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McGill prof pens hilarious response to extension request

Due date change may bring “drought” or “plague of locusts”

Students in a third-year McGill Middle Eastern politics class, calling themselves the Paper Extension Movement, recently petitioned their King, Prof. Rex Brynen, for a week-long extension on a paper. His hilarious response has since been viewed on the site BuzzFeed more than 110,000 times.

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