Guess that Blog!
First off, a personal message: stop reading now Fryslan, you’re not going to like this.
I realise that there is nothing people like more than a game (except maybe chocolate); so here’s the first in a new regular spot on the B&W blog (I hate that word).
Guess that Blog
All you’ve got to do to win – and the person who gets the most right at the end of the series will win a copy of The Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense – is to guess, on the basis of the (imaginary) subject titles below, which blog I’m talking about. Answers on a postcard; or using the comments facility below.
Here we go:
1. Republicans are fascists.
2. Bush stole the election in Florida (yes, I’m still going on about this).
3. Bush kills cats.
4. Professor Smith takes up new position at Not As Good As Mine University.
5. Bush eats babies.
6. Republicans stole election in Delaware (surely, they must have done).
7. People who disagree with me are wrong, have never achieved anything in
their
lives, and have no qualifications (Part 1).
8. Republicans are aliens from Mars.
9. I’m great.
10. Professor Jones – who admires my work – takes up new position at Really Quite Good University.
11. Bush bribed nun to forge election results.
12. Bush sighted wearing suspicious black shirt (shock).
13. People who disagree with me are wrong, have never achieved anything in
their lives, have no qualifications, and they’re hopeless in bed (Part 2).
14. Bush eats babies whilst they’re still alive.
15. I’m really great.
I know I know I know!
But I won’t tell. What would I want with a copy of the FD, anyway.
The Shadow knows!
The Leiter Report:
http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/bleiter/
Shadow
You’ll appreciate that I’m not in a position to reveal the correct answer at this point.
But your entry has been noted!
Is Shadow your real name? I suspect not…
After we guess who, can we have another game where we discuss the accuracy of his opinions in those subjects? (I think he’s at about 95%, myself).
“can we have another game where we discuss the accuracy of his opinions in those subjects?”
No. Because only somebody who had never achieved anything in their life, had no qualifications and no discernible intelligence would think that accuracy was all that counted.
I’m looking forward to reading this blog, when the answer is revealed/confirmed!
If you like Robin, I’m sure I could provide you with a summary of the next year’s likely posts…
I’m also going to have to go with Leiter (although some of the recent anti-Bush stuff is by one of his guests).
Who is this Leiter fella…!?
Thanks for your entry Miriam!
Although, if we can double-dip, I would also guess the Crooked Timber-ites (but, really, they don’t usually play the “X university isn’t as good as mine” game).
Also, there’d have to be the odd title in German, and the occasional reference to Rousseau for it to be plausibly the CTs.
Perhaps I shouldn’t be giving clues…
I’m going with Leiter too, but we can all play this game Jerry:
DO
1. Evolution is really great.
2. Crooked Timber think way too much of themselves.
3. No, they really really do.
4. I have to agree with my colleague there.
5. That Madeleine Bunting is really stupid.
7. I think my colleague is right about that too.
8. Religion is a big big problem and is anti-science.
9. Though postmodernisms is too…
10. The hijab is really really bad.
11. I agree with my colleage about that.
LOOP
Hey
Stop that! You’re ruining one of the later games!
I feel sorry for this poor Leiter guy, though. I don’t know why you’re all picking on him.
[collapsed in laughter]
I knew that was going to happen! I nearly said as much yesterday! I knew that post was going to get us mocked and teased and ridiculed, and quite right too. My colleague oops I mean Jerry S might as well stand around with a sign with big arrows all over it all pointing to B&W saying ‘Mock this now at once quick hurry!’
Anyway, it’s a fair cop.
And I don’t agree with my colleague about anything at all. In fact I never heard of him.
“In fact I never heard of him.”
I’ve never heard of me either. Being somebody of no discernible intelligence, achievements* or qualifications.
*I did win an under-5s tiddlywinks contest once. Does that count?
Tell you what’s quite funny, though, OB. I saw Chris’s parody, and my immediate thought was – that’s quite a nice, rounded selection of topics! :-)
I especially like the agreeing with colleague bit. :-)
That is quite funny. Whereas my immediate thought was ‘Busted!’ – followed by a great deal of laughter.
Oh you do. Funny how Chris left out the disagreeing with colleague bit!
Yeah, I guessed Leiter, too. Maybe he and Burgess Jackson should marry each other and have a baby together. Sure, their politics don’t mesh, but that would only add a delightful friction to their lovemaking.
How come philosophy professors are so obnoxious?
“How come philosophy professors are so obnoxious?”
One day I’m going to write an article about this. I think I know the answer!
(Notwithstanding the whole no intelligence, qualifications or achievements thing.)
I am so pleased to be neither a philosopher nor a literary theorist. We biology professors are always so equitable and charming and beloved. And self-effacing.
And you make great jambalaya!
I hope Jerry S’s “notwithstanding” was referring to philosophy professors, and not to himself. False modesty doesn’t become him.
Didn’t Colin McGinn (sp?) once write a column about academic philosophy as bloodsport? Rings true. I remember the philo majors at my college as being extremely unpleasant people. It’s why I switched to history.
Biology profs rock! And, ironically, geology profs don’t.
“And, ironically, geology profs don’t.”
cackle!
Don’t worry – Jerry S hasn’t got a false modesty bone in his body, wouldn’t know false modesty if it bit him, has never been within a mile of false modesty.
“False modesty doesn’t become him.”
Nothing false about my modesty. I know my station. I’m a poor man’s Salieri. Only without the whole being able to compose thing.
There is something about philosophers, though. And I’ve met a lot of the buggers.
Scientists are nicer. E. O. Wilson, for example, an incredibly charming guy. Martin Rees the same.
I have to qualify my previous statement just a little bit: I once met Stephen Jay Gould and found him an extremely unpleasant person, which surprised me. But then, he also taught geology, so maybe that explains it.
I’ve never heard anybody say anything bad about E. O. Wilson as a person.
I spent three hours with Ed Wilson, and he was lovely. He had interesting things to say about Steve Gould (which I can’t repeat here!).
That’s interesting. A friend of mine has a friend who was a friend of Gould’s (or something – maybe there’s another intermediate friend in there) and says the same. Very arrogant, brusque, etc.
I knew nothing of the Leiter thing, so I obviously couldn’t guess the blog. I did spend an hour or so on his blog, and my impression was “It must be a parody.” As a parody it would be marginally funny; if it’s real, oh well, charity is the better part of valor.
Blush :-)
I get a mention in B & W
Thanks y’all.
BTW Bush rocks, and Kerry, well he’s a dick
Oh yeah, i f’rgot:
Love and kisses Jerry
Love and kisses back, Fryslan.
Aw, that’s so sweet. sniff