----- Original Message ----- From: "graywolf" Subject: Re: a flower for Shel - GDG
> You are an idiot, Bill. Kinder words, you have never spoken...... You need to use all caps for this sort of thing to be effective though. > > What I said and you know damn well what I meant, is that saying you have > been doing something for x years means nothing, there are many who learn > everything they know about it the first two weeks on the job and never > learn another thing after that. But the are the first to said, "You can > not tell mean anything about this, I have been doing it for twenty > years". In fact you can not tell them anything about it because they do > not want to know any more than they already do. Hence my BS detector > goes off when someone makes a statement like that. Last week, I was at a dog show. Me and my boy made it as far as the Best in Breed ring, where we were eliminated. The spectators, including some very knowledgable breeders and a few pro handlers told me that the dog that beat mine was not as good a dog, but that I had clearly been outhandled by a professional handler. The lady who beat me for breed was very gracious when I congratulated her. She mentioned that she had some 30 years of experience handling dogs, and this experience makes her handling second nature for her, and put her in the winners ring more often than not. In fact, she showed to Best in Show in all three trials that weekend. Long experience counts for a lot more than you care to give credit to. Experience isn't what you know, it is how you do things. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
