# Attention numbskulls! Get edumakated right here, y'all.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-numbskulls-get-edumakated-right-here-yall/218415
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [December 11, 2003, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-numbskulls-get-edumakated-right-here-yall/218415 "2003-12-11T19:37:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Lars\_Aruns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lars_Aruns)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2003, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-numbskulls-get-edumakated-right-here-yall/218415/61 "2003-12-12T11:31:25Z")
It’s not **wierd** , it’s **weird**. This one drives me nuts.
It’s not **parmesan** , it’s **parmigiano**. Pahr-mee-djah-noh.
Oh, and pizza is supposed to be crunchy, not a soggy glutinous flat mass that slops down your hand when you take it.
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### Author:  [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2003, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-numbskulls-get-edumakated-right-here-yall/218415/62 "2003-12-12T11:33:34Z")
1. The position of the planets, moon and sun relative to the stars behind them in no way influences events on earth except when people choose to change their behavior because of them.
2. Everyone can predict the future, but everyone who does is guessing.
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### Author:  [@Achilles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achilles)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2003, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-numbskulls-get-edumakated-right-here-yall/218415/63 "2003-12-12T11:42:26Z")
1. It’s not an M.B.A. in “xyz”. It’s just a fucking M.B.A… “Masters (degree) in Business Administration”. Sheesh.
You’re thinking of “M.A.”
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### Author:  [@Achilles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achilles)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2003, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-numbskulls-get-edumakated-right-here-yall/218415/64 "2003-12-12T11:44:49Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Lars Aruns \*
> **It’s not parmesan, it’s parmigiano. Pahr-mee-djah-noh.**
With all due respect - it’s both. One’s English, one’s Italian. That’s all.
Let’s stick to facts.
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### Author:  [@HDS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HDS)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2003, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-numbskulls-get-edumakated-right-here-yall/218415/65 "2003-12-12T11:45:19Z")
People who read books don’t have tons of time on their hands, better spent doing other things. We just make time for that, like others make time for reality shows.
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### Author:  [@sirtonyh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirtonyh)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2003, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-numbskulls-get-edumakated-right-here-yall/218415/66 "2003-12-12T12:25:00Z")
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> \*Originally posted by vunderbob \*
> \*\*Hey numbskull ;), it’s “NASA”, not “Nasa”, because the name is an acronym. :smack:
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> VunderBob, current NASA employee \*\*
Holy shit! An actual rocket scientist 😉
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### Author:  [@Lars\_Aruns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lars_Aruns)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2003, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-numbskulls-get-edumakated-right-here-yall/218415/67 "2003-12-12T12:54:07Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Achilles \*
> \*\*With all due respect - it’s both. One’s English, one’s Italian. That’s all.
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> Let’s stick to facts. \*\*
All right, let’s. “Parmesan” is an erroneous approximation of an Italian word, made up by people who couldn’t bother with the correct pronunciation. Going in the other direction, “Hot dog” stays “hot dog”, it does not become “cane caldo”. Same for “cd”, “film”, and other words. If a word is imported, it is usually not mangled - otherwise, why does pizza stay pizza and doesn’t become pyzz? 🙂
At least you seem agree on the wierd/weird thing.
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### Author:  [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2003, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-numbskulls-get-edumakated-right-here-yall/218415/68 "2003-12-12T12:56:44Z")
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> \*Originally posted by sirtonyh \*
> \*\*Holy shit! An actual rocket scientist 😉 \*\*
Quite true, but I haven’t been here long enough to get in on the good conspiracies. 😃
Back to the topic at hand. 99 US restaurants out of 100 blow it whenever the menu lists a French Dip sandwich. FDSs come _au jus_, not "with _au jus"_. **Au** is the French form of with.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2003, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-numbskulls-get-edumakated-right-here-yall/218415/69 "2003-12-12T13:18:58Z")
1. Most cautionary advice delivered by email is bollocks - check Snopes and Sophos before you forward it to everyone you know.
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### Author:  [@SeekingTruth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeekingTruth)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2003, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-numbskulls-get-edumakated-right-here-yall/218415/70 "2003-12-12T13:23:13Z")
my 2 cents,
If a genious drops out of college and builds a mega-billion company with a friend in his mom’s garage, this proves a degree is only good for impressing CEO’s, Human Resources, etc. If he happens to build on existing technology and sells it well, it will only stand the test if it is functional to consumers.
Henry Ford didn’t invent the automobile, but I hear of noone slamming him for building on the science that was there before him.
If said company put out a product so unstable, unreliable, and utterly worthless, why is it the world’s most popular OS? Careful, you don’t want to get into the conspiracies while trying to debunk to “grassy Knoll” shooter.
