And the survey said

[Damien Morton]

Whilst this may work on the West coast, you will get a better response
in New York by snarling at people over a period of weeks. Once you are
recognised as someone who has no desire to be in anyone else life, the
possibility of intimacies such as mutual nodding opens up.

A co-worker was arrested for smiling here - the cop thought he was
smirking as he crossed the road and so arrested him for jay walking. The
fact that it was a nice sunny day was no defence.

Do not smile at people. You are only inviting trouble into your life.

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Damien Morton, Technical Director, Dennis Interactive

"Why is the moon more important than the sun?"
"Because we need the light more at night!"
-- Nasredin
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-----Original Message-----
From: Marty Halvorson [mailto:martyh@nmcourts.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 3:37 PM
To: Robert Harley
Cc: fork@xent.com
Subject: Re: And the survey said


 > Wot, you mean they don't grimace back at you like you're some kind of
 > weirdo??? Inconceivable!

Maybe it's because I don't look like an evil pervert.

Some other interesting, to me anyway, items.

It's much harder to get people to notice that you're smiling while in an

urban (downtown Santa Fe) environment than in the woods, even when the=20
population in the woods at noon-time is quite high (near Los Alamos=20
National Labs).

Smiling at street people is interesting in that most of the time it's
easy=20
to get them to notice that you're smiling.  However, the smile seems to
be=20
interpreted as a threat because quite often, the result is a duck into a

hunched over defensive posture.  It takes repeated smiles over the
course=20
of several days to get a smile in return.

Peace,

Marty Halvorson