Time Out

Best campus announcement of the day

"Looking for a desk clock =)
Do you have a desk clock that you don't need any more? I'm looking for a non-electronic desk clock to remind me of the reality."

Death Threat

Student walking, and talking on cellphone:

"Mom! I'm not gonna die from swine flu!"

Words, Just Words

Colleague at meeting, declining to end some already overly lengthy extemporaneous remarks:

"I'm trying not to ramble, so let me just keep talking for a minute."

Stephen Fry: "funniest ever" mating ritual

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Fry finds 'funniest ever' mating ritual

When Stephen Fry goes in search of the rare kakapo - "the old night parrot of New Zealand" - he finds himself privy to an unusual mating ritual which is "one of the funniest things he has ever seen".

well, except, perhaps for that of our students—but this is hard to top.

Slogans Seen on Campus Cars

What people are thinking (or want you to think)—a selection from vehicles in a Hampshire College parking lot:

Virginia Shag: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of the Flying Nun

Student in class discussion about the teaching of history:

"The only thing most people know about Thomas Jefferson nowadays is that he wrote the Declaration of Independence and had an affair with Sally Fields [sic]."

This is evidently how we are punished: it will now be difficult to get this rather disturbing image out of my head.

Dirty history? Academic Fields Arranged by Purity

History is not even on the chart.

from xkcd: A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language