Mario wrote:
>I don't think doctoral programs and reading
abstractitis
>treatises make pompous asses out of people. The seed
has to
>be there already.
Well, one way to tell the degree of their pomposity is to see
if they use the letters after their name all the time. That's
a sure clue, not to their intelligence, but to their
insecurities.
Interesting that Parker loves to nail academic types to the
wall, almost as much as cooking, eating and boinking Susan.
And didn't Chandler go after a few pretentious types himself?
Something about a
"contempt for pettiness and a disgust for sham?"
Kevin Burton Smith High School Graduate
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