Jul. 12th, 2011

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I think I did this one several years ago, actually, but I don't think I got the same result.

Snagged, this time, from [livejournal.com profile] linda_joyce:

Your result for The Are You Truly Erudite? Test...

True English Nerd

You scored 84 erudition!

Not only do you know your subjects from your objects and your definite from your indefinite articles, but you've got quite a handle on the literature and the history of the language as well. Huzzah, and well done! The English snobs of Boston salute you.

Take The Are You Truly Erudite? Test at HelloQuizzy



Gee, for a meme supposedly celebrating Erudition, the meme-writer sure sounds mean-spirited and anti-intellectual in the written description, doesn't he (she? other? both?)? Especially since the meme-maker used "Nerd" instead of "Geek." ;-P

I like the picture, though (A painting in the Romantic style of two women in flowing, Grecian-esque dresses. in a golden-hued room; one, in a pink dress is reclining languidly on a couch by a window, and the other, in a cream-colored dress, is seated on the floor, reading a scroll which is spread across her lap). A lovely way to spend a hot summer day like today.
capri0mni: A black Skull & Crossbones with the Online Disability Pride Flag as a background (Default)
... and I couldn't call in to give him a piece of my mind.

On Friday, on the local noon-hour radio call-in show, the guest was a Vet of Iraq or Afghanistan (I turned it on after the intro, so I missed that bit), and I tuned in just in time to hear this:

[Paraphrased, probably; memory is a slippery fish.]

(quote)
"Doesn't matter if it's from diabetes or a bomb. If you've lost a leg you have two choices: You can be miserable in a chair, or you can be miserable with a [prosthetic] leg. I choose to be miserable with a leg, because at least then, I can be in shape."
(unquote)


{{Head-desk X 10^16}}*

I'm truly sorry he's miserable. I hope he can find his joy again, soon. In the Meantime -- please shut up! Stop making it hard for the rest of us to be taken seriously in our lives!

Sheesh!

And of course, his word is taken as Gospel Truth, because he is a Noble and Heroic Soldier, who Sacrificed Greatly in Defense of our Freedom.**



*Actually, I just slammed my fist against the bathroom wall about five times.

**Though, last time I checked, the Taliban didn't care a whit about our representational government, or the meaning of the Interstate Commerce Clause of the Constitution. I live in hope that someday, Librarians, teachers and historians are lauded as heroes who defend our freedoms.

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