Students will study music from J.S. Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor to Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries to Danny Elfman’s Edward ScissorHands. The course will feature in class discussion on the choice of theme music with a final exam of listening tests.
Evil Lair Self-destruct Mechanism 404
Students will study how to rig a self-destruct device for their evil lair. (See prerequisite classes on the construction of: evil lairs)
I’ll give you a B+ for that, Mr. _plaid.
I’d have given you an “A” if you’d have included a feature that made the hand garrote anybody who uncovered your deception, however. Keep up the good work.
I’m so sorry, but here at Transylvania Polygnostic University, we maintain a Inhumanities Department, so much more practical for the students later in life, don’t you agree?
Now, off to the Human Guinea Pig Studies Department for you!
I’ll see to it that you get an apple with your food pellets, won’t that be nice?
Not to mention that quoting Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, or some Shakespeare when starting a speech or explaining a decision to lead henchmen gives a villain depth.
Ah, how I love that piece. For you philistines reading
::Scooter, of the Muppet Show comes running down the hall::
Scooter: “Sir, Sir! I found the perfect comic strip for our school newsletter. It’s called Radioactive Panda and it is just great! You’ll love it.”
::He then trips over a monofilament weed wacker that was originally part of Scott’s automated hand, till it came off due to internal vibrations and landed across the room. It slices his leg in two. Stuffing pours out liberally.
And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall…And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all!
And may I humbly apply for a position in the college radio station? We all love having some good tunes…and I need to use the broadcasting equipment for my Takwin Field experiments, and to better contact some collegues from out of town.
Comparitive Civics: Studies In Running the World You’ve Ground Under Your Iron Heel: at least three units of this Civics course are a prerequisite for all undergraduates, and the course will be convened by Niccolo Machiavelli, courtesy of the Trans-Temporal Resurrection Unit of our Physics Department.
Course units will cover:
102.1 Medieval Italy {guest lecturer Baron Harkonnen}
102.2 Oriental Despotism {guest lecturer Fu Manchu}
102.3 Post-Apocalyptic Feudalism {guest lecturer Overdog}
102.4 Gleaming Fascist Technocracies {guest lecturer Grand Moff Tarkin}
102.5 Workers’ Paradises {guest lecturer O’Brien}
102.6 Living By The Sword {guest lecturer Genghis Khan}
102.7 Are We Not Men? {guest lecturer Dr Moreau} Note: this unit is required for those studying Meddling In God’s Domain
102.8 Scientific Theocracy {guest lecturer Mrs Coulter}
102.9 Bread And Circuses {guest lecturer Emperor Commodus - if wet, George W. Bush}
Convenor’s note: at least two units from 102.1-102.4 are mandatory for this course.
Addenum–as the Dean of the Trans-Temporal Resurrection Unit of our Physics Department has just gone back in time & killed his own Grandfather, thus ensuring that he never existed, & making Trans-Temporal Resurrection impossible, we have an acceptable alternate to convene the course–Zombie Niccolo Machiavelli, courtesty of our Honor Program in Atomic Re-Animation Of The Dead. Special thanks to Professor Ed Wood, for having to go through 8 separate re-animation plans, before his success with plan 9.
Those bungling fools! Dabbling hacks who have the temerity to call themselves scientists, yet fear in their quailing timidity to embark upon the true path to knowledge! Must I do everything myself? Guards! Bring me my Necronomicon, a set of jumper cables, a 12 volt battery, a clean sacrificial dagger and a virgin - I don’t know, try the Computer Studies Department - and then have the entire Trans-Temporal Resurrection Unit thrown into the dankest and most rat-infested of my many pits, where they can contemplate the penalty for failure while I plot their suitably gruesome demise.
Joking, joking. Have them all shot at once. Except the virgin, of course: I have other plans for her…
101 Domesticated Animal Cuisine
102 Explosive Chemistry
103 Skullduggery
104 US Postal System
105 US Airport Blueprints
106 Tall Buildings, Long Bridges, and Deep Tunnels
107 Living in Idaho
108 Principles of Spam, Adware and Spyware
109 Webcam Video Capture Techniques
110 Electrostatics
111 Mastering the Grimace, Drool, and Chortle
112 Advanced Einstein Coif Theory
Bah! Those fools, those minions of orthodoxy—they laughed at the process of Trans-Temporal Resurrection because of the supposed “failings” of one of it’s practicioners…just like they dismissed psychosurgery because of Walter Freeman; how they scrapped the space-gun after the “treason” of Gerald Bull…I won’t stand for it! Not now, not when the conquest of death itself lies so close to my grasp! (The conquest of death in yet another, slightly different way, that is.)
No, I shall take the refuse of the dean’s “bungling,” and I will triumph! No man, no god, no law of nature will shakle me…nothing and no one will block my path! NO ONE!
Brains In Jars 1: creation, maintenance and safe storage
Brains In Jars 2: communication with
Frothing Bubbly Coloured Chemicals: how to set up complex arrays of them, with a network of inter-connecting tubes and technical-looking components that don’t actually serve any purpose
Doomsday Machine Circuitry: the course will emphasise the need to construct the Doomsday Machine in such a way that it cannot simply be fired with a simple ‘On’ or ‘Launch’ switch; instead, its use must involve a lengthy ‘calibration’ sequence followed by a ‘launch initiation’ sequence. The duration of these two sequences should be equivalent to the penultimate reel of a typical action movie minus 5 seconds.
Sexy Acrobatic Female Warriors: recruitment and career structure
Oaf! Bungler! Of course sacrificial virgins have to be comely females, you cretin - have you no respect for tradition? How do you think the Dark Gods are going to feel after they come all the way from right angles to reality to fulfill their part of our unholy bargain only to find that fat hairy git’s naked buttocks spilling over the sides of the altar? Not. Very. Pleased. , Mr kaylasdad99, and who is going to have to mop up the hair and giblets after they vent their demonic wrath, you half-wit? You know we’re having enough a hard enough time recruiting cleaning staff from thevillage as it is. Nincompoop! Ignoramus!