[katezbox]

As Boomer might cry, "Oh dear, oh dear!" Look at Tony's status. Only an English major would know what that meant. Or maybe it is that crafty TH changing Tony's status to make us jump to conclusions.

[tony]

I am starting to wonder if Talk Host is an English major. I know he is not a
music major. You should hear him sing. If he gets near a karaoke mic, you
would be best informed to leave quickly.

But then again that was the episode of Talk Host and the naked cello playing.
He was very adroit. Nobody could never see anything.

[sschuler1]

I believe that post must have been censored Tony, because I don't recall seeing the naked cello player? I'm sure I would have remembered that...in fact, it probably would have been indelibly burned in my retinas! (See, even us business majors can use big words!)

[tony]

I agree with you. You see? Boomer thinks only English major use big words.

Those of us who aren't English majors can take satisfaction in that.

[villages07]

OK, you made me look it up...

thau·ma·tur·gy (thôm-tûrj)
n. The working of miracles or magic feats

How many posts are required to attain this status? Do you get bonus points for being an English major?

[katezbox]

07,

I also had to look it up as (like Sue S) I am also a business major, albeit one with a minor in history. (Albeit is one of those words non-English majors can use to indicate that they are somewhat erudite and not just a money-grubbing troll).

I can prove my business major status by those three little letters after my name that could also stand for Compulsive Pain (in the ) Ass. Plus anyone who read my numerous bond lectures would have had to suspect....

[tony]

I majored in thaumaturgy, not English. Who has started this unfortunate rumor anyway?

Check with Chelsea on thaumaturgy. She was a journalism major. That is close as you can get to thaumaturgy. That is an English major who promises to look for an honest job. Lo, she went into advertising. She may see the error of her ways sooner or later.

I think if you ask around in Political about who is a CPitA, the trail may lead back pretty close to Chelsea, too.

[katezbox]

Originally Posted by tony

I majored in thaumaturgy, not English. Who has started this unfortunate rumor anyway?

Check with Chelsea on thaumaturgy. She was a journalism major. That is close as you can get to thaumaturgy. That is an English major who promises to look for an honest job. Lo, she went into advertising. She may see the error of her ways sooner or later.

I think if you ask around in Political about who is a CPitA, the trail may lead back pretty close to Chelsea, too.

Tony,

I avoid political with the same fervor that I would use to run from an oncoming tsunami.... We moderates get body checked by both sides.

[chelsea24]

Originally Posted by tony

I majored in thaumaturgy, not English. Who has started this unfortunate rumor anyway?

Check with Chelsea on thaumaturgy. She was a journalism major. That is close as you can get to thaumaturgy. That is an English major who promises to look for an honest job. Lo, she went into advertising. She may see the error of her ways sooner or later.

I think if you ask around in Political about who is a CPitA, the trail may lead back pretty close to Chelsea, too.

ahhhh, but Tony, we, in the advertising biz are the true thaumaturgists or "miracle workers". See, we can tell you that Wonder Bread builds bodies 12 ways ... and you believe us!!! It's a miracle! The bread goes flying off the shelves!

As for "Political" -- now, who else would keep those snarly old birds blood pumping??? OK, I'll accept the title of CPITA in Political. Now where do I get my award???

[tony]

I think Kate may have a spare award for you.

[Boomer]

Chels! Good to see you! I was starting to get a little worried. I thought maybe some of us moderates out here were going to have to band together to negotiate your release.

(And btw, Chels, speaking of advertising --I still have not revealed my perfect idea for a Metamucil slogan. I really must get around to storming the fortress that is P&G and shouting my slogan idea to the rooftops of those Ivory Towers, right down the road from me.)

Well, I see that the talk in this thread has turned to words and birds. Ohhhh, I just cannot get started on a dissertation on denotation and connotation of words. -- I cannot go there, although I am quite upset about this Golden Eagle status that seems to be circling me.

What is with this "Golden Eagle" status? Who in the heck came up with that one???

Golden -- auuuuughhhhhhh --Not only do I have to now completely understand everything "The Golden Girls" talk about and realize that we are the same age, but I also live in a state where something called "The Department of Aging" lurks around your mailbox waiting for you to turn 60 so they can give you a "Golden Buckeye" card. And then I find out that the "Golden Buckeye" card is mostly worth a little something off the bill at every salt and fat-infested fast food restaurant you can think of. Is the Ohio Department of Aging trying to bump off the boomers? (Hey, Chels, maybe you can ask those guys in political about that for me.)

Eagle -- Shouldn't that word be reserved for the Eagle Scouts or the Screaming Eagles or colonels or captains? A noble bird, an eagle, but not something to name a woman who through two Ohio winters has started almost every morning by sitting in front of a computer, drinking coffee, eating Cheerios with walnuts on them, wearing flannel, and writing posts to the point of accumulating almost 2000 of them. That is not an accomplishment. That is a serious condition. Certainly not the stuff of eagles.

I did not know it was going to happen. I did not know I would write about farts and soap opera names and shopping trips and dogs and the economy and Carl Hiaasen and farts, again, and on and on it went. And I could not stop. And now……what do I do? Do I change my name and start over? Ohhhhh, you would never recognize BoomerDeux would you?

Ohhhhh, the denotation of words – the simple definition. But always, always, always there is the connotation of words – the baggage those words carry along, imply, outside the definition. And now, anybody who got through this post probably thinks I am an English major, analyzing the heck out of words. But…..”Golden Eagle” – that bird is not the word for me. – It’s all too much.

Tippi Hedren Boomer

[downeaster]

"If you're the kind of person who insists on this or that 'correct' use... abandon your pedantry as I did mine. Dive into the open flowing waters and leave the stagnant canals be... Above all, let there be pleasure!"—Stephen Fry

[tony]

Boomer,

What? I see the titles have returned to the original.

I see that I am still entitled the same, and rightly so.

I think I don't understand downeaster.

[chelsea24]

Hi Boomer! Yup, I'm alive and well and annoying the conservatives! Hahaha!

However, I can now see, through your adept breakdown of my title "Golden Eagle" that I am reeeeeallly considered a screaming old bird!!!

Well, you know what they say... "if the feather fits..."

[Boomer]

Originally Posted by tony

Boomer,

What? I see the titles have returned to the original.

I see that I am still entitled the same, and rightly so.

Dear Mr. Tony, Mr. Admin, Sir:

This post is a test. That's right. A test.

I feel that I have made it quite clear that I do not want the title "Golden Eagle" bestowed upon me. And I have given my reasons. I found myself fretting away in a post about connotation and denotation of words. I was acting like some kind of English major. It was most stressful to find myself behaving in such a way. And so I now have to make an appointment with a massage therapist/message therapist and I think I will send the bill to TOTV.

I have endured the slings and arrows of outrageous accusations that I am an English major. But how can I be an English major? Much of the time I do not write in complete sentences. And I split infinitives all the time. And you know what else? I like splitting infinitives. Yes, I do.

Mr. Tony, I know that you are worried that your own secret English majorness is out there now. And so you try to deflect the suspicion. You try so hard to turn the tables. And you protest. Ah yes, methinks thou doth protest too much, Mr. Tony. It is all so transparent.

The Golden Eagle thing is fine for anybody who wants to be a Golden Eagle when they hit post 2000. But it's just not me. I just want to be Boomer. Just Boomer. Ohhhhh, why 2K? Why oh why 2K?????

So now, here is the test. I will find out. I will find out as soon as I hit submit and this thing posts. For a long time, Mr. Tony, you have called me an English major. But now I will find out if you are also giving me the bird.

Boomer