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Monday, January 9, 2012

West of Bathurst 1009

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The Christmas header has finally been retired to the Miscellaneous page. The unsubtly ironic Valentine's Day header will be along eventually.

Monday, January 9, 2012
Panel 1: Barbara stands in a classroom, in front of a projector screen with the name of her course on it.

Barbara: Greetings, students. Welcome to English 216: Children's Literature.

Panel 2: She clicks through to the next slide, which is a picture of an Angry Bird with a "no" sign over it.

Barbara: This class will be governed by a number of rules. The first is that anyone caught texting will be assigned a twenty-page essay on Tom's Midnight Garden. The same goes for games of Angry Birds.

Panel 3:

Barbara: But the most important rule is this: if you so much as hint that the Twilight series may not be the Antichrist, you will be ejected immediately from the classroom and, if possible, the university.

Panel 4:

Student 1: Team Edward!

Student 2: Team Jacob!

Barbara [whips a spray can out of her pocket]: Did I mention the pepper spray?

Alt-Text: The course number here is basically meaningless. I've encountered something like four incarnations of this course in different universities, and they all have different numbers; off the top of my head, I'm remembering 224, 234, and 314, plus one with a kind of weird long number with letters in it as well. As far as I can figure, there is no real meaning to university course numbering. For instance, I'm teaching English 888 this term. Why is it called English 888? Who knows? Are there even eight hundred and eighty-eight English courses at this university? Not even close. I think the courses are probably numbered on a whim.

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