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Originally posted by bill killer
Stein is amazingly pompous in person; I have had occasion to meet him. He conveys the impression that he is very, very pleased with himself at all times. I wish I were one-tenth as pleased with myself as he is with Ben Stein.
(DTB - I think you and I are fellow travelers on the Perfectionism Express, so, because I would want to someone to correct me: you mean "shilling," not "schilling" (former Austrian currency).)
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I thought it was Yiddish (and therefore I could fudge a little on the spelling, as it's "phonetic" when you write Yiddish with non-Hebrew letters.) But I thank you.
I picked up my son from a play date the other night, and on the shelf at the other boy's house was the game "Perfection" -- which immediately sent me back to the post exchange about that particular childhood game. Good times.
