RE: virus: From the shadows

Richard Brodie (RBrodie@brodietech.com)
Mon, 24 Mar 1997 12:17:41 -0800


Martin Traynor wrote:

>This is what I thought, but when I ask people I never find *anyone* who
>doesn't do the rounding. Or at least they all *claim* to. Then again,
>I've never met anyone who admits to buying time-share apartments on the
>Algarve, or Remington fuzz-aways, or K-Tels 'The best of the seventies'
>compilation album <font size -10> not original artists </font> yet
>*someone* keeps these businesses in profit. Maybe I just don't know any
>of the great unwashed. I feel like there's a gap in my life. I must go
>out and find some. Now...where to start. Ah yes. The local conservative
>club.

Two great points! One, people don't know themselves very well, or if
they do, they don't communicate it. Two, we get a very biased view of
humanity by assuming everyone is like our circle of friends.

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