>:-)
> Peter T. Daniels scripsit:
>
> > I have two useful and innocuous-seeming insults: "engineer" and "English
> > major." Both are based in considerable experience of their respective
> > attitudes toward questions of theory!
>
> I was an English major (though of just what regiment would be difficult
> to say), and am involved in a discipline that most people consider an
> engineering one (though I disagree, as I consider programming basically
> a verbal discipline). I fail to see wherein the insult lies.