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Just who exactly is our new oracle DominiConnor????

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moondog · 28/03/2006 16:05

I like it all.

Grin
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GeorginaA · 29/03/2006 22:22

It really wasn't ... fascinating that is. It was mainly hardcore maths and far less pretty star charts Wink

I didn't do very well (should have switched degree really, but didn't know you could at the time) and got a 3rd class degree. Which is a bugger because I found I was overqualified for straight out of school jobs, but underqualified for graduate jobs.

On the plus side, it's always a conversation starter and those times you do something really stoopid and people shake their heads at you saying "really, GeorginaA it's NOT ROCKET SCIENCE!" I can look folorn and say "but that's the problem... I can do rocket science... this is hard" Grin

WideWebWitch · 29/03/2006 22:28

God, what a cool thing to be able to say GeorginaA, worth doing the subject for that alone I'd say :)

zippitippitoes · 29/03/2006 22:49

that's the grownup version of studying latin at A level then Grin

JoolsToo · 29/03/2006 22:50

isn't astrophysics just star jumps?

GeorginaA · 29/03/2006 22:56
Grin

I just wish I could actually remember ANYTHING about the whole course - I think I blanked it out of my mind in self-defence.

I do remember one equation we had to be able to derive from first principles (daft idea - even at A level you could look equations up in the book!) and writing small it was 3 lines long on narrow lined A4 paper...

... god I must have been insane.

zippitippitoes · 29/03/2006 23:49

so astrophyshics is kind of post modern art theory?

zippitippitoes · 29/03/2006 23:53

sorry C++ vectors of post modern art theory

brimfull · 29/03/2006 23:55

I think he's David Cameron

Ellbell · 29/03/2006 23:59

LOL ggirl!

Mosschops... look \link{http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=1372&threadid=158257&stamp=060327162505\here} for explanation of some comments on here, including the idea of 'soft PhDs'.

zippitippitoes · 30/03/2006 00:03

I think the drop of the c between dominic and connor is interesting, thus creating the domini

Ellbell · 30/03/2006 00:54

Would fit in with him being a lapsed Catholic/failed priest,ZTT...

Definitely fancies his pronouncements as the 'verbum Domini'.

JackieNo · 30/03/2006 07:13

On that dropping the 'c' - I did wonder if he was a 'she' and 'her' name was 'Ann O'Connor' - ie, Anno Domini (I have a weird and twisted mindBlush). Sorry...

FrannyandZooey · 30/03/2006 08:18

That is so ingenious, Jackie. I know an Ann O'Connor, too, got me thinking now...

(I also feel sure DC is male though)

ruty · 30/03/2006 10:37

where is PD btw? haven't seen him around lately.

Caligula · 30/03/2006 10:50

Someone start a thread on an Islamic political issue and he'll pop up.

Then we can all sit back and enjoy.

zippitippitoes · 30/03/2006 10:55

Perhaps he'll find my academic dirty thirty thread? Smile

Pruni · 30/03/2006 11:16

I think he nicks stuff off the forum on the website he gave (not exactly his btw).

zippitippitoes · 30/03/2006 11:26

Peacey you mean pruni?

I'm a bit bite sized for his posts

Pruni · 30/03/2006 13:11

Nah, DC. Had a good look round that website (mentioned further down) and let's say some of the forum subjects rang a few bells.

zippitippitoes · 30/03/2006 13:14

I give him a prize for remarkable restraint in the face of a thread in active conversations..

what would be a suitable award?

tamum · 30/03/2006 13:15

His very own copy of The Bell Curve?

Pruni · 30/03/2006 13:18

A date with Germaine Greer?

zippitippitoes · 30/03/2006 13:20

an honorary degree perhaps

DominiConnor · 30/03/2006 13:33

Wow, I have my own thread. Is this good or bad ?
A brief FAQ:
I am a lapsed Catholic, though not a seminarian.
Did more theology than was good for me. As I recall it was Harold Wilson who defined an intellectual as someone "educated beyond his abilty to understand". Certainly the more I did, the less it made sense.

Yeah, I do have a tendency to generalise, when writing for money keep it under better control.

Alas, Dingle I'm male, stubble and all. This has been happening to me since at least the 1980s.
Do I write like a female > What would the difference be ?

No sure which question whatasheep asked ?
If it was how do I get the time, it's because I don't, I type quite fast. Quality is a variable.

Pruni: I do not nick stuff off any website, at all ever. Though the forum site I think you mean is linked to my firm.

The other site you may find me is TheRegister. I write for them. Badly, but they are kind people.

I've been using DominiConnor since the time when the names of things I used weren't allowed to have spaces in them. Also that is how I pronounce it.

You wouldn't believe why I use DCFC as a label in other places. Even if you were there you wouldn't believe it, but you would at least know if the Dominic Connor you knew was the same one.

I am not in any way linked to the Star Trek franchise, though I am a trekkie, but was one of the people who funded the new series of Captain Scarlet.
Trek has a Dominic and a Connor, so googling on me gets you loads of false hits.

Tortington · 30/03/2006 13:38

thought it was treker not trekkie Grin