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To: Richard Singer who wrote (2437)	4/17/1998 10:12:00 AM
From: Hockeyfan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3506

Richard, I held off continuing to flame you because David posted that you were really a nice guy and I respect David's opinion very much. You apparently have a problem owning your mistakes and moving on. I will make my point and move on. If you insist on continuing your personal attack because you don't have enough gray matter to support your original position or enough self respect to admit that you were wrong, please do so by private message to spare the others on this thread your sophmoronic (sic) humor. Your original carelessly sloppy post was... >>>To: SirAlexx (2427 ) From: Richard Singer Thursday, Apr 16 1998 9:28AM ET Reply # of 2438 Revenues not so bad-margins still pretty weak. But I guess that's what the stock has been telling us all quarter. Richard <<< Part of your response to my criticism of your margin comment was: >>>I saw the report as positive, as well. But my reference to margins was a RELATIVE one. And relatively speaking, margin was a bit disappointing. The only public statement of earnings expectations was 11 cents.....Trimble did 8. To help you to understand this.....8 is less than 11.....thus my use of the word 'disappointing' The other big word I used was 'relative'. This word describes the comparison of two similar things, in this case Q1, '98 to Q1 '97. <<< Please show me exactly where in your ORIGINAL post that you use the phrase "relative." All I see is "margins are still pretty weak." Apparently so are your short-term memory and composition skills. I still maintain that 49.6% margins are nothing to sneeze at and are RELATIVELY higher than the prior quarter. If you want to comment that 49.6% margins are less than 52% margins, then say so. Don't count on us to read your simple mind! Maybe next time you could just grunt and interpret the sounds for us later with benefit of hindsight.