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« Reply #150 on: January 24, 2009, 12:13:28 AM » |
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Smurf82, if you're administrating on a campus of higher education, you count as an academic. Welcome to the fora!
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Your experience is not universal. Words to live by.
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« Reply #151 on: January 24, 2009, 02:37:42 AM » |
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I'm bristling, but only because I didn't trim my beard today.
Smurf82, don't worry about it. Your teaching experience makes you a better "fit" than some who are welcome here despite not being academics.
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Unfortunately, I think conjugate gives good advice.
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promovenda
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« Reply #152 on: January 24, 2009, 07:13:55 AM » |
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Dellaroux, what is the "bristle-thingummy"? Sounds like something useful during some of our heated meetings here. (BTW, got your message but I think I'll remain anonymous - but thanks!)
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"You're a wonderful bartender, Promovenda. The hamster bestows one of his special nibbles on your ear."
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« Reply #153 on: January 24, 2009, 02:38:31 PM » |
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Well, near as I could tell, there are all these animals around here...hamsters and cats and (is there a dog thread?) porcupines and hedgehogs (or pigs) and such, and someone seems to want to measure the length of their fur, or something...
But then some kind of altercation started and maybe the cats started letting their hair get raised a bit, and someone asked about a bristlemeter and I don't know anymore than that about it, but that's what I heard....
Or maybe it's the bristles on the grapevine that someone wants to measure....
But I think the original altercation subsided so maybe the bristle-thingummy has gone back to just being a virtual and not a concrete object anymore (hard to keep track, here...they keep talking about towels and cookies, too...but I don't see any at the moment.)
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malcha
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« Reply #154 on: January 24, 2009, 02:41:36 PM » |
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Hey, wait, should the hamster and the goat and the mini-donkey be on the fora? They're not academics, are they? I'm pretty sure the hamster's PhD in dipsomania is not accredited, or even credible or creditable.
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« Reply #155 on: January 24, 2009, 02:43:38 PM » |
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But it ends in "-ia" so shouldn't that make it an extremely venerable field? Being Latin and all, you know...
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Pax in terra choreagibus
Ballo non bello parare
How am I?: There are four levels: Alive, Alert, Awake & Functioning. Right now, I'm standing upright & moving forward.
We are gifted superfluously--the cosmos is more generous than we can ask or imagine.
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malcha
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« Reply #156 on: January 24, 2009, 02:47:15 PM » |
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Greek, even. That hamster's venerable archetype passed out under the table (after giving Alcibiades a risqué scalp massage) during the original Symposium.
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« Reply #157 on: January 24, 2009, 02:52:38 PM » |
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memento te esse mortalem...RIP...
There is precedent in this country for the son being awarded the father's position (i.e., the Hollis Chair of Divinity, to the Wigglesworths, pere et fils) so maybe he could be grandfathered in?
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Pax in terra choreagibus
Ballo non bello parare
How am I?: There are four levels: Alive, Alert, Awake & Functioning. Right now, I'm standing upright & moving forward.
We are gifted superfluously--the cosmos is more generous than we can ask or imagine.
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promovenda
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« Reply #158 on: January 25, 2009, 02:54:29 AM » |
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Yes,and I bet he inherited his grandfathers bristles; we can put them in a glass case in the Founder's Wing.
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"You're a wonderful bartender, Promovenda. The hamster bestows one of his special nibbles on your ear."
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« Reply #159 on: January 25, 2009, 09:03:14 AM » |
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Just be sure not to let anyone make brushes with them. I think they get really upset when they see humans using their hair to comb ours....
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Pax in terra choreagibus
Ballo non bello parare
How am I?: There are four levels: Alive, Alert, Awake & Functioning. Right now, I'm standing upright & moving forward.
We are gifted superfluously--the cosmos is more generous than we can ask or imagine.
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