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Explainers Anonymous™ - II

Thursday Nov 22 2007

By Charles E. Smith | Bio

Explainers Anonymous™ is for people who can’t help explaining they are dedicated victims of circumstance. Explaining, like taking a drink, need not be not a problem. Telling a story to entertain or teach is wonderful. Sometimes explanations are really useful (such as in telling the doctor why your hand is bleeding) or when they warn you of something (such as in looking both ways before crossing the street because you might get killed). Sometimes they are useful as long as everyone understands it’s an explanation—and only one out of a hundred thousand possibilities.[Read More]

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Explainers Anonymous™

Thursday Oct 25 2007

By Charlie Smith | Bio

Explainers Anonymous™ is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to help people addicted to explaining everything. My name is Charlie. I started it.

It began in 1997 a few months after I retired. I woke one morning and said to myself:

"I now have no work, no place to go, no future source of earned income, no people telling other people about me. The phone doesn't ring and too many of my e-mails are ads. I diet until 6 o'clock and then eat like a pig. I go to the health club, work out and lose no weight. I have lists full of grand schemes swarming over my desk, but the truth is that almost nothing is actually going on. My big accomplishment of the day so far was to take a shower."

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