Launching My Career as a Background Extra at U.Va.
Editor’s Note: This article is a humor article.
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Editor’s Note: This article is a humor article.
Editor’s Note: This article is a humor column.
On Friday, the Swifties at U.Va., a relatively new but also exceptionally loud CIO, were spotted in billowing lavender and sky blue polka-dotted pants secured to their waists by green suspenders that had painted snakes running down them. They wore bulging neon shoes, thirteen sizes too big. Their faces were coated in tacky white face paint and, in some cases, whipped cream. Their eyes were encircled in periwinkle blue, they had large magenta circles drawn onto their cheeks. They wore curly wigs that looked like giant scoops of rainbow swirl sorbet dumped onto their heads. And to finish off the whole look, like a cherry on top of white frosted cupcake, were their round bright red noses, protruding like beacons of light.
It is finally over. Goodbye poorly written textbook. Adiós two-hour sleep nights. Au revoir having to walk home alone in the dark at 2 a.m. from Clemons Library. Hello liberty!
Few things are of practical use when they are archaic and mammoth-sized — certainly, textbooks, the Taco Bell in your minifridge and your personal grudges have absolutely no business being either. But archaic and mammoth-sized vocabulary, on the other hand, is an art. Not just an art — but an edge over the rest.