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To: Lynn who wrote (179)	5/8/2002 11:14:48 AM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4345

on bashing Bashing is a waste of one's time. Coming over here just to bash is like the person who pays so much attention to the weeds growing on the neighbor's lawn that his own lawn doesn't get cut. I hope you are not trying to turn this into a cheerleading thread where the bashers are not welcome and they don't warn us when the stock is over valued... or they might convince me to sell my HPQ and buy some of their favorite stock. I find the basher posts 10 times more valuable then the cheerleader posts. After all, I already know my fellow longs like the stock... I'm looking for places to take profits out... Kirk

To: Lynn who wrote (179)	5/8/2002 11:16:18 AM
From: MeDroogies	Respond to of 4345

I agree that bashing is a waste of time. But some people are wastes of time, too. I tend to avoid and ignore them. I agree that the "Dell Dude" commercials are a mixed message. I particularly dislike the one you mention because of the flagrant flaunting of parental authority. This guy is supposed to be a "guru" of PCs and he lies about the car he's in? It's funny because we know the reality of what teen life is like, but it sends a nasty message as far as I'm concerned. I'm not a rose-colored glasses kind of person. I know what kids do and what they like. But I find it funny that we are allowing lines to be blurred like this. Honesty and credibility count for nothing today. As much as we dislike the villains of Enron and Global Crossing, we won't send them to jail, and we have managed to create a situation where their lies can be papered over. This continues to extend out to all facets of life and business. The "Dell Dude" has nothing to do with Enron, of course, but the tacit approval that we give to his blatant lies (while at the same time accepting his supposed superior knowledge of computers) is indicative of a deeper problem in society.