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Date: Jun 8, 2005

HA PM Update: Thames to run for Mayor in 2009

Date: Jun 8, 2005

Surely Angie Dvorak would be involved in this effort.

Date: Jun 8, 2005

Angie will likely help from her post at the ADP. I'm sure they will work with Rowell and Lee Jarrell, and lots of $ will flow in from HA Clinic and the business community.

Date: Jun 8, 2005

reader, your stuff is really funny and clever, but I wish you would do something to better identify it as satire.

Date: Jun 8, 2005

Arnold wrote:

Surely Angie Dvorak would be involved in this effort.

Yes, Mrs. Dr. Dr. Dvorak is prepared to offer her services as Mistress to the Mayor in the event of a Thames victory. She assures us that she has vast experience in this area, both generally, and more specifically, with Dr. Thames. She also has advised us that, in the spirit of community service for which she is known, there will be no charge for her services.

Date: Jun 10, 2005

Read the George County article from the Sun Herald at the top of the Thames News tab on the AAUP main page and ask yourself why some posters have asked Reader to identify his/her satire as such.

Date: Jun 10, 2005

Can anyone on this board illuminate my company as to why we received an order today for $1 million in Monopoly money. The customer, a Mr. Lassen, also asked about having the money printed with a picture of someone named Thames on it. We are happy to oblige, but prefer not to involve ourselves in a political scandal and are concerned that the use of our funds to support a Committee to Elect may not be in our corporate interests.

Date: Jun 10, 2005

LVN wrote:

reader, your stuff is really funny and clever, but I wish you would do something to better identify it as satire.

Like what? A disclaimer?? If USM hadn't undergone so many ridiculous situations already, there'd be no need for any "lwarning label".

LVN, I think your posts should carry a "knee-jerk reactionist" label.

Date: Jun 10, 2005

I don't know what a "knee-jerk reactionist" actually is, but you're welcome to your opinion. I've been called worse.

The problem with reader's satire is that it is extremely good and extremely clever, and sometimes only one line gives it away. Not everyone reads that closely, and not everyone gets satire at all.

Date: Jun 10, 2005

LVN wrote:

I don't know what a "knee-jerk reactionist" actually is, but you're welcome to your opinion. I've been called worse.

The problem with reader's satire is that it is extremely good and extremely clever, and sometimes only one line gives it away. Not everyone reads that closely, and not everyone gets satire at all.

So, LVN, you're stance is that since some people don't read very closely and since some people don't get satire at all that "reader" should dumb down his or her posts to make them more accessible to the masses? Is that your stance on any other topics, like, say, academics? Should USM be dumbing down its curriculum just because more of its students are unprepared for college courses? Remember that any erosion of course content erodes the value of a USM degree and that erosion of one university's degrees does affect the value of other universities' degrees.

I think "reader" should think carefully before making changes to his or her style. Please don't contribute to the educational lobotomy that is going on these days.

Date: Jun 10, 2005

Wow, you took my one little comment and went far afield with it! I made what seemed to me a fairly simple remark and now I'm all for "dumbing down" the USM curriculum? All I can say is, you must be new to this board if you think that. I've been posting for over a year and I've never been anything like that.

And why did you zero in on my comment and not any of the others? Would you care to address the comments of "Truth from fiction" -- Do you have some kind of personal issues with me?

Date: Jun 10, 2005

I've never been accused of anything like that.

Are you one of the students I made read those Donne and Keats sonnets in Eng 101 this past fall, and this is payback?

Date: Jun 10, 2005

LVN wrote:

Would you care to address the comments of "Truth from fiction" -- Do you have some kind of personal issues with me?

!!!

Date: Jun 10, 2005

Would you care to address the comments of "Truth from fiction" -- Do you have some kind of personal issues with me?

Looks like a troll got ya!!

Date: Jun 10, 2005

Got me indeed. You'd think I'd know better, especially since I took the "no troll response pledge" a while back. Sorry for dragging you into it, T. from F.

Well, back to work. I'm editing a Little Golden Books edition of The Sound and the Fury.

Date: Jun 10, 2005

LVN wrote:

Got me indeed. You'd think I'd know better, especially since I took the "no troll response pledge" a while back. Sorry for dragging you into it, T. from F.

Well, back to work. I'm editing a Little Golden Books edition of The Sound and the Fury.

I'm sure our esteemed students will find that quite acceptable reading, along with Marvel comics and other "classics".

Date: Jun 11, 2005

Parker Brothers Salesman wrote:

Can anyone on this board illuminate my company as to why we received an order today for $1 million in Monopoly money. The customer, a Mr. Lassen, also asked about having the money printed with a picture of someone named Thames on it. We are happy to oblige, but prefer not to involve ourselves in a political scandal and are concerned that the use of our funds to support a Committee to Elect may not be in our corporate interests.

The order must be bogus. The real Gregg Lassen would have referred to himself as Dr. Lassen.