The Onion imagines a scenario that many professors have no doubt longed for: A valiant laptop, troubled by its owner’s rambling master’s thesis, ends up “selflessly giving its own life so that professors, academic advisors, classmates, and even future generations of college students would never have to read” the offending text.
“This fearless little machine saved me from unspoken hours of exasperated head-scratching and eyestrain,” says the professor spared from wading through a 38,000-word paper titled A Hermeneutical Exploration Of Onomatopoeia In The Works Of William Carlos Williams As It May Or May Not Relate To Post-Agrarian Appalachia. (The Onion)
