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   From: ithinkiam@gmail.com   
      
   John Hill  wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   I know. Was gently teasing.   
      
   > Old John.   
   >   
      
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