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I've probably already mentioned this before, but in a college Government class, the lone engineer surrounded by Government majors, there was a discussion about violence being propagated by television. I raised the point, possibly too straight faced, about how violent television must have been in the late 19th/early 20th centuries in America with the lynching and race based violence. Teacher (my second least impressive professor I had in college), noted there was no television back then.

Reminds me of a writing class in which I wrote a persuasive essay about preventing sexually transmitted diseases. I opened by saying that abstinence was absolutely the most certain defense against such diseases, but, "it doesn't work if you use it intermittently."

The professor was dumbfounded. He said something like, "That doesn't... That wouldn't... I can't begin to tell you what's wrong with that sentence."

I liked him. He was a good professor. But he was not my ideal audience.
 
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