So someone writes on the faculty listserv:

Is it just me or does John Edwards need to work on his subject-verb agreement?

And someone else writes back:

John Edwards doesn't need to work on subject-verb agreement; nobody but English professors notice it, and there are too few of us to matter. Besides, we're all voting for him anyway.

Overheard outside a tenured professor's office...

One tenured professor was telling another tenured professor about some people he had met. This was his astute observation:

"They're hicks from New Jersey."