my dear, sweet professor

from the man who coined "safe, legal, and rare" during his tenure as a clinton advisor...
comes this little gem in today's paper
skim the article, then pretend to be a young female reporter for the washington post
and direct your attention to popkin's final quotation

someone publicly calls our officemate a "smarmy collar-popper"

-----Original Message-----
From: poligrad-bounces@dss.ucsd.edu
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: [Poligrad] [Fwd: March Madness]

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Filling up people's email boxes with totally pointless emails is a

venerable tradition in this department C. You smarmy

collar-popper!

-W

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> On 3/18/08 10:56 AM, C wrote:

> As it is that time of year again, I will make my annual plea to set up a b-ball enthusiast mailing list so that the rest of us will be spared all the 'excitement.'

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> Bah Humbug!

> C

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> On 3/18/08 10:47 AM, s wrote:

>> Hello Everyone,

>>

>> It has come to my attention that many grad students no longer receive politalk messages. I want to make sure that no one is deprived of the opportunity to participate in the department's NCAA tournament pool, so I am resending the invitation to this year's pool:

>>
blah blah blah...
>>

>> Good luck. Let the bracketologizing!

>> S