The Marx brothers?

As many of you know I work in academe-- though not as faculty. I'm a lowly peon (aka staff person). As I was walking down the hall earlier today, I could hear a professor in a classroom ask: "Who knows who Karl Marx was?" There was a loooong pause, and someone tentatively offers: "He was a sociologist... I think." The professor assures her that she is correct, and goes on to ask "And what was he best known for?" Dead silence. The professor prompts. "Anyone?" More silence. Finally, clearly annoyed, the professor answers her own question. "Marxism. He wrote the Communist Manifesto with Fredrick Engels."

I have to say it kind of boggled my mind that no one in the class knew that. I guess that proves I'm a child of the Cold War.

And speaking of the Cold War, as I was looking up the proper spelling of Engels' first name to do this post, I ran across a picture which made me double-take because it looked SO much like Illya in disguise in "The Project Strigas Affair" episode of Man From UNCLE. So tonight I played around in Photoshop and made this Separated at Birth pic to share with y'all so you could see why I double-took. :) I'm sure I'm not the first person to remark on this, but it amused me, all things considered. Wanna see? Go here: ( Read more... )