Received: from Tut.MsState.Edu (Tut.MsState.Edu [130.18.80.36]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.6/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id JAA13179 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 09:14:40 -0600 (MDT) Received: from default (Port21.TS2.MsState.Edu [130.18.116.149]); by Tut.MsState.Edu using SMTP (8.6.12/6.5m-FWP); id KAA02515; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 10:14:09 -0500 Message-ID: <325287D6.3F6D@ra.msstate.edu> Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 10:18:46 -0500 From: Danny Winbush MIME-Version: 1.0 To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Re: this to lecture or not to lecture stuff References: <96Oct1.030054edt.2711-2@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thomas F Brown wrote: > As for the power imbalance, it's not going to disappear in your lifetime. > Get used to it. Being a grad student means having to face constant > assaults on your ego, accepting low status, and accepting pay so low > that it could be considered exploitive. And yet those jobs are coveted > and competed for by grad students. OF COURSE we all recognize the > power differential! Whaddya think, we're morons or something? Probably more like masochist. The following humorus tidbits were sent to me by my major advisor. I thought that the list might enjoy a little levity about now. Danny Winbush "Everything should be as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler." Albert Einstein There was this preacher who was doing a great job reaching and ministering to his congegration. The only problem was that there wasn't enough time in the day to get everything done. While discussing the problem, a doctor in his church suggested a technique to have a clone made. This sounded like sauch a good idea, that the preacher went right to the hospital and had the procedure done. After the clone was finished, the preacher discovered that a problem had occured in the process, and that the clone was just the opposite of him. He drank, cussed and ran around until late hours of the night, causing the reputation of the preacher to be dirt. Finally, the preacher figured a way to take care of his problem. He invited the clone up to a cliff to have lunch with him. While on the top of the cliff, he pushed the clone off, killing him. After the police discovered the body, and realized who had pushed him, they arrested the preacher for "making an obscene clone fall" A man took his pregnant wife to the hospital to give birth and the doctor told them that he'd developed a new machine & asked if they'd like to try it out. The machine could take some of the pain of childbirth from the mother & give it to the father to ease the mother's burden. Well, they thought that was a good idea & decided to give it a try, so the doctor set it on 10% to begin with, telling the man that even 10% was probably more pain than he'd ever experienced. But the man was surprised at how little pain he was feeling and asked the doctor to raise it. So he put it up to 20% and when the man still felt fine, he raised it to 50 & finally 100%. After it was over, the man stood up, stretched a little. Both he & his wife felt fine. Later, when they took the baby home, they found the mailman dead on their doorstep. These two drunks were sitting out on a vast ice pack. One commented to the other that he was getting hungry. The second said not to worry, that he was good at ice fishing. So, he pulled a knife out of his pocket and started to chisel a hole in the ice. All of a sudden, they heard a voice say, "There are no fish under the ice!" Well, they just ignored the voice and started chopping again. Again, the voice boomed louder saying, "There are no fish under the ice!" The second time, the voice got their attention, and one commented to the other, "This must be God!" Then the voice appeared again saying, "I'm not God, I'm the rink manager!"