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   From: yclept@outlook.com   
      
   Chris  wrote:   
   > John Hill  wrote:   
   >> Andrews  wrote:   
   >>> John Hill wrote on Mon, 4 Nov 2024 09:33:37 -0000 (UTC) :   
   >>>   
   >>>> As a research physicist by training, profession and inclination I needed   
   to   
   >>>> read no further. I now know that I can safely disregard anything you   
   write.   
   >>>> But I'm in awe of your inventive abilities.   
   >>>   
   >>> I have a college degree. You do not.   
   >>   
   >> Well now! That is a very dogmatic assertion, made out of total ignorance.   
   >>   
   >> In actual fact, I have a BA and a DPhil in Physics at Oxford. (That is the   
   >> Oxford equivalent of PhD at most universities).   
   >   
   > He won't believe you in the same way he didn't believe me.   
   >   
   >> And I can prove it, naturally.   
   >   
   > I offered to do a show-and-tell with him with my PhD certificate if he was   
   > willing to show his college "degrees". He chickened out.   
   >   
   >> But it would be better, since you are who   
   >> you are, for you to look it up for yourself.   
   >>   
   >> But perhaps you do not regard Oxford as a proper college?   
   >   
   > Depends which one(s) you were in ;-)   
      
   Keble. But that is really only significant as an undergraduate, and then   
   only from a tutorial point of view. Lectures, practical work were   
   university matters. Post graduate work was pretty much independent of   
   college, far more on your supervisor.   
      
   Old John.   
      
   --   
   The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,   
   Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit   
   Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,   
   Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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