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Rabbit's Dissertation

SCENE: It's a fine sunny day in the forest, and a rabbit is sitting outside her burrow, tippy-tapping on her typewriter. Along comes a fox, out for a walk.

FOX: "What are you working on?"

RABBIT: "My dissertation."

FOX: "Hmm. What's it about?"

RABBIT: "Oh, I'm writing about how rabbits eat foxes."

FOX: (incredulous pause) "That's ridiculous! Any fool knows that rabbits don't eat foxes."

RABBIT: "Sure they do, and I can prove it. Come with me."

They both disappear into the rabbit's burrow. After a few minutes, the rabbit returns, alone, to her typewriter and resumes typing.

Soon, a wolf comes along and stops to watch the hardworking rabbit.

WOLF: "What's that you're writing?"

RABBIT: "I'm doing a dissertation on how rabbits eat wolves."

WOLF: (loud guffaws) "You don't expect to get such rubbish published, do you?"

RABBIT: "No problem. Do you want to see why?"

The rabbit and the wolf go into the burrow, and again the rabbit returns by herself, after a few minutes, and goes back to typing.

SCENE: Inside the rabbit's burrow. In one corner, there is a pile of fox bones. In another corner, a pile of wolf bones. On the other side of the room a huge lion is belching and picking his teeth.

MORAL: It doesn't matter what you choose for a dissertation subject.
It doesn't matter what you use for data.
What does matter is whom you have for a dissertation advisor.