Used laptop stampede

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Teo Zenios wrote:

> I think you are confusing stupidity with desperation. A stupid person is the
> one who would have gone to the  event to get somebody else a laptop, a
> desperate person would be the poor mom whose son is doing crappy in school
> and thinks an iBook would make the difference between her son getting into
> Harvard or being a crack dealer. Stupid people are the ones getting trampled
> on by the desperate storming the line.

To this I can only respond:

Dignity (dig' ni tee) - it's not just a word in the dictionary.

Used in a sentence:

There is no dignity in a herd of 5,550 jackasses.

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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