the world

[Jonathan Lighter]

Afflicted.

JL

"Mullins, Bill" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL> wrote:
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-----Original Message-----
>From: Jonathan Lighter
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Sent: 9/28/2004 7:15 PM
>Subject: Re: the world
>
>In the VN era, "the world" meant the USA - if you were overseas. "The
>real world" was a variant, and for all I know the original. (Nowadays
>you hear the "real world" in graduate school and instutional and
>semi-institutional settings, referring to anyplace but.)
>
>Statistically, one would expect that "the world" went from the
>conscripted to the convicted, rather than vice versa.

So, which is grad school -- conscripted, or convicted??


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