A few top 10 lists about econ

I know've posted some of these bits before, but I just felt like posting them again. Here are a few top 10 lists with my comments in italics.

Top 10 Reasons To Study Economics

1. economists are armed and dangerous: "watch out for our invisible hands." --such a creepy thought!
2. economists can supply it on demand
3. you can talk about money without ever having to make any. --clearly the case for us grad students
4. you get to say "trickle down" with a straight face.
5. Mick Jagger and Arnold Schwarzenegger both studied economics and look how they turned out.
6. When you are in the unemployment line, at least you will know why you are there. --just doing your part as part of the nat'l level of unemployment
7. if you rearrange the letters in "ECONOMICS", you get "COMIC NOSE".
8. Although ethics teaches that virtue is its own reward, in economics we get taught that reward is its own virtue.
9. When you get drunk, you can tell everyone that you are just researching the law of diminishing marginal utility.
10. When you call 1-900-LUV-ECON and get Kandi Keynes, you will have something to talk about.

Top 10 Economist Valentines.

1. you raise my interest rate thirty basis points without a corresponding dropoff in consumer enthusiasm.
2. despite a decade of inflation, i still dig your supply curve.
3. what do you say we remeasure our cross-elasticity.
4. you bring the butter, ill bring the gun.
5. let's raise housing starts together.
6. further stimulus could result in uncontrolled expansion.
7. tell me whether my expectations are rational.
8. let's assume a ritzy hotel room and a bottle of dom
9. you toke the animal spirits of my market
10. a loag of bread, a jug of wine, and thou beside me watching rukeyser

Ten Things To Do With A Graduate Economics Textbook

1. press pretty flowers. --works as well trying to flatten something
2. press pretty insects.
3. use it as a paper weight on your already overcluttered desk. --it is very effective
4. leave out in obvious places to impress unimformed undergraduates.
5. mail to the White House as an intimidation tactic.
6. give it a walk-on part in a boring European existentialist play.
7. just throw the damn thing away. --no way am i throwing away an expensive piece of trash!
8. leave out for the rain and other forces of nature to reckon with.
9. read it (hahaha!!!) --how sad...
10. get a refund from bookstore so you can buy a weekend's supply of beer.