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However, never mind Vincent's observation about Kung Fu (or other means of defending yourself in the absence of police or equalizers) if the frame shifted slightly and you found yourself in a situation where you needed to get out of a flying aircraft and safely aground in a specific location, you might find some of my esoteric knowledge handy. Granted it's not as likely as my needing to know one end of a manure shovel from the other... but I already know that. And I could weld the blade or handle of that shovel back together if I really, really had to.
I'm not sure I could produce a sonnet that wouldn't have people holding their noses, but... who would we like to invade today?
- K
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Al Geist
>
> John Rosberg wrote:
>
> "...without meaning to offend, I've always found the "I can't believe
> everyone doesn't know what I know" conversations to be just a
> little smug,
> and perhaps inappropriately elitist."
>
> Normally, I would agree with you John, except I do know
> everything. I am not
> smug, nor am I an elitist. I've built houses, so I know
> plumbing. My Dad was
> a journeyman electrician, so I go to know where power came
> from and what to
> do with it at an early age. I grew up on a farm, so I got to learn
> everything from welding to shoveling manure as part of life.
> Am I different?
> Yep. You're right in that there are a lot of people that
> don't know where
> that hamburger they just crammed down their gullet came from,
> or where the
> water from their kitchen faucet comes from. Then, in most
> cases, they don't
> have to. All societies, from the first to now, had individuals that
> specialized in something so everyone didn't have to know
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