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To: puborectalis who wrote (10807)	2/6/1998 7:39:00 AM
From: Thean	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

<off-topic> Have this thread become a post-graduate socialite club? It's amazing the amount of doctor, lawyers, Ph.D., MBA, professors, philosophers we have posting on this thread. While I don't know if the quality of discussion has improved as a result of this surge in "education power", the trip to the book shelf to look up words in the dictionary has certainly increased. One just wonders, why the heck are all these educated people talking about drilling rig and try to make sense of crude price movement? This is an amazing thread! Congratulation to all. Maybe there is indeed higher wisdom in the profound mechanics of oil and gas drilling. I hope all those people without a degree feel perfectly right at home here. Investing is a discipline no education can teach. Teddy, what do you think?

To: puborectalis who wrote (10807)	2/9/1998 12:52:00 AM
From: Chuzzlewit	Respond to of 95453

OT OK Steve, I give up! I thought globus pallidus was a bald pate, and if it isn't, it certainly should be! Putamen sounds vaguely obscene, perhaps because puta means whore. Ah, but circadian rhythm -- that one I know. Circa about, dian from diem day -- means about one day. Refers to the almost universal biological daily rhythm of around 24 hours. So, you sent me to the dictionary for globus pallidus and putamen, and after reading the dictionary I still don't have the vaguest idea what they mean! Latin sesquipedalians are not fair (see, I snuck one in <VBG>)! Regards, Paul