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Leusogafofomaaitulagi Fonoimoana

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Sep 26, 2004, 4:26:48 AM9/26/04
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http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2004-09-19-storytell_x.htm
Indian art of storytelling seeps into boardroom
By Del Jones, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — As a child, retired Citgo CEO David Tippeconnic sat on the porch
of his Oklahoma farmhouse and listened to the stories of his Comanche
elders............................

Kalera Stratton

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Oct 9, 2004, 3:10:20 AM10/9/04
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'bout time "white" people figure out that the oral tradition has worked
for MILLIONS of years for a reason... duh. Why they have to invent a new
way to do everything instead of looking at what worked before and then
doing it some more, I will never know.

-Kalera
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tlagiloi

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Oct 9, 2004, 3:57:47 AM10/9/04
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yeppers they got troubles with oral traditions........
because when they do it.........is like that party game telephone
where folks stand in a circle and whisper something like
cracker jacks have a prize inside.........and on the other end it comes out
crazy jerks still had pizza outside.......
always did like that party game tho.......
would always just make it something wild and wooly when it got to me.......
an watch the faces turn red as they'd pass it along
just couldn't help myself.......but always made it something so wild.......
usually got caught at it........so then they'd made me start it.......
whooooooops.......then it would turn into something really wild.....
"jim likes edible crotchless underwear"
even tho they gave me a note with to say blah blah blah......
so they tried putting me at the end......big whoops again.......
"ever tried to screw a jumpin kangaroo??"
guess heard too many johnny jokes around that time.........

best one was.......there was this jerk named bill in the game one
time.......
was after him.......so the mumbo jumbo came around......
so whispered to the next gal........
last night jim jumped up an said OH MY GAWD i'm a gonna shit the bed....
but partway around the end someone slipped in shock and said real loud
JIM SHIT HIS BED LAST NIGHT!!!!!!??????
my girlfriend wouldn't let me play that game ever again.......
an dang but she swung a mean punch in my arm.......hehe
but was ok....there were always other girlfriends.......an other
parties......
an the best ones was lettin some good lookin convertin type gal drag me
to her church party
and they'd play that game.......at one..the preacher shouted....You got
the devil in you!!!
an made me leave........oh well.......they had no sense of humor.......

the maori had one hell of an oral tradition including naming family to
way way back

Kalera Stratton

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Oct 9, 2004, 1:35:23 PM10/9/04
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Yeah, but the oral tradition worked for THEM too, until a couple
thousand years ago. Things changed all of a sudden.


tlagiloi wrote:
> yeppers they got troubles with oral traditions........
> because when they do it.........is like that party game telephone
> where folks stand in a circle and whisper something like
> cracker jacks have a prize inside.........and on the other end it comes out
> crazy jerks still had pizza outside.......

-snip-

tlagiloi

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Oct 10, 2004, 12:38:08 AM10/10/04
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good reminder
not to talk about certain things
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