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Re: damn...



Great gal, that Julian, but she doesn't go as far back as Sappho.  Both 
ignored in the standard curriculum.  

Let's hear it for Kelly! <polite applause>

keets

>From: kob1@ix.netcom.com (Kevin B. O'Brien)
>To: TheWho@igtc.com
>Subject: Re: damn...
>Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 04:44:08 GMT
>Reply-To: kob1@ix.netcom.com
>
>On Sun, 15 Nov 1998 20:34:02 -0600, Alan McKendree
><amck@thenetdr.com> , late of Pablo Fanques Fair wrote:
>
>>>but I don't flaunt
>>>this.  I mentioned my degrees ONCE.
>>
>>You may call it mentioning, I'd say you flaunted it once, at me in 
fact,
>>and in a pretty snippy manner to boot:
>
>Aha! So you're one of them ignorant folks what doesn't have PFUDD!
>That explains a good deal, I would say.<g> Like those PT quotes,
>BTW. Keep 'em coming.
>
>>>>I did NOT spend six years in graduate school to have it all 
dismissed in one
>>>>sentence by you.  For your information, I EARNED my Ph. D. three 
years ago,
>>>>hence the reason I said I HAVE a Ph. D.  Don't forget what those 
tenses
>>>>mean.
>
>Half the PhD's I know couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the
>instructions were written on the heel. All it takes is a few faculty
>meetings to realize that there is no correlation between having a
>PhD and having:
>
>a. a brain;
>b. the sense that God gave geese;
>c. a life.
>
>However, if the person in question is an MLA member, the uncertainty
>is considerably reduced.
>
>Finally, I propose that we make Kelly the official intellectual of
>this list. Anyone who can casually bring Julian of Norwich into the
>discussion must surely be worthy.;-)
>
>
>-- 
>Kevin B. O'Brien                  TANSTAAFL
>kob1@ix.netcom.com
>"Follow your dream! Unless it's the one where you're at work in your 
>underwear during a fire drill."--Phil Proctor
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