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I don't really believe in satan. Or hell. Or sin really come to think of it. I guess I just believe in love when it comes down to it.
Miss/Reverend Horton, Religious Studies
Royal Masonic School, Rickmansworth, London (England)

Comments? Add or View (5) submitted: April 8, 2003

Said by our religious studies teacher. Not too strange until you realise that this woman is our school chaplain, and a _priest_.
Rating: unrated

"There's supposed to be an O between S and M."
Dr. William J. Stratton, VKSF484 - Fundamentals of Database Client/Server Architectur
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: April 7, 2003

Prof. Stratton bringing an error in a Powerpoint slide to our attention while discussing SOM database modeling.
Rating: unrated

If you give me a blowjob I'll send you to heaven
Harris Freeman, Marketing
Antonelli Institute, Erdenheim, Pennyslvania

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: April 7, 2003

this came out of the mouth of a rather mild, soft spoken man in his 70s
Rating: unrated

Crackhead had a trashcan on the scanner!
Troy Sayers, Computer Graphics
Antonelli Institute, Erdenheim, PA

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: April 7, 2003

guy was scanning in an image from a book and needed something to hold the scanner closed. he used the trashcan....with all the trash inside it
Rating: unrated

If you don't scan it in at the right resolution it's gonna look like ass.
Troy Sayers, Computer Graphics
Antonelli Institute of Photography and Graphi, Erdenheim, Pennsylvania

Comments? Add or View (2) submitted: April 7, 2003

ah, the honorable Troy Sayers 'teaching'
Rating: unrated

"Well, we could have a festival of peace and love. Or maybe we could get drunk and break things."
, Natural Resource Management
University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, Stevens Point, Wisconsin

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: April 7, 2003

Upon announcing that he was unable to show a video because he didn't have the A/V equipment, and had no other plans for lecture.
Rating: unrated

...when it comes around, you have to suck the head off.
Russ Tront, CMPT 371 - Data Communications and Networking
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: April 7, 2003

Explaining how to handle the token in a token ring network protocol.
Rating: unrated

"YOU DON'T NEED THE DAMN WEIGHTS!"
Dr. Rex A. Dwyer, CSC 311/316 Data Structures
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Comments? Add or View (1) submitted: April 7, 2003

After being asked (and explaining) three times why you don't need to store the frequenceies (weights) of the characters when using Huffman compression.
Rating: unrated

It's like sifting through your children's bones, trying to figure out how they died.
Dr. Ken K. Kubota, Intro to Operating Systems
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: April 7, 2003

A peculiar explanation of threads.
Rating: 10

"When you get into the job market, you'll probably be in awe of accountants' abilities, but you shouldn't feel like you're beneath them"
, Management (final year option)
UCD, Dublin, Ireland

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: April 7, 2003

A management lecturer *grossly* underestimating the engineering superiority complex
Rating: unrated

"As an engineer, you should study harder than a surgeon. If a surgeon messes up, he only kills one person"
, Materials Technology
UCD, Dublin, Ireland

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: April 7, 2003

prequel to a story on the liberty ships and why we should listen to him instead of talking
Rating: 7

COBOL is COOL without the B
Dr. David Wallace, ACS 372: External Data Structures
Illinois State University, Normal, IL

Comments? Add or View (2) submitted: April 7, 2003

This teacher is great he makes the most menial task in programming seem fun.
Rating: 9.5

"If you don't listen in class, then sometime in the future you're goign to have some explaining to do to a bloodthirsty dictator who is going to want to know why the missile guidance system you designed for him dumped his missile into the ocean."
Prof. Brazil, Solid State Engineering
University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: April 7, 2003

Talking was sort of the norm during this guy's class...
Rating: 10

While talking about Filters: "On the one hand, it's being pulled towards infinity, on the other hand it's being pulled towards zero, and on the third hand, kind of like a chernobyl baby hand, it's being kept at N..."
Paul Curran, Filters
University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Comments? Add or View (2) submitted: April 7, 2003

Myself and a friend were the only ones who laughed, because we were the only ones listening.
Rating: unrated

"Little things turn lecturers on"
Prof. Roger Peel, Web Technologies module
University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, England

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: April 7, 2003

Our lecturer was telling us how his previous lecture to us was assessed, and that the markers (fellow lecturers) really liked the way he had working Perl examples to demonstrate what he had just talked about. He then uttered the words above..
Rating: 9

So then the sheep takes a shit... Just out of curiosity, who here is going to complain to the dean that I said the s-word? Well, I have tenure so I don't give a shit.
Dr. Blaustein, Bio 211
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Or

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: April 7, 2003
Rating: 10

Guest Lecturer: You know what I'm talking about. Some of you just won't be able to write while there's music playing; you need silence to concentrate. I'll bet that's the biggest cause of fighting between you and your roommates. Well, after the theft of food...
Dr. Witek, English Lit: Imaginary Places
Stetson University, DeLand, FL

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: April 5, 2003

This is one of those "it's funny because it's true" statements.
Rating: unrated

So lets say you're in an accident and you lose your arm. Someone comes along and says "hey look, I've always wanted an arm" and they take it. thats theft.
Dr. Ede, HIST391: The History of Technology
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta

Comments? Add or View (1) submitted: April 5, 2003

Professor discussing how that's theft, but cell samples can be patented and sold and it isn't theft...its research.
Rating: unrated

"Anyone can write with a quill. The real fun is catching the goose."
Mr. Donohue, English 1H
White Plains High School, ,

Comments? Add or View (3) submitted: April 4, 2003

He then goes on to explain how after you catch the goose, you have to pluck it, break its neck and cook it for supper. All this was to try to dissuade one poor student from learning to carve her own quill pens.
Rating: 9

If I were you, I would go somewhere else to get my masters, but don't tell the dean I said that!
Dr. Stephen Steiner, Integrated Lab Sciences
Bluffton College, Bluffton, OH

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: April 4, 2003

Prof. Steiner stated this while discussing the expansion of Bluffton College.
Rating: unrated

There are some people for it, and there are some against it. Like most things around here, 80% of the people don't care.
Dr. Stephen Steiner, Integrated Lab Sciences
Bluffton College, Bluffton, OH

Comments? Add or View (6) submitted: April 4, 2003

This was said while discussing whether to change our school from a college to university.
Rating: 10

We wil not discuss prom in this classroom. The only reason for this is that kids will gladly spend in excess of $600 on one night, but ask the same student to buy a $10 book for class and it becomes chaos.
Pat Devore, English 4
Clear Brook High School, Friendswood, TX

Comments? Add or View (13) submitted: April 3, 2003
Rating: unrated

"You're going to Wal-mart? Have you learned NOTHING?!"
Prof. Chris Dustin, Philosophy of Architecture
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: April 3, 2003

From a conversation, only a day after discussing Heidegger's critiques of modern convenience in his "Question Concerning Technology"
Rating: 10

Prof: "Spontaneity is my trademark."
Student: "It's ours too." *gets up and pretends to leave class*
Prof. Joe Lawrence, Seminar : Hegel
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: April 3, 2003

An interchange that occurred after our previously exhausted professor suddenly found the energy he needed not to cancel class.
Rating: unrated

s is a variable constant. That's not an oxymoron: it's a constant that's variable. Not a variable. Well, it becomes a variable.
Arthur Mattuck, Ordinary Differential Equations
MIT, Cambridge, MA

Comments? Add or View (1) submitted: April 3, 2003

on laplace transforms
Rating: unrated

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