Technical Patent Malarkey – Idlings

… Technical Patent Malarkey – Idlings. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… one of the qualifications for a career in PR is the ability to turn out reams of vaguely intelligent-sounding bullshit, and that’s where a BA in English helps. Back in college we learned to read our professors at least as well as our Shakespeare. We swallowed their special terms, pet theories, and personal predilections, and brought them back up again in novel arrangements of just-intelligible English sentences for our term papers. It worked.

Well,  I also managed to make a living out of my English degree, too, (though the philosophy and theology courses proved just as important), but I never had churn out gobbledegook. And my professors was mostly just good teachers. Guess times have changed.