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HUMOR: Career Options

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (abennett@MIT.EDU)
Mon May 6 15:30:32 1996

From: <abennett@MIT.EDU>
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 06 May 1996 15:01:06 EDT


Also lifted, without permission, from Janet Cahn's delightful home page:  (see
http://cahn.www.media.mit.edu/people/cahn/jc-home).

-Drew

      Bag Lady                               Academia
-------------------------------  --------------------------------
* Hang out in libraries          * Hang out in libraries
* Lots of fresh air              * Never see the sun
* Garbage cans                   * Vending machines
* Sleep anywhere                 * Sleep anywhere (see: libraries)
* Talk incoherently              * Talk incoherently
* Collect interesting pieces of  * Collect interesting pieces of
  paper                            paper
* Engage in impassioned debates  * Engage in impassioned debates
  with space aliens in their       with people who have never 
  native dialects                  left MIT
* Wear all my favorite clothes   * Never a fashion slave
  at once!     
* Invent the present             * Plagiarize
* Shopping carts                 * Filing cabinets
* Shelters                       * Conferences
* Magic things: pigeon feathers, * Ritual objects: signed pieces
  a piece of string                of paper, brass rats           
* Research: are pebbles edible?  * Research: can machines converse?

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