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Careful perusal of the Bulletin has revealed that New York’s governor-in-waiting, David Paterson, is teaching a class here at his alma mater. Because he is employed part time by the state legislature, the class was not due to start until tomorrow. Bwog intuits that this has been canceled. Bad news for the SIPA students who had signed up to learn about Urban Planning & Charitable-Equitable Development! Sadly, only 17 people signed up for a course with a maximum enrollment of 40. Perhaps they couldn’t figure out how a blind professor would respond to a raised hand. Commenters are encouraged to find the joke that must be lurking in that last sentence.
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@Henny Youngman Optional cliches for future posts (feel free to copy and paste):
See here…
The view from my vantage point…
Look…
The way I see it…
In hindsight…
Feel free to add to the list.
@well you’re forgetting the phrases that lie on the periphery
@#19 I lolled
@also Paterson probably doesn’t want to lend the perception that he’s lost focus of the governorship already
@sigh I feel like the quality of writing in Bwog has gotten worse.
@yeah my perception is that their writing has lost a lot of its depth.
@Reality Geez, guys… if you take that stick out of your ass, you might find the world’s a more pleasant place to be.
@hmm i don’t think you’re looking at my comment with the right point of view
@Alum Way to go, Bwog — blindness jokes are so tasteful. Editors are encouraged to find the sarcasm that must be lurking in that last sentence.
@timmy You see, we learned something today. Yeah, sure, we laughed at Timmy, but what’s wrong with laughter? Just because we laugh at something doesn’t mean we don’t care about it. Timmy made us smile, and playing made Timmy smile, so where was the harm in that? The people that are wrong are the ones that think people like Timmy should be “protected” and kept out of the public’s eye. The cool thing about Timmy being in a band was that he was in your face, and you had to deal with him, whether you laughed or cried, or felt nothing. That’s why Timmy rules!
@Come on Paterson shows a sense of humor about his own blindness, so why can’t you?
“When he [Paterson] mentions his disability, it’s usually as a punch line. In 2006, he described Spitzer as the visionary and himself as the legislative technician, ‘because I sure don’t have the vision.'”
— 3/13/08 AP article
@22222222 Sidorsky is awesome.
@typo2 commentatORS not -ers
@typo entertaining*
@hea Yea, Sidorsky is practically blind!
when he does see your hand, he’ll call on you and look in a completely different direction. Poor guy, he’s been here for 50 years and now he stumbles around Hamilton. Hes still sharp as a tack though, very intertaining
@Helen Keller I bet that course had no vision anyway.
@well from what i read on the syllabus, the material seemed a bit myopic
@it's workable to experience a blind (well, nearly) professor, take a class with Sidorsky. It’s still good.
@Awesome Am I the only one who finds the idea of a blind person becoming governor of New York state pretty inspiring? His race probably didn’t help him either.
@Patterson doesn’t see race.
@columbian What if canceling the class at such a low notice pushes someone below the minimum credits to graduate, be a full-time student, etc.? It’s not like someone can join a new class to replace the missing one at this point.
@11123123 Paterson would be blind to such considerations anyway.
@anonymous You’re right.
We should demand that Patterson put off this whole being governor thing so he can teach his class!