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Magneto phone?! This is not a magneto phone!
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Sidney Marshall, History of Computing
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
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submitted: April 1, 2005 |
Looking at a picture on an overhead slide that he just put on the projector-- these slides were made by another prof. His response was said with such an amazing amount of outrage... it was awesome.
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If you get a blue screen, then the person will get a blue screen, and it's tough to reboot people.
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Dave Poplawski, CS1122
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI
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submitted: April 4, 2005 |
Describing what would happen if you have errors in life-saving software.
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Message no. 4
Author: Instructor
Date: Monday, April 4, 2005 3:28pm
it suddenly appeared, like magic. I would like to point out, as I read
earlier... Math is sexy.
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Sid Trudeau,
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
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submitted: April 5, 2005 |
in reply to why there was a math discussion board all of a sudden.
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Hand me the lemon!
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Brian Killen, Psychology 101
Cypress College, , CA
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submitted: April 6, 2005 |
Said randomly during a lecture on Heredity.
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If you kiss me I'll turn into a princess.
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Todd Hufnagel,
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
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submitted: April 8, 2005 |
We were waiting for 2 grad students to start the meeting, he was in the middle of telling the joke and that's when the grad students walked in. The look on the grad student's face was priceless.
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It works this way both in mathematics and in real life-- I guess that would be physics...
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Professor Allen Altman, MATH 221 Vector Calculus
Simon's Rock College, ,
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submitted: April 10, 2005 |
This is mostly amusing because the professor had absolutely *no idea* that he was saying anything funny.
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We should go on a clock factory tour, so he will learn about the concept of time.
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Larry Lankton, SS5503
Michigan Tech, Houghton, MI
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submitted: April 12, 2005 |
This is the professor discussing a colleague's inability to meet deadlines before a field trip.
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"You are like a class full of little Jesuses. You carry around your cross and nails waiting to crucify yourselves!" He stretches his arm out, making hammering motions towards it. "Help me with the other hand?"
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Rachick Virabyan, Beginning Russian
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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submitted: April 12, 2005 |
A student had just apologized for screwing up, saying, "I'm retarded."
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"Now, if I were you, and I am..."
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Kevin McMahon, AP Calc AB
Ithaca HIgh School, Ithaca, NY
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submitted: April 12, 2005 |
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The highest percentage of the population with STDs are the undergrad college students. Wait no no I'm not saying that it's bad, it just shows you are risk takers.. adventureous.
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Coms Professors,
Ohio University, ,
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submitted: April 12, 2005 |
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"Now Stacy, you're a good Catholic girl like me..."
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Dr. Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez, Intro. to Professional Ethics
Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio
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submitted: April 14, 2005 |
This wouldn't be that funny, except that Dr. Palmer is a man.
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Prof: "So what is the partial of this with respect to X?"
Student: "Wait, what is it you're trying to do"
Prof: "I want to differentiate this"
Student: "Oh, well, then, go ahead"
Prof: *thinks for a moment* "No, I want you to do it!"
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Dr. Creschimanno, PHYS 3750 - Mathematical Methods of Physics
Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio
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submitted: April 14, 2005 |
A small step in a much larger problem involving ugly Diff EQs... Dr. Creschimanno was put into stunned silence and to a while to recover from this one.
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This exclamation mark does not indicate factorial. It in fact indicates the element of surprise!
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Dr. Kent, Differential Equations
Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio
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submitted: April 14, 2005 |
Random comment about what he had written on the board
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Professor: "What's a foreign word for 'steak'?"
Student: "Niku!"
Professor: "Niku? ...What language is that?"
Student: "Japanese!"
Professor: "Oh...Well okay then."
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Dr. Mark Masaki, Research Methods and Statistics
Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio
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submitted: April 14, 2005 |
I don't remember how we got on that topic, but I thought it was amusing because #1 he's Japanese, and #2 he started screaming stuff about niku directly afterwards.
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So, this is only fifty years old. In mathematics, that's very up-to-date!
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Arthur Mattuck, 18.03 Differential Equation
MIT, Cambridge, MA
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submitted: April 15, 2005 |
About solving ODEs with matrices
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"Not many people can claim a scar from ice cream..."
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Russ Stewart, Political Philosophy
Lake Superior College, Duluth, MN
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submitted: April 15, 2005 |
After relating a story from when he worked in an ice cream factory, in a lecture on Marx's Communist Manifesto. (He was moving cartons of ice cream into a freezer; one container fell on the ground, bounced, and hit him on the chin, leaving a scar.)
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"It's like Kentucky fried chicken in China!"
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Dr. Xinda Lian, Chinese 112
Denison University, Granville, Ohio
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submitted: April 15, 2005 |
We were discussing something that didn't make sense in grammar and this popped out
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"We cover the same material the regular class does, but somehow we understand it better."
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Eugene Mukhin, Math 54
UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
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submitted: April 15, 2005 |
Explaining the difference between the Honors linear algebra class and the regular one. (This was actually a few years ago.)
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My willingness to answer questions is inversely proportional to how far I am from my office. If you call me at home, I will make sure you never graduate.
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James Sethian,
UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
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submitted: April 15, 2005 |
On a course syllabus, in the "come to my office hours if you have questions" section.
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"When I was young, when we saw an R rating, it meant we were gonna hear cursin', which we could tell from the preview, or some titties
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Bly, History 132
University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA
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submitted: April 16, 2005 |
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If you all score perfect on this quiz, I will buy you a bottle of Merlot
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Dimitrov, Geography 201
University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA
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submitted: April 16, 2005 |
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I like drinks that are harder than Coke
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Dimitrov, Geography 201
University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA
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submitted: April 16, 2005 |
Replying to the question "Do you like Coke?" This was before a girl did a presentation on Coca-Cola and globalization
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Drinkin', it's the American way!
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Bly, History 132
University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA
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submitted: April 16, 2005 |
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I was lucky, because my dad broke his neck when I was about six... he wasn't able to work for about two years... so when I was growing up, I always had at least one parent around. That's probably why I'm so well-adjusted.
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Russ Stewart, Political Philosophy
Lake Superior College, Duluth, MN
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submitted: April 17, 2005 |
We got to the topic of TVs socializing kids because their parents are working... and this was the result.
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America has this great tradition--well, unless you're a Native American--of allowing people to go west. What happens if you go west in Britain? You'd better know how to swim.
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Russ Stewart, Political Philosophy
Lake Superior College, Duluth, MN
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submitted: April 17, 2005 |
On industrialization, and alternatives to working in factories.
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