Sentence examples for academic joke from inspiring English sources

Second, it is an exhilarating academic joke: the collision of Oxford logic with the Anglo-Saxon nonsense tradition.

Again, he was quoting someone else - in fact, an ancient German academic joke - about the existence of both Catholic and Protestant faculties of theology at several German universities, which thus, the joke went, are unique in having two departments devoted to the study of something that doesn't exist at all.

For example if you do not joke in real life, do not do it in lectures – there is nothing worse than the "academic joke" that falls flat.

A bit later, Robert Cumming staged pseudo-academic jokes, and Les Krims staged broad ones for the camera.

The group settled on "chronic fatigue syndrome" — the use of "syndrome" rather than "disease" suggested a psychiatric rather than physical origin and would thus discourage public panic and prevent insurers from having to make "chronic disbursements," as one of the academics joked.

As one academic, Will Davies, jokes: "Turning the nudge unit into a mutual suggests coalition policy has now entered an infinite feedback loop".

An academic history of jokes awaited the invention of "interdisciplinary studies," which came well after the invention of the elephant joke.

Like much of "All in the Timing," the monkey sketch is made up of crude physical humor, wiseguy academic references and jokes of highly varying sophistication, all embodied with vaudevillian gusto by the performers.

Mr. Parnell's plot hinges on a joke of academic history.

The following 90 minutes are devoted to the increasingly baroque ramblings of an academic who collects experimental jokes.

This saves on costs and guarantees core skills.Even media studies, long the butt of every joke about useless academic qualifications, has smartened up its act.