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Subject:Re: the 5 C's From:Wayne Douglass <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 11 Mar 1999 11:24:21 -0800
At 10:54 AM 3/11/99 -0800, Sella Rush wrote:
>I kind of liked the notion of "convection", although it would never have
>occurred to me to use it. To me, convection in this situation implies
>taking a bunch of raw facts, doing something nebulous to them (that is,
>using a creative and not necessarily analyzable process for organizing and
>presenting them), and serving them up ready to use.
>
Any bets out there that "convection" is really "conviction" (who says
grammar and spelling don't count?) Not that it makes "the 5 Cs" any less
fatuous than that other old saw: "Never ASSUME. You only make an ASS out ot
YOU and ME."
Where *do* VPs come up with this nonsense anyway?
--Wayne
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