Re: A search engine for the archives

[bobbie silk <bsilk@keller.clarke.edu>]

Sara, what nonsense!  You could never be a concrete goose.  I know what
you mean about diminishing intellectual capacity and grading, but what you
say about being compassionate eliminates any possibility of your being a
lawn ornament.  In this part of the country, concrete lawn geese lack
compassion because folks 'round here dress them in those silly outfits. 
If you ever see a concrete goose wearing a flowered cape and sunbonnet
you'll also be looking at a concrete goose with a chip on its shoulder. 
And who could blame it? 

  --Bobbie

p.s.  If you own a concrete goose and you're looking for seasonal
ensembles for it, I happen to know of a store in Bloomington, Illinois
with dozens of little coordinated outfits in two sizes.

On Thu, 7 May 1998, Sara Kimball wrote:

> Bobby, I've just spent 12 hours dealing with people's rough drafts in
> various forms, coping with people who spend more energy trying to convince
> me to give them an A "because A's are important to college students"
> than they do on writing their papers, and
> being just but compassionate when personal problems produce less than
> responsible behavior in lower-division students.  I think at this point
> that I *am* a concrete goose or at least have the intellectual capacity of
> one!  
> 
> Sara Kimball ;)
> 
> On Thu, 7 May 1998, bobbie silk wrote:
> 
> > As Mickey and others have noted, what we say here is already available to
> > the public.  Once, when I was showing a class how to use HotBot or one of
> > the other web search engines, I jokingly put in the words "lawn
> > ornaments."  Guess what I found?  The WCenter discussion of lawn
> > decorations I participated in a few years ago.  Fortunately, everything I
> > said on that thread was politically unoffensive--unless the reader happens
> > to be a concrete goose. 
> > 
> >   --Bobbie
> > 
> > 
> 
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