You know what's almost as bad as homossssssssssssssssssexuals?

[james_davis_nicoll]

English majors! Elitist English majors!

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Comments

[pauldormer.livejournal.com]

I must admit that I at first read that as a problem involving English military people. We don't major at UK universities, we read a subject, and retired English majors are known to be reactionary, writing incensed letters to newspapers. (I'm sure disgusted of Tunbridge Wells was a retired major.)

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

English majors are terrible, but captains and colonels are all right. It's a phase they go through, like teething.

[nathan helfinstine (from livejournal.com)]

It's quite understandable as a consequence of how Western militaries are organized. A captain leads a company of soldiers. A colonel leads a battalion or regiment of soldiers. A major leads an orderly. And nowadays sometimes not even that, what with the rise of email and word processing.

This means that an officer that retires as a major is likely to be disgruntled at his fate.

[pauldormer.livejournal.com]

Oh, retired Colonels have a similar reputation.