Companies at careers fairs are always trying to think of clever things to offer potential recruits, although they usually give up and just opt for a monogrammed pen. This may seem like the easy way out, but remember that the devil makes work for idle hands…
Take US student Misha Sulpovar, an art and religious studies student at Webster University in Missouri. He went to a careers fair and ballsed the whole thing up by pulling out his genitals and – using one of the aforementioned free pens – proceeded to colour in his bits.
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He claimed it was performance art, saying he was challenging taboos.
Of course, this could all just be a big misunderstanding. Perhaps there was a sign by the stall proclaiming ‘free pens’ and Sulpovar misread it and decided to free his penis instead.
