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From: creps@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Steve Creps)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Ignorance with authority
Message-ID: <572@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Date: 24 Dec 87 10:19:29 GMT
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Reply-To: creps@silver.UUCP (Steve Creps)
Organization: Indiana University Computer Science Department
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In article <17890@bu-cs.BU.EDU> bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) writes:
>>In article <17758@bu-cs.BU.EDU> bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) writes:
>>>>What's that? One of the top research libraries in the country is here in
>>>>Bloomington??? Golly. Too bad it's in Indiana where no-one can read...
>>>But that was the plan, put it somewhere the locals aren't interested
>>>(keeps their hands off it) so its use is limited to people with travel
>>>budgets. It's also nice and flat out there so the books don't fall off
>>>the shelves.
>>   Barry, your ignorance is starting to show. Southern Indiana is NOT flat.
>>Actually, it's very hilly out here. Maybe you should use some of your
>>travel budget to come out here and study some geography books.
>>Steve Creps on the VAX 8650 running Ultrix 2.0-1 at Indiana University.
>
>Ok, I admit it, some section of Indiana known as "Southern" is
>probably not entirely flat. At least there's something to be said for
>it, thank god for small miracles.

   No, no, no, no, no, no, no!!! That "some section of Indiana" happens to
be nearly all of the area south of Indianapolis. That means southern Indiana
is about half the area of the state, since Indianapolis is dead center in
the state. But let's say that is just "some section of Indiana" just for
the sake of argument. Your original message was referring to how flat
Bloomington is. You know where that is? It's about 2/5 between Indianapolis
and the Kentucky border. That's right, it's in the middle of unflat southern
Indiana. It's so unflat, that there happens to be a ski slope about ten
miles from Bloomington. "Not entirely flat!" By the way, the main library
at IU is on top of a hill, and the first floor of it is even with about the
sixth or seventh floor of the dorm I used to live in, about five blocks
away.
   Folks, we have just observed the Intellectual in action. "But how can I
spot an Intellectual?" you may ask. Well, watch for these behavioral traits:
1. Making up anything, and saying it.
2. Saying it with authority.
3. When someone disagrees, saying the dissenter is right, but that the
   Intellectual was generally correct also, but in a different way.
4. Distortion of what was originally said by the Intellectual when confronted
   by someone with first-hand knowledge of the actual facts of the matter.

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Steve Creps on the rolling hills running Ultrix 2.0-1 at Indiana University.
	creps@silver.bacs.indiana.edu
"F-14 Tomcat! There IS no substitute."