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From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe)
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Subject: Re: Student and Course Integrity
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Date: 14 Dec 88 06:21:04 GMT
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In article <18237@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> matloff@iris.ucdavis.edu (Norm Matloff) writes:
[Far Side cartoon]
>   There is a picture of a school, with a sign in front saying "School
>   for the Gifted."
>My DEPARTMENT CHAIRPERSON laughed uncontrollably at that cartoon  --
>but you would NEVER find such a "laugh-at-the-eggheads,-who-totally-
>lack-common-sense" cartoon in Asia.

You may possibly be doing your department's chairbeing an injustice.
I too laughed at that cartoon, and your interpretation of it came as a
complete surprise to me.  I thought the kid in the cartoon looked a
total drongo -- definitely _not_ an "egghead" -- and that the point of
the joke was that he didn't belong there.  It is possible that your
chairbeing saw the same joke that I did.