Are you suggesting that the "tenure committee" was unable to detect 
that the sound was coming from a tape recorder and not from his mouth?
As my grandmother used to say "You can't believe everything you hear". 
This advice appears to be relevant on a number of levels in this case.

On Oct 5, 2009, at 12:36 AM, michael sylvester wrote:

>
> A friend of mine who teaches at an ultra conservative christian 
> college in the South was told
> that he would have to bear witness and speak in tongues as a 
> condition  to get tenure.
> So he began taping schizophrenic word salads from a nearby mental 
> institution,church services
> of the church of the Nazarene,square dancing calls.and an  auto repo 
> auction.
> He mixed them  all up on a mini tape recorder.When he approached the 
> tenure committee,he went into a tremor and fell on the floor,pressed 
> play on the mini tape and the mixed sounds were emitted.After 60 
> seconds, all the members of the committee shouted in unison 
> "Alleluia!".
> (sp).He was granted tenure.I got a twit from him last week but I could 
> not understand it.
> He was twitting in tongues.
>  
> Michael (resistant to extinction) Sylvester,PhD
> Daytona Beach,Florida
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