Greetings.

On 2012 Dec 20, at 02:52, Carl Eastlund wrote:

> It is a parody of the ads compiled here:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U18VkI0uDxE

That's useful to know, but might be a little opaque outside the US, if it's 
based on an advert sequence shown only there.  Without this clue, the video 
turns out looking... weird.

And though wanting not to be prissy, the sequence about dating all the girls in 
the CS department does come over as perhaps a trifle Old Fashioned.  To pull 
that gag off would require either a pretty damn obvious link to the thing being 
parodied, or for CS to be so famously gender-neutral that the implied attitude 
by itself becomes funny, because anomalous.  Though CS will have made progress 
here (and I speak from a physics department -- a discipline scrupulously 
addressing its own challenges here), I'm not sure it's quite in that position 
yet.

Nicely done video, though!

All the best,

Norman


-- 
Norman Gray  :  http://nxg.me.uk
SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK


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