Jude wrote: > The older I get the more I value "nice". I know it sounds insipid as in > "have a nice day" or "he is a nice guy". But nice means that you are > thinking of the other person or that you are treating someone else as you > know you would like to be treated. God knows there is not enough of that > around. all those other things that Malcolm mentioned are great also, but > I do not think of nice as being mere. I fully agree. The older I get the more I also realize these things are scarce. I just don't see it as a proper antonym for "phony" which to me is a much more complex, uh, attribute.