They ought to run a show called "Teachers Say the Darndest Things"
I spent one semester recording my geology teacher's interesting comments...
"An elipses...Think of it as someone taking the orbit and stepping on it a bit" (accompanied by him stepping on an imaginary orbit...)
or
"Here's the sun, and the plan-- oh, wait, the sun sort of looks like a flower... Next thing you know I'll have teletubbies drawn over the board. I wonder which one the earth would be..."
or
(Context: Talking about the iceman, the guy who fell into the glacier a long time ago and is being studied for his historical value) "Well, you know, those glaciers are pretty dangerous places to walk. One wrong step and you're history."
or
"North Korea has it all set. All they'd have to do is break a few dams, and Seoul would be completely flooded. Granted, it wouldn't stay flooded very long, but it sure would completely ruin their day."
-laughs- That's great. I think my favorite was the Teletubbies comment. That man may be just random enough to amuse me (though the history pun was a bit painful... -wince- )
Of course, Ms. Kincaid (postvixen) isn't actually a teacher of mine (not in the formal sense, that is -- it could be argued that anyone you meet is a teach of some sort). She simply made a comment which I found amusing, so I posted it here.
'Whichever one doesn't leave craters.' I still laugh. ^_^
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Date: 2003-05-06 02:58 am (UTC)I spent one semester recording my geology teacher's interesting comments...
"An elipses...Think of it as someone taking the orbit and stepping on it a bit" (accompanied by him stepping on an imaginary orbit...)
or
"Here's the sun, and the plan-- oh, wait, the sun sort of looks like a flower... Next thing you know I'll have teletubbies drawn over the board. I wonder which one the earth would be..."
or
(Context: Talking about the iceman, the guy who fell into the glacier a long time ago and is being studied for his historical value) "Well, you know, those glaciers are pretty dangerous places to walk. One wrong step and you're history."
or
"North Korea has it all set. All they'd have to do is break a few dams, and Seoul would be completely flooded. Granted, it wouldn't stay flooded very long, but it sure would completely ruin their day."
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Date: 2003-05-06 08:03 am (UTC)Of course, Ms. Kincaid (
'Whichever one doesn't leave craters.' I still laugh. ^_^
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Date: 2003-05-08 01:39 am (UTC)"Surface tension allows mosquitos to walk on water--like Jesus--although I don't think he used surface tension..."