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Old 21-Feb-2007, 14:32
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Default Most of them grow out of it.

Dear Teachers:

I was listening to a tape when an expression caught my attention. Could you look at it and tell me if there is a missing word:

“Babies are born clueless and selfish. Most of them grow out of it; those who don't, become Manager" It was an acid expression that is in the Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook.

It sounds complete and funny to me, but isn’t some words missing? I mean in the fraction " ... those who don’t, become managers" I added a comma in order to avoid confusion with “don’t become managers” but I think that or should I use colon “:” instead of comma?

I am in doubt of being clear.

Could you help me?

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