Brevity by Dan Thompson for October 05, 2021

He’s bluffing.

“I don’t like your altitude kid.”

That’s why your grades are falling.

How about “Thelma and Louise”?

It’s dover my head.

Cliffs Notes, a series of student study guides, was started by Clifton and Catherine Hillegass in 1958 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Cliff worked at the Nebraska Book Company and was inspired by Jack Cole of Coles, a Toronto book business that published Coles Notes. They started with Shakespeare and expanded to other literary greats and eventually to other fields. When I was at the University of Nebraska in the late 60s, several of my professors were among the authors and editors, unofficially. The rumor (never substantiated) was that one had to be a full professor, because assistant and associate professors could be denied tenure for doing so. Like all other mom and pop businesses, Cliffs Notes has had many different owners—IDG in 1998, John Wiley & Co in 2001, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2012, and Course Hero in 2021.

Given that answer, shouldn’t the question have been “Did you read them,” not “Did you report on them”?

Loved ‘Classics Illustrated’ comic books.

For those who think they think.

So…. Krakaur’s version of the day on the mountain is also to be considered fiction? Sounds about right.

he usually just pulls his book reports out of the air anyway…