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Why God Never Received Tenure

Why God Never Received Tenure at Any University
1. He only had one major publication.
2. It was in Hebrew.
3. It had no references.
4. It wasn't published in a referred journal.
5. Some even doubt He wrote it Himself.
6. It may be true that He created the world, but what has He done sincethen?

7. His cooperative efforts have been quite limited.
8. The scientific community has had a hard time replicating His results.
9. He never applied to the Ethics Board for permission to use humansubjects.

10. When one experiment went awry, He tried to cover it up by drowningthe subjects.

11. When subjects didn't behave as predicted, He deleted them from thesample.

12. He rarely came to class, just told students to read the book.
13. Some say He had His son teach the class.
14. He expelled His first two students for learning.
15. Although there were only ten requirements, most students failed Histests.

16. His office hours were infrequent and usually held on a mountaintop.
(Source unknown, but my brother just showed me this, so blame him!)

Christopher
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)[/nq] Why should I blame him? He didn't post any corny jokes on this ng, AFAIK. Nothing upsets me more - not even spam mail - than the forward mail with corny jokes, from people I know.

  • )[/nq] Why should I blame him?
  • He didn't post any corny jokes on this ng, AFAIK.
  • Nothing upsets me more - not even spam mail - than the forward mail with corny jokes, from people I know.
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[nq:1](Source unknown, but my brother just showed me this, so blame him!)[/nq]
Why should I blame him? He didn't post any corny jokes on this ng, AFAIK.

Nothing upsets me more - not even spam mail - than the forward mail with corny jokes, from people I know.
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[nq:2](Source unknown, but my brother just showed me this, so blame him!)[/nq]
[nq:1]Why should I blame him? He didn't post any corny jokes on this ng, AFAIK. Nothing upsets me more - not even spam mail - than the forward mail with corny jokes, from people I know.[/nq]
I thought it was sorta clever. I'm glad Christopher posted it; I might never have seen it o
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[nq:2](Source unknown, but my brother just showed me this, so blame him!)[/nq]
[nq:1]Why should I blame him? He didn't post any corny jokes on this ng, AFAIK. Nothing upsets me more - not even spam mail - than the forward mail with corny jokes, from people I know.[/nq]
Then, obviously, you are not on the list for inspirational e-mail. I shall send your name t
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[nq:2]snip Why should I blame him? He didn't post any ... the forward mail with corny jokes, from people I know.[/nq]
[nq:1]I thought it was sorta clever. I'm glad Christopher posted it; I might never have seen it otherwise. Thanks, Christopher.[/nq]
As always, Bob, you're most welcome.

Christopher
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[nq:1]I thought it was sorta clever. I'm glad Christopher posted it; I might never have seen it otherwise.[/nq]
Obviously you don't have pen pals in Christopher's age group. I receive lots of jokes, electronic cards etc from my younger correspondents. I admit, I get bored with their idea of humor. Perhaps it's an aquired taste than one aquires as aging into the second childhood.
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[nq:1]Then, obviously, you are not on the list for inspirational e-mail. I shall send your name to a certain friend of my wife's that sends weekly Uplifting Thoughts she's culled from somewhere.[/nq]
I believe your message inspired one of our contributor's head, who just sent me a web address to a Russian dating service. Perhaps it was someone who faked the address of one of the contributors,
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[nq:2]I thought it was sorta clever. I'm glad Christopher posted it; I might never have seen it otherwise. Thanks, Christopher.[/nq]
[nq:1]As always, Bob, you're most welcome.[/nq]
It is interesting that this is the first message in this thread appearing on my screen. The others must have been rejected by the German server, or something. Were they, perhaps, not in plain text format?
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[nq:1]Anyway, I have blocked e-mail from some people who have insisted on sending me "inspirational messages" and jokes.[/nq]
Eventually I did the same thing, but not before I begged everyone not to forward me those messages. I also tried more subtle ways: I "analized" some paragraphs of the inspirational message, making fun of the platitudinous stuff, thus forcing the senders to admit that th
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Okay, so this one time? In band camp? "Skitt" was all, like:
[nq:1]Anyway, I have blocked e-mail from some people who have insisted on sending me "inspirational messages" and jokes. After all, ... I have usually sent a nice educational message, including a request that they remove me from their group-mailing address list.[/nq]
I once decided to enlighten some people by responding to
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[nq:1]It is interesting that this is the first message in this thread appearing on my screen. The others must have been rejected by the German server, or something.[/nq]
That would be "or something" I saw the earlier posts.

SML
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