(Being reprimanded at work for something she didn’t know she should do)
Trainer: “Yes, and if you have a question about anything, just ask one of the trainers
out on the floor.”
(Thinking to self)
Kell-Lee: “Well, next time I don’t know I don’t know something, I’ll try to remember to ask a question about it.”
Emerson: “Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.”
(Guest Speaker telling students when they could stop by her office)
Guest Speaker: “Well, I’m available any time. Well, not anytime. . . eight to five, Monday through Friday.”
R--: “Name five shapes.”
C--: “Circle, square... a line, triangle... and stop sign.”
(As told to her by a Native American woman)
Herbalist Carol McGrath: “If you take the Christian Bible and put it out in the wind and the rain, soon the paper on which the words are printed will disintegrate and the words will be gone. Our bible IS the wind and the rain.”
Kell-Lee: “Dreams do change, and so will I. I’ll spread my wings and learn to fly.”
Mark Twain: “Suppose you were an idiot... And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I repeat myself.”
Andy Warhol: “I am a deeply superficial person.”
(About where the G8 met last year)
C-- K--: “A year ago they met in a small town in the Canadian Rockies. Starts with a ‘k’
and has many, many letters in it.”
(After accidentally breaking 4 wood molecular model bonds.)
Dr. W--: “Throw those away.”
(Puts in trash, then pauses and thinks about this.)
Dr. W--: “Under some paper.”
(After struggling to get a molecular model to work correctly, stay together, and not break.)
Dr. W--: “Ah, let’s just draw it! I’m going to go back to that. I’m not going to let it beat me!”
A-- B--: “Idaho Falls... Yup, I was there one night for a week.”
A-- B--: “You guys had better start thinking outside the bun. I don’t know what that means, but it’s a cool term.”
(In an Applied Animal Nutrition Class.)
Student #1: "What's strip grazing again?"
Student #2: "Naked sheep."
(Professor jibing Alaska and Hawaii)
Dr. T--: "They're not really states. We just took them on so we would have a place to go on vacation."
(On why people need Vitamin C.)
Professor: "They got lazy when creating human's and said go eat some fruit. Maybe that's why the apple: 'Here, get your Vitamin C requirement.'"
(In O-Chem Recitation.)
TA: "Please catch mistakes I make. My brain tends not to work when I'm talking."
(Kell-Lee talking to A--)
Kell-Lee: "That's comforting."
A--: "Yeah, no kidding."
Student #1: "Is that an 'R'?"
Dr. W--: "No, that's a 'K'. Here let me fix that."
(Tries to improve letter.)
Dr. W--" "Well, looks more like a blob now, but anyway."
(Talking about how hard the prof's exams were.)
B-- [the prof]: "So far, it hasn't taken you [the class] much more than 25 minutes to finish."
Student #1: "That's because it doesn't take very long to write question marks."
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