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This is like the triple-tiered fallacy from hell!
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Jessica Teaman, Philosophy 101
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio
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submitted: September 12, 2004 |
In response to three fallacies found in a single sentence
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Apparently the pursuit of knowledge looks like a wedding cake.
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Jessica Teaman, Philosophy 101
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio
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submitted: September 12, 2004 |
She then proceeded to draw on the flow chart a bride and groom
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"You will get bonus marks if your compressed file is smaller than the original file."
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, CS 240
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
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submitted: September 10, 2004 |
CS 240 Assignment ...
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"Calculus is easy. Algebra is hard. Arithmetic is downright impossible."
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Dr. Bowling, Calculus I
Southwest Baptist University, Bolivar, MO
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submitted: September 10, 2004 |
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"Hey, you there! What's your gang name?"
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Prof. David Williams, ENGL 204
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
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submitted: September 10, 2004 |
From a lecture about the power that names hold over their subjects.
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News:
I hope everyone is having a good first week back at school (or had, or will have for people who didn't start tuesday). It's really amazing to watch the traffic explode this week.
I have 2 of the original ProfQuotes t-shirts left, so I'm going to give them away in a contest. Anyone can register by going to the contest entry page. The way it will work is, once you register, every time you visit the site, you'll automatically get an entry (maximum 1 entry in any six hour period). On December 1st, the computer will randomly choose a winner for one of the shirts from among all the entries. The only information required is your name and a valid email address. The email address will just be used to contact the winner, and all information collected during the contest will be deleted at the end.
When you enter, you'll be given a unique referral link to the entry page. If someone who signs up using your referral link wins the contest, you'll win the other t-shirt. Referring people will help improve the quality of ProfQuotes because with more people submitting and rating quotes, the quality of the accepted quotes will go up without losing any quantity, so please refer the site to anyone you think might enjoy it. The contest code is still in beta, so if you notice any bugs, please report them.
As I said, these are the last 2 t-shirts, so this is now the only way to get one of the original t-shirts. I'll be having another batch printed in the next few weeks, but with all-new quotes. The quotes for the new batch will be choosen from among the highest rated quotes on the site, so rate any quotes you want to see on a t-shirt.
I'm planning a few improvements to the site. As you may have noticed, people have been complaining a bit about the quality of some of the quotes in the comments section. It's hard to know what others will find funny, so I try to err on the side of accepting quotes that aren't funny. I'm working on a new feature to allow viewers to moderate the new quotes. I'm planning to have a moderation page that will allow visitors to rate quotes that aren't yet accepted. Once it receives a certain number of ratings, it will be accepted if its rating is above a threshold or rejected if the rating is below.
As always, I welcome any comments, questions or suggestions. Feel free to use the contact link on the left or reply to this posting.
In the future, I'll try and take a more active role in posting to the quote comments. Originally, I decided to try to avoid posting to them as a sort of non-interference type of thing, but now that seems pointless.
Jason
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submitted: September 9, 2004 |
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"History doesn't repeat itself, it just stutters a lot."
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Dr. Klingelhofer, HIS 111: Making of the West
Mercer University, Macon, GA
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submitted: September 9, 2004 |
Gotta love Dr. K! He makes Western Civ actually worth going to
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"I have a chessboard in my office. Come play chess with me--if you're masochistic and have a high pain tolerance--I mean.. it's fun!"
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Dr. Edward Lense, Creative Writing: Fiction
Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, Ohio
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submitted: September 9, 2004 |
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"Perception IS reality."
"Thank you! You're wrong, but thank you."
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Michael Hiltbrunner, Intro to Philosophy
Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, Ohio
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submitted: September 9, 2004 |
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"For me, when I go to an art museum, the art's first and foremost, and second is listening to idiots."
