Youngest profession

[nq:1]In a 1960's book I'm reading Galbraith calls P.R. "the youngest profession". P.R. must be a little long in the tooth by now, any suggestions for a new candidate?[/nq]
Telemarketing and anything related to the Internet, for starters.

Dena Jo
(Email: Replace TPUBGTH with denajo2)

[nq:2]In a 1960's book I'm reading Galbraith calls P.R. "the ... the tooth by now, any suggestions for a new candidate?[/nq]
[nq:1]Telemarketing and anything related to the Internet, for starters.[/nq]
Candidate for Governor of California.

Bob Lieblich
What if Davis just quit? Recall election would be off. Bustamante would become governor. Too easy?

[nq:1]What if Davis just quit? Recall election would be off. Bustamante would become governor. Too easy?[/nq]
Davis won't go for that, I think, but it could be a good last-minute maneuver for the Democrats.

Skitt (in SF Bay Area) http://www.geocities.com/opus731/ I speak

[nq:1]In a 1960's book I'm reading Galbraith calls P.R. "the youngest profession". P.R. must be a little long in the tooth by now, any suggestions for a new candidate?[/nq]
Website Designer
DVD Polisher
WAP consultant

John Dean
Oxford
De-frag to reply

[nq:2]Davis won't go for that, I think, but it could be a good last-minute maneuver for the Democrats.[/nq]
[nq:1]It would drive the Republicans crazy. Poor babies. One of them would have to underwrite yet another recall campaign.[/nq]
Say, am I the only one here who's supporting Gary Coleman?

"Whatchootalkinbout Dena?"

} In a 1960's book I'm reading Galbraith calls P.R. } "the youngest profession". P.R. must be a little long } in the tooth by now, any suggestions for a new candidate?

Lest any of (doyen reference deleted)'s innocents happen along and think this is a discussion of the age of professions, rather than a simple allusion to "the oldest profession", it's likely not (in English usage).

[nq:1]} In a 1960's book I'm reading Galbraith calls P.R. } "the youngest profession". P.R. must be a little long ... Internet", but just "anything related to the Internet" never had a bad name, so it's got to be "targeted e-mailing".[/nq]
I'll go with Homeland Security Snitch.

[nq:1]You can become a trainer in only 8 days for the very modest price of £250: http://www.wmlga.gov.uk/8030001.htm[/nq]
Sorry, I must have drifted off while reading that page. That course lasts two days, not eight, and it trains you to be an assessor, not a trainer of assessor

[nq:1](In my opinion, it's sheer foolishness to elect judges, but that's the system we Minnesotans have.)[/nq]
Good example of a bad legacy of Progressivism (which 'liberalism' in AmE was once an approximate synonym of).

[nq:2]Telemarketing and anything related to the Internet, for starters.[/nq]
[nq:1]Candidate for Governor of California.[/nq]
Is candidacy a profession? I think of it as an expensive avocation, like hang-gliding or photography.
-skipka