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Date: Apr 11, 2005

constituent IHL wants to hear from

Date: Apr 11, 2005

FUD, FUD, FUD.

Date: Apr 11, 2005

Has the General been here long enough to form an opinion? He has only had time for the "snow job." It takes longer to get past the compulsive lies because normal people simply don't expect that kind of behavior from executives of a university. It would take even longer than that for the shock of this kind of outrageous behavior to sink in. It sounds like more letters are in order from the people who have been here awhile.

Date: Apr 11, 2005

If you were Richard Crofts, would you be inclined to believe a single word that General Blount said about USM?

Robert Campbell

PS. The yarn about Blount is some of the least imaginative FUD I've encountered on this board.

Date: Apr 11, 2005

Hey, this is getting easy. All I have to do is cut and paste.

"Here we go again. A new poster relates a rumor with no sources that can be checked. Others posters, with names never before seen on this board, then begin discussing the rumor as if it were fact. A thread is born for those that are bored that distract those in the trenches with messages that there is no hope.

As usual, I only comment on this type of thread to point out the deception."

Date: Apr 11, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Robert Campbell
"If you were Richard Crofts, would you be inclined to believe a single word that General Blount said about USM? Robert Campbell PS. The yarn about Blount is some of the least imaginative FUD I've encountered on this board."

Are you calling a war hero a liar?

Date: Apr 11, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: what?
"Are you calling a war hero a liar?"

No, just ignorant of the situation at USM. Also he isn't an academic and I wouldn't ask his opinion on performing brain surgery or auto mechanics either.

Date: Apr 11, 2005

The question is not whether General Blount is a truthful individual.

The question is whether he knows a single thing about USM, except what he's been told by Shelby Thames and assorted members of the Thamesian entourage.

Crofts has been a faculty member as well as a university administrator and a system administrator, and he has already signaled that he doesn't trust Shelby Thames. To accept the FUD that's getting purveyed, we'd have to believe that Crofts just fell off the turnip truck.

Robert Campbell

Date: Apr 11, 2005

What does FUD stand for?

Date: Apr 11, 2005

FUD = Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. Especially used as a marketing strategy when there's little to no factual evidence to support one's claims.

(I just looked it up myself.)

Date: Apr 11, 2005

On FUD, see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FUD and http://fud-counter.nl.linux.org/.

Date: Apr 11, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Don't know computer-ese
" What does FUD stand for?"

"FUD" is how dogs spell "food." (As in the classic Far Side cartoon where a dog has put a sign advertising "CAT FUD" on the door to a clothes dryer.)

"FUD" (fear, uncertainty & doubt) is a trap kind of like that...

Date: Apr 11, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Constituencies R Us
"In all of the talk about various constituencies for the IHL Board to use to evaluate presidents, one that certain members of the IHL wants to put a lot of stock in is a category they refer to as non-career faculty . "

Hold on a minute--don't jump on this person--what he/she says may very well be true. "Certain members" of the IHL want Crofts to interview General Blount. This is probably true, but does it mean anything? Only an idot would think that General Blount (undoubtedly a fine, upstanding person, but nevertheless a non-academic, Thames appointee, who hasn't been here very long) would have very much useful to say about the situation here. And I can asure you, Dr. Crofts is no idot.

Date: Apr 11, 2005

Originally posted by: Gary Larsen's Risk Manager
" "FUD" is how dogs spell "food." (As in the classic Far Side cartoon where a dog has put a sign advertising "CAT FUD" on the door to a clothes dryer.) ...

That was probably my 2nd all-time favorite Gary Larsen cartoon. My favorite was the one where a cow is looking in the freezer with a look of horror on her face and the caption is something like, "While the Browns were on vacation, the cows were having the time of their lives until Bessie's unwitting discovery." I might not have it exactly right, but you get the idea. I do miss my daily dose of Gary Larsen.

Date: Apr 11, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Gary Larsen's Risk Manager
" "FUD" is how dogs spell "food." (As in the classic Far Side cartoon where a dog has put a sign advertising "CAT FUD" on the door to a clothes dryer.) "FUD" (fear, uncertainty & doubt) is a trap kind of like that..."

Not far from where I live there is a restaurant named "Fudruckers." Is there any connection between the meaning of the term FUD and the name of the restaurant?

Date: Apr 11, 2005

There is an uncanny resemblance between a certain Looney Tunes character and a certain university president.

http://www.nonstick.com/sounds/Elmer.gif