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Rob, if you weren't ADHD, you'd be a genious.
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Mrs. Chavez, Visual Basic .NET
Lake Central, St. John, Indiana
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submitted: February 2, 2005 |
Said to a classmate after he went on for 15 minutes about how to make "Lordie the Game". Don't ask.
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Keats - he was kind of small, and a little mopey.
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Fitz Smith, Modern Novel
CSU Chico, Chico, CA
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submitted: February 2, 2005 |
On the importance of sentimentality in elegies
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I teach the Kama Sutra of statistics.
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Dave Pray, MA3710 Engineering Statistics
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI
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submitted: February 2, 2005 |
| Rating: 9 |
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"I don't have a desk to stand on, I can't teach without a desk to stand on"
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Schumacher, MATH 2880 LaTeX
Cedarville University, Cedarville, Ohio
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submitted: January 31, 2005 |
Do I even want to try and explain this one?
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| Rating: 10 |
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It is so geeky, the geeks are afraid of looking at it.
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Mr. Schumacherq, MATH 2880 LaTeX
Cedarville University, Cedarville, OH
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submitted: January 31, 2005 |
Talking about the manual for PicTeX
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| Rating: 10 |
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"There is no right or wrong way, there's only...a better way?"
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A. Zicafoose, ENG 132
JCC, Jackson, MI
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submitted: January 31, 2005 |
| Rating: 9 |
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“You know how everyone hates a food... like brussel sprouts. Wait, I like brussel sprouts, I’m from Brussels.”
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Smets, Wastewater Engineering
University of Connecticut, ,
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submitted: January 30, 2005 |
making an analogy to Wastewater Treatment
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At start of lecture:
"The mistake many people make with electrostatics is that they think that it means the system is not moving. It doesn't."
Two minutes later:
"Now, as we are working with electrostatics, nothing is moving. Never before have I such regreted giving that introduction to a lecture"
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Tony Arber, Electricity and Magnetism
Warwick, ,
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submitted: January 27, 2005 |
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Let alpha squared equal alpha squared
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Nicholas D'ambrinal, Physics Foundations
Warwick, ,
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submitted: January 27, 2005 |
Why? I mean... Why?
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"So what? That's the answer, so why are we still in this lecture instead of going to an early lunch? Other than sheer perversity on my part."
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Professor Partridge, Astronomy
Haverford College, Haverford, PA
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submitted: January 26, 2005 |
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"There is plenty of time in this lecture for you to collapse into a small dot. Why don't you? Have you ever worried about that?"
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Professor Partridge, Astronomy
Haverford College, Haverford, PA
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submitted: January 26, 2005 |
Discussing the Chandrasekhar limit
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"And what do the spanish do? They take a good english word like 'spanish'. And THEN what did they do to it? Made it 'espanish' or something like that."
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Ted Fernald, Writing Systems
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
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submitted: January 25, 2005 |
Said facetiously while discussing the Sonority Curve... why we were discussing the sonority curve in a class on Writing Systems has escaped my memory
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"In academic circles you just don't accuse someone of being unimaginative. Dems dere are fightin' words."
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Eric Raimy, Language, Culture and Society
Haverford College, Haverford, PA
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submitted: January 25, 2005 |
On a discussion between two linguists on the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
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"Does anyone here know Fortran?"
[show of hands]
"Ah! The Engineers from Space!"
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Prof. Minas Spetsakis, COSC 4421/5324 - Introduction to Robotics
York University, Toronto, Ontario
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submitted: January 25, 2005 |
[He meant the Space Engineering students...]
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"It's raining cats and dogs kids. You know why? I just stepped in a POODLE."
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Mr. Battista, Gym
Ossining High School, Ossining, New York
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submitted: January 25, 2005 |
Drying off courts at tennis pracice
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(two drunk students enter during class)
"Well, I never knew social science students actually read newspapers as you are always told to do..."
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Prof. Dr. Caroline Pauwels, Encyclopedia of Communication Sciences
Free University Brussels (Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium
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submitted: January 24, 2005 |
This after mentioning in an interview with a newspaper the day before, that she never had drunk students attend her class.
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"TB does not stand for Tuberculousis!" - Prof
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Dr. Lian, Chinese I second semester
Denison University, ,
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submitted: January 22, 2005 |
Thick Chinese accent and talking about a text book assignment rather than a workbook assignment.
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Prof: Does anyone know what the most used phrase in a class room is?
Student, embarrassed and confused: I don't know.
Prof: YOU'RE RIGHT!
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Dr. Lian, Chinese I second semester
Denison University, ,
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submitted: January 22, 2005 |
Professor just had to spit this one out at then of class. Imagine the professor with a very thick Chinese Accent
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"Oh yeah, I'm really hot for Spongebob!"
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Mr. North, PIG
Ossining High School, Ossining,
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submitted: January 21, 2005 |
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Chemist's like to be stupid so they do it wrong. Besides, physicist's came up with it first. We can define it however we want and that's the right way.
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Dr. Eugene Zaremba, Physics 104
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
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submitted: January 20, 2005 |
On how chemist's have the dipole moment going from negative to positive instead of the reverse.
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This is Math 101. Welcome to hell.
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Buck Stephen, Math 101
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
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submitted: January 20, 2005 |
Great way of encouraging the students!
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"This is where you put the gun in your mouth."
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Dr. Denner, Russian 202
Stetson University, DeLand, FL
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submitted: January 20, 2005 |
We were discovering yet another bizarre intricasy of the Russian language.
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NTS status? What the hell is NTS status?
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Dr. Denner, Russian 202
Stetson University, DeLand, FL
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submitted: January 20, 2005 |
Professors just can't seem to get the hang of technology. This was said in the exact same tone as "PC load letter? What the f*** does that mean?" from Office Space.
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"Just because I read about sex, doesn't mean I've mastered it."
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Dr. Ernest Fontana, History of Literary Criticism
Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio
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submitted: January 19, 2005 |
Dr. Fontana referring to Ion's claimed expertise in poetry.
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"So in essence, he (the sailor) is away from his beloved mistress for climatic reasons...inevitably awaiting their reunion in the spring, hence the light drops of rain, to rekindle their climactic relations. (Long dramatic pause) Oh hell, you all know what he wants. He wants her sex, he wants the exchange of bodily secretions and the like. That's what the light drops of rain really means."
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Dr. Ernest Fontana, Poetry
Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio
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submitted: January 19, 2005 |
Dr. Fontana on Climactic Poetry.
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