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So, having encountered a couple of general officers...

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EBerlin

In Reply to: RE: I attended a military school, an admiral's kid was my posted by tinear on October 29, 2007 at 09:48:14

...constitutes proof of your own knowledge of how all generals comport themselves? I've interviewed a large handful of them and they are as different as you and me. There isn't a stereotype that holds up.
I don't remember Travolta's performance and I'm not supporting it. I just found it quite unconvincing that encountering two generals in your life makes you an expert in "generalness."
(Ooops...I didn't realize I was replying to Tinear before submitting the message. This thread ends here for me.)

Edits: 10/29/07

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Don't be so skittish, you're not - tinear 14:52:11 10/29/07 (0)
harboring a grudge or any such nonsense, are you?
Anyhow, seeing as you didn't delete the message, I'll guess your post had a small tongue-in-cheek aspect.
Generals do have something in common: they're used to ordering large groups of people around and they have a superior bearing w/out posturing, which exactly is what Travolta did. He quite obviously was acting the way he thought such a powerful figure would act, overdoing it as any poor actor would.
We've all had too much opportunity to see many generals on television and not one bore any similarity to the Travolta caricature.

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