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   Rowley to Way Back Jack   
   Re: Importance Of Self Esteem   
   07 Mar 09 09:48:25   
   
   XPost: alt.bitterness, alt.education, misc.education   
   From: industry3dREMOVE@yahoo.com   
      
   Way Back Jack wrote:   
   > The lesser panda is not even remotely related to the giant panda.  If   
   > scientists had coined a new term instead of using "panda," they   
   > wouldn't need to use the word "lesser."  Using the term is the reason   
   > that the creature suffers an inferiority complex.   
      
   I seem to recall that a documentary I watched recently on PBS, that   
   skunks are now considered in a different classification than what they   
   were originally placed.... maybe now there will be some drop in their   
   suicide rate from throwing themselves into the paths of vehicles....   
      
   Turtles around here seem to suffer from something too that makes them   
   lie in the middle of the road till they get run over.....   
      
   martin   
      
   > Similarly, people who live in the Lesser Antilles are more likely to   
   > suffer clinical depression than those in the Greater Antilles.   
   >   
   > Even within our own bodies, the inferior vena cava is more inclined to   
   > sprout an aneurysm vis-a-vis the superior vena cava.   
   >   
   > Labels like "inferior" and "lesser" result only in negative   
   > consequences.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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