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From: jr@lf-server-2.BBN.COM (John Robinson)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: Ignorance with authority
Message-ID: <439@lf-jr.BBN.COM>
Date: 28 Dec 87 05:26:27 GMT
Organization: BBN Communications Corp., Cambridge, MA
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In article  <572@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> creps@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Steve Creps) writes:
[...]
>   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.

You forgot misappropriating and quoting out of context, you
intellectual.  And as I remember, the Bible included about 8 more
entries.

As for the vertical drop of Southern Indiana hills, it gets another
two floors when you add the caves.  Hard to call that skiing, still.

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/jr
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