
'Im culturally deprived. Both my parents are classics professors, and I don't know a think about TV, movies, sports and popular music.'
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'Im culturally deprived. Both my parents are classics professors, and I don't know a think about TV, movies, sports and popular music.'
'Hmph. College kids.'
'If you were disturbed by any issues raised, please call your mum.'
"I have a recurring nightmare that I've taken a test, and the professor won't give me an 'A'."
Grim Reaper rowing a boat full of dead souls to the afterlife; a tip jar sits on the side of the boat.
Archimedes helps Sisyphus
Extreme Sisyphus
'Et tu Yakamoto?'
'Unemployed math grad. Will solve quadratic equations for food."
Ten Years to get the Ph.D
Chicken soup for the adjunct professors soul
Through These Hallowed Halls, walks Our Future - "Talk about putting pressure on a guy!"
Subatomic particles
'It's a little varietal I bottle myself...Type A positive.'
'While Dionysus is indisposed, who wants to take over as God of Wine?'
What Does God Know?
Sharing the Bed with Zeno
"There's the pressure from my public, naturally, as well as the pressure from my publisher, my agent, and all that. But the real pressure comes from that devil inside that makes me different from other men, that makes me a writer. But, of course, you know all about pressure, grinding out those papers at Sarah Lawrence."
Boy scout replaces Atlas during Bob-a-Job Week.
The Giamatti era
"Why can't you be more like little Hester Prynne? She's getting straight A's."
Messenger of the gods in the digital age.
Professor Swizzlestix explains his point....
Smart Bomb.
"Congratulations Professor, the committee 'okayed' your grant request."
'You like my fancy dress? - I'm not wearing fancy dress.'
'Well this is awkward.'
Sisyphus Pizza
"I can't believe I'm paying $5,000 a month for you to stream Intro to Psychology when I get all of TV for $15.99."
"It's a long-term strategy to make them lazy and complacent first."
'New career low - gave out a page of Ulysses to my freshmen and they thought it was a wordsearch.'
'One advantage of living through the plagues and wars of the 14th century was that you didn't have to study Chaucer.'
True Debate Fun
"When I go to college, I'm focusing on a STEM area of study!"
This is probably the only time that Clem's name and the title 'Ph.D' will be used in the same sentence.
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