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Subject:Re: The STC and me From:"R. Johnson" <rjayz -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:19:28 -0700 (PDT)
Call me a cynic or call me clueless, but that statement
sounds like an attempt at 12-step humor?
"Hello. My name is ___________, and I'm a _________ (fill
in your issue or addiction)."
It is Friday, after all.
Robin J.
>John Fleming wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 00:01:14 -0400, while chained to a
>desk in
>the
> scriptorium, bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com ("Bonnie Granat")
>wrote:
>> $John Fleming wrote:
>> $|
>> $| If the STC chapter in question does this at its
>meetings,
>perhaps
>> $| someone has identified a need that the practice is
>filling.
>> Perhaps $| it
>> $| is used as an "icebreaker" that helps the members
>get to
>know each
>> $| other later.
>> $|
>> $
>> $---- FICTION ALERT -----
>> $
>> $The original poster wrote the following:
>> $
>> $"Why doesn't the STC start meetings by going around
>the
>circle and
>> $having everyone say, "My name is [blank] and I'm a
technical
>> writer?"
>
> Thanks for correcting me Bonnie.
>
> I have to modify my position to one where perhaps
>someone in
>that
> particular chapter views this kind of ice breaking
>exercise as
>being
> of value in helping members get to know each other.
>
>
>Nobody said that any chapter did that "exercise" -- that
>is
>fiction. It
>never happened. He said (here it is again), "Why doesn't
>the STC
>start
>meetings by going around the circle and having everyone
>say, "My
>name is
>[blank] and I'm a technical writer?"
>
>Bonnie Granat
>www.GranatEdit.com
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