Hi Lestie, Linda and all,

Linda excellent job on misandry. The only way that I can remember that word is by using a mnemonic (or is that pneumonic?) technique by showing what a cultural highbrow I am and thinking of Beaver Cleaver's teacher, Miss Landers. Of course then, perhaps you will perceive me as being ethnocentric or even jingoistic in presuming that someone from GB or SA or Indonesia knows about that American cultural iconic tv show "Leave it to Beaver."

At any rate, I hate neither men or women- I just hate grade inflation which is the curse of the American school and university system. Banality be thy name!

Lestie since you aspire to be more than just my (wo)Man Friday, go ahead and give me/us your best (no mediocrity accepted in our cyberspaceland) shot, lingustically speaking.
Since I am the antithesis of a polyglot, en ingles por favor.

Ahhh yes, hopefully "the answer my friend, is blowin' in the wind" whether or not that one believes that they are or are not "knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door" or whether or not one feels that we as a planet are or are not "on the eve of destruction" er I mean dystopia.

I have a confession to make. By the 7th grade my classmates were calling me a "walking dictionary" (which in years to come my performance on the SATs would really shoot down that theory) when all that I really wanted out of life was to become the best stickball player in the annals of Devotion playground history.

At any rate, what is your favorite oxymoron? For Linda perhaps it might be an ethical scientist while for Lestie perhaps it might be an honest politician but let's allow everybody to speak for themselves about their favorite without feeling the need to dumb it all down.

I remember very clearly, it was 1979 and as a chef I had the audacity to use the word "affable" when speaking to two waitresses, Nancy and Ellie, who (whom?- I never said that I was good at grammar!) which up to that time I had an excellent working relationship with. Their response was that I was "trying to show us up and put us down." Huh??? and I thought that I was just trying to be pleasant and friendly. Oh well, as Bob Dylan er I mean (even though "Mr. Hughes hid in Dylan's shoes wearing his disguise) my favorite philosopher Ricky Nelson would say, "it's all right now, I learned my lesson well, you see you can't please everyone, you got to please yourself... la da da da..."

Time now for me to ruminate about the meaning of my existence...