On getting the PhD

[etrurian_gold]

"Being a graduate student is like becoming all of the Seven Dwarves. In the beginning you're Dopey and Bashful. In the middle, you are usually sick (Sneezy), tired (Sleepy), and irritable (Grumpy). But at the end, they call you Doc, and then you're Happy

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There was an infamous out-take...

[sensaes]

...from Celebrity Squares in the early '80s, where (then) star of stage and small screen Julia McKenzie mispronounced/Spoonerized two of the dwarves names as "Dumpy and Gropey".

Always makes me chuckle, that...