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Malapropism

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I know that it's hard to believe but Invictus was wrong.  Turns out that Miss Information's great grand-niece did have an internet connection (thanks to some new telecommunications grant).  The point is that she was aware of our little SACS party over the break and she is indignant, to say the least.  She is considering the formation of a new committee.  Although she can't really get rid of us, she can build up a new committee around us.  We'll see...we're not giving up this easily.  At any rate, Miss I is not the effective leader that Mr. Wonderful is.  (Notice that Groupie #1 did the entire Quote de la Semaine award herself this week - and what a job she did!)  Miss I does not delegate nor does she trust us in her absence to do a write-up and she is still away.  Invictus is having an ego problem resulting from winning yet another website accolade.  I'm tied up answering all of the legislative concerns received from people who have contacted me thinking I was Mike Lott.  Bottom line is that all you get this week is a winner.


In honor of the real Noam Chomsky who said, "I'm usually fuming inside, so what you see on the outside isn't necessarily what's inside" we award this week's Nom d'Aplomb recognition to Gnome Chompsky.  As always, the gnome may pick up the suitable for framing award certificate here



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Invictus

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Ego problem? Ego problem?

Some kind of team spirit this committee has!

Ego problem? Sheesh. You wanna see an ego problem, go to the Dome any day of the week.

The real truth is that Miss Information used up all the dewberry brandy at the Ladies Missionary Society Christmas party. That & she gets real hung-up on the Packers this time of year.

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ram

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As long as we are speaking of egos, we might as well spell the name right.  Noam's ends with a "y," but Gnome's with an "i."  It's Chomp-ski, as in bite one of those things you slide down a mountain on --er -- on which you slide.


Don't want to get that all started again.



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David Johnson

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Don't want to get that all started again."


Thank God.

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Malapropism

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A slippery slope but I'm sure we can get that changed.  My apologies. 


Do we need to be thinking about an award for the greatest number of awards?



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Committee Galore

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"Do we need to be thinking about an award for the greatest number of awards?"
Such could be chaired by the chair of the committee on committees.

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foot soldier

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"Such could be chaired by the chair of the committee on committees."


Well, I have to confess I have experience in this area. I was once elected (at a previous job) to the committee on committees and served two years, I recall. But I have never been chief assistant the the assistant chief. However, I'm not volunteering . . . .

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Invictus IT Director

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Originally posted by: ram
"As long as we are speaking of egos, we might as well spell the name right.  Noam's ends with a "y," but Gnome's with an "i."  It's Chomp-ski, as in bite one of those things you slide down a mountain on --er -- on which you slide.
Don't want to get that all started again."


Thanks for the clarification. The suitable for framing award has been corrected so that the incorrect spelling is not the correct spelling. Or words to that effect.



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Invictus

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Originally posted by: Committee Galore
"Such could be chaired by the chair of the committee on committees."


At the last college where I taught, I was a member of the ad hoc faculty committee on redundancy. Once a week, we (me & the other nutcase in my building) would sit over coffee & review the memoranda for the previous week, looking for redundancy. The all-time winner (a memo from our prez):

"We must collect the best possible data in order to ensure that we have collected the best possible data."

(The same administrator was fond of the word "opportunity." We once witnessed a speech that began, "It's a wonderful opportunity for me to have the opportunity to take the opportunity to give you the opportunity to listen to me take the opportunity to tell you what a wonderful opportunity we have." Or, as my IT director says, "words to that effect.")

And oh yes, for the younger readers: memoranda were sort of like emails but printed on paper...

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