Re: [at-l] The latest on Dan Smith

["Kenneth R. Knight" <krk@home.msen.com>]

Sheesh. Am I catching it just because after all the "Happy X" I made one 
comment. I guess so. I'll say it again. I am happy to let anyone wish 
anyone what they want, but sometimes the wishes come off as over bearing 
and presumptuous. And imply, perhaps unwittingly, that over days are not 
as important. Maybe I'm being cynical, but I think my feelings grow out 
of the view that while plenty people will say "happy so-and-so" they 
don't always live up to the phrase on that day or any other.

I suppose it is a lack in sincerity that irks me. I'm not suggesting 
anyone here falls into this group. What does get to me is the presumption 
that just because person A feels a certain way that I must feel that way 
too and if I do not I am therefore somehow in trouble. 

I'll take you message as jest and hope that is what you intended. Because 
by your logic I should never travel. At lest not on Christian religious 
holidays.

  ** Ken **

On 12/27/99 5:29 PM Thomas McGinnis tmcginnis@ucclan.state.in.us wrote:

>Dear Ken,
>I would not go to Florida in late March if I were you. That time period 
>will be perilously close to the Year 2000 Easter celebration, and rumor 
>has it that all the old fogeys down F-L-A way will be interrogating all 
>passersby as to whether they believe they hold a responsibility to wish 
>the ever-noxious "Happy Easter!" to other sentients. (Thus, it seems, the 
>senescent wish the sentient an assension. Pretty involved.) In any event, 
>it doesn't sound like they're going to be letting anyone through who takes 
>the expression "Happy Easter" as an ill-humored attempt at ...oh, you 
>know. Listen, Ken, why don't...oh, never mind. But watch them Floridians, 
>buddy. People disappear down there. Tough old coots.


**  Kenneth Knight    Web Design, IT Consultant, Software Engineer  **
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