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What a shame!?I thought I was following in your footsteps? Oh, well.?Here’s another good one, contributed via Facebook, by Christopher D. Green (former president of Division 26): I come forth to tell you the story of Kant's philosophical glory. While the Brits waxed empirical, And the Germans idealistical, Kant offered the synthetic a priori. I thought this was quite clever.?And Chris was kind enough to give me permission to share it with you. I have been thinking that this could be a fun assignment for a history class: develop a series of limericks, short poems of technical complexity, or haiku and then explain in a short essay—using the standard methods of scholarly research—why they're especially pithy or particularly clever.?Such a thing could produce some nice posters, which could then be presented to the department at an end-of-semester poster session.?The assignment would thus feature (a) a writing component, (b) a research component, and (c) a presentation component.?If you were to add an appendix, where the students could collect their failed attempts and reflect on why they failed, then you would also have a (d) self-reflection component: the students would have the opportunity to think about—and explain why—certain choices were better than others, thereby coming also to think about economy of expression and the importance of making choices when writing under constraint.?(Not bad for a conversation that started on Facebook?)