Story time, children!
So I'm in IS301 (Management of Information Systems) class today. The class is taught by an old woman who they dragged out of retirement at the last minute to teach the class when the regular teacher (who's the associate dean of the IS department) had to attend to other commitments in his schedule. She hasn't taught a computer class in five years, and it shows.
So we're talking about "21st Century Trends in Business"...and the textbook has this little nugget: "More and more recruiters and marketers are trolling the Internet in order to improve their business prospects."
When the teacher said this, two people, me and another student who's even nerdier than I am, couldn't help ourselves. We laughed out loud. Heartily. Because let's face it, the mental images involved are fucking hilarious.
When the teacher asked "what's so funny?", I said "Successful troll is successful." Which set off the other nerd (he even did the Successful Troll dance in his chair). And which sent the other 28 people in the room into a quizzical "wtf?" look...that was even funnier! (except for the fact that one of the people is a cute girl I'd really like to fuck. But she already knew I was weird.)
For Discussion: Ever have a total nerd moment in a class, when something is meant innocently but turns out to be unintentionally funny if you're a nerd/geek/tech-savvy?
So I'm in IS301 (Management of Information Systems) class today. The class is taught by an old woman who they dragged out of retirement at the last minute to teach the class when the regular teacher (who's the associate dean of the IS department) had to attend to other commitments in his schedule. She hasn't taught a computer class in five years, and it shows.
So we're talking about "21st Century Trends in Business"...and the textbook has this little nugget: "More and more recruiters and marketers are trolling the Internet in order to improve their business prospects."
When the teacher said this, two people, me and another student who's even nerdier than I am, couldn't help ourselves. We laughed out loud. Heartily. Because let's face it, the mental images involved are fucking hilarious.
When the teacher asked "what's so funny?", I said "Successful troll is successful." Which set off the other nerd (he even did the Successful Troll dance in his chair). And which sent the other 28 people in the room into a quizzical "wtf?" look...that was even funnier! (except for the fact that one of the people is a cute girl I'd really like to fuck. But she already knew I was weird.)
For Discussion: Ever have a total nerd moment in a class, when something is meant innocently but turns out to be unintentionally funny if you're a nerd/geek/tech-savvy?