Comments on: Fish Food https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2009/02/10/fish-food/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:22:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 By: Doug https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2009/02/10/fish-food/comment-page-1/#comment-6153 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:22:58 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=708#comment-6153 Fun with ASCII and cut’n’paste. Obviously that should read “you’d get…”

]]> By: Doug https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2009/02/10/fish-food/comment-page-1/#comment-6152 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:18:59 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=708#comment-6152 “you???? get fired if you had a normal job”

And Dilbert’s boss has no counterparts in reality. And the old joke — “How many people work here?” “Oh, about half of them” — is just a matter of clever wordplay. And…

]]> By: JoanD https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2009/02/10/fish-food/comment-page-1/#comment-6149 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:31:05 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=708#comment-6149 Well, the president of the NAS actually thinks that Fish is himself celebrating Rancourt (“Fish’s admiration for Rancourt’s bad-boy behavior is lightly disguised behind a strong of quotations”).

http://www.mindingthecampus.com/originals/2009/02/fishy_responses.html

]]> By: evangoer https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2009/02/10/fish-food/comment-page-1/#comment-6147 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:04:16 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=708#comment-6147 Oh, crap. So I had skimmed that article, walked away vaguely annoyed with Fish as usual… but I completely missed the fact that nobody was actually protesting, that the entire premise was BS. Just assumed it was true. Because you know… academia! Wackiness!

Damn, I’ve really managed to internalize that garbage. Crap, crap, crap.

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