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Bah... I hate that I truly have an excuse for this. It's also indicative of why I don't speak up in class (and why I'm not a lit studies major)
In my Advanced Fiction class, we were discussing a story about an officer in this colony. This officer has this torture/execution machine that the new government won't let him have money for repairs and things because it's an out-moded form of punishment (this was before they came up with lethal injection, apparently).
Anywho (in a fit of brilliance), I made the comment that the guy made me think of the English Department because they can't ever get money from the university and we're in the most deadly building on campus (if there was ever an earthquake and you were in the Ray B. West building... I'll notify your next of kin). But the comment didn't come out right and people took it to mean that the English Dept. likes to inflict undue torture or whatever. It didn't help that the professor was all "Yeah, we have one of those machines in the basement" and I said "Really?" Here's Your Sign, indeed (even I am not immune).
Feh... all I need is someone to write "gullible" on the ceiling.
Love from,
Jenny Wildcat
"Here's Your Sign" (c) Bill Engvall (please don't sue me... I have no money...)
In my Advanced Fiction class, we were discussing a story about an officer in this colony. This officer has this torture/execution machine that the new government won't let him have money for repairs and things because it's an out-moded form of punishment (this was before they came up with lethal injection, apparently).
Anywho (in a fit of brilliance), I made the comment that the guy made me think of the English Department because they can't ever get money from the university and we're in the most deadly building on campus (if there was ever an earthquake and you were in the Ray B. West building... I'll notify your next of kin). But the comment didn't come out right and people took it to mean that the English Dept. likes to inflict undue torture or whatever. It didn't help that the professor was all "Yeah, we have one of those machines in the basement" and I said "Really?" Here's Your Sign, indeed (even I am not immune).
Feh... all I need is someone to write "gullible" on the ceiling.
Love from,
Jenny Wildcat
"Here's Your Sign" (c) Bill Engvall (please don't sue me... I have no money...)
