The Netflicks thing sounds weird but glad to hear you're alive, albeit in the thrall of the motivational speakers. One little-known fact is that Dale Carnegie training includes a stereotyped set of hand gestures and facial expressions that dutiful public speakers learn by rote to give their communications subliminal oomph. Some people say that because the Institute is constantly revising the MBA Hand Jive the trained observer can even tell what year someone took the course based on the specific vocabulary of gesture the initiate has available.

If you find a speaker Smiling at you, adopting an Open stance, leaning Forward, varying his Tone, making Eye contact or simply Nodding a lot, I find it helps to have a favorite nursery rhyme to repeat or Human League lyrics to remember until the compulsion passes.

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Can you tell I'm bored at work and reading back entries of acquaintences LJ's? I've been reading your mystery DVD entries for a while now, but never realized the true nature of the mystery. I just figured that Netflix had some sort of "send me random movies" option. This is suddenly much more interesting.

I also really liked the term "skank-pronging." I'll have to work that one into conversations....

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