A Piece of Spam

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I just got a piece of spam saying I could "earn" (their word) a degree based on my life experience. "No required tests, classes or books."

They're a little late. I would have perked up in high school when I had to take fucking Latin.

-- Anonymous, January 16, 2002

Answers

An advantage to being the youngest in my family is that after almost flunking Caesar's Conquests, they didn't make me take Virgil. My older siblings were made to suffer the classics, including Greek.

-- Anonymous, January 16, 2002

Greek!! The mind reels.

-- Anonymous, January 16, 2002

And "Geek" is the worst! Some of these software engineers who've been working 80+ hours a week on a project have totally lost touch.

-- Anonymous, January 17, 2002

Meemur, I'm doing a crossword puzzle, and my blood is getting all set to boil. "Computernick" four letters. The word they want better not be "nerd".

-- Anonymous, January 17, 2002

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