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To: lentulusgracchus

Since you insist on displaying your ignorance and try to pretend that I avoided that question when I told him to check my webpage, I will point out that you are a lying skunk by telling the public what is there. I was educated in the Crossett, Arkansas public schools, attended the University of Chicago, University of Illinois, Wayne State University and several Junior Colleges working my way through all of them since my parents had six younger sons to support. My degrees are in Economics including two toward a Ph.D. My minor was history primarily Greek and Roman. My SAT score was 1400 my GRE in the top 5%. Anything else you want the public to know?


413 posted on 11/19/2004 12:13:53 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: justshutupandtakeit
Since you insist on displaying your ignorance and try to pretend that I avoided that question when I told him to check my webpage, I will point out that you are a lying skunk by telling the public what is there.

"Lying skunk"? Impressive chutzpah in rodomontade, coming from someone who just got pantsed in the act of fibbing himself, claiming he didn't indulge in sectional invective when, in fact, he did.

I didn't challenge your educational credentials, just the credibility and precision of your ad hominem argument about Southern chattel slavery: endogamous in, peculiar to, particularly vicious, and blah, blah, blah.

You slurred, you fibbed, you got caught. Veni, vidi, vici.

Congratulations on the SAT score, though; don't know what year you sat for your SAT, but my 1960's score (on the old scale, with lower scores) was 677 verbal + 677 math (kind of an anomaly), putting me at the 99th and 97th percentiles respectively that year, or the 97th and 92nd percentiles of high-school graduates who entered college. I sat for my GRE in 1973, four years out of college and three months into grad school, and placed at the 76th percentile among fellow majors, the 91st percentile in quant, and 80 points off the top of the chart in verbal, or about 120 points better than the 98th percentile. Since we're comparing Scout badges and all, there are mine. Too bad I didn't make it to Webelo.

I didn't have a minor in my undergrad studies but took some history (four or five courses' worth), German, and Latin and did some self-directed reading in classical history and comparative grammar (Greek, Latin, and Anglo-Saxon: the foundations of English). I garnered six credits toward my master's at Oklahoma after my Navy service but had to go to work when my target institution, the University of Miami (in Coral Gables), jacked up their graduate tuition about 100% to get rid of people like me.

It's probably just as well: once the theoretical work has been done (by Emiliani, in the 60's), chronostratigraphy tends to turn into a lot of laboratory drudge work .

My interest in chronostratigraphy had been tweaked by some exposure to Emiliani's oxygen-isotope work and its relevance to the Milankovich Cycle, with a view to fine-tuning an estimated date for the end of the current (warm) interglacial and a return to pleniglacial conditions -- a subject that is an area of three-way discourse among climatologists and meteorologists, oceanographers, and geologists. In other words, I was as interested in getting a Master of Disaster degree as an MS. But such was not to be.

So there are my humble attainments in the world of study. Humble enough for you?

451 posted on 11/20/2004 1:18:59 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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