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Posted on entry Grind ::: July 04, 2004, 01:13 PM:
Xopher: [...] the Holy Book (The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)[...]

Whawhawhaaaaaaaaat? There is but one (hem hem) ultimate reference for the english language!

Oh, all right; I'll get off my anglocentric soapbox and leave quietly now...
Posted on entry Berube lays smackdown on Bloom ::: June 11, 2004, 05:53 PM:
teep: I'm reading Harry Potter Fanfic, and finding it the wittiest most enjoyable prose I've read in quite a while. I feel dirty. And I blame you.

Thanks for the recommendation - I think :)
Posted on entry Open thread 23 ::: May 25, 2004, 03:14 PM:
The second half of "Sea Kings in the sun" particles item just takes me to the current page. Enterprising plane nuts must know - what's the second part supposed to be?

Posted on entry Taking your own bad advice ::: May 19, 2004, 05:49 PM:
Engineering school seemed like it would be more fun than a graduate degree in English.

Fly, you fool! (Spoken as an undergrad at Imperial doing Aeronautical Engineering - colloquially known as 'the hard course'.)

On the other hand, I may yet get to build shiny shiny flying machines...
Posted on entry Open thread 11 ::: November 21, 2003, 08:51 PM:
When I was but a wee lad and a choirboy at Newcastle cathedral, one of the clergy there was a canon Ball. I suppose he was lucky his surname wasn't Fodder...

The point about professors upthread is valid; Here in the UK, professor is an title awarded by a university to senior academics on staff as a sign of their eminence in the field. This means that they get to wear even sillier robes and hats than most staff (who mostly have doctorates) for formal occasions. Normal academic staff are just plain lecturers, researchers, senior lecturers, senoir researchers, or even readers (dizzy heights indeed!).

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