Academic Discussions Gifts

"Certainly. A party of four at seven-thirty in the name of Dr. Jennings. May I ask whether that is an actual medical degree or a Ph.D.?"

"Let's just drop it, Andrew, and leave it to future historians to decide which of us was right."

Depth Perception in Myth and Fable

Hi, I work at the admissions office of the local university. If you could change the world in three days, what would you do?

"I have good news and bad news about your cat, Dr Schrodinger..."

"It's too easy. Please make it complicated so that economists can argue over who's right."

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

Academic Idol - 'Professor Johannsen's paper was zippy. It had robust vocabulary and I almost felt that I could dance to it. I would give it a 7.'

Freedom comes at a cost. We must be willing to pay the ultimate price. Retail.

Need Supercomputer to finish my PhD, Please Help.

My belief is if you're old enough to take texts, counter-texts, and meta-texts in Western Philosophy, you should be old enough to drink.

"Strawman argument terrorises conversation... News at eleven."

"I understand the revisionists are hot on your trail, Professor Delauney."

Sport: Crisis in the Real Madrid.

'Our goal is to stress di-versity while remaining a uni-versity.'

"So, what are you reading?"

"Now that was post-modern sex."

'I'm still not sure HOW it happened. One minute, we were bouncing ideas off each other, and the next thing I knew, we were using furniture instead!'

'I'm pretty sure I have a Ph.D. I think one came bundled with my new computer.'

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

'What do you mean 'theoretically'? Everything we do is theoretical.'

"This year the endowed chair will go to whomever pulls the sword from the stone."

Frontispiece to 'The Pickwick Papers'

Spelling a newspaper

"The problem is you say Nietzsche and expect everything to be just peachy."

'To avoid possible schism, a period of careful reflection is needed before changing the light-bulb.'

"I don'y know about you guys, but I don't feel like I've lost one goddamn bit of my feminity."

'Is there a God? God knows...'

"I just completely disagree with what you just said about America lacking focus."

"Are you sure that cutting them up will make him better?"

Vladimir Nabokov

'What did He do before he was God?'

'How are we supposed to think the unthinkable if we have to drink the drinkable?'

'Even if you do, never admit that you know everything.'

'Our next guest is an economist who is the author of the first economic theory that proves that money makes the world go round.'