NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/talk/abortion/48647

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From: [e-mail] (Galen J. Hekhuis)
Subject: Re: Nyikos and SAT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Peter Nyikos) writes:
}In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Galen J. Hekhuis) writes:
}
}>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Peter Nyikos) writes:
}
}>}In reality, I wanted to conceal my credentials on the net as long
}>}as possible.
}
}>Why did you want to do that, Peter?  If they are so unimportant
}>to you why would you desire to conceal them?  Why would you wish
}>to make an effort one way or the other?
}
}Like I said, I did not want people to think I was trying to pull rank
}on them [Army usage, but I think you know what I mean.]

I was in the Air Force, were you in the Army?  Btw, I think it is
in fairly common usage in any field that has a pecking order.  The
department chairman just said it to me today in an academic context.
Oh, what made you think that we would assume you were trying to
"pull rank" as you put it.  I suppose it didn't cross your mind
that we might think instead that you were just being a jerk.

}>Peter, your continued attempts to portray yourself as the somewhat
}>innocent victim of an "in-joke," as you put it, misses the mark
}>entirely.  You look like a fool.  Whether it is due to egotism,
}>shallowness or dishonesty I don't know.
}
}It is due to a shared in-joke, that anyone who posts SAT scores is like
}some pompous braggart [I forget his name, it was revealed to me shortly
}after I posted my SAT scores in response to a direct question] who posted
}them once upon a time, and is a suitable target for ridicule, and worse:
}As Kathi Mills said in reference to my posting the scores, "Let the
}flames begin."

It isn't just because you fell for some "in joke" that I'm laughing, Peter.
I doubt that is the only reason a lot of folks are laughing, too,
although I admit I tend to at least smirk when someone gets a prank
pulled on them.   You seem to think that SAT scores have some relevance
to this group.  Granted, they were higher than most.  I'll bet
you got to go to a fairly "good" school, and perhaps they aided
you in some other academic areas, too.  Aside from that, I don't
think they have any relevance whatsoever.  To put it rather
bluntly, my reaction to even a direct request to post my SAT scores
would be:  "Whatever for?"  I doubt I would ever post them.  I
can't even remember what they were.  I have to admit, I
chuckle a little about that.  About what you must think is
important in this world.   Yes, I laugh that you posted your SAT
scores, and I think you're a pompous ass.  I'll bet you're
honestly puzzled, too.

There's a pretty thin line between what we find funny and what we
pity, Peter.   You should be glad people are laughing...

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