[Vision2020] comb-overs

[Tom Hansen]

Wayne –

 

I can only imagine that your favorite pick-up line was:

 

“I drive a Porsche and wear an unusually large shoe.”

 

Is this correct?

 

Tom - Toyota Pickup, Shoe Size: 9 – Hansen

Moscow, Idaho

 

"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving
safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in
sideways, chocolate in one hand, a drink in the other, body thoroughly used
up, totally worn out and screaming 'WOO HOO. What a ride!'"

  _____  

From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Art Deco
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 3:35 PM
To: Vision 2020
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] comb-overs

 

Keely, Ellen,

 

With all due respect, we a small disagreement.

 

First of all, I agree that it is unkind/unacceptable to make derogatory
comments about appearance aspects in many cases:  race, ethnic
origin/appearance, gender preference/style, height, unregulatable weight,
etc.

 

However, there are certain appearance items that are suggestive but not
confirmatory of certain other traits.  Without wanting to start a major
slugfest (but it probably will), I'll give an example.

 

When I worked as a consultant, some of my advice was sought and taken on
potential management, technical, and executive hires.  During the screening
process it sometime happened that an applicant exhibited a red nose and
cheeks -- broken and/or barely subdermal capillaries.  There can be many
causes of this.  However, when you are hiring a high salaried person from
whom diligence and production is needed and expected, there are two
conditions that can cause this condition for which more information is
needed in the evaluation of the candidate:  excessively elevated or
prolonged high blood pressure or a alcohol abuse problem.

 

In either case a need arises from the initial observation for more
information to assist in determining the risk/reward of hiring the
applicant.  It would be foolish to hire a person with a long standing
drinking problem unless there was evidence that this condition did not
affect his past work performance and would not affect his future work
performance.  Similarly, a person with a history of high blood pressure is
probably not going to be a good candidate for a high stress level position
-- either from their or the company's perspective.

 

Appearance does matter as a suggestion of other traits.  It is not
determinative alone, but it raises questions that in certain situations need
to be answered by further query.

 

Using your imagination and experience, I am sure you can think of other
physical appearances including dress, hair style, hygiene, etc that are
similarly suggestive.

 

In my experience, men with extreme comb-overs are often, but not always,
vainglorious, and with other traits that accompany vaingloriousness
including dishonesty about things of importance to them.

 

In the case of Dale Courtney we have lots of other information upon which to
base an assessment of the traits suggested by his hair style:  The
tendencies in his web-blots, for example, to play fast and loose with the
truth whenever something seems to reflect badly upon something that he is
identified with.

 

Rose Huskey pointed this out at the beginning of this thread about his
attempt to whitewash the unchristian discrimination against those with
learning disabilities at Logos School.  He often incompletely (with malice)
and sometimes out of context (with malice) quotes/mischaracterizes those
whom he attacks in his web-blots.  His pseudo-libertarianism is obvious --
pretending to believe in personal liberty while being the lay mouthpiece for
the CCC, an organization that is a grave threat to civil liberties to people
on the Palouse.

 

Hence, Courtney's extreme comb-over is both a symptom and a part of his
vaingloriousness -- a trait he shares with his Cultmaster -- and all that
goes with it.  Hence, as far as I am concerned, his comb-over and that of
which it is a symptom is fair game.  [There are other games afoot that also
make it fair game.  Some V 2020ers are aware of some of these.]

 

I doubt that we will come to any agreement about the appropriateness of
bashing Courtney's falsies.  Such is the nature of things at this time .
However, I will refrain from lampooning Courtney further with the famous
lines from a W. C. Fields movie uttered in all innocence by a young boy:
"Look, Ma.  At the size that man's nose.  If it was full of nickels, he'd be
rich."

 

Cheers,


Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)
deco at moscow.com¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯

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