Gilles Tran wrote:

> 479008ec$1@news.povray.org...
>> Gilles Tran wrote:
>>> Of course if you want to keep saying the darnest things, just do it.
>> It can be helpful to learn how to BS on a topic you know virtually nothing 
>> about. Then you spend an hour reading a half-dozen wikipedia pages, and 
>> now you can sound like an expert in them too. ;-)
> 
> It sometimes happens that I have someone on the phone asking me stuff that 
> I'm mostly ignorant about, while I'm frantically googling about it in real 
> time and providing answers as they appear on screen. There's no point trying 
> to hide it (people can hear the clicking anyway) but as a rule, answering 
> "uh, dude, what are you talking about, never heard about that" is not an 
> option.
IMHO this is not a good example. People know that you are exceptionally 
good with google. Given the choice of either calling a real expert (that 
might be unable to communicate) or calling Googles Tran I'd know what I 
do.  ;)

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