"What are you doing here?!?" -- Michael Khoury, telling Carl he was out of place, at the beginning of MOP 98

"My ... noggin ... is ... fabulous." -- Dan Katz (during a game of "no say fifth symbol a b c" at MOP)

"It's a seventh grade problem." -- Titu Andreescu, on a geometry problem no rookie solved

"What happens if you yank it too hard and it breaks?" -- Alexey Radul

"If you give me chocolate I'll waltz continuously." -- Melanie Wood

"You're straight out of an M.C. Escher drawing!" -- Jeff Fonck, to the incredibly flexible Jim Leonard

Michael Khoury: "Am I a potato?"
Alexey Radul: "Yes."
Michael Khoury: "Let's settle this once and for all. Am I a potato?"
Alexey Radul: "No."

"I feel weird. I need to find a computer." -- Carl

"Haven't you ever seen a black beetle crawling on a pink rose and thought, 'Isn't that beautiful?'" -- David Speyer

"Were you there when I was one with the pot machine?" -- Michael Khoury (as heard by Reid and Paul)

"You're my personal onion ring." -- Carl misinterpreting me saying
"You're my personal enemy." -- during frisbee for catching all the discs

"Math is inconsistent. Let's all go home." -- Dan "Single Point Urban Interchange (SPUI)" Moraseski

"I cannot express in words how little this means to me." -- Dan Katz to the AGAM girls during their prize ceremony

"And the w^5 award, for 'which was what we wanted', goes to ... David Speyer!" -- AGAM

"Happy Canada day to you! Happy Canada day to you! Happy Canada day dear Canadian, Happy Canada Day to you!" -- MOP, to me

"Hello? This is Math. I added wrong." -- Michael Khoury, calling back to BW-3

"So ... how's math?" -- Sarah, from AGAM, trying to start a conversation

"Let us begin by algebraically manipulating the left hand side in an effort to understand its internal workings ... from here I tread on treacherous ground, as I am not sure of where I walk, ..." -- Alexey Radul, on a MOP test

Xit: That's a phat proof. That's phatty.
Elgin: Well, yes, there's a lot of pizza going around. (on a problem about pizza)

"Yes... ummm... uh... wait... no... No! I'm definitely not a chair." -- me

"Let's all be the vertices of a graph and connect the Mafia by an edge. Then we'll know who they are." -- George Lee

Sasha: "Melanie, I just realized that you don't believe in my existence."
Gabe: "So you're calling her an optimist after all."

"I swear, the Mafia is a conspiracy!" - Matt Hughes (on a group of people playing the fun game of "mafia" trying to avoid certain other people)

"Oh, of course! Parsley!" - Lawrence Detlor in no context at all

"First we note that Charles is less than a dragon. Any dragon." -- Matt Hughes commencing his proof that Charles is less than a dung beetle.

"You don't have to be better at me than everything!" - One of the AGAM girls, to "Mikey"

"Oh, that's what it spells!" - SPUI, on D-E-O-D-O-R-A-N-T

"In my universe, pi equals 4." - Melanie Wood

"In ten years, through the power of genetic engineering, I intend to look like this salt shaker." - Dan Katz

"It would be really nice if all the numbers up to 1370 were relatively prime." -- Dan Katz, trying to solve the Second Pizza Problem

"Not only are you not making sense, now you've started making not sense." -- Lawrence Detlor

"I don't like buffalo wings. Do they come from real buffalo?" -- Sarah?

"Then Jack, and everything else that was also in Melanie's room..." - Xit describing the result of inverting around Melanie's room.

"Po weighs too little!" - Po-Shen Loh

"It's like a parachute, but smaller." - Dan (explaining "umbrella" in Taboo)

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