"...everything was going as normally as possible for this department; while research into large-bore partillery had stalled (despite the immediate success of Project Funderbuss), we had a breakthrough this morning upon renaming the project's intended product the Revel Railgun. It seems to be important that party-cannon related devices like their names.
"Sadly, our lucky streak was broken in the afternoon when Shaved Barber jokingly suggested 'pulling oneself out of one's own mane' as an example of a bootstrap paradox. Much to his surprise and existential confusion, the Department Head then demonstrated the resolution of the paradox by arriving promptly in the lab via that very method, and the resulting outbreak of disorderly theorizing with fudge oat swirl ice cream consumed the rest of the day.
"As for myself, I need a topologist, an evening at Berry's Punch, and a new grad student. This one's crashed."
- daily report,
Cat Herder, Department Neck1, Dept. of Pinkieology
Wonderful to see the blog supplements collected in one convenient and much easier to search place. Thank you for collecting them.
Never change Pinkie. Never change. If we are ever attacked by sentient logical robots, you will be our Best and Most Powerful weapon. And you will defeat them.
I can really see this sort of atrocity to physics, magical or otherwise, occurring around her.
You have also outdone yourself with some really good names here.
...How many grad students do they go through, on average? And, for that matter, is the average rate of grad student loss below the minimum rate of grad student loss, just because Pinkie?
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The Dept. of Pinkieology is notorious for its turnover rate. Their grad students either transfer out or go mad. (Those ones, they keep. It turns out that you do have to be mad to work here, because it helps a lot.)