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Re: SQUAT

To: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
Subject: Re: SQUAT
From: Fred Thomas <vafred@erols.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 19:31:44 -0400
I think we have a guy here in Wash. D.C., that is a "Master" at the use of this
terminology, but, it depends upon what =is =is.

Joe Curry wrote:

> jonmac wrote:
>
> > Right on, Joe. Talking of selective memories, years ago my American boss
> > said of another American colleague that in his opinion the colleague was "a
> > lying s**t." He repeated this so often in the space of 10 minutes that I
> > asked him why he had come to this opinion. The answer was direct.
> > "Because he can remember the lies he's told - and I can't remember any of
> > mine."
>
> Which brings to mind a statement I heard at a National Sales Convention
> for the Data Systems Group of Texas Instruments several years ago.  It
> went something to the effect of, "The lies we told yesterday, we fully
> believed to be the truth when we told them."
>
> It pretty well sums up the promises of technology!
>
> Joe
>
> --
> "If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort."
>  -- Dave Weinbaum in National Enquirer


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