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ltl/fb · 10-01-2003, 06:55 PM

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
...set your posts per page option to 40.

Doesn't everyone do this?

Did you just call me Coltrane? · 10-01-2003, 06:57 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Doesn't everyone do this?

I don't think so. I recall people claiming page Ks.

Or maybe everyone else IS on page 666...

Atticus Grinch · 10-01-2003, 06:59 PM

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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Has anyone seen Madonna's new children's book? What I've read about it has been pretty merciless.

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"My creativity was not motivated by ego or greed for the first time in my life," she writes in the book's publicity material.

I think we should reward that kind of honesty, not punish it.

baltassoc · 10-01-2003, 06:59 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
MIT has launched an online site callled "Open Courseware" wherein they publish all the course materials and schedules, readings, assignments, in some cases copies of exams given, outlines, exemplar papers completed by students,etc. In fact, its everything you would get from signing up for one of these courses, except access to the actual faculty.

Link to MIT's new site http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html

I was just about to post something on this.

I was thinking of seeing if anyone else was interested in the Law and Society course in the anthropology department. I'm interested in the subject matter, but think I need another person (people?) to do it with to stay on task.

So anyone interested? The history department's got some good stuff too.

notcasesensitive · 10-01-2003, 07:00 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Clearly RT's relative is not, as she has picked up on the "getting screwed" aspect.

Hopefully she is not married or she'll be going on several ignore lists.

ltl/fb · 10-01-2003, 07:01 PM

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
everyone IS on page 666...

And you wonder about my sudden interest in Christianity. Sheesh. NOW I find out the joke is going over some people's heads.

Bad_Rich_Chic · 10-01-2003, 07:05 PM

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Originally posted by Watchtower
Abelard loves Eloise. Eloise loves Abelard.

I love you for this example.

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But the poem has so much more feeling to it.

(Note also that I believe this is the first use of "shagg'd" in the English language).

I presume you mean the Pope. It is much less moving than the actual letters. I only find Pope's version touching in light of his being unmanned w/r/t Lady Mary.

Replaced_Texan · 10-01-2003, 07:05 PM

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Originally posted by baltassoc
I was just about to post something on this.

I was thinking of seeing if anyone else was interested in the Law and Society course in the anthropology department. I'm interested in the subject matter, but think I need another person (people?) to do it with to stay on task.

So anyone interested? The history department's got some good stuff too.

Maybe we could put a yahoo group together to take courses? I'm a proud enough geek to publically express interest.

Did you just call me Coltrane? · 10-01-2003, 07:05 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
And you wonder about my sudden interest in Christianity. Sheesh. NOW I find out the joke is going over some people's heads.

I haven't read any of the posts.

Although I'd love to post a jpeg of Elaine and the Priest making devil impressions to Puddy. Thurgreed?

You stole my Jesus fish!

ltl/fb · 10-01-2003, 07:07 PM

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I haven't read any of the posts.

!!!!!!!

ltl/fb · 10-01-2003, 07:08 PM

Edited to eliminate a glaring example of my stupidity.

ThurgreedMarshall · 10-01-2003, 07:09 PM

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Originally posted by Not Bob
Damn straight they were offended -- they gave me the cut direct!

If I had followed that string even a little bit, I would have a slightly funny response to this.

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Originally posted by Not Bob
It was not a black person that corrected me, though -- it was a white bureaucratic type.

Oh. Feel free to ignore those types in the future. They don't speak for us. Hell, even EO doesn't speak for us.

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Originally posted by Not Bob
Sniff. But no one puts any effort into understanding *my* unique background as a member in good standing of the Oppressive Patriarchy.

We don't have to put any effort into it. We've been historically beat over the head with it enough, dontchathink? And if that isn't enough, I'm pretty sure our collective moms got a good idea of your background in your kitchens, washrooms and nurseries. (Not an attack. I have no idea how many colored negroes you employ.)

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Originally posted by Not Bob
It was merely a bit of historical context; a musing on the vagaries of language.

I figured that was it, but since I assumed you knew all that already, I was a little confused why you added it.

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Originally posted by Not Bob
And my point was, in some places it is starting to be Not Accepted, and someone expressing some confusion over which word to use is not secretly attacking the PC language police, or mourning over the Lost Cause, or whatever.

You'll have to give me a better example of its Not Acceptance than a white bureaucratic type. Go speak to the peoples of Podunkville, my man. Get your hands "dirty" (or your feet wet, whichever makes sense -- if neither does, you know what I mean).

TM

tmdiva · 10-01-2003, 07:15 PM

So I met this guy as we entered college, really smart guy, spoke lots of languages, hispanic last name, told me his heritage is mostly Filipino--or at least that's the part he most identifies with. He's definitely not a white guy, but a couple shades lighter than Halle Berry.

Cut to now, and the same guy is making a name for himself as an aspiring newscaster who's also (paraphrasing) "a rare creature--a single African-American Mormon male in his 30s," and, incidentally, now 3 years younger than me.

Am I wrong to think this is a little odd?

As for forgiveness, I've always understood it to have the same underlying basis as repentance--getting rid of all that bad stuff that's clouding your relationship to God. If you don't want to carry around your own sins, why would you want to carry around someone else's? So you can completely eliminate someone from your life and still have forgiven them as long as you're not harboring any resentment.

tm

tmdiva · 10-01-2003, 07:27 PM

So, Atticus, are we related?

tm

greatwhitenorthchick · 10-01-2003, 07:28 PM

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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch

Turkish delight is an actual confection. I guess kids in 1940s England were mad for it, but nobody's heard of it since.

Ignorant boor. There is a chocolate bar in Canada called "Big Turk". It's turkish delight for the masses. Been around forever. Still around. Loved by many (not by me).