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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 2 Jan 2006.
Re: Earliest published ambigram?

Re: Earliest published ambigram?

From don...@hotmail.com · alt.ascii-art · 2 Jan 2006 13:09 · View full thread
> I have the same problem with remembering the names of people, and
> unfortunately I have trouble remembering faces too.  But I usually
> remember all of the gossip I've heard about everyone, it's just a
> matter of figuring out which stories go with which people.  Go figure.

I've put a lot of effort into just doing without having to know
someone's name who I run across for the second time;  just get along
during the conversation without it.  People are so offended if you
don't remember their name.  And you're right about having to figure out
who you've told what to.  It starts getting away from you; you not only
have to remember the person and the story or joke but then you have to
form these huge lists of who you've told what to.  Or else you get into
the protocol of saying "Now stop me if I've told you this....."  (Have
I told you all this before, I mean, the subject matter of this note????
 Please stop me if I did.")

I don't know.  Life is too complicated.  Why can't it be nice and
simple?  Why all this complexity?  I've said this before , and I'll say
it again (please stop me if you've already heard it):  What we need is
a really simple, basic Theory of Complexity.  That'll solve all our
problems.  (But once all your problems are solved what do you do
then??? That's a meta-problem).

Don

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