It is really a 2 person job...need DM's help to do it...and it would need to be in the early morning hours after they leave...

killingtime wrote:

Nothing like being open-minded, eh?

You shoulda seen him when we read Beowulf. Norton doesn't use his favorite translation, and there's some things about the one in there he doesn't like... it sounds like a bad Hollywood B movie in his opinion. The poet who translated it is still alive (Seamus Heaney, Irish Poet Laureate & winner of Nobel Prize for literature, 1995), so he said that if we ever were in a pub with him, we need to quote one of the crap lines and give him a good punch in the nose (he should be so plastered from Guinness it wouldn't matter is his theory).

killingtime wrote:

LOL...He prolly chose ones to trip you all up.

Well, he claims he wants us to do well in the class, because it's just a survey course. He says if we come out saying "I hate my grade and I hate English" then he's failed in his job... and of course, they were basically all things that we'd written, just perhaps a different passage illustrating the same thing...

killingtime wrote:

It is really a 2 person job...need DM's help to do it...and it would need to be in the early morning hours after they leave...

I think you'll have competition... everyone's eyeing that 'cause we know it'll get locked soon... even mild-mannered poof is going for back to back last posts...

jqubed wrote:

You shoulda seen him when we read Beowulf. Norton doesn't use his favorite translation, and there's some things about the one in there he doesn't like... it sounds like a bad Hollywood B movie in his opinion. The poet who translated it is still alive (Seamus Heaney, Irish Poet Laureate & winner of Nobel Prize for literature, 1995), so he said that if we ever were in a pub with him, we need to quote one of the crap lines and give him a good punch in the nose (he should be so plastered from Guinness it wouldn't matter is his theory).

Nice...teacher you have there.

jqubed wrote:

You shoulda seen him when we read Beowulf. Norton doesn't use his favorite translation, and there's some things about the one in there he doesn't like... it sounds like a bad Hollywood B movie in his opinion. The poet who translated it is still alive (Seamus Heaney, Irish Poet Laureate & winner of Nobel Prize for literature, 1995), so he said that if we ever were in a pub with him, we need to quote one of the crap lines and give him a good punch in the nose (he should be so plastered from Guinness it wouldn't matter is his theory).

j^3, I can only hope the student "question authority" attitude extends to the school and faculty as well.
Some profs have been out of the mainstream of life and within the academic orbit for a bit too long. They are your immediate influences, but not infallible.
Only my opinion.

NeoLuddite wrote:

j^3, I can only hope the student "question authority" attitude extends to the school and faculty as well. Some profs have been out of the mainstream of life and within the acedemic orbit for a bit too long. They are your immediate influences, but not infallible. Only my opinion.

Yep...publish or perish...caught up in research...not in touch with reality, at times. *guilty*

killingtime wrote:

Yep...publish or perish...caught up in research...not in touch with reality, at times. *guilty*

I am also not 'unguilty'...

NeoLuddite wrote:

j^3, I can only hope the student "question authority" attitude extends to the school and faculty as well. Some profs have been out of the mainstream of life and within the acedemic orbit for a bit too long. They are your immediate influences, but not infallible. Only my opinion.

i think he was just exagerating to make a point... like at the start of the semester when he said plagiarism get's a 9mm to the head on open space area behind the building, and his frequent groaners of jokes, but sometimes he goes overboard...

killingtime wrote:

Yep...publish or perish...caught up in research...not in touch with reality, at times. *guilty*

hehe, he once wrote a book and in it he said Queen Elizbeth had the pox (meaning smallpox) but apparently that can also mean VD, so he got an angry letter from a scholar in England for his libelling the queen like that...

grrr, my spelling and gramar are starting to fail me, once i get these webassigns done i am out... will check back in once more...

jqubed wrote:

hehe, he once wrote a book and in it he said Queen Elizbeth had the pox (meaning smallpox) but apparently that can also mean VD, so he got an angry letter from a scholar in England for his libelling the queen like that...

I would have framed it.

jqubed wrote:

grrr, my spelling and gramar are starting to fail me, once i get these webassigns done i am out... will check back in once more...

Okay. Good luck!

Nice woot...anything with Neo in it has to be cool, right?
Or not.
Decent price if you're "really into the series".
Now that the mystery has been revealed, will have to go horizontal for awhile.

NeoLuddite wrote:

Nice woot...anything with Neo in it has to be cool, right? Or not. Decent price if you're "really into the series". Now that the mystery has been revealed, will have to go horizontal for awile.

Okay...thanks for letting me know...this time!

