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From: edhall@randvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Characteristics of MOTAS
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Date: Wed, 8-Aug-84 22:26:55 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  8 22:26:55 1984
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] From: carson@homxa.UUCP (P.CARSTENSEN)
]      . . . .
] I'll admit there are a lot of things out there to get legitimately
] mad about. BUT I've known too many people who give off this constant
] low-level anger/bitterness about their boss, their parents, the
] Republican party, fundamentalist Christians, or whatever.  And I've
] decided that I don't want to live around that for any length of time.
] I'll admit that everyone (including me) goes through phases like that
] but some people seem to do if for years...
]
] Patty homxa!carson

Amen to that!  This brings up one of the characteristics I look for
in a MOTOS (after truthfulness, intelligence, and compassion): a sense
of humor.  Far from being the crusader-type I often project on the net,
I usually sprinkle my conversation with puns, wry observations, and
sometimes just plain silliness.  Nothing is sadder than someone who
can't respond in kind (or worse, doesn't understand that I'm joking).
No, my jokes aren't *that* bad!

		-Ed Hall
		decvax!randvax!edhall