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The Town Planning Board attorney didn't even bother looking me in the
face as he answered. He was a local hero for having started in humble
circumstances. As a teenager he ran his own egg delivery service and
later would reminisce about the fabled cockfights up on Pines Hill Road.
As a new member of the board I had asked, "I made a flow chart outlining
who does what on the board, and I've gone through the code book a few
times to get a handle on it, so I know the building inspector is the
Code Enforcement Officer, but I still can't find the mechanism to
trigger action on such things as that illegal development which went
ahead without sewer hookups."
He just looked straight ahead out into the public hearing and mumbled in
an offhand manner, "Well that is the problem, isn't it." And that was
years before even congressional subpoenas could be easily laughed at and
ignored, or maybe it has always been that way and I just never knew.
1) response to someone else's post Very satisfying to see
someone else making great use of lists. My life is nothing but a series
of lists, and every time my wife says, "Oh, I forgot...," my answer is
always the same, "I'm sure it was on your list, right?" Here's an
interesting side note: A common joke about the PERL programming language
(previously much used in academia) was that it stood for "Positively
Endless Redundant Lists". My position is that you can never have too
many lists.
2) response to someone else's post
Thank you for the mini-master class in the roots of semiotics while
pointing out that an image can be inserted here. One would hope (and
certainly the artist would hope) peoples' reaction might be similar
without the explanation. However, since I did read the explanation, I
can no longer unpack my reaction either/or. As an aside I would really
love to see an IPA transcription of your last name, such as /d͡ʒɔbst/ or
/d͡ʒɔst/ or maybe /d͡ʒobst/, etc.
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