Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] tar babies
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 13:57:35 -0400
References: <172191130.996742944@sgathan.reid.org> <3B6986D8.5A7D8E9A@ncep.noaa.gov>

Sure sounds like Lyndon....I've just heard it as "you don't want to get
into a pissing contest with a skunk." No Lyndon association. And the
rest of it goes without saying...;-)

B. D.

"Barney Quinn, Jr." wrote:
> 
> Brian,
> 
> I'm reminded of something Lyndon Johnson is supposed to have said. (If
> he didn't say it, it's certainly something he would have said! :-)
> "Don't get into a pissing contest with a skunk. They're not going to be
> able to tell who the skunk was." :-)
> 
> Barney
> 
> Brian Reid wrote:
> >
> > If you win a fight with a tar baby, you are still covered with tar.
> >
> > There are people on this list who are more interested in argument than in cameras.
> > Please do not argue with them.
> >
> > When you get mad and want to argue, say to yourself: "That person is such an asshole. If I argue with him, maybe people might think I am an asshole too. I'd better not say anything."
> >
> > Slow down. Stop. Who actually cares about the result of this argument, or that one?

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