University Professors Gifts

Beggar's sign: 'children at university.'

Harvard Business and Pleasure School

Ten Years to get the Ph.D

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

"Do you want to play doctorate?"

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

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

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

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

"Welcome to the future"

Ethics exam cheater.

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

Blue Stockings - Woman revealing herself as author

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

"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.

"E=MC² Energy=Milk·Coffee²"

'Hmph. College kids.'

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

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

Fear/Knowledge

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

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

Eternal Student.

Thinking Gears

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

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

'This is my partner. He'll be taking care of the small print.'

Thomas Mann.