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Re: SQUAT

To: jonmac <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
Subject: Re: SQUAT
From: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 12:32:07 -0600
Cc: Triumphs List <triumphs@autox.team.net>, Spitfires List <Spitfires@autox.team.net>
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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

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"If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort."
 -- Dave Weinbaum in National Enquirer


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