oops.
i was talking about another list, not this list. i don't know if steve and peter are reading, but they can vouch for the mushroom bit on the other list since we were all on lbo and the politics list at one time. :)
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "shag" <shag at cleandraws.com>
> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 12:03 PM
> Subject: [lbo-talk] offlist -- Historian op-eds against the Team of
> Rivalsthesis
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>>
>>> Mushroom?
>>>
>>> John Thornton
>>
>> Nothing against mushrooms, which I love, but I warmed up to the idea
>> of
>> calling them that because, on this list, they were the most ignorant
>> people I've ever encountered. They were unable to get off their ass
>> and do
>> any research whatsoever -- and two of them were Ph.D.s who are
>> supposed to
>> be trained in the importance of research. They'd make assertion after
>> assertion, get called out for it and shown to have no evidence, to be
>> in
>> complete error, to be circulating urban legends, etc. Didn't matter.
>> They
>> were incorrigible and seemed to take pride in not providing any
>> evidence
>> to back up an argument.
>>
>> anyway, because these guys lived in the dark and thrived in shit, I
>> started calling them mushrooms.
>>
>> shag
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