For you serious needlnecked academicians who do what you do

[Goatnapper'96]

for the greater good of humanity. In my circles we call such types "wankers." But the 20 year reunion is coming up and my guess is most from my circles will still be driving Datsuns or pastel colored mini trucks, so my circles probably don't have the market cornered on finding the more excellent way!

The following link is a dissertation done by my brother in law's younger brother. I almost made it through the first paragraph, and I am thinking I will make it through more than '71! I also hope the mormon church stops giving you types a hard time. Holy hell, the company you keep at the office should be enough to pity you folks for time and all eternity!

But for those of who enjoy this stuff:

http://bycommonconsent.files.wordpre...ssertation.pdf

[Solon]

for the greater good of humanity. In my circles we call such types "wankers." But the 20 year reunion is coming up and my guess is most from my circles will still be driving Datsuns or pastel colored mini trucks, so my circles probably don't have the market cornered on finding the more excellent way!

The following link is a dissertation done by my brother in law's younger brother. I almost made it through the first paragraph, and I am thinking I will make it through more than '71! I also hope the mormon church stops giving you types a hard time. Holy hell, the company you keep at the office should be enough to pity you folks for time and all eternity!

But for those of who enjoy this stuff:

http://bycommonconsent.files.wordpre...ssertation.pdf

That is a really long diss. Complete with index!

I don't know how I feel about clever spellings in the first and middle names

Thanks for posting, gn.

[byu71]

Dang, my company has that site blocked. They know the stuff I won't have a prayer of comprehending. That's why the porn sites are blocked too.

Someone give me a 5 sentence summary. I do like to keep up on what intellectuals are thinking.

[Donuthole]

I made it through page 172 (which is actually page 1). I hope that is not the final product, as there are some real punctuation and grammar issues.

Too bad he's not a pro athlete. With a name like Daymon Smith, he'd be a shoe-in for the Reggie Cleveland All-Star team (assuming he is not AA).

[Goatnapper'96]

That is a really long diss. Complete with index!

I don't know how I feel about clever spellings in the first and middle names

Thanks for posting, gn.

Six letters and a Y in every name. They had 11 so it got real creative. My brother in law continued the tradition with his kids.

Daymon is a real, real smart kid. My interests are more in line with '71, but unlike Judge Smails, I am no slouch myself. The few conversations I have had with him it is almost as if he is speaking Greek. I leave wondering what is the use to become so passionate about a subject and so knowledgable about it that your circle of friends gets more restricted than a Provo 114th Ward Laurel Class President's chastity belt on prom night?

[UtahDan]

Hack. This news is so March.

http://www.cougaruteforum.com/showpo...&postcount=137

[Solon]

Six letters and a Y in every name. They had 11 so it got real creative. My brother in law continued the tradition with his kids.

Daymon is a real, real smart kid. My interests are more in line with '71, but unlike Judge Smails, I am no slouch myself. The few conversations I have had with him it is almost as if he is speaking Greek. I leave wondering what is the use to become so passionate about a subject and so knowledgable about it that your circle of friends gets more restricted than a Provo 114th Ward Laurel Class President's chastity belt on prom night?

i'm with you. i'd rather be a little dumber and be able to hold a conversation at a bus-stop. But then again i don't really have a choice.

[il Padrino Ute]

i'm with you. i'd rather be a little dumber and be able to hold a conversation at a bus-stop. But then again i don't really have a choice.

Being dumber has it's advantages, but it's not everything it's cracked up to be.

For instance, I've never had to sit through a boring as hell lecture during a World Series game, but I have had to provide proper identification to get into a public library. And all I wanted to do was use the bathroom.

[pellegrino]

i'm with you. i'd rather be a little dumber and be able to hold a conversation at a bus-stop. But then again i don't really have a choice.

I'm right there with you man. I'm happy being just a little above average.

[I.J. Reilly]

I'm right there with you man. I'm happy being just a little above average.

You guys and your modesty.

By the way, I'm on part six of the interview series. Really, very interesting. I read the first one when UD originally posted the link, but at that time it didn't have any other ones linked to it. Now, I think the whole thing is there. I might read over a little of the dissertation too. There's a lot of interesting stuff there.

[I.J. Reilly]

This is from part 7 of the series:

The sort of punchline I was alluding to earlier is that, whereas you have in the 1870s you have Brigham Young using the pages of the Deseret News to publicly flog Orson Pratt for daring to preach the heresy that God is incapable of learning or progressing in knowledge, you then have, a century later, in the 1970s, Bruce R. McConkie essentially making Pratt’s argument on this question, in another very public venue, this time at the university named for Brigham Young, arguing only that God is not progressing in knowledge, that He’s perfect in knowledge and not capable of learning anything new, but the labeling Brigham Young’s argument heretical. And not just any kind of heretical, but a deadly heresy, a kind of heresy that will jeopardize one’s salvation.

as is this:

What Correlation really does is it tries to reorganize Mormonism around the static eternal categories of abstract nouns.

Good stuff.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Looks fascinating goat. Thanks for the link.

By the way, you can stop that I-am-a-dummy act. Nobody is buying it.

[pellegrino]

You guys and your modesty.

this has nothing to do with modesty, it's all about honesty.

[LA Ute]

Wow, and I thought lawyers used lots of jargon.

[UtahDan]

Here is a four part interview he just did for Mormonstories. Hopefully it is a little easier to follow. Going to listen to the first part now...

http://mormonstories.org/?p=980