A man comes to a doctor's office and says:
- Doctor, I need your help. I have been having the same dream for months.
- What kind of a dream?
- Cockroaches playing football. They keep playing all night, and I am completely dead in the morning.
- Well, you are in luck. I just received these English pills; take one before sleep, and you will sleep like a log, no dreams whatsoever.
- Thanks, doc! But can I take the pill tomorrow instead?
- Why tomorrow?
- Tonight they are having the finals.
The perverse incentives of academia
6 years ago
10 comments:
Thanks for the laugh! I look forward to your Anecdote Mondays!
Why are the pills English?
Amanda - you are welcome!
AA - the story takes place in the former U.S.S.R., therefore English = exotic.
I thought it was some kind of comment on the crapness of the English football team ;)
Cath - insult is in the eye of the beholder? ;)
I'm a wee bit sensitive when it comes to crappy English teams this week...
I love it! Although it seems that if the cockroaches were about to have the finals, the matches would've stopped after that even without the pills, no? :-)
I'm sorry, Cath....
MadHatter - I thought about that, too!
Thanks!
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