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- From btdonov@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu Mon Feb 8 13:44:05 1999
- Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny.reruns
- From: btdonov@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Bernard T. Donovan)
- Subject: WRITE THESIS FAST
- Keywords: original, chuckle, originally appeared in fourth quarter, 1995
- Approved: rhf-reruns@netfunny.com
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- Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 19:20:00 PST
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- This letter was first written by a graduate student in Europe in 1954
- and has traveled around the world at least 16 times. At first I
- wouldn't believe that it would work, but after trying it, I am now a
- believer in its mystical and magical power.
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- This letter was received by a graduate student in Chicago, IL in 1973
- and within two weeks, he had completed a 5600 page doctoral
- dissertation and began a career which lead to a Nobel Prize. A few
- years later, another graduate student received this letter and sent it
- to 5 of her friends, and she too completed a 3100 page paper which is
- continues to grow to this day!
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- Simply write five pages of text on the given subjects for each person
- on this list. Than place your name in slot #1 and move everyone else's
- name down one space. Send this letter to ten of your colleagues, and
- within a month, you too will have a thesis or disertation which your
- advisor can choke on if he or she doesn't go blind or break his or her
- back first.
- 1. Bernard T. Donovan, M.S. student in biochemistry
- EPR spectroscopy of crud from my refrigerator
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- 2. James C. Messier, PhD. student in political science
- The Cuban Missile Crisis: What if Nixon were president?
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- 3. Frances K. Allen, M.A. student in music theory
- Development of polyphonic forms from Gregorian Chant
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- 4. Penny S. Jordan, PhD student in computer science
- Is Windows 95 merely Mac 84?
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- 5. Thomas J. Quinn, MBA student
- Bears and Bulls in the stock market, but what about Sox and Cubs?
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- The last person who received this letter and did not respond was
- tormented by receiving 100-level teaching assignments until he was 40
- years old. Today he works as a clerk for the Little-Plastic-Pizza-Table
- Museum in Cleveland, OH, making minimum wage and regretting his
- terrible decision not to perpetuate this letter.
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- From the RHF archives as selected by Brad Templeton, Maddi Hausmann and
- Jim Griffith. This newsgroup posts former jokes from the newsgroup
- rec.humor.funny.
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- Web users, you can read a random joke from the archives just by bookmarking
- http://www.netfunny.com/cgi-bin/randomurl/rhf/jokes/masterlist
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