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This morning I did a research report on a famous man in the world of horse racing, and the SCANDAL that is his love life, which includes an ex-wife who owns a racing stable called the [Name Retracted] Stud Farm.

I just sent the report to my boss, who works across the corridor from me. A few minutes later I heard her voice drift hesitantly out of her office.

Boss: So....a stud farm...that's a...horse racing stable?
Me: Yeah, it's a breeding farm. Male horses of breeding age are put out to stud.
Boss: They're studs.
Me: I think it's where the term came from.
Boss: Oh...kay...
Me: You sound nervous.
Boss: No, I'm just...going to assume the high-level VP who's going to be looking at this report will know that...

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These comments are interesting. I wrote an artilcle the other day and also touched on it a bit for my NaNo story that what touches our personal world doesn't necessarily touches others and yet we feel it ought to somehow.
"I don’t know why things that are so important to me can mean so little to others. I believe it’s a human fallacy. We as individuals are not, each one of us, the center of the known universe. We are however the center of our own personal universe. The impacts on our lives hit our core but doesn’t radiate out as far as we imagine. So when an event affects our world, the rest of the world continues on without feeling any ripples. It is sometimes hard to remember this, especially after a traumatic event."
Now stud farming to my world is not all that important but I am sure is quite important to somebody's world. And yes, I have read about it before today.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

Or in rather less profound terms, the following quotation from Red Dwarf:

Kryten: They always say the hardest part about leaving Cyberspace is realizing that the whole universe does not revolve around you.
Cat: Sure doesn't. It revolves around me!
Kochanski: Absolutely...
Cat: No. I'm serious! Look at the evidence!
Lister: What evidence?
Cat: Take food: until I bite into it, it has no taste. Even when I know what I'm gonna say, it never bores me!
Lister: You, and you alone.
Cat: And here's the kicker, all the interesting things that ever happen to me happened when I was in the room! Coincidence? Get outta here...

(Quotation lifted from IMDB (http://uk.imdb.com/character/ch0017425/quotes), any errors are theirs not mine.)