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Sunday, November 27, 2005 

Peculiar

I've been staring at this thing for months now (I can see it from the teaching lab) and I just don't get it. Does it mean something to British people, a mule in a motorboat?

http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2003-04/03-102.html

Useful things paired and rendered useless. I'm sure there's a metaphor for higher education in there somewhere.

The following address may explain more;

http://www.hayward.org.uk/

I like this blog. You can ask really quite silly questions and get some interesting answers. Nice.

A Donkey in a Dinghy?

It's a highly sophisticated British joke, designed specifically to confuse Americans. Potentially.

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