Some Of The Time
You can fool all of the people some of the time, so long as you do it very, very slowly.
I had blond hair when I was a kid. In the summer it was really light. Sometime a few years ago something can up that prompted me to say my hair was blond and someone pointed out that it wasn’t and I realised they were right, but because the change was so gradual, I hadn’t noticed.
Same with my friend Karl, who used to lift weights. People who have known him longer than I have think he is massive, and he isn’t really, but the image has stuck.
It’s the same with a reputation. It’s why people still think Steve Martin is funny. Or why sporting heroes, past their peak, look better on the field than the younger athletes around them who are playing better. Or why people still read this blog. Arf.
Thing is, reputation’s an important element, and if you’ve earned it, then you deserve it. But remember that a good reputation is worth building on, for the benefit of yourself and others, but never cash it in.
In other news, I got a mention in Blogmandu.
March 7th, 2006 at 11:21 am
Congratters on the PR: Cliff 2 Kleenex 1. Nice post - a test: go into a north London pub and shout, ‘Sven should drop Sol’.
Wear body armour.
March 7th, 2006 at 3:46 pm
Maybe your soul isn’t perspiring, Cliff. Maybe, just maybe, that’s sarcasm dripping off it instead?
Heck, *I* had blond hair when I was a kid. But that was centuries ago.