[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Math -- What Is It Good For? (WAS Mr. March Responds )

[Andrew MacIan]

Greetings from Andrew!

Here, now!!!!!!

--- macloudt <macloudt at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "cindysphynx"
> <cindysphynx at h...> wrote:
> > Andrew wrote:
> > 
> > > Drieux
> > > 
> > > ..being silly upon the eve of having to return
> to
> > > lecturing to two sets of dullard, undergrad,
> non-major
> > > maths students....
> > 
> > And what exactly is wrong with being a dullard,
> undergrad, non-
> major 
> > math student?  Hmmmm?  :-)
> 
> Go on, girl!  You tell 'em.  In fact, Andrew, if you
> do not retract 
> that statement this sociology and anthropology
> degree holder (who 
> only just scraped through her required Natural
> Science course with 
> the help of an engineer friend) will be forced to
> email you a 40-page 
> outline paper (the real thing will be sent at a
> further date), 
> complete with full footnotes and bibiography, as to
> the possible 
> causes of your prejudice towards people such as
> myself who have to 
> take their socks off to count beyond 10, and the
> social consequences 
> thereof.  Or some such nonsense.

<Duke>

Whoa, there, pilgrim!  You just grab aholt o' then
reins fer a minnit!

What I said was that the students I had were such, not
that Cindy was. {takes hitch to wand-belt}  Nope,
never said nothin' like that.

As to the' rest of them sod-busters, they can come ta
me or any o' my wranglers and ask whatever questions
they want to.  We'll set 'em straight, pretty durn
quick! {settles hat more firmly}

As ta your offer, waaaaallll...I'd just have to find a
copy o' that durn 25-pound doorstop that I called a
dissertation and send that along ta ya via return o'
owl post.  Might herniate that little birdie, but I'd
do 'er!

</Duke>

> 
> *Never* mess with a woman who can take an 800-word
> essay and stretch 
> it to 1200 words without adding a single, solitary
> relevant fact.  I 
> wasn't nicknamed Fluff Miester during my uni years
> for nothing.  I'll 
> not only bore you to tears and overload your
> Adjective Tolerance 
> Level, I'll also miscount the pages.  So there.  
> 
> Mary Ann
> (pure science-deficient to an alarming degree)

{laughter}

Seriously, the students that actually showed for the
two sections that I have this term (penance for some
really wretched karma, no doubt, but I'll be blessed
if I know what) turned out to be about half
mouth-breathing 'athaletes' and the rest folks who
need the class for BusAdmin or whatever.  The latter I
can teach; the rest might pass....somehow.

Cheers,

Drieux

PS  Serious apologies to any that might be offended.

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