There's a thread on reddit asking for stories about crazy things profs do. I am dying to know which of you is the person who shouted "orgasm" in class. They identified the guy who stripped off during every lecture, or I would have guessed Strelnikov.
A surprising number of profs apparently take calls in class and procede to have domestic arguments, and guys, you should learn if you are going to project from your laptops, clear the porn out of your browser history.
Speak! Confess your crimes!
Harumph. I have no idea what you're talking about, I have no crimes to confess. I am now and always have been a fine, polite, clean-living fellow, the sort one might meet on a May morning. Even my jokes are funny, always.
ReplyDeleteBullshit! - what about Bubbles the space chimp, now horribly mutated by gamma rays?
DeleteIt wasn't gamma rays, it was Grape Nehi, and Bubbles guzzled it down gleefully, at first. OK, I admit, it's too bad what happened to him.
DeleteHe's now a game show host!
DeleteA GAME SHOW HOST!!
YOU MONSTER!!!!!!!!!
Hey, he doesn't look bad in the gold lame' jacket.
DeleteAnd it's better than what I was afraid he was going to turn into: a modern undergraduate. That would have been a real shame, knowing how chimpanzees are such intelligent creatures.
Confess! No? Bring out the comfy chair!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnS49c9KZw8
I promise not to show up in drag and claim that I'm my wife. Again.
ReplyDeleteAs long as you are still wearing your unders, this doesn't even make the top 10.
DeleteI'll admit that I read through as much as I had time for, just to see if I recognized myself (or any of my colleagues) in the descriptions. I don't THINK anything I've done rises (falls?) to that level, but you never know how students will take our quirks and ocassional failings.
ReplyDeletePics or it didn't happen
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I'm pretty eccentric, but man, reading that thread makes me feel totally normal. Really, I'm just an out and out geek. I love to play music during labs, though, and the various songs that come on my Pandora stations often amuse my students.
ReplyDeleteI accidentally showed my students a picture of a parrot perched on an erect penis once.
ReplyDeleteThey had to find an online argument to analyze for rhetorical tropes as a paper. You'd think this would be easy given that pretty much everything online ends up being an argument but NO. No, they couldn't find anything.
Most big arguments with enough posts to be worthy of their study are listed on encyclopedia dramatica so I was flipping through random pages to prove this and there it was....
....cockbird.
And worst of all, it took me a second to realize what it was, and they saw the penis before I did.
"A classmate in Web Systems was developing an inverse of ratemyprofessors.com called "Rate My Student" for his project..." Was this in Ohio?
ReplyDeleteCM is "theoretically" in Ohio. RYS was only in a desert compound. Both, of course, exist only in your mind. Just press ESC and see what happens. (Oh, and stand back first.)
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