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- From: kanderso@reed.edu (Karl Anderson)
- Subject: Re: don't know if this is true - more likely it is an exaggeration but here it goes
- References: <1992Nov20.221559.10187@news.columbia.edu>
- Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 06:11:12 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.061112.12506@reed.edu>
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- I don't know about your particular story, but here is one that is
- (undoubtedly wrongly) attributed to Kurt Vonnegut whilst he was an
- undergrad.
-
- He went to the final exam for a class that he wasn't enrolled in.
- Half way thru the test, he began to scream "I can't take it
- anymore!!", ript his blue-book into little pieces, and jumped out of
- the (second-story) window (where some friends were waiting with a
- blanket to catch him).
-
- As your story suggests, however, tour-groups can be fun. Whenever I
- see that I will pass one while I am walking with a friend, I make sure
- to have an interesting conversation going:
-
- "...so I just got a job in the psychology lab, and I'm supposed to
- hook up these electrodes to a dog's testacles and shock it whenever it
- gets an erection..."
-
- Our computer lab has glass windows, so that someone in the hall can
- look into the room. When a tour goes by and looks in as I am
- computing next to a friend, I always make sure to stage something
- interesting, such as standing up suddenly and yelling "How DARE you
- say that about my program?", and then taking off my coat...
-
- k
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