I just finished reading a rather long-winded article discussing the
Spartans and how they held back the "cretin" army, despite being
hopelessly outnumbered. The author must have used the word cretin
about thirty or forty times, much like my poor student, Jason Repa
(AKA Skippy) does each day he posts. In fact, I noted that not only
did he fail to capitalize the word, but it struck me as very odd that
the author chose the suffix "in" rather than, say, "an", as in Cretan
(or Spartan). So, just to be sure, I looked it up. Sure enough, this
well-paid financial wizard had erred, and because of his monotonous
repetition of the term, multiplied his spelling error many, many fold.

This just goes to show that one can in fact learn, or rather, become
more familiar with, certain tidbits of knowledge, even from the
lowest of intellects. Indeed, Skippy has the proper spelling down
pat, as with other favored terms such as "retard" and "imbecile".
They say that practice makes perfect, and here we see just how true
this is. That other guy, the well-paid investment guru, had not the
slightest clue as to the subtle difference between a fellow from Crete
and, say, a fellow from the Winterpeg Sanitarium where Skippy and his
cretinous friends reside.

Now, you may wonder as to why exactly an investment guru would
choose to discuss Cretans, and Spartans holding them off, instead of
say, investing. Well this was just a long-winded rant about politics
and energy resources, not money, but he maintained that he had the
right to rant this way because they are inextricably tied together.
Be that as it may, before going to press he should have considered
consulting an expert on cretins, like my student Jason Repa, for
instance.

-- coach bot