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Julie Gabrielli's avatar

Professor, what’s your policy on the use of AI for this assignment?

Susie Mawhinney's avatar

Necessary in my case! 😂

Adam Nathan's avatar

Please present a valid North Dakota, Vermont or Iowa driver's license.

Julie Gabrielli's avatar

But I’ve developed an LLM I’m calling Amélie that could be very applicable here n

Susie Mawhinney's avatar

In country bumpkin doubled over stitches!! Hilarious… unless it was meant to be serious..?

Adam Nathan's avatar

This was not meant to be serious.

(Unless you are Amélie.)

You must know this song, right? it isn't known in the States, but I first heard it on French radio. I truly love, love, love the song. She's great in general. I've been thinking about plugging it here for some time, but couldn't find the angle. So, alas, here we are. I am only serious about the song.

Susie Mawhinney's avatar

No, no… winking emoji failed to send! Of course it’s not serious!

It’s hard not to know this song here, I hear it on the radio at least once a week, although I played it to my son and he’d never heard it, Shazammed it immediately though… which means I’ll hear it every day at least ten times from now on…

E.T. Allen's avatar

Laughing my ass off at most of this but probably don’t understand at least 60% of what is going on in my first read. That probably says something about me.. 😆

Adam Nathan's avatar

Just play that song in the "gym" and see how it goes.

Julie Gabrielli's avatar

Ima try this, 💯

Adam Nathan's avatar

I'll tell you this. It can't hurt.

Well...

Julie Gabrielli's avatar

Yeah, have you *seen* me in the gym??

Lor's avatar

I’m lost. But I do have a valid Vermont driver’s license .

Lor's avatar

Hey! I think I’m feeling a wave of insult originating from NJ ,heading N, NW arriving in VT. Ya got something to say ? You come up here and say it …Whaddayathink we wear overalls ta bed?

Well why didn’t ya just list

No mooing under grading criteria?

We parle français too ya know.

Um, is this Pass/Fall or letter graded?

(P.S. leave my smiling puppy face out of it ,if you post this under likes!)

Adam Nathan's avatar

The Green Mountain State is too free-spirited and independent to take any notice of all of this. I also suspect during early evenings in mid-October it can hold its own in the romance department with the lover heavyweights like Virginia.

New Jersey (my home state) was in the lineup for a few minutes, but eventually had to give up its spot. I didn’t think my people could handle it. In the end, North Dakota, Vermont and Iowa made the cut because they are proud and hardy and can take a little ribbing.

Lor's avatar

Amen to that

Lor's avatar

You do know I was just trying to make you laugh….🤭

Lor's avatar

I really was totally lost with the whole post until I actually listened to the song. And then it all made perfect sense. Of course I had to add some comedy to mix with the sexual tension, worrying about the whole grading thing.

Adam Nathan's avatar

Put that song on in the background and someone will give you an A.

If they’re from North Dakota, Vermont or Iowa.

Lor's avatar

Possible intense Northern Lights Tonight if you get some clear skies. From 10:00pm and on!!!

Just heard,

Seriously, if you haven’t heard SEVERE Geomagnetic Storm ALERT

WHAT: Geomagnetic Storm has strengthened and reached G4 conditions. Hope you get to see!

Kimberly Warner's avatar

Dear prof,

The dog didn’t eat my homework but he did interrupt my homework. I wont be turning in this assignment.

Kenneth Mills's avatar

A wilder than usual wild ride from Professor Wild and Range. I'm going to avoid responding to line and deadline (my trained self), and just keep laughing my head off, savouring the creative satirical flashes, a mile a minute...

Chloe Hope's avatar

I can't believe I'm only just reading this, and it had been missing from my life during the days when it needn't have been. That'll teach me for taking a break... I don't think I've ever enjoyed a bullet list so much.

I had a brief fling with a Parisian woman, many moons ago, and this brought back all sorts of memories. Merci.

Adam Nathan's avatar

You continue to get more and more interesting. 😃 This piece did not find its audience, and I thought it was a layup. Sigh.

The big piece right now is The Gondolier. It’s in two parts, the first last Sunday, the conclusion next. Thematically, it is very, very, very up your alley.

But no birds.

J.E. Petersen's avatar

Loved this more than I wanted to, more than I should, exactly as much as deserved.

Adam Nathan's avatar

While attendance was far lower than I expected for this class, I would say that the Notorious B.I.G. class with the capstone “I’m F&^%ing You Tonight” track raised the bar even further, but in the opposite direction, requiring a completely different set of skills.

Based on student surveys, that class is going to be cancelled.

J.E. Petersen's avatar

Any chance we get to see the results of some of those surveys?

Adam Nathan's avatar

Most of the surveys were in the form of unsubscribes. 😂

J.E. Petersen's avatar

Ah, voting with their feet, as it were.