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Hm, i dunno. An 8-ball's a lot. (Pause.) I mean! I don't know how much an 8-ball is!!!
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Professor Theobald, News Policies, Practices & Effects
University of California, Davis, Davis, CA
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submitted: March 3, 2003 |
While discussing the legalization of drugs in the United States and after a guy in class asks: So does that mean you could just go into Rite Aid and buy an 8-ball of coke?
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"If you don't do your homework you'll be roasted... like a rotisary chicken."
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Ms. Talukder, Gen. Chemistry
Valeey Stream South High School, Valley Stream, New York
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submitted: March 2, 2003 |
Needs no explaination...she's just crazy
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Those of you who fail to study the past, will be condemned to repeat it--NEXT SEMESTER.
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Dr. G.A. Levesque, Honors Tutorial: Black&White in America
University@Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY
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submitted: March 2, 2003 |
On the need to spend two hours outside of class for every hour of credit: three hr. credit; six hours of outside preparation
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"Me thinks you are suffering from a terminal case of "The Cleoopatria Syndrome! Do you know who Cleopatra was? No! Well let me fill you in: SHE WAS THE QUEEN OF DE-NIAL!"
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Professor George Levesque, The Slavery Experience in America (AAS311)
SUNY/Albany (Albany, NY), Albany, N.Y.
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submitted: March 2, 2003 |
His repartee with a student who refused to believe that there was significant African complicity in the slave trade.
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Why is the word 'abbreviation' so long?
Why does a bankruptsy lawyer expect to be paid?
Why is a boxing ring square?
Why do blind people wear sunglasses? Deaf people don't wear earmuffs!
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Dr. George Levesque, American Slavery
University Center@Albany (SUNY), Albany, NY
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submitted: March 2, 2003 |
The professor's response when students were befuddled because he had indicated the absurd lengths segregationists would go: even to the extent of keeping the races separated in homes for the blind!
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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
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submitted: March 2, 2003 |
| Rating: 10 |
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You can't milk me!
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Dr. Wayne Curtis, Chem. E.
Penn State, ,
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submitted: March 2, 2003 |
This was use in explaination of why one should not genetically alter animals to produce drugs in their milk.
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I get about 100 emails a day. Most of them are for breast implants. *He looks down at his chest and then back at the group* Do I need them?
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Dr. Wayne Curtis, Chem. E.
Penn State, University Park, Pa
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submitted: March 2, 2003 |
This was a comment made by Wayne when explaining why students should include the course number in the subject of their emails.
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"Well, you write too damn small!"
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David Edwards, Calculus II
Washington State Community College, ,
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submitted: March 2, 2003 |
Some teachers just hate to admit that they made a grading error...
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"I'm not always right, but I'm never wrong."
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Bro. Jerome Corrigan, FSC,
St. Augustine DHS, Brooklyn, NY
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submitted: March 1, 2003 |
Response to a student who challenged his answer to a question.
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"I just can't do the rape thing."
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Dr. Z, Music
Valley Stream South High School, ,
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submitted: March 1, 2003 |
<--explaining why our school couldn't mount a production of "Man of La Mancha." Out of context [which is how I heard it, walking into the room mid-conversation], it's priceless.
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"A mind is like a parachute: IT ONLY WORKS WHEN IT'S OPEN. As for how much time you'll be expected to devote to this course, I can only give you this experience whilch worked well for me when I was a student: 'you only have to think about this course on those days you EAT.'"
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Professor George Levesque [pronounced "Love,"/"Ach, History of American Slavery
SUNY/Albany, Albany, NY
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submitted: March 1, 2003 |
Responses to student questions as we looked over the 15 page syllabus for the course
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"He who knows only his own country, will never know his own country."
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George Levesque, American Slavery
University Center at Albany, Albany, NY
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submitted: March 1, 2003 |
During a discussion on the importance of seeing American slavery in a New World (hemispheric) context.
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"If it takes you two hours to watch 60 Minutes, you DON'T want to take this course!"
"if yu think Roe v. Wade is the decision Washington made before crossing the Delaware, you DON'T want to take this course!"
"If you think Joan of Ark was Noah's wife, you DON'T want to take this course!"
"If you think the Presidents on Mt. Rushmore is a natural phenomenon, you DON'T want to take this course!"
"If you think the Gettysburg Address is where Abe Lincoln lived, you certainly DON'T want to take this course!"
"If you believed two or more of the examples given, you're already up to you ass in alligators, and SHOULD LEAVE NOW WHILE YOU STILL CAN!
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Dr. George A. Levesque, The Slavery Experience in America
SUNY: University Center @ Albany, Albany, NY
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submitted: March 1, 2003 |
This was the professor's opening day lecture in a class with some 60 students registered; when about half the class walked out returning the course syllabus to the instructor as they departed, he looked at those of usremainilng and said: "Now that we have gotten rid of the dross, let's get down to the serious business of learning.
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I am the author of many highly disregarded articles.
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Dr. Donald Bersoff, Law and Psychology Program
Villanova Law Scool, Villanova, PA
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submitted: March 1, 2003 |
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Architecture may not be the world's oldest profession, but it has a number of things in common with the world's oldest. Namely, all the amatures, think they know more than the professionals.
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Professor Joseph Shelley, History of Architecture
Columbia University, New York, NY
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submitted: March 1, 2003 |
My favorite professor
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"CONTINUE is the Fortran statement for do nothing and go on. It got left out of most other languages."
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Professor Larry Paulson, Software Engineering II
Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
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submitted: March 1, 2003 |
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"So don't they teach you Fortran in Natsci these days ?"
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Professor Larry Paulson, Software Engineering II
Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
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submitted: March 1, 2003 |
In Cambridge, Natural Science is that catch-all subject for any science that is not Computer Science (to a pretty good approximation).
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"If you're a C programmer, you'll be fine with this; if you're a mathematician, this will make you ill."
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Professor Larry Paulson, Software Engineering II
Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
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submitted: March 1, 2003 |
Referring to the side effect of the boolean 'expression' (x++ < 5).
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"...and make sure it's your array; you should never fiddle with other people's arrays..."
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Professor Larry Paulson, Software Engineering II
Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
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submitted: March 1, 2003 |
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"So here we have pi squared, which an engineer would call 10..."
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Dr Frank King, Computing for Natural Scientists
Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
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submitted: March 1, 2003 |
| Rating: 10 |
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"I could go on and on telling you about clocks but I shall resist the temptation."
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Dr Frank King, Computing for Natural Scientists
Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
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submitted: March 1, 2003 |
Frank King - legendary.
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"...and the University loves its clock so much that they employ a person to look after it - and that person is meeeeee !!"
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Dr Frank King, Computing for Natural Scientists
Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
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submitted: March 1, 2003 |
We were meant to be modelling a pendulum...
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- "Ok, so you've seen me do it the sensible way; now I'm going to do it an utterly insane way."
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Dr Frank King, Computing for Natural Scientists
Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
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submitted: March 1, 2003 |
This was referring to calculating (2^i)/100).
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Nothing difficult - we're just defining things as we go along.
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Sharma, Physics
UTA, Arlington, TX
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submitted: March 1, 2003 |
Teaching the section and doing a massive example. All at once! Whee!
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