Indiana Jones vs. The World of Academics

[baleanoptera]

Ahh...Indiana Jones you made me want to be an archaeologist - until I realized that what you did, and what archaeologists do are very different things. *g*

So naturally this made me laugh out loud.

Back from yet another globetrotting adventure, Indiana Jones checks his mail and discovers that his bid for tenure has been denied.
- from McSweeneys by Andy F. Bryan

Excerpts :
no one on the committee can identify who or what instilled Dr. Jones with the belief that an archaeologist's tool kit should consist solely of a bullwhip and a revolver.

and

I find it pertinent to note that Dr. Jones has been romantically linked to countless women of questionable character, an attribute very unbecoming of a Marshall College professor. One of these women was identified as a notorious nightclub singer whose heart he attempted to extract with his hands, and whom he then tried, and failed, to lower into a lake of magma

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[baleanoptera.livejournal.com]

And now we know! *g* I will admit - even though a large part of me loves academics and general geekery - there is this other part that wishes for more Indiana Jones - like adventure.