a whole slew of us here who can attest to that; even those who cannot appreciate what they have tried to do to help. I, for one, value and appreciate what they have to say, even if in jest, because I know where their words are coming from, and that is always to help, soothe, instruct, and _never_ to hurt, or discourage, or lash out or for revenge. For me, this was evident from the get-go, when I came in here like a total jerk, spouting off like a senile old school marm. How many other groups are there, RL, where one can say the same. _Surely_ not many, if at all. At the risk of sounding maudlin, or at least too sappy, I feel that these two ladies, and some of the other regs as well, exhibit the best of what religion has to teach us. They teach by example, by the way they post, by the way they answer, and by the way they hold their tongue when that is appropriate. RL, at the very least, you could have asked what they meant by their posts, rather than dropping *&?%?%$# upon them. I really thought you were _better_ than that. I take what you have said here as an insult to the group, which I hold dear,  and to those two individuals in particular, who are two of its star performers. I will not repeat the words I uttered in your direction when I first read this. I purposely waited ’till I calmed down before replying. Now I am. RL, I think you owe both Nancy and Buny an apology. Period.

Well, Ah do dee-clare, Mr. Pipe, you are so gallant, coming to our defense like that. I shall place you on my list of Gallant Gentlemen Dentists from Qu

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