Beware Of Leeches
Ever experienced having leeches around? No, I don't mean the slug type but rather the academic kind. Those totally unethical people who would join your project group to get a free ride b/c you would do most of the work? Or those who just leech off your homework or even tests and assignments? Yeah, don't blame ya if you don't particularly like them. I found a website that had a blurb about where academic leeches nest and thrive.

Academic Leech
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 15:38:26 -0500
From: Nick Lawrence
Subject: Leeches Find Love
Sender: UB Poetics discussion group

Subject: Leeches find love in intimate poet reaches
Copyright: 1999 by The Anti-Hegemony Project
Date: 0 May 99 10:20:30 EST

NEW YORK (AHP) - Bio-linguists have found the secret trysting place for one species of academic leech and their discovery explains why it remained unrevealed for so long -- its home is inside a poet's rectum. The leech, Criticarius Theoretici, is closely associated with poets. The leech does not attach itself to any other animal and has the same texture as a poet's thick hide. ``New Scientist,'' in-house magazine for Lang-Po Labs, quoted the researchers -- James Sherry of Bowery College and Tom Mandel of Yorick University -- as saying they had found several leeches inside the rectums of recently killed and dissected poets. The leeches were swimming around freely, rather sucking blood, and had bulky sperm cases sticking out from their bodies, leading the bio-linguists to believe they were mating. Leeches are hermaphrodites, carrying both male and female sexual organs. ``There are obviously some very interesting adaptations,'' Sherry said. ``But to find out more it would be necessary to work with a live poet and that's a very dangerous creature.''

So there you have it, the love life of a social leech......
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later!