Context has a sneaky way of adding meaning to plain old words.
Someone asked for good quotations about archives to add to his stationery, and then posted a summary of the suggestions. Protect monuments, buildings, objects and documents from former times. All of these are your history and your pride. That's all well and good, and the sentiment expressed is a fine one, but I can only laugh at the kind of reception that the .sig would get. This got us into a broader discussion of what he calls the Early Doctoral Syndrome, whereby doctoral students in their first couple of years of study become convinced that they are the hottest, freshest, most knowledgeable shit on the face of the earth.