[syndicate] Re: Re: Re: ask usenet

[Michael Watson]

I am not sure. 

I have been encouraged to "shop and spend" (don't let the
terrorists win!) so I have been doing some of that today. At least
we now have a homeland security director and color charts to
indicate how secure we feel should feel. I check it first thing in
the morning.

elevated threat level - yellow
http://www.whitehouse.gov/homeland/images/threat/elevated.jpg

Maybe non-verbal is more fitting to the times:
http://www.artofresistance.org/bush_mosaic/bush-small-closeup.jpg 


--- "Fr. M." <fmadre at free.fr> wrote:
> you talkin' to me ?
> 
> f.
> 
> At 10:51 12/09/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> >"we tend to interpret avoidance of eye-contact as a signal for
> >deceptiveness. On the other hand, almost constant eye-contact
> may
> >be interpreted as deliberate overcompensation, so may also be
> >interpreted as a signal of deceptiveness. Much depends, as
> always,
> >on our assessment of the context and of the other person...I
> once
> >had a boss who met almost any even slightly awkward question
> with
> >prolonged, unblinking eye-contact. As I was the union
> >representative at the time, I took this as an attempt to
> intimidate
> >me, so stared back, which always became so absurd after a time
> that
> >I could barely repress my laughter, with the result that when he
> >did eventually say something it was greeted by a broad smile
> from
> >me. He then became visibly more relaxed, presumably because he
> >thought I was pleased by his reply, only to tense up visibly
> when
> >my rejoinder made it perfectly clear that I was far from
> satisfied.
> >A lot of potential there for communication breakdown! When one
> of
> >my students went to interview him, his question was also met
> with a
> >prolonged stare. As this student had just come from another
> college
> >whose principal was open, friendly and accessible, it didn't
> occur
> >to the student to interpret the stare as an attempt to
> intimidate.
> >He was in fact just about to spring from his chair and go to the
> >principal's assistance when the principal finally spoke. As the
> >student reported to me after the interview, he thought that the
> >principal was suffering a catatonic fit."
> >
> >http://www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk/MUHome/cshtml/index.html
> >
> >"Fr. M." <fmadre at free.fr> wrote:At 23:09 11/09/2003 -0700, you
> >wrote:
> > >Would you like to talk
> > >now
> > >or later?
> >
> >not to you.
> >
> >f.
> >
> >
> >
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