So I had planned to spend a significant amount of time this afternoon blogging about just how enraged I am about the whole Jeremy Hall situation (which isn't new, but happened to be discussed in the Skepticallity podcast that I listened to this morning, and thus I am newly enraged) and about how it's completely unconstitutional (according to Article VI, which says that the government cannot impose a religious test for purposes of employment) for the military to employ chaplains, and how it's a completely new (and stupid) argument that 24-7 access to spiritual leadership is an absolute need that not only cannot be denied by the military but actually must be provided by it. But then this conversation happened:
Professor 1: Why can't we throw candy from the Christmas float anymore?
Professor 2: They're worried about the kids getting hit with it.
Post Doc: Throwing candy at parades is so Eastern Shore.
Professor 3: Not that I think we're going to put out any eyes by throwing gummy bears, but can't they get out of the way?
Professor 1: Once at a bar mitzvah, I got beaned with a stale piece of bubble gum.
Post Doc: At exactly what point in the bar mitzvah does the candy throwing happen?
Professor 1: I don't know what was happening, it was all in Hebrew.
Professor 2: Did all of the Jews suddenly duck while the stupid gentiles got bonked with candy?
... and now, I can't get that image out of my head. It's been making me laugh inappropriately at my desk for at least an hour now because this is what the people who are in charge of my education spend their time thinking about.
3 comments:
haha! they throw things that hurt a lot more than gummy bears from the floats down here!
i definitely just laughed out loud and I will be sharing this with Zach (the jewish bf) when he gets home and I can guarantee that he will chuckle as well.
update...he laughed out loud too :) (and confirmed the lack of candy throwing...hehe)
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