Re: winning mentality was reply to Tom Ivers re: re FEI

["Sandy Bolinger" <bolinger@bigsky.net>]

You're starting to sound like a bratty little kid here, Tom...get a grip!

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From: <Tivers@aol.com>
To: <CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com>; <dgerman@earthlink.net>; <SandyDSA@aol.com>;
<ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 6:47 PM
Subject: RC: winning mentality was reply to Tom Ivers re: re FEI


> In a message dated 8/31/00 5:35:31 PM Pacific Daylight Time, CMKSAGEHIL
> writes:
>
> <<
>  << 1 a : to get possession of by effort or fortune b : to obtain by work
:
> EARN <striving to win a living from the sterile soil>
>   2 a : to gain in or as if in battle or contest b : to be the victor in
<won
> the war> >>
>
>  Thank you, Tom--glad to see you can read the dictionary.  And this backs
up
> what I said--if "getting possession of by effort or fortune" is winning,
then
> obtaining a completion if that be your goal is a win for sure.
>
>  As for getting second if your goal was to get first--for once we agree,
that
> makes one a loser.  However, since that is NOT the goal of most of the
folks
> at most rides, and since most of them DO obtain their goals--as in
"getting
> possession of by effort"--then most of them ARE winners.  The error here
is
> in the assumption that all share the same goal that you do, and are out to
> possess the same thing.
>
>  Heidi >>
>
>
> You and Little Billy Clinton have a real problem with words, don't you?
>
> ti
>
>
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