Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anyone who works at a low-pressure, no-risk service job faces a daily battle with a quieter, more maddening foe: ruthless, relentless tedium. For some, "busy work" is a way of life. Get up. Go to work. Perform the same task over and over till lunch. Hope for some excitement. Perform the same task over and over till quitting time. Try not to go crazy...
Throughout the campus, Santas have been giving till it hurts. William M. Dixon '91 said one Pennypacker Santa gave his "Santee" a check for one billion dollars while at Kirkland House, "Merry Christmas, Susan Dawkins" posters have taken over the bulletin board labeled "Intramural News Only...
...have a future in the humor-column dodge, but don't quit your job at the shoe factory till the check clears. Still interested? Try completing the column from this collection that begins "I've been wondering for a long time where all the chicken a la king went." Calvin Trillin, The New Yorker writer and syndicated columnist (weekly in 200 newspapers), handed himself this chiller a couple of years ago. Clearly he had used up all his easy material about Ronald Reagan and how everyone hates mimes. He had to throw in every surefire giggle from Nehru jackets...
...Till help came in the form of HRE-eeee...
...time by retelling beloved old knee slappers. Her son, now grown, comes home for a visit, throws the door open, and just the way he used to 15 years ago, looks her in the eye and asks, "Anyone home?" Her adult kids still lock themselves in the bathroom till the dishes are done. Leftovers? Sure, but we roar for more...