Posted on 06/07/2005 6:12:41 AM PDT by Millicent_Hornswaggle
Now that is humor. And a darn good idea. ;-)
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Consider the opposite. She was writing a letter to his supervisor and colleagues. She was constantly referring to him as "Mr." instead of by his earned title, thus she was trying to belittle him in the eyes of those to whom the letter was addressed. Often times a person with a PhD. may use the title to drive home a point to a specific person, not out of elitism.
Case in point: A friend of mine is a PhD. in materials and is often called to give testimony in law suits, regarding failure analysis of various items. During one cross examination, an especially rude attorney kept referring to him as "Mr.". This occurred repeatedly, w/o a word from him. But, after one utterance, the Attorney, referring to him as "Mr." caught himself and asked with obvious contempt: "Or is that "Dr."
That was the opening. My friend needed. He then responded 'Well, actually, now that you have kind enough to ask me, I am a Doctor of Materials Science with degrees from MIT and UCLA and I would appreciate being addressed by my proper title."
After that the attorney was flustered and embarrassed on several occasions. The questioning was soon ended.
Now just wait a doggone minute here. Millee is new and so far has seemed, to me at least, to be a very nice person. There is no reason at all to refer to her as abroad.
;)
After hearing my speech accusing liberal administrators of trying to censor conservative speech, Ms. Dean suggested that the liberal administrators should try to censor my conservative speech.
Why, imagine that!
BLOAT!
No, but I like the way you think ;o>
Of course you're entitled to your opinion, but I think it's a rather tasteful way of displaying just how petty his critic is.
It depends on your system, Millee. If you have a typical Windows based system, you should be able to right-click on a picture and select properties. That will give you the web address where the picture lurks.
Just copy that web address into a picture posting statement, which goes like this... <img src=" ...something something... ">
It would look like this... <img src="http://pws.prserv.net/usinet.krswan/zot2.gif">
Which looks like this...
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