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"I'm in the wrong Army. My recruiter said I'd be in the one that lets us keep our phones."

Private Benjamin explaining to Captain Lewis that she's supposed to be in the Army that has the spas and condos.

This works in films, too. Spielberg made you afraid to get in the water not by showing you the shark often, but by showing you as little of the shark as possible.

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Chris Bohn @docbohn.bsky.social · 15h

Is the game tonight? tonight? tonight?

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Chris Bohn @docbohn.bsky.social · 15h

The deadline listed on the CBT site blew past, and no nastygram. Huh, maybe they didn't take that lesson to heart. A year "overdue", I decided it must not've really mandatory. Two years "overdue", I finally did the training just to clear it from my dashboard. 2/2

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Chris Bohn @docbohn.bsky.social · 15h

A few years ago, I *thought* my university took a lesson from the military. A new mandatory training item popped up on the CBT site, but no human tasked me with taking it. I prepared myself to have that conversation when they declared me non-deployable (or whatever the university equivalent is). 1/2

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Chris Bohn @docbohn.bsky.social · 16h

Might expect this in a new building where they've built the stalls but haven't installed the toilets yet.

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Chris Bohn @docbohn.bsky.social · 18h

Four Weddings and a Fun Pack

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Chris Bohn @docbohn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

One time somebody asked me if I knew why clocks run clockwise. I think they were going to bring up sundials, but I derailed them with: Because if clocks ran the other direction, we'd call *that* clockwise.

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Chris Bohn @docbohn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The squirrel saw the cartoon "The Last Great Act of Defiance" and said, *Hold my acorn*.

An ink drawing of a hawk bearing down on a mouse, foreshortening making its out-reaching talons huge. The mouse, standing on its hind legs, faces the hawk and gives it the finger. The caption reads: "The Last Great Act Of Defiance..."

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Chris Bohn @docbohn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

AtlanticCrier: Should I be on this chat?

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Chris Bohn @docbohn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If someone is foolish enough to make me SECDEF (and if I'm foolish enough to accept) then you have my pledge that we'll have a USS Sea Tiger, and that it will be painted pink.

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Chris Bohn @docbohn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Let us apply atomic-reaction weapons to this location from beyond the atmosphere. Tis the singular path toward certainty."

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Chris Bohn @docbohn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🎶 They complain when the terrain doesn't fully drain. Explain! Explain! It pains their brains to be stuck inside due to rain.

A soggy alpaca looking toward the camera. Behind him, two other soggy alpacas stand in a barn stall.

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Chris Bohn @docbohn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I mostly use ai to set up the rhyme in a song about where Iberian precipitation falls.

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Chris Bohn @docbohn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The guy who leases the field next to us has a reputation for not maintaining fences. This year he sublet the field, and the new guy repaired the fences but missed a spot. As we were encouraging a couple of calves to get off the road, a guy pulls up & the first thing he asks: "Those Larry's cattle?"

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Chris Bohn @docbohn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Did they intentionally make it look like HAL?

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Chris Bohn @docbohn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The problem with a good book being classified as Literature is that you don't *get* to read it, you *have* to read it.

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Chris Bohn @docbohn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A roadside advert Nonsense humor then the tag Burma Shave haiku

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Chris Bohn @docbohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Office Space has the desirable property that my students have actually heard of it (if not watched it), when I discuss problems with using floating point numbers for decimal currency. If I use Superman III as the example, I just get a bunch of blank stares.

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Chris Bohn @docbohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think Fat Bear Week voting should be about more than how fat the bear is. Judge their salmon-catching skills for accuracy and technical difficulty. Hold a talent competition. Maybe a spelling bee. Give them mathletes problems. Don't vote for the most-round bear. Vote for the well-rounded bear!

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Chris Bohn @docbohn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Based on the chuckles, either they understood the reference, or they took to heart some advice I gave them earlier. bsky.app/profile/docb...

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Chris Bohn @docbohn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Something I found myself saying in class today: Theoretical computer science grew out of mathematics. Computers grew out of electrical engineering. Then they got mushed together like one of those Reese's Peanut Butter Cup commercials.

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Chris Bohn @docbohn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Johnson admitted to having heard of Taiwan's existence?

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Chris Bohn @docbohn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have a feeling this fellow and John Warden would've gotten along swimmingly or would've been at each other's throats. In this paragraph I similar traits: an idea that's compelling to those who don't need to be convinced, wrap it in scientific-sounding language, and botch the science part of it.

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Chris Bohn @docbohn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Surely this is anatomically accurate... bsky.app/profile/docb...

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Chris Bohn @docbohn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sometimes. They don't like to go out into the rain, but if they're already outside and comfortable when it starts to rain, then likely as not, they'll decide to see if the rain is going to stop soon. Not yet? Maybe soon. Not yet? Maybe soon.

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Chris Bohn @docbohn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I absolutely live in a music bubble. I have coworkers who are nostalgic for songs I've never heard of.

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Chris Bohn @docbohn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

MESSENGER As I did stand my watch upon the hill, I looked toward Birnam, and anon methought The Wood began to move. MACBETH Fuck!

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Chris Bohn @docbohn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky from your camera roll.

A view across a green field. The sky is overcast, but you can still see spots of blue. A bright rainbow stretches from the ground on the left, up to the top of the photo, and back to the ground on the right.

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Chris Bohn @docbohn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Appropriate for a crematorium, perhaps

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Chris Bohn @docbohn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Many years ago when some people tried to use a work of fiction to discern an author's personal beliefs, I suggested that they consider his other books, too. He's clearly an anarchofascist orthodox hippie.

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Chris Bohn @docbohn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Molting Crüe is the name of my next band of musical chickens.

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Chris Bohn @docbohn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

30 minutes in, I'd suddenly change my posture. I'd look disoriented, like I'd been unaware of the previous half-hour. I'd not-very-surreptitiously look at my reflection and touch my face. At the next break, I'd stand in a corner and talk quietly but animatedly to someone who isn't there, named "Al"

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Chris Bohn @docbohn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When I taught at AFIT, the tradition was that if your phone went off during class, you owed everyone donuts at the next class. One day my phone went off during a distance-learning class. So, at the start of the next class, I stared into the camera while eating a donut.

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Chris Bohn @docbohn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This *is* the principal appeal of stick shifts. At one time I could convince myself that I wanted a stick shift for better fuel economy, but when it came time to buy a new car (having wrapped the old one around a deer), I saw 9-speed automatic and I realized I can't compete with that.

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