Kevin Gowen <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote:
> mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:

>> Kevin Gowen <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:

>>>>>>>I am saying nothing of the kind. I was mocking John's notion of "academic."

>>>>>>Well, there's that whole "Rhodes' Scholar" thing.

>>>>>Is Rhodes Scholar something you do? 'Fraid 

>>>>Uh, no, it's something "academic".

>>>Yes, but John talked about doing something academic. You aren't a very 

>> Yes, and Rhodes Scholar is an academic achievement.

>> Try to keep up.

> Yet not something one does,

It is, however, an academic accomplishment, which is something one does.

One understands how the concept is foreign to you.

Mike