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What would you think if I
walked up to you and said,
“Hello, I are Liz, I is a major on
math and me do minors in law
and society and my grades
is real gooder.” You’d probably first back away slowly
as I advanced, concerned
that an especially difficult assignment had left 45% of my
brain in a steaming heap not
unlike scrambled eggs. You
might then stop to ponder
why I was speaking so oddly
- mistaking myself for a plural
(yay, schizophrenia?), misusing prepositions, tacking on
extraneous suffixes, and neglecting adverbs.
If you don’t have a clue what
I just said, let me translate:
you thought I sounded like a
dumbass.
Obviously, Michigan Tech has
taken measures to ensure that
some standard of English proficiency is achieved among
its students; classes such as
Revisions and Perspectives
...see Grammar on back
A French scientist working at the European
Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
has been charged with destroying the €3
billion Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The
unnamed scientist was caught on CCTV
dropping a wrench into the works minutes
before the entire operation came to a
screeching, fiery halt.
“Son of a…” gasped project leader Lyn
Evans as she arrived at the smoldering
wreckage of the supercollider. “Now we’ll
never know whether the Higgs boson really exists. Nearly 15 years of work… all
for this. My dreams! I’m ruined!”
The 32-year-old man of Algerian decent
was detained while fleeing the country,
toolbag in hand. He was identified by
a missing 25mm spanner from his assortment, matching the wrench left at the
scene. INTERPOL agent William McCune
reports.
“Yup, he’s definitely the one. I’ve been
tracking handyman crooks for the past
several years, but this is the worst one
yet. Would you believe the spanner
survived just dandy? All those particles
and quasi-dimensional wormholes didn’t
even phase it. Craftsman makes some
fiiiine shit.”
French authorities have
interrogated the man, attempting to glean some information from
him on any links to other militants in
the area.
“Clearly a terrorist act as damaging and
horrific as this could not be staged by one
man. He must have some accomplices
who aided him along the way,” ponders
McCune at INTERPOL headquarters in
Lyon. “I wouldn’t doubt he’s in line with
the hardware store clerk who messed up
my living room paint. I asked for Gratifying
Green, not Enlightening Lime!”
CERN is at a loss of how to make up the
€3 billion loss, the largest scientific loss
since Chernobyl exploded after someone let loose a raccoon in the control
room. Without having completed a single
experiment, the particle accelerator also
is the biggest failure to hit the organization in years.
Evans, extremely frustrated at the destruction of her ‘baby,’ is at a loss for words.
“Finding that Higgs boson was going to
win me the Nobel Prize… that right there
is worth nearly a million euros. I could’ve
...see Explode on Failure on back
“Night night, knight,” said one knight to the
other knight the other night.
Straight from you-know-where!
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Real Gooder
Al-Qaeda Terrorist Drops Wrench in
the Works, Blows Up LHC
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
It is not enough to succeed.
Others must fail.
~ Gore Vidal
“I hate to imagine what happened to
been living easy. Course, now I’m back the guys playing cards down in the tunto square one. Which is one. Haha! nel,” she added mournfully. “Vaporized
Get it! One squared! HAHA! MY LHC! probably.”
WHO DID THIS!?”
A tape released by Osama bin Laden
The suspect, whose identity is pro- claimed responsibility for the attack,
tected under French law, was seen citing that “those capitalist dogs and
Monday opening a hatch on one of their Higgs bosons can rot in hellfire.
the super-cooled magnets, drop- The western world will fall due to
ping a wrench in, and then ducking the inherent fallacies in their scientific
for cover as everything went haywire practices!”
around him.
“I’m not really sure what he meant by
CERN intern Mengya LI explains the all of that,” says Evans. “I’m pretty sure
panic as everyone escaped the un- those wacky Islamic extremists don’t
folding disaster around them.
have anything better than then scientific
method anyway.”
“One minute we were doing safety
checks prior to crossing the beams,
...Grammar from front
and the next emergency lights are flashing and a horn starts going, ‘awooga- try to teach us how to communicate
awooga,’ just like in the movies. At better than the average Neanderfirst I thought it was Fermilab playing thal. Nonetheless, the old stereotype
another joke on us, but when all the floods campus: engineers can’t write.
dials went bananas, I knew it was all What’s more, engineers in charge of
over. I high-tailed it out of there just things can’t write, and that, my friends,
is sickeningly ironic.
before the meltdown.”
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I was wandering through the halls of
DHH not fifteen minutes ago when I
noticed a new posting on my hall bulletin board. The advertisement proclaimed that IRHC is having a raffle for
students with exceptional midterm
grades. The eye-catching banner asks:
HAVE YOU BEEN DOING GOOD IN
SCHOOL? Part of my soul died. Really,
IRHC?
You see, kids, “good” is an adjective.
We use them to describe nouns (aka,
people, places, things, and ideas).
For instance, I might say, “My dog is
fluffy,” “I have a gigantic wart,” or
“You have a gigantic fluffy wart that
you should get looked at.”
On the flip side, “well” is an adverb.
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(see what I did there?) in order to
be entered. Doesn’t that seem fishy?
I guess if you have all satisfactory midterm grades, it won’t matter who sees,
but some people are excessively pri2 EMPEROR MATEUS
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apply this newfound nugget of vate. Do they face exclusion from the
wisdom,
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raffle, all right. That would be like cause I’m a second year/sophomore/
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shoots
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free pizza, gift cards, Michigan Tech
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