Pumpy Goes to College

Pumpy
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The daring exploits of America's most overworked and under-appreciated criminal, the Pump Handle, are now standard reading for students of the University of New Orleans' Hotel Restaurant Tourism program. You heard me right - the once reviled Scam Bible has made the erudite leap from fugitive underground classic to college textbook, and the students of Dr. Jeffrey Schaffer's HRT 3140 - "Cost Control in the Hospitality Industry" - are in for a real education.

You can imagine what a thrill it is for a couple of armchair anthropologists like Pete and myself, after years of thankless and patient observation, to be ushered into the hallowed halls of learning, our humble research awakening and edifying eager young minds along with giants like Louis Leakey, Dian Fossey, and other disciples of human nature. I guess we're kinda like those amateur astronomers that discovered that comet a few years back, the...umm...er...whatever that was.

Hey, it's a legitimate science and when you consider the most common profile for a sticky-fingered worker is a college-educated white male, it only makes sense they would eventually embrace their destiny so.

Pick it up at the UNO bookstore along with Fundamentals of Psycho-analysis by Sigmund Freud.