[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Twofer
- From: David Ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 15:13:55 -0700
On Aug 8, 2012, at 2:57 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."
>
> This episode, known as the "Hiss My Mystery Lectures Town Drain Affair,"
> attracted the attention of the Vatican, long inactive in bellicose
> operations, and it sent a detachment to the Swiss Guard, and many Jesuit
> operatives, stationing them throughout academe, to photograph the
> spankings and report back, biding its time before declaring a side in
> the issue.
>
> Masterpiece Theatre has optioned a series. Kenneth Branagh may play the
> dean. Wearing a bowler.
David Ritchie,
writing the opposite of
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