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I can't even begin to describe how bizarrely miswritten that is (by Andrew Brust, whoever he is). But have fun. >>>
>>>Mr. Beane,
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>>>First, Andrew wrote some of that and I wrote some. It is out of sheer morbid curiosity that I ask what significant issue you have with it.
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>>>Second, Andrew Brust is a well-known speaker and author, a former MS Region Manager, and a CTO for a highly respected company in Manhattan. I accept that even a household name (which Andrew is, in the SQL/BI area) isn't known in EVERY household, but Andrew is known in most.
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>>Also, being a user group leader is a heck of a job, and I only know the experience of running our podunk little group. Maybe instead of criticizing somebody for spending their own free time to volunteer, he could get involved himself and maybe put a little meat on the resume.
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>Mike, I was the leader of the Chicago FoxPro User Group for three years. This was in the heyday of the mid 1990s when we had over 100 attendees at meetings. The job was turned over to me by Robert Green when he left to be a honcho at Microsoft. So please don't talk to me like I'm some hillbilly down at the Elks Club. Thanks.
Not sure when the term "hillbilly" started being a staple of you vocabulary but you might like to know that it is the 'N' word used in the context you use it.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
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-- T. S. Eliot
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- Ben Franklin
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