I have absolutely no regrets about this incredible Lord of the Rings pun that my grad advisor came up with for our paper on whether infants bind topology (rings vs. solids) to object representations

Probably funny if one gets the reference, but I have no idea what the first half refers to (sorry not sorry, I never was a Tolkien fan), which is another problem with this kind of thing — only works if people get it, and many won't, especially nonnative English speakers

I was on a student’s PhD committee a couple of weeks back where the dissertation was titled “There and Back and Back Again: Mechanisms Underlying the Multiple Encoding Benefit from Encoding to Retrieval”

I'm much more on the side of having a little fun. Academia is enough of a grind, and sometimes kind of a bummer, already.