> On May 9, 2018, at 1:18 PM, Steve Cottrell <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 9/5/18, Nolan Hinshaw, discombobulated, unleashed: > >> Especially when I returned to school after mustering out of the service, >> almost all the classes I enrolled in were to experience in a fuller-than- >> previously deep level the things I already enjoyed (there weren't many >> experiences falling outside that boundary.) Along the way there were the >> "Ooh, shiny!" diversions from what never really was a definite path >> through Academia!, and me gob was likewise ensmacked to encounter others >> in those classes like those bright bulbs you mentioned above. I'm >> spatiotemporally "here" now, gainfully-retired, and still misusing the >> lo-cal institutions of instructions to get that same depth, and I >> *still* encounter too many otherwise bright folks who wear the blinders. > > I have absolutely no idea what all that means, but you've got my attention.
I’ve known Nolan since the early 90’s and believe me, not understanding what he’s talking about is a time honored tradition. He specialized in jokes that require so much arcane knowledge from so many disparate fields that they make my humor seem accessible. -- Larry Colen [email protected] -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
