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Posted by Derf on December 21, 1998 at 16:09:36:

1. Feel that neither side of your personality (4 or 3, if you're a 4w3, for example) is expressed adequately?

2. Have pack-rat tendencies? (e.g., you find an old birthday card that someone dropped... or maybe even a shopping list....)

3. Love the sound of old recordings (as opposed to your standard audiophile, who demands surround-sound stereo digital recordings)?

4. Poignantly remember certain strangers that pass you, whom you see for only a few seconds... and then, perhaps even create mental scenarios about them?

5. Enjoy making up silly names?

6. Enjoy taunting people in comical voices?

A note about my recent inquiry: "Do Fours necessarily dress flamboyantly?" ... I get the impression that, quite often, a person, probably of some other type, will see someone dressed like a walking theatrical display, and say "He/she must be a Four or a Seven." With this mental schema, they then conclude that this sort of manner, in the case of Fours in general, is the rule.

I was also disconcerted by a post, some time ago, in which a very bold person insisted to a self-described Four that she must be mistaken - that she couldn't possibly be a Four, precisely *because* she didn't look and act like a walking freak show.

That's why I'm looking for a tally, of sorts. How many of you "decorate" yourselves? And please don't get technical or "broad-minded"; I'm sure you know perfectly well what I mean, like it or not. I'm not judging you, I'm just trying to reconcile the popular conception, or, if necessary, separate it from the truth.

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: 1. Feel that neither side of your personality (4 or 3, if you're a 4w3, for example) is expressed adequately? : 2. Have pack-rat tendencies? (e.g., you find an old birthday card that someone dropped... or maybe even a shopping list....) : 3. Love the sound of old recordings (as opposed to your standard audiophile, who demands surround-sound stereo digital recordings)? : 4. Poignantly remember certain strangers that pass you, whom you see for only a few seconds... and then, perhaps even create mental scenarios about them? : 5. Enjoy making up silly names? : 6. Enjoy taunting people in comical voices? : : A note about my recent inquiry: "Do Fours necessarily dress flamboyantly?" ... I get the impression that, quite often, a person, probably of some other type, will see someone dressed like a walking theatrical display, and say "He/she must be a Four or a Seven." With this mental schema, they then conclude that this sort of manner, in the case of Fours in general, is the rule. : I was also disconcerted by a post, some time ago, in which a very bold person insisted to a self-described Four that she must be mistaken - that she couldn't possibly be a Four, precisely *because* she didn't look and act like a walking freak show. : That's why I'm looking for a tally, of sorts. How many of you "decorate" yourselves? And please don't get technical or "broad-minded"; I'm sure you know perfectly well what I mean, like it or not. I'm not judging you, I'm just trying to reconcile the popular conception, or, if necessary, separate it from the truth.

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