Re: "Rude Is as Rude Does....."
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Re: "Rude Is as Rude Does....."
What's RTGF?
And don't be so quick to unsuscribe... there are more of us like you
than there are of those geeks...
CaptainSp
> Philip J Baker wrote:
>
> I agree with Richard Bowman! I subscribed to this list in the
> hopes of "learning from the masters". I am a retired army colonel, and
> currently a math teacher with an engineering degree and two masters
> degrees. I do not consider myself "stupid", as some of you might, if I
> ask some very simple questions that are hard to find answers to in a
> less-than-satisfactory manual. I was also hoping to find some "neat
> ideas" that have been tried out by others with similar interests to
> mine.
> What I have found is a group composed of way too many cynical,
> snooty "geeks"! While I enjoyed the recent discussion about the cube
> root of 64 calculation, I mostly read the messages now just to see how
> rude some of you can be to others. Some of the subscribers are
> obviously young people with an interest and curiosity beyond the norm
> of their peers. Those of you who answer their questions with "RTFM",
> or other such rude remarks ought to be ashamed. You ought to be doubly
> ashamed if you are an educator. Is that how you answer questions in
> class? If so, I bet you don't get too many questions asked of you any
> more! (You probably thought it was because you were such a great
> teacher, I bet).
> I'm going to hold off for a day or so before I dig up that message
> on how to unsubscribe, just so I can read the litany of harangues I'm
> sure to get from this message. (Sorry I've gummed up your bandwitdth
> with another useless message, but some of you really need to "get a
> life"!) Hey, it least this useless message wasn't about SPORTS!!!!
> (Perish the thought!)
>
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