We here at the Home Page of Home Pages think that everyone is simply wonderful and marvelous and even more wonderful and truly so marvelous--words fail us, you might say. We would draw a picture of your splendor if we could draw but we can't do more than stick figures. Even Jim Himself can't draw and he can do things that mere pedagogues only dream of doing! To return to your splendorhood, though: let us celebrate together--you know, you celebrate You Yourself and we celebrate You Yourself at the same time--and let us inscribe in the electronic firmament a truly marvelous recognition of your Splendorhood! Did you realize that (now sit down before you read on, this is cosmic stuff) each of us is a splendiforous Quondam and can be called thus henceforth from the very moment that we utter the specific Quondamic expression! I know what you're saying--What the heck is a Quondam? Does it have anything to do with safe sex? No. All physical pleasures are nothing compared to self and other esteem in the three dimensional world. And quondamhood is nothing less than safe, guaranteed esteem, our friends out there in teacherland and academiaville. You are somebody NOW!!!!!!!!!!!--EVEN BEFORE NOW!!!!!!!!!!!--you are a living/breathing Quondam, indeed many splendid Quondams as you sit there and read (word by word, out loud or to yourself) this missive in the electronic firmament. Quondam means Former! Hah! Ergo Jim Himself can be called truly truly, oh, to cite but one instance of "the former": Jim Himself, Quondam Resident of a Suburb of the State of Illinois. Jim's world-renowned assistant, Bagwan D. Frank Bagwan, can be called in all truth and with perfect symmetry under the stars: Bagwan D. Frank Bagwan, Quondam Mere Mortal in a Previous Low-Paying & Servile Incarnation and Quondam Resident of New York, Minneapolis, Chicago, and Carrboro. And, dear reader, what shall we call you? Quondam Full-head-of-hair person? Quondam Crossing Guard? Quondam is an official title and can be used on your vita, your correspondence, your business card, your office nameplate, your ad in the yellow pages--you name it--anywhere that you want to be somebody, we now offer you Quondam Power! Power to the Quondams! You are a quondam--you are many quondams! To celebrate this fact ( hah, these facts of facts unto yourself and former selves everlastingly present in a sacramental resume or vita) email Jimbo himself your Quondam titles and we will enter your name in the Grand Roster of Quondams here on the page of pages (updated weekly). Let us hear from all of you quondams out there in your selfsame splendorhood! Ariba!

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