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Re: A test! (was Mr. Squibbles)
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Mon, 10 Jul 2000 11:41:58 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> (The background is that the issue of grades came up between Gore and
> Quayle back in '92, IIRC--Gore was apparently a model student gradewise,
> but Quayle went I believe to Yale (how nicely rhyming) and got what he
> characterised as a "gentleman's C"...apparently that 'potatoe' was worth
> two grades.)
To be completely fair, he probably worked as hard for a Yale C as I did for my
Mizzou A.
And you have to admit that not everything he said was stupid. (I mean, I can't
recall anything off hand, but it must be.)
Chris
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| (...) for my (...) can't (...) Well, as a person who read his book, I think he isn't a very slick politician, but he is a decent person, IMO. He made some mistakes, but compared to what we have now, I would take him back in a heartbeat. Scott S. -- (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Unfortunately the Ivies don't work that way, despite all the pretenses that they're somehow the sole province of the godlike. Grade inflation is rampant to a degree you wouldn't believe; these people have been getting As all their lives, and (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Everyone. He's sort of like the anti-Paine Webber. Or the anti-Howard Stern/Rush Limbaugh ("I want to listen, just to hear what he'll say next"). (The background is that the issue of grades came up between Gore and Quayle back in '92, (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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