Professional Identity Ponderer Pillows

'This is the age of specialisation - you can't be a hunter AND a gatherer.'

"Excellent, excellent. A fine blend of truths, half-truths, and blatant falsehoods."

"Needs to get a life"

"Academic freedom doesn't mean you're free not to study."

'The organizational structure is pretty simple: We do the work; they take the credit.'

"Nice haircut."

The Price of Freedom

'At least I don't have his life.'

"Events seem to be headed in the right direction. Unfortunately, it's not taking me with it."

"If anything else, it beats bending over!"

'Where do you see yourself in five minutes?'

"Isn't it true that the prosecution offered you a bone to testify?"

'What do lawyers really want, Mr. Montague?'

'Just think of one of these as enabling legislation for the golden rule.'

'I've been thinking about quitting, but it's the only thing that gets me out of the house.'

"She said that she's against combing marriage with a career....so I quit my job."

Frog Baby Names

'And the recruiter from IBM - did you also tell him that at college you mostly sat on a rock by the sea, trying to find yourself?'

Psychiatry ward with 'Inhibited' and 'Outgoing' trays.

'Tsk...woolly thinking again.'

"I wish I'd failed my 11 Plus too...."

Diversity Does Not Include Class

"That would've gone better if I'd gotten here with my gift list instead of my spelling list."

Surgical Self-Service

Corruption trial in the Vatican

'Mummy, what's a daddy one of those called?'

"If you have to ask, you can't afford it."

30% Heredity, 70% Environment

Biblical Jewish Medical Ethics

"I may have waffled, but I never lip-synched."

"What's your question for 'Ask Sadie'?" "My mom's in a nursing home. I think someone's stealing her jewelry." "What's the matter, you're afraid someone is stealing your inheritance?" "Simple solution: Send your mother to Japan, where their entire culture reveres the elderly." "Sayonara, grandma!!!" "Are you sure that's not just a stereotype?" "Who cares?!"

"Where do you see yourself in five years?"

'...if you look at it in the right way it begins to make sense.'

Fingers

Tonight's Debate. Nature versus Nurture. You believe in heredity over environment? Yep --- I was just born that way.