>James T Perkins [email removed]
>Subject: (2783) Re: Nobility
>Reply-To: [email removed] (TML Administrator)
...some preceeding info about Gary Thomas and his comments on soc. standing
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Sorry folks, but I cant resist responding to this!
>Consider the Governor of the State of New York (Soc up there somewhere).
>In Buffalo, he's going to paid a lot of attention (Soc = ~D). If he's
>in Paris, he's for all practicable purposes just another tourist Kilroy,
>and his influence probably depends on how much money he has, how he
>dresses and talks (Soc = ~5). Vargr are an even more volatile example
>of the same changing degree of social recognition.
oh, i dont know... around here Cuomo may be often mentioned with an
introductory clause such as "There's that *&^%($#@!! Cuomo %(^*$^*!!" 8-)
or else, the apathy level around here is so high that he MAY rate a
"ho hum, yawn, who did you say that was?" heck, a number
of presidents rolled on thru here (Reagan for sure, I think Ford also,
I did attend a guest lecture by Jimmy Carter in 1989. I dont think these
were situations where the city shut down to 'ooh and ahh'. It was funny
to watch the secret service people hovering around like bees, even in the
arena where Carter spoke, there were about 40 of them looking alert, although
they weren't swivel-heading like rotating fans.
>How important is the TML Admin title regarded on the TML (Soc = F)? In a
>USENET newsgroup for mail admin discussion (Soc = 8)? At a local
>restaurant (Soc = 5)?
pretty damn high in my book, encyclopedia galactica etc..someone
wipe out those snooty maitre d's!!
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