F-Dawg.
Take jobs as they come -- and we'll never be under the heel of nobody ever again. No matter how long the arm of the Alliance might get, we'll just get ourselves a little further.
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Comedy 1: A Little Song, a Little Dance, a Little Seltzer Down Your Pants
This thread is for comedy TV, including network and cable shows. [NAFDA]
Polter-Cow - Sep 22, 2009 9:22:10 am PDT #1540 of 8624
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Fred Pete - Sep 22, 2009 9:38:01 am PDT #1541 of 8624
Ann, that's a ferret.
they should call him, "Mr. Fred".
A little too close to "Mr. Ed" for my comfort.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Sep 22, 2009 9:41:02 am PDT #1542 of 8624
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Laga - Heh. Nice of him to give them that much comfort space. I've taught in community colleges, and I'm always addressed by my first name, even among younger students. If my students find it odd, they get to call me 'Miss [surname]', and I in return get to call them 'Mr [surname]'. With eighteen-year-olds, that tends to last for exactly one class...
DebetEsse - Sep 22, 2009 12:58:06 pm PDT #1543 of 8624
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I have no issue with first name use, but, yeah, it seems to weird students out a bit, especially, I think, as they're going to be teachers, and that would freak them out a lot.
Vortex - Sep 22, 2009 5:34:57 pm PDT #1544 of 8624
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I was a double major. In the theatre department, all of my profs were first name. In the english department it was all Doctor or Professor. It depends on the culture.
DavidS - Sep 22, 2009 5:39:19 pm PDT #1545 of 8624
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
At my college all the professors were called "Professor." And they did, in fact, profess.
Every professor at my college had a doctorate, though.
Rick - Sep 23, 2009 7:35:12 am PDT #1546 of 8624
In most traditional academic fields you need a Ph.d. to become a professor, but there is a tradition in some applied fields (nursing, architecture, education, business) where experienced professionals without a doctorate serve in the role, particularly if it is not a tenure track appointment. That tradition is in decline (driven in part by rating systems like US News that use % of faculty with doctoral degree as a criterion), but a good architect who is a charismatic teacher still could be appointed with a title of professor.
The lecturer-professor thing differs across cultures. In Britain and Brit-influenced universities world-wide an American assistant or associate professor is a lecturer, and only full professors are professors. As an associate professor I spent a year in Europe on a Fullbright, and was startled to find that I was no longer a "real" professor. I felt like I had been demoted.
Dana - Sep 24, 2009 7:51:39 am PDT #1547 of 8624
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
No comments on Glee? I don't care how implausible it is, I needed that scene of the football players dancing.
Aims - Sep 24, 2009 7:52:36 am PDT #1548 of 8624
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I haven't seen it yet!! I missed it due to grocery shopping. Goofy family needing food and shit. I NEEDED MY SCHUSTER!!
Vortex - Sep 24, 2009 8:36:15 am PDT #1549 of 8624
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I am annoyed at Glee's complete suspension of logic. Disbelief, sure, but there has to be some sense involved. It is stupid to build up the situation between Kurt and his dad only to have the complete anticlimactic "I've always known and I love you for who you are" speech. If that was true, he wouldn't have taken the car away when he found the tiara collection. And I don't mean to be classist, but why did they go to the trouble of making Kurt's dad look like a blue collar galoot, but there's clearly money for Escalades and Marc Jacobs sweaters? And then they threw in the bit about Kurt's mom being dead, where did that come from?
Just ugh.