[Buddha-l] how many buddhists...

[charlie]

How many Buddhist does it take to screw in a light bulb?

None, as there is no light and there are no buddhists.

Just to "lighten" it up a bit...

from your lay buddhist reader Charlie

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:23 AM, jkirk <jkirk at spro.net> wrote:

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> [mailto:buddha-l-bounces at mailman.swcp.com] On Behalf Of Richard
> Hayes
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> Maybe I'm just in a bad mood because my department is undergoing
> one of those periodic self-studies and peer review rituals that
> administrators love so much. I'm so sick of seeing charts and
> tables full of information on how many books, articles, book
> chapters, book reviews, invited lectures, conference
> presentations, teaching awards, thesis advisees and privileged
> parking spaces all our faculty have to their credit that I retch
> at the very idea of trying to quantify excellence.
> (Excellence, as I'm sure you all know, is the only product that
> universities sell. No department is ever merely pretty good, or
> good enough for a poor state like New Mexico. Everything is world
> class, as in Garrison Keillor's home town, where all the children
> are above
> average.)
>
> Quantification, bah! If there is only one Buddhist in the world,
> that's fine with me. (If I'm that one Buddhist, all the better.
> But I'm not.) But what do I know? Only 0.27% of the penguins in
> Tierra del Fuego agree with me.
>
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> Universities are corporations----these mappo days the corp. part
> has overrun and all but eliminated the excellence in educashun
> part.
> Joanna
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