Hey folks, don't you all have anything better to do?. Maybe your colleges should consider raising your teaching load to mine (5 classes plus one overload) Just kidding, of course
Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is opinion - Marcus Aurelius There is nothing that is good or bad, but that thinking makes it so - Shakespeare >From: Stephen Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Hoisting petards >Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 17:16:29 -0400 (EDT) > >On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Tom Allaway wrote: > > > Not to pick a nit, but it's hard to see how a petard "could possibly > > symbolize" a penis (S. Black)... the resemblance of most organs to a > > small bomb is minimal. > > > > The "hoisting" done by a (even one's own) petard is not, as it may > > sound, like being lifted by a pole... it's being blown in the air! > > > >I always understood it to be a small cannon. That seems to me to >be more penis-like in function than a cigar (but speak for >yourself on the size issue, eh?). In trying to verify this (which >was only partially successful: my dictionary calls it a >firecracker, and some of us are!), I discover that it derives >from a Greek word meaning "to break wind". > >I'm sure Freud would have loved to know that. > >(and I acknowledge a wonderful line from Max Gwinn. Is this list >great or what?) > >-Stephen > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Stephen Black, Ph.D. tel: (819) 822-9600 ext 2470 >Department of Psychology fax: (819) 822-9661 >Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Lennoxville, QC >J1M 1Z7 >Canada Department web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy > Check out TIPS listserv for teachers of psychology at: > http://www.frostburg.edu/dept/psyc/southerly/tips/ >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > >--- >You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
