I passed ... you bloody beauty !

cobood · Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2001 4:54 pm

Congratulations from me too Alf......
Im glad that all your hard work has paid off...WELL DONE!!!

ROLL ON 2002

Dr Alf Andrews · Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2001 5:53 am

Well ....

First up, a very hearty thank you to Clemo, Joffa, Foxy, Magpie Gal 19, JLC, ck_nd and Cobood for your kind thoughts.

Thanks also to George Q. And I'm sorry to say, I don't bulk bill. You can blame our economic rationalist society for that. Instead I have to impart my wisdom to the world for free. I mean, how do you work out a scale of fees for "philosophy"? I wonder how much money Socrates made.

Brown26, you've got the right idea. You're going to be a REAL doctor, with a stethoscope and all. When I was a little kid I thought doctors were actually born with a stethoscope growing out of their ears ... so tell me, were you?

London Dave ... that's great about the petrol rationing. The only problem is, I don't drive. Believe me, doctors of "philosophy" can't afford cars. And besides that, we're much too "wise".

Ed Healey ... if you manage to wade through my dissertation (all several hundred pages of it) you'll discover that my title was chosen with a great sense of irony. I think you'll find yourself agreeing with a lot of what I had to say.

But you can save yourself the trouble because Nick the Pie Man has summed it all up a lot more succinctly than I have. Isn't it amazing how academics always manage to use 100,000 words to say something that could expressed in one sentence. I should have got you to write it for me, Nick. It would have saved me 4 and a half years' work.

OK. Now ... as for making this damn thing available, I'm working on it. I'm trying to set up a web-site where you can go to download it, but I'm a bit of a novice in this area so just be patient while I get my head around this.

Ain't life crazy, huh? I can write a bloody Ph.D. thesis, but I can't work out how to put it on the net. I'll just put it down to eccentric genius.

Hopefully, I'll have it sorted out real soon.

**floreat pica**

magpie joffa · Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2001 7:47 am

Hey doc Spock

Cant you do a mind to mind thing like we have seen you do on the enterprise.....also i have this enormous pain eminating from the lower part of my anatomy commonly known as the ass...LOL i expereince this great pain more so when looking at opposition clubs whilst we are in battle..please help.

'My God'i wouldnt go into hoddle street tonight for quids'.Bill jacobs 3aw, minutes after our premiership'That is like winning tattslotto and losing your ticket and some bloke puts it in the herald sun that he found it'Rex Hunt 3aw during the 1990 grand final'Well thats about as useful as a fly wire door in a submarine'sammy newman 3aw during the 1990 grand final

Rowdy26 · Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2001 9:06 am

Congratulations Alf!!!!

Thats an awesome effort. Now I hope you can bind a copy and send it off to Wayne and Co. at AFL headquaters! Someone needs to let them hear the voice of the real supporter and from the sounds of it this would be the perfect thing. Who better qualified than the peoples choice and the forums own "Dr Alf".

Once again Doc... well done!!!

GO RUPERT 10 · Joined: 27 Apr 2001 Location: THOMASTOWN,VIC,AUSTRALIA

AS DOCTOR EVIL WOULD SAY
RIGHT

Dr Alf Andrews · Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2001 9:55 am

What an absent-minded professor (well, not quite) I am. In my litany of "thank-you" messages, I forgot to mention ... er, who was it I forgot? ...

... the name just escapes me ...

... was it Nike ...

... er, Mork ...

... er ...

MIKE !

**floreat pica**

Brown26 · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2001 2:52 am

Alf, I can't say I was born with a stethoscope comming out my ears, but I've got one on the shelf (now I've just gotta work out how to use the damn thing!)

Isn't it funny how the guy gets a change in social stature and suddenly his whole image changes (re: picture) I mean are you running for parliment or something!!

And with regards to getting it on the net, this is where we turn to our good friend Mike. Lol - the master of all things computer.

- Ben

Pies for Premiers 2002, 3, 4, 5, 6....

junkboy75 · Joined: 26 May 2001

DOCTOR Alf, my belated congratulations! it's always nice to get an extra post-nominal to add to one's title. a job well done mate, and I hope this leads to some form of tenure at a higher learning institution. you could take C'wood 101 (how to go berko at the MCG) at melbourne uni; I know I'd enrol

"consectatio excellentiae"

Broadie · Joined: 10 Feb 1999 Location: VIC

Many congratulations to you Alf.

As someone who's only just completed a Masters thesis (on a considerably less exciting topic), I have some appreciation of the enormity of the task.

I look forward to reading your tome, though my own expereince has put me off "heavy" reading for a while, so it may take me as long to read as it did you to write.

I'll have a few cold ones in your honour this evening.

Broadie

hoggy · Bristle Joined: 05 Jun 2001 Location: BT

ALF

you da man!!!

Fradam did not write this!

Magpie_Dan · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2001 2:06 pm

I only have a credit card, but now I will most certainly get a MEDICARE because I will be a member and not just another number!

But hmmmmmmmmm it shouldnt matter if I dont have a MEDICARE because ALF oops SORRY DR ALF can give me a V.I.P membership!

CONGRATS ALF OH YEAH LET ME ADD

EVERYWHERE WE GO-OOO!

Go Pies!

Dan

Go The Richo!

UNLEASH THE TURBO!

PieGirl39 · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2001 3:02 am

fantastic news, dr. alf!! ... so when do i get to read it?!

pants42 · Joined: 05 Jun 2001

Congratulations Alf,great to have a doctor in the house ,look forward to reading your work.

RUSS · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2001 6:56 am

Well done Dr. Alf!

I remember swapping footy essays with you last year. I gradauted this year as well but I ain't no Doc!

Greg J · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2001 11:40 am

PhD = A unique contribution to human thought. Well done Alf.

Greg J