Words beginning graduate students don't know

Benjamin Torbert btorbert at GMAIL.COM
Fri Oct 11 06:05:37 UTC 2013


I thought palisades were a bunch of vertical bis-ass logs.  Correct me if
I'm wrong.

Torbert


On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:29 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Postdoctorally, I resided at the Hoffleit house for a year or so in Pacific
> Palisades CA, so I think palisades must be cliffs. But I don't know the
> last word in the list. What's a <geoff>?
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