Professor, I Have a Compliment for You

Ooh, I love compliments, by Lucas J. Mather

Professor, I have a compliment for you !

Ooh, I love compliments. Thank you so much.

I haven’t given it to you yet.

Oh, well, spare no time.

I just, like, think that you’re like, really, like clear and stuff. I was able to understand you like so much. Thank you .

You’re welcome.

But I just have a follow up question.

Sure.

When you teach Logic, do you cover fallacies–

–Cover? With a blanket?

–huh? No, like, hahaha, no, do you–

Are we tucking these fallacies in at night ?

No.

Reading them stories before bed?

–hahaha, no like, okay.

They’re just fallacies, remember.

When you talk about fallacies, do you cover I mean do you lecture on “straw man” and those like every single time you teach Logic?

When you say every single time, you mean, each time I taught them that I was single? Cuz I only started teaching when I was married.

Huh? Wait, hahaha, oh. Wait. Like.

There were no single times that I taught logic–all of them were married times for me.

Oh, no I meant…

I mean even if girlfriends don’t count–and they don’t, let’s face it–I was never single as I taught. I’ve been teaching for 15 years or so but married for 21 years.

Oh.

Yeah, so every married time I taught Logic (there were no single times) I lectured on fallacies at some point in the semester, even in Symbolic Logic, even though that wasn’t strictly speaking part of the curriculum. I thought it was too important to leave out for these kids, cuz let’s face it, they ain’t getting this stuff from their Democrat curriculum.

Yeah that’s what I was wondering about. Thank you!

You bet.

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Originally posted to Facebook Tuesday 17 July 2018 at 12:45 pm