WOTY - now fortified with Grant Barrett!

[Tom Zurinskas]

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> Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:18:39 -0500
> From: listcatcher at REXSTOCKLIN.COM
> Subject: WOTY - now fortified with Grant Barrett!
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> Poster: "Rex W. Stocklin"
> Subject: WOTY - now fortified with Grant Barrett!
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> As I am unaware of an appropriate blog or some such vehicle to leave
> a comment, I'd like to expand on Grant's entry into the WOTY noms:
>
>>age-doping: The falsification of records to show that an athlete
>>meets participation requirements for a sporting event. This issue
>>arose with Chinese gymnasts in the Beijing Summer Olympics.
>
> I'd like to say a similar phenomenon occurs when, say, creating one's
> resume'. That is, the intentional deletion of jobs & other
> year-specific data that date the potential applicant as "too old" (I
> suppose, going the other direction, manufacturing jobs & education
> data is a form of youth-oriented age-doping. But neither the missus
> nor I have ANY experience in such an endeavor as we have done plenty
> of the former)
>
> I'd also LOVE to see a countering term for TBTF, perhaps TBTB (as in
> too big to be, a concept in which one considers an enterprise that
> shouldn't exist due to its insouciant, inefficient and/or consumptive
> existence)
>
> Just a shot from the cheap seats...
> Rex Stocklin
> Fishers, IN
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