Re: I have a new job!

In article
<88222974-1341-4332-bbde-d4aec472a7eb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Tim DeLaney <delaney.timothy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Nov 13, 2:40 am, John Wilkins <j...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <Oi8XzqMruQ$KF...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ernest Major





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In message <131120091749277558%j...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, John Wilkins
<j...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
In article
<7aa95dd1-eccb-4492-a0a5-d59b547a3...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
spintronic <spintro...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 13 Nov, 05:40, John Wilkins <j...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Not, I have to say, in North America, but in Australia. I am now an
associate professor. I can't say where until the contract is signed,
but you may now all refer to me as Mr Professor, Doctor Gorilla. [Or
is
that the German convention?]

Really?

Why not Dr Wilkins, J.D.Wilkins, John Wilkins M.D, or John Wilkins
Ph.D?

And why become a Dr when you get a job, it's surely when you obtain
your professional degree?

Come back when you have your terminal degree.

My goodness, you really are uninformed.

I become a *professor*. I already was a doctor (PhD, not MD, which is
not, in my country or yours, a doctoral degree, nor JD, which is a law
degree. I can use "PhD" after my name if I like (I don't, except in
academic contexts), and I do go by Dr Wilkins, especially on airlines.

I though that the custom was that Ph.Ds didn't go by Dr. on airlines,
because of the risk of being asked to assist in the event of a medical
emergency.

Never heard that one before. I don't respond to requests for a doctor,
because I'm not a medico, but I use the title, which I am quite
literally entitled to use. Otherwise, as a middle aged male, I am
invisible to the attendants.





And because it seems I have to spell out the joke, in German it would
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I've been waiting for someone to comment on your
phrase "quite literally entitled", which has a
double meaning. "Literally" can refer to the
letters "PhD" while "entitled" can mean either
"having the title of" or "being deserving of".

Thenk yew, thenk yew... I'm here all week.

[M]adman (or was it Ray?) would do well to
meditate upon this phrase, given his ignorance
of the meaning of "literal".

Nah. It would literally make his head explode.

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