re: TulaneLSU's Top 10 miles walked along the Uptown parade route

"TulaneLSU's top 10 sets of tits in the French Quarter today"

Friend,

Your importunity of the alumnus's correct usage had me, in my infirmed state, questioning my grammar. It is important to learn from one's mistakes, so I did what any rational being would in such a situation: consult the Oxford English Dictionary.

My OED was a birth gift, given to my parents on the day of my birth in 1985, which was to be given to me at age one. Mother still speaks ill about that family member, insisting that they should have given a desco da parto, but I have found the OED a most useful companion. Many a mornings do I spend reading it alongside my Book of Common Prayer and Bible. If one were stuck on an island, there are just three books necessary for happiness and health: the Bible, the Book of Common Prayer, 1928 edition, and the Oxford English Dictionary, in that order. From those books, salvation, moral living, right theology, proper liturgy, and precise language are found. If these three books have not formed you, you are in need of reformation.



Is there anything better than such a start to the day? I love nestling near the hearth with my Bausch & Lomb magnifying glass in hand and OED in lap. A little hot unsweetened tea in the other hand makes all things better. I've since considered getting the entire twenty volume OED set to replace my two volume microprint set. However, there's something nostalgic and dignified about needing a magnifying glass to read a dictionary, and I've thus decided to keep with my tradition.

I woke this morning with a fever of 103, but my morning always starts with my triune text readings. What is your source for claiming alumnus can only refer to a male? Even in the 1985 edition of the OED, before the radicals injured English with their sexual word games, as Wittgenstein might say, this is what it reads:

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the nursling or pupil of any school, university or seat of learning

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There is no mention of gender. Alumna is feminine, that much is true. However, alumnus carries no gender. The OED is the common standard of the English language. Your argument, although compelling, is ultimately lost.

And yes, the lushes did throw me custom throws at Tucks.

Faith, Hope, and Love,
TulaneLSU

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Like I said a couple of weeks ago, you should get fitted by him as soon as possible. It's not long often that a man in his 90s continues working.

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Claude Toladano is a WW2 veteran and still cuts hair daily in kenner.
Check it out on your next trek into south kenner.

Dear Friend, Napoleon,

I will visit your barber friend, not to get a haircut, for I am loyal to my barber, but instead to hear his stories and tell him you sent me.

Although I appreciate your F250 offer, I would much rather your safety. Please be safe.

Yours,
TulaneLSU