Ping BGN

It is, and I bless Limewire for enabling me to find stuff I'd long
forgotten.

<fires up Tuxedo Junction>

 

I should have killed you when I had the chance.

 

You're really fitting in nicely here.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, belched forth and ejected the following:

You said it.

 

They first applied it to the wheels of French artillery. The idea was
that the French forces in Indo-China could then make a faster retreat.

There was also a plan to instal metal slides from the highlands down to
the lowlands, to allow mass evacuation of French forces (to say nothing
ov bowels) should the Viet Minh attack there. These were to be coated
with Teflon.

However, the mass surrender at Dien Bien Phu meant that the military
qalities of Teflon were never fully evaluated, and the French flogged
the rights to the Yanks to stick it on saucepans, after the Academie
Francaise ruled that plastic coated pans went against everything
Escoffier stood for.

The Yanks flogged billions of dollars worth of Teflon pans to the Frogs
anyway, and were thus able to fund their war in Vietnam. It's a funny
old world.

 

Like anti-Semitism?

 

In communiqué
<1hrm1n3.1vf0wz1rrzwizN%>, The

<VBG>

You have shattered my illusions that it may have been to stop sea-going
parrots perching on bridges.

Teflon itself it appears must be credited to a merkin:

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blteflon.htm
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Considering he's almost certainly in the same killfile it'll still be
unseen.

I had to laugh at TOG because I'm sure he spent a couple of minutes
compiling the post and I wouldn't normally have expected him to do
that on something concerning Bear.

 

Well, I don't. What the hell does that mean? Sounds like the kind of
thing a tabloid horoscope writer would say. You arrogant ****.

 

Absolutely. I started a 3 month contract in 1997 as an Oracle
developer. Up to that point, I'd never even *seen* Oracle, but my
arrogance/self-belief/whatever allowed me to bluff my way through.

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LOL no you weren't. Why do you always try to lie to me? When have I
ever let you get away with lying?

Go to your room.

 

No, Krusty wanted to tell his story about how awesome his blagging
skills were and this is probably the closest he was going to get to an
in. If someone has the "self belief" to do something how would they
conclude they couldn't do it in the first place?

 

Not without a non stick frying pan you don't..

 

Not really, no.[/QUOTE]


Ah. Small whoosh. Never mind.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, darsy

Oh granted, but you don't need a Teflon-coated pan for that, do you?

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Not *my* blagging skills - those of the consultancy I was working for
at the time. I did however have to believe I could do it, which
required a certain level of arrogance.

In my case, I knew I wouldn't be able to do the work (obviously), but
believed I could pick it up fast enough to cover my arse, which turned
out to be the case. I know that doesn't /quite/ satisfy your question,
but it's close enough.

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Are you STILL banging on about that? Jeez, chillax and get a life.

 

I think this is where the whole 'arrogant' thing breaks down -
confidence, self belief, or whatever you might call it is not the same
as arrogance.

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Dammit, making a fool of myself here because I can't remember the
origin myself. Something about Hitler's main fault being that he gave
anti-Semitism a bad reputation.

<Waves hands>

Alzheimer's, that's what I blame it on.

 

Maybe not by definition, but it can be perceived as being the same.
Depends on how you portray your confidence, & who the perceiver[1] is I
s'pose.

[1] Is that a word?

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