Our vainglorious leader, the Provost

europerson

Suits you, sir.

Bartron Prime

Well, the Provost of the 53rd Best University in the World (TM) does need to look his best after all. Not certain about the tie though.

Stargal

I'd hit it.



Not.

Stargal

Jesus, men really will go to any lengths to hide a double chin.

Crash

To be honest, stripe shirt AND stripe suit?

what was he thinking like. You'd think after years of business-y meetings he'd have noticed that there are certain items that clash together. the above ensemble is one of them.

ApeXaviour

çrash_000 wrote: »

what was he thinking like. You'd think after years of business-y meetings he'd have noticed that there are certain items that clash together. the above ensemble is one of them.

Well... He is a physicist after all; devoid of style almost by definition. To him, colours are just slightly different wavelengths of photonic energy and an ensemble means something quite different.

Stargal wrote: »

Jesus, men really will go to any lengths to hide a double chin.

Uh.. women go to a much more incredible length to hide what they really look like.

paperclip

ApeXaviour wrote:

Uh.. women go to a much more incredible length to hide what they really look like.

Yes, but a neckbeard?

I wonder if his wife checks over his outfit before letting him out in the mornings?

paperclip

paperclip wrote: »

I wonder if his wife checks over his outfit before letting him out in the mornings?

I'd guarantee it.

I'm a bit confussed at his new glasses tbh. Saw them on him yesterday at my graduation. Trying to be down with the kids is our Provost.

We so should have a weekly Provost Photoshop Competition.

Bartron Prime

Our (vain)Glorious Leader is indeed down with the kids. He's made at least three jokes at Board meetings since September. The first one was about me and my t-shirt

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Bartron Prime wrote: »

Our (vain)Glorious Leader is indeed down with the kids. He's made at least three jokes at Board meetings since September. The first one was about me and my t-shirt

Why, what did it say?

xeduCat

I Want To ARAM You?

Bartron Prime

xeduCat, I'll R your GAM.....

It was just an SU t-shirt with my name on it. When he wasintroducing myself, Andy and Úna at Board, he introduced me last with the phrase "And, finally, we have the Students' Union Education Officer, Bartley Rock, who if you forget his name, helpfully has it written on his t-shirt". Cue turns and stares from Board members at my chest (Gleeson you dog).

I said funny for him. Not 'funny' as we could consider it.

Bartron Prime

Bartron Prime wrote: »

Our (vain)Glorious Leader is indeed down with the kids. He's made at least three jokes at Board meetings since September. The first one was about me and my t-shirt

Burned by the Provost... new low Bartley, new low

Bartron Prime

Or, if I play my cards right, a cake-walk to a Professorship..

John

europerson wrote: »

Caption time!

"I swear, they were this big at the end of it. I've never seen anything swell up quite like it. Remarkable really."

Bartron Prime

"Fantastically huge melons they were..... Honestly, it was one of the best fruit markets I've ever seen."

europerson

"With this slick new image, I'm hoping to attract an augmented chest of research funding."

Time Magazine

Stargal wrote: »

I'd hit it.

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TRINITY RESEARCH PRODUCES INVISIBLE MAN
In a press release today, researchers from Trinity College Dublin produced to an astonished world the first genetically engineered invisible human. The child, seen here in the arms of the Provost John Hegarty, was engineered so that the vis120 gene was replaced by a new gene, the aptly-named 'invisigene' using a technique pioneered in TCD twenty years ago.
When asked of the potential problems facing the child in the future, the provost replied gravely. 'We have foreseen a few problems, such as reduced self esteem and a growing awareness as the child gets older that 'no one looks at him'. In order to circumvent this, we have designed a mask that will provide him with a face in order for him to interact with his peers.' Students in the college have been notified to avoid alarm at seeing the mask with no apparent forces holding it up. The child will be completely educated within the Trinity College campus. Dinnerlady Sharon Burke, heating up a bottle beside the chip basket in the college canteen, said 'It's a wonderful idea, bringing up a kid as a team effort in the college. It'll be like our mascot.' John Hegarty is said to have taken the child under his wing and is allegedly said to have planned a future in theoretical physics for him, where 'whether or not you are seen in daily life is less of an issue.'

DublinWriter

çrash_000 wrote: »

To be honest, stripe shirt AND stripe suit?

...AND paisley tie?

The recent visitor to the Hist must have had a profound unconscious effect.

paperclip

true, true. If you look closer at the tie, it has both paisley motifs AND squares. The squares being, no doubt, a representation of the physical attributes of Paisley.

John

paperclip wrote: »

TRINITY RESEARCH PRODUCES INVISIBLE MAN
In a press release today, researchers from Trinity College Dublin produced to an astonished world the first genetically engineered invisible human. The child, seen here in the arms of the Provost John Hegarty, was engineered so that the vis120 gene was replaced by a new gene, the aptly-named 'invisigene' using a technique pioneered in TCD twenty years ago.
When asked of the potential problems facing the child in the future, the provost replied gravely. 'We have foreseen a few problems, such as reduced self esteem and a growing awareness as the child gets older that 'no one looks at them'. In order to circumvent this, we have designed a mask that will provide him with a face in order for him to interact with his peers.' Students in the college have been notified to avoid alarm at seeing the mask with no apparent forces holding it up. The child will be completely educated within the Trinity College campus. Dinnerlady Sharon Burke, heating up a bottle beside the chip basket in the college canteen, said 'It's a wonderful idea, bringing up a kid as a team effort in the college. It'll be like our mascot.' John Hegarty is said to have taken the child under his wing and is allegedly said to have planned a future in theoretical physics for him, where 'whether or not you are seen in daily life is less of an issue.'

We have a winner!

tolosenc

So he exists then?

balzarywex

I knew it!

So that's why a dead hush would fall between Peter Humphries, Jane Farrar and the researchers in their huddle around apparently 'thin air' whenever we went into the Smurfit...

paperclip

paperclip wrote: »

TRINITY RESEARCH PRODUCES INVISIBLE MAN
In a press release today, researchers from Trinity College Dublin produced to an astonished world the first genetically engineered invisible human. The child, seen here in the arms of the Provost John Hegarty, was engineered so that the vis120 gene was replaced by a new gene, the aptly-named 'invisigene' using a technique pioneered in TCD twenty years ago.

When asked of the potential problems facing the child in the future, the provost replied gravely. 'We have foreseen a few problems, such as reduced self esteem and a growing awareness as the child gets older that 'no one looks at him'. In order to circumvent this, we have designed a mask that will provide him with a face in order for him to interact with his peers.' Students in the college have been notified to avoid alarm at seeing the mask with no apparent forces holding it up.

The child will be completely educated within the Trinity College campus. Dinnerlady Sharon Burke, heating up a bottle beside the chip basket in the college canteen, said 'It's a wonderful idea, bringing up a kid as a team effort in the college. It'll be like our mascot.' John Hegarty is said to have taken the child under his wing and is allegedly said to have planned a future in theoretical physics for him, where 'whether or not you are seen in daily life is less of an issue.'

Very good. Though you might want to change the title to 'child' instead of man, might work better Next TN edition?

paperclip

I'm envisioning a series:
The problems of looking after an invisible child on a busy college campus?
Ensuring that he's paying attention during classes?
Making sure he isn't cheating during exams by writing cheat notes on his arms?
His difficulties in finding (and keeping) a woman?