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| Hope, Change, and The Intellectual It is Labor Day, or the lack thereof (if you are looking for work)... Celebrate A Diversity of Chairs! |
Twitchy: Monday is Empty Chair Day
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| Hope, Change, and The Intellectual It is Labor Day, or the lack thereof (if you are looking for work)... Celebrate A Diversity of Chairs! |
Isn't your double ganger a chaired professor?
ReplyDeleteThen there's the question of endowment.
Is that chair empty? You tell me.
DeleteThe German word for academic chair is Lehrstuhl. The German phrase for empty chair is leer Stuhl. They sound identical.
DeleteYou tell me. :)
It's actually a wicked good pun but nobody but me and one other person gets it.
ReplyDeleteCommenting can be lonely.
It was punny. But you have to be up on your German. And Germans are rather precise about things, so I am guessing the homophone is not a coincidence.
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