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To: MomofMarine

As long as you’re not a DOCILE docent, you should be fine. ;) I’ve always thought “docent” was a funny word. I don’t know why.


18 posted on 02/25/2012 6:16:00 AM PST by ichabod1
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To: ichabod1

“Docent” just sounds all tea and crumpety. I had a college internship with a museum of natural science, and was once tasked with bringing the literature describing docentries into the modern era, in order to attract more of the right sort of volunteer associate. I suggested that they first abandon the term “docent.”

There are more amusing descriptive terms for people, though.

Boffin. I can’t quite decide if I saw one of the little creatures at my backyard feeder or on The Muppet Show. That, or it’s a deceptively cute term for those sixties free love people.


20 posted on 02/25/2012 6:26:22 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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