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...coast of Connecticut. He calls it North Dumpling, and he considers it a sovereign state. It has a flag, a navy, a currency (one bill has the value of pi) and a mutual nonaggression pact with the U.S., signed by Kamen and the first President Bush (as a joke, we think...
...Glengarry Glenross or how Fox talks about setting up a meeting in Speed-the-Plow. The characters grasp at words as if they were life preservers, futilely attempting to keep their heads above water, eventually drowning in their desperation. To Mamet, the world is a cruel joke; some people are in on it and some aren’t, but they all try to believe they can pull themselves through, mostly by projecting a sort of intense overconfidence that is betrayed by the desolation of their breakneck, endlessly jargon-filled speech...
...says the joke is that Jesus has been nailed to the cross and there are two rabbis with him. The younger rabbi is weeping and the older rabbi asks, “Why are you weeping?” The younger rabbi answers, “He was such a great teacher.” To which the older one replies, “But what did he publish...
Pressure to publish is an inherent part of the job description for junior faculty. Publishing has become such an integral part of academia that Professor of French History Patrice Higonnet says that there is a joke about it among academics...
...There’s sort of a joke in universities that the best committees...