Nod and Smile

The thought of Bush and Chomsky in the same room together is frightening. Good thing we didn’t stay in Vietnam…

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Many successes will accompany you this year.

Friends long absent are coming back to you.

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Si non, laissez Le Vol des Conchords vous enseigner. Il faut dire simplement: Foux Da Fa Fa.
(if you don’t see a blue screen, push the play button to get video)

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Holy crap, I’ve been tagged twice to do a “weird things about me” meme.
You kids with your fancy new words and terminology. I had to look up what a meme was before I could even start to contribute to one. And I guess I also needed to learn what that “incoming links” list […]

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From the UMass Linguistics group on Facebook:
“So, epenthesis means sticking things in… yeah, go ahead and write that down, sticking things where they’re not supposed to be.
… I have tenure.”

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One of my favorite Kids in the Hall sketches:
The day Cathy snapped because she was given De-Caf.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rtNvxCIFUQ

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J: “Do you need a towel?”
A: “Why, am I wet?”

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“There’s something about nerds when they get, like, wriled up. You know what I mean?”
–Jay’s revelation, after hearing about Alton Brown travelling with an iron skillet, and having to throw it away at the airport

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OK, the summer has passed, and school is about to start once again. I feel like now that some time has passed, I can give a retrospective of some of the things I learned last semester being a discussion section leader in a 101 level class.
I went to a big state school, and I […]

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