Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Strike slogans!

I am compulsorily a member of the graduate student union. It looks increasingly likely that we will go on strike later this month. In my opinion, both the union side and the employer side are fractionally reasonable, but mostly just irritating.

The union emails regarding the prolonged bargaining/strike action are so numerous that they squeezed through even A.'s anti-union email filters. This is okay, because it resulted in some hilarious strike chant suggestions.

Envision: a group of 20 grad students (mostly political science, although I can't imagine why) in front of a university administration building. A. holds a bullhorn and leads them in call-and-response:
"You don't know how good you've got it!"
"WE DON'T KNOW HOW GOOD WE'VE GOT IT!"
"You don't know how good you've got it!"
"WE DON'T KNOW HOW GOOD WE'VE GOT IT!"
"You don't know how good you've got it!"
"WE DON'T KNOW HOW GOOD WE'VE GOT IT!"
A member of the crowd takes the bullhorn and begins a different chant.
"What is a farce?"
"THIS IS A FARCE!"
"What is a farce?"
"THIS IS A FARCE!"
"What is a farce?"
"THIS IS A FARCE!"
"What is a farce? -- no, for real, my English TA is on strike, I need help with my homework!"


This post's theme word is coprolalia, "involuntary swearing or the involuntary utterance of obscene words or socially inappropriate and derogatory remarks." Best to avoid coprolalia in proximity of a microphone.

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