Xref: utzoo comp.ai:8428 sci.lang:8679 rec.arts.books:17163 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!midway!midway.uchicago.edu!mitchell From: mitchell@tartarus.uchicago.edu (Mitchell Marks) Newsgroups: uchi.cs,chi.general,comp.ai,sci.lang,rec.arts.books Subject: weird; but not me Message-ID: Date: 22 Jan 91 19:53:26 GMT Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Distribution: na Organization: University of Chicago Computer Science Lines: 32 This morning I got a phone call from (or purporting to be from) a newspaper in New Jersey, saying that they were trying to track down information about a billboard out there, on which a couple of quotations were attributed to someone with my name. (I didn't get a chance to ask why they were trying Chicago; I assumed they were just trying directories in various places.) I just heard indirectly that someone saw something similar here in Chicago. In any case, it wasn't me. The quotations, as I was told them, were roughly the following: "Anybody with a Master's degree has an attitude problem." "The only good dictator is a dead dictator." I'm posting to our local groups, and to other groups I regularly read and have occasionally written to, in case you've seen this sign and wondered if it was me. Also, of course, I would appreciate any details if you have seen this (these) sign(s?) or have any good info; please email to mitchell@tartarus.uchicago.edu . [Since I first heard about this from NJ, I'm not restricting the distribution of this posting to local.] BTW, if anybody cares, -- -- I do have a Master's degree -- I may or may not have an attitude problem, who knows? -- But I wouldn't agree with the generalization in the first quotation -- I don't like dictators -- But I'm not so bloody-minded as the second quotation -- I can't discern any connection or theme or unifying element bwtween the two remarks ... -- Mitch Marks mitchell@cs.UChicago.EDU A mind's reach should exceed its grasp, Else what's a meta for?