Said Minister was at university with me, and isn't as daft as he looks which isn't difficult, in his case. That's funny, I was at university with him, too. We were on the JCR committee together. Not only is he quite bright, but he

Of course. Most PhD students do. This is debatable. Some of those who apparently don't are the ones who find it difficult to get up on their back legs and present their work to others. I found this at university and, particularly, in IBM when

Isn't your mortgage owned by somebody else? Sounds like a safe bet. Said Minister was at university with me, and isn't as daft as he looks which isn't difficult, in his case. That's funny, I was at university with him, too. We were

Despite what you might hear from the faculty of the Pause School of Commafication (q.v.; and some of them are ... correct, as is "Me, too" (information you may get from AOL notwithstanding). "Me neither" and "Me too"

} Valentine: } }>} I have no sense of humor. }> }>Me, neither. } } I notice you write "me neither" as "me, neither". Is the first one incorrect? } I don't say "me neither" with a pause, but I could see

"It is not in my dictionary, therefore it is not a word" is an invalid deduction. It is a word, and Merriam-Webster on-line carries it as a derived form of "solecism". That's the AUE's rude and arrogant way of saying,

Just now, while listening to "Bargain Hunt", I heard one of the participants refer to her grandfather, now 80 years old, a "totter", and the presenter re-phrased it as "rag-and-bone man". I wonder how it originated in

Not by comparison with the people with whom you are competing for the alpha-positions, and comparison is exactly what prospective ... the kind of courses that the average student is up for at 18 will certainly not persuade anyone you're smart.

Right, by golly. I'm afraid I had to look that up as I'd never heard of it (how many of you know Bablake School?) New one to me. Public school in Coventry - my grandfather was head boy in about 1916. David ==

Nitabach: Because eventually those who earn the Bs with minimal effort end up carrying water for those who invest the time and effort striving for As. I doubt that. If it's true, so what? I wait till I'm 30, living at home, and then I go