Oh but Barry, where has Richard Dean Anderson been more recently seen -- let's see what community (and its jargon) we belong to now! /C ---- Original message ----
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 10:16:56 -0500 From: Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: [Air-l] levels of jargon To: aoir list <air-l@aoir.org>
PS: An amusing piece of ageist writing is getting edited out of a paper that Jennifer Kayahara and I are writing, "Searching for Leisure". The editor has asked that we take out the term "MacGyver" on the grounds that young scholars would be unaware of that great 1985+ TV show where Richard Dean Anderson saved himself weekly from dire situations by do-it-yourself tricks. If you're under 40, see: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088559/
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