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Posted on 03/05/2005 11:51:13 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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I'll bet the psych folk are worse most places but I never had to take a psych class, whereas I spent more hours in English classes than I can count... not that I regret that, they were always easy As except the speech class. And fun when the professors didn't let their ideology get in the way of teaching.
Exactly my point, Jen.
Just don't assume that what you've known is all there is.
Whoops, running late... gotta go!
He made it look easy didn't he? The older boys and I used to watch that show, and I bought them some paints and supplies. Their efforts were rather good for 9 and 12 yr olds! David did a painting of the glade and spring in lieu of a book report when he read "Tuck Everlasting". It really evoked the feeling of the story, and the principal of the school put it on one of the stair landings so folks could see it every time they used the stairs. Lots of folks commented on how well he'd done.
Bob Ross was just such a gentle soul, and so encouraging to all his viewers. I still see the show from time to time on one of our local PBS stations.
I wasn't assuming... just if that was the attitude of the English teachers at the schools I was attending, there was no way I'd want to be with them. And the English majors - all right, so I admit the geeks looked at them as just one or three steps above the ed majors in our hierarchy of brains, but that's because we liked being snots.
g'nad as Bob Ross? Somehow, I just can't see you talking about happy little clouds. ;o)
That's fine and understandable.
But as a future writer, you should know better than to use that as the justification for a statement beginning "Most of 'em are"...
You can thank the husband of an English teacher for bringing you today's writing lesson.
The English majors and profs of YOUR era were much different than that which Jen would have to tolerate today. I graduated college in 1974, and was beginning to not be able to stand them then. Don't know what it was like for you, coming along a few years later, but today, they can get downright obnoxious! Our #1 son changed his major from History/Poli Sci to English, because he liked the subjects, and even HE had difficulty with the pomposity of some of the profs.
Starting school now, will check back later...
The really funny thing is, that is just about exactly what he is wearing today!
Layers are challenging. I'm having to learn how to manipulate them in my 3D Achitect program, in order to produce construction plans for different views, e.g., foundation, framing, electrical, and plumbing, so we can submit them to the Town Building Department for a construction permit.
~snicker~
Times like these really call for a Photoshop wiz.
Yes, but I was thinkin' somebody need's to give g'nad hair like Bob Ross...
I'm right in the middle here... Being in college in the late 80's. I think both conservatives have changed in the last couple years. It's hateful teamism now, when it used to be the debate about issues where both sides could identify a problem and debate how to solve it, but neither side was thought evil and out to destroy us.
I don't buy into it from either side. I know ~people~ in life, none of whom are in the business of politics, so I don't think about them only in terms of their politics. I've never had conservative friends or really liberal ones, before coming to FR. I just knew people. I don't like being around people who obsess on politics no matter which side they are on. I like them, or not, for other characteristics that are more interesting to me.
I understand Jen's experience. My problem was that she was making a blanket accusation.
I know enough English professors to know that's just not accurate.
That's supposed to say both liberals and conservatives have changed.
That's kind of cool. Confirms my intention of giving our kids names that were not 'popular' by the standards of the day. SSQ and I both have names that were #4 on the list of popular names when we were born, though I only ever knew 2 or 3 girls my age with the same name when I was in school.
Gotta go to a company luncheon now. Ugh!
See you all later.
There are some names that will always be in the top ten or twenty, I'm thinking - Bible names and such. My name's stayed pretty steadily in the top 20.
Seems like right now, though, even if people DO use the common names, they hafta spell them in stoopid ways...like Mykal instead of Michael, or some such thing.
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