BOC: Reverse fungus/Real World

Mon Apr 27 11:51:51 EDT 1998

> << prefacing each & every sentence with
>  disclaimers such as "i think...", "in my humble opinion...", and "if i
do say
>  so..." reeks of insecurity.  same goes for extreme semantic dissection.
>>
>
> I call it "respect" myself.  If others see any attempts I make at being
> polite as somehow weak, well... FUCK 'EM!  ;-)

     Well, thus I use IMO instead of IMHO.  I have opinions and am happy
to note them as such.  They are not, however, humble ;)

--
Carl Edlund Anderson
Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic
St. John's College, University of Cambridge
mailto:cea20 at cus.cam.ac.uk
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~carl/