Re: Simplify! A modest proposal to shorten this name....

From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Tue Sep 05 2000 - 22:07:55 MDT


Damien Broderick wrote:
> Do geologists name each other `granitists' (admittedly, some of them are schists)?

Actually, my cousin, the geologist, says he and his colleagues call the 'sky is
falling' rivals at UW 'cataclysmists'. I told him about the term
'disasterbationist', which he likes much more (as does the rest of his
department).



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