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April 16, 2004
Two anecdotes about my professor-boss (not the cowboy)
"This is my wife, Jane," he said.
"Oh, hello," I said. "It's so nice to finally meet you!"
"Hello," she said. Then she turned to my prof-boss somewhat accusingly and said, "She's beautiful."
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"Can you come to my office and fix my fax machine?" said my prof-boss.
"Sure," I said, went to his office, and reloaded the paper into the correct slot in the machine. "As a tenured faculty member in Electrical Engineering," I said, "you clearly are neither mechanically inept nor lazy, so I can only assume you call me in to fix your small technologies in an effort to be endearing. But in light of these four flights of stairs between you and me, I really think it's time you made that Ph.D. work for you."
Posted by didofoot at April 16, 2004 01:37 PM
Comments
not to make light of this very serious dereliction of the man's technical brain, but...there is an elevator, right? did you lose the manual dexterity somehow to press the floor buttons, and thus have to take the stairs?
=)
Posted by: michele at April 16, 2004 02:04 PM
no, he lives on a mezzanine level which has no elevator. alas. not that it's hurting me to walk or anything, but it's the principle. you understand.
Posted by: didofoot at April 16, 2004 02:14 PM
that's right, angel.
well you could still take the elevator to the second floor and then go to the mezzanine. it's not required to do 4 flights. i hate berkeley. mezzanines and birth control pills. it's out of control.
Posted by: michele at April 16, 2004 02:36 PM
Too fat, fat you must cut lean.
You got to take the elevator to the mezzanine
Posted by: m. doughty at April 16, 2004 02:44 PM
i may be angel-fat, but i'm still beautiful. just ask jane.
Posted by: didofoot at April 16, 2004 02:45 PM
I like that the wife seemed accusatory when she said you were beautiful. Like the boss had casually mentioned you a time or two and then hastily covered his tracks to keep her from flying into a frenzy...
"So this girl Kristen, you know, the smart, sardonic, statuesque one I work with came into my office today to -
Oh. Uhhh. Don't worry, Jealous Jane. She really looks like a horse, I mean she only has one leg, I mean eye. I mean she's bald."
Posted by: kati at April 16, 2004 03:03 PM
"She's fat, Jane. Fat as a cow. That is why I make her walk up stairs. For the fatness."
Posted by: didofoot at April 16, 2004 03:05 PM
henceforth your name shall be didofat.
Posted by: michele at April 16, 2004 03:21 PM
ok, mismell.
Posted by: didofoot at April 16, 2004 03:23 PM
ha ha! that was my nickname so long ago. though i think it's pronounced more "me-smell". thereby making it amusing to both me and the person trying to twit me.
Posted by: michele at April 16, 2004 04:00 PM
i prefer the frenchier "m'smell."
Posted by: didofoot at April 16, 2004 06:37 PM
Isn't M. Doughty just swell?
Posted by: CB at April 17, 2004 01:59 AM
It's kind of hard to tell (what he's saying).
Posted by: didofoot at April 17, 2004 10:22 AM
it's a song by soul coughing, isn't it?
Posted by: michele at April 17, 2004 12:47 PM
yes. "super bon bon" i believe. mike doughty is of soul coughing. he also appeared on "mr. excitement" by they might be giants. and it was good.
Posted by: holohan at April 17, 2004 01:06 PM
yeah, no, i was trying to match the rhyme scheme with my last comment there. and referring to the m. doughty trademark mumble in the super bon bon song where i can never tell what he says right after "mezzanine." is it "chump change, and it's on?" i think so.
Posted by: didofoot at April 17, 2004 02:04 PM
I understood the rhyming thing, even if nobody else did. But I think Chris did too, although he'd have to start posting under his own freakin' name for you to ask him.
Posted by: Dianna at April 17, 2004 02:21 PM
wait, was that christopher brandon? or your chris? truly, who WAS that masked man?
Posted by: didofoot at April 17, 2004 05:45 PM
I believe that was Chris Bersbach of thinking in pictures fame. I could be mistaken, or pigs could fall out of a clear blue sky.
Posted by: Dianna at April 18, 2004 12:40 AM
I was just Googling myself for the hell of it and found this thread. I am the Chris Bersbach of which Dianna speaks, but I was not that masked man. Although, I have to admit that while I was scrolling down the page I saw that particular post and actually checked to see where the link on "CB" pointed.
I always post under my own name and provide a link to my journal (he said, as he shamelessly linked to his journal), except where comedy is enhanced by using a pseudonym.
Posted by: Chris at June 26, 2004 03:41 PM
hi chris.
dianna: rain of pigs! rain of pigs!
Posted by: didofoot at June 28, 2004 08:49 AM
As long as they're not Brick Top's pigs, I'm good.
Posted by: Dianna at June 28, 2004 10:23 AM
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