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here's xian
Blowhard feels the need to present his credentials before entering the fray - even if they are irrelevant to the discussion. For example, in a movie forum conflict he might attempt to settle the matter by saying, "As a Ph. D. candidate in particle physics I believe I can say with some authority that the 'Beavis and Butthead' movie represents the emergence of a new cultural paradigm." Huh?
__________________ "The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of man."
- Hawthorne (Young Goodman Brown)
"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."
- Thoreau (Resistance To Civil Government)
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears the beat of a different drummer."
- Thoreau (Walden) |