At 08:15 PM 12/30/95 EST, you wrote:
In my experience, people who get so hysterical when a Ph.D. calls himself or herself Dr. are invariably Ph.D. dropouts who wasted many years of their lives trying and failing to attain a Ph.D. and are bitterly envious of those who have succeeded.
Well, my experience is exactly the opposite: the ones who have to brandish the "Ph.D." label are the ones who were the least secure in their abilities, and the ones who seem least deserving of having ever graduated. Often the same folks who feel compelled to put "Dr." in their 'from' lines. This is from one of the numerous people on this list who have Ph.D.s and who don't wear them on their sleeves (and who only "wasted" 3 years of his life in getting one)... rj