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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (215493)	1/17/2003 9:28:33 PM
From: Box-By-The-Riviera™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

indeed!

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (215493)	1/18/2003 8:20:43 AM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Pretty soon those gatherings will be as much fun as academic conventions. There, it's a great triumph if the audience outnumbers the panel in a panel discussion. The the members of the panel go back home and report their achievement on their annual personnel report and if they are lucky they get paid $500 more the next year than they would have if they had not spent ten minutes talking about something no one wants to know about. This is known as "professional development." It pays a little better than being a call girl, actually. Oh, and then there are the poets who read their work to one another at professional conventions for the same purpose. But at least this has the advantage of keeping the poetry all in one place so it doesn't litter up a wider area. Goodness only knows what goes on at the conventions of Buddhologists (I have heard there is such a thing). Maybe they get together and meditate the hell out of each other and thereby rise in stature. But the most remarkable are the conventions specially organized for paranoid personalities like me. They keep trying to get me to come to one, but I am onto their little game and I report them all to the FBI. They will never get to me with their thought-interference radio waves or their colorless, odorless, gas that makes you forget things.