DCP Ordered to Vacate MI's Offices

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Re: DCP Ordered to Vacate MI's Offices

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Re: DCP Ordered to Vacate MI's Offices

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With all the public bad-mouthing of the MI that he and his cronies have done since the "putsch", is he really surprised that they want their office space back? Really?

Think about this for a moment. DCP knew he was important enough at BYU that he got to have not one, but two whole offices, for all that important stuff he had to do. He apparently got used to the idea. Having to slum it out like almost all the other professors at BYU with only one office must really suck.
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Re: DCP Ordered to Vacate MI's Offices

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'The Most Unkindest Cut of All'?

Seriously, isn't there something off about that header?

Delicious, really. Is it the clumsy phrasing? 'The most unkindest cut'?

Or is it the irony embedded in the notion that losing the responsibilities of editing what, in his mind, is a prestigious journal is less significant that losing his office?

Or the fact that Sister Peterson now has to move all those books again?

Jeez.
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His blog (which sounds like the answer to the question "How many cakes you eat today Dan?") coes across like the disjointed ramblings of the drunk old guy at the end of the bar to whom nobody is actually listening.

It's actually a bit sad...
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Suggested future posts for DCP's blog:

1) They didn't serve my favorite food in the Cougareat, and it's all Gerry Bradford's fault.

2) I had a difficult bowel movement last night, and it's all the fault of the traitors at NAMIRS.

3) Quaker forgot to put the secret decoder ring in my box of Captain Crunch, damn rat bastards at Mormon Review.

4) I had to get my car's state safety inspection this month, and other problems caused by the commies at the COB.
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Philidel wrote:'The Most Unkindest Cut of All'?

Seriously, isn't there something off about that header?

Delicious, really. Is it the clumsy phrasing? 'The most unkindest cut'?

You know, there's nothing I find quite as amusing as people attempting to heap scorn and ridicule on others and demonstrating their own ignorance thereby.

I frequently get told that "colour," "behaviour," "aluminium" and the like are misspellings, and am scornfully asked if I don't know how to use a spellchecker. When they say such things, my interlocutors demonstrate their ignorance of the fact that English is written outside of the US of A.

Now Phil is making merry over an ungrammatical expression: "The most unkindest cut of all." How deliciously clumsy!

So clumsy, in fact, that it is a reference to an obscure author whom Phil apparently never read: a nobody named William Shakespeare. It's from Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II. Mark Antony is making a speech over the body of Caesar; an obscure speech from a practically unknown play.

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Pahoran wrote:You know, there's nothing I find quite as amusing as people attempting to heap scorn and ridicule on others and demonstrating their own ignorance thereby.

I frequently get told that "colour," "behaviour," "aluminium" and the like are misspellings, and am scornfully asked if I don't know how to use a spellchecker. When they say such things, my interlocutors demonstrate their ignorance of the fact that English is written outside of the US of A.

Now Phil is making merry over an ungrammatical expression: "The most unkindest cut of all." How deliciously clumsy!

So clumsy, in fact, that it is a reference to an obscure author whom Phil apparently never read: a nobody named William Shakespeare. It's from Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II. Mark Antony is making a speech over the body of Caesar; an obscure speech from a practically unknown play.

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Pahoran


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Pahoran wrote:an obscure speech from a practically unknown play.

how deliciously apt....
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Drifting wrote:
Pahoran wrote:an obscure speech from a practically unknown play.

how deliciously apt....
Especially given the Shakespearian content in the Book of Mormon. "The Tempest" is an obscure play written by-----





William Shakespeare. Refer to I Nephi while reading it.

And, of course, wherever you find some---




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Re: DCP Ordered to Vacate MI's Offices

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Sethbag wrote:With all the public bad-mouthing of the MI that he and his cronies have done since the "putsch", is he really surprised that they want their office space back? Really?


If he keeps whining and moaning publicly, he might soon find they urgently need his other office space, too.

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