One time someone was using narrow gauge railroading. I liked that. (Of course I did, it was me who used it.) Where did that nut go? Was there a kite flying one?
Q: Do we HAVE to use these disguised disciplines in our posts and comments? Are there some other ones we can sprinkle in to flavor up the CM gumbo? What are they?
How's about Littracha of the Damned?
ReplyDeleteYour discipline is disguised? I thought this was where all the hamsterologists of the web congregated.
ReplyDeleteInteresting that you bring it up. I like the underwater basketweaving myself. Hamster fur weaving always makes me think of matted fur, which has a disgusting texture and makes me shiver. I would be very pleased if we were to expand our wings and leave the hamsters out of it.
ReplyDeleteAlpaca Analysis?
ReplyDeleteSloth Statistics?
Duck Divining?
Alpaca Appreciation!?
I like our disciplines and feel marginalized for having been criticized for choosing an esoteric focus in Hamster rhetoric. How about:
ReplyDeleteThe Department of Duck Rhetoric and Analysis?
The Department of Compound Cal's Musical Stylings?
The Unweaving of Alpaca Texts Program
The Program of Religious Alpaca Prophecies
I really enjoy both basket weaving and hamster studies. BUT Hirram, I think you could offer any other discipline that would make you happy and make it your own! Go for it!
ReplyDeleteI don't enjoy hamsters (too much squirming), but love basket weaving. I especially love my zoomorphic knotwork research, though.
ReplyDeleteHamsters work well for me. In my area we use 'em to make sounds. To that end some are plucked, some fingered, some blown, some beaten. The sound of all those hamsters, suffering all of the above indignities, creates a tea-partying cacophony of sound that can only be though of as "Hamster Art".
ReplyDeleteWe talk about hamster theory, famous hamster pluckers/fingerers/blowers/beaters from the past and present, and how to properly (and with INSPIRATION) pluck, finger, blow, and beat hamsters in our current day to day lives. To me, it will always be Hamster Studies.
OK. I'm off to do a few right now. I'm not disguising anything. This is what we're about in my area. Pluckin', fingerin', blowin', and beatin'.
Hey! It's a living.
Inspired by the Mouse Organ?
Deletehttp://youtu.be/F9nGyPz9uT0
Wow, I'd never seen that one. I always thought Marvin Suggs and the Muppephones was an original.
DeleteExactly! I'd never seen that one but it will be shown in class on Monday!
DeleteYou guys crack me up! (Or is it just end-of-semester craziness on my part? I've been cracking myself up all day....not a good sign!)
Happy Holidays to all, BTW!
I thought of the Muppet one too, but found this one on Youtube first...
DeleteI've always used Care and Feeding of Wombats as a stand in for those disciplines which could be both academic and clinical in nature.
ReplyDeleteOf course that was just a hat tip to our esteemed colleague, Wombat of the Copier.
Amoeba Husbandry
ReplyDeletePreparing For The Coming Alpaca-lypse. (It is a-pun us.)
ReplyDeleteDisciplines like:
ReplyDeleteRagemaster
Visiting Screamer
Professor of Putting-the-Boot-In
Slappist
Master of Hey-You-Stop-Looking-at-That-Motherfucking-Cellphone
Electronics Flinger
Department Lenin
Department Stalin (throned/dethroned)
His Holiness, Ho Chi Minh
Trimmer of Zizek's beard
Master of Chomskyisms, 2nd class
Wearer of The Great Helmsman's Stinky Bathrobe
Holder of the Buckley Prize for Effete Drunken Snobbery and Crypto-Nazism
The Motherfuckest of all Motherfuckers, bar none
Holder of the Jello Biafra Award for Kampuchean Studies
Chief Rabbi of Great Britain
I at least thought "His Holiness, Ho Chi Minh" was worth a giggle.
DeleteOne electrical engineering prof I once knew described an introductory electrical course he taught to students outside of his department: volts for dolts.
ReplyDeleteEnglish 201 to be renamed "More on English".
ReplyDeleteSay it quick enough, and it'll match the students' abilities.