fandomhigh | Advanced Criminal Justice, Class 21, Period 1, 03.28.06

[OOC: Keeping with the low-impact lectures. Wheee. I may be slow to reply at work today, just FYI. Class Info Post.]

"Hello, class!" Tick said fron his normal position at the front of the room. "Remember, your projects are due next Tuesday. You'll have some time to work on them at the end of class, but today we go back to lecture and discussion as well."

"Today we'll be talking about private investigators. PIs. Private eyes. Private smurfs," Tick said to cover up any potentially dirty interpretation of a popular nickname. "Gumshoes. Among many other names. The profession of Holmes, Spade, Magnum, and Addison. I'm talking about the sometimes noble, sometimes skeezy, always interesting, world of private detecting."

"PIs often work for people in court cases for a number of purposes. Maybe they're checking to make sure a witness or defendant is on the up-and-up. Sometimes they're checking to see if a person with a signifcant other has another other that is in some way significant. And sometimes they're called upon to solve the big crimes that the police just can't figure out."

"In a way, they're almost like superheroes, only without powers, with a salary, and with more frequent trips into the bad parts of town for non-evil-whomping purposes. They outthink evil. And that's keen!"

"For discussion today, please talk aboutyour views on private eyeing. Have any experience with them? Seen them enough on television to know what's up? Are you one. and if so, do you have any stories to share? After this discussion, you can jump into your teams for the project if you need class time to work on them."

"This week's metaphor is umbrellas. And for extra credit, please come up with two more nicknames for private investigators. IF you get suggestive with the private smurves, though, you can only do so for one of the nicknames. So keep it clean!"

[OOC: Veronica has offered to answer questions about PIs.]

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"You know, I'm just not fond of any gods at all, but the Egyptian ones just seem really annoying," said Janet. She frowned. "I don't know, maybe they thought the pyramids would look cool and be easy to draw or something. Yours are Greek, right? I don't know about you, but I think atheism is all the rage these days."

"Aethism? That's where you don't believe in any gods right? Kinda like not believing in the rain," Callisto shrugged. "Besides it's not like I honour them anymore to begin with."

"I suppose it depends on the universe you hail from," said Janet. She fidgeted with the edge of the DVD case. "Do they expect to be honored where you come from?"

"Honoured, worshipped, sacrificed to, sexed up," Callisto leant back in her chair. "Appease them enough and they might protect a devotee, if it amused them."

"If it amused them," said Janet dryly. "I get the feeling that your gods and I wouldn't get along very well. Almost as much as the Egyptian ones from this series and I wouldn't get along." She glanced at the picture of MummyRe. "I'd make fun of his nose job, and it would all go downhill from there."

Callisto tilted her head to the side. "Admitedly most of our gods are prettier than that guy."

"So they're spoiled brats, but at least they're eye candy?" asked Janet.

OOC: About to go to sleep.

"Pretty much," Callisto agreed.

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