Paul, at 17:49 on May 22 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> BTW, at no time in those 2 hours did we hear a police siren.  :(

PE> And did you call the police? 

BG> No, but only because I felt sure that heaps of other people would have.  
BG> Turns out that there were NO reports at Logan Central Police HQ at all.  
BG> I'd explain all about apathy, but I couldn't be bothered.

PE> Not much point doing sad faces at the police then, is there? 

There wouldn't be if that's what I was actually doing, but I'm not.

PE> One thing I have found about Australia, is that everyone is convinced
PE> that someone else far more intelligent, important, or mature, is
PE> taking care of all the things that require intelligence, importance,
PE> or maturity.

And in your case, you'd almost certainly be right.  :)

PE> The classic example is that all my life my dad has used the phrase
PE> "well there's far smarter people than you or I who are working on
PE> that".  One day I said to him "how do you know they're smarter than
PE> me?".  He was pretty tongue-tied at that.  And since then, I've
PE> ignored the comment, but always been on the lookout for this really
PE> smart guy, should I ever meet him. 

Let's see now, how about people like Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein,
Werner von Braun, Alfred Nobel, Marie Curie, Adolf Hitler (think about
it)... the list is virtually endless, and neither of us are on it, I'm
sorry to say.

PE> Whilst waiting for this opportunity to arise, I discovered on the way 
PE> another fact.  All these adults who seemed really mature and sophisticated 
PE> when you were a kid, are actually no better than the kids themselves!

Crap.  That's exactly the sort of thing that most 14 year old's say, and
they're just as wrong as you are now.

PE> Take for example these echos, and all the "arse-wind-blowing"
PE> name-calling etc etc.  Admittedly it's probably not a good idea
PE> to be using myself as an example though.

True.  :)

Regards, Bill

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