tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post6616474746692235715..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: From the mailbox Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-69020144798209821232013-11-11T07:29:37.589-05:002013-11-11T07:29:37.589-05:00Yes, I was just explaining how to use <angle br...Yes, I was just explaining how to use <angle brackets> in a comment.introvert.profhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09042783611716432247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-72058866851603447822013-11-11T07:27:52.328-05:002013-11-11T07:27:52.328-05:00Impressive, MAM. That almost made sense. Besides, ...Impressive, MAM. That almost made sense. Besides, it was better written than what I normally. see.introvert.profhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09042783611716432247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-17693784474435221682013-11-10T20:06:57.467-05:002013-11-10T20:06:57.467-05:00but you don't bury survivors, even if you take...but you don't bury survivors, even if you take the fox back in the boat leaving the first chicken alone on the far shore which Moses didn't do because he didn't take the animals on the Ark, Noah did, and neither Moses or Noah was the bus driver because YOU'RE the bus driver, and the phone call came from inside the house, but not from the Mama Bull because there is no such thing. Middle-Aged and Morosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04046076243513948921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-20170445768688320522013-11-10T18:02:43.028-05:002013-11-10T18:02:43.028-05:00HA! I love that one and am always surprised becau...HA! I love that one and am always surprised because it still "works" on people!Bellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15686242633678466958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-50544021263099578682013-11-10T17:58:48.879-05:002013-11-10T17:58:48.879-05:00My brother and his wife are expecting their 4th. H...My brother and his wife are expecting their 4th. He is completely sterile. I've never bothered to ask where their kids come from, because I'm too busy giving raspberries.Academic Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07086078244493768565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-59234354528511591702013-11-10T17:13:39.597-05:002013-11-10T17:13:39.597-05:00Just for the record, and in light of Leslie's ...Just for the record, and in light of Leslie's recent post, let me make it clear that my comment above isn't meant to indicate that I think Suzie is a homophobe or anything like that, and any snark in it is meant playfully. And I say that as a big ol' queer.Professor Chiltepinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10087270705989845484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-80566609085132885652013-11-10T14:19:02.169-05:002013-11-10T14:19:02.169-05:00On my first (careless) reading I had thought it me...On my first (careless) reading I had thought it meant the husband was inadvertently confessing to doing his wife's homework. I strongly suspect one of my colleagues of having done her husband's work for an online course he took.<br /><br />It can be a bit tricky socially. Married friends of my partner and I took us out to dinner once. One of them paid, but later I thanked his husband, Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08119100121479821544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-78559624958605609062013-11-10T13:27:51.225-05:002013-11-10T13:27:51.225-05:00The doctor is his mother!The doctor is his mother!HPPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11927706471904009157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-82721631304581196492013-11-10T12:25:50.004-05:002013-11-10T12:25:50.004-05:00It wasn't intended as code; it was just two pa...It wasn't intended as code; it was just two parenthetical remarks. It was no big deal. College Miseryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01371354682300032653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-56202298341555758302013-11-10T11:41:58.834-05:002013-11-10T11:41:58.834-05:00If you want to use actual angle brackets, you need...If you want to use actual angle brackets, you need to use the proper HTML code:<br /><i>&lt;</i> is the left-hand angle bracket<br /><i>&gt;</i> is the right-hand angle bracket <br />introvert.profhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09042783611716432247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-14143556978625686632013-11-10T06:58:04.746-05:002013-11-10T06:58:04.746-05:00But you have to be careful of the "Proffie-d...But you have to be careful of the "Proffie-didin't-respond-to-excuses-so-therefore-excuses-must-be-acceptable" trap. <br /><br />In the snowflake's mind, it works like negative option billing. Rosencrantz Andor Guildensternhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05095512139776536635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-78302951859563925322013-11-10T02:51:39.730-05:002013-11-10T02:51:39.730-05:00One of our church elders and her wife recently had...One of our church elders and her wife recently had a son.Merely Academichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00452389428113097744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-55496936075171956602013-11-10T02:18:21.811-05:002013-11-10T02:18:21.811-05:00Thanks! Somehow I was dreaming that Blogspot did n...Thanks! Somehow I was dreaming that Blogspot did not interpret HTML but put it through 1:1. On Wikis the [ ] stuff makes a link. So much to remember.....Suzy from Square Statehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03085856052108645578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-9694998232407319472013-11-10T00:03:52.106-05:002013-11-10T00:03:52.106-05:00I wasn't finding the female-with-wife-and-baby...I wasn't finding the female-with-wife-and-baby-on-the-way thing too surprising, either. Heck, I'm probably at least as old as you are, Suzy, and one of my college roommates has been married to another woman -- before God and witnesses, including me, if not yet under the law -- since the year after we graduated. Their children (conceived via donor insemination, I'm pretty sure; I Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-19243353264399084782013-11-09T21:05:03.481-05:002013-11-09T21:05:03.481-05:00It's the 21st century. Girls and girls can ge...It's the 21st century. Girls and girls can get married now, in many states of the union (including mine). And it's fairly easy for two women to choose pregnancy (or even accidentally stumble on it, if one of the women isn't on one side of the Kinsey scale). Professor Chiltepinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10087270705989845484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-31625905837403208612013-11-09T20:51:43.909-05:002013-11-09T20:51:43.909-05:00I got an incomprehensible email the other day and ...I got an incomprehensible email the other day and responded in my usual fashion: "I do not understand what you are asking me."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-69662506100682144772013-11-09T20:16:05.231-05:002013-11-09T20:16:05.231-05:00Oh, this makes more sense now. :) No question aske...Oh, this makes more sense now. :) No question asked, so no response required. :)The Contemplative Cynichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02088570661592922436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-58830367593944223472013-11-09T19:33:50.113-05:002013-11-09T19:33:50.113-05:00Suzy, it's because you put them in angled brac...Suzy, it's because you put them in angled brackets. That reads as HTML code. I can replace it. Hang on.College Miseryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01371354682300032653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-8277287684083655572013-11-09T19:32:49.679-05:002013-11-09T19:32:49.679-05:00I ignore them if there's no question. More an...I ignore them if there's no question. More and more, I receive e-mails that are just a list of excuses and nothing else. My favorite are the ones that begin: "I'm not making excuses..."<br /><br />Surly Templehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05057191570792423261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-84266917128369610782013-11-09T19:24:56.568-05:002013-11-09T19:24:56.568-05:00Sigh. Blogspot parsed some good stuff out. The fir...Sigh. Blogspot parsed some good stuff out. The first blank is: Standard Student excuse #47. The second one is "I will spare you the TMI".Suzy from Square Statehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03085856052108645578noreply@blogger.com