9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for March 15, 2008
Transcript:
"Wonderful speech at the symposium, Dr. Burber. I've never heard such meaningless, academic claptrap delivered so effectively." "You have a wonderful nodmeister." "I was wondering... ...could I borrow him Wednesday? I have to give an address of unintelligible flapdoodle on global economy in the 21st century... ...and he'd be a godsend." "Yes, I'd be free to nod throughout your speech. I can provide of quiet but knowing assent, or of sudden epiphanies. I can also mix them up, if you're not particular. However, to make economic theory vis-a-vis global economy in the 21st century look sane, I charge extra. There's always a danger of whiplash."