Intelligence and smartness are not related. I found JVP intelligent, but far from smart. Just my humble opion.

>I found it entertaining. Simple as that. He was smart, clever, and yes, sarcastic. But I enjoyed the show. People allowed themselves to be annoyed by engaging him. Myself included. What did it really matter? Did someone go home and kick their cat - or worse - because of it? I doubt it. If they did, then JVP was never the problem to begin with.
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>>What excitement?
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>>I will never miss JVP's sarcastic attacks. He has left this forum, not voluntarily, which made most of us happy. Or do you really think that it is "exciting" when someone keeps on bullying?
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>>We are grown up people here, let's act our age. I left kindergarten 45 years ago....! :-)
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>>>Oh, who really cares? I think it's just entertaining to read the responses; yours included. I miss JVP. At least he brought some excitement here.
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>>>>Kevin, what was the rationale or well formulated decision to start your thread with this quote?
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>>>>"Which has the bigger career upside: FoxPro or Scrap-Booking?" <g>
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>>>>You know there are more options out there in the world than simply being an M$ shill pumping their latest and greatest offering. As for myself, I am looking at learning an open source cross platform language called Ruby and the associated framework Rails.
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>>>>The difference is that I will not come back to the this forum making disparaging remarks only to help my massive ego. Perhaps you should learn to do the same. Or better yet, maybe you can go the route of your PA cult leader Joe Bob and simply go away...
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>>>>>Decisions aren't simply spontaneous reactions - they're formulated in part based on some form of prior preparation and planning.