Another reason for putting Russell on moderation......

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> On Jun 25, 2011, at 7:36 PM, RussellMc wrote:
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> I had a lecturer who gave me a C for a lab report (maybe a C-) and
> didn't say why.
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> So I repeated the misdemeanor and got another C.
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> Turned out he objected to the pages being numbered in Hebrew.
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>                 Aleph, Beth, Gimel, Daleth, ...    <-- fwiw -
> Gamatrea uses  the Hebrew alphabet as both  numbers and letters
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> After I left they fired him for having falsified his credentials and
> miscellaneous weird behaviour.
> Irrelevant, but he had a profile closer to that of a beer keg than
> anyone else I've ever seen :-).
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> When I subsequently (some people never learn) numbered pages in a
> report in Hebrew for a Professor who was Chairman of the NZIE, an
> acknowledged man of stature, and was  all round generally liked and
> respected in and out of university, he commented (as close as the
> intervening 39 or so years allow)
> .
> "What's this, Hebrew".
> 'Yes sir'
> "Ah. I thought so".
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> The late great Prof Bogel.
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>                   Russell
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