One simple method for improving the quality of student essays: don’t let them pick their own topic.
The problem with goat cheese is that sometimes it tastes rather like it originated in the nether regions of a goat.
That Kim Cattrall is such a classy dame: I wish she were MY mum.
Olduvai, Amboseli / Turkana, Tsavo, Gombe / Olorgesailie, Tanganyika / Serengeti, Aberdares: the biologist’s African litany.
The Chch Press today twice bylined food writer Paula Wolfer. Next week: guest articles by Jamie Olive and Nigel Slate.
It’s exam time. The university seems as deserted as if there’d been a Zombie Apocalypse. But if the Uni were infested with zombies, how would you tell? Answer: zombies can’t ride skateboards.
‘The command “
My band is called the Broken Bear Club, but based on our last gig a better name might be The Dunning-Kruger Effect.
MHRA is the style guide for the Modern Humanities Research Association, but also stands for Michigan Hot Rod Association. Their style guide: 1) More fonts. 2) Bigger fonts. 3) Fonts with flames.
I am trying to popularise an alternative term for submitting a thesis: “having a wordbaby”.
Almost want to get another ukulele, just so I can write “this machine annoys fascists” on it.
In literary quiz, thought “Last Man in Europe” must be the working title of Mein Kampf. No actually it’s 1984. Sorry, George.
The UC library bans messy, smelly, hot, or noisy food. If they banned messy, smelly, hot, or noisy students it would be deserted.
Those moaning about how the Web rots our “ability to focus” should recall the innate concentration skills of monkeys and toddlers.
Pre-human Long Island was the home of herds of dwarf mammoths and flocks of giant flightless cranes.
After a find/replace of double spaces in InDesign, a “Search completed.
9 replaced.” message using double spaces. Is Adobe taunting me?
Someone who would microwave a croissant would steal sheep.
G#7 is not in fact the Devil’s chord; that’s FM7. G#7 is Cordo Diabolo, Esus4 is Main Crispé, and Asus2 is The Buster. #fakeukulelelore
One of my vert bio students once claimed that the gastrocnemius connects the humerus and femur, or the ulna and heel. He did not pass.
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