Scholarly Pursuits Mugs

Academia Can Kill By Degrees

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

Apples for sale

"I still haven't decided if I want to be unemployed as an English major or as a Communications major."

'Great news, Dear! I've been traded to a think tank in California for a PhD Specializing in the Baltics!'

"That's Brian Eggleston, de facto leader of the playground intelligentsia."

"Don't just forage - upcycle!"

Paul Ree

Agility God

Think Tank

'Single math professor in search of an intelligent woman. Send an example of your favorite equation.'

Arthur Schopenhauer

A man with Dwarfism is reading Little Women.

Burning the midnight oil.

Assertiveness

Intellectual Property

The revolution that hit Hollywood hardest:The Thinking Pictures."

'We'll take two sets, for upstairs and downstairs.'

"We're hoping that someday Rosalie will be a major player in the creative economy."

"Finally...school starts next week."

'No, you weren't there. But in your expert opinion as a certified brainiac, do you think he did it?'

A person reading an advanced book, standing on the pile of other books that he's had to read in order to become knowledgable enough to reach/read it.

"Okay, you got this! Who introduced the theory of punctuated equilibrium?"

"Mr Newton, we have carefully reviewed your work in alchemy and have come to one conclusion: stick to physics.'

Caricature of Noam Chomsky

Lost and Profound.

"The extent of your extracurricular activities in high school, may very well be participation in regular program of oral hygiene using an effective decay preventaative tooth paste, but that won't get you into a good university."

Brains

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Toni Morrison

Dept of Egyptology - Toot and Come In.

When English majors become waiters.

"...And those are some of the books I would have read if the Internet had never been invented."