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Ummm, I think that technically, barrycarlyon is right ... projecting upon the several thousand people that I know well enough to know they tell lies, I'd have to postulate that 'everyone' tells lies, for any reasonable value of 'everyone' as in 'anyone you are likely to meet', there being only one known exception to that rule.

I think I diverge from that statement in that I don't think it is OK or excusable, even if 'everyone' does it. When I tell a lie, I try to un-tell it as quickly as possible, or to mitigate the damage by telling a few quick truths. I certainly wouldn't condone the use of lies, which seems to be the essence of his statement.

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All that said, if I had a nickel for every exaggeration I saw on a resume, I'd have, er, a lot of nickels.


No good deed goes unpunished. -- (attributed to) Oscar Wilde

In reply to Re^7: Combining two fetches with DBI and MySQL by ptum
in thread Combining two fetches with DBI and MySQL by Anonymous Monk

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