[ILL]

Too many consonants in my name - I better change fast to BNDGTFKD <- this is a test, let's see who can break the code? Only in private mail - not for use in public.

[Izzy Dunne]

Keep digging - there's a pony under there somewhere...

[starfish923]

Sorry to rain on your parade, but "PhD" often means "pile higher and deeper."

You don't ALWAYS have to let EVERYONE know that you have your doctorate. It isn't REQUIRED. :o)

[MTD]

Do you think Oswald acted alone, or was he just a patsy?

[cweese]

Why do you feel the need to pontificate here?

[Ben Ficklin]

I just don't know how this place got along without you for so many years.

[oldleft]

If you keep posting these personal rants you're going to get flamed in no time. I do think you have something to add here, but here are some tips:

1. Don't post everything that comes into your head. Although you're not wasting paper like in the old days, you're wasting peoples time.

2. Don't sound so damn arrogant and self important. Most of the references to your name are firmly tongue in cheek and you come off like a liberal academic type when you respond the way you have.

3. You're not the center of the universe, contrary to what the world of academia may have told you. Get over it.

So, to summarize, write about pertinent things and be selective, other wise you'll get zotted.

[headsonpikes]

I have a quetion.

Why is a PhD posting here when he could be making lattes at Starbucks?

Answer me that!

[headsonpikes]

I have a quetion.

Why is a PhD posting here when he could be making lattes at Starbucks?

Answer me that!

[ladtx]

Wouldn't it be better if you actually wanted to discuss this subject to not rely on Hollywoods interpretation for your reference but to rely on the true history?

[Lokibob]

 

Whats up, Doc!!!

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

Having only a Bachelor of Science Degree and 30 or so hours of Graduate work, I'm just too dim witted to understand why you insist on bringing your rants to our attention.

Try a more normal approach. BTW having been here two or three years I've only found it necessary to start one thread. Perhaps you should observe a bit longer before you dive in and complain about the reaction.

[katana]

Iliya, there is a certain protocol which you should observe as, like the rest of us, you are here as a guest in a privately owned and funded forum. "News" posts should refer to and include excerpts and links to articles which you find interesting and/or informative. You can color that news by inserting your own opinions and comments in the first post and then take your chances of being flamed or zotted. But if you wish to just vent your spleen on a particular topic you should go to Bloggers and Personal. It avoids a lot of unpleasantness later on.

PS: Few if any us are going to be impressed by a PhD. Most participants here have at least some university experience and quite a few of us also have advanced degrees. Flashing a doctorate like it's a papal ring to be kissed just makes you look a bit silly.

[Allegra]

Oh, dear...I'm afraid I'm not logged in.

{Look of despair crosses my face...}

[fish hawk]

Does PHD really get you a better table at the nice restaurants? I hope so as it doesn't do much on Free Republic.

[ijcr]

Projdet vremya. Mogily nenavistnyx izmennikov zarastut bur'yanom i chertopoloxom, pokrytye vechnym prezreniem sovetskix lyudej, vsego sovetskogo naroda. A nad nami, nad nashej s-chastlivoj stranoj po-prezhnemu yasno i radostno budet sverkat' svoimi svetlymi luchami nashe solnce. My, nash narod, budem po-prezhnemy shagat' po ochishchennoj ot poslednej nechisti i merzosti proshlogo doroge, vo glave s nashim lyubimym vozhdem i uchitelem -- velikim Stalinom -- vpered i vpered, k kommunizmu!

As A. Ya. Vyshinsky spoke these words, one can see you knitting a Kalishnikov drooling in the front row.

[Richard Kimball]

Don't most PHDs capitalize their first name?

[eclectic]

This is one of the most boring threads I came across on FR during the recent years. No pictures even. This needs to be remedied

[Lazamataz]

a) being new – not knowing the ropes

b) having posted a vanity as my first article

c) me being a pink, pro-communist, liberal threat to security of the United States because my name contains too many consonants

d) In my naiveté I posted my real name and a degree which most plumbers and cab drivers consider offensive, and would prefer I dropped out of high school.

My biggest beef with ya is that you posed as a chick. ;^)

[mikegi]

I'm not sure but I believe that "iliya Pavlovich" means "thin skinned" in some eastern European language.

[bayourod]

What does this have to do with The University of Texas?