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On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 11:50:10 -0600, Frnak McKenney
wrote:

On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 10:26:47 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote:
I really believe this is happening...

http://tinyurl.com/lssbgwu

New College Graduates (aka NCG's) seem to have no imagination
whatsoever, with boring personalities to match.

...Jim Thompson


Jim,

I've enjoyed and learned from your postings in this newsgroup over the
years, but I have to say that I'm very disappointed with you for throwing
out an unsupported -- and apparently unresearched -- blanket statement
like this one.

Back in the Dark Ages(*) I attended and managed to eventually graduate
from that tiny but august institution(**):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_College_of_Florida

While it's true that in those days we had some strange students at New
College (and a few _very_ strange ones), I'm not convinced that they were
any stranger than those attending similar institutions; moer to thr
point, I don't recall any of them being boring. Annoying at times, yes;
boring, no.

It's true that, on occasion, one or two had a bit more imagination than I
appreciated, and in directions that I wasn't always comfortable with, but
the same might have been said about me at the time.

Please retract your claim and assign yourself 20 hours of Hyper-
Sensitivity Awareness Training. There's a lot of hyper-sensitivity going
around these days, and you clearly need to be more aware of it. grin!


Frank McKenney

(*) A few years before Sarasota passed its Dinosaur Leash Law.
(**) They were kind, and I was persistant. grin!
--
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education
too seriously. -- Charles F. Kettering


I think I'll start a riot :-}

...Jim Thompson
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