mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:

> Kevin Gowen <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote:
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>>mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>>I am saying nothing of the kind. I was mocking John's notion of "academic."
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>>>>>>>>Is Rhodes Scholar something you do? 'Fraid 
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>>>>>>>Uh, no, it's something "academic".
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>>>>>>Yes, but John talked about doing something academic. You aren't a very 
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>>>>>Yes, and Rhodes Scholar is an academic achievement.
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>>>It is, however, an academic accomplishment, which is something one does.
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>>It's a wad of money.
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> It's an accomplishment, and an academic one.

The accomplishment is the condition precedent for getting the wad. Once 
you get it, you can spend those two years being academic or smoking dope 
between organizing anti-American protests.

> Really, do better.

Not very leftist of you.

> Mike

- Kevin