[geeks] Etiquette

[Jody Stephens]

On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 03:56:30PM -0400, Jonathan Katz wrote:
> Jody wrote:
> > I'd argue that this is his most "untrue" stereotype. Many 
> > of the native english majors around the bookstore (some 
> 
> I need to raid the archives, find all the glaring generalizations
> I've made, and chronicle them :) Who owns the copyright on items
> posted to the list?

Oh wait I was argreeing with you apparently the "not" is a 
most elusive species of word...

> Wahoo! More anecdotal evidence to refute or balance out the
> completely made-up sweeping generalization!

If your gonna build a building on sand, why not make the whole
thing out of sand... It's gonna fall down anyways.

> pot->kettle->black -- I can't nail others for the same foibles which
> I posess. And no, I was never an English Major.... or Minor. Hell, I
> can barely form grammatically correct sentences and spell!

And neither can I, I'd like to be like them, it's just that 
apparently you have to be an english major to get people to be
immoral with you :)  

> A few months ago (when I was bitter and single) I had a chat
> with my friend's wife. She sat me down and asked what I was
> looking for in someone to waste the rest of my life with. I
> went through a list of silly attributes and she immediately
> told me to get my ass back in college because that's the
> only place I'd be able to find anyone like that.

I just think that it makes more sense to take the some $80,000
you'd spend on 4 yrs of college and spend it on 4 years of
drinking and general debauchery. Then you could get down to
learning a valid trade of vocation without the distraction.
Sometimes I look at college like a kindergarten. I mean kids
don't learn anything in kindergarten (the way they do in 2nd
grade), it's just a mechanism to get children okay with being
around other kids. So college is just a mechanism for 
teenagers to figure out how to deal with other teenagers and
adults.

> 
> A former roommate of mine has achieved his dream and is finally
> back in school (Film Major, UC Berkeley.) He's having a blast
> from all accounts. [ Just in from the "I wish I was him" dept. ]
> 
> -Jon
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