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### Author:  [@sirtonyh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirtonyh)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2003, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-numbskulls-get-edumakated-right-here-yall/218415/71 "2003-12-12T13:53:37Z")
My pet peeve on another message board;
If a European states they do not like the policies of President Bush, it does not mean they hate America
Being opposed to the war in Iraq does not mean I think Saddam Hussien was a great guy.
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### Author:  [@l1I235](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/l1I235)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2003, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-numbskulls-get-edumakated-right-here-yall/218415/72 "2003-12-12T16:00:54Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Achilles \*
> \*\*37. It’s not an M.B.A. in “xyz”. It’s just a fucking M.B.A… “Masters (degree) in Business Administration”. Sheesh.
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> You’re thinking of “M.A.” \*\*
No, you can have a M.B.A. (Master of Business Administration) in several fields, at least at my Univ. and 90 some odd percent of Grad schools in the US which offer the M.B.A.
Examples:
Consulting
Entrepreneurship/Small Business
Finance and Accounting
General Management
Human Resources/Organization Management
Information Systems
Marketing
Operations Management
What if the B were just a typo or a slip? Geez. Come now, don’t we have better things to do rather than pick for holes in my post?
The point is having a M.B.A. or M.A. or whatever does not make you brilliant.
Did I detect a bit of the behavior described in my first post? Or did you just feel the need to straighten me out?
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### Author:  [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2003, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-numbskulls-get-edumakated-right-here-yall/218415/73 "2003-12-12T17:33:09Z")
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> All right, let’s. “Parmesan” is an erroneous approximation of an Italian word, made up by people who couldn’t bother with the correct pronunciation. Going in the other direction, “Hot dog” stays “hot dog”, it does not become “cane caldo”. Same for “cd”, “film”, and other words. If a word is imported, it is usually not mangled - otherwise, why does pizza stay pizza and doesn’t become pyzz?
Hell, while we’re on the subject, why does it become a Spanish omelette, but the other stays as paella? Answer: that’s just the way it happened.
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### Author:  [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2003, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-numbskulls-get-edumakated-right-here-yall/218415/74 "2003-12-12T17:37:24Z")
Spanish Rice was already taken. The best paella I’ve had was at some Cuban dive in Atlanta. I can’t remember the name, though.
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### Author:  [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2003, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-numbskulls-get-edumakated-right-here-yall/218415/75 "2003-12-12T17:44:23Z")
Bill Gates gave the world Halo, no matter how much direct involvement he had on that project. That alone excuses him for many of the OS issues we have faced in the past. With that, on to my contribution:
Quite often the instability found in Windows can be attributed to poorly designed third-party apps and drivers. True, Windows should be better able to protect itself, but for the most part Windows on its own is pretty solid.
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### Author:  [@carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrot)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2003, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-numbskulls-get-edumakated-right-here-yall/218415/76 "2003-12-12T18:02:40Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Homebrew \*
> \*\*Spanish Rice was already taken. The best paella I’ve had was at some Cuban dive in Atlanta. I can’t remember the name, though. \*\*
**Homebrew** –was it a place on Buford Highway near North Druid Hills? I think I know the place you mean.
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### Author:  [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2003, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-numbskulls-get-edumakated-right-here-yall/218415/77 "2003-12-12T18:53:05Z")
“Noone” is not a word.
It’s “no one.”
Oh, and all you Wiccans out there …
Don’t get your panties all in a bunch when someone thinks witches are people who can allegedly summon supernatural powers through black witchcraft spells.
You’ve usurped a perfectly good, 1,000-year old word with your modern usage and your still-wet-behind-the-ears religion that’s constructed out of spare metaphysical parts.
So spare me your pathetic, whiny, unjustified indignation.
You just like to be “offended” so you can spout off about your new age sewage.
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### Author:  [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2003, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-numbskulls-get-edumakated-right-here-yall/218415/78 "2003-12-12T19:13:05Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Spiff \*
> \*\*“Noone” is not a word.
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> It’s “no one.”
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> \*\*
Ah, it **IS** someone’s name, as in Peter Noone of Herman’s Hermits, who sings of lovely daughters… 😉
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### Author:  [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2003, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-numbskulls-get-edumakated-right-here-yall/218415/79 "2003-12-12T19:21:28Z")
What about the classic:
When Cthulhu’s minions are present in numbers greater than one, _say “octopodes” or “octopuses”, **not** “octopi”_.
😉
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### Author:  [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2003, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-numbskulls-get-edumakated-right-here-yall/218415/80 "2003-12-12T19:33:50Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Derleth \*
> **Dooku** : I don’t expect this post to penetrate your skull, but for the sake of everyone else I want to make it clear that I never called any person brain-damaged. I merely called the products made by Microsoft brain-damaged.
You’re right. It’s a touchy subject for me and I overreacted. I apologize for the hijack.
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