Re: How will you age?


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Ranieri wrote:

Maybe it's just something about the deep south. I can't decide
whether it turns people into indolent wretches, or whether it just
attracts them.

There is some sort of island phenomenon where people are amazingly
lazy and/or lacking in work ethic. Sort of the ganja mentality, where
life's a party and nothing ever gets done. It may have something to
do with the culture of living in oppressive heat.

I'm not saying everyone in the south has a lousy work ethic (or
everyone in New England has a puritan work ethic - just look at TBR)
but there really does seem to be a cultural slackerness that is very
different in the Northeast.

Not to mention the south is devoid of any real intellectual centers. Oh
sure, a handful of decent writers came out of South Carolina 200 years
ago, and they've managed to lure some smart northerners down to
Alpharetta in recent years, but let's face it there is nothing even
remotely approaching a Caltech, Harvard or University of Chicago down
in that neck of the woods. As much as I hate to generalize, I think
dumb and lazy is the status quo in all those civil war loser states.

The University of Alabama claimed six of the 83 spots on this year's USA
Today All-USA College Academic Team, the most of any school in the
nation.
http://www.ua.edu/academic.html

Have you heard of Georgia Tech, University of Florida, LSU? All leaders
in computer science and medicine. You're a bit of a dumbass Yankee,
aren't you?



A USA Today All-USA team? Wow.

How bout Nobel Prizes? Let's see, 30 from Princeton...31 from Caltech and
a whopping 73 from that most hallowed institution, The University of
Chicago.

University of Florida...hmmm...oh wait, here's one!
1997: "Mark Hostetler of the University of Florida, for his scholarly
book, 'That Gunk on Your Car'" which identifies the insect splats that
appear on automobile windows."
Oh...wait, that was an IgNobel prize. My bad.

I do find your feeble atempt to defend the scholarly honor of your fellow
grit-munching mush brains touching. Pathetic, but touching.

And your cites mean nothing, unless you can prove that the winners were
actually from those respective places. Southern universities are as good
as or better than any in the US. Have you , perhaps, heard of Georgia
Tech, the MIT of the South? Duke, Auburn?

The MIT of the South? GOOLLLY! Funny that MIT doesn't ever feel the need to
call itself the Georgia Tech of the North. Now go back to your pro wrestling
and nascar, Jethro.




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