Professor Of Pitching Mugs

The Giamatti era

"Ya know, 'DUH' can be a very hurtful word."

"Do you want to play doctorate?"

'You forget, I'm a blackbelt in powerpoint.'

'... And some primitive cultures, believed that 'the great ones' modelled us from clay.'

"My older self travels back just to remind me to put the cap back on this pen?"

"Welcome to the future"

"Of course he's smiling. He's getting $15,000 to give a lecture on free speech."

"1984 by George Orwell. Project 2025. Presidential transition project."

Ethics exam cheater.

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

Bob encounters one of the bugs in the Jean Paul Sartre fan website.

Blue Stockings - Woman revealing herself as author

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

'Medical school's been more challenging since the cadavers turned into zombies.'

"If a stock falls in the market, and it had no investors, does it really lose its value?"

'Dr.Sall Thompson got so excited over the new spring design she took a quantum leap!'

Grad School Parent-Teacher Conference

"I've always dreamed of being on an academic team like this! It's great that we can all depend on each other!"

Big Bang Theory.

"Finally, after years of work, irrefutable proof that I'm a nerd."

Fear/Knowledge

"Would you like me to annotate that for you?"

"E=MC² Energy=Milk·Coffee²"

'Hmph. College kids.'

'According to our statistics department, 78.93 of the statistics they produce are worthless.'

'Never mind inspiration. I need background material on atomic physics.'

"Right about here there was a flattening of the curve. . ."

Eternal Student.

"My answers could be right. Your quiz just asked the wrong questions."

Thomas Mann.

Postgraduates A group of posts on their way to class.