[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Twofer
- From: David Ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 14:34:30 -0700
On Aug 8, 2012, at 2:22 PM, Eric Yost wrote:
> The famous dissertation, cited below, sparked the internecine, often
> bloody, decades-long war between the departments of Welcome Studies,
> Speak of the Devil Studies, You Betcha Studies, Acknowledgment Studies,
> Cultural Anthropology, Aloha Studies, and Assertiveness Training
> Studies. Following practices long established before the Thirty Years
> War, this protracted conflict was often waged on other department's
> turf, and resulted in many Department Chairs, even Deans, being roused
> from their beds and ungallantly spanked. The department of Naming
> Studies refuses to name the conflict and many deny it even occurred.
>
Unfortunately Leadership Studies decided not to take the high road and instead
took the B3149 to Basingstoke. They then got their feat handed to them on a
plate. This whole sorry mess had but one good outcome, the fresh and quite
wise maxim, "Never look a spanked dean in the teeth."
David Ritchie,
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