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Thu. 11/05/09 07:28 PM

Chris D: You're doing it again, you 'ignorant fool'

Chris D says, "I consider an electrcian semi-skilled at best."

Chris D, I consider you an ignorant fool at best. Go read NFPA 70, the national electrical code. See if you can understand one word of it.

C. Landey in Wisconsin, Brookfield, WI

CL:

I know I couldn't understand a word of it, at least in the technical sense. This war of words, gentlemen, is getting a little too inside baseball. Soon folks in this forum'll be asking you to take it outside, so to speak. :)

-- DCH

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Daniel Howes is business columnist and associate business editor of The Detroit News. From 1999 to January 2003, he was based in Germany as The News' European correspondent and automotive columnist, reporting from more than 20 countries on three continents. Before heading to Europe, Howes was senior automotive writer and an investigative and projects reporter on the business desk. He came to Detroit in 1993 from The Roanoke Times in Virginia, where he covered business, politics and higher education.

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  • On awards: Winner of multiple International Wheel Awards for column writing; a four-time winner of Northwestern University's Medill award for general markets coverage; and a three-time finalist for the prestigious Gerald Loeb Awards, including an honorable mention for commentary in 2007.

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