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« Reply #18855 on: September 05, 2010, 12:59:13 PM »

Reading some of these threads is quite like sitting in some faculty meetings.  The meetings that I stopped going to.  The ones where people start bring up old disputes from 15 years ago. 

"Put your panties back on and do the job."
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« Reply #18856 on: September 05, 2010, 04:32:04 PM »

Reading some of these threads is quite like sitting in some faculty meetings.  The meetings that I stopped going to.  The ones where people start bring up old disputes from 15 years ago. 

"Put your panties back on and do the job."

Whoa. Stop checkin' me out in my office... fine, I'll put my panties back on. I'd like to point out that I don't *have* to have them on when I grade.

Alan
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« Reply #18857 on: September 05, 2010, 04:37:46 PM »

Reading some of these threads is quite like sitting in some faculty meetings.  The meetings that I stopped going to.  The ones where people start bring up old disputes from 15 years ago. 

"Put your panties back on and do the job."

Whoa. Stop checkin' me out in my office... fine, I'll put my panties back on. I'd like to point out that I don't *have* to have them on when I grade.

Alan

You don't *have* to have them on at any time, Alan.  Go regimental - live on the edge.
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« Reply #18858 on: September 05, 2010, 05:03:12 PM »

Unrelated

Vox said it about someone and something else the other day: do you really not realize you're doing it?  Maybe we should all reciprocate and routinely invoke your name, apropos of nothing, to signal our general dislike for you/r moniker. 
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« Reply #18859 on: September 05, 2010, 05:14:11 PM »

Unrelated

Vox said it about someone and something else the other day: do you really not realize you're doing it?  Maybe we should all reciprocate and routinely invoke your name, apropos of nothing, to signal our general dislike for you/r moniker. 

Dickhead...dickhead...dickhead...
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« Reply #18860 on: September 05, 2010, 05:15:30 PM »

Unrelated

Vox said it about someone and something else the other day: do you really not realize you're doing it?  Maybe we should all reciprocate and routinely invoke your name, apropos of nothing, to signal our general dislike for you/r moniker. 

Dickhead...dickhead...dickhead...

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« Reply #18861 on: September 05, 2010, 06:18:36 PM »

Forget faculty meetings.  This is middle school.

OMG!
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« Reply #18862 on: September 05, 2010, 07:05:22 PM »

Sigh. There's just no appreciation for subtlety any more.

This caused me to seek out what you were referring to.  Brilliant!
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« Reply #18863 on: September 05, 2010, 08:13:39 PM »

I refuse to participate in a poll that lacks the "penguin" option.
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« Reply #18864 on: September 05, 2010, 08:31:56 PM »

I refuse to participate in a poll that lacks the "penguin" option.

How could it possibly be statistically valid without a "penguin" option?

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« Reply #18865 on: September 05, 2010, 08:41:07 PM »

Forget faculty meetings.  This is middle school.

OMG!

You got something against middle school?
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« Reply #18866 on: September 05, 2010, 08:51:31 PM »

Everybody was sock fu fighting, doo doo-doo doo doo-doo doo doo doo...
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« Reply #18867 on: September 05, 2010, 08:56:04 PM »

Everybody was sock fu fighting, doo doo-doo doo doo-doo doo doo doo...

Dammit! Now that will be in my head for days.

Unless...

http://unhearit.com/

Now I am singing "What is love? Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more..." Ha!

Except I have this weird desire to bob my head to the side. What is that?

VP
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« Reply #18868 on: September 05, 2010, 09:13:19 PM »

Everybody was sock fu fighting, doo doo-doo doo doo-doo doo doo doo...

Dammit! Now that will be in my head for days.

Unless...

http://unhearit.com/

Now I am singing "What is love? Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more..." Ha!

Except I have this weird desire to bob my head to the side. What is that?

VP

Wow.  You're almost the last person I would have expected that reference from!
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« Reply #18869 on: September 05, 2010, 09:16:05 PM »

Everybody was sock fu fighting, doo doo-doo doo doo-doo doo doo doo...

Dammit! Now that will be in my head for days.

Unless...

http://unhearit.com/

Now I am singing "What is love? Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more..." Ha!

Except I have this weird desire to bob my head to the side. What is that?

VP

Argh!

I hate you.

I'm going to have that stuck in my head now, and I didn't even click on the link!

<goes to find alternative music>
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I think we can put our differences behind us. For Science.

You monster.
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