BS: Dr. Fibs!

Subject: BS: Dr. Fibs!
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 12:03 PM

A scary, headwrecking and masochistically enjoyable 2.5 hour PhD defense. I am now Piled Higher and Deeper.

Celebrations to continue at the Eurogathering. Right now I'm going to have a pint (of champagne).

Subject: RE: BS: Dr. Fibs!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 12:07 PM

Congrats!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Dr. Fibs!
From: Amos
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 12:20 PM

OH FIBS!!! HIP HOOOOORAY FOR YOU!!

DOCTAH Fibs!!! Now that has a certain elan to it, I must say!! A panache, c'est-a-dire...a verve, a flair, a certain telling ring!!

Very well done!! Long process finally comes home!!

A

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From: Morticia
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 12:29 PM

Well done, honey....I know you worked hard for it and you deserve it!!!

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From: CarolC
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 12:32 PM

Congratulations, Fibula Mattock! That's fantastic! Are you Piled Higher and Deeper in archaeology?

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From: jeffp
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 12:39 PM

Well done!!!!

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From: Noreen
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 02:06 PM

Yippee! Mucho celebrating begins Friday lunchtime (you bringing the champagne?!)

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From: Eric the Viking
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 02:30 PM

Congratulations Dr Fibes. I've seen all your films!

Love n peace

Eric XX

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From: MMario
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 02:47 PM

well done!

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From: alanabit
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 02:50 PM

Congratulations! Tell us about it - what was your thesis?

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From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 03:07 PM

Good on ye girl, I knew you had it in you. Very very pleased to hear the news.
Slainthe....John

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From: mooman
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 03:35 PM

Dear Dr Fibulacious!

Knew you could do it without problems! I shall probably be going through the same again in a few years from what I have heard this week (masochistic or what at my advanced years and in my own spare time and out of pure personal scientific curiosity (which killed the 'Catter) between music lessons, gigs and recording to boot).

xx

Richard

Subject: RE: BS: Dr. Fibs!
From: Amos
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 03:40 PM

"Correlations between musical talent and counter-conservative liberalism in wide-spectrum statistical samples of Western Civlilzation in post-modern sociological analyses...." or something like that. Right???

Subject: RE: BS: Dr. Fibs!
From: Noreen
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 04:05 PM

More like making jigsaw puzzles of the itty-bitty-bits of pots and bones found in holes in the ground and making up stories about them so nasty housing developers can't build on the land...

:0)

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From: Chief Chaos
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 04:12 PM

Congrats and have a pint on me!

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From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 04:14 PM

CONGRATULATIONS Fibs!!! We will share a celebratory drink with you next we see you!!

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From: Leadfingers
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 04:57 PM

Congrats Kate - I never doubted for one moment that you would be a rude noise (Try pronouncing phd )

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From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 05:39 PM

yayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayyaya

fan... bloomin.... tastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well done! I know it's been a hike, but that's brill knew you'd do it alright though...

Dead chuffed for you! Dr D! (ps... the Dr goes excellent with your surname, couldn't have had a better name... Just don't go and marry someone with a bizarre name... tee hee.

THat's brill... I'll pass it on to all in the diddly dee...... Have a few for me, and hopefully see you soon!....

Brill...well done!

Ella and fella

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From: Amergin
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 11:44 PM

Alright, Fibs! Congrats to you! So what was your thesis? The Sounds of Doom: The Bodhran and It's Correlation With the Downfall of Western Civilisation. ?

Subject: RE: BS: Dr. Fibs!
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 11:50 PM

Does that mean we have to pay for your future advice here?

Subject: RE: BS: Dr. Fibs!
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 11:52 PM

First, I thought this was about a doctor that lied (told a fib).

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From: LadyJean
Date: 28 Apr 04 - 11:52 PM

Felicitations on your Pretty Heavy Diploma!

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From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 03:36 AM

I knew you could do it, girl. Now don't forget Doctors Wear Scarlet.
RtS
(Do archaeological doctors make trench calls?)

Subject: RE: BS: Dr. Fibs!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 04:16 AM

No but they do know what to do with old fossils Roger, and probably know all about dendrachronology too. So if you see Dr Phibes heading your way with a chain saw, I would take to the hills if I were you.
John

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From: Micca
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 04:30 AM

Well, I Told you that you would be OK!!! and that it would be worth it!!! Many Congratulations, Fibs!!! oops Sorry Dr Fibs!!!!I bet your Ma and Da are so Chuffed with you!!

Subject: RE: BS: Dr. Fibs!
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 04:57 AM

Hi all,
thank you for the good wishes.

