Wetass News Notes I–Socrates Don’t Surf: Now here’s a crying shame. Britain’s Swansea Institute has been forced to drop its course in “Surf And Beach Management” because “it was impossible to stop people poking fun at it.” Other teachers called it “Mickey Mouse” and an insult to academia. And Principal David Warner got sick and tired of trying to explain to scoffers that it was a serious subject. Even though he pulled the plug, Warner defended the idea, saying “This is an example of a very good vocational course within a dynamic industry which now will not be run simply because of the bigots.” But it was pretty hard to get around the fact that the course included sections on managing surf expeditions and surf destination planning. Or the fact that Swansea’s classrooms were filling up with obnoxious students in baggy swim trunks who smoked a lot of spliff and insisted on calling the professors “Dude”…



Okay, class! Pop quiz! When you stand up in a left break do you put your left foot forward first or your right…?”