[ExI] Nulla contro lo Stato

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... On Behalf Of MB
Subject: Re: [ExI] Nulla contro lo Stato

>Often honesty is the best policy.... and an honest retraction can be quite
well respected.  I've had to do that online as well as in real life and it
is a depressing step to be forced >into... But there you go. :)  Regards,
MB

>> FF#*%, do I feel like an idiot. I posted it to my facebook account and 
>> no-one caught it there either. Including two journalist friends...So how
do I retract that 
>> from facebook without angering about five hundred friends and 
>> acquaintances? I think I will stick to math. No irony... Darren


Oh come now, me lads.  Ummm, rather, let me rephrase that, um... Oh, do ease
up, me lads.  Satire is meant to imitate and exaggerate reality. If you take
the bait once in a while, look at it as a harmless way to burn off excess
dignity.  {8-]  No harm, no injury.

Good story, happened a long time ago.  High school cafeteria, girl going on
and on about how she had done poorly on a test and was miserable, her
boyfriend beside her.  She had one of those tennis hats that look like a
baseball cap with the top cut out.  He took an orange slice off of his tray,
and bit into it with the orange peel forward like Brando did in the
Godfather right before his heart attack, put olives over his eye sockets and
scrunched to hold them in place, put the hat on his head upside down.  Then
as she went on and on, he sat beside her saying Uh huh, uh huh, much to the
amusement of those on the other side of the table.  She looked over at him.
He looked so silly she busted out laughing hysterically, so hard she lost
control of her bladder, at which time she was forced to flee the lunchroom
and left school for the rest of the day.  The irate lass broke up with him.
Next day she was relating the story to my brother, who listened to her
furious rant, then commented: So where's your boo boo?  I'll kiss it better.


She: I beg your pardon?  

He:  Embarrassed in the lunchroom, so show me where it hurts, and I will
kiss it all better.

She got the message: embarrassment doesn't need to hurt.  It's all in one's
attitude.  She and my brother met again at their tenth high school reunion,
married.

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