> Judges are human and some cannot help being awed by his presence. Yes, it > is wrong, but rather than blaming Jimmy, why not blame the judges? > Lee Lee, you are absolutely right.... It is a human thing - a phenomena. Years ago, in a non-dog world, I had a friend who was a very famous speaker. He was good, but he also did not know why he was always the key-note speaker at every event. It was not that he was smarter than anyone else, said more profound things that anyone else, or had played the political game better than anyone else. He was just one of those people who surface above everyone else. When he came into a room full of people, every eye turned his way - he breathed up half the oxygen and took up 3/4 of the space. It was an awesome thing to watch, but he did not see it nor attempt to create it. We have a few of those people in the dog world. Alycia and I have had a ball watching our handler. In the show parties he will come into a room and set down and in no time all the chairs are arranger in a semi-circle facing him and they are full of people listening to him. He does not arrange the chairs, he just goes in and sets down. Some people fight for an audience, some just seem to have an audience following them. That charismatic phenomena is intriguing to me. I'm not sure how to produce it and sell it, but if I could I suspect I would be very rich and probably ruin the entire world. Dave ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2006. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - URL temporarily deleted due to AOL issues ============================================================================