>She continued though, and told me that a hypnotist had come to her office Christmas party to put on a show, and explained to her that people like me are not susceptible to hypnotism or the paranormal because engineers aren't able to free their energies or spirit or some such tomfoolery.
You need to rebut that by explaining to her (with a straight face) that engineers and hackers are not susceptible to hypnotism and the paranormal because we're the only ones naturally immune to NLP [1].
You need to rebut that by explaining to her (with a straight face) that engineers and hackers are not susceptible to hypnotism and the paranormal because we're the only ones naturally immune to NLP [1].
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowcrash#Condensed_narrative