Hi Ellen
What was it that Mary Poppins said? "a spoonful of sugar makes the
medicine go down". One could amend it to "a spoonful of humour...
It often does hits the right chord.
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Diana E.M. Cooper 604-822-3943
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On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Ellen Chapman wrote:
> I think I changed one person's mind with humor. I was taking a grad
> course on non-ethnic minority groups (police, athletes, etc.) and, since I
> was a librarian, decided to do my big project on librarians. A draft met
> with the usual remarks and suggestions, but when I turned in the final
> project with cartoons and jokes about librarians (but not much of the
> substance changed from the draft),the prof. became very enthusiastic, said
> he had no idea librarians did so much wonderful work, recommended others
> in the class consult me, and praised librarians to students in his
> other classes. More work, but still nice to hear the good words.
>
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