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slenon wrote:

The convention for separating the .sig from the body of a post is
dash, dash, space, return. Try it, you'll like it. A lot of newsreaders,
mine included, auotmagically ignore everything under the dash, dash,
space, return, which is why I'm replying to an empty post.

To answer your question, the educational ideal that you attribute to
me and the British actually originated with the Ancient Greeks, and
what you have missed is a well-rounded, liberal arts education. Same
thing happens here at Illinois, one of the better engineering schools
in the world. The students want a trade school, hell they don't even
have a foreign language requirement in the Engineering College here.
We graduate skilled tradesmen without critical thinking skills and
that's a crime, a far worse crime than Big 10 football, although being
force to watch this year's Illini could be called felonious assault.

--
Ken Fortenberry

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"Wolfgang" wrote...
"Tim J." wrote...
"slenon" wrote...
See what I mean?
Wolfgang

Well, I see that if you, Wolfgang, apply yourself just a bit more,
you can
achieve true schmuck status.

Let me know when you're through ****ing in the sandbox.

Stev, you're really making this too easy for him.
Grandma always said, "An unchallenged Wolfgang is an unhappy
Wolfgang."

One could wait for a more resonant cranium upon which to beat a
sonorous tattoo, but then one would be left wondering what to do in
the long dreary intervals and, as we all know, idle hands are the tool
of the Devil......who knows what sort of mischief one might fall prey
to while waiting for better opportunities to do good works.

Wolfgang
who, as can be seen from the above, has already been reduced by ennui
to the rather embarrassing expedient of killing time by making a
pastiche of haphazardly tossed metaphors. :(

Stev - Whatever you do, do NOT respond to this! It's a trap! An evil curse of a
trap with the bait of them thar big fancy dikshunairy words with the intent only
to further entangle. . . . er, never mind. Too late. Sorry, I couldn't get to
it sooner.
--
TL,
Tim
------------------------
http://css.sbcma.com/timj

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Ken Fortenberry:

convention for separating the .sig from the body of a post

So noted.

To answer your question, the educational ideal that you attribute to
me and the British actually originated with the Ancient Greeks, and
what you have missed is a well-rounded, liberal arts education.

I can't address what is happening on today's campus. Perhaps it is as you
say. I no longer live in a collegiate community. My undergrad program
required a full dose of liberal arts to go along with the technical classes.
I still see no benefit in a professional athletics program. I don't see it
as mind broadening. And certainly, as such programs exist today, I would
see no case for any argument that they teach ethics or sportsmanship.

--
Stev Lenon 91B20 '68-'69
Drowning flies to Darkstar

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/stevglo/i...age92kword.htm

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"slenon" wrote in message
...


I can't address what is happening on today's campus.

That's o.k. I'm sure I speak for all of ROFFdom in acknowledging that
keeping a finger on the pulse of everything else in the world hardly
allows time enough to do such a frivolous topic what little justice it
deserves.

Perhaps it is as you say.

Have a care, sirrah! Such a concession is inevitably a first step
onto the slippery slope of mortality and its consequent fallibility.
I seen it happen to lots of guys.

I no longer live in a collegiate community.

Which, when you think about it, might go a long way toward explaining
your abject failure to apprehend the rudiments of dealing with a
collegial one.

Wolfgang

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"rw" wrote in message
. ..
Wolfgang wrote:
"slenon" wrote in message

Perhaps it is as you say.


Have a care, sirrah! Such a concession is inevitably a first step
onto the slippery slope of mortality and its consequent
fallibility.
I seen it happen to lots of guys.

But not you! No, sirrah! :-)

Whatever Wolfgang's faults, he doesn't suffer from self doubt.

The common chub, while lacking from a sporting perspective and
unpleasing to the eye, is palatable enough when properly smoked, is
available throughout the year, and it's reckless assault on virtually
anything presented, albeit with another quarry in mind, has saved many
a humble neophyte from returning homeward, dignity and aspirations
crushed, with an empty creel.

Wolfgang

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"Greg Pavlov" wrote in message
...

That is one hell of a sentence.

The punishment should fit the crime.

Wolfgang

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Wolfgang wrote:
"slenon" wrote in message

Perhaps it is as you say.


Have a care, sirrah! Such a concession is inevitably a first step
onto the slippery slope of mortality and its consequent fallibility.
I seen it happen to lots of guys.

But not you! No, sirrah! :-)

Whatever Wolfgang's faults, he doesn't suffer from self doubt.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

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"rw" wrote in message
. ..

Typical Wolfgang -- prose just this side of the purple part of the
spectrum, intended to show his erudition, so superior to everyone
else's. It's a cheap trick.


You are certain of the authorship, then? :)

Wolfgang

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"Greg Pavlov" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 13:22:37 -0700, rw
wrote:

It's a cheap trick.

Maybe, but even if so it is a well-executed cheap trick.

Too kind. It was certainly not in the same league as Charlie's
penetrating riposte.

Wolfgang

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Greg Pavlov wrote:
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 13:53:14 -0500, "Wolfgang"
wrote:


The common chub, while lacking from a sporting perspective and
unpleasing to the eye, is palatable enough when properly smoked, is
available throughout the year, and it's reckless assault on virtually
anything presented, albeit with another quarry in mind, has saved many
a humble neophyte from returning homeward, dignity and aspirations
crushed, with an empty creel.



That is one hell of a sentence.

Typical Wolfgang -- prose just this side of the purple part of the
spectrum, intended to show his erudition, so superior to everyone
else's. It's a cheap trick.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.