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  1. “I usually consider self-deprecating humor to be phony. I’m thinking to myself “you don’t think that, you have an ego the size of a fucking house””

    Nice try, jackal, but I’m neither phony, nor do I have a massive ego, and you know both of those things about me to be true.

  2. benson- the organization I worked for used to do presentations of over 350 slides, poorly organized and poorly written. I revamped all of them into concise, clearly organized and multimedia presentations for them.After that the workshops went much better.

  3. Benson, I agree with you wrt to PP presentations. How many times is the audience provided with a thick handout (rewrite?) full of colourful slides with a ton of text on them that the speaker simply starts reading page by painful page?

    The better of such speakers at least can recognize they’re losing their audience and eventually start to improvise and hit on the need-to-know material.

  4. “I immediately became an outcast in the class when I started to share my views that Israel should be given back to the Palestinians”

    Biff, I am a firm believer in the 2-state solution, the parameters of which have been obvious (to me, at least) for decades. And I strongly oppose new Israeli settlements. I don’t share the view that all of Israel should be given to the Palestinins. I don’t think it’s pragmatic, certainly not for the past 60 years or so, and I think that the 2 peoples eventually have to learn to coexist in peace. Whether or not that will happen in our lifetimes, I could not begin to predict. But, since I know my view is unpopular among many Jews (not to mention fundamentalist Christians), I can only imagine how unpopular your view was.

  5. rf- had she read Marx? 😉

    I am good at public speaking but one on one, I always feel awkward because of my hearing. I really can’t hear well and I sometimes find myself answering giving answers to questions or statements that weren’t spoken. Ask MM sometime about the Parade of Jews story 🙂

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