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O We Try To Find Meaning By Comparing Ourselves ...
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Apr 14, 2005 (message contributor)
o we try to find meaning by comparing ourselves to others:
Mrs. Moskowitz was trying to describe to the interior decorator exactly how
she wanted her house done.
She said, "I leave the art and design entirely to you. I ask only that whatever you do, it be spectacular. I want it done in such a way that when my dear best friend, Mrs. Finkelstein, should come in for the first time, she should instantly have a stroke with jealousy and drop dead."
(source: www.haruth.com/jhumorlink.htm)
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