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Art Weil <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 14 Jun 2000 22:34:22 -0400
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four star Generals: how about Dr. Habe and Richard Kilburn!?
        Major Weil

Betty Jean Piech wrote:

> Dear Art -
>
>   Regarding all this discussion of what we should be called, I certainly
> haven't done anything as magnificent as your epitonium book, but I have had
> a couple of brief articles published  and Dr. Bill Emerson and I
> co-authored a new species.  I know I am not in your class so I couldn't be
> a Sergeant-Major; but I think I deserve more than a Drill Sergeant.  Maybe
> I could be a Sergeant-Lieutenant (or is there a height requirement for that
> rank)?  I am also curious as to whom you  would rank as a Four-Star General.
>
> Betty Jean, The Tall One
>
> At 08:40 PM 6/14/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >     If thou lookest for title designations, gho thou to the Army.
> >     All us "amateurs" would be some sort of non-com. Betty Jean would be
> >a Drill Sergeant. Published amatuers (me) cound be Sergeant-Majors.
> >     A professional (one accepting lucre) would start as Captains and
> >Lieutenants (dealers maybe)  Jose would surely be a Colonel. Andy
> >Rindsberg would be, too. The generals would be those individuals
> >(Harasywich, Pierce) running the meuseums. Tucker Abbott retired as a
> >Field Marshall.
> >     Now all we need would be those war-zone whatdyacallems worn on the
> >left breast. One for each shell show or prize won at same. Do you think
> >we could get Major Medical?
> >         Art

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