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Bowser — 12/30/2002 8:43:18 PM (archived)

Used to call that "damning with faint praise". It's not quite that, but close.

A bit like GWB saying Trent Lott was a pretty good guy, not a great guy, but an OK sort of guy, maybe the star of the mediocre guys Hall of Fame.

Arf (if it weren't for the source of that comment, I'd start applying somewhere for a professorship. There ought to be an institution which could use a course in "The Art of Bullshit 404". I think I'm good enough to teach an upperclass course.)

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I’m dreamin’ of a White Trash Christmas… - Matt Burley - 12/22/2002 6:09:43 PM
- I'm sure you had one. - Bowser - 12/27/2002 1:53:58 PM
  - Look, it's Friday night, bowwow - Matt Burley - 12/27/2002 3:56:56 PM
    - What a maroon. Heh, heh. n/t (n/t) - Bowser - 12/28/2002 11:44:25 AM
      - Wow, what a fiendishly clever comeback... - Matt Burley - 12/29/2002 6:56:14 PM
        
        Do ya waste the good ones on trash? n/t (n/t) - Bowser - 12/29/2002 7:13:35 PM
        
        Actually, I have little doubt that, given his qualifications, Bowser could probably easily land tenure at many universities...;) (n/t) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 12/29/2002 10:55:48 AM
        
        Dear ol' Mom - - - - Bowser - 12/30/2002 8:43:18 PM
        
        Being full of something does not mean you can teach it. - ebnelson - 12/31/2002 4:10:43 PM
        
        Go for it! - Tom Brosz - 12/30/2002 11:20:06 AM
        
        Sociology, fer sure! n/t (n/t) - Bowser - 12/30/2002 12:47:12 PM

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