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Michael Hiltbrunner, Intro to Philosophy
Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, Ohio
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submitted: September 9, 2004 |
| Rating: 10 |
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Complete BR Filter Design
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Dr. Sean Carroll, Digital Signal Processing II
Tri-State University, Angola, IN
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submitted: September 8, 2004 |
Not actually a quote, but the title of a handout. The 'BR' (short for Band-Reject) was carefully hand-lettered over a blotch of White-Out. This type of filter is also known as a Band-Stop (BS) filter, which is in fact what the prof been calling them up until this point...the terminology change came about when another prof picked up the (pre-White-out) original off the copier, read the title and burst out laughing...
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"I'm in class right now, really, it just looks like I'm not!"
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University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
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submitted: September 8, 2004 |
Said by a bio. prof. that was in the office trying to get an updated class list. I asked if I could use that excuse, he of course said no.
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"If you get the lowest score, it means you had the best time over the weekend. Congratulations."
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Dr. Gregory D. Earle, Electricity and Magnetism
University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
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submitted: September 7, 2004 |
Referring to a quiz the day after Labor day weekend.
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And in the Lutheran Traditions: Guilt, the gift that keeps on giving.
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Dr. Cort, Religions of China and Japan
Denison University, Granville, Ohio
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submitted: September 6, 2004 |
Said to differentiate between Wester Religion and Confucianism.
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"Go into your local church and say 'Jesus, you aren't doing your job. I think you need to be replaced.' That doesn't compute..."
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Dr. Cort, Religions of China and Japan
Denison University, Granville, Ohio
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submitted: September 6, 2004 |
The diferences between the chinese religious beliefs and that of the western world.
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"In the japanese belief, anything more powerfull and mysterious than you is a God. Therefore, to you, I am God..... So are your parents."
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Dr. Cort, Religions of China and Japan
Denison University, Granville, Ohio
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submitted: September 6, 2004 |
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"I had a rough morning.. i woke up next to my wife, put my arm around here and said, I love you destiny.. my wifes name is Mary"
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Dr. McGinn, ELE210
Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL
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submitted: September 6, 2004 |
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Tenure means never having to say you're sorry.
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Donald R. Sadoway, 3.091 - Introduction to Solid State Chemistry
MIT, Cambridge, MA
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submitted: September 6, 2004 |
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Don't be distracted by the dots! Keep your wits about you.
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Glen Archer, Circuits for non EEs
Michigan Tech University, Houghton, MI
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submitted: September 6, 2004 |
I had missed class, so he gave me a copy of the slides. This made an abrupt appearance, and was hard to decipher out of context. It eventually made sense, but it still cracks me up.
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"I'm not a scatologist, but I'd say that's wolf scat."
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Jim Schmierer, Timber Harvesting
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI
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submitted: September 6, 2004 |
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"I'm a 60's kid. I believe what goes around comes around. I believe if you lie to me, someday you will be walking across central campus and a plane at thirty thousand feet will lose a wheel and turn you into a grease spot. Don't lie to me."
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Dr. Stuart, Music 102
Iowa State University, Ames, IA
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submitted: September 3, 2004 |
First day of class. Best first impression ever.
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Tell you what, stick your feet in a bucket of salt water, stick a steel rod in that light socket, and an imaginary number will kill you.
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Mr. Preston, Algebra III with Trig
Bowling Green High School, Bowling Green, Ohio
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submitted: September 3, 2004 |
Said in a response to a student complaining that imaginary numbers weren't real
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It may be incorrect but it's true for me. It goes right to my thighs.
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Dr. Adam Shapiro, Research Methods
University of North Florida, ,
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submitted: September 3, 2004 |
Dr. Shapiro commenting on fatty foods.
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They need to fire their researchers... Somebody F-ed up. I want my money back!
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Dr. Adam Shapiro, Research Methods
University of North Florida, ,
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submitted: September 3, 2004 |
Dr. Shapiro reacting to some substandard research.
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Okay, we can multiply matrices with the "two finger" method...
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Dr. Greg Ammar, Numerical Analysis
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
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submitted: September 3, 2004 |
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