I didn't want to say to anyone local, but I would have been equally happy either way.
Comedy 1: A Little Song, a Little Dance, a Little Seltzer Down Your Pants
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Manny Jacinto looks really, really good in a suit.
He really did. Wowzers!
So, today in a class on atomic theory, I mentioned that 2400 years ago Democritus got about 95% of atomic theory correct just by thinking about it, and likened it to Doug Forcett getting most of what happens in the afterlife correct on The Good Place. A lot of students got the reference.
And no doubt you instantly became their favorite professor! (If you weren't already.)
Until the first exam anyway.
That's excellent.
Give a little Ted Dansonstyle malicious chuckle when you hand it out to them!
Give a little Ted Dansonstyle malicious chuckle when you hand it out to them!
I'm afraid that chuckle is beyond the range of mere mortals.
My favorite joke last night was theone about The New Yorker. I was a subscriber at some point when I was in college, figuring it would up my intellectual game or something. After a year all I'd accomplished was to pile up a stack of mostly unread issues along with a bunch of unopened renewal notices.
I still subscribe, and I mostly read them when they come in (even if it's just one story per issue), but the giant stack of New Yorkers as human torture? TRUTH.