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>>>I think someone is playing a joke and they got you :)
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>>I pride myself on being as cynical and skeptical as a cranky old man with a checkered past can be but I saw nothing in Lynda's post that hinted of anything other than a very straightforward professional question - though I will say I find your response, to say the least, uncharacteristically weird and inappropriate.
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>You're in on it!!!!!
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>j/k
Huh? Other than Dimitry's strange response I don't see anything to be "in" on. A new member put up an introductory post - as hundreds have done before - and because she happened to be female one person assumed this meant it must be some plot to ensnare somebody. Most women in this industry have probably run into enough juvenile nerd response to blow it off. But it is still very unprofessional. The kind of thing Lisa Slater used to reduce boys to quivering piles of embarassment over.
Lynda will probably just ignore it, but suffering fools is not the same things as suffering fools gladly and shouldn't be a requirement for admission to this dwindling community.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
