# What brings a smile to your pointless existence?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 27, 2012, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-brings-a-smile-to-your-pointless-existence/610823 "2012-01-27T04:21:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Brighter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ce73a5/32.png) [@Brighter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brighter)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-brings-a-smile-to-your-pointless-existence/610823/41 "2012-02-12T19:51:06Z")

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> [@vivalostwages](#):
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> Anyway, keep collecting those gems! You can always read them when you need a lift.

Truth be told, I used to collect my professor’s gems. ‘Mold - what had he eaten there?’ /in a jar full of glue/.  
It was fun. You know, professors weren’t anonymous, we loved most of them, and talkative ones were the most loved 🙂

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