Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 10, 2016
Transcript:
Goat: Hey, Rat. I'd like you to meet my friend, Robert. He's a university professor who writes books. Robert: My current works on the trend toward reductionism in the institutional transformation of the educational research paradigm. Rat: Do you know you bore others, or is your head so far up your rear that it comes as a revelation? Goat: Let's meet some different friends. Rat: Look...the sheer weight of your boredom has pinned me to the ground.
BE THIS GUY about 8 years ago
Goat, all your friends don’t have to know each other.
legaleagle48 about 8 years ago
It might help, Professor, if you spoke English. I understood every word of your sentence, but I still have no idea what you were trying to say.
Sherlock Watson about 8 years ago
Perhaps the prof would get along better with someone who actually reads books.
hawgowar about 8 years ago
I’m with Rat on this one.
Wilde Bill about 8 years ago
If no one understands what you said you have not communicated.
awgiedawgie Premium Member about 8 years ago
You’d think Goat would have learned by now to stop introducing new friends to Rat.
dadoctah about 8 years ago
If Goat really wants to stir things up, those “different friends” he’s talking about will be the crocs.
peggykb9 about 8 years ago
Robert is obviously not a professor of communications.
juicebruce about 8 years ago
That is what happens when you play with your belly button to long :-)
Queen of America about 8 years ago
I think he taught my Public Administration class back in 1976 at San Diego State.
bigcatbusiness about 8 years ago
Rat’s brain has left the building!
Red Centipede about 8 years ago
Don’t worry about whether or not you understand the title. Books like that are written for other academics, not the public. The prof knows that he’ll only sell eighteen copies, plus what he forces his students to buy at an outrageous price.
livermoron about 8 years ago
Eschew Obfuscation
eddie6192 about 8 years ago
Robert’s latest made the NY Times worst seller list.
garcoa about 8 years ago
The perfesser (that was actually my nickname) has to learn to adapt his language to people with brains the size of a pea. Not an easy task.
Cameron1988 Premium Member about 8 years ago
Good one, Rat! LOL
jdsween855 Premium Member about 8 years ago
What the prof said is that higher education is now getting rid of institutional researchers, of which, he is one. Most of those write the crap he is writing because if they don’t they get fired (not publishing), but they cost lot’s of money to keep. Therefore, if Rat will wait for a little while he will see this prof on a street corner selling pencils!
Guilty Bystander about 8 years ago
Doesn’t matter to Robert if his books are gobbledygook. As long as Prentice-Hall buys them and converts them into overpriced college textbooks, he’s got it made in royalties. The people who wrote the tax code started out this way.
Chad Cheetah about 8 years ago
Another bald Bob
Radish... about 8 years ago
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t really understand it.Albert Einstein
MeGoNow Premium Member about 8 years ago
They’ll be moving on to Pig now. Things will not improve.
TheTrustedMechanic about 8 years ago
Robert,You can engage in the anatomical juxtapositioning of the Orbicularis oris in state of narcissus contraction with the gluteal region of my being.
jbmlaw01 about 8 years ago
Bravo Ralph Davis.
Clearstream about 8 years ago
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zeexenon about 8 years ago
Hey, I have two dimes too. Do you know that today’s dollar was only worth two cents in 1900?
KEA about 8 years ago
Okay, everyone complaining about the language – show me a discipline that DOESN’T have it’s own arcane lingo.
Number Three about 8 years ago
Rat’s only jealous because he’s a nobody.
xxx
3pibgorn9 about 8 years ago
And he only speaks plain English.
Sisyphos about 8 years ago
Professor Robert is unfortunately quite the common chap, especially on trendy, elitist campuses. The students mostly fail to understand him, but they love him because they think he must be uber-smart. Half the stuff published by academic presses is crap.Been there….
knight1192a about 8 years ago
Don’t drag him away, Goat. Robert is about to reduce Rate to a pulp.
bbmacusa about 8 years ago
I sent this to both of my friends.
alantain about 1 year ago
Wow. That will be quite the page-turner.