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Reading and Writing Obituaries
"My bucket list consists largely of books to (re)read. The list of things I will never do includes extreme sports and quite a few non-extreme sports"
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On being polite in the Netherlands
"Hypocritical politeness makes for more pleasant everyday interactions than sincere rudeness"
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Sinterklaas knows
"The ten-year old has, like Luther, nailed her list of possible gifts to a door"
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Lost in translation
Some peers don’t really ask questions as such, but use the opportunity to tell the audience about their own brilliant work
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Woman overboard
"An 'exit interview' sounds like the final chat with a doctor to confirm a euthanasia decision"
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Whatever happened to Robot Pepper?
"In the absence of the evaluation, I can only speculate"
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Pun-ctuati-onforp-eace
Young people regard punctuation as aggressive, especially full stops at the end of a message
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What not to do with colleagues
The conference dinner was indeed held in a sauna, with food and drinks but no clothes
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FASoS merges with sex shop
New Slogan: ‘Come to Maastricht for the hospital with a university attached’
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Microsoft Outlook thinks we are children
"I’m not five years old, and I’m at work"
Words matter
Football not spoken here
Headsets and pockets
Obsessive Numerology Disorder
New UM Inter-Species Personnel Policy
Shake, kiss, hug
What (not) to wear
Autonomous robots
Should we ban the books?
Having a laugh
Can´t believe we´re still protesting this sh**
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