If you insist on wearing your white cotton gloves to the table at all 
family dinners to protect the silver.
Pat Miller

At 06:55 AM 1/10/2006, you wrote:
>Colleagues-
>
>I've been asked to speak at a special party for museum professionals 
>at AAM this year in Boston.  I'm going to revive the piece I wrote 
>years ago for the conference in Atlanta, but want to update it with 
>current ireverant thoughts about our lives and careers.
>
>If you have a funny or pointed observation about being a "museum 
>professional", would you please consider forwarding it to me 
>off-list at 
><mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]
>
>A couple original ones were...
>
>If you not only read the brochures at cultural travel destinations, 
>but actually KEEP them...you may be a museum professional!
>
>If, one day, you find you've organized all the stuff in your 
>basement chronologically...you just might be a museum professional!
>
><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = 
>"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />Obviously, my apologies 
>to Jeff Foxworthy...
>
>One suggestion...don't worry about trying to make it funny.  It may 
>very well be an observation about something in museums or having a 
>job in museums that you find odd or completely annoys you.  That's OK.
>
>Thanks,
>
>D. Neil Bremer
>Executive Director
>Elmhurst Art Museum
>
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