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Subject:Re: What is a tech writer (humor cont.) From:Don Sargent <don -dot- sargent -at- TEMPLATE -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:28:16 -0500
Here's how a couple exchanges went for me:
(At a party stocked with lots of software developers)
Partygoer: "So, what do you do?"
Me: "I'm a technical writer."
Partygoer: "I'm sorry. Ha ha!"
(At a party on Capitol Hill)
Partygoer: "So, what do you do?"
Me: "I'm a technic..."
Partygoer: "I work for Senator Mitchell."
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Don Sargent
Template Software, Inc. "I might only get three strikes in
Dulles, Virginia life, but I can hit foul indefinitely."
sargent -at- template -dot- com -- me