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From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: XSO IQ
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Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 14:33:41 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 28 14:33:41 1985
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Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill
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>>/* hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (Jerry Hollombe -- The Polymath)
>>What's  wrong  with  "showing off"?
>>People are seldom attacked for showing off athletic ability.

In article  mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora) writes:
>Showing off is bad form.  In general, it seems indicative of insecurity.
>Not that there is something wrong with being insecure, but why advertise it?
>But there is something wrong with attempting to push this problem onto other
>people, which is what showing off is.
>
>As for showing off athletic ability, it is bad form as well.

Then why do we pay professional athletes so much to show off?

	Frank Silbermann

How much would _YOU_ pay for a ticket to see a scientist at work?