dwtamkin@chinet.chi.il.us (David W. Tamkin) (03/14/89)
Throughout this discussion gus Baird (I know, I know, his first time on the system he mistyped the capital G in lower case and rather than admit he'd made an error he insisted that the lower-case g was his intent all along, that it was his "trademark"; that's the story given by every CB simulator who has a misspelled handle and is asked why) has maintained that the baccalaureate is the clearest, most reliable mark of the passage into sufficient maturity to be allowed to post. He's backed down from saying it was absolute but still says it is the best indicator of all. He won't care what I say; I'm a middle-aged man with no degree, so by his viewpoint I'm still in the playpen, and nothing else counts. Well, I think I've figured out where he gets this idea. As a child he saw "The Wizard of Oz" too many times. Frank Morgan hands Ray Bolger a diploma, and Bolger's character changes instantly from a reasoning being whose plan had saved Dorothy from the Wicked Witch of the West but who thought himself stupid into a babbling, pompous pseudo-intellectual wrapped up in how impressed he is with himself. He wasn't a whit smarter than before, aand he was seriously impaired in the *use* of his intelligence, but the irony was lost on the boy who would be gus; he was so caught up in the surface change in the scarecrow. CBS will be broadcasting it again this Sunday evening, March 19. No, they have not reinserted the jitterbug sequence. The film that most influenced my own childhood was ... no, that isn't for news.admin. David W. Tamkin Post Office Box 567542 Norridge, Illinois 60656-7542 dwtamkin@chinet.chi.il.us CIS: 73720,1570 GEnie: D.W.TAMKIN Nearly all other Chinet users disagree with my ravings. Can you blame them?
wisner@shadooby.cc.umich.edu (Bill Wisner) (03/15/89)
(David W. Tamkin) > (I know, I know, his first time on the >system he mistyped the capital G in lower case and rather than admit he'd >made an error he insisted that the lower-case g was his intent all along, >that it was his "trademark" or gus::::& Baird:/u5/gus:/bin/ksh