One of my students recently emailed me to let me know that she’s experienced some medical problems. Among them is a slipped disk in her back, which I do have an immense amount of sympathy for. However, her email described it thusly:
“I slipped my back dick.”
Welcome to Thinkery, est. 2003. At the moment, I'm an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at Syracuse University. I'm interested in new media, historical conceptions of authorship, and human/machine agency. I write about all of that elsewhere, mostly, and keep this space for other areas of investigation about the world: namely, cooking, gardening, and travel.
youch! ::fit of giggles::
and? how did you respond?
One of my students began an essay the other day with “One of the most important boobs of the 20th century…”
I just wrote “Janet Jackson?” in the margin.