Well, it's actually a PhD in Computer Science, but with archaeology as my main application. I've just left the Computer Science department to start post-doc work in the Archaeolgy Department. My work was on image display - working towards perceptual consistency when viewing images over a network (such as image databases over the Internet), specifically on viewing conditions and how they affect perception. It was a mad mix of techie, archaeology and psychology stuff, and I've really enjoyed working on it.

The PhD defense was pretty terrifying, but I got through it and actually started enjoying myself towards the end. There were a few drinks had last night, but I'm teaching today, so had to be restrained - I'll make up for that in Hull9.

It's mad to think it's all over - I went through some drastic changes on the way.

Right, I have to go and twist peoples' arms and see if I can make it for summer graduation (apparently I've just missed the deadline).

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From: Skipjack K8
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 05:49 AM

Let her through, she's a doctor!

We'll large it in your honour this w/e, sweetie. Take care travelling. Well bloody done!

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From: Mudlark
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 04:46 PM

Congratulations! Sounds like you not only did it, you did it in style...

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From: sian, west wales
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 06:16 PM

Well Done That Woman!

So now it's DOCTOR Fibula Mattock Girl Detective?

siân

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From: artbrooks
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 07:28 PM

Is that PhD-ABD? Or was it a 2.5 hour dissertation defense? Either way, congratulations!!

Subject: RE: BS: Dr. Fibs!
From: Micca
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 07:36 PM

Fibs Mattock went in for her Viva
This girl was never a Skiver
With her well marshalled Thesis
She blew them to pieces
Of the Panel she's the sole survivor

So Fibs has achieved her great goal
Tho' from her life its taken its toll
She gained her PhD
Not covered in Mud
At a keyboard and not in a hole

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From: Bobert
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 07:53 PM

Well gol danged... Hey, I don't know you but a big congrates from this ol' Wes Ginny hillbilly none the less. And my respect to ya' fir hangin' in there and gettin' thru the massive hazin' that one needs to go thru to get themselves all doctrified... Heck, I got me a couple o' bachelors degrees and they was tough 'nuff an' hurt my head purdy good... 'er bad... 'er whatever...

So, ahhhh, like being an archeologist and a pudder whiz does this mean that when they discover dinousaurs down in Brizil, the3y're gonna send yopu in to teach 'em to play PacMan? Awww, jus' messin' wid. Pay me no mind. (As if the good doctor was in the first place, Bobert?!?!....)

Well I know that you is one smart cookie so I'z gonna give you a quiz, okay? Whats: <<<<<<<<<
Give up?


















Danged fish fosil...

Nevermind...

Bobert

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From: Snuffy
Date: 30 Apr 04 - 09:19 AM

Whelk, kazoo'd have thought it?

Congratulations, Doc

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From: Wolfgang
Date: 03 May 04 - 01:28 PM

And I did win at the Mudcat Eurogathering ruffle all the leftovers from excavations that didn't fit into the conventional theory:

(1) A tile from the Pharaoh's unknown third chamber with the evidence that the Egyptians have been on the moon, cleverly disguised in a pattern that at the first glance is very pretty but nothing else.
(2) Two necklaces of beads that to the unschooled glance only look like necklaces of beads when in fact they are the long suppressed proof (where's my malt?) that the Hawaiians by a clever counter- turning technique with the two laces crossing each other at the golden ratio angle could diffferentiate long before the Europeans could.
(3) A present of myrrh which to me looks like the a bit more than 2003 years old leftover from a birth present from Palestine. But I don't know what that might signify.

(Sorry about that Kate)
Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Dr. Fibs!
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 03 May 04 - 03:16 PM

Sssh, Wolfgang! Don't tell anyone I've been plundering! It was probably that Viking character's influence - they'll lift anything that isn't nailed down. Have you tried burning the myrrh yet? And I hope your daughter likes the fiesta beads/abacus.

Subject: RE: BS: Dr. Fibs!
From: Wolfgang
Date: 03 May 04 - 03:42 PM

I hope so too, but just in case I have bought a bit of fudge as well (I'll see her not before Saturday, poor me).

Wolfgang

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From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 03 May 04 - 04:04 PM

Excellent! Congratulations. Now get out and get a job and pay your poor parents back.*BG*

Seamus

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From: John MacKenzie
Date: 03 May 04 - 04:31 PM

It may have been worth it just to get her out the house! ;~)
John

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From: Pistachio
Date: 03 May 04 - 05:05 PM

Congratulations. I witnessed your Mudcat graduation...hope you get into the 'real event', deadlines are soooooo boring!

Lovely to meet you briefly on Saturday. Just how many pints/bottles of champagne did you enjoy? Well done.

Hazel.

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From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 03 May 04 - 05:06 PM

Congratulations Fibs! I hear they need some help at the Falls of the Ohio........come on!