>> In a message dated 97-12-15 13:44:25 EST, [log in to unmask] writes:
>>
>> > A few of my clients have critiqued me as being much too serious. I must
>> learn
>> >  more about using this tool of humor.

then sbmarcus noted:

>The problem with using humor as a tool is that if you change your
>presentation of self you might appease the clients mentioned above, but
>you'll probably alienate a hole other group who will think to themselves
>that they aren't paying you to be funny.

<snip>

>I once got a really odd phone visit from to friends who had first met each
>other through me. They walked into my shop and demanded to know whether I
>thought myself a "funny" person or not. HUH?
>
>It seems that they were gossiping around the back of the pick-up and one of
>them commented that I was one of the funniest people he knew. The other guy
>didn't know what the hell he was talking about. It wasn't that the second
>guy had no sense of humor, since they were both laughing themselves silly
>when they walked into the shop. Its just that on some instinctive level I
>chose to present myself differently to each.
>
>Haven't the foggiest notion why.

Because the "s" in "sbmarcus" stands for "Sybil?"


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