I am Somebody Now!

I had luch with one of my former college professors yesterday. It came about due to an invite from a fellow SU accounting classmate to take part in the SU business school golf tournemant. My friend Gibby was soliciting partners for a foursome that was to include this professor and himself. The email string contained other potential golfers and the professor; but not Ginger and Mary Ann or the millionaire and his wife. I was feeling kind-of spunky so I shot off a wise ass "reply all" and then the fun started. At first Gibby was terrified that I had offended the professor, but he came back later and replied that he hadn't laughed so hard in years. At lunch yesterday he informed us that he now uses the email string in his SU Bio.

Here is his SU bio:

DAVE TINIUS:
Dave’ s background is engineering , public accounting, consulting and a long career at Seattle U teaching accounting. To give you an idea of how highly regarded Dave is among the SU alumni, here’s a little snippet from a recent e-mail exchange among some accounting alums . . . we didn’t make this up.

In this e-mail sequence Gibby is trying to get a couple of his SU, late-1970s-alumni, pals to play in the Albers golf tournament with himself and Dave in July. Here‘s the exchange of e-mails:

Subject: I need two
2:17pm, June 24
Hey guys,
. . . I have agreed to play with Dave Tinius, one of the long time accounting professors. We need two partners for this best ball scramble tournament . . . Any takers? . . . Gibby

Subject: RE: I need two
2:33pm
Not me; that bastard gave me a C in Cost Accounting, yeah you hear me, I am talking to YOU Professor Tinius, guess you never thought that oversight would ever come back and bite you. Well, it is biting today. HA! I will not carry your team this year, Gibby . . . Coug

2:38pm
And another thing, the questions on those cost accounting tests were horrible. They were like this:

Your golf score card has been destroyed in a fire. You know Gibby’s handicap,
the course slope, and the relative humidity. The O’Brien twins and Elgin Baylor
are playing in the scramble as well. What was the score on the first par three?
For bonus points, whose drive did you use?

Like I could ever answer those questions . . . Coug

Subject: RE: I need two
2:41pm
Coug, let it go!!! It’s been 30 years. And you’re still losing sleep. Besides you did all your studying at Sundance to get away from diapers . . . Brian

Subject: RE: I need two
2:51pm
Yeah, but I still remember Professor Tinius coming over to me and saying “kid, it’s not your night; we’re giving the A to Wilson.” Not my night! I coulda taken Wilson’s cost analysis apart. So what happens? Wilson gets the championship bout in the ballpark and I get a one way ticket to Palookaville. I coulda been somebody, I coulda had class . . . Coug


Origins Students: Don’t worry about it . . . there’s no way to prepare for Dave’s questions or his grading.