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From: Kenny Tilton <ktil...@nyc.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: Understanding Erik Naggum
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Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 16:21:35 GMT
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Marc Spitzer wrote:
> Kenny Tilton <ktil...@nyc.rr.com> wrote in

>>This reminds me of a great line from some legendary engineer at Bell 
>>Labs, who apparently enjoyed Feynman-esque exemption from workplace 
>>social mores: "The hardest thing for me was realizing that I was being
>>tolerated by the people I had been tolerating."
>>
>>:)
> 
> 
> Please stop treating me like a child it is insulting, the smiley face 
> above.  I do not need or want the pat, pat, pinch, pat drill.  

i can see that it could be construed that way, but that was just my way 
of signifying that I was smiling at that engineer's remark, which I do 
every time I read it. It was shorthand for, "Is that priceless or what?"

Otherwise, looks like this horse is rightly and truly dead. I'm out.

kenny
clinisys