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Things that irritate Purple Gibbon
Having her forehead stared at. Seeing people with part of their shirt sleeves turned up. The noise made by someone applying too much pressure when drying a wooden spoon with a tea towel. Having other people clean the dishes at 10pm. Being corrected at 11pm. The word “quantise“. And possibly more to come…
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Curtin University… of something
Update (2009-07-11): it has come to my attention that this page ranks rather highly when one searches for “Curtin University of New Technology”. Hence, I’d like to point out that you really should not take it at face value, just in case you were inclined to do so. This was intended to be satire directed…
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How does this experiment work?
Statistics. It all seems to easy until you have to do it. No worries Dave, I confidently assured myself as I fitted the last details of my delicate experimental design into place, all set to be unleashed on as many undergraduates as I had chocolate to bribe. Now all I have to do is plug…
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House-lifting
“Thief!” yelped Professor Geoff West as I stampeded past him in the stairwell of the New Technologies building armed with a deck chair and a backpack stuffed with household cleaning equipment. “It’s mine!” I yelped back. Indeed, I had been carrying the chair since I left my new home in Manning half an hour beforehand,…
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