AE,

Now that I'm firmly ensconced in Austin, let me know if I can be of any assistance to you or Kinky. I don't have the BOGUS doctorate that you have, but I can type and answer phones.

DJ

BOGUS Customer Service Representative wrote:

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David Johnson wrote:
AE, Now that I'm firmly ensconced in Austin, let me know if I can be of any assistance to you or Kinky. I don't have the BOGUS doctorate that you have, but I can type and answer phones. DJ
I'm sure we can fix you up with an appropriate degree.  PhD in Persistence Under Chaos, perhaps?

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is pleased to confer these presitigous unaccredited diplomas...

To David Johnson...

And to Austin Eagle...

(Headless eagle logo ©2005 by BOGUS. All rights restored, all wrongs reversed, no left turn unstoned. See our Standard Disclaimer.)

David Johnson may pick up his corrected but still "presitigous" diploma HERE.

I apologize personally for the misdeeds of the Elves in the Print Shop. They seem to have been indulging in adult beverages...

a member of my doctoral committee, a very distinguished scholar, said good spelling was a sign of a misspent youth.

stinky cheese man wrote:

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a member of my doctoral committee, a very distinguished scholar, said good spelling was a sign of a misspent youth.

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My major prof for my master's told me that he wasn't much on "form" for theses & advised me to confer with another professor in the department. That guy handed me his PhD thesis from the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS & he pointed out that he'd misspelled two of his committee members' names on the signature page.

I used to have a "guide to theses & dissertations" that included such advice as: "Misspell several words on the title page. This puts the reader in the proper frame of mind."

Of course, the title of my own thesis had a genus-species epithet in it & I'm sure only one person on the committee would've had a clue whether I'd spelled it right. Come to think of it, I'm not sure the subspecies was spelled right...

By the time I wrote my dissertation, heck, I was inventing my own terminology!

stephen judd wrote:

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Please send it to me quickly so I can remember how to mispell my misspellings . .   I so need consistency in my life . . . .

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We will be delighted to send you a copy just as soon as those little stoners, er, elves in the Print Shop sober up. Unfortunately, we will not be able to include royalty checks with your complimentary copy. However, if you need BOGUS income receipts to send to your dean for any future merit pay competitions or MIDASized bonuses, just let us know & I'll have one of our forgers, er, business managers confabulate them for you.

Invictus wrote:

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stinky cheese man wrote: a member of my doctoral committee, a very distinguished scholar, said good spelling was a sign of a misspent youth. My major prof for my master's told me that he wasn't much on "form" for theses & advised me to confer with another professor in the department. That guy handed me his PhD thesis from the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS & he pointed out that he'd misspelled two of his committee members' names on the signature page. I used to have a "guide to theses & dissertations" that included such advice as: "Misspell several words on the title page. This puts the reader in the proper frame of mind." Of course, the title of my own thesis had a genus-species epithet in it & I'm sure only one person on the committee would've had a clue whether I'd spelled it right. Come to think of it, I'm not sure the subspecies was spelled right... By the time I wrote my dissertation, heck, I was inventing my own terminology!

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Parental Advisory: The following anecdote is absolutely true. And, it's full of the sound and the fury, signifying nothing...

A close friend, who took his doctorate in English Lit from Stanford in the late 70's, had a mentor and committee member, a Chaucer scholar,  who was noted for his overuse of the expression "unflagging in it's resonance."  My friend, who wrote his dissertation on some obscure (is there anything there that isn't obscure?)  passage from the Canterbury Tales,  closed his paper with a reference to a particular event involving the expulsion of gas, characterizing it as having been unflagging in it's resonance.  Prior to his defense he began sweating whether he'd be summarily tossed out of the room, or worse yet the program,  for his irreverence in poking fun at a faculty icon. Instead he received a standing ovation, led by the targeted prof,  which he later described as, you guessed it, unflagging in it's resonance.  Who says academics have no sense of humor?

AE

Did he used to front the country music ensemble Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys?

Bogus watcher - that was the WHOLE POINT of the award! Get it?

Miles Long wrote:

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Favorite Kinky quote, in regards to Cuban Cigars: "I'm not supporting their economy, I'm burning their fields"

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And to think I tapped into this thread originally to tell you all that, based on this board's sage advice and constant reminders of the world of kinkydom . . .  I picked up Kinky's latest little novel at the library and find it most . . .  er . . . unusual.

And very much fun.

[This post is certified to be 100% free of spelling errors].

 

 

 

stephen judd wrote:

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[This post is certified to be 100% free of spelling errors].

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Then, how can we be sure the real Stephen Judd posted it?

(If a troll impersonates Stephen Judd, does the troll automatically revert to correct spelling?)