My poor mother. She says that she and two women from her church are awaiting children to be born, all within April sometime. The other two are having maternal grandchildren but my mother can play along with only her cousin's grandchild and her daughter's friend's child.
Sorry, Mom. Helping you keep up with the Joneses would be among the last reasons I'd spore. Not, to give her credit, that she adopted that Tone this time, but I do kind of feel for her. With two heterosexual, undiseased daughters, she never expected not to have any.
I stopped working for the UConn registrar ten years ago. I never took a chemistry class in college (or high school). Nevertheless, as I read a selection of actually published examples of Bulwer-Lytton quality prose, I pegged one item as from UConn at the first alphanumeric:
"127Q-128Q. General Chemistry
Either semester. Four credits. Three class periods and one 3-hour laboratory period. (Students who have passed CHEM 137 or 153 may take CHEM 128.) (Students who have passed CHEM 122 will receive only 2 credits for CHEM 127 but 4 credits will be used for calculating QPR scores. A student who has a very high standing in CHEM 122 may be permitted, with the consent of the instructor, to take CHEM 128 without 127.) CHEM 127 is not open for credit to students who have passed CHEM 129 or 137 or 153; and CHEM 128 is not open to students who have passed CHEM 130 or 138 or 154."
(The CSUs employ UConn numbering for interchangeable courses.)
Alphabetizing thousands of registration scan-tron sheets over six years and staffing nine bouts of Add-Drop shoved certain course numbers deep into my brain, especially since every Bachelor of Science candidate had to take this pair of classes.