August 31, 2004

It's so egregious: My New Textbooks

I bought most of my new textbooks today. Ouch.

Check this out though: Guess which of these two textbooks costs more?

If you guessed the thick one on the bottom, the one with full-color, photograph-rich, glossy pages, you'd, of course, be wrong. That one is "only" $70. The one on the top, which is all black and white, has no photographs, and is perhaps a third as thick, costs $80.

When I saw this, I figured that, obviously, this book must contain some really insightful information. So, I flipped to a random page, and read the following:

Human communication embodies the following characteristics:

  • No direct mind-to-mind contact. It is not yet humanly possible to establish direct mind-to-mind contact between individuals (telepathy)...

(Photographic proof here.)

So I just spent $80 on a thin paperback book that tells me that I'm not telepathic.

Time to seriously contemplate a strategic withdrawl from the class.

Posted by Blog Jones at August 31, 2004 04:49 PM | Category: BJU Stuff

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