A Warm Welcome

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On Monday, the first class that I sampled was one called "Irish Prose and Poetry of the 19th and 20th Centuries." So there I am, sitting alone in the front of the room so I can hear the professor as best as possible, and he finally comes in, 5 minutes late (common here). He sets his coat and bag down, leans on the podium, and with an Irish accent as thick as the Guinness, delievers a deadpan "to quote Martin Scorsese's film Goodfellas, in about the eighth minute, shut the fuck up." Got that one loud and clear.