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Re: The IOOOF and The Royal Curmudgeon Order

To: mmcewen@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca
Subject: Re: The IOOOF and The Royal Curmudgeon Order
From: gofastmg@juno.com (Rick Morrison)
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 21:36:43 EST
On Mon, 16 Mar 1998 09:42:01 -0700 mmcewen@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (John
McEwen) writes:
>Ah, but generally the cantankerous nature implies a strong sense of 
>"do it
>yourself" which is usually rooted in either low self esteem or its 
>converse
>- terminal pomposity. 

Actually, in my case, it's simply cause I don't have the money to do it
any other way!
This causes both frugality (aka "tightwad) and cantankerousness, caused
by the frustration of not being able to fork out obscene amounts of money
some overpaid young whippersnapper to do it for me!

Rick Morrison
72 MGBGT
74 Midget
> This is reinforced by a "Great Depression 
>mentality"
>which was created through direct experience or childhood conditioning. 
> All
>of this is driven by a sense of advancing age and a world moving 
>quickly
>onwards, without concern for this traumatic personal event.  The 
>ultimate
>trigger is the enormous impact of "sticker shock" created by current
>pricing in the mind of someone who can clearly remember buying things 
>40
>years ago.  The sense of anger and frustration created reinforces the
>cantankerous behavior and fosters activities involving excessively 
>frugal
>behavior and the active promotion of the innate cleverness of this
>behavior.
>
>I could go on but I'm sure you'd prefer that I didn't.
>
>John
>
>
>
>>John McEwen wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Bert:
>>>
>>> You can't be an old curmudgeon unless you're also penurious.  My
>>> grandfather was from Milngavie - a suburb of Glasgow.
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>
>>  Hay John,
>>
>>    One can be cantankerous without being stingy, eh?  Making the
>>indians squeal.......  ;^)
>>
>>--
>>
>>  Charley Robinson
>>  Kerrville, TX, USA
>>  <ccrobins@ktc.com>
>>  `69 B Roadster
>
>
>



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