latter_days
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« on: November 29, 2011, 10:50:33 PM » |
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daniel_von_flanagan
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« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2011, 05:23:37 AM » |
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Interesting. As a faculty member I would expect to have the right to call my school's president a "putz" in a non-anonymous forum and not lose my job. - DvF
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The U.S. Education Department is establishing a new national research center to study colleges' ability to successfully educate the country's growing numbers of academically underprepared administrators.
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« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2011, 05:35:26 AM » |
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I didn't know there were so many Yiddish speakers in Texas.
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a.k.a. gum-chewing monkey in a Tufts University jacket
"Please do not force people who are exhausted to take medication for hallucinations." -- Memo from the Chair, Department of White Privilege Studies, Fiork University
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mouseman
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« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2011, 09:22:21 AM » |
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I didn't know there were so many Yiddish speakers in Texas.
Kinky Freidman? |
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In the midst of the word he was trying to say,
In the midst of his laughter and glee,
He had softly and suddenly vanished away -- -
For the Snark was a Boojum, you see.
Lewis Carroll
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« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2011, 12:17:17 PM » |
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Interesting. As a faculty member I would expect to have the right to call my school's president a "putz" in a non-anonymous forum and not lose my job. - DvF
There aren't that many schools where that is true anymore. |
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Anything you do not understand is magic.
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fiona
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« Reply #5 on: November 30, 2011, 01:59:36 PM » |
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I didn't know there were so many Yiddish speakers in Texas.
Kinky Freidman? Does the Kinkster (whom I adore) speak Yiddish? The Fiona, who does know a shmuck from a putz |
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The Fiona or perhaps La Fiona
Professor of Thread Killing, Fiork University
The Right Reverend Fiona, PhD, Bishop of the Fora
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fiona
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« Reply #6 on: December 01, 2011, 02:42:11 AM » |
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Note the words it takes to kill a thread. See previous post.
The Fiona
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The Fiona or perhaps La Fiona
Professor of Thread Killing, Fiork University
The Right Reverend Fiona, PhD, Bishop of the Fora
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latter_days
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« Reply #7 on: December 01, 2011, 08:28:20 AM » |
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Still no word on what exactly the prescribed punishment is or will be. I'm not here often, but do participate in a lot of other online forums and thought that this was a suitable cautionary tale.
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« Reply #8 on: December 01, 2011, 08:42:53 AM » |
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Does this mean we can't call the Texas A&M president any bad names? Or can we if we're not Texas A&M faculty?
I wonder how many google searches the A&M senior office is doing right now... they're probably patrolling these very forums, looking for any reason to censure.
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« Reply #9 on: December 01, 2011, 02:23:05 PM » |
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I didn't know there were so many Yiddish speakers in Texas.
Kinky Freidman? Does the Kinkster (whom I adore) speak Yiddish? The Fiona, who does know a shmuck from a putz Well, in one of his early odes, he wrote: "Hero Israel, yes indeed/ The book was backwards, couldn't read" Close analysis of the text rules! |
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Abigail, I'm sure if there's someone out there, looking down on us from someplace else in the universe, they're wise enough to stay away from us.
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« Reply #10 on: December 01, 2011, 02:37:17 PM » |
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The truth always hurts at aTm. And it usually hurts the truth-teller. The guy IS a putz, and a meat puppet for the Borg of Reagents.
Find someone who knew how the guy operated when he was at the aTm campus in Galveston. Arrogant, rude, know-it-all. And not that good at his job, as his reaction to H. Ike proved--relied totally on his staff and aTm people to pull their fat out of the fire (to mix a metaphor).
And when he gathered the Galveston faculty together in CS to motivate them under trying circumstances, his reason for telling them to help the students out during the crisis was -- the college needed to keep the students because they brought money into the college!! No s*it! It's on tape, live and lively. No tears when he left Galveston. But that's what makes him perfect for aTm--the bottom line is always the most important thing. Truth.
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Abigail, I'm sure if there's someone out there, looking down on us from someplace else in the universe, they're wise enough to stay away from us.
--Grissom
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« Reply #11 on: December 01, 2011, 03:34:09 PM » |
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Better a putz than a goniff.
I wonder if it was on these fora?
I need to do a search.
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Clowns, I tell you. Clowns.
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daniel_von_flanagan
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« Reply #12 on: December 01, 2011, 04:24:32 PM » |
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Interesting. As a faculty member I would expect to have the right to call my school's president a "putz" in a non-anonymous forum and not lose my job. - DvF
There aren't that many schools where that is true anymore. It is still true at most good universities. I have a colleague (in another department) who has publicly ridiculed every COO that has been here in the last 20 years, and has outlasted them all. However, I can't remember any of our administrators publicly criticizing their superiors, even when I've tried to entice or trick them into doing so. - DvF |
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« Reply #13 on: December 01, 2011, 05:53:43 PM » |
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Better a putz than a goniff.
I wonder if it was on these fora?
I need to do a search.
So true. A goniff might steal the money. A putz is just an embarrassment to all. Better yet, a shmendrick or a meiskeit or a shlemiel. No harm done at all. The Fiona |
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The Fiona or perhaps La Fiona
Professor of Thread Killing, Fiork University
The Right Reverend Fiona, PhD, Bishop of the Fora
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