Harold Holt

[Psyber]

Any more examples?? I shouldn't have asked that, because I can see a thousand word response

You are right I could dredge up a long list of examples, but it could get that long, so I won't..
I thought one recent one would make the point about how it happens.

[Jimmy]

its not what you know, its who you know...

for example, i know very little, but get and have gotten to know/meet many people while living here.

[Strawb]

Read The Day of the Gecko by Robert G Barrett.