Going once again to McSweeneys for our Friday Funny, this tie with a decisively travel twist. In a lovely send up of a university peer review by colleagues and administrators at Marshall College, presumably where Indiana Jones teaches in the film, although I recall it being the University of Chicago, but I guess I’m wrong. Oh well. It’s a riot and takes Assistant Professor Henry “Indiana” Jones Jr. to task for, among other things, “unabashed grave-robbing”.
Further, Dr. Jones gets chastised by the tenure board for committing a “plethora” of international crimes including: bringing unregistered weapons into and out of the country; property damage; desecration of national and historical landmarks; impersonating officials; arson; grand theft (automobiles, motorcycles, aircraft, and watercraft in just a one week span last year); excavating without a permit; countless antiquities violations; public endangerment; voluntary and involuntary manslaughter; and, allegedly, murder.
This reminds me quite a bit of the equally hilarious (or perhaps more so) faux DVD commentaries, which I remember sending out to friends many moons ago. As I say, lovely stuff.