"Paul Thomas, CPA" wrote in message
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NAACP = North American Armature Chess Phederation


of course, you might attract a different class of "playa".

How come, if you are a /real/ CPA, you make jokes? If I knew you could,
maybe I would have signed up young for the US Accounting Corps [pronounced
'u-ask']. Is it as much fun as you make it seem? As we
sales-tycoons-turned-moose-psychologists used to say:

Q. How many CPA's does it take to change a lighbulb?
A. One. And its not funny.

Even though you don't wear ties, I bet you got a decent haircut - in the
sales world we used to refer to accountants as 'pencil-necks'. You may not
have heard that term, and you also may not be aware that chessplayers wear
one or two t-shirts at a time, with an old sweatshirt over the top, above
dirty jeans and busted sneakers, on top of all that is a wig with a
miniature communication device woven in*, and that's just the grandmasters!

Just because we play chess doesn't mean we can spit far, without, by all
evidence, dribbling a lot of it down our fronts.

Phil Innes, STTMP
The Hippocampus, Vt.

*long story

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Paul A. Thomas, CPA
Athens, Georgia