Tuesday, March 17, 2009

sleight of grammar

Two friends of mine enlightened me today about how they received help during anatomy dissection.

"We used to just clean everything out, get Martha (the anatomy guru/prof), and say, 'So Martha, what do I got here?"

Eventually, Martha got fed up with this display of academic laziness and told them to look in the book for themselves. Undeterred, my friends adopted a new strategy:

"So what we did was clean everything out, get Martha and say, 'So Martha, I think I found {insert anatomy part} but I'm not sure..it looks abnormal...it looks like..."

And in-between these false expressions of conjecture, Martha would eagerly jump in and say "Oh yes, this is a great example of..." and so on.

Talk about playing the system.

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