Saturday, September 3, 2011

Hurt my [chat] brain.

"Your big words hurt my hick brain."

-Spoken by an undergraduate, to one of my friends.
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10 comments:

  1. _J_August 29, 2011 at 7:33 PM

    You have to admire the amount of self-knowledge evidenced by such a statement.

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  2. _J_August 29, 2011 at 7:39 PM

    Another student allegedly stated that reading the textbook is akin to reading the manual for his dvd player. Of course, those were not his exact words. His exact words were, “I don’t take kindly ta them thar squiggles on yer fancy parchments.”

    He then pissed himself, and fell off his chair.

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  3. _J_August 30, 2011 at 5:23 AM

    Transforming a 50 page paper into a 14 page paper is surprisingly difficult.

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  4. Mike LewisAugust 30, 2011 at 2:00 PM

    14 is to long for a confernce paper. 10 maybe. 8 is better.

    One idea: Thesis, three points concultion.

    everything else is for the Q&A or for the hallway.

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  5. Mike LewisAugust 30, 2011 at 2:02 PM

    new Mike Doughty album out today.

    Pretty Good.

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  6. _J_August 31, 2011 at 6:02 AM

    Yeah, I was surprised that the upper limit was 14 pages. I thought these things normally operated by word count rather than page count.

    Oh well. Paper ended up being 11 pages. I probably could have made it 8 pages had it been about horses.

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  7. Mike LewisAugust 31, 2011 at 2:47 PM

    Performance Animals, Performing Animals, or Animal Performers?

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  8. _J_August 31, 2011 at 9:53 PM

    So long as she thought there was a difference, that's all that matters...in culture studies.

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  9. Mike LewisAugust 31, 2011 at 10:06 PM

    not culture studies. Theater.

    She was a Theater PHD student.

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  10. RoscoeSeptember 1, 2011 at 10:53 AM

    Tell your friend to stop speaking in 90 pt. fonts?

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