Not a good woot for me, I am afraid...

I am more into "art," "foreign" or "cult" films.

killingtime wrote:

Okay...thanks for letting me know...this time!

evenin' to ya...have a great week.

NeoLuddite wrote:

evenin' to ya...have a great week.

You, too!

killingtime wrote:

I would have framed it.

he was pretty proud of that one

killingtime wrote:

ooo, pweddy @ 1st one
is that chair really tiny and just in a large close up?

well, don't worry about a response, i'm off to bed now, g'nite kt

jqubed wrote:

ooo, pweddy @ 1st one is that chair really tiny and just in a large close up? well, don't worry about a response, i'm off to bed now, g'nite kt

Doll house chair close up...g'd nite!

Just moving some stuff around...waiting for the new remodel.

Nite!

good mornin all

sorry I didn't stop by last night - long day at work, hadda call the nephew when I got home for his BD, which meant a very long phone call with my sister :) Then pulled an AZ and headed fer bed and a book.





"Monday, it bites the big one" (sing along to the tune from 'I Dream of Jeannie'!)

Lynnzoi wrote:

good mornin all sorry I didn't stop by last night - long day at work, hadda call the nephew when I got home for his BD, which meant a very long phone call with my sister :) Then pulled an AZ and headed fer bed and a book. "Monday, it bites the big one" (sing along to the tune from 'I Dream of Jeannie'!)

Mornin', Lynn! Yer up earlier 'n usual.


Mornin', misfits . . . =iii=<()~~~ phWoooT ~~~

AZGman wrote:

Mornin', Lynn! Yer up earlier 'n usual. Mornin', misfits . . . =iii=<()~~~ phWoooT ~~~

well no, I am usually up by 5..I just don't wander into the computer-land til later

but I screwed up this mornin...waitin fer the coffee to brew, I made the mistake of layin back down with the MIB....and I just woke up...oo-fa .. called in to work and they said not to hurry cuz this morning is really slow - in fact, stay home for the morning...whew

well that is peculiar...I get a delete button in my post...not on others, but on mine only..can't use it (of course I tried it out!)

Lynnzoi wrote:

well that is peculiar...I get a delete button in my post...not on others, but on mine only..can't use it (of course I tried it out!)

hah! I did, that is, until I posted about it! Guess I skeered it away!

Lynnzoi wrote:

hah! I did, that is, until I posted about it! Guess I skeered it away!

haha again - now it's back!

Now ya see it, now ya don't! It's the David Copperfield Magically Disappearing Delete Button!

Lynnzoi wrote:

good mornin all sorry I didn't stop by last night - long day at work, hadda call the nephew when I got home for his BD, which meant a very long phone call with my sister :) Then pulled an AZ and headed fer bed and a book. "Monday, it bites the big one" (sing along to the tune from 'I Dream of Jeannie'!)

"Pulled"..."AZ"..."head"..."and"..."bed"...all in one sentence.

*wipes groggy eyes.

AZGman wrote:

Mornin', Lynn! Yer up earlier 'n usual. Mornin', misfits . . . =iii=<()~~~ phWoooT ~~~

Heya!

Lynnzoi wrote:

well no, I am usually up by 5..I just don't wander into the computer-land til later but I screwed up this mornin...waitin fer the coffee to brew, I made the mistake of layin back down with the MIB....and I just woke up...oo-fa .. called in to work and they said not to hurry cuz this morning is really slow - in fact, stay home for the morning...whew

That's great! I have to work today.

Lynnzoi wrote:

haha again - now it's back! Now ya see it, now ya don't! It's the David Copperfield Magically Disappearing Delete Button!

Yeah, no clue, why that is?!?

Everybody see A's photochops?

Where does one get the originals for that anyhow? Is there a sporting playboy or victoria secret sports edition?

killingtime wrote:

"Pulled"..."AZ"..."head"..."and"..."bed"...all in one sentence. *wipes groggy eyes.

oh my goodness girl...git some caffeine on board, willya?

good morning!!!

killingtime wrote:

Everybody see A's photochops? Where does one get the originals for that anyhow? Is there a sporting playboy or victoria secret sports edition?

SPorts Illustrated Swimsuit edition maybe?

Lynnzoi wrote:

oh my goodness girl...git some caffeine on board, willya? good morning!!!

Okay, diet coke, it will be...

I have to take my pills anyhow...

I have the mp3 player cranked...keeping me from going back in bed.

Lynnzoi wrote:

SPorts Illustrated Swimsuit edition maybe?

Perhaps...