Joe: “My girlfriend and I were at a restaurant and the waitress was flirting with me,”
Pete: “What did your girlfriend say?”
Joe: “She said, “The waitress must have COVID, she obviously has no taste.”
The Fable
“A Gnat alighted on one of the horns of a Bull, and remained
sitting there for a considerable time. When it had rested
sufficiently and was about to fly away, it said to the Bull, “Do
you mind if I go now?” The Bull merely raised his eyes and
remarked, without interest, “It’s all one to me; I didn’t notice
when you came, and I shan’t know when you go away.”
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Note: One of the observations I’ve had while working in academia is that many professors have an inflated sense of self importance. There were times when I was attending meetings that I thought I was experiencing Dante’s seventh circle of hell. One or two people monopolized the conversations going on and on about something that was important to them but to no one else. Like many academic meetings, the meetings ended with nothing accomplished. People who make a difference are the people we miss when they go away. The gnats, not so much.
Because the road was steep and long And through a dark and lonely land, God set upon my lips a song And put a lantern in my hand. Through miles on weary miles of night That stretch relentless in my way My lantern burns serene and white, An unexhausted cup of day. O golden lights and lights like wine, How dim your boasted splendors are. Behold this little lamp of mind: It is more starlike than a star! Source
