"Ronn!Blankenship" wrote:
>
> At 09:50 PM 1/29/04, David Hobby wrote:
>
> >In my experience, real scholars avoid administrative work like
> >the plague!
>
> True!
>
> >(I should know, it's my turn to be Chair...)
>
> Is it only coincidence that the position is named after an object which
> most people sit on and some people put their feet on?
Weeeeell, back when there were postmen and stewardesses,
they used to call it "chairman". But now we say "chair", to avoid
being thought unwitting tools of the Patriarchy.
---David
Chairone?
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