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[Beverly Flanigan]

At 04:32 PM 7/19/2007, you wrote:
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>Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
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>Aw, Bev. It's not a fight! It's just that some people are
>psychologically driven to have the last word.
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>Once, I was in a conversation that went something like this.
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>A. "You're right."
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>B. "I *know* I'm right."
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>A. "I *said* that you were right!"
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>B. "I don't need you to tell me that I'm right!"
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>A. "Well, you're right about that, too!"
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>Etc., etc., etc.
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>Two people fighting for the last word are like two assholes trying to
>jump through each other.
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>I'm aware that I'm a last-worder and I try to avoid slipping into that
>mode, but I'm not always successful.
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>FWIW, I use Northern-BE "UM-brella," corrected from Southern-BE
>"UM-ba-rella." I've never heard "DIS-patch" in the wild, I don't
>think.
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>BTW, Beverly, if you want the last word, you have it. :-)
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>-Wilson

No, no, let's share